When Sun Chan and the others were living a peaceful and happy life twenty years later, two elderly women emerged from prison. They were none other than the mother and daughter, Sun Lijuan and Zhao Xiuxia.
Zhao Xiuxia had become nothing but skin and bones due to her fiery and unreasonable nature. As soon as she entered prison, the women inside harshly dealt with her, and she was severely beaten. She now walked with a limp, completely at odds with her old self—timid and recoiling at the sight of anyone.
Beside her, Sun Lijuan wore an expression of indifference. Their sentences had been considerably reduced due to good behavior, allowing them to be released after twenty years. However, the best years of one's life had all been spent inside prison, and the frustration and suffocation were imaginable. Sun Lijuan's hair was now completely white, her face full of wrinkles, a look of total decline.
