Chen Sang contracted AIDS.

  Yesterday, Chen Sang called me and told me that she had contracted the AIDS virus. As soon as people hear about AIDS, they think of sex workers - no mistake, she was a high-end prostitute. Her face was clean and pure, looking like a university student, with authentic 34C breasts, speaking softly, and others said she looked like Lin Chi-ling. Clients called her Little Lin Chi-ling, and she was also a madam with over a dozen prostitutes under her. She rarely went out to meet clients, only accompanying wealthy and powerful men. But walking by the river for years will eventually get your shoes wet.

  I had advised her to be careful before, and she told me that if she got AIDS one day, she would quit, now it seems that sentence has been verified.

  The next morning, I took a plane to see her. When I entered the ward, the nurse looked at me twice, with contempt in her eyes. Our country's AIDS patients have exceeded one million, yet everyone is still afraid of AIDS.

  I saw her lying in bed, staring blankly at the windowsill. I called out to her several times before she turned around, her eyes somewhat dull and no longer radiant as they once were. She told me that she had only confided in me and her mother about having AIDS! Her mother didn't even dare come visit her.

  Chen Sang's mother was also a young lady. Chen Sang told me that her mother had never hugged her before, and she had been addicted to gambling for many years. When she ran out of money, she would sell her body. Later, when Chen Sang started making money, her mother's gambling amount became even larger. When others came to collect debts and threatened to cut off both hands, she would run to Chen Sang crying and begging for help.

  I'm heartbroken too. Although Chen Sang hates her mom, her mom is after all her only family member. I sat on the chair and asked her boyfriend Ah Guang where he was.

  Ah Guang's real name is Zhang Liangguang, Chen Sang's junior high school classmate. After failing the college entrance examination, he followed Chen Sang as a bodyguard and managed the girls under Chen Sang.

  Chen Sang sat up, hugging her knees, looking very pitiful. She was only twenty-five years old! She told me that Ah Guang had gone to buy food. She was afraid to reach out and hold my hand, but she was also afraid that I would push it away, so she withdrew her hand. She said that what she feared most now was that Xiao Guang would also contract AIDS.

  I heard her say that and got nervous, so I asked him why Ah Guang didn't go for a check-up!

  Chen Sang shook her head and told me that Ah Guang was unwilling to take the test, if he had to die, she would die with him. She said that Ah Guang's family only had one son, what if he got infected? Anyway, even if she died, there wouldn't be anyone left to care for her, but Ah Guang was different, he still had to get married and have children.

  I sprang up from my chair, pointing at her nose and cursing, "Damn it! How did I advise you back then? I said Ah Guang has been guarding you for four or five years, just settle with him. You dove headfirst into the eyes of money and hatred. Now that you have money, keep it to pay for your medical bills, wait for death!"

  Actually, I don't have the qualifications to criticize Chen Sang, because in the past, I was also a hostess, living a life of luxury and indulgence. At that time, I was much younger than now, and more recklessly squandering my youth. If we must talk about differences, then it's just that she became a hostess at 14, while I started at 20, and it was also her who brought me into the circle.

  At that time, I had just escaped from a pyramid scheme den and had no money on me, not even an ID card. I begged passersby to lend me their mobile phone, but everyone thought I was a scammer. Later, a 14 or 15-year-old girl lent me her phone.

  I cried as I called home to ask my dad to send me some travel expenses. My dad told me that he agreed with me going out to work, but only wanted me to earn money for my younger brother's university tuition. He wouldn't give me a single penny and said "don't waste money" before hanging up the phone. My family lives in a remote rural area, where they had four daughters before finally having a son, and my dad is a typical rural man who values sons over daughters.

  I was starving for two days and had just picked up a bread that someone else had thrown away, when Chen Sang came over and asked me if I wanted to find a job.

  I gnawed on my bread, warily gazing at her, not saying a word. She pointed to the magnificent building across from us and explained that she was a business manager there, and they were hiring waiters. At that time, her attire looked very mature, but she seemed even younger than me.

  I knew it was a nightclub, but I followed her in anyway. At first, I worked as a waitress for half a year, then I became a hostess and stayed for two years. Initially, I just wanted to earn some money, but it was easy to make money, so I didn't want to leave.

  If I hadn't met some people and gotten into some things that I couldn't get out of, I really would have been like Chen San, stuck in Qian's eyes and unable to pull out.