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Noon, the sky was cloudless.

Hao Yan walked into the hospital from home, carrying a large insulating lunchbox under the scorching sun.

She stayed in the kitchen for the whole morning, guarding the stove. She made rice porridge with a small fire in the earthenware pot. Every grain of rice was in full bloom, fragrant and soft.

Hao Yan first went to the sterile warehouse to look at her daughter