Long illness makes no filial son at the bedside.
At the funeral, those who wail and kick about the ground in exaggerated grief often are not the children who tended to the parent all year round.
Rather, it's those who have cared day after day and seen the elder off, who find it hard to cry during the mourning.
Anything that can be suffixed with "value" is limited, such as emotions.
After being consumed for a long time, naturally, they are depleted.
Just like Yin Meng now, she smiled, not a forced smile, but one of liberation and relief.
Her grandfather was trapped in the coffin, and she was trapped in the coffin shop.
Both grandparent and grandchild were suffering.
Now, both have finally found their release.
The relief comes because she endured to the end, she didn't show any impatience, didn't display any depression; she maintained a positive and sunny attitude every day, helping her grandfather change diapers and clean his body, leaning over the coffin to talk to him.
