Chapter 401: Wearing the Clothes of the Dead

As high school approached, Layne feared that her outstanding granddaughter would attract unwanted attention. So, she encouraged Malaya to continue pretending to be a bully.

The smile vanished from Malaya’s face.

Did Cheyenne find out?

The clothes were scavenged from a second-hand market by the household staff, who said they were taken from deceased patients in nearby hospitals.

Most of these people had contagious diseases and no one to claim their bodies. They were hastily cremated to dispose of them.

When she sent the staff to buy the clothes, she had been discreet about it. She was afraid that if the matter got out, it would tarnish the “kind-hearted” image she had carefully built for herself. But how did Cheyenne find out?

One day, after wearing a black cotton coat, she felt completely uncomfortable. She walked down the street feeling dizzy and lightheaded. Accidentally, someone bumped into her.

His scissors tore through her coat, causing dirty, bloody clumps of cotton to fall out, emitting a nauseating smell.

People around her looked at her with disgust and disdain, covering their noses as they walked away from her.

From that day on, rumors spread through the campus about Cheyenne’s unkempt appearance. Everyone assumed she had accidentally stained her clothes during her menstrual cycle, even dying the cotton inside the coat red.

For young girls just starting junior high, many were naïve about such matters. Cheyenne was shocked when she first discovered bloodied cotton inside her coat.

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tattered lady, carrying a bag with a blue checkered pattern. The old lady opened the bag with a smile, revealing a pile

handed her two bills, then walked

days later, Malaya handed her two “new clothes,” one of which was

time, Cheyenne followed her all

a huge

medical waste, bloodied needles, empty bottles,

scavenge through the trash, picking up clothes to wash

Cheyenne opened a black

blood. It was a clump of severed human limbs, a head separated from its body, with red blood mingled with white brain matter. Some resembled bodies that were six or seven months old, almost formed with a basic human shape… Cheyenne let out a scream and flung the contents

her for being

so they hurriedly had abortions. Since they couldn’t afford a cemetery plot, the hospital had to handle the

flushed down the toilet using medication-induced abortion. For pregnancies further along, they

to be sent to the crematorium. So, they were packed in black plastic bags and treated

this. She patted Cheyenne’s shoulder to comfort her and advised her which trash was worth collecting. She even boasted that she had sold a bag of clothes from a child who had died from lung cancer to a wealthy family, earning 200 dollars. To her, that was

to sell those clothes in the second-hand market, she would only fetch a few

simple. She wanted Malaya and Nora to wear those clothes and stroll around

of wearing clothes laden with bacteria and

they came from. Tearfully,

but Miss Lawrence can? What a mean stepmother.” Iker said with a hint of hostility, thinking about his three stepmothers, his voice tinged

clothes. Now it

of those clothes, leaving only two sets as mementos,

took

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