The boy who once trailed behind calling her "Sister Ning" now kneels on one knee before her wheelchair under the pretext of treating her legs, toying with the bare feet the Sword Pavilion master has never shown anyone. Her son is punished with standing facing the wall, yet the mother, for the first time, feels stinging and tingling beneath his wandering fingertips. After swallowing the Bone-Mending Blood-Melting Pill, her senses are magnified several times over. Separated by a single door, the dignified widow on the bed is kneaded until the whole couch is a muddy mess, while outside the door the young man still anxiously prays that Mother will surely recover.