Down on Eight Lifetimes’ Worth of Bad Luck

The moment she said that, everyone shot her down.

"We don't know whether you're going to make our lives difficult after you get out," the ringleader in the women's prison said. "But right now, you're here, and I know you're going to get it."

And hence, on the first day she entered the prison, Xia Yixin got beaten up.

And for the rest of the days, Xia Yixin got beaten up as punctually as the daily meals.

The prison's food was definitely bad.

Breakfast consisted of a bowl of watery porridge, a steamed bun, and some pickles.

Lunch and dinner were always steamed buns and boiled vegetables—mostly cabbage—without meat, and it was rather bland. It was hard to swallow.

Some of their families would send in other foodstuffs to supplement their diet.