Early Sunday morning, Tang Haocheng climbed out of bed. After washing up in a hurry, he slung on the shoulder bag he had packed the night before and tiptoed downstairs, hoping to leave before his grandmother woke. He pretended not to see his grandfather practicing his exercises among the garden shrubs as he darted out the door and ran to the mouth of the alley. He hailed a taxi, and only after closing the door behind him did he finally breathe a sigh of relief and tell the driver to take him to the hospital.
