At her words, the crowd recoiled as if she carried a contagion, taking several steps back and covering their noses, acting as though she reeked of something foul. Qian Nannan, horrified, flung the coat she was holding to the floor, on the verge of tears. *She’d actually touched scum from the slums. Disgusting. She could just die.* Someone had a sudden thought. “Right, people from the slums have el