Proofread by Zhou Zhijie

　　Dr. Liu was right. Unreasonable torments and vents time after time from Zhong Shaoting have brought Ding Manman to the point of breakdown.

　　The photos of Fang Hao being together with other women now plus his abandonment of her the other day serve as the last straw to overwhelm her.

　　It is said that death will become the final release for a person in despair. The loss of warm scarlet blood gradually cools and stiffens the body until the heart stops beating.

　　Ding Manman lies in the ice-cold bathtub, with the memories of Fang Hao's pampering and gentleness flas.h.i.+ng across her mind. As the cold water around her gradually calms, she thinks in despair: Perhaps she should have committed suicide as early as the first time when Zhong Shaoting tortured and humiliated her.

　　Thus, she wouldn't have heard any news about her beloved pa.s.sing his affection to another woman!

　　…

　　When Zhong Shaoting rushes into the bathroom, what he sees is despair and decadence in Ding Manman's eyes and a bathtub of b.l.o.o.d.y water.

　　He feels that his heart tightens, which is a feeling hard to describe.

　　"How is she?" Zhong Shaoting takes Ding Manman to the hospital as fast as he can. Dr. Liu is the attending doctor. There is no other patient except for Ding Manman on the whole floor of the hospital, whose oppressive atmospheremakes people eager to flee without a second's delay.

　　"She? Terrible!" Dr. Liu glances at Zhong Shaoting who is distracted, and slightly shakes her head. "I've told you she had been driven desperate!" Dr. Liu says in a more severe voice.

　　With a hoa.r.s.e throat, Zhong Shaoting doesn't know what to say. When he sees Ding Manman lying in the b.l.o.o.d.y water in the bathtub, he suddenly realizes that he may have begun to care for that woman.

　　He cares for her, which is extremely ironic.

　　But this time, compared with the pressure of death, the guilt he feels for his brother, the regret he feels for his father and his hatred for Ding Manman cannot be outweighed by Ding Manman's desperate eyes.

　　"I see." Zhong Shaoting says with a sigh. His heart is heavy with loss and stuffed with bitterness.

　　He turns and goes into the ward. He consciously puts out the cigarette even if Dr. Liu didn't remind him to do so. Furthermore, he stays by the window for the wind to blow away the smell of cigarette from his clothes before he sits back at the side of Ding Manman's bed, watching her sleep.