In order that’s how Xie Han did it.  Jian Yao thought to herself.

The rationale why he can mentally management so many individuals.  Mainly, it’s using medication to trigger hallucination.  It’ll make you are feeling drowsy and slows down your mind’s response time. 

She is sitting on the chilly and laborious mattress in her cage.  He switched off all of the spotlights apart from the one which’s shining onto her mattress.  It’s like she is mendacity on an remoted island in the midst of the ocean.  

He’s standing someplace within the darkness, nonetheless whistling, like he’s the grasp of the world.  

Her coronary heart is thrashing in a short time.  She will even really feel her nerves throbs.  This can be a very uncomfortable feeling. She will hear a buzzing sound in her ears.  She needs to take a seat up, however her hand slips.  Every part round her is a blur.  Then she begins to fade out and in of consciousness.  She will’t assume clearly.  She would not even know the place she is.  

She feels fully misplaced.  

Her physique nonetheless feels very uncomfortable.  However her imaginative and prescient is getting clearer now.  She is relieved.  She stands up and go searching.  She is in her grandfather’s home.  A well-recognized room – the quaint TV cupboard, the 22 inch color TV, the crimson velvet couch. 

However… they died along with her father a few years in the past.

Then she sees a person.  He’s sitting down along with his again to her.  However she will see his again.  There are rows of very neatly organized scars.  

“Jinyan!” She walks over and wraps her arms round his waist.  “Why are you right here?”

Bo Jinyan slowly leans in direction of her.  His face is pale as a sheet.  His eyes closed.  There isn’t any breath in him. 

He’s lifeless.  Bo Jinyan is died.  

Jian Yao feels a sudden ache in her coronary heart.  Her face is full of tears.  Then she hears coarse voice that claims: “Jinyan.“

She opens her eyes –

Once more, every part round her is blurred.  There may be that buzzing sound once more. 

No, it’s simply an phantasm.  She tells herself.  She should maintain on.  However the ache remains to be vividly felt in her coronary heart.  Tears proceed to stream down her cheeks….

“Oh… you’ve had these kinds of medication earlier than?…. Such an enormous response…. You’re a good woman.“ A voice speaks into her ears.  

Jian Yao needs to show her head to take a look at her him, nevertheless it’s darkness throughout her.  She nods subconsciously.

After getting a response from her, he asks gently: “Do you need to clear your head?”  

Sure…. She nearly mentioned it out loud.  However she controls herself to not converse by biting her decrease lips.  She is biting so laborious that she will really feel blood in her mouth.  

The person laughs.  

“You might be biting your lips till it’s bleeding.  That’s cute…. However I do know, you need to get out of this dreamy state.”  

Then Jian Yao hears the sound of the door opening.  

“I need to admit I used to be a bit of over-excited final time.”  He says, “So the patch of pores and skin is a bit of torn from the whipping.  I’ll have higher management this time.  Your garments act as an excellent barrier.  There won’t be any everlasting scars.”

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Maryland.  John Hopkins Hospital.  

Intensive care unit. 

Bo Jinyan is standing exterior the ward.  Behind him stand lots of people – Chinese language officers, FBI brokers, Fu Ziyu’s household, Yin Ziqi’s mom and pals….. and so on and so on.

The physician walks out along with his diagnostic report.  Everybody crowds round him, apart from Bo Jinyan.  He simply stands the place he’s, and appears on the physician.  

“The bullet in Mr. Fu Ziyu’s left chest missed the center by 3cm.  We have now efficiently eliminated all of the fragments.”  He explains: “He’s a fortunate man.   He ought to get up between 24 to 48 hours.”  

Everybody really feel they may breath simply now.  Bo Jinyan seems by the glass home windows.  He sees his good pal mendacity on mattress, with an oxygen masks over his pale face.   

Then the physician continues: “Ms Yin Ziqi’s knife wound is severe however not life threatening. She is in a steady situation.  We anticipate her to get up someday tomorrow morning.”  

As everybody begins to thank the physician, Bo Jinyan quietly walks away.  Anam watches him as he walks to the tip of the hall and disappears down the steps. 

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Bo Jinyan drives again to the resort alone.

It’s late at night time.  And the early winter winds appear to be colder than normal.

There’s no expression on Bo Jinyan’s face.  He reaches to his pocket to take out the room key card.  He opens the door to their resort room.  The place is darkish.  However there’s mild coming by the home windows from the neighbouring workplace buildings.  He turns the lights on, and throws the room key card onto the mattress.  He takes a glance across the room.  

They moved into this resort yesterday.  Jian Yao’s baggage remains to be on a small desk subsequent to the mattress.  The zip is open.  He can see a sleeve of one among her shirts hanging out.  

There are two pairs of slippers on the ground.  A pair of massive one subsequent to the small sized pair.  A coat of hers is mendacity on the couch.  It’s a beige color trench coat that also has her scent on it.  

Bo Jinyan stands there for some time.  Then he takes off his jacket, pulls off his tie and walks barefooted into the toilet.

A sizzling bathe isn’t sufficient to heat up somebody that feels chilly within the within their physique.  He stands quietly beneath the bathe head for the water to splash over him. 

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After his bathe, he stands in entrance of the window and appears out on the metropolis lights.  Then he turns to stroll to the mattress.  He pulls again the cover and lies down.  

He closes his eyes.  After a couple of minutes, he opens them and turns to take a look at the empty facet of the mattress.  Then he decides to get off the bed.  He takes a jacket and wrap it round his again.  Then he walks to the following room.

It’s arrange like a research beneath Jian Yao’s particular directions to the resort.  There’s desk and chair, and a whiteboard, in order that he can jot down any ideas that come to him.  

He stands in entrance of the white board.  He opens his personal suitcase and brings out a stack of paperwork and pictures.   

Quickly, the white board is full with pictures.   

He seems on the pictures of the previous victims.  He can visualise what’s occurring to Jian Yao.

She is handled like an animal, tied with chains.  And Xie Han will whip her, and luxuriate in watching her making determined however futile escapes from the whip…She will probably be injected with medication, in order that she can’t differentiate between actuality and hallucinations…. The one factor she will really feel is ache….. And in a couple of days, when he can’t be glad with whipping and teasing, he’ll begin to minimize off items of her pores and skin, as his booty.  And this would possibly solely be the start, as a result of he gained’t let her die so simply.  

As a result of she is Bo Jinyan’s girl.  She represents his most passionate wishes.  He’ll torture her, till there’s not a bit of pores and skin, hair, and flesh left on her physique.  Xie Han needs him to lose her fully.

……

Bo Jinyan lowers his head and covers his eyes along with his arms.