All of the furnitures are eliminated.  The cage, couch, mattress, espresso desk… nothing is there anymore.

Within the massive and empty area,  Jian Yao stands in the course of the room.  Her fingers are cuffed to lengthy chains that maintain her up. There’s a spot gentle shining down onto her. She is sort of a marionette on a stage.  Helpless and stiff.  Her face is extraordinarily pale.  She is ready for what destiny is bringing her means.   

A thick layer of tape covers her mouth.  She will be able to’t make any sound.  She will be able to solely watch what Xie Han is doing along with her eyes.  

Xie Han is in a go well with in the present day.  He appears like a gentleman with a smile on his face.  However Jian Yao is aware of behind this facade is a despicable pervert.  

He holds up a cell phone.  He’s standing just some steps away from her.  He appears at her and smiles: “Are you excited?”

Jian Yao retains her physique nonetheless.  However inside, her coronary heart is pounding so onerous it feels prefer it’s going to blow up.

The individual he’s about to name, is Bo Jinyan.

Bo Jinyan despatched him a cellphone quantity by way of the labeled part of the Washington Financial Instances. And Xie Han is about to dial the quantity now.  He places the cellphone on fingers free mode.

“Do— Do—“ It’s connecting! 

Jian Yao lifts up her head.  Xie Han’s smile freezes.  He appears on the display screen.  He’s ready…

“Click on.” Somebody solutions the cellphone.

“Hello.” An unfamiliar voice, with a smile within the tone.

Jian Yao’s eyes widens.  

The voice.  The tone.  It’s… so completely different. Is that actually Bo Jinyan?

Her instincts inform her it’s him.

Jinyan… is underneath disguise? 

Xie Han replies: “Hello.”

The person on the opposite finish asks: “The place ought to we meet?”

“Two hours later….” Xie Han takes a take a look at Jian Yao: “I’ll ship you the handle.”

“OK.”

“Jian Yao is with me, my current to you.”  

The person pauses, then he says: “Nice.  Thanks.”

————————

That’s the tip of the dialog.  They talked about her of their dialog.  

What does Xie Han imply by “a gift”? What has he ‘ready’ for Bo Jinyan?  Concern goes by her.  

Xie Han retains the cellphone in his pocket.  He appears at Jian Yao.  He rips off the tape that’s overlaying her mouth.   He has a glance of remorse on his good-looking face.

“Now, I really want to say goodbye to you, Jenny.”

A chilly chilly worry comes over her coronary heart.  She will be able to’t maintain again her query: “You… are going to kill me?”

Now?  When Bo Jinyan is on his means right here?

They will’t even say their final goodbye.  He’ll discover her physique when he arrives? No!

“No.” Stunning, Xie Han shakes his head.  However earlier than she is relieved, he shares a plan that’s much more merciless.

“The person who will kill you… is Allen, after all.”  He says with a smile: “Oh… give it some thought. If he kills you along with his personal fingers, it is going to be a painful blow to Simon.  He loves you so dearly, he is not going to forgive himself.”

He appears on the ceiling, and falls right into a reverie.  After some time, he appears down at Jian Yao once more, and sighs: “… Ache and guilt won’t ever go away him.  You already know, that is the fantastic thing about break up persona – if his will is weakened, he’ll fall into darkness, and get replaced by Allen.  Simon is not going to come again once more.  You see, Allen understands this too.  That’s why he’s desperate to kill you.”

Xie Han’s voice echoes within the huge empty area. Jian Yao’s face is white as a sheet of paper.  Her waist and ankles are so tightly strapped and stretched that they’re beginning to damage.  

No.  He is not going to kill me.

If he’s Simon, he is not going to kill me.

He’s Simon.  He isn’t anybody else.

She believes him.  Though there’s solely a glimpse of hope, she is not going to let go of it.  She believes in him.

However Xie Han appears to know what’s on her thoughts: “Oh, I forgot to inform you, Beneath the place you stand, is a 300kg bomb.  When it explodes, the entire villa and this place shall be razed to the bottom.  However such as you say in your letter to him, even if you flip to ashes, the ashes will symbolize the love you’ve got for Simon.”  

A bomb highly effective sufficient to wipe out every part ?  

He buried the bomb there way back.  In order that it is going to be prepared when this present day comes.

Immediately she understands the explanation why she remains to be alive.  It’s not solely in order that Bo Jinyan can kill her along with his personal fingers. There’s one other goal – a take a look at to see if Allen actually exist.

If Bo Jinyan is Allen, he’ll kill her, and Xie Han will go away the bomb alone.  However solely then will he really settle for and imagine Allen  – Irrespective of how a lot he desires Bo Jinyan, he’s equally cautious.  That is the ultimate take a look at – utilizing her life.  

But when that is the entice he set, why did he inform her about it?   

Does it matter?  Xie Han doesn’t care.  She is already a lifeless individual in his eyes.  She will be able to’t change something.  

Simon is keen to surrender his personal life to save lots of folks that he doesn’t know.  He would by no means kill her.  Jian Yao’s coronary heart sinks.  Her physique stiffens much more.

Jian Yao’s ache doesn’t escape Xie Han’s eyes.  He smiles: “Oh my gosh, I just like the expression in your face.  You’re terrified, aren’t you? My expensive, don’t be unhappy.  The method of dying is terrifying, however that too is momentary. It’s painful, however it is going to be over quickly.  After spending so many days with you, I have to say that I such as you, Jian Yao.  Now, it is best to really feel pleased that I’m permitting you to die in such a significant means.”

———————

Xie Han walks off.  This is perhaps the final time she hears his footsteps.  Jian Yao quietly appears forward.  Tears begin to stream down her face.

Above the place Jian Yao is imprisoned, on floor degree, a black bullet proof sedan leaves the storage and travels by the empty roads of a small city.  It’s travelling westward, previous the border of a state, throughout the fields and at last arrive at an much more distant little city.

He drives alongside a non-public driveway, till he reaches an enormous gate put in with excessive voltage barb wires.  The guard recognises him immediately and walks as much as him: “Sir, welcome again,”

Xie Han smiles and get out of the automotive: ‘As we speak, I’ve a good friend coming.  I need degree one safety alert for the property.”  

“Sure sir.”

After giving the directions, he drives leisurely into the property.  He passes a number of towers, the place guards with weapons are standing within the towers.  They discover their grasp is again.

He enters the mansion and walks alongside the lengthy empty hall till he will get into the final room.  Then he goes by a bullet proof door, right into a research.

That is theroom that’s remoted from the remainder of the home.  There are some abstracts however disturbing paintings hanging on the partitions.  A big gun cupboard stuffed with several types of weapons.  There are additionally quite a lot of jars within the room, with human organs lined in preservative liquid.  

Xie Han sits on the desk and switches on the pc.

It’s the shut circuit tv pictures from the place Jian Yao is imprisoned.  She remains to be hanging in the identical place.  Chains round her fingers. She appears pale and weak.  Her eyes are purple and swollen.  It’s apparent that she cried after he left. 

Xie Han smiles.  He takes a sip of his espresso, then he presses a button on the keyboard.

“Tong… Tong… Tong…” His mouth imitates the sound of lights turning on.  On the identical time, the rows of spotlights within the warehouse are turned on. The place appears like a stadium that has been lit up.  Jian Yao closes her eyes as she tries to regulate to the sudden brightness.

He laughs at her, then speaks by the microphone: “Jenny, I’m dwelling.  How are you feeling?”

———————-

Within the warehouse.

Jian Yao lastly opens her eyes.  She appears round.  The sound is popping out from the audio system however it feels as if Xie Han is in the identical place as her.   It makes her shiver.  She notices there are a number of cameras which might be pointing at completely different angles of the place she is.    They appear like eyes which might be starring at her.  

“How lengthy until he arrives?” Jian Yao asks with a rough voice.  She desires to know if he has fitted  microphones there as effectively.  She is intentionally talking softly to check if he can hear her.  

Quickly, she hears Xie Han’s reply: “Quickly.”

Jian Yao retains quiet once more.  Xie Han doesn’t appear to be within the temper for speaking both.  The place is silent once more, aside from the occasional sound of Xie Han’s singing coming by the audio system. 

Jian Yao by no means paid consideration to his singing earlier than.  There’s nothing however his voice on this horrible place at this cut-off date.  As she listens, she realises it’s an previous music – ‘How may an angel break my coronary heart.’

“How may an angel break my coronary heart, Why didn’t he catch my falling star…”

Jian Yao appears in direction of the doorway of the warehouse, the place the place Bo Jinyan may seem.  

How may an angel break my coronary heart?

Jinyan, how can I allow you to die?

……

Please…. kill me, so you may stay.

Lastly, after a protracted silence, she hears the noise of somebody opening the door.  “Dong..” The door is pushed open.  Then footsteps which might be evenly paced, regular and acquainted come nearer and nearer in direction of her.  

Jian Yao’s eyes are stuffed with tears.  She has blended emotions inside her: ache, unhappiness, happiness, numbness… all tangled collectively in her coronary heart.

Quickly, an individual seems within the gentle.  A tall slim man sporting a cap that covers most of his face.  Jian Yao’s coronary heart tightens as his face turns into clearer and clearer within the gentle.

Lastly, he’s standing in entrance of her.  He takes his cap off, lifts his head and appears at her.

Jian Yao’s world has come to a halt.

Time, area, sound, gentle…. every part fades into an empty background. The person of her desires is standing earlier than her.  

He’s sporting a thick black coat, with a clear white shirt inside.  No tie.  He appears at her with these shiny darkish eyes.  But, his gaze is chilly and distant.  

No heat.  No love.

Jian Yao: “Jinyan, there’s a bomb.”

– Please, make the proper selection.

To have the ability to see you one final time… I’ve no regrets.

Unexpectedly, she hears two laughs concurrently after she speaks.  

One is from Xie Han, coming by the audio system.  The opposite, from the Bo Jinyan standing in entrance of her.

He walks in direction of her, with a mocking and chilly smile: “You don’t belief me?” He appears at Jian Yao when he says this, however after all, he’s speaking to Xie Han.

Xie Han replies: “Lastly, we shall be seeing one another head to head for the primary time.  I’ve a gift for you.  It’s time to indicate your sincerity for cooperation.”

Bo Jinyan stands about two steps away from Jian Yao.  He appears on the chains which might be binding her.  

“That’s truthful.” He says to Xie Han: “The place will we meet after I kill her?”

Xie Han: “I’ll let you realize later.”

“OK.” Bo Jinyan appears at Jian Yao once more.  

They’re so shut that she will be able to odor his acquainted masculine scent.  The identical good-looking face.  These chilly and smug stares.  He nonetheless appears like her Bo Jinyan, however the coarse voice that’s stuffed with hostility reminds her of Tommy, and the cynical smile on his face isn’t dissimilar to what Xie Han at all times has on his face.  

“Ah…” She gasps as Bo Jinyan squeezes her chin.  His energy is way stronger than typical.  His finger nails digs into her pores and skin.

She will be able to’t imagine it.  It’s not potential… Has he actually…. actually….

Is that this Allen?

Her Bo Jinyan, her Simon, is trapped in darkness ceaselessly?  She will be able to’t see them once more?  She will be able to’t imagine him anymore?  

Is she going to die in his hand?  Within the fingers of the evil soul that shares his identical physique?

No!  Jinyan!  Jinyan!

She subconsciously bites his finger.  Quickly, the odor and style of blood fills her mouth.  The person is angered.  He makes use of his different hand to tug her hair.  A pointy ache comes over her, and now she  can’t transfer.

Jian Yao stares at him, with tears on her face.  

However there isn’t any hesitation in him.  Not pity, solely the look of disgust on his face.

“Oh…. Simon’s girl.” He speaks with that coarse voice once more: “Pity I’ve to kill you earlier than getting a style of you.”  Then he takes out a gun and factors it to her head.

Jian Yao’s physique has misplaced all energy.  She slowly closes her eyes.  She will be able to really feel his breath on her face.  She will be able to hear the ‘click on’ sound as he releases the protection latch of the gun.  

Farewell, Jinyan.  Goodbye, mom.  

I’m going to die right here in the present day.

I can’t get up to see you once more.  However I’ll by no means…. overlook you.

On the screens, Xie Han eagerly waits as he appears on the pictures of the couple within the warehouse.  He feels as if his blood is beginning to boil with pleasure.  

He waits patiently.

He’s ready for a whole, excellent Allen to come back to him.  

Then Bo Jinyan lowers his head.  He bites Jian Yao’s lips.

Xie Han is stunned.  However then he begins to snicker.

As a result of Bo Jinyan is taking a look at Jian Yao like she is his prey.  The kiss is tough and barbaric.  Jian Yao’s lips are bleeding from his chew.  And the look on Jian Yao’s face is pityful.  It’s a mixture of desolation, unhappiness, and anger. 

It’s comprehensible that Allen has needs for her too.  If she isn’t the ultimate take a look at for Allen’s allegiance, Xie Han is not going to thoughts if Allen stored her as a toy.  

So,  if he desires to indulge himself for some time earlier than killing her, he has no objections.  

Xie Han appears on the display screen.  Bo Jinyan continues to kiss her forcefully.  His fingers are throughout her physique, squeezing and groping as he pleases, with none respect for her.  

However… there’s a sure feeling of familiarity.  Jian Yao thinks to herself.

Bo Jinyan… Simon, as soon as kissed her like this.

When was that once more?

In Lin Yi Yang’s villa by the ocean, after they have been discussing about whether or not an individual can differentiate an individual from their kisses.  On the time, he was imitating another person and kissed her in a means that isn’t in his typical type.

What occurred after that?

As he completed his kiss, his tongue curled on the ideas, then licked her from backside to prime.  That is Bo Jinyan’s unconscious little behavior.  Primarily based on this, Jian Yao gained the argument.  

Their conclusion is … from a kiss, one can decide whether or not it’s from the identical individual.

…………

Hope returns to Jian Yao.  She waits until the tip of the kiss…. She tenses up as she waits for the reply…

He bites her once more, the ache is spreading to the remainder of her physique.

When he’s lastly glad, he releases her tongue and steps backwards.  

As his tongue is about to go away her mouth…

He pauses.  Then, his tongue curls on the ideas, then slowly licks her from backside to prime.

……

——————

On the identical day.  5 hours in the past.  Within the hospital.

Fu Ziyu  is feeling marginally higher.  He can’t sleep, so he asks an officer to assist him onto a wheelchair in order that he can go to Anam’s room.

There are a number of officers guarding the door.  The room is totally closed up.  You may’t see by the oblong glass panel on the door.  The officer pushes him into the room.  The very first thing Fu Ziyu  notices is that there isn’t any one in mattress.  All of the mattress linen is neatly folded on the mattress,

Then he went by one other door into an even bigger room that appears like an workplace.  There are greater than ten IT specialists there, in entrance of some pc displays.  Anam is sitting within the middle, giving directions to them.  He appears calm and effectively.  There’s not a hint of sickness in him. 

Fu Ziyu  sits quietly.  He doesn’t wish to interrupt them.

One of many officers makes a remark: “The escape… the plan was excellent.  Professor Bo has the potential to be a prime class legal.”

Everybody laughs.  Fu Ziyu  solutions: “No, He can by no means be a prime class legal.”

Due to his phrases, everybody recollects the ‘battle’ on the day.  Combined emotions come across them, they calm down once more. 

Anam out of the blue thinks of one thing else.  He turns to Fu Ziyu  and asks him: “The day you talked to Professor Bo….Why did you cry?”  It’s a query that’s been in his coronary heart since he noticed the incident.  He doesn’t care whether it is acceptable to ask the query.  He simply desires to know the reply. 

Fu Ziyu  pauses for some time, then he solutions: “As a result of I heard so known as ‘Allen’s voice,”

The final time he heard this voice was when Bo Jinyan was rescued from the cellar of Flower Cannibal Tommy.  Bo Jinyan virtually misplaced his life then. When he awoke after being in a coma for days, that’s how he gave the impression of.

“Your voice…” Fu Ziyu  requested him then.  He merely answered: “Whereas Tommy was away, I had a fever, and intentionally broken my vocal cords.”

An infection, Irritation, ache… He allowed his situation to worsen in order that he may use the completely different voice to fake to be one other persona.  On the time, he was liable to completely damaging his vocal cords.  Though he did finally recuperate from it, there was some irreversible harm finished to his vocal cords.  

Bo Jinyan wouldn’t have informed Jian Yao about this. As a result of if she knew about this, she would have been heartbroken. 

So when he was on the cellphone with Bo Jinyan, he recognised the voice immediately, and he knew how a lot ache Bo Jinyan went by to get the voice once more.  

As his finest good friend, he immediately understood his plan – to fake to be Allen so he can get close to to Xie Han.  He sacrificed his popularity, and put himself on the road…. it’s a dangerous transfer.  He may find yourself with nothing.  

His finest good friend. A lonely and smug man, keen to surrender every part he has, for the girl he loves.  That’s why he couldn’t maintain again the tears.  

………

Fu Ziyu  asks Anam: “So, how’s the progress?”

Anam replies calmly: “The whole lot goes in keeping with his plan.  Quickly, the 2 of them will return safely.”