Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The moment the door swung open, everyone was shocked to the core.
Red.
Before their eyes was a sea of red.
The same color red that reminded Shen Zihao of their wedding day. How that sea of red had greeted the newly-weds when they returned to their room.
Xia Nuannuan had sat on the bed with red sheets in her resplendent white wedding gown, looking at him with a dazzling smile.
In that instant, amidst the sound of running water, Xia Nuannuan was lying in the bathtub.
There was a quiet, peaceful smile on her face.
She was in the wedding gown she had worn on their wedding day.
But now, that wedding gown was dyed with red blood.
Shen Zihao’s pupils shrank back at once as he stared at the scene before him in disbelief. His mind was blank.
“Nuannuan!!” Finally, the piercing scream from Mom Xia broke the eerie silence in the room.
Then Dad Xia shouted, “Hurry! Call the ambulance!”
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In the hospital.
Shen Zihao stood outside the operating theatre.
His gaze was fixed on the door of the operating theatre, he did not speak a word.
Never would he have imagined that Xia Nuannuan would kill herself.
Never would he have imagined that the girl he had loved so much could look so pale.
And he had not known before today that a person could bleed this much.
His heart was filled with deep sorrow.
Nuannuan, why would you rather kill yourself than be honest with me?
Dad Xia and Mom Xia had cried so much that they had no tears left.
Perhaps that day, they both spent all the tears they had in their lifetimes.
At that moment, they were dry-eyed, like the living dead, staring at the operating theatre.
The two aged parents were heartbreaking to look at.
This was the scene that Xia Yehua and Auntie Li saw when they arrived at the hospital.
Xia Yehua was stunned.
She dashed up to them and looked at Shen Zihao, asking, “What happened? What happened to Nuannuan? She will be alright, won’t she?”
On the phone, she had just been told that Nuannuan had tried to kill herself.
But they did not mention how she was.
She would be alright…
But Shen Zihao suddenly recalled how frozen her body had been when he had lifted her out of the water.
Her body was limp, as though there wasn’t a single bone in it.
She would be alright!
Shen Zihao clutched his head and did not say a single word.
Xia Yehua’s tears started streaming down her face.
She looked at the door of the operating theatre.
All of a sudden, Mom Xia broke down and screamed her lungs out:
“Nuannuan, my daughter, wake up!”
“Please wake up, Mom will never force you to marry anyone again!”
“Nuannuan, just say so if you don’t want to get married! Your dad and I won’t force you!”
“Nuannuan, if only you’d wake up, if only you’d live, we would agree to anything you wish!”
The mournful cries were heart-wrenching.
When the nurses who had initially run over to stop her heard this, they started to tear up as they watched Mom Xia cry like that.
This was what it looked like to have an older person saying their last farewell to a younger person.
At this point, the door to the operating theatre was suddenly swung open.
The doctor walked out, accompanying Xia Nuannuan’s trolley bed.
Everyone jumped up with a start and looked at him.
Mom Xia and Dad Xia’s legs grew weak, so they fell back into their seats after a few attempts to stand.
Only Xia Yehua was calm. She asked the doctor, “Doctor, how is she?”
