Fu Mingmei lay on the operating table. Her originally pretty face had been disfigured; her lips were turned outwards due to swelling. Her eyes were dark with bruising and they were swollen too. Her chest and torso had knife wounds and these wounds were still bleeding. 

The nature of her injuries were clear at first glance - someone had attacked her! 

Outside the operating theatre, anger flared in Xia Lei’s heart after he used his X-ray vision and saw the situation inside. He took out his mobile phone and called Shentu Tianyin’s number again, but her phone was still switched off.

Xia Lei had called Shentu Tianyin’s mobile phone number more than once on his way to the hospital but could not get through to her. 

Now, Fu Mingmei’s life hung by a thread on the operating table and she was obviously not able to tell him what had happened. Right then, Xia Lei felt like his eyes had been covered, his ears deafened, and like he had been thrust into a tight space, unable to get the information he needed. 

After some...