"I-I was aware of the risks involved. Had anything happened wrong, they would have framed me without a second thought." By 'they' Zhao Feiyan referred to the one who offered her five million. "S-so as a precautionary measure I bribed the floor janitor of the hospital and asked him to keep a watch for me. T-There he saw a man entering your son's room and and....."
Feiyan's throat parched, the next few words just refused to come out in the pressure of Suyin's gaze that held the power of a wildfire, ready to set everything ablaze that comes in contact with.
"----and and he t-turned off the o-oxygen."
What followed was silence.
A silence that made everyone's blood as cold as Siberian wind. There was no whispering, rustling, or noise. The silence was a poison, for in the void of the sound the bitter truth of the past was laid bare.
