1 She Died (I)

Su Zi had been killed by someone.

She had been pushed off a yacht under the starry sky of a midsummer night and died before she could scream for help.

Her corpse sank to the bottom of the river where it swelled and rotted after being soaked. Even then, her husband was nowhere to be found, and the boat that was there to recover her body left after a night.

Su Zi had not resigned to the outcome.

However, there was nothing she could have done…

She could only watch herself rot slowly… Her abdomen swelled, her eyeballs bulged, and her rotten pale skin was covered with dirty green spots.

Big and small fishes scrambled to bite her corpse, causing it to become more ruined.

A ghost had no tears, or she would have cried bitterly upon seeing her miserable state!

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Su Zi's soul floated alone on the river's surface as she watched the sunset and the stars fill the skies. Days and nights went by with the occasional sightings of boats, but nobody noticed her.

She was lonely, and hopeless as though the world had given up on her.

A sailing boat appeared on the river after several days.

Su Zi saw a man in a diving suit sitting on it. His face was blurred, and his voice was hoarse.

The man ordered his crew to search for her corpse before he too jumped into the river. Ripples formed on the river's surface and glistened under the moonlight.

Su Zi found it strange. She had no parents and wondered, 'Other than my husband, who was willing to recover my body?'

The man and his crew searched for three days and three nights before they found her corpse enveloped in seaweed.

An unrecognizable corpse of a lady finally surfaced on a beautiful midsummer night—

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Su Zi could not bear to look at herself.

She respected the crews' psychological strength because none of them felt sick at the sight of her.

Her swollen corpse was seen stuffed with mud when it was carried over to the man in the diving suit. It was also disgusting that layers of densely packed shells and snails were seen between her flesh, which indicated that her corpse had been treated as a breeding ground!

The man looked at her corpse for a long time without saying a word.

Just as Su Zi tried to comprehend his intentions, the man did something that left her dumbfounded!

—He leaned over and kissed her!

Jesus!

He kissed her swollen, rotten face!

Su Zi was completely shocked!

How deep was his love for her that he was willing to kiss her corpse?!

Why had she not known that there was a man in the world who loved her so much?!

If she knew about the man's existence long ago, she would not have gotten married to Mu Zening because of an old man's dying wish!

She regretted and lamented.

She was in disbelief that someone actually loved her so much, but she was strangely satisfied at the same time.

The satisfaction was very untimely, very strange, and absurd, but extremely real.

—Su Zi found a bit of comfort in her failed life after she had died tragically…

Sadly, it was too late…

She had died, and everything… Was beyond redemption.

Su Zi got closer to the man, so much so that her face was almost right next to his—

'Such a pity. It took so much to find a man who loves me so deeply, yet I don't know who he is even when I'm dead.'

She sighed with regret.

The man eventually left the city with her corpse, and arrived at a remote countryside—

Su Zi wondered, 'Perhaps his love for me is so great that he's going to bury me in a place where no one knows, so he can remember me fondly from now on.

'Tsk, the thought of his possessiveness makes me excited.'

'If there's a next life—

'I promise to devote my life to him to repay his kindness of burying me.'

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