In the living room, Zhang Linli was still unconscious. Shangguan Mo was still unable to control his anger when seeing him, but he did not completely lose his mind. He made a phone call.

After a while, Ye Feng arrived at Murong Xue's apartment and he was caught by surprise when seeing the mess there. "Prince."

Shangguan Mo nodded, "Take him to receive treatment." He gestured to Ye Feng to take away Zhang Linli on the ground.

"Yes." Ye Feng asked no more questions and just left after picking up the unconscious Zhang Linli.

Shangguan Mo returned to the room and carried Murong Xue out in his arms. He put her in the back seat of his car and drove all the way back to his manor in A province.

The next day, Murong Xue slightly opened her eyes and the memories of last night came flooding back. Murong Xue clutched the quilt and there was nothing but desperation in her eyes.

She looked around and found she was in one room of his manor. She managed to endure the pain covering her body and hobbled to the door, trying to open it to get out of there.

She pulled hard, but the door was not opened. She turned the lock, but the door was still closed. She realized that Shangguan Mo had locked her up.

Murong Xue was slumped on the floor, hands around her knees where her head rested.

Not long after that, the meal was sent through a modest opening in the door. "Princess, it's breakfast time." It was Ms. Lin, a housekeeper that Shangguan Mo asked Ye Feng to hire. Ms. Lin was responsible for Murong Xue's three meals and reporting her situation to Shangguan Mo.

Ms. Lin waited for a long time, but there was still no answer. She shook her head and left.

Murong Xue could not believe that she was held there as a prisoner and what happened yesterday was still vivid to her. She did not understand why and how he could do this to her.

She stared at the somewhat familiar room blankly and endless sadness filled her miserable heart.

Her pale face appeared to be even more appealing and lifeless in the sunlight. The simple night-robe could not light up her pale body, which was intensified by her matted hair.

Tears ran down to the corners of her dry lips, which even made her more painful and frustrated. In her eyes, the exquisite breakfast placed next to her was a mockery of her. She was the same stupid even in her second life.

Now, her tearful eyes seemed unable to contain one more drop of tear, and then she began to sob while covering her face. Very quickly, her beautiful yet pale tiny face was covered by the pouring tears.

With red swollen eyes, she looked like a stiff lifeless statue leaning against the bedside quietly, numbly, and still. Murong Xue felt as if everything in the world had disappeared with her heart torn to pieces, and she could no longer be able to feel warm.

She still found it hard to believe that Shangguan Mo had done this to her.

At noon, Ms. Lin replaced the cold breakfast with a hot lunch. "Princess, it's lunchtime. You didn't eat anything this morning. Starving is no good to your health." Ms. Lin waited for a long time and did not get any answer from the person locked inside the room, either.

Ms. Lin sighed. She did not know what the girl in the room had done to be locked up in there. Thinking of that man's cold face last night, she shivered. She felt his cold face would turn her into an ice sculpture. But for the high salary, she would have quit by now. She was really frightened by that man.

In the room, Murong Xue felt that her dignity was torn apart by his insult last night. Now, she was too desperate and discouraged to eat anything.

After some time, Ms. Lin came over again and found the lunch remained intact, which made her a little nervous. She was afraid that if the person in the room starved to death, she would get into trouble. She hurriedly called the cold man last night. Soon the phone was answered.

"What's up?" A cold voice came out.

"Prince, Princess hasn't eaten anything all day, and the food sent in all remained untouched." Ms. Lin did not have the key to the room and she could not open the door to check on her.

"What? I see. I'll be back soon." Shangguan Mo, who was having a meeting, raised his voice and stood up, with his face changing.

All department managers attending the meeting sat upright immediately and wondered what could startle Shangguan Mo. They suspected it to be a stock shock, but they had not heard of such news. Therefore, every one of them pricked up their ears to capture anything useful.

“Put off the meeting.” Shangguan Mo grabbed his jacket on the chair and disappeared right away after leaving these words.

It caused an uproar in the meeting room.

Back to the manor, Shangguan Mo strode forward while asking Ms. Lin waiting aside about what was going on.

"I don't know. The door is locked and I can't see anything inside. The breakfast and the lunch sent in there were both untouched. Princess hasn't said a word." Ms. Lin briefed him on Murong Xue's situation today respectfully.

"All right, off you go now." Shangguan Mo ran upstairs.

He had thought through all the possibilities. The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became. He was afraid that she would...

Shangguan Mo took out the key with his trembling hand and opened the door. Then he saw that Murong Xue leaned against the bedside like a shabby doll with blank eyes and a pale face.

Shangguan Mo felt relieved when he did not see any blood in the room, but he found it unbearable to see Murong Xue being so drawn. He pretended to be calm and asked coldly, "Why have you eaten nothing?"

However, Murong Xue just ignored him. Her eyes remained blank, and she did not even turn her head to see him, which was her silent protest.

Shangguan Mo was furious that she let herself be so ghostly for others. Squatting down, he held her tightly by the chin and forced her to look into his eyes. "Answer me!"

Murong Xue still said nothing. Her red swollen eyes vaguely gazed at this familiar man and she found his eyes were the same angry and indifferent as last night. Seeing him, she felt as if she had been being stabbed again and again. The pain, combined with her tears, twisted her vulnerable and distorted heart.

She was familiar with this room and this man, but the great time she had there contrasted unfavorably with what happened to her last night, which was overwhelming to her.

"D*mn it. Talk to me." Shangguan Mo angrily raised his fist and punched somewhere beside her.

Murong Xue had no idea what she could talk with him now after he had acted like a monster yesterday. Then she thought of Zhang Linli. "What did you do with Linli?" Her voice became hoarse after crying for a long time.

"Do you care about him so much? Is he the first person you want to know about?" Shangguan Mo smashed the end table with a kick at once. With a popping noise, the end table was shattered into pieces, falling to the ground.

"D*mn. You shameless." Shangguan Mo was furious and he grabbed her.

At this moment, Murong Xue finally gave a reaction. There was a hint of horror in her blank eyes, and what happened yesterday occurred to her again. She began to struggle desperately, "No, let go of me. You monster..." However, having had nothing today, she felt weak and light-headed, and her struggle was more futile than last night.

Murong Xue's eyes were empty. She found it meaningless to resist, so she decided to go along with him.

She only blamed herself for her lack of vision and choosing the wrong guy.

Shangguan Mo stopped when he saw her empty grey eyes. It broke his heart.

He let out a big deep breath.

He untied her hands softly, and the bruises on her wrists made him even want to slap himself.

Shangguan Mo rubbed her hands. Now his anger was replaced by his care for her. "Does it hurt?" asked he carefully.

But Murong Xue just sat there in silence and avoided his eyes.

Shangguan Mo's mind went blank.

He felt that she was so lifeless that she would leave him forever at any moment now.

With her robe torn apart, Murong Xue was almost naked but she did not care about it now. Hopeless and exhausted, she had no courage to carry on, and the thought of suicide occurred to her mind for the first time. She felt that she should not have had a second life from the very start and everything should have ended in her last life.

She found it useless and miserable to have a second life.

Now that Xiao Keli and Fang Shihua both shied away from the Murong Family, she did not need to worry about her parents' safety.

She felt that she had already received much more than what she deserved and she should be content with that. Looking at Shangguan Mo, the man she loved in this life, she thought that she should never wish for happiness and she had been asking for too much.

Murong Xue jumped off the bed, picked up a sharp piece of glass from the floor, and slit her wrist resolutely. Her wrist began bleeding instantly. A tear dropped off the corner of her eyes, and she felt she could relieve herself from all of these at last.

Shangguan Mo was appalled, his eyes wide open. Before he could take the glass piece to stop her, he saw she was bleeding.

He found a piece of cloth at once and pressed it hard against the wound on her bleeding hand. "No, you can't. How dare you..." His eyes became red and a drop of tear ran down his face.

He pulled the sheet off the bed, wrapped her up with it, and carried her out in his arms very quickly. He swore that he would never let her die.

And he would never allow her to get rid of him by death, either.

However, a feeling of panic and terror was emerging inside him.