Chapter 19

In an inconspicuous storage compartment at Skyview Plaza, I found a leather bag.
Inside it were powerful pieces of evidence involving Andrew's involvement in coastal smuggling.
When I saw the amount of the crimes, I gasped.
It was enough for three death sentences!
I didn't waste a second and hurried to the police station.
At the moment the police secretly arrested Andrew,
I was taken along.
But when we arrived, the place was already empty.
I pushed open the door to the basement.
That scene is something I will never forget in my lifetime.
Andrew's limbs were nailed to the wall with twenty-centimeter steel nails.
Forming the shape of the Chinese character "da" (big).
The wounds were still bleeding, forming a small river on the floor, meandering all the way to the entrance.
My legs went weak as I stumbled forward.
The man opened his eyes slightly, his breath like a strand of silk, and asked, "You came?"
"Yeah."
"Those words... weren't sincere, they were to... save you."
He was in extreme pain, and this sentence almost exhausted all his strength.
Choking back tears, I nodded, "I know, I know."
He curved his lips, then his head drooped weakly.
Muffled crying could be heard from the basement.
It was as if all the unspoken love, unrequited crush, and unanswered frustrations from these years were flowing out through his eyes.
Only when the moment of parting truly arrived did I realize that all the countless rehearsals in my heart were as light as a feather.