1 Chapter 0: Disconnect.

Love, unlike the classics, is not life lasting, nor long lived, it is fleeting and fickle. It is easily obtainable, excruciatingly hard to maintain and soul shattering when lost.

These were the things that Qin Qianyu found herself thinking about as she lay in a hospital bed, deathly afraid, utterly alone and gasping her last breath.

Her young supple self from only a couple of months ago, is now replaced with a skeleton, shrink wrapped by her own skin.

Her sunken in eyes, red, as the ventilation mask around her mouth and nose rhythmically pumps the much needed oxygen her lungs desperately camber for.

Over the past two months Qin Qianyu has been admittedly hospital, her husband and in-laws and friends have never once, stepped foot inside her room.

She had been lying there unable to speak, move or even breathe on her own as doctors and nurses filed in and out of her room.

She had caught on to some of the discussions happening around her, apparently she suffered a stroke which caused an aneurysm on her brain.

The blockage was causing her body to cease functioning. Then further complications arose as her body and internal organs started to deteriorate at a shocking speed.

But she knew the truth, everything she was now experiencing had been manufactured. She had fallen into a scheme and this was the result.

"How did it end up like this!? Why did it have to come to this!?"

The how, when, and why's coupled with the should've, would've could haves, flood Qin Qianyu's mind before it all went to black.

And it all started a few moments ago with the man and woman standing at her bedside.

This man was Song Zhaoge, Qin Qianyu's university's sweetheart. He along with her doctor and her long time friend Murong Mei had entered into the room. All of them sporting solemn faces.

Qin Qianyu's fears subsided when her eyes met his. She calmed herself, Yet, she was still frightened by the possibility of losing her life but with him around Qin Qianyu could battle the entire world as long as this man was by her side, however.

"Doctor, can you give us some privacy?"

"Ah, sure, I'll check back in a moment."

"Mhm,"

The doctor fixed his glasses and left the pair in the room with Qin Qianyu.

Qin Qianyu wanted to reach out and touch her husband so bad. She tried with all her might but nothing happened.

Soon the soft look on Song Zhaoge's face turned from soft and loving to an undisguised disgust with a hint of sourness.

This caused Qin Qianyu's heart to skip a beat in fright.

"Why does Zhaoge Gege look like this? Is he . . Why is he repulsed by me?"

Qin Qianyu thought to herself. Song Zhaoge leans in close to Qin Qianyu and with mockery and distain heaved a sigh as he spoke.

"Haise, You held out longer than I originally forecasted. Your body seems to be fighting back against the poison engineered from your research into the RTP strain you created."

Qin Qianyu's heart actually stopped for a few seconds upon hearing Song Zhaoge's words.

Her chest tightened in response bringing all of her previous fears and angst flooding back to the surface.

"Is he saying I'm in this state because he did something to me? No! That can't be true!"

Sadly, Song Zhaoge confirmed Qin Qianyu's thoughts as he told her how he had used her research on her personally, making her his live human trial for the experiment.

But that wasn't all, soon she was told how he even tampered with her medication so that she would never fall pregnant ever again.

"I wouldn't have thought of it, but, since Meimei insisted how could I say no!"

"Especially when Meimei told me you were 8 weeks pregnant. Luckily we were able to fill your stomach with enough medication to kill that abomination inside you."

Qin Qianyu had truly lost herself by this time and couldn't even form a coherent sentence in her mind.

Her thoughts flew back to when she was so happy to hear that she was with child, the only person she confined in was her best friend Meimei, then the painful miscarriage that followed.

The elders from the Song family started calling her the dark star of the Song's destruction when she failed to get impregnated all those years later.

Now she knew why she couldn't get pregnant again. It was all because Meimei and Zhaoge didn't want it to happen.

Qin Qianyu then saw her long time friend Meimei sneering at her as she wrapped her long thin arms around Song Zhaoge's waist from behind as she planted a loving kiss on his neck.

"Darling, Look how gross she looks, if I didn't know better I'd swear she looked like an extra from my latest zombie movie."

Song Zhaoge's face twisted and twitched as he spat out venomously,

"Argh! Why did you have to remind me that I actually had to sleep with that!"

Qin Qianyu's mind shattered at that point, her husband and best friend stood before her, mocking her as they embraced and tongued each other's mouths while groping each other seductively.

Because Qin Qianyu couldn't even blink she was made to watch everything they were doing to transpire before her.

"A pair of two face dogs!"

Qin Qianyu screamed in her mind. Everything started to make sense now, the late nights, always having Meimei tag along. Her in-laws bickering and taunts towards her, that wedge that was formed between them along with her own parents, her own family, it was all directed and orchestrated by these two.

The pair only broke apart from their lust inducing kiss when the doctor returned with a solemn face as he stated that the only thing the hospital can do at this point is sustain Qin Qianyu's life with machines.

Song Zhaoge thought for a moment then turn to Qin Qianyu laying on the bed, and with a soft voice he stated,

"Seeing my wife suffer, is making me suffer . . Disconnect the life support."

"D . . Disconnect!? But Sir, if we do that then your wife will . . "

"She'll save us some extra dollars. Hmph! Why should we waste it on her?"

Murong Mei interjected. Hatred laced in her words, Qin Qianyu was aghast. How could she not have see through this best friend of hers.

"But . . "

"Just do it!"

The resentment overflowed in Qin Qianyu's mind and soul and quickly found an outlet through her eyes as it was all directed at her husband and the wench standing next to him.

"Blind! I was so blind! This is my punishment for forsaking my family, this is what I get for loving the wrong people unconditionally. It was all self induced haha, damn it all!"

Qin Qianyu ridiculed herself.

"No! . . It's not all my fault, I believed that the love I was giving to them both was actually being returned but now it seems it was all a show."

Hateful!

This was what now occupied Qin Qianyu's mind and spirit. Absolute hate towards her husband her best friend and herself.

She hated the fact that her unbridled love for Song Zhaoge blinded her eyes to the real him. She hated the fact that her unconditional love made her turn a deaf ear to the words from those closest to her when they spoke about her friend and husband.

Just hearing the words "disconnect" reminded Qin Qianyu of what she did, everything she had given up just to be with Song Zhaoge.

She disconnected herself from her family, her dreams and goals and ultimately Qin Qianyu herself.

The doctor had Song Zhaoge sign a few waivers then proceeded to unplug the much needed machines that were keeping Qin Qianyu alive.

The doctor muttered to Qin Qianyu as he injected her with some kind of liquid.

"Miss Qin, this medication will help alleviate the incoming pain."

Qin Qianyu couldn't respond in anyway. As the machine stopped, the pain increased as her lungs and heart fought hard to keep themselves functioning.

"Goddamn liar! This hurts like a mother fuuu!"

Qin Qianyu's body started convulsing. Her muscles twisted and knotted as the spasms increased.

Song Zhaoge and Murong Meimei watch on with disgusted looks on their face.

In Qin Qianyu's sight that was all she could see as the doctor stood behind them shaking his head at what was happening inside the room.

At a time like this she concentrated on their faces but soon enough she thought about her Father, step mother, and Grandmother.

These three people that were pushed a side by Qin Qianyu herself aided by these two, two face dogs sentencing her to death.

The many misunderstandings that occurred between them, thinking of all of this made her heart hurt more than all the pain she was suffering at this moment.

It made it worst when she saw the piece of jade within her periphery. It was given to Qin Qianyu by her grandmother and it belong to her birth mother.

"How long will this take!? I have a fan meet and signing to get to!"

"Calm down Meimei, it won't take long at all."

Qin Qianyu's vision started weakening and soon she only saw darkness. She could still hear the sounds happening around her.

The moment she heard them talking about her taking too long to die, it was soon drowned out by the beeping of the heart rate monitor Qin Qianyu was connected to as it beeped louder and louder.

BIP . . BIP . . BIP BEEEEEEEEEEP!