38 The Past (Part 2)

(Warning: This chapter is not for the weak-willed. You have been warned, don't say the story took a dark turn later on if you can't handle it. You have been warned)

The president carried the girl to the other chair in the room and put her down. He pulled the black cloth over the girls head revealing her face. He was surprised to find that the girl was wide awake and her eyes were staring at him without blinking.

Her face was looked like it appeared out of a painting. Her eyes were big and bright like two bright lamps, her nose was small and straight, her eyebrows long and angled. She was better looking compared to the woman who was in the office (Author: the current wife) but it wasn't because of the looks, on that, they were on a similar level, it was more about the temperament.

"So, are you ready now?", The president asked her coldly as he turned to look outside the window.

The eyes of the lady followed him as his body moved. When she heard his statement, she had a slight smile on her face as she replied, "I have already told you my answer. I would do anything for you as long as it is within my limits except divorcing you, of course, I am mentally ill so you can't possibly divorce me either."

Her eyes were full of warmth as she looked at the ice cold man.

"You seem to have endless patience.", he said not turning back as he continued to look outside the window.

The lady didn't say anything and just sat there with that slight smile. The President smiled cruelly when he didn't hear anything coming from her mouth.

"Unfortunately, I do not.", he said as he turned around. He waved his hands and the two burly men who had tied Lin Youmei, started moving. They went into the kitchen and fetched a small box.

"Our nation allows the person who is mentally ill to divorce his counterpart but not the other way round.", he said as he slowly opened the box, " This law actually has a loophole. Do you want to know what that is?"

As he finished speaking, he pulled out a hammer and a set of nails from inside.

"It's a forceful divorce."(Author: Basically code for torture)

One of the burly men picked up the hammer and nail and moved towards the lady sitting on the chair while the other ones undid her hands that were tied together and tied them separately to the armrest.

"Of course, you could try taking me to court for this, but I wonder if your life would end before you could do that. As for why I don't want to kill you, we have spent so many years together, it would really hurt me if you died and it would be messy as I won't be able to escape suspicion because you died a few weeks after you became mentally ill."

Although he said all this, his face was completely expressionless as if what was about to happen wasn't related to him at all, nor was the person in front of him his wife.

"This is nothing personal, I just need money to achieve my dreams and unfortunately, I am about to run out of mine. She agreed to pay for everything as long as I married her but you just won't listen. You had that mentally ill certificate made so that I am not able to do anything as long as you don't break the marriage yourself. So, if you look at this logically, it is you yourself who has brought this upon yourself."

As he said this the burly man kept an iron nail on her pale palm which laid against the armrest of the chair. He raised the hammer in the air ready to strike it down.

The president turned around and pulled out a cigarette from his pocket as he said, "If you change your mind just tell me."

Lin Youmei's face turned completely pale as he realized what was about to happen. Muffled sounds could be heard from his gagged mouth as he tried to scream and stop the man from continuing but to no avail.

The hammer came down and hit the nail on her white and without a blemish palm with a TAAK. This sound was heard as the nail pierced her snow-white skin. Blood flowed out of her pierced palm, the contrast it created with her skin gave it a beautiful sheen.

The whole time, from the appearance of the nail to its piercing her hand, the lady's facial expression didn't change. It stayed calm and without fear as she looked at the back of the man in black quietly. Her smile was no more there, what had replaced it was a calm expressionless face, unlike the cold one her 'husband' had.

TAAK.

The hammer once again came down on her hand as the iron nail pierced deeper into her skin. She didn't produce a sound from the nail piercing her skin, it was like she couldn't feel any pain at all like, she was numb to it...

(Author: There are some things that hurt far more than physical damage and when pain reaches a certain stage, the body stops feeling it...)

TAAK.

Lin Youmei could watch no more as he closed his eyes and tears rolled down his face. He had already stopped struggling when the nail pierced her skin, his body laid there tied to the chair, helpless.

TAAK.

Every time the hammer hit, even though her expression didn't change, her body did shake uncontrollably from the force making her look all the more pitiful. Unfortunately, no one felt any pity for her as this process continued.

TAAK.

The room had a pin drop silence except for the alternating sound of the hammer hitting and the president exhaling smoke.

TAAK.

By now, the nail had pierced her hand completely from one side to the other and into the chair. The burly man obviously didn't expect her to last this long as he didn't know what to do next. He looked towards his boss.

When the President didn't hear the sound of the hammer on time he looked around calmly and understood the situation at once after giving it a glance.

"Continue with her other palm, then feet, then shoulders, I would like to see how long she can last." He said. The burly man followed his orders at once and pulled out another nail from the box keeping it on her other palm.

TAAK.

Throughout the whole process, the lady kept looking at the man who was filling her full of holes like nothing was happening to her at all.

TAAK.

The process continued. Gradually, both her palms were pierced, both her feet and even her shoulders, but she didn't cry, not even a single tear fell out of her crystal clear eyes as they continued to glow brightly.

Her body had become a bloody mess, her once beautiful body was now ridden with holes, blood was flowing out from all over her body as it created a small puddle around her. Miraculously, her face hadn't even paled a little bit, even after all this blood loss.

TAAK.

After being done by these places the burly man, continued with her hands moving upwards from her palm but staying below the elbow joints.

TAAK.

After that, they moved on to the space between the elbow joints and her shoulders.

TAAK.

Her face finally started losing a bit of color but it didn't seem to affect her as she continued to stare at the man whom she loved, who treated her like this, who didn't even know about the life that was growing in her body right now. Just what kind of willpower was required to fight against this much pain and torture, to have your body pierced by iron nails one by one and, to have the one you love do it to you.

The President also realized that she wasn't about to break.

"Get me some salt." , he said.