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When he was heartless, he could sleep for days and nights without remembering a thing.
In good times, he indulged her with lavish attention, but in bad times, he would turn and leave, his departing figure never lingering.
He never loved anyone, and once he was done playing, nothing mattered to him anymore.
What did it take for her to be obedient? What counted as obedience?
Where had she not acted correctly?
Looking again at the cufflinks in her hand, if he did not give them, it did not matter, he had plenty.
Days passed in this way.
Today, she looked at the calendar on her phone: January 5th.
At three in the morning, Leh Ying took a bag and walked to the high perimeter wall, but with a stool, she stepped up, stood on tiptoes, and secretly peeked over the wall.
She saw the security guard standing impassively under the streetlamp, watching in the direction where her head appeared.
The guard asked coldly, "What are you doing?"