Sara did not want to digress and tell Muchen about Jin Cearo"s mother being Fuji"s sister since he did not know who Fuji was yet. So she continued with her narration. 

She believed he could only understand better if she told him all he needed to know about that group of people. 

When she saw the thugs looking at her, she quickly picked herself up and began to run back. 

The country was so cold so most people stayed indoors, especially at nights like that when it was snowing, even though it was mild.

She did not turn back, but she knew they were chasing after her, and could also hear their footsteps. 

At that point, she thought it was going to be her end if she did not escape from them.

She had just witnessed a murder scene and those people were also chasing after her.

The voices returned to her head and reminded her of what had happened that night. She heard the man"s creepy laugh and her mind flashed back to how he had hit her countlessly and tore her clothes. 

The psychological trauma was still too much for her no matter how much she tried.

She then remembered how she had stabbed his eye. And the voices continued to haunt her, telling her how she was a murderer and deserved to die in the hands of murderers.

She was frightened and closed her eyes while she ran for her dear life with tears running down from her eyes down to her cheeks and out of sight.

She had always been a good runner so it was not a big deal for her to run. But the problem was, the people were really fast, plus the voices in her head was not making it easy for her.

She knew no where to run to except the hotel which was at the opposite direction. She was not even concerned about the cold. All she needed to do was to hide somewhere. 

She thought she saw the glimpse of a young girl and was relieved to finally see someone to help her call the police or something but when she checked again, she did not see anyone. And her hope crashed.

Unfortunately for her, she came to a dead end. 

It was a wooden bridge which enabled people cross over to the other side since there was a river at the bottom. 

She had been running to the other side when about three men appeared in front of her.

When she turned around to run back, she saw two men at the other side. 

One of which was Snake. Then, he was in his twenties and looked more haggard than he was looking now. The four other men were also around their twenties to thirties.

Snake was the one who first spoke to her while she looked at all of them with a terrified expression.

"You are really a good runner" He commended.

"Please let me go. I did not see anything." She pleaded as tears continued to flow down her cheeks. 

It looked like they all pitied her until one spoke.

"We should get rid of her. She saw us and it is going to be bad if Fuji found out that we let her go on purpose" The man beside Snake tried to convince them to get rid of her. 

"Please let me go. I won"t say anything I swear" 

She knelt down and held Snake"s foot and continued to beg him since it seemed like he was the one in charge. 

But his face was dark and expressionless. 

He squatted to meet her height and used a hand to lift her chin so she could look into his dark eyes. 

"You had to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. How unfortunate" 

Snake signalled for them to get rid of her but a call came in immediately. 

"Fuji asked to bring her to the base" He said to the others and they looked at him in surprise. 

"Fuji? That should be worse for her. Poor Lady" Another chipped in.

When Sara saw the look on all their faces, she knew that meeting that "Fuji" was worse than death. 

As two other men tried to grab her, she quickly dashed to the side of the bridge and held the rope.

"If you come close to me, I"ll kill myself."

She threatened in fear.

"We wanted to kill you and you pleaded for your life. Now we"re saving you and you want to die?" Snake asked in a cold voice and used a hand to signal for her to move away from there.

"Come over here little girl. You might really fall" 

Sara knew they were not going to let her be. And when Snake asked the men to grab her, she did not know how it happened, but the only thing she could remember was that she felt her body hit the ice cold water. 

Her eyes shot open immediately her body fully submerged inside the deep, dark water.

She had never been so scared like she was at that moment. Because at that point, she thought it was over. She was going to die! If not from drowning, then probably from the cold. 

No matter how she tried to swim up, she could not. Her heavy clothes were all soaked and was pulling her down no matter how hard she tried. 

She could feel her lungs closing and her eyes finally closed while she gave up with the image of her Father and Aunt in her head. 

"I am Sorry Father. I am sorry Aunt. I am sorry Weiyoung" She apologized in her mind to the only people in her life as she stopped struggling and gave up.

As she narrated, it felt like she was thrown back to that moment and she suddenly had gooseb.u.mps all over her body.

Muchen saw her s.h.i.+vering and held her tightly after pulling up the duvet to cover her properly. He knew it was not a physical cold. But there was nothing he could do at that point. 

No wonder she did not like the waters. It finally registered to him. She had "died"  there once. Must have been pretty traumatic for her. 

"I"m sorry" Muchen kissed her temple and turned her face to look at him. 

"It must have been difficult for you"

She bobbed her head up and down and tears escaped from her eyes. "It was. It was very difficult" She admitted and wrapped her hands around his waist. 

Ever since then, she did not only have nightmares of that night where she killed that man, she also had nightmares of how her body plunged into the deep, dark and cold water.

And whenever she woke up from that nightmare, it was always with cold sweat.

"When I woke up, I saw myself in an unfamiliar room. I had actually thought it was the afterlife. But then, I saw someone helping me clean my body. It was a young lady about four years older than I was then. She was called Jaz."

"She had been so happy to see me awake and after tending to be a bit, she told me to make sure I run if I ever got the chance."

"I was told I had been unconscious for five days and my first thought was to see my family. But that was impossible. I saw h.e.l.l instead"

That time, she had met Fuji for the first time when she was taken into his private chambers. She had heard rumours that she was the first underaged he had actually asked to see him privately. They all knew he only did women in their twenties so no one actually thought much but rather, were curious why he kept her.

 She had screamed and refused to go since she was smart enough to know what probably awaited her. But no matter how hard she tried, the women were far stronger than her since they were obviously members of the gang. 

When she arrived his chambers, he had looked at her l.u.s.tfully and told her how pretty she was and how he had watched from the the car on that night as she ran for her dear life. 

He had touched her cheek and impulsively, she slapped him hard on his face.

His eyes shot wide opened when she hit him. It was as if he had never been hit in his entire life and that was the first time someone dared do that. 

His gaze turned cold and before she knew it, a group of men entered inside and dragged her out. 

She had never in her life received the kind of beating she received that day. She was wiped all over her body and they told her they would stop if she agreed that she was wrong for hitting him. But no matter how much they wiped her, she did not relent and told them he was a piece of s.h.i.+t who deserved it.

She had thought they were going to beat her to death until the order came for them to stop.

For two days, she fell into unconsciousness.

She did not know the kind of concussion they had used on her body but she did not see the scars when she woke up. She only felt pain internally.

They had told her "Fuji did not like women to be scarred" so they always made sure no scars were left on the ladies skins. 

He asked her whether she wanted to go home, and promised to let her go if she went to bed with him. She had refused to show her tears to him and told him she would do anything else but not that. 

Her Aunt had taken time to educate her on s.e.x education. Her father had also told her to keep herself for the one she truly loved and would want to spend the rest of her life with. Besides, she was still going through the trauma of her near r.a.p.e case. She did not want to have anything to do with this perverted old man. He was obviously in his forties while she was just fifteen!

He seemed to like how determined she was and told her the only way out was to be initiated into their gang. 

He had promised to let her go after the initiation and she had been stupid enough to believe him. 

After giving her a strange liquid to drink, she asked to go back he. But he had told her that part of her initiation required her to defeat the weakest member of each level and had asked her to train until she could beat them up. 

She had cried and cussed him, and had even threatened to kill herself. 

But he had warned her that if she dared kill herself, then her father and Aunt would die.

She had no choice but to keep training. A week turned to two, two turned to three and before she new it, months pa.s.sed and yet, she could not defeat even the weakest one in level one.

She could not escape from his clutches because he seemed to be everywhere and whenever she tried to run away, she was seriously beaten when she was caught. 

Her hair was cut short, her skin pale, her eyes, dead.

Everyone thought Fuji took her as his daughter and that was why he was being lenient with her. But she knew best. He was nothing but a disgusting perverted old man who wanted to sleep with her.