Enraged, he pushed her under the water, not permitting her the slightest struggle. He watched as bubbles popped from her head, unmoved, a part of him wishing to end her right there.
Chenxing had never felt closer to death. The instinct to survive prompted her to struggle fiercely, to try and rise out of the water for oxygen. But his hand was as heavy as a thousand pounds. Amidst her desperate gasps, she gulped mouthfuls of water. The fear she felt in that moment was unprecedented.
It felt as though her lungs were going to explode. Bit by bit, water replaced the air, and she was terrified to realize how desperately she wanted to live. But her consciousness was gradually blurring. At one moment she thought she was going to die as darkness swallowed her vision. But in the next second, a hand forcefully yanked her back from the edge of death.
The moment she made contact with the air, she gasped in huge breaths as if the only important thing in life was to inhale.
