BY THE RIVER STYX

He wiped his sweating forehead with his handkerchief as he massaged his stomach that had never stopped churning.

As he was doing so, he heard a bloodcurdling, heartwrenching scream from the second floor.

'Man Rui!'

Without delay and with such big manly strides, his forehead and back still sweating profusely, he ran and made his way towards the plight of stairs until he reached the source of the scream. His heart was beating loudly against the walls of its ventricles. Internally, he prayed and prayed for everything to be alright.

When Zhu Li Qiang arrived inside Man Rui's room, he could make out a commotion going on inside the bathroom. He hurriedly entered it as well.

Lo and behold he saw the last of the movements in the tub: it was Teng Man Rui squirming, her hands involuntarily thrashing out if the water and into the air, trying to grab whatever material she could while gasping for air, only she could only take in water as she was still submerged underwater.