It was only five in the morning when Liang Chen arrived at the office.
He took the elevator straight up from the underground parking garage to his top floor office.
The office was quiet, only the faint lights in the duty offices on each floor were lit.
Liang Chen scanned his fingerprint, opened his office door, walked in, and sat down at his desk to work.
By 7:30 am, the office began to stir with noise. Liang Chen opened his drawer, took out the bottle of pills Miss Su had given him and entered the bedroom behind his office.
Liang Chen stood in front of the bedroom's floor-to-ceiling window, unmoving.
As time trickled by, his phone suddenly rang. Without hesitation, Liang Chen twisted open the bottle in his hand, poured out a heap of pills, quickly counted about seventeen or eighteen, then without hesitating, he shoved them into his mouth, took a gulp of water, and swallowed them all.