‘I'll never, ever fall in love with you!’ Pearl was stunned.

She felt as if someone had stabbed her in her heart.

Her shoulders trembled, and tears began to roll down from her eyes.

"I didn’t—"

Tanner clasped his hands on her cheeks and pulled her closer.

Pearl bit into his shoulder so hard that he pushed her away reflexively in pain, causing her to fall on the glass shards on the floor.

"Pearl!"

Tanner hurriedly ran over and scooped her u p from the floor.

His whole body trembled when he saw the scene in front of him.

The glass shards had stabbed into Pearl's cheek.

Tanner carried her in his arms and rushed her to the hospital.

At the hospital...

Tanner sat against the wall of the emergency exit.

floor was littered with cigarette butts, and his palm and collar were dyed with

tear slid down in the darkness.He returned to the ward despondently and sat down

right cheek covered in gauze.He held her

"I’m sorry, I’m sorry."

not want to hurt her at all.His brain

his grip as

The next morning...

opened his eyes and woke

Pearl's hand, he

bed was empty, and Pearl was

"Pearl!"

Tanner shouted.

to the corridor and stopped

patient in

The nurse was stunned.

the patient not in

up from Tanner’s stomach pit, and he shouted, "Quickly! I want to see

aren’t allowed to watch the

and see me if

on the street in her hospital gown, and

was cold as it blew through her long hair and bit through

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