The ringtone of the mobile phone rang abruptly in the dead silence of the room, one ring after another, yet it received no response.
Song Xi gripped the phone tightly, her eyes fixed on the screen. The flashing caller ID should have been her beacon of hope, but now, in the agonizingly long wait, it was fading bit by bit.
Her heart felt as though it had plummeted into an ice cellar, while her body burned as if she were stranded in a desert. Pounded by both physical pain and mental torture, she felt her strength draining away drop by drop.
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