Dan Fangze tried to cover his ears with both hands.
He once again wondered if his ears were bleeding.
He also wanted to cover his nose.
The water rushing in made his nose ache and burn. The pain gradually grew more intense.
His eyes began to ache and burn too, and tears streamed down his face without stopping.
But the water had bound his hands and feet.
He couldn't break free at all.
Even though he struggled like a madman.
The strength he'd always been so proud of was utterly useless.
He wanted to let himself sink.
He didn't know if it was his body's instinct for survival or his fear of death.
He simply couldn't make himself stop struggling.
Not until he was completely exhausted.
This time was no different.
As Dan Fangze struggled, he cursed Xiao Xiao furiously in his mind.
That damn guy had told him to go to sleep.
And he'd actually believed him.
Wasn't he the one suffering now?
Every time he had a nightmare, he painfully swore to himself that he wouldn't sleep again.
Next time, he absolutely wouldn't go to sleep!
But when next time came, he still couldn't resist the Sandman's call and fell asleep.
Whenever he thought about sleeping, he was terrified.
But the resistance in his heart could never overcome his body's exhaustion.
This time, though Xiao Xiao had told him to sleep,
and though he was now cursing Xiao Xiao up and down,
the truth was, he knew.
He'd only gone along with it.
He really had wanted to sleep.
And in his heart, he'd held on to a faint hope.
What if Xiao Xiao really had a way?
Feeling wave after wave of suffocation in his chest, he knew that,