"Everything you've done has been for Jialan, from beginning to end. But what about you?"
Lorimas fell silent inside the room. Only after a long while did a somewhat confused voice come from behind the door.
"Me?" Lorimas seemed never to have considered such a question.
"You love Jialan. Wherever he went, you wanted to find him. Even without knowing where he'd gone, you still helped Cheng Xun develop that drug that could extend people's lives, just because extending life was Jialan's obsession too. So everything you're doing now is for Jialan. Don't you need to do something for yourself?"
"Don't you want to leave this place? The world outside might not be all that wonderful either, but don't you want to step outside and see it? Even if you don't want to face Jialan again for some reason, don't you want to find him yourself and watch him from a distance?"
"..."
"You don't understand. Cheng Xun and Jialan are different. Their methods of researching that 'drug' are different too. Even I... am no longer who I was at the beginning."
Jialan had also tried to research a drug that extended life?
With all the information Lorimas had given him, Su Bai now found himself unable to understand not only this woman who wanted nothing but love, but also the hotel owner named Jialan.
If both heavy metal doors-the one at the stairway on the Sixth Floor and the one at the entrance to the hidden floor-had been built before Jialan left the hotel, then Cheng Xun and Peng Zhen had merely come along afterward. The first person to imprison Lorimas here to research ways of extending life...
Had been her husband, Jialan!
It was utterly absurd!
Su Bai didn't understand love very well. Even though he now had