By the time he had finished the wedding ceremony and received the news to pursue her, Fangcao had already been raped by a villain on her way back home from the city and, unable to bear the humiliation, she threw herself into the moat. When her body was fished out, it was unrecognizable, becoming the nightmare of his lifetime.
Back then, he wished he could have died alongside Fangcao. It was only his grandmother's threat of death that kept him from throwing himself into the moat, but his heart had already died there with Fangcao.
Cui Pingan, like a walking corpse, clung to Fangcao's body without rest or sleep until her corpse decayed beyond recognition. He, too, from starvation, had fainted, and it was only then that the Cui family's servants buried Fangcao and brought him back to the Cui family.