Die in His Tenderness

In my previous life, I had a crush on Troy Salas for 4 years and became his girlfriend for 4 years.

But that 8 years meant nothing for him, since he still could not resist his childhood sweetheart and decided to break up with me.

I did not make any noise and accepted it all calmly.

But later, he knelt down downstairs of my house and begged for a reconciliation on live broadcast.

He said that even if we really had to separate, he wanted to celebrate my birthday one last time and hug me.

Under netizens’ persuasion, I softened my heart and went downstairs.

But after Troy saw me, he turned off the live broadcast and took out an ax.

He kept hitting me, shouting all the time.

“You want to separate, right? Fine, I am going to separate you now.”

I struggled hard to escape, but was still put into two sacks.

When I loved him, he poured all of his love to his childhood sweetheart. But when I stopped loving him, he tore me apart.

I did not know why everything became like that. After all, it was clearly him who wanted to break up. But he acted as if I was the villain.

So, once again, I returned to the day of his live broadcast.

My cell phone rang and I suddenly opened my eyes.

Looking at the familiar bedroom and the name jumping on the screen, I was sure that I was reborn.

The ringing became more and more urgent, like a curse that was taking one's life.

I felt a chill in my heart and cold sweat broke out on my back and palms.

In my previous life, it was the day that Troy called me and said he wanted to meet me.

I originally refused because he was the one who abandoned me.

But when I saw the live broadcast of his video on the video website, I suddenly felt soft-hearted.

When I saw him in the underground garage at 11 o'clock in the evening, he walked towards me with a big bouquet of flowers.

I thought he was apologizing sincerely, but it turned out to be just the beginning of a nightmare.

“Troy, if you promise me that you will not meet Terra again, I will…."

Before I could finish my words, my mouth and nose were covered and I fainted after a pungent smell was inhaled into my nose.

When I woke up again, I was in an abandoned slaughterhouse and Troy was standing next to me with an ax.

I was tied to the cold, hard stone slab, feeling powerless all over and could only make weak sounds from my mouth.

“What... what do you want to do?"

Troy's expression was somewhat painful, but also with a hint of a smile, so that he looked as hideous as a demon crawling out of hell.

He did not answer me, but covered his eyes with a black cloth.

He raised his knife and slashed at random places on my body.

“Separation, this is the real separation.”

Soon my body was torn apart and the severe pain made me struggle and scream, but it was no use.

“Why?” was the last thing I asked.

“Aubrey, don't be afraid. It won't hurt soon. From now on, both you and I will be free.”

After my body was cut into pieces and put into two sacks, Troy sat down on the ground tiredly.

In the end, I was becoming a soul, who was looking at the stone platform stained with blood. 

Even though I was already dead, I could still feel the pain of being torn apart.

So, I wanted to rush over to him and ask him why he did this to me, but my hands could only pass through his body.

Troy did not even let go of my broken body. He poured gasoline on it, burned it and then buried it.

His eyes were full of excitement when he said, “In this way I can be with Terra for real.”

I kept asking why until I died. Since I did not understand why did I have to die without peace?

He clearly proposed to break up and I didn't insist. But why did they need me to die to be together?