Lu Zhijie didn't treat her the way Ling Zhen had thought he would. Instead, his attitude completely changed.
He was repulsed by her, calling her "unclean" for what she had been through. He became unwilling to even touch her hand and promptly called off their engagement.
The blow to Ling Zhen was immense, as one might imagine. This was her fiancé, the man she'd known since childhood!
Ling Zhen hadn't cried while in the clutches of that terrifying murderer; she had endured the ordeal. But Lu Zhijie's words and his reaction brought her to tears, nearly breaking her.
Scorned as "unclean" and with her engagement broken, Ling Zhen attempted suicide several times.
She had once been such a strong and cheerful person, yet she almost died of heartbreak because of Lu Zhijie—all because he had treated her so well before.
Ling Zhen finally began to pull herself together when she heard about another case—two bodies had been discovered, victims of a similar fate.
