All Chapters of The Day My Sanity and Daughter Died: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

10 Chapters

Chapter 1

Damian's POVAs the metal gate of the mental institution clanged shut once again, the fluorescent lights in the corridor were completely cut off, plunging the ward back into suffocating, pitch-black silence.I was strapped tightly to an iron-framed bed. My wrists and ankles had long since been rubbed raw, covered in layer upon layer of dark, crusted scabs.I had just undergone the most intense electroshock treatment yet, and my body was still convulsing violently against my will. Cold sweat had soaked through my thin hospital gown, plastering it to my back in a sickening, sticky mess.The faint smell of burnt flesh, seared by the high-voltage current, still lingered in the air.For the past month, this living hell had been my daily reality.Serena Seacrest, my wife, whom I had loved for seven years, had personally sent me to this hell on earth just to make me pay for what happened to her childhood sweetheart, Adrian Cross.A month ago, Adrian had tripped and fallen down the stai

Chapter 2

After my month-long compulsory treatment ended, I was finally released from the mental institution.I took off the hospital gown that reeked of mildew and disinfectant and changed back into the old trench coat I'd been wearing when I was brought in. The fabric still bore the stains and dried blood from the struggle a month earlier.I stepped through the large iron gates of the mental institution into the harsh sunlight, so bright I could barely keep my eyes open. I didn't call anyone or even take a taxi. Like a walking corpse, I simply made my way down the road, putting one foot in front of the other.My first stop wasn't the luxurious mansion that made me sick to my stomach, but a funeral home on the outskirts of the city.Over the past month, Serena had been so busy staying by Adrian's side at the hospital day and night, who was still shaken, that she hadn't once asked about Delilah's whereabouts.She probably assumed the nanny had taken Delilah back to the countryside, or that

Chapter 3

My resistance only infuriated Serena further. Looking into my hollow, lifeless eyes, she felt inexplicably irritated.Just as she was about to lash out, Adrian, hiding behind her, suddenly spoke up. "Serena, this is terrifying!"He pretended to be frightened, clutching Serena's arm tightly as he pointed at the porcelain urn in my arms with a terrified expression."Serena, that jar he's holding looks so creepy! Do you think he learned some kind of curse or dark magic in the mental institution? I've heard that some lunatics use dead people's ashes to put hexes on others! Oh, my leg hurts so bad suddenly!"The moment Serena heard that his leg hurt, her protective instincts flared up, and her disgust for me reached its peak. She snapped, "Damian, you're just playing crazy and still as twisted as ever! Get rid of that cursed thing right now!"Before I could even react, she suddenly reached out and forcibly snatched the white porcelain urn from my arms."No! Give it back! Serena, give

Chapter 4

As I knelt in the mud, all ten fingers were torn bloody and raw by shards of porcelain and gravel, down to the point where I could even see the white of bone beneath.When I realized that no matter how hard I tried, the ashes had already merged completely with the mud and could never be separated from it, I suddenly stopped.I didn't cry anymore, I didn't scream anymore, and even my breathing faded to near silence. I just knelt there in the muck, staring at my bloodied hands covered in mud.Slowly, I rose to my feet like a a numb, lifeless puppet. I dragged my mud-and-blood-stained body back into the living room, one step at a time. My bleeding fingers left a trail of crimson streaks across the carpet.Serena stared at the ghastly state I was in and frowned deeply, instinctively taking half a step back. Convinced that I was about to have another outburst, she was ready to call the bodyguards in to restrain me.However, I simply walked straight to the coffee table. On it was a divo

Chapter 5

Third-Person POV When Serena heard Naomi's words, she suppressed the intense unease rising in her chest and let out a cold laugh. "Don't bother looking. Damian has always lived off me. With nothing to his name, where could he possibly go?"She picked up her coffee and took a sip, utterly convinced that Damian couldn't survive without her. "Give it three days at most. He'll be starving out there and come crawling back to apologize on his own."But the days passed, one after another. Eventually, half a month went by, and there was still no word from Damian.Serena's temper grew increasingly volatile. On the top floor of Seacrest Corporation, the office was filled with suffocating tension every single day."You still haven't found him yet? What the hell are you useless fools good for?" Serena hurled the report in her hand straight at Naomi.Naomi barely dared to breathe, trembling as she lowered her head. "Ms. Seacrest, there's been no activity on any of Mr. Vale's bank cards. We

Chapter 6

The moment the screen lit up, all that could be heard was an unsettling hiss of static.A high-definition surveillance recording of a street intersection appeared on the giant screen. The timestamp in the upper-right corner showed, unmistakably, the night Damian had been forcibly dragged into the mental hospital ambulance.The smiles on the guests' faces froze, and the entire ballroom fell deathly silent.The footage showed rain pouring down in torrents that night. Behind the ambulance, a little girl in a pink nightgown was running barefoot after it, crying and screaming desperately at the top of her lungs, "Daddy! Daddy, don't go..."That was five-year-old Delilah.Serena's pupils constricted sharply, and her breath caught in her throat.Then, the surveillance footage zoomed in, clearly capturing a man standing in the shadows at a corner of the street. It was Adrian, who had a black umbrella in his hands.In the footage, Adrian wore a chilling, sinister smile. He slowly walked

Chapter 7

Staring at the cremation certificate in her hand, stamped with that glaring red official seal, memories suddenly flashed through Serena's mind.She remembered the cheap white porcelain urn Damian had clutched so desperately against his chest half a month ago.She remembered how she had sneered, snatched it from him, and smashed it into the garden outside.And she also remembered Damian on his knees in the mud, his fingers bleeding as he frantically scooped and gathered frantically from the mud.So it turned out she had personally dumped her own daughter's ashes into the filthy mud. She had even stood over the devastated Damian and mocked him for putting on an act over a broken urn."Ahh!" A heart-wrenching scream escaped Serena, and her eyes instantly turned bloodshot as fine red veins appeared at the corners of her eyes."Serena! Hear me out!" Adrian, seeing his cover blown, went deathly pale and dropped weakly to his knees on the stage.He reached out to grab the hem of Serena

Chapter 8

Serena had completely turned into a monster.She didn't hand Adrian over to the police, as she decided that a bullet or a few decades behind bars would have been far too easy for him.She used every resource of Seacrest Corp. to suppress the scandal from the engagement party. Then, she personally dragged the barely conscious Adrian back to the mental institution where Damian had once been held.In the cold, damp corridor, Adrian's shrill, desperate pleas for mercy echoed. "Serena, I was wrong! For the sake of what we once had, please forgive me! I'll do whatever you say from now on. I'll devote myself to you! "Serena stared at him expressionlessly, her eyes more sinister than a demon from the depths of hell. She kicked Adrian into the very ward where Damian had once been locked in."Strap him down," Serena ordered coldly.Rough restraints clamped tightly around Adrian's wrists and ankles, securing him spread-eagled to the cold iron bed.Serena turned toward the director of the

Chapter 9

After Adrian's death, Serena dismissed all the servants in the mansion, resigned from her position as CEO of Seacrest Corporation, and sold off most of her assets. Like a wretched wanderer, she carried a simple rucksack, clutching the cloth bundle of bloodied mud and the pink bunny to her chest, and embarked on a life of wandering the world in search of Damian.She went to every city Damian had ever mentioned, walking down every street.She grew gaunt and haggard, her hair disheveled, the refined beauty she had once possessed completely gone. She would approach strangers with Damian's photograph in hand and ask, "Have you seen my husband? He's angry with me and hiding from me."Passersby only took her for a madwoman and hurried to avoid her.…Three years. More than a thousand days and nights. Serena's soul was completely hollowed out by endless remorse and the futile search.Then, in the winter of the third year, heavy snow fell over the streets of Valedon.Serena, weakened b

Chapter 10

Damian's POVAfter the performance, I exited from the back entrance of the Valedon Grand Theater. Fine snow was still drifting down from the sky.I draped a cashmere coat over my shoulders, my arm linked with Vivian Hart's, as we made our way toward the black sedan waiting by the curb."Damian!"Serena, soaked through and utterly bedraggled, came charging forward.The bodyguards immediately stepped forward to stop her, but she ignored him. With a heavy thud, she dropped to her knees in the icy water right in front of me. "Damian, I finally found you..."Sobbing uncontrollably, she fumbled with trembling hands and pulled out the filthy pink bunny from inside her coat and held it high."Look, I found Lila's bunny. I know I was wrong. I know I was so wrong! I killed Adrian—I avenged Lila! Please, just give me one more chance. Will you please come home with me?"Like a child who had done something wrong, Serena begged desperately in the freezing snow.But faced with this extreme

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