"Don’t do this, Kyle!" Dorian quickly tried to stop him, but Kyle Kinston’s strength was surprisingly strong, and Dorian was pushed aside instead.

Dorian could only watch as Kyle stood up, reached out to press the remote control, and the image from the projector on the wall suddenly stopped.

Kyle walked step by step to the wall, his fingers gently brushed over one of the figures in the image, so tenderly, so cautiously.

Suddenly, Dorian understood. It seemed that this figure was Mabel, the image from before Mabel left, and it was the last view Kyle could see of her.

In the image, this figure turned sideways, glancing back, as if gazing at something. Was that Mabel... the final farewell to Falling City and Kyle? Who would have thought this was the last image?

But then, Dorian’s eyes suddenly widened. She only saw that Kyle was now pressing against the wall, kissing the figure in the image, so devoutly, so focused, yet also so... hopeless.

Dorian’s heart stirred; he understood what it was like to deeply love someone and then lose them. He knew the depth of that pain when Alice and he parted for the second time.

Yet now, compared to Kyle’s pain, it seemed so insignificant. After all, when he and Alice broke up, Alice was still alive.

But now... Kyle seemed to have almost no hope.

Dorian didn’t know how long it had been before he saw Kyle turn around, his eyes fixed on him, "Do you think Mabel felt pain in the sea?"

"Ah?" Dorian was taken aback, unable to comprehend what his friend meant by these words.

But the next moment, when he saw Kyle’s actions, his entire body stiffened. Kyle directly raised his right hand and snapped his own left hand—

The "crack" sound made Dorian’s scalp tingle.

But Kyle seemed oblivious to the pain, merely dissatisfied, saying, "It’s not enough, it’s simply not enough, this pain is nothing compared to hers."

Then he began to snap his fingers, one by one.

"Kyle!" Dorian hurriedly stepped forward, desperately trying to stop his friend’s self-harming behavior, "Don’t do this, Mabel hasn’t been found yet, no one can say for sure about life and death, maybe she’s still alive, still alive!"

"Alive?" Kyle stared blankly at the person in front of him, then began to laugh hopelessly.

Whether she’s alive, he understood all too well, "It’s all my fault, it’s my fault that I drove Mabel onto that ship, it’s all my fault, it’s my insistence to abort the child, my refusal to let her give birth to the child, so then..."

His voice was hoarse, sobbing, those eyes already turned crimson and mad. Kyle grabbed Dorian like a maniac, "Dorian, make Mabel come back, make her come back, tell her I don’t care about anything, nothing matters anymore, as long as she’s alive, as long as she’s back by my side, I’ll do anything!"

Tears fell again from those eyes, and for the second time because of Mabel Quinn, Dorian saw Kyle Kinston cry.

How deeply does Kyle love Mabel? Probably deeper than originally imagined, deeper and heavier.