In just three days, the Li Family members in the dungeon were no longer quite human nor truly ghosts. In a world so used to crudity and brutality, violent institutions always had the most direct method of prying open a person's mouth. The result: what I want you to say, you will say, but you yourself are broken.
Shen Hao visited Li Bing and Li Longcheng on the first day of the interrogation. At first, he watched with relish, a deep satisfaction from vengeance fulfilled, but as the cruelty of the punishments intensified, Shen Hao could no longer bear to look.
It wasn't that Shen Hao was soft-hearted, but those punishments were simply too nauseating and vicious—someone with normal sensibilities like him couldn't help but abhor them instinctively.
After that, Shen Hao put these thoughts to rest; the enmity between him and the Li Family had been settled in his heart.
