Wife's Bombing of Top Scholar's Daughter Leads to Regret and Madness

David secretly sends Noah, the first love Stella has harbored for ten years, overseas. That same night, Stella abducts their daughter Chloe, just out of high school, and straps a ticking bomb to her at a remote reservoir. She offers David ten minutes: reveal Noah's whereabouts, or their daughter dies. He gives in, races to the reservoir, and finds Chloe bound with the countdown shrinking. When he begs Stella which wire to cut, she answers coldly: the red one. He pulls it, and the explosion throws him back. Chloe is left a bloody ruin.

At the hospital, the specialists who might save Chloe have all been pulled away by Stella, to tend to Noah. She dismisses David's pleas as lies, insisting the bombs were fake, and hangs up on every call. Chloe, still unaware her own mother did this, asks only to speak to her, apologizes for a bad test score, and slips away holding her father's hand.

Waking in a ward, David overhears nurses marvel at Ms. Jiang's devotion to her beloved, and then sees Stella herself, gently supporting Noah. His hatred hardens: Stella killed their daughter.