These two small events, especially the sight of Irene being intimate with other men, actually had an effect on Richard, but he didn't know it at the time. The next morning, the whole bay was still asleep. With the deepening of winter, the night and day approaching, the time from the sun is still early, but this does not affect the outdoor brightness, the ground, hills, vegetation, inland rivers, everywhere is covered with ice, everything is frozen solid, refracting and reflecting the light of the blue and white spectrum. Only the sea in the harbour was still rippling. Richard, who did not want to sleep, stood at the big floor-to-ceiling window more than ten meters high, silently looking down at the magnificence of the ice bay. After heaving out a mouthful of stagnant air, he suddenly fel

