Conquer yourself is the greatest victory.

Author: He Chengwei
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: In reading, our wings of the soul are fully grown; through reading, we break through ourselves and soar upward. Who Killed Him? There was a king who was extremely cruel. Whenever he executed a condemned man, he would devise some fresh and cruel method. Once, a convict was informed that he would be executed the next day, and the method of execution was to cut an opening in his arm and let him bleed to death. The convict was terrified and desperately pleaded, but to no avail. The next morning early, the convict was brought to a room and locked to a wall with a small hole just big enough for an arm to fit through. The executioner passed the convict's arm through the hole and, on the other side of the wall, cut an opening in his hand. A jar was placed underneath to collect the blood. "Drip, drip," the blood dripped drop by drop into the jar, and the silence around was absolute. On this side of the wall, the convict quietly listened to the sound of his blood dripping into the jar. He felt as if all the blood in his body was rushing toward that arm, flowing faster and faster into the jar. Soon, his will also flowed away with the blood, and he collapsed powerlessly, dead. In fact, on the other side of the wall, the small cut on his hand had already stopped bleeding. A large water bottle was placed on the executioner's table, and the water from the bottle was dripping into the jar below the convict's hand through a specially designed funnel tube. A strong psychological suggestion made the convict kill himself. P8-9