Standing in this extremely familiar place, Xin Xiaolu suddenly had a feeling of time dislocation. She should not be Xin Xiaolu, but the evil spirit who was still wandering around the campus and was trapped here. She didn't remember her name or why she died, but was full of malice and resentment.
Her limbless body was wriggling among the white tiles. Her arm was broken and dragged to the side with a thin layer of skin. Her hair was spread out in a pool of blood like seaweed. The bright red blood soaked the slightly dark ground and every gap between the tiles. Her blood was splattered on the surrounding yellow walls and even on the two white light tubes on the ceiling.
Yellow flush pipes, rusty dripping faucets, and a foul smell... the place where she died.
Xin Xiaolu stood in the empty toilet, and the shadows under his feet suddenly rippled like the tide.
Xin Yanlai stood outside the toilet waiting. After almost ten minutes, he still didn't see Xin Xiaolu come out. He felt even more strange. He called Xin Xiaolu's name outside, but no one answered.
He thought, Xiaolu looked a little strange just now, maybe he felt unwell and fainted in there
"Uh-huh-"
Suddenly, a strange hoarse shout was heard from the toilet, as if someone was holding something in his mouth and shouting out loud but forcefully.
Xin Yanlai's expression changed, and he didn't care about anything else. He immediately strode into the bathroom. He saw Xin Xiaolu lying on the white tile floor, unconscious with his eyes closed.
"Xiaolu!" Xin Yanlai knelt beside Xin Xiaolu and lifted her head to check on her. Because he was so anxious at the moment, he did not notice that the surrounding environment was changing. There were traces of blood on the ceiling and the walls, as if a tissue was soaked in water. Behind him, a bloody shadow was slowly moving.
The shadow raised its broken hand and reached for the back of his head. When it touched his hair, Xin Xiaolu suddenly opened one eye. Although her eyes were only open for a moment, all the strangeness around her instantly faded away and returned to normal.
Xin Yanlai was unaware of what was happening. He anxiously picked up Xin Xiaolu and ran out, quickly sending her to the hospital. However, the examination found nothing wrong and Xin Xiaolu woke up soon.
"Xiaolu, come and take the medicine." Xin Yanlai poured out the medicine and water and placed them in front of Xin Xiaolu.
After the doctor checked and found nothing wrong, they returned to their rented house. The place they rented was a garden community, on the top nine floors, with a loft and a small open-air balcony. Xin Yanlai gave Xin Xiaolu the renovated loft room with the best view and the brightest light. She lay on the bed, and the sunlight could easily shine through the pure white lace curtains directly onto her bed. There were also blooming roses on the small balcony, which Xin Yanlai bought specially.
Fragrant, bright and clean.
"Xiaolu, are you feeling unwell somewhere else?" Xin Yanlai took the cup and put it aside. "If you are not feeling well, I will ask for a few more days off for you. Don't rush to go to school. Rest well at home for a few days. Auntie has invited you here. I will ask her to come and help take care of you."
Xin Xiaolu shook her head and smiled at him: "No, I'm fine. I really want to go to school now and can't wait to go."
Xin Yanlai was stunned for a moment before coming back to his senses. Because Xin Xiaolu rarely smiled, her emotions were always light, and her happiness was like a breeze, at most she would slightly curl up the corners of her mouth, and that was when she herself didn't even notice it. But just now, her smile was very big, and it was a very happy smile, but Xin Yanlai didn't know why she subconsciously felt weird in her heart.
He couldn't say anything, but at Xin Xiaolu's repeated request, he took her to take the entrance exam the next day and officially enrolled her.
Xin Yanlai was admitted to one of the most famous universities in the country. He had just entered university and was very busy. However, because of Xin Xiaolu's strange behavior and sudden fainting, he was still worried, so he found time to go to Xin Xiaolu's high school several times to confirm that she was really okay.
A month passed in a blink of an eye, and their lives were back on track. Xin Xiaolu adapted well to the new school and nothing happened. Xin Yanlai finally felt relieved and began to focus on his major. His major was architecture, and he had a lot of professional courses in his freshman year.
When Xin Yanlai was busy with his studies, he didn't know that a student had transferred from Xin Xiaolu's class. This transfer student was an old acquaintance of Xin Xiaolu, Situ Zhuo.
"You?" Situ Zhuo walked down from the podium and came to Xin Xiaolu. He looked at her as if she were a commodity, then sneered, looking very disapproving, as if he had already stamped her with a seal of "unqualified". He acted as if he didn't remember Xin Xiaolu at all.
In Situ Zhuo's mind, he really didn't remember Xin Xiaolu. He had lost his memory for nearly a year. He didn't know why he was entangled with Xin Xiaolu, nor did he know who Xin Xiaolu was when people around him told him after he woke up. He didn't think he would do such a thing - forcing a woman with small breasts? If he wanted a woman, he could have any kind of woman. As for forcing others, it was really ridiculous.
But everyone around him said so, and the wounds on his face and body were all evidence. Just when Situ Zhuo was wondering if there was something wrong with his brain, he found that he had a system.
The system told him that he was the male protagonist in this world, and his mission was to capture the female protagonist 'Xin Xiaolu'. If he failed, he would die. If he succeeded, everything would go smoothly and he would reach the peak of his life.
Because of this strange system and the situation he could not explain, Situ Zhuo had been able to recover peacefully for the past three months and did not bother Xin Xiaolu, the "murderer". However, as soon as his injuries healed, he decided to see what Xin Xiaolu was capable of, so he transferred to the high school where Xin Xiaolu was currently studying, despite his family's objections.
At this moment, all the classmates in the class were secretly looking at Situ Zhuo, the tall, rich and handsome transfer student, while he stared at Xin Xiaolu's back with boredom and lack of interest, asking the system in his mind, "Just this one woman? She's not very pretty, what's so attractive about her? I'm not even interested in sleeping with her."
—"This is a mission." The greening system in his mind answered him casually. In fact, the greening system didn't really want to talk to him.
A few months ago, Situ Zhuo wanted to kidnap Xin Xiaolu and conquer him, but he was beaten up instead. After that, when Situ Zhuo woke up, the greening system found something wrong, because the Situ Zhuo who woke up again had become his original outer personality, and his inner personality was gone. What surprised the greening system most was that the inner personality could completely block him and temporarily imprison him in the consciousness of the outer personality.
The Greening System has no idea where the inner personality has gone. It was created by the inner personality and is one with the inner personality. Although that guy can block it temporarily, it cannot completely separate it, so he will come back sooner or later. The Greening System is not worried about this at all. It is better to say that the inner personality, who is unwilling to give up even when he is at a dead end, pretends to be crazy on the surface to deceive unknown enemies, and secretly tries to find a way out, makes the Greening System feel it is normal.
That's just the kind of man he is.
The Greening System has been following the inner personality for so long and has seen countless of his outer personalities, but it has to admit that this world's outer personality, Situ Zhuo, is arrogant and annoying. Perhaps because of his age, he is not as powerful as the outer personalities in other worlds, but he has a more arrogant and vicious personality, and is equally suspicious and vengeful.
When Situ Zhuo's outer personality woke up and found the injuries on his body, he immediately prepared to take revenge even though he didn't remember what happened before. He had already planned to kill Xin Xiaolu to vent his anger. Seeing that the inner personality had not appeared yet, the Greening System had to come out to deceive Situ Zhuo's outer personality and make him give up the idea of killing the heroine in order to avoid the direct collapse of this last world.
"Even if I don't kill her, she will have to pay the price for daring to hit me before. Conquer her? Okay, but I won't let her have an easy time." Situ Zhuo, who was only a teenager, chased Xin Xiaolu here with a devilish smile.
Situ Zhuo is worthy of being Situ Zhuo. His outer personality and inner personality are very similar, and the methods he used to deal with Xin Xiaolu are also similar, except that his outer personality is more reckless and his methods are more brutal.
As soon as he transferred to the school, he became a celebrity in the school. He did not go out of his way to get in touch with Xin Xiaolu, but only hung out with some classmates who loved to play, becoming the leader among a group of bad friends. When someone talked about Xin Xiaolu, Situ Zhuo told them in a disdainful tone that he had slept with Xin Xiaolu.
Soon, almost the whole school was spreading rumors that Xin Xiaolu from Class 1, Grade 1 was a bitch and had slept with countless people. Xin Xiaolu was isolated almost immediately.
"I just don't like her. She acts like she doesn't care about anyone all the time." Situ Zhuo was drinking in a KTV box with a group of gangster classmates. He did not hide his disgust and disdain for Xin Xiaolu in his words. Naturally, some people who followed him came up with some vicious plans.
They were all teenagers, ready to do anything with bad intentions. Moreover, there was Situ Zhuo who was instigating and guiding them maliciously. Soon someone couldn't help but suggest, "Why don't we find a chance to teach her a lesson?"
Several boys showed their excited eyes almost at the same time, "Since she has been slept with by the boss, let's try this bitch out."
Situ Zhuo sat on the side and listened to them discussing when to take action and where to trick people to play with them, shaking his wine glass with a malicious smile on his face.
—"If the heroine dies, something will happen to you too." The greening system had to remind him.
Situ Zhuo didn't care, "I know, as long as you don't die, it's fine."
The group quickly found out Xin Xiaolu's habits. She was alone most of the time, and she had a strange habit. She liked to go to the remote toilet between the dormitory and the laboratory building. Usually, there was no one in the dormitory during class time, and the laboratory building was rarely used, so few people went to the toilet there.
If anything was done to her there, it would certainly not be discovered.
Situ Zhuo and seven other boys blocked Xin Xiaolu in the toilet on a holiday evening.
Author's words: Preview of the next chapter: The evil ghosts are at home, and the prey becomes the hunter. If some beasts don't want to be human, let them be ghosts.
(I was lost in thought after reading yesterday’s comments. Actually… I didn’t make any complicated settings. I just wanted to give Midori a unique death…)