I Have Yet to Become a Doll Today

Zhu Shu’s crying stopped.

Stopped abruptly.

Starring blankly at Li Li, after a brief pause, the sadness in her eyes deepened, fermenting into resentment. She cried out at Li Li:

“How can you not blame me?! How can you?! Don’t you understand? I caused Su Man’s death!

She died because of me!

She’s dead!!!

Do you understand?!!

Just because it wasn’t intentional, can you forgive a person easily? Even if that person who died had been with you for over a decade! Don’t you care?! Don’t you feel angry?! Don’t you want to take revenge for her?!!

Li Li! Su Man was killed because of me!”

Zhu Shu gripped his collar tightly, her eyes filled with unstoppable tears.

“Hit me! Why won’t you hit me? Why won’t you even swear at me? You bastard! Bastard!!!”

“Zhu Shu…” Li Li looked at her, unable to express his feelings, his eyes also turning red.

Zhu Shu was crying uncontrollably.

She despised Li Li’s indifference, yet she knew she had no grounds to blame him. However, her emotions were uncontrollable. Every time she thought of the scene where Su Man was dragged into the execution room, her heart ached as if she was going to die of grief.

Chu Huaijin separated the two to avoid Zhu Shu doing something irrational out of her loss of control.

Li Li’s neck had been scratched red.

He stared at Zhu Shu, who was crying uncontrollably, vaguely feeling that he might have made a mistake, but he was unsure… exactly where he’d gone wrong.

Shattered footsteps sounded from behind, followed by a familiar female voice–

“Zhu Shu.”

Li Li turned his head in surprise, only to see Yan Qingwen and Lun Ang bringing Su Man over.

“Su Man?” Li Li was even more confused, “But haven’t you already…”

Before he could finish his sentence, a figure rushed over!

Zhu Shu hugged Su Man tightly, her face filled with joy and relief: “You’re okay?!”

“How come you’re all right? We all thought you had already…” Yu Yaqing was both shocked and delighted. She couldn’t help but go over and slap Su Man on the shoulder. “Never mind! Anyway, it’s great that you made it out safely!”

Su Man rubbed her slugged shoulder, a little embarrassed, and explained:

“I can’t exactly say I’m unscathed… I have quite a few injuries. I fainted as soon as I got out of the game. Fortunately, brother Yan and Lun Ang were there. They spent the whole night looking for medicine for me.”

Hearing this, Li Li couldn’t help but turn his head to ask Yan Qingwen: “Did Su Man get out earlier? Why didn’t you notify us?”

Before Yan Qingwen could explain, Lun Ang loudly explained: “Where were we supposed to tell you? Neither Old Yan nor I knew the new address after the headquarters was moved. Not to mention when Su Man came out, it was late at night. The city was like a ghost town! Not a soul in sight! We almost broke a leg just trying to find medicine for her. We’d just laid down to rest for barely two hours when Tan Xiao came knocking and woke us up!”

Yu Yaqing was incredulous, asking Su Man: “What exactly happened? How did you make it out?”

Su Man looked at Bai Youwei and said, “…She gave me a piece of the puzzle.”

Zhu Shu and Yu Yaqing were both taken aback.

Zhu Shu asked in a hoarse voice, “When did she give it to you? How come we didn’t know?”

“It was when I was dragged into the execution room…” Su Man took a gray puzzle piece out of her pocket and lightly rubbed it with her fingers, “At that time, I thought I was done for, and I didn’t want to waste any more tools. I thought if someone had to die from the four of us, it might as well be me. But then Bai Youwei said…”

Su Man looked at Bai Youwei. Her usually sharp and arrogant gaze softened. She walked over to Bai Youwei and gently placed the puzzle piece in her hand.

“She said, ‘Su Man, you must hold on.’”