Chapter 17

Chapter 17

Tian Yin’s steps paused for a moment.

She suddenly turned her head, her eyebrows furrowed. “What?”

Li Fufeng, as if completely unable to read the room, still spoke frankly. “Sorry, I’m a bit curious and always like to explore. If I have offended...”

“If you know it’s offensive, then stop.”

This slender girl, who always gave a sense of softness, showed such firmness for the first time. Her words were sharp as a knife, “I’m not a suspect. Even if you, Officer Li, have a special status, you don’t have the right to pry into my privacy, do you?”

Li Fufeng was not angry at all, but rather murmured thoughtfully. “It seems that this doctor really holds a special place in your heart...”

Tian Yin fell silent.

She clenched her fists bit by bit.

“Fine, since you insist on knowing, I’ll tell you.” Tian Yin began to speak word by word, “I don’t know what the doctor’s identity is in reality, I only know that he is a good doctor. At least, he saved me.”

Li Fufeng assumed a listening posture.

A struggle appeared on Tian Yin’s face, and she was silent for a while before she began. “I’m not my parents’ biological daughter. Three years ago, I was just an orphan who had just entered high school and lost her biological parents. Because I had no other relatives, my homeroom teacher, Teacher Gu, and his family adopted me. My new parents were very good to me...”

“But since my mother fell ill and died nine months ago, my father started to act strangely, he began to care about me very, very much. At first, he strictly controlled my time, every day I was either at school or at home, I couldn’t go anywhere.”

“He didn’t allow me to interact with strangers outside, telling me that bad people outside would try to kidnap me.”

“...Then it was talking to male classmates at school. If my father saw it, he would scold me severely when I got home, forbidding me to date early. Even if I explained, it was useless.”

“Later, going home on weekends to see my grandparents was the most relaxing time for me. At other times, every move I made was under my father’s watchful eye, he was like a shadow. I couldn’t establish even a temporary relationship with anyone.”

“...One day, after I finished taking a bath and came out of the bathroom, I found my father standing by the bed, staring at the bathroom door. His eyes were terrifying. I was scared! I felt like I was suffocating!”

“...But this was not the most terrifying part. One day not long after, my father suddenly moved his luggage into my room. He said he wanted to watch me all the time, and I could never, never, never escape from him.”

As she narrated, Tian Yin’s tone became elusive. Her gaze also became unfocused.

“So day by day, I felt sick. Very sick. I didn’t know if it was my father who was crazy or me, the world in my eyes became very strange...”

“I suddenly felt that everything in front of me was false, just a dream. If I died in the dream, I could wake up, right?” The girl’s voice was barely audible, “Just when I was preparing to do so, the doctor found me.”

“He said he was a psychologist who hadn’t received a certificate, and was accumulating relevant experience for himself. He saw my distress on an anonymous forum. He was willing to help me, as a way to accumulate new cases.”

“I don’t know why, but I believed him.”

“Those words that I couldn’t tell anyone in reality, I told him all at once. In retrospect, I was like a babbling madman at the time, full of disjointed nonsense.”

“...The doctor was really amazing, during his treatment, I felt myself getting better. This false, distorted world, began to recover bit by bit.”

A smile reappeared on Tian Yin’s face, her tone was full of heartfelt gratitude, and there was an imperceptible fanaticism in her eyes.

“It was then that I realized. Both my father and I were sick, we both needed treatment. I recommended my father to the doctor, hoping that everything could return to the way it was at the beginning.”

“Yeah, even if it can be checked, to verify your guess, but the one who chose to kill was Liu Quan himself, no one instigated him.”

Liu Ningshuang also sighed in admiration from the bottom of her heart.

But compared to her companion’s excessive sense of justice and curiosity that sought to get to the bottom of things, Liu Ningshuang was more emotional.

She looked in the direction the girl had left, her gaze somewhat pitiful. “Since the final result is no different, why go to great lengths to uncover all the secrets? Perhaps, the truth will only hurt everyone.”

Whether it was Tian Yin, or the two old people.

“Perhaps.” Li Fufeng had a different idea, “But no matter how hurtful the truth is, it’s still the truth.”

His tone was very firm. “And what I care about is not Tian Yin, but that doctor.”

“By controlling others’ personalities and weaknesses, enticing others to act according to his own ideas, like manipulating puppets. And he himself stays behind the scenes, achieving all his goals...Such a person, if left unchecked, is really too dangerous.”

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“Look, once someone discovers your weakness, this is the outcome of being at their mercy.”

As soon as he entered the game, Bai Yi found the cat that he had messed with in the previous round. The cat was now spirited and had completely forgotten its previous painful experience.

He stroked the cat while giving it a lesson, his smile very bright.

“As a cat that can be easily lured out by a few small fish, you should reflect on yourself.”

As he spoke, he lifted the cat’s two paws with both hands, staring seriously at those round eyes.

“Meow~~~” The cat made a soft, powerless sound.

“Do you understand?” The hateful bipedal beast didn’t let the cat go.

“Meow!!!” Super fierce.jpg

After giving the kitten a theory lesson, regardless of whether it understood or not, Bai Yi began to prepare for practice.

His gaze swept over the task bar floating in front of him.

[Task 1: Kill someone at will, prove your courage.]

[Task 2: Complete a wonderful murder, prove your wisdom.]

[Task 3: Manipulate others to complete an unexpected murder, break away from the crowd of ordinary people, and prove to the world–you are an existence far above them!]

“The tasks have actually changed...”

“This is really the first time for such a thing.”

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