A mysterious realm descends, and I defy fate in comics.

Chapter 111 Whipping the Corpse

That's so typical of Xu Niannian.

Even in death, there is a burning anger and resentment.

She wouldn't even want to seek revenge after death, because Xu Niannian is the kind of person who would never place her hopes on a ghostly retribution if she were killed by someone else.

Xu Niannian will take revenge on herself while she is still alive.

She would not have burdened the living with the responsibility of revenge unless it was unavoidable.

Just like this time, even when she was being chased by Ji Shanqing, when Jiang Xingni wanted to come to her, Xu Niannian's first reaction was to push Jiang Xingni away.

She has always been a very stubborn and individualistic girl.

Jiang Xing sighed inwardly; she knew very well what kind of personality Xu Niannian had.

From the perspective of the Eye of Truth, a black mark was clearly imprinted on the skin of Xu Niannian's collarbone.

It is a symbol of flame.

This perfectly matches what Xu Niannian just said: even if it means death, she wants to burn the entire school down.

Then, she applied slight pressure with her fingertips and brushed against Xu Niannian's collarbone.

Under the gaze of truth, the black flame mark that had appeared on Xu Niannian's collarbone was easily wiped away by Jiang Xingni with his fingertips.

system:……

system:???

"What did you do?" The system was utterly shocked. "Girl, you really have superpowers?"

Jiang Xing was even more puzzled than the system.

"What does that mean?" she asked the system in her mind, while looking up and seeing Ji Shanqing slowly walking towards her from the bathroom.

The system is in a real hurry.

[The marks left on Xu Niannian by Zhao Henshan, or Ji Shanqing—or perhaps many others—are not so easily erased.]

Jiang Xingni said softly.

Therefore, Jiang Xingni did not actually remove the mark from Xu Niannian's body.

"Do you remember what Zhao Henshan said before?" Jiang Xing asked the system calmly, looking at Ji Shanqing walking towards him.

The system waited for Jiang Xingni to explain to it.

"She said that Xu Niannian and I are the same kind of people," Jiang Xingni murmured to himself.

—Since they are the same people, how can Xu Niannian be hunted down while I am left unpunished?

If that symbol works, then there's no reason why Jiang Xingni should be excluded by it.

Sure enough, she was right.

The moment Jiang Xingni's fingertips touched that logo.

Jiang Xing saw some black specks of light—or perhaps some kind of powder—drifting from Xu Niannian toward him, and then the mark on Xu Niannian's collarbone disappeared.

Jiang Xing looked up and pointed at Ji Shanqing—although she had never seen Ji Shanqing's face, the difference between a monster and a human was still quite obvious.

Ji Shanqing tilted her head; her skin remained pale, and not a sound of footsteps came from her.

Her gaze lingered on Xu Niannian for a moment before landing on Jiang Xingni without pause.

Xu Niannian: !

Xu Niannian did it almost subconsciously.

She shuddered; the feeling of being chased and death constantly lurking behind her was still haunting her.

However, she then realized that Ji Shanqing's gaze wasn't just fixed on her.

Xu Niannian immediately became alert.

Even though she was still trembling, she turned around, shielded Jiang Xingni behind her, and glared fiercely at Ji Shanqing.

"Of course you're pitiful!" Xu Niannian said. "But your pitifulness is no excuse for you to hunt down me and Xingxing!"

"Xingxing and I have never bullied you! You can't kill us just because you can't go to university, and because I only have six months left before Xingxing is already liberated!"

Xu Niannian still doesn't know why Ji Shanqing chose her and Jiang Xingni.

However, this did not prevent her from instinctively protecting Jiang Xingni, nor did it prevent her from questioning Ji Shanqing.

Ji Shanqing stared at Xu Niannian for a while.

In a daze, she realized that she herself had such moments.

Protecting someone, placing oneself between her and death, protecting her from being taken away by death.

Mao, Mao Tianxin? Is that her name? Ji Shanqing couldn't remember.

She suddenly realized why so many strange creatures had disappeared before her.

When all traces of your existence in this world have vanished, you will begin to doubt the very reality of your own existence.

No one remembers you, no one remembers all the things you experienced while you were alive. There is not a trace of your existence. How can you be sure that you really experienced all of that?

Instead of everything being just memories you made up to comfort yourself?

Ji Shanqing clearly remembered that not long ago, when she had just become a monster, Zhao Henshan told her to create her own illusion to bewitch outsiders.

—She clearly remembered it all back then.

But now, she's almost forgotten what she said back then, why she said those words, and why she didn't just let nature take its course and let her die—

Ji Shanqing blinked blankly.

She originally thought that her first emotion would be hatred—hatred for why she saved Mao Tianxin, hatred for why Mao Tianxin didn't appear when she was dying, hatred for why she wasn't as lucky as Mao Tianxin, but as lucky as Xu Niannian, who, on the verge of death, had someone reach out without hesitation and pull her back to the world of the living.

But that's not the case.

The first thought that came to her mind was relief.

Great.

While she still remembered these things, Ji Shanqing thought, she should record them all, so that even if her memory faded in the future, the illusion would always preserve this memory for her.

Then Ji Shanqing's gaze fell on Jiang Xingni.

Jiang Xingni and Xu Niannian, as well as her in the past, were the kind of people who would pull someone who was about to commit suicide off the rooftop.

Xu Niannian might not be—she's the kind of person who would drag Jiang Xingni off the rooftop.

But Jiang Xingni is definitely that kind of person.

Even though it was their first meeting, the moment Ji Shanqing saw Jiang Xingni and looked into her eyes, she could tell that Jiang Xingni was that kind of person.

A person who is much purer than myself.

"Niannian." Jiang Xingni suddenly touched Xu Niannian's hair. "You go first, I've found Ji Shanqing's grandmother."

Xu Niannian's first reaction was to refuse: "What are you thinking? Do you think I'd leave you alone?"

Jiang Xingni was not entirely unprepared for Xu Niannian's reaction.

Her smile remained gentle: "Good girl, go ahead. After all, this is Ji Shanqing's family matter. Niannian, if you were Ji Shanqing, you wouldn't want others to know about these things, right?"

Xu Niannian had no way to refute it.

Before leaving, she glanced back at Jiang Xingni and said, "Don't you dare die."

Xu Niannian said softly.

"If you die, I don't care how horribly Ji Shanqing died; I'll definitely dig up her grave and whip her corpse!"