On the night Su Li left, You Xue thought about many things.
The past, the present, and the future.
There were many things she couldn’t figure out, many things she still didn’t understand.
What kind of emotion was really settled at the bottom of her heart?
She had been so decisive when speaking, but when left alone, she felt…
‘So lonely.’
Gloomy and somewhat disappointed.
Like being left alone in a desolate village, waiting in an empty place, waiting and waiting.
Only after a long, long time did she realize that it was she who had let go, who had driven away the person who should have been by her side.
It was she who had failed to grasp that straw.
Such a pity.
So was this what the childhood sweetheart in the original story felt?
You Xue lay spread-eagled on the bed, staring at the pale ceiling.
So this was how the childhood sweetheart had felt back then—under the pain of illness and the torment of a hard life, accumulating courage and determination in loneliness.
Later, she realized that simply waiting would not bring hope, and then the childhood sweetheart finally made a decision.
She found Su Li, the only person she could rely on, and told him about her condition.
Su Li did not abandon her.
Together, they searched for a solution, searching and searching, experiencing many things along the way and spending a lot of resources.
But in the end, the poor childhood sweetheart still did not find salvation.
‘It’s all that damned author’s fault!’
You Xue cursed this sentence over and over in her mind, she didn’t know how many times.
After transmigrating, unlike other transmigrators, she didn’t dominate everything.
In the end, she couldn’t even live a normal person’s life.
You Xue could only wish that this book’s author would soon be hit by a truck and come to suffer with her!
You Xue turned over in bed, then buried her head into the soft pillow.
Her soft gray hair scattered across the pillow.
But after a while, she gave up and lay limp against the pillow.
Even if she thought so much, there was still only one thing she needed to do now.
Face reality.
For her family, she wanted to accomplish this.
She had become You Xue.
Even if it was difficult, she should be able to guide the story to a good ending, right?
Su Li.
As for Su Li, the feelings of wanting to rely on him were actually more due to the memories in her mind that didn’t belong to her.
After truly feeling the emotions in her heart, You Xue came to a conclusion.
For her, Su Li was not a particularly important person.
She, who had once read the novel, did like Su Li—no, she liked the male lead.
But that kind of liking was like an ordinary person liking a celebrity on TV or a player on the field—a longing from a very distant distance.
Like in winter, looking from afar at a warm yellow lamp inside a glass window.
She knew it was warm, so she longed for it, but she also understood that it was not hers.
So now, for You Xue, there was no special feeling for Su Li in her heart.
It was only a relationship between a self-righteous savior and an unknowing saved person.
A bit strange, yet unexpectedly reasonable.
With this thought, some of You Xue’s tangled knots seemed to unravel, and what she needed to do next became much clearer.
Although she had exposed the Dark Crow’s plan to plant explosive devices in the academy, that did not mean the Dark Crow would give up.
You Xue, who knew the novel’s plot well, of course knew that the Dark Crow’s targeting of the academy was secretly permitted by Moonview City’s ruling institution.
Because the rulers of Moonview City were not on the same side as Enlightenment Academy.
The academy was a holy land for nurturing Superpowered Individuals, and those nurtured Superpowered Individuals were the city’s sharpest blades.
But the rulers did not want the academy to hold these sharp blades tightly in their hands.
They did not want any power that could shake their ruling position.
Not even Enlightenment Academy, which nurtured Superpowered Individuals to protect the city.
Therefore, even though the higher-ups had the power to completely eliminate the Dark Crow, they would not do so.
They only kept their power within a certain range to balance the academy’s influence.
Humans always love internal strife and suspicion.
Even in the face of a common threat, they still cannot unite.
You Xue sighed.
As for the events that followed…
You Xue raised her right hand in front of her eyes, spreading her fingers.
The light from the fluorescent lamp passed through the gaps and fell on her face.
With the secret support of Moonview City’s higher-ups, the Dark Crow would obtain a precious Dragon’s Eye, taken from a dead dragon, which contained the unique and powerful strength of the dragon race.
It was with this Dragon’s Eye that the Dark Crow would temporarily greatly enhance their power, gaining the ability to restrain the academy’s principal, thus allowing the plan to bomb the academy to succeed.
In other words, the real problem still existed and had not been solved.
You Xue had thought about revealing the truth to the academy, but the existence of moles within the academy extinguished that thought.
The forces within the academy were also complex.
There were spies planted by the Dark Crow, moles from the ruling institution, not to mention the conflict between commoners and nobles…
It was extremely difficult to pass information to someone truly trustworthy within this interwoven network of forces.
Therefore, You Xue judged it best to act alone.
According to the original story’s plot, preserving the Dragon’s Eye was extremely troublesome, so it should not be moved easily before use.
And based on the plot in the book, You Xue roughly knew where the Dragon’s Eye was stored.
In a certain abandoned warehouse on the northern edge of the city.
There were very few abandoned buildings in the north of the city.
With a little time, she should be able to find it.
The most important issue to consider was what kind of people and how many people the Dark Crow would send to guard the Dragon’s Eye.
Last time, she was able to deal with those Dark Crow members by relying on their contempt.
But for what she needed to do next, relying on that kind of thing would no longer work.
So now You Xue had only one way to increase her combat power—to make several more Engraved Items.
‘I feel so tired.’
You Xue sighed softly.
But she couldn’t stop, couldn’t halt her steps.
Once she stopped, everything she had done before would be wasted.
Ah.
But sighing was allowed, right?
Suddenly, a familiar sharp pain struck her chest, a sudden, piercing pain.
The next moment, You Xue sat up from the bed, lowered her head, and covered her mouth with her hand.
After a few muffled coughs, her palm was already covered in bright red blood.
The pain swept through You Xue’s body again, as if there was a knife in every part of her, slowly destroying her from the inside.
This pain was not caused by the injury to her chest last time; it was simply the destruction of her body by Magic Rejection Syndrome.
At least she hadn’t gotten blood on the bed.
You Xue tried to think on the bright side.
Then she stood up and walked to the bathroom, washing the blood from her hands and mouth with water.
After that, she took two more painkillers.
Gazing at the somewhat frail gray-haired girl in the mirror, her face so pale.
‘I should go buy some medicine.’
You Xue thought.
Magic Rejection Syndrome was an extremely rare disease.
Since it was a disease, naturally there was a corresponding medicine.
That medicine was called Magic Blocker, which prevented magic power from accumulating in the patient’s body, thereby extending the patient’s life.
You Xue estimated that if she didn’t buy some soon, her body would collapse immediately.
Most of her salary was spent on this, which was why she was so poor.
So tomorrow, she would go to the black market.
Hopefully, it wouldn’t take too much time.