“Suffocation,” it hit like a tidal wave.
Su Ling struggled desperately, but she could not draw in a single breath of air.
Gradually, she felt a wave of dizziness.
She looked at the cold expression on Luo Qianxue’s face, her heart filled with grievance and unwillingness.
Why?
Why?
She clearly just wanted to live a good life.
She had transmigrated for no reason, endured so many cold stares, her body was no longer pure, and her dignity had been cheapened by her own hands, yet destiny still insisted on torturing her this much?
For a moment, she recalled the dream she had before.
In the dream, she was prey tightly entangled in a spider web.
In the darkness, a terrifying entity was watching her.
[Humiliation]
Humiliation!
So that was it.
The most important part of humiliation is the “breaking,” the constant torture.
To let her die in this basement where no one knows, like a speck of dust that no one cares about.
Utterly humiliated.
Just as Su Ling completely lost consciousness, the hand that felt like iron pliers on her neck finally loosened.
“I, I’m sorry, I, I…”
The bone-chilling coldness that had radiated from Luo Qianxue completely vanished.
Her eyes were now filled with confusion, fear, and self-reproach.
She looked at her own hands, then at Su Ling, who was clutching her neck and coughing incessantly, and wanted to step forward to apologize, but she saw the look of terror in Su Ling’s cherry-blossom eyes.
“Don’t, don’t come over!”
“Get away, get away!”
“Why? You were the one who came looking for me, weren’t you? How can you…”
Su Ling felt extremely aggrieved at this moment.
Her sanity was also on the verge of breaking.
She huddled by the side of the bed, watching Luo Qianxue try to approach, and screamed in a breakdown.
But then, Luo Qianxue changed again.
Su Ling’s heart skipped a beat.
“Haha, I was just joking with you~”
The cold aura caused her sanity to return instantly.
A smile tugged at Su Ling’s beautiful face; the messy hair on her forehead made her look even more fragile and pitiful.
“As long as I kill you, I can return to the Path of Heartlessness…”
[Luo Qianxue is experiencing a split personality.]
“She is innocent! Stop it!”
But at that moment, her other hand slapped herself fiercely across the face.
Su Ling was frightened to the point of tears.
[I’m sorry, I won’t scold you anymore.]
Let her go quickly!
The doctor in the Lower City had said she was mentally ill before, but compared to the Luo Qianxue in front of her, she was the one who was truly insane, right?
“Kill her! Master will forgive me!”
“What’s done is done! It was your own lack of willpower; she has been innocent from beginning to end!”
Luo Qianxue roared.
Su Ling finally understood.
One version of Luo Qianxue wanted to kill her, and one version of Luo Qianxue wanted to let her go.
What more was there to say?
“Yes, yes, I am innocent.”
Su Ling nodded hurriedly.
Keep it up, kind big sister Luo Qianxue!
“You, as long as you let me go, I, I will agree to anything!”
Su Ling was truly scared to tears.
The Luo Qianxue before her was truly terrifying.
Half-crazed, half-merciful.
A thought separated god and demon.
Su Ling’s hands trembled as she pulled out her smartphone.
But there was absolutely no signal.
At this moment, Luo Qianxue suddenly grew quiet.
A shadow loomed over her.
Su Ling looked up, trembling.
At this moment, Luo Qianxue’s pupils were actually in the shape of hearts.
“!”
“You said you would agree to anything, right?”
Luo Qianxue held a pair of handcuffs, ankle chains, and a collar in her hands.
Su Ling gulped.
This, this isn’t right, is it?
Wasn’t she supposed to be wavering between god and demon?
Why did she pull out the hidden version?
“Th-that, once we’re done playing, you, you’ll let me go, r-right?”
“Hee~ guess~”
“Click!”
The collar locked, the handcuffs snapped shut, and the ankle chains were secured.
“Good girl, little puppy, you know what to do.”
Luo Qianxue extended her delicate feet.
Su Ling’s eyes were filled with despair.
It really was the hidden version!
“The little puppy isn’t being good~”
A look of displeasure crossed Luo Qianxue’s small face.
Then she stood up and looked down at Su Ling.
“Help, help… gulp!”
—
“Ling Ling! Where did Ling Ling go?”
It was evening.
Luo Qianxue walked into the shop.
When Su Yao saw her, her eyes turned red, and she hugged Luo Qianxue’s shoulders, sobbing continuously.
Cheng Cheng and Keke were also looking at her with some caution.
She couldn’t stand those crazy Dream Girl sasaeng fans, so she had closed the shop directly.
Luo Qianxue had swept Su Ling away, and the internet buzz had completely exploded.
And the one suffering the most was Su Yao.
Even though Cheng Cheng repeatedly comforted her saying that Luo Qianxue wasn’t a bad person, Su Yao always felt a sense of panic.
“She is fine; she is sleeping in my room right now.”
Luo Qianxue said indifferently.
Su Yao was stunned.
“We will announce it soon. I am no longer practicing the Path of Heartlessness; she is my girlfriend now, and she is very happy.”
Explosive news.
Cheng Cheng and Keke’s brains were buzzing.
But Cheng Cheng always felt that something was wrong.
Su Yao looked shocked; she kept her head down, and no one could see her expression.
“I, is that so… Then, did Ling Ling say when she would be back?”
Su Yao looked up and forced a smile that looked worse than crying.
“She said she wants to stay at my place for a few days. This is what she gave you; there are 500,000 in the card. She told you not to worry about her.”
Luo Qianxue gave Su Yao a Gold Card, her tone completely devoid of fluctuation.
Su Yao looked at the Gold Card in her hand and bit her lip until it bled.
“I, I understand. Then, could you tell Ling Ling… I will keep waiting for her to return.”
“Of course.”
Luo Qianxue glanced at her.
I didn’t think she would be so easy to fool.
As expected, people from these small places can be dismissed with a bit of money.
Luo Qianxue left.
“Manager, I… I’m heading back.”
“Yeah…”
Watching Su Yao’s back, Cheng Cheng opened her mouth but couldn’t say anything.
She felt that something was wrong, but…
That was Luo Qianxue.
Even if there was a real problem, Su Yao couldn’t possibly resist her.
Night fell.
Su Yao walked home in a daze.
It was all gone…
Everything was gone…
Xiao Wei had left her, Miao Miao had separated from her…
And finally, Ling Ling…
Su Yao’s footsteps were unsteady, as if she were drunk.
The smartphone screen remained on the message Su Ling had sent that morning.
“Don’t worry, I’m fine. I promise you, if anything happens in the future, I will definitely message you~”
She replied, “We are going to be together forever, after all.”
But Luo Qianxue said Ling Ling wasn’t coming back.
Luo Qianxue was lying.
But she was completely helpless.
“Ling Ling, what should I do? What should I do?”
In the dimly lit street, Su Yao collapsed to the ground.
There weren’t many people on this road.
She curled up in a corner, silently shedding tears.
She could not fight against Luo Qianxue at all.
The reason she hadn’t argued in front of Luo Qianxue earlier was that she knew deeply that no matter how much she made a scene, the other party would never return Ling Ling to her.
If she pushed it, she might even get on Luo Qianxue’s bad side.
Not only would she fail to save Ling Ling, but she would also get herself trapped.
But, but what was she supposed to do now?
She had heard from Cheng Cheng that Luo Qianxue was an Extraordinary Witch about to touch the level of a Great Witch.
She was just an ordinary witch; how could she…
“Heh, crying again? Your wife and daughter left and you were crying back then; now Ling Ling is gone, and you’re still crying?”
Suddenly, a voice rang in her ear.
Su Yao slowly looked up, her face covered in tear tracks.
In her eyes was a young girl with white hair and cherry-blossom eyes who looked exactly like her.
Only, the girl possessed the aura of an Empress looking down on all living things.
It was as if all things in this world were her subjects, as if everyone should bow to her.
“Sigh, I really can’t do anything about you.”
“From here on, leave it to me…”
The girl before her watched Su Yao in such a state and finally sighed, stepping forward to slowly embrace her.
Su Yao’s delicate body trembled.
She slowly stood up.
Although her face was still covered in tear tracks, her eyes had changed.
She looked toward a direction in the boundless darkness.
That was exactly where Su Ling was located at that moment.
—
[Witch Academy Planetary Monitoring Center]
This place was dense with all sorts of precision instruments, various curves rising and falling, and the ticking sound echoed throughout the hall.
This was to monitor the magic power levels of the Witch Academy; once a strange Great Witch broke in, an alarm would immediately be triggered.
At this moment, a little loli was lying on the console, sleeping soundly, a snot bubble coming from her small nose.
Suddenly.
“Alarm, alarm!”
The sudden blaring of the alarm startled the little loli awake.
“A Great Witch?!”
The little loli immediately panicked.
On the big screen in front of her, a red curve was rising wildly at an exponential rate.
This had completely exceeded the range of a Great Witch!
The little loli’s mind went blank.
“Bang!”
Suddenly, the entire monitoring center exploded.
It was blown apart by the suddenly appearing level of strange magic power!
In an instant, all the instruments were completely paralyzed; only the little loli remained lying on the floor, stunned and dumbfounded.
One had to know that the monitoring center for an entire star system required the energy of 10,000 ordinary suns exploding just to function every day.
Such a terrifying fluctuation of magic power…
This was only a tiny bit of the overflow…
There was only one answer.
A Sequence Witch!