1
“Yan Yan, isn’t it inappropriate for you to post a photo of me in just my underwear in the freshman group?” A familiar female voice rang out beside me. I suddenly opened my eyes and found myself back at the beginning of college.
“I’m not completely exposed. Besides, are you jealous that my boobs are bigger than yours that you say this?” Another roommate, Liu Ruyan, curled her lips disdainfully.
The roommate who had spoken before blushed with anger and climbed onto her bed furiously.
And I had already set my sights on Liu Ruyan. In my past life, she had sent over a dozen photos of herself in just her underwear to the freshman group right at the start of school. And she also asked sincerely below.
[My boobs are clearly so small, but how come the underwear is even smaller than my boobs?]
Her eye-catching act unsurprisingly led to ridicule from the group. After being taunted sarcastically by everyone, Liu Ruyan felt too ashamed to face others.
So she stole a suicide picture online and put all the blame on me. She said that I had a grudge against her and that’s why I deliberately ruined her reputation. She also claimed that all those photos were Photoshopped and that her account was hacked. In an instant, I was drowned in a sea of abuse. There were harassing phone calls on my phone all the time. After the incident blew up, the school not only gave me a serious demerit. If it hadn’t been for my excellent grades, I would have almost been expelled. But even so, in the end, I still couldn’t escape the fate of being killed.
2
Thinking of this, I couldn’t help clenching my fists, and my eyes full of hatred lingered on Liu Ruyan. There were four people in the dormitory. Just because I was an orphan, Liu Ruyan thought I was weak and easy to bully. That’s why I suffered such an undeserved disaster in my past life. Since God gave me a chance to start over, of course I had to set things right. Let the retribution fall on the person who deserved it.
I opened my phone, and the freshman group was already in an uproar. The dozen or so underwear photos sent by Liu Ruyan attracted most people’s attention. Soon, several mocking voices rang out.
“Junior sister, don’t post the back view!”
“Don’t think that a boy can pretend to be a girl just by wearing underwear. It’s not funny to joke like this!”
Similar comments kept popping up, and Liu Ruyan’s face was as black as the bottom of a pot. Her fingers gripping the phone were turning white. I couldn’t help sneering when I saw this. Soon she would shift the blame onto me just like in my past life. I decided to take preemptive action.
“Liu Ruyan, don’t you think it’s disgusting to post such photos?” I was highly aggressive and started with insults.
Liu Ruyan was already in a bad mood because of being taunted, and now her expression became ferocious when she heard my words. She didn’t even bother to pretend anymore.
“Li Yu! Do you want to die?”
Hearing her clearly mention my name, I finally felt relieved. I gave her a fierce glare and then climbed onto my bed to sleep. In this life, I wanted to watch Liu Ruyan get caught in her own trap. It would be too boring to expose everything now. She had to go through the same path that I had walked!
3
Last night’s screenshots in the group were somehow spread online by someone. In no time, the Internet was abuzz, and people were leaving comments and joking under the school’s official website. After the problem grew bigger and reached a higher level, Liu Ruyan finally knew to be afraid.
That day, I had just gotten out of bed when Liu Ruyan, sitting at the table, sneered at me.
“Dare to offend me? Then you should know the consequences of offending me!”
I was baffled by her childish words. It wasn’t until noon when I saw Liu Ruyan’s real-name submission on the school’s confession wall that I understood. She must have been so angry with me that she couldn’t hold her temper now and was pushing the matter onto me.
I clicked on the video of Liu Ruyan looking at the camera with her ID card in hand. Her tears were falling down, as if she had suffered a great injustice.
“Last night, I left my phone on the desk. I don’t know why my roommate would be so malicious towards me on the very first day of school and even Photoshopped pictures of my body and sent them out…” She choked up as she spoke.
“I don’t want to pursue my roommate’s legal responsibility. I just hope my roommate can apologize to me. I hope everyone will stop paying attention to this matter.”
Her natural acting skills were probably better than those of actors who had been in the entertainment industry for decades.
I lifted the bed curtain and looked at Liu Ruyan, who was still sitting in the chair, and asked aloud.
“Why are you doing this? Is it fun to spread rumors outside?”
Hearing my words, Liu Ruyan snorted coldly and looked up at me disdainfully.
“An orphan should know their place. You, with no one to love you, should be my stepping stone. What’s wrong with slandering you? You deserve it!”
Liu Ruyan didn’t know that I thought the conversation recording from last night was too deliberate. So I had specifically recorded a video again just now. Her words were exactly what I wanted to hear. I gave her a meaningful look before lowering the bed curtain.
“I hope you won’t regret it.”
4
The video Liu Ruyan posted in the morning had gone viral on major websites by noon. Everyone was talking about it. And I immediately put this video on my social media and the confession wall without hesitation. Since she wanted to ruin me in this way, then I would fight back in the same way.
Liu Ruyan was probably always keeping an eye on the online trends. Half an hour later, she finally realized that something was wrong in the comment section. After searching for a while, she found the video of our conversation just now.
“Li Yu! How dare you plot against me!”
Liu Ruyan was so furious that she climbed onto my bed recklessly to pull at me. But I slapped her on the side of the head, and she was stunned there.
“Same to you. I’m a delicate person and can’t take such a big blame. If you dare to cause trouble again, I don’t know what I’ll post online next time.”
My threatening voice and cold, hard look seemed to have intimidated Liu Ruyan. She only dared to glare at me viciously but didn’t say another word in the end. It was also at this time that the other two roommates came back from outside. Looking at the atmosphere between us two, they didn’t dare to interrupt. The dormitory was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
However, I knew that Liu Ruyan wouldn’t give up because of this. She was a vicious person. I had ruined her reputation and opposed her like this. If she could swallow this anger, she wouldn’t be Liu Ruyan.
5
The dormitory was eerily quiet for a few days, and soon the days of military training arrived.
Every day we were exposed to the scorching sun, and our drill instructor was really harsh. Every time I came down from the playground, I felt like I was dying. My guard against Liu Ruyan gradually weakened. And my relationship with the other two roommates was getting better day by day.
Since the photo incident, Liu Ruyan, who had been given a serious demerit, was like a gloomy rat. She lived in her own dark corner all day long and had a very low presence in the dormitory. This was exactly what I and the other two roommates wanted.
I don’t know how many times I accidentally saw that Liu Ruyan’s phone kept getting harassing calls. I just felt a sense of satisfaction in my heart. And the way she looked at me was becoming more and more resentful.
That day, after finally finishing a day of military training, we were so tired that we collapsed onto the chairs as soon as we returned to the dormitory. Liu Ruyan, who usually rushed to be the first to take a shower, was quietly sitting in the chair.
“You guys go take a shower first. I’ll go last.”
This didn’t match Liu Ruyan’s usual character. In the past, if someone tried to cut in line, she would definitely curse a few words.
This sudden kindness made my heart ring an alarm bell, and a bold guess came to my mind. On the surface, I nodded calmly and let another roommate go take a shower first. During this time, I noticed that Liu Ruyan’s eyes kept looking towards the bathroom, and there were flashes of excitement in her eyes from time to time. I felt something was strange, but I couldn’t tell exactly what was wrong.
At this time, the dormitory head accidentally stepped on the trash that Liu Ruyan had thrown around and slipped.
“Liu Ruyan, it’s okay if you don’t clean the dormitory, but can you stop piling up your trash here?”
After a tiring day, people’s tempers flared up easily. The dormitory head’s yelling didn’t make Liu Ruyan budge at all.
“Just don’t walk past here. It’s your own fault for being blind and still blaming others…”
Although she said those last words very softly, I and the dormitory head still heard them clearly. Knowing that a big fight was about to break out, I immediately rushed up to protect the dormitory head. My eyes accidentally fell on a small box. I was shocked and finally understood why Liu Ruyan was acting up now.
6
Seeing that I had my eyes on the box, Liu Ruyan unnaturally put the thing deeper on the table and continued to roll her eyes at us.
But I couldn’t stay any longer. I immediately rushed to the bathroom door and knocked hard on it. After knocking two or three times, the door was opened. The roommate inside was used to washing her hair first and hadn’t taken off her clothes yet. I finally breathed a sigh of relief. The tiredness of these days had made me forget that Liu Ruyan was a despicable person. Fortunately, I remembered it today.
I turned around, and all the old grudges rushed into my mind. Without thinking, I knew that my expression must be really ugly now.
“Liu Ruyan, what were you doing in the bathroom?”
Hearing me ask this, she immediately started shouting loudly to defend herself. But I didn’t even listen and rushed to Liu Ruyan, reaching out to snatch her phone away. Her password was very simple. As the phone was unlocked, Liu Ruyan became even more excited and came up waving her hands to snatch the phone back. But it was too late.
The sound of running water came from the phone, and everyone in the dormitory was stunned on the spot.
7
In my past life, in order to clear my name, I had specifically bought a pinhole camera online. It was to record Liu Ruyan’s true face. And the packaging box on her table just now was the same brand as the one I bought in my past life. Combining it with tonight’s abnormality, I took such an action.
“Who allowed you to install a pinhole camera in the dormitory bathroom? Liu Ruyan, how could you be so despicable?”
I didn’t hesitate to expose her true face. Liu Ruyan couldn’t snatch the phone back, and the facts were right in front of her. So she just gave up on herself.
“Don’t you girls just want to be loved by men? I’m just helping you. What’s wrong with that? Maybe no one will even look at it when I post it online!”
These unreasonable and vexatious words made my two roommates tremble with anger. Especially the one who had gone in to take a shower first. Although she wasn’t photographed, this kind of thing was no joke.
She reached out and slapped Liu Ruyan across the face. The other roommate was not to be outdone either. The three of them started pulling and tugging at each other.
I also really wanted to hit her, but I didn’t have money, while those two roommates were both from wealthy families and it didn’t matter if they took action. I pretended that nothing was wrong and pinched Liu Ruyan several times hard beside them, which barely relieved my anger.
“I’m going to call the police! Just wait. I’ll definitely send you all to jail!”
Liu Ruyan yelled a few times and then was slapped hard a few more times.
“Call the police? My family’s money is enough to buy ten of your lives. I’ll beat you to death today and then call the police to collect your body!”
However, after all, we were all female college students. No matter how fierce our words were, we just had a fight and then calmed down. Liu Ruyan didn’t dare to really call the police either. If this matter got out, she would be really finished.
After that day, Liu Ruyan became a transparent person in the dormitory.
However, people didn’t completely ignore her. After several days of careful consideration, these two young ladies took me to find the counselor together. They didn’t want to live in the shadow every day. That night, three hidden cameras were found in every corner of the dormitory. The two young ladies were very scared and didn’t want to live under the same roof with such a person anymore.
8
“Teacher, we really can’t accept living with such a person. Who knows when we’ll be secretly photographed!” The dormitory head was indignant, and there was hatred in her eyes when she spoke.
“Yes, yes! Two hidden cameras were installed in the bathroom. What if something was really photographed? What would we do in the future?”
I also echoed beside her.
To be honest, I didn’t want to drive Liu Ruyan out of the dormitory. I still wanted her to taste more of the suffering I had endured.
The counselor looked troubled. She was only a few years older than us and was very young. She had also heard about Liu Ruyan blatantly posting photos in the group some time ago. She didn’t have a good impression of her in the first place.
It just so happened that the dormitory beds were in short supply recently, and it was really impossible to move her out.
“It’s not that I don’t want to help you. We can only wait slowly for an empty bed, or you three can move out and live elsewhere?”
The counselor knew that it wasn’t good to stay with such a person, so she came up with such an idea. But the families of those two young ladies were very strict, and I had to rely on subsidies for my monthly living expenses. There was no way we could move out.
We returned disappointed and could only wait for an empty dormitory. As a result, just as the three of us got back to the dormitory, Liu Ruyan somehow heard the news and deliberately asked.
“I heard you want me to move out? How about it? Hahaha.”
Liu Ruyan’s words and that demonic laughter at the end really made everyone angry.
Just as I was about to fight back and retort, a call came in on Liu Ruyan’s newly changed phone card. She took a look, her face changed, and she immediately hung up. Then a new call came in right away. She was still stuck in the mire of public opinion.
9
Finding that the counselor’s way didn’t work, the two young ladies later thought about moving out and living together. They called their parents in the dormitory and described Liu Ruyan as an extremely evil person. It took them over two hours to persuade their parents.
But then a dramatic scene happened.
The counselor said that there was a new dormitory available and Liu Ruyan could move out.
Hearing this news, those two roommates almost set off firecrackers to celebrate.
“Liu Ruyan, did you hear that? The counselor told you to get lost!”
Looking at Liu Ruyan, who was pretending to be dead on the bed, the dormitory head said smugly.
After falling out, they didn’t avoid speaking like this, and over time Liu Ruyan couldn’t stop it. She could only pretend not to hear.
And now, after knowing this news, Liu Ruyan opened the bed curtain and immediately wanted to leave the dormitory.
I felt something was wrong and followed the dormitory head to go after her. Only then did we find out that Liu Ruyan had come to find the counselor.
“Teacher, I don’t want to live with senior sisters! They will definitely bully me!”
Liu Ruyan had just finished saying this, and before the counselor could send her away, a harassing call came in.
Liu Ruyan’s eyes lit up immediately, and she clicked to answer it.
The lewd and disgusting voice came from the other end of the phone, just asking how much it would cost for one night and such things.
Originally, the counselor, who was about to firmly refuse without showing any mercy, suddenly changed her expression after hearing this call.
Young people always had too much sympathy.
“Teacher, I posted that kind of photo in the group before just because my biological mother died when I was very young. Later, it was my stepmother who took care of me. I really didn’t understand such things, so I asked that question.”
As she said this, Liu Ruyan’s tears started falling down.
“And I didn’t deliberately install cameras in the dormitory. It’s because I found that my things were missing. You also know that because of my stepmother, my father didn’t give me much money…”
10
By this time, the counselor’s eyes were full of pity. She pulled Liu Ruyan and sat down on the chair beside her.
“It’s my fault. I didn’t really understand you and had prejudices against you. If I had known that your life was so miserable…”
There were also tears in the counselor’s eyes.
Seeing the sad atmosphere between them, the dormitory head beside me couldn’t help clenching her fists.
“How can she be such a good actress?”
On the first day of school, Liu Ruyan’s biological mother had come to make her bed. It had only been a few days, and now she was saying that her mother had died long ago?
I reached out to stop the dormitory head from rushing in and took out my phone and shook it.
Liu Ruyan was a local. It only took half an hour to get to the school from her home. She had been showing off this fact in the group and the dormitory before, but she didn’t expect that it would become a tool to stab her in the back one day.
Liu Ruyan successfully won the counselor’s sympathy with her false lies. And the counselor, with her overflowing motherly love, talked with Liu Ruyan in the office for nearly an hour before they finished chatting.
It was also at this time that the dormitory head and I pushed the door open and walked in.
The counselor looked over gently, but her gaze towards us wasn’t friendly.
“What are you here for?” She asked in a stiff tone.
And in the place where the counselor couldn’t see, Liu Ruyan had a mocking expression on her face and even rolled her eyes several times in a taunting way.
The dormitory head and I looked at each other, smiled knowingly, and then suddenly separated.
Behind us, a figure appeared in front of everyone.
11
“Liu Ruyan! What have you done in school again?”
Seeing this middle-aged woman, Liu Ruyan’s face suddenly turned pale. She trembled with her lips, not daring to say a word. Her eyes drifted left and right, as if she was looking for another way out.
Unfortunately, Liu Ruyan’s biological mother, Zhang Yan, didn’t give her any time to react.
The counselor didn’t know what was going on and thought this was the evil stepmother that Liu Ruyan had mentioned. So she directly stood in front of Liu Ruyan, wanting to communicate with Zhang Yan. But as soon as she opened her mouth, things exploded.
“Are you Liu Ruyan’s stepmother? The child is already in college. You can’t be so disrespectful to the child in front of others…”
Before the counselor could finish speaking, Zhang Yan waved her hand and pushed the counselor away.
She glared at the counselor, and the hatred in her eyes seemed to burst out.
“What stepmother are you talking about? She’s my child. What’s wrong with me saying a few words?”
Liu Ruyan’s acting was so good that the counselor still hadn’t realized something was unusual at this time. She was just even angrier at Zhang Yan’s attitude.
“I know that Ruyan’s mother passed away early, but you can’t be so arrogant and look down on others, right? No wonder Ruyan has become like this. It seems that it has a lot to do with you!”
“I passed away early? Liu Ruyan! What nonsense have you been talking about outside again? Haven’t I been good to you? How dare you spread rumors outside that I’m dead? And stepmother? I knew you and your father were on the same side!”
After saying that, Zhang Yan rushed up and grabbed Liu Ruyan’s hair.
The poor person must have something hateful about them. In my past life, I was deceived by Liu Ruyan many times. Besides her habitual lying, it was also because although her mother was a nice person, she had a bad temper and would hit people whenever she disagreed. Her father had countless affairs. The whole family was completely broken.
Watching Liu Ruyan have several strands of hair pulled out during the struggle, I laughed with satisfaction.
She deserved this kind of end. She should suffer like this.
12
Liu Ruyan moved out, and the dormitory finally became quiet with one less person.
My real revenge also began at this time.
Actually, when I first came back, I thought I would just add fuel to the fire. But Liu Ruyan’s actions were so hateful. She installed pinhole cameras without hesitation just for her own selfish desires and wanted to drag everyone into trouble. Just because she didn’t want to live in an unfamiliar environment, she smeared us and made up lies that her biological mother was dead.
For such a person, just being cyberbullied or expelled from school was too light a punishment. She should die full of resentment just like I did in my past life.
I had kept records of everything that happened during this period.
The military training had ended. The other two roommates and I were not in the same major, and our class schedules were different.
That day, they went out to class early in the morning, and I took the summary that I had prepared for several days and posted it online using a new account. I posted it on all major apps and then on the confession wall as well. Since it was to punish Liu Ruyan, I only used her real name.
The heat of the previous incident had just died down a little. Now, the bombshell I suddenly threw out immediately caused a huge stir on the Internet. Especially the fact that she installed pinhole cameras in the dormitory because she thought something was missing was ridiculed and made into memes by many netizens. Liu Ruyan couldn’t escape this time.
13
That afternoon, the news had spread throughout the school. Even several school leaders called Liu Ruyan in for a talk.
The negative impact of this incident had drawn everyone’s attention. If it wasn’t handled properly, the netizens would go crazy.
In the evening, when I just came back from outside, I saw Liu Ruyan walking around uneasily in front of the dormitory door for several times before finally mustering up the courage to go in.
I slowly approached with great interest. Liu Ruyan didn’t close the door. She was sitting alone in the empty dormitory, talking to herself while looking at her phone.
“I can clear my name today. My former roommates all know what kind of person I am. Everything on the Internet is just rumors!”
Hearing this, I understood what was going on. Liu Ruyan wanted to use the live stream to trick me into saying something that would help her clear her name and drag me down.
I sneered and tapped on my phone before walking in.
Seeing me come in, Liu Ruyan immediately stood up from the chair, closed the door with a smile.
“Yu Yu, after all, we’ve slept in the same dormitory for such a long time. I was wrong about what happened before, but our friendship should still be there, right?”
I didn’t know where Liu Ruyan had hidden her phone and didn’t respond. I just looked at her with a cold face.
Liu Ruyan didn’t care about my response and just kept talking on her own.
“When I first came to the dormitory, you all knew that my family was having difficulties, so I did that stupid thing. Later, when I lost something, you all knew about it, right? I was just afraid that someone would do it again, so I secretly installed the cameras.”
“Later, I knew you didn’t like me and I took the initiative to move out of the dormitory. Now I don’t know why there are so many people scolding me online. Can you clarify for me?”
Liu Ruyan said as she reached out to hold my hand, but I shook it off forcefully.
I took several steps back, picked up the perfume on the table and sprayed it on my hands several times. Then I took a piece of paper beside it and wiped my hands before looking at her again.
“Don’t you even deceive yourself with the things you’re saying?”
14
The expression on Liu Ruyan’s face froze on the spot.
I had a half-smile on my face.
“Liu Ruyan, you sent those photos just to attract the attention of those guys. When we reminded you at that time, you even cursed us. And who stole your things? I’ve never heard you mention it. I only know that you installed two cameras even in the bathroom.”
After realizing what I said, Liu Ruyan’s pupils dilated in shock. She reached out to cover my mouth, but I easily dodged it.
“You told the counselor that your mother died early and now you have a stepmother. But then your mother rushed to the school and beat you up that day. Otherwise, how could you have changed dormitories? Do you really think your lies are true just because you’ve told so many of them?”
My words completely blocked Liu Ruyan’s attempt to clear her name.
Her face turned ashen, and her hands clenched into fists tightly, trembling slightly with the force.
Still, she didn’t dare to hit me during the live stream. Finally, she gave me a fierce glare and quickly turned off the live stream before daring to continue talking to me.
“Did you do it on purpose? I was almost able to clear my name! Why didn’t you say what I wanted you to say?”
I couldn’t help laughing out loud and looked at her with a contemptuous look in my eyes.
“Since the day I entered the dormitory, you’ve been calling me an orphan. Why do you think I would help you clear your name and play along with your act?”
In my past life, I had realized that Liu Ruyan was crazy.
She thought the world should revolve around her. If anything didn’t go her way, she would start yelling.
“So what? I cursed you because you deserved it! You’re an orphan with no parents. No one will love you in this life. You’re the one who killed your parents!”
15
I had been in the welfare home since I could remember and had never been adopted. The word “parents” was too distant for me. It was also a minefield that I couldn’t touch in my heart.
Now hearing Liu Ruyan say such things about my parents, I completely lost control of my emotions.
Seeing Liu Ruyan’s slap about to land on my face, I didn’t hesitate to grab her wrist.
With my other hand, I slapped her back hard.
The crisp sound of the slap echoed in the dormitory, and it also made me feel a bit relieved.
Just when Liu Ruyan was furious because of my slap, I took out my phone from my bag. The clear live stream on it made Liu Ruyan freeze on the spot.
I had even spent some money on this live stream, and combined with the fact that it was already a hot topic, there were nearly 10,000 people in the live stream. Liu Ruyan didn’t dare to act rashly at all.
I turned off the live stream in front of her and then walked towards her step by step.
“An orphan? Does your mother love you? Does your father love you? What’s the difference between you and me? Why do you think you’re superior?”
As I said this, I slapped her again.
Liu Ruyan was driven mad by my words and actions. She waved her hands to choke my neck.
Fortunately, I was well prepared.
That day, Liu Ruyan was slapped ten times by me before she left the dormitory. When the other two roommates came back and heard about this, they also said it was really satisfying.
And I knew in my heart that Liu Ruyan, who thought she was smart and wanted to clear her name through the live stream, had actually made her situation even worse. In my eyes, Liu Ruyan’s death was approaching.
I just didn’t expect that on the night when she was expelled from school, Liu Ruyan started a new live stream at her home.
16
As soon as I opened the short-video app platform, it recommended a live stream to me.
She had already been criticized so much. She should be crying secretly at home. How could she have the psychological strength to accept being infamous?
With doubts in my mind, I clicked into it. There were already more than 100,000 people in the live stream.
And as the main character of this live stream, Liu Ruyan was wearing a white dress and looking at the camera with a desolate expression.
In fact, her fake plain makeup was so clumsy that I could even see the obvious caking under such dim light.
“I know everyone doesn’t like me, so today I decided to clarify the bad impression everyone has of me these days!”
As soon as Liu Ruyan said this, the barrage started popping up.
[Last time you said the same thing, but you ended up being nailed to the pillar of shame. You’ve even been expelled from school. What’s there to prove now?]
[I heard that the host has a great figure. Does anyone have her photos to share?]
[You people are really heartless. The host is already mentally ill, and you’re still laughing!]
Looking at the barrages that were either mocking or indifferent, Liu Ruyan gritted her teeth and her expression became determined.
As the live stream camera shook, the background changed to a kitchen. Soon, Liu Ruyan appeared in the live stream with a big kitchen knife in her hand.
She put the knife on her wrist and stared intently at the live stream.
“When I’m dead, will you believe that I really have depression and that I wasn’t lying?”
These self-moving or even self-deceiving words didn’t cause much of a stir.
The viewers in the live stream obviously didn’t believe her. They kept making jokes one after another.
And Liu Ruyan gradually tightened her grip on the kitchen knife.
Just when I thought she might really take her own life, Liu Ruyan suddenly paused her forceful movement with the knife, and her expression became gloomy.
“Why should I use my death to win your forgiveness? I should take the people who did wrong with me to hell!”
17
After saying this, Liu Ruyan suddenly walked out with the kitchen knife and her phone.
It was already early morning. She was walking alone in the dark stairwell with a kitchen knife in her hand, which was really scary.
A sudden fear rose in my heart. A strange premonition made me feel that Liu Ruyan was coming for me.
Subconsciously, I checked again to make sure the door was locked, and then I let out a sigh of relief and put my phone on the table to take a shower.
At this time, both of my roommates were in the dormitory. Besides, Liu Ruyan couldn’t possibly get into the school.
I took a long time to take a shower. When I came out of the bathroom half an hour later, just as I was about to sit for a while before going to bed, there was a sudden knock on the door.
I looked at the dormitory head, who also poked her head out when she heard the sound, and a bad feeling lingered in our hearts.
Almost instinctively, I clicked on the live stream again. Liu Ruyan had already ended the live stream. I couldn’t tell who was outside the door.
“Who is it?” The dormitory head shouted bravely towards the door.
There was no response, only the sound of knocking on the door.
Just as I was thinking about whether to call the police or just pretend not to hear it, the door of the neighboring dormitory opened.
There was a delicate young lady in their dormitory. It was said that her family was extremely wealthy, and correspondingly, she had a very bad temper.
Before I could send a message to the people in the neighboring dormitory, a sharp scream of a woman came from outside the door.
Then came Liu Ruyan’s crazy voice.
“Open the door! Open the door! Open the door!”
Without hesitation, I immediately dialed the police emergency number.
18
Liu Ruyan was really crazy.
She started chopping at the iron door with the kitchen knife, making a shrill sound.
In the quiet night, this sound was terrifying.
Even though I had already died once, I didn’t dare to risk my life.
I could only wait for the police to come and stop her.
Just when I was comforting myself in my heart, the door suddenly clicked open.
I stood there, looking straight at Liu Ruyan’s face, which was smiling brightly.
I didn’t dare to move at all.
At this time, only a small night light on my table was on. Liu Ruyan’s face gradually became clear from the darkness.
And I kept backing away. However, with the light reflected by the kitchen knife, my inner fear was magnified infinitely.
“Li Yu, didn’t you have a sharp tongue? Why don’t you say anything now?”
It was both a question and the last game before the prey died.
I didn’t have such great psychological strength. So what if I was reborn?
I was still scared.
On that day, just when Liu Ruyan was about to chop at me with the kitchen knife, the two roommates came down in time to help.
This avoided a tragic accident.
However, all three of us still had some wounds on our bodies.
Liu Ruyan was taken away by the police, and the three of us stayed awake all night in the hospital.
The next day, when we went to the police station to make statements, we heard that Liu Ruyan had mental illness.
She had suffered a huge shock in her early years and had hallucinations, which became more serious later.
It’s just that no one had known about it before.
Hearing the police say these words, I just felt it was ridiculous.
An impulse to take revenge myself surged in my heart.
I had thought that the law could punish this person who had caused my death in my past life.
Now I suddenly realized that I seemed to have no way to rely on.
19
I was in a daze for several days.
After being reborn, my biggest thought was to take revenge. Although I had studied hard in college and experienced college life, I still couldn’t fully immerse myself in it.
It wasn’t until now that I realized I didn’t know what I was going to do in the future.
By the time I came to my senses, I was already standing in front of the mental hospital where Liu Ruyan was staying.
I walked in.
Liu Ruyan was unloved by her parents and was staying in a poor mental hospital.
After seeing the dirty environment there, I thought that I would rather die than stay here.
Under the guidance of a nurse, I saw Liu Ruyan after a long time.
She didn’t know why she was suddenly paralyzed and was sitting in a wheelchair, pushing the chair hard.
She kept mumbling to herself.
“I’m a college student! I’m a college student! I’m a college student!”
Just as she had pushed a few meters forward, the handle of the wheelchair was suddenly grasped by an old man who was half-dead. He suddenly showed a smile on his face, which made people feel very uneasy.
Liu Ruyan also saw him, and her expression instantly became panicked.
She pushed the wheelchair even harder.
But it was all in vain.
When Liu Ruyan was about to be pushed into a deeper room, she finally saw me.
“I’m a college student! They all love me! I’m a college student! They all love me!”
These two sentences echoed in the corridor and didn’t fade away for a long time.
20
When I walked out of the mental hospital in a daze, the dark clouds in the sky happened to disperse.
A ray of sunlight shone on my face, making me look up involuntarily.
It had rained yesterday, and there were still many clouds in the sky today, in all kinds of strange shapes, looking fluffy.
The anxiety in my heart was suddenly soothed.
Liu Ruyan staying in such a place must be suffering more than death. It could be considered as atonement.
I walked forward step by step, my steps getting bigger and faster until I started running.
That heavy feeling like a floating log was left behind me.
Back at college, I began to study seriously and completely immersed myself in everything I had achieved through hard work.
People always become relieved after things have passed.
“I’ve noticed that you seem to smile a lot recently, and there’s a certain something different about you that I can’t put my finger on,” the dormitory head said suddenly one afternoon.
I was stunned when I heard this and subconsciously asked, “What?”
“When you first came to this university, you seemed to be tied up with Liu Ruyan all the time. Maybe you didn’t notice it, but I did,” the dormitory head continued, as if afraid that I might misunderstand, and quickly went on. “I didn’t deliberately observe you two before. It’s just that you both were so obvious. Xiao Yu, do you know who you are?”
Do I know who I am?
I guess I do.
The dormitory head’s words kept echoing in my mind like a huge bell, making me suddenly realize something.
Because of my identity as an orphan, I had suffered a lot of discrimination and isolation in the first 18 years of my life. I also cared too much about what others thought of me. Later, when I just started college, I met Liu Ruyan. At that time, I didn’t know how to deal with it and ended up dying an unnatural death. When I got a second chance, I always thought that I had to take revenge on her properly, thinking that only in this way could I fulfill myself.
It was only until today that I suddenly realized that fulfilling myself was truly about taking care of myself and moving on.
“The sunlight outside the window is really nice today.”
“Want to go for a walk?”
“Sure.”
