After finishing a book, she turned around and saw herself in the mirror. Her figure had changed slightly. She was originally three years old, but now she must be four...

“Da, da, da…”

Behind her, the sound of footsteps chasing her never stopped.

The female figure, framed by light and shadow, occasionally quickened her pace, giving people a sense of oppression as if she was about to be caught up...

"...I need more books. As long as I can recover my original body and consciousness, I will be able to protect myself."

Glancing at the pursuers behind her, then glancing at her slightly enlarged self in the mirror, Tao Yaoyao took a deep breath, clarified her goal in her mind, and continued to flee forward...

..........................

Outside the door of Firefly Tavern.

Reeking of alcohol, Yan Jiaojiao said goodbye to her best friends and then staggered back to her residence.

It’s not early.

As usual, when she opened the door, she would see pitch darkness.

Professor Yan must have taken a rest.

But today was a surprise. After she opened the door, she found that all the lights in the house were on.

Professor Yan was busy in her bedroom...

"The sun is rising from the west, Mom, and you're actually helping me clean my room?"

Leaning against the door frame, Yan Jiaojiao widened her eyes, unable to believe what she saw.

In the past, she was arrogant and willful, which had strained the relationship between her and him. If it weren't for the apocalyptic catastrophe, the two of them would never have lived under the same roof, let alone the scene before them.

Professor Yan didn't even look back at her. He just snorted and said, "Help you clean up? From tomorrow on, Yaoyao will live in this room. You can go wherever you like."

Yan Jiaojiao's eyes widened even more than before: "So not only are you not cleaning it up for me, you're also trying to kick me out?"

Professor Yan looked like he didn't want to pay attention to her and continued to tidy up the room: "Don't you have so many friends? Can't you find a place to stay?"

Yan Jiaojiao snorted and laughed angrily: "Oh, that's true."

Then, neither of them paid any attention to the other, and the air remained quiet for a long time.

Until Yan Jiaojiao spoke first.

She used a mocking tone and said, "Now you know you're just pretending to be nice to Tao Yaoyao. Before, you treated her like a tool and constantly threatened to abandon her and destroy her feelings. Why don't you mention it now?"

Professor Yan, who had just made her bed, froze in place. Even with her back to Yan Jiaojiao, she couldn't hide her turbulent emotions...

Yan Jiaojiao continued her attack with a vicious tongue: "Just now I mentioned Tao Yaoyao in the tavern, but I was embarrassed to mention the part about you. If it weren't for your perverted coercion, would Tao Yaoyao have undergone a mental change in an instant, as if she had made a bargain with the devil, from an ordinary, well-behaved child to a ruthless and indifferent artificial genius..."

Professor Yan turned around and said angrily, "But she also has a talent that ordinary people can't get. She herself has never complained. What right do you, Yan Jiaojiao, have to blame me!"

"Oh, so anxious." Yan Jiaojiao was a surfing expert, full of sarcasm. She deliberately said in a sarcastic tone, "Yeah, Tao Yaoyao didn't complain. Just like some of the rumors about her, they were obviously false, but she didn't complain either."

Professor Yan said angrily, "What do you mean?"

Yan Jiaojiao's expression was exaggerated: "Tsk tsk, you're a scientist, but you don't understand. I mean, Tao Yaoyao doesn't want to complain, but she has no place to complain. Have you read her heart? Do you know that she happily accepts this fate?"

Professor Yan was silent...

Leaning against the wooden frame, Yan Jiaojiao played with her fingers and said calmly, "Without value, you have no right to survive. Just imagine how much stimulation an ordinary, normal child must have experienced, how much psychological trauma they must have endured, for them to realize this truth on their own."

Professor Yan tried her best, but soon lost her temper. She said defensively, "Everyone makes mistakes."

Yan Jiaojiao deliberately covered her mouth and chuckled: "Everyone makes mistakes, but you just downplay your guilt. It seems that I really inherited my shamelessness from you."

Professor Yan finally couldn't stand it anymore and yelled, "Get out of here!"

Yan Jiaojiao snorted coldly: "Get out if you want!"