Jiang Ruyue stood still, looking up at Wen Yixing sitting in front of the interview table.

"Actually, I've always wanted to see you, but I only have the chance now."

Over the years, Jiang Ruyue had tried to find Wen Yixing. However, Wen Yixing was well protected by Shen Jingshao, and Shen Jingshao was always wary of Jiang Ruyue, so Jiang Ruyue had no chance to get close to Wen Yixing.

"See me?" Wen Yixing asked, somewhat puzzled. "Is there something you need?"

Jiang Ruyue didn't beat around the bush: "You have a system on you, don't you?"

Wen Yixing looked up at Jiang Ruyue.

Jiang Ruyue knew her secret, which didn't surprise Wen Yixing.

The room fell silent. Neither of them spoke. After a few seconds of silence, Wen Yixing broke the silence: "Are you really Jiang Ruyue?"

In fact, Shen Jingshao had given her some information about Jiang Ruyue a few years ago.

Shen Jingshao has thoroughly investigated Jiang Ruyue's life from childhood to adulthood.

According to the information, Jiang Ruyue's family was poor, and she lived with her mother since she was a child in a single-parent family.

Jiang Ruyue was rather introverted when she was young and didn't have many friends.

Later, her mother remarried. By then, she was in her third year of junior high school, and her personality suddenly changed. She was no longer so introverted and weak.

Jiang Ruyue was going through puberty at the time, and since she lived at school and rarely saw her mother, even if her personality changed, everyone just thought it was a normal phenomenon of puberty.

After experiencing so many bizarre events, Wen Yixing was able to sense Jiang Ruyue's strangeness.

That's why she made the previous guesses and tests.

Jiang Ruyue wasn't particularly surprised by Wen Yixing's question.

She knew Wen Yixing was very smart; with Wen Yixing's intelligence, there were some things that simply couldn't be kept from her.

“I am indeed not Jiang Ruyue,” Jiang Ruyue said calmly. “I transmigrated into Jiang Ruyue’s body more than ten years ago.”

Wen Yixing did not speak.

Jiang Ruyue looked at Wen Yixing, smiled, and continued, "On the second day after I arrived, a strategy system appeared inside my body. The system told me that as long as my strategy progress reached more than 95%, I could go back."

"There's something I don't want to lie to you about. Actually, I never liked Fang Shiyan. He was just someone I was trying to win over."

Jiang Ruyue paused, looked at the blue sky outside the window, and slowly said, "At first, I didn't see you as human beings. I just treated this world as a strategy game. I naively thought that as long as I successfully completed the game, I could go home."

Upon hearing this, Wen Yixing asked softly, "Did your system lie to you?"

"Hmm." There were some things Jiang Ruyue didn't want to talk about, after all, they weren't pleasant memories.

After thinking for a moment, Jiang Ruyue spoke again, "The year I was preparing to go abroad was actually when the most important person to me fell ill, and I planned to take him abroad for treatment."

"The system promised that as long as I completed the task, it would grant me three wishes. My first wish was to return to my original world, my second wish was to take my little blind child with me, and my third wish was for my little blind child to be healthy. But the system lied to me. After I completed the task, the system disappeared. I didn't go back, and I didn't get my wishes granted. I was like a fool, believing the system's words."

"You probably know what happened next. I took money from Fang Shiyan's mother and went abroad."

Wen Yixing still remembered meeting Jiang Ruyue in the underground parking lot of the mall that day. Jiang Ruyue pushed a young man in a wheelchair out of the car.

They were facing away from her at the time, so Wen Yixing didn't see the young man's face.

But his intuition told him that this man was the blind man Jiang Ruyue had mentioned.

“We stayed abroad for many years, but the little blind man’s health was still not good. Until six years ago, the system in my body reappeared. It was still a mission to complete. It told me that as long as the mission was successful, the little blind man’s health could be restored.”

"At that time, the little blind man's illness became more and more serious, and I was stupid enough to believe the system again. So I returned to China. This mission did not go as smoothly as I had imagined, and Fang Shiyan did not actually like me very much."

"He wants too much and doesn't know how to cherish what he has."

"After I discovered that the system task was malfunctioning again, I stopped the task. I have been abroad for the past few years and have not returned."

Jiang Ruyue looked up at Wen Yixing, her gaze calm but sincere: "I've been wrong all these years, and I owe you an apology."

"I'm really sorry."

Life over the years has made it impossible for her to treat the world as a game as she did at the beginning. She has discovered that people in this world are flesh and blood, and that this world is real.

There are some things that she was the first to make a mistake.

"No need."

Wen Yixing's expression remained unchanged. Her eyelashes drooped slightly as she said softly, "Actually, thinking about it carefully, I do have things I should thank you for."

Wen Yixing was unsure of the relationship between the system in her body and Jiang Ruyue's system.

But she was almost certain that the key to breaking the control lay with Jiang Ruyue, who had traveled through time.

Without Jiang Ruyue, she might never have awakened.

There are too many uncertain things in this world. Wen Yixing didn't know what was going on, but she always felt that, just like the system said, they were not far from the truth, and not far from the end.

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After Jiang Ruyue left, Wen Yixing composed herself and continued working.

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