"What secret?"

"It's about the secret of this world!"

Zhang Nanjing's pupils were wide open, and under his dark eyes, one could see the whites of his eyes oozing with scarlet blood.

Hua Shi looked at her serious expression, not knowing how to react for a moment, and just waited silently for her to speak.

But Zhang Nanjing seemed particularly excited, his eyes wide open and never relaxed for a moment, his bulging eyeballs staring at her ferociously.

Hua Shi was originally a little hesitant, or perhaps he was hoping for a lucky break, but seeing her crazy look, he hesitated for a moment.

Ah... doesn't seem very believable, his speech and expression are all so nervous...

While she was stunned, Zhang Nanjing suddenly took two quick steps towards her, and the distance between them was suddenly shortened to less than one meter.

Hua Shi's doubtful mood also shrank at once, and she took several steps back until she was at a distance she thought was safe, and then she stopped.

Zhang Nanjing, who was originally in a trance and nervous, saw her obvious evasive action, his eyes widened, and then slowly relaxed, and his mood seemed to return to normal.

"Don't you believe me?"

She asked in a rough voice, with a hint of creepiness.

When Hua Shi heard this, his eyes fell on her erratic face and he said silently, "I don't disbelieve you, just say it."

She pretended to be listening attentively.

Zhang Nanjing stared at her for a long time, his expression seeming extremely dissatisfied. She asked, "Then why are you so far away from me? Do you still not believe me?"

Hua Shi's brows unconsciously frowned.

Seeing her talking in a mysterious way, it is indeed a little hard to believe...

"If you don't say anything, then I'll leave." Hua Shi said, and was about to turn around and walk back the way he came.

After talking for a long time, she didn't seem to want to say anything. Her absent-minded and crazy words were indeed not normal...

Hua Shi turned around and just as she took a step forward, she heard the crazy woman's hoarse and rough voice from behind:

"Actually... everything we see is fake, because this is a storybook world that doesn't exist at all. Everything we touch is illusory..."

Hua Shi suddenly heard such a long and vague sentence, stopped hesitantly, and turned around to look back.

Zhang Nanjing's rough voice continued, "What I said is true. This is actually a story written by someone in another world. We are all people in this story. Sooner or later, this empty world will disappear."

Hua Shi asked, "How did you know?"

Zhang Nanjing's eyes widened, his pupils dilating a little. "In my dream, the person who wrote the storybook was a scholar. He failed the imperial examination and became depressed, so he wrote this book."

Hua Shi looked at her thoughtfully, and his hesitant mood suddenly returned to its original state.

She was now certain that this man was probably crazy, talking nonsense, and none of his words were believable.

After thinking about it this way, Hua Shi completely lost the desire to listen any further.

"Okay, I'm leaving now." She said this and was about to leave.

Seeing that she was really about to leave, Zhang Nanjing looked a little anxious and waved his hand, "Don't go! I haven't finished yet!"

She was in a hurry and was about to rush forward to make latte art.

Hua Shi hurriedly shrank back, silently widening the distance again, "Okay, okay, you go ahead and tell me what you want."

She was also afraid that Zhang Nanjing, who seemed emotionally unstable, would pounce on her. She was carrying Xiaoying on her back and didn't want to argue with a mentally unstable person in the deserted grove.

Zhang Nanjing finally stopped and continued nervously, "This story is written from the perspective of that scholar. The scholar wrote himself into the world of the story. He wrote that after failing the imperial examination, he met a gentle woman from the Jiangnan water town. They got to know each other well, and just as he was about to marry his beloved woman, something happened in her family..."

At this point, Zhang Nanjing suddenly shed two lines of tears.

"The woman's family sold their property and fled to escape the disaster. The scholar, unaware of his beloved's suffering, assumed she didn't want to marry him, so he married another woman."

Zhang Nanjing's voice began to choke. "While the woman was fleeing, she was kidnapped by thieves and her innocence was destroyed..."

Hua Shi listened silently without saying a word, but seeing Zhang Nanjing's increasingly abnormal expression, she had some guesses in her mind.

Could this story be Zhang Nanjing's own life experience?

She had been forced to flee, separated from her beloved, raped by thieves, and then sold to this remote and desolate place. After all these hardships, she was deeply traumatized and became mad and insane...

The words she could talk about now, about this world of fiction, were almost certainly her own imagination and not necessarily true...

Hua Shi thought about it and wiped his face with a feeling of being both amused and helpless.

It's crazy that she would actually hold out hope for a madman...

I thought I could really get some secrets about this world, or the truth, out of her mouth...

After all, who can guarantee that what a crazy person says is false?

When Zhang Nanjing spoke excitedly, his bloodshot eyes would unconsciously widen: "...The woman was later sold to a village household. The village household had a mean-spirited mother-in-law, and she was forced to marry the man of the village household. The man had lost two wives before, and she was the third. The man often beat her, leaving her covered in bruises. She had miscarried twice, and both times he aborted her children..."

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