Rosie walked for three hours in the cold winter night before finally finding the town.
Xia Yaojia only had 220 yuan in her phone balance, 180 yuan for the train ticket, and the remaining 40 yuan was only enough for her to have one meal.
After all that, she had no money left to stay in a hotel.
It was almost dawn, and the station would open at six o'clock. With more than two hours to go, Rosie could only pace back and forth outside, waiting for the station to open.
However, Xia Yaojia, in Rosie's body, returned to her home.
After taking a hot shower, using her expensive skincare products, she slept on her soft bed, enjoying her extravagant lifestyle.
The next day, Rosie stumbled and struggled, finally finding her way to the neighborhood near her home.
The community security guard recognized Xia Yaojia, but she looked rather dirty and messy, so the guard was worried that something might happen and didn't let her in. Instead, he called the homeowner.
After receiving the call, Xia Yaojia let Luo Xi come up, but instead of opening the elevator for her, she made her climb up through the emergency exit.
Rosie did the same thing before.
Just because she was five minutes late in delivering lunch, she used the excuse of making her lose weight to climb thirty floors in one go.
After Xia Yaojia climbed to the top floor, she vomited uncontrollably. Rosie found her disgusting and wouldn't even let her into the house.
Today she'll experience the pain of climbing stairs!
Rosie gritted her teeth and was about to head towards the fire escape when the elevator doors opened.
Zhao Xuanxuan and Lu Qing came out.
Zhao Xuanxuan also lives in this community. To thank Lu Qing for helping her that day, she specially invited her to her home for a meal.
It was getting late, and Zhao Xuanxuan was just about to take Lu Qing back.
As soon as I went downstairs, I saw Rosie, who was covered in a mess and dressed as Xia Yaojia.
Rosie glanced at Zhao Xuanxuan, her cloudy eyes falling on the half-empty bottle of mineral water in her hand.
She hasn't had a drop of water since last night, and her lips are now chapped.
Zhao Xuanxuan paused for a moment, then raised the bottle of mineral water in her hand:
Would you like a drink?
As soon as she finished speaking, Rosie pounced on her, unscrewed the bottle cap, and poured the water into her mouth. Soon, half the bottle was empty.
Zhao Xuanxuan is kind-hearted by nature. Knowing that Xia Yaojia is often bullied by Luo Xi, she couldn't help but care when she saw her pitiful appearance.
"How did you get like this? Did Rosie bully you again?"
Upon hearing this, Rosie couldn't help but burst into tears, tears streaming down her face, unable to utter a sound.
"Don't cry! What happened? Do you want me to call the police for you?"
Rosie gestured frantically, but Zhao Xuanxuan couldn't understand at all.
Standing behind her, Lu Qing remained silent. She knew everything that had happened, but Luo Xi was not worthy of her pity.
Just then, Xia Yaojia's phone rang in Rosie's arms.
It was a message from Xia Yaojia:
If you don't get up here in ten minutes, you know what will happen!
Don't even think about asking for help; no one can help you!
After reading the message, Rosie gave up on asking for help. She didn't want to die, nor did she want to suffer that kind of pain again.
Rosie stepped into the elevator, pointed to the card reader, and looked at Zhao Xuanxuan with pleading eyes.
Zhao Xuanxuan swiped her elevator card and pressed the button for the 30th floor.
The moment the elevator doors closed, Luo Xi heard Lu Qing's voice:
“I know who you are, and I can help you get your body back, but you must turn yourself in and expose the crimes you have committed.”
Rosie was immediately shocked; she recognized Lu Qing's voice.
The fact that someone knows her true identity and that someone can help her is undoubtedly a lifeline for her.
However, is the price of restoring her identity to imprisonment?
He drove under the influence of alcohol, hit someone while intoxicated, fled the scene, and then tried to find someone to take the blame.
All these crimes combined should put her in a sentence of at least twenty years.
She'll be in prison for twenty years, and that outcome won't be much better than what she's experiencing now.
So Rosie hesitated, didn't press the elevator door button, and chose to ignore Lu Qing's voice.
The elevator arrived at the thirtieth floor, and Rosie slowly stepped out.
She was clever enough to know that Xia Yaojia was deliberately tormenting her, so she pretended to have just climbed up the fire escape, panting and leaning against the wall to walk to the door and ring the doorbell.
Xia Yaojia opened the door and was delighted to see her disheveled appearance.
For the next period of time, Xia Yaojia tortured Luo Xi in various ways, even more cruelly than before.
Under such double torment, Rosie, despite having Xia Yaojia's body, lost a lot of weight, but her mental state was extremely poor.
She was either verbally abused or beaten every day, and the slap marks on her face never faded.
Finally, after half a month, Rosie began to experience intermittent, sharp pains in her abdomen.
She went to the hospital for a checkup, and when she received the diagnosis from the doctor, she was stunned, as if struck by lightning.
"Based on the examination results, you likely have late-stage pancreatic cancer. At this point, treatment is largely ineffective..."
After leaving the hospital, Rosie hurriedly took a taxi to Zhao Xuanxuan's house.
She didn't have an elevator card, so she climbed more than twenty floors and knocked on Zhao Xuanxuan's door.
When Zhao Xuanxuan saw Xia Yaojia, she looked puzzled:
"Xia Yaojia, what brings you here?"
Rosie immediately knelt down before her, gesturing with her hands as if to tell Zhao Xuanxuan that she was looking for Lu Qing.
But she couldn't speak, and Zhao Xuanxuan couldn't understand what she meant for a long time.
"Why can't you speak? I can't understand your gestures. Type it out on your phone!"
Rosie then realized what was happening and quickly typed a message on her phone:
【I'm Rosie, please help me find Brother Jue's sister!】
Zhao Xuanxuan was immediately shocked.
She had experienced unusual things herself, so she was only shocked for a moment before she came to her senses.
"Wait a minute, I'll call and ask her!"
Lu Qing was in class when she learned about this.
"Okay! I got it. Tell her to wait at your house. I'll come over after class!"
"good!"
After hanging up the phone, Zhao Xuanxuan asked Luo Xi to come inside and wait.
While waiting for Lu Qing to arrive, Zhao Xuanxuan had Luo Xi type out what had happened.
After learning what had happened, Zhao Xuanxuan had a "you deserve it" look on her face.
After this period of torment, Rosie realized how much she had gone too far.
But now that the mistake has been made, it's too late for her to regret it.
That evening, Lu Qing went straight to Zhao Xuanxuan's house after class.
Upon seeing Lu Qing, Rosie knelt down in front of her and showed her a line of text that she had typed out earlier.
I'm willing to turn myself in, please save me, I don't want to die!
Lu Qing glanced at her face and couldn't help but smile sarcastically:
"Xia Yaojia has cancer, and only now do you think of turning yourself in. So it's not that you're genuinely repentant, but that you're afraid of death!"
Rosie lowered her head, tears streaming down her face.
Lu Qing sat down on the sofa and slowly peeled an orange.
"Are you really sure? After you regain your identity, turn yourself in and expose all the evil deeds you've committed."
Rosie nodded repeatedly.
It's better to live a miserable life than to die a good death; being in jail is worse than dying a tragic death!
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