Chapter 155 Earning 90 Million in a Week 19
"Xiaoyi, girls can't play this."
She watched as her mother took the airplane model away. "What's the point of playing with airplanes and cars as a girl? Look, mom bought you a doll and a stuffed animal. There are also a lot of picture books over there. They will be very helpful in improving your artistic taste."
"Okay." She sat on the table and opened the beautiful picture book, but still looked unconsciously at the silver-white airplane where the neighbor's little brother was happily playing with it.
But I still prefer airplanes... She was distracted.
"Hey kid, why are you sitting so crooked? What did your dance teacher teach you? Didn't he tell you to straighten your back?"
She sat up straight reflexively.
"Your Xiaoyi is already very well behaved. What an excellent child she is. If my daughter were half as good as her, I would wake up laughing in my dreams..." Following the compliments from relatives and friends, the mother shook her head again and again, "We didn't bother to teach her. Xiaoyi learned everything on her own. Most of the time, she didn't let me and her father worry..."
She swallowed the chair slowly because she really didn't want to listen to her mother's lies.
"Xiaoyi, where are you going?"
"I'm going to the bathroom."
You must be kidding. It's not like she wants to learn it herself.
She didn't want to go to dance and piano lessons after school. Wang Linrong from the next class played with boys every day, so why didn't her mother care about her? Her mother said that Wang Linrong was a girl without family education, and that girls should behave themselves and not run around like a mud monkey like her.
"Hahahaha…you lost again!"
A loud laugh came from her, and she couldn't help but look up. She saw Wang Linrong holding a boy's hand and snatching the silver-white airplane from his hand.
After seeing her, Wang Linrong, who was wearing jeans, ran over and stuffed the plane into her hand. "He almost broke your toy just now. Take it, it's not cheap!"
"How do you know it's mine?"
"How could I not know? When your mother took the plane from you just now, you were reluctant to let it go. Oh, your mother is so cruel."
She looked at Wang Linrong and suddenly thought that this girl with several pieces of mud on her face and many freckles on her nose was quite nice. Wang Linrong glanced down and said, "Well, you look pretty good in a skirt..."
"Thanks."
"Don't say thank you, that's boring." Wang Linrong seemed to have thought of something interesting. "Have you ever tried to run down from there in a flash?"
Swish, whoosh, what is all this?
She looked in the direction Wang Linrong pointed and saw a very high ramp in the backyard. Next to it was a blooming Albizia albizzia tree with small pink and white clouds rising from it.
Wang Linrong knew the answer as soon as she saw her dazed expression. She couldn’t wait to pull her hand and ran up the slope, standing at the highest point. “Just watch, and you just follow me… Wah ah ah ah ah…”
She was like a balloon in denim clothes, floating to the bottom quickly, waving her hands excitedly, "Run faster, run as fast as a 100-meter race!"
"But……"
"But what?"
"But..." she hesitated, "If you run too fast, you'll fall."
“Falling is fun too.”
"My skirt got dirty when I fell down."
"You can wash it if it gets dirty. Clothes are meant to be worn. It's normal to wash them when they get dirty. It's not like you don't have a washing machine at home."
Wang Linrong saw that she still didn't speak, and suddenly realized: "Oh, I understand, you are afraid of being scolded by your mother, right?"
She was stunned for a moment, but she didn't know where the anger came from, "I'm not afraid!"
"Then you are much better than me. I am afraid of my mother's nagging, but you are not afraid at all."
Wang Linrong's words gave her inexplicable courage. She gritted her teeth and rushed down the slope in one go. The wind flowed away from both sides of her cheeks, and there seemed to be no resistance. When she stopped in front of Wang Linrong, she blinked her eyes and was still a little dazed.
“…”
"How was it? I knew you'd like it. It's like flying a plane when you run down here, right?"
She turned her head and asked, "How... did you know?"
"Know what?"
“I want to fly a plane.”
Wang Linrong's eyes widened. "I don't know. I just thought that if you like airplanes, you would like the feeling of no resistance. Flying a plane... Then you are amazing. You have decided what to do at such a young age."
"This isn't such a big deal..."
"That's amazing. No one around me has thought about what they want to do in the future, but you have." Wang Linrong said seriously, "So you are amazing."
She touched the tip of her nose unconsciously and felt her face turn red.
"Hey, wait a moment." Wang Linrong took something from her eyelashes, unfolded it and placed it in the palm of her hand. It was a pink and white julibrissin flower.
…
That night, she mustered up the courage to secretly change the composition she had written. The composition, which was full of true feelings, was later praised by the teacher, but was discovered by her mother during a conversation with her daughter's parents. She found that the composition was not the "My Ideal" that she had written while sitting at the table with her daughter.
"Xiaoyi, why do you want to change it? Don't you want to be a university professor?"
This time she mustered up the courage to shake her head, “Mom, I don’t want to.”
"You are still young and don't know what the future will be like. It's so good to be in the system. It's stable and leisurely. It's most suitable for a good girl like you." Mom took a look at your composition and smiled.
"Can you imagine what it's like to fly a plane? Even your mom can't imagine it. And don't think it's that easy to be a university professor. You have to get into a 985 university, get a postgraduate degree, and then study for a doctorate. You have to publish a lot of papers during this period."
"Ah, writing papers, I don't like it..."
She felt that her mother had already made plans for the future, but she had never asked her whether she wanted it or not. She lowered her head a little aggrieved, with tears rolling in her eyes.
"You always say you like it, but every time you do it, you're always hot and dry. The teacher said that you're always the first to leave the classroom, as if the piano bench is on fire."
"I don't like playing the piano, but you forced me to do it."
Mom also lost her patience. "What do you like, airplane models? What's so good about that? You learned piano so you can perform in front of everyone. If you like playing with models, do you have to play with them in front of everyone?"
"Is being a pilot as stable as being a university professor? If you become a pilot, will anyone introduce you to a boyfriend? Who would dare to propose marriage?"
"You don't understand me, you don't understand!" She shouted, "Wang Linrong knows what I like, but you don't. You are still my mother, are you really my mother?"
“Nonsense!”
She looked at the composition book that had fallen to the ground, her eyes blurred with tears.
"I was wondering why you suddenly became like this. It turns out that you got together with her. Look at you. You've only played with her for a few days and you're already yelling at mom. Isn't mom right?"
"No, no!"
"You...you are rebelling!"
The mother took the father who had just returned home and told him about her daughter's evil deeds. They unanimously decided not to allow her to associate with Wang Linrong. They made the decision for her as a matter of course, but never asked her if she was willing, what she liked, or who she wanted to make friends with. They never asked.
In the end, only the essay, torn in two, was left to accompany her in the living room.
…
"You had an accident when you were in high school, and there was a file record in the police station, right?" Jiang Yuelu's words brought Jin Ruyi's wandering thoughts back, but they drifted further away, "High school..."
"Yes. High school. That time you ran away from home and your parents reported you missing."
"But in fact, you went on a trip with your friend Wang Linrong at that time. You guys..."
Jin Ruyi suddenly interrupted him, "Not a friend, but a girlfriend."
The judge nodded without questioning, "You went out of town to celebrate the three-day festival together. You didn't tell your parents, but Wang Linrong did. Her parents quickly told your parents, who were very worried at the time. After they took you back, you took a year off from school."
"Haha. That's not a suspension of study." Jin Ruyi said in a mocking tone: "They just refuse to admit that their daughter has been spoiled. They made up a lie that I went abroad to study. They are just whitewashing the situation as usual."
"But you became very submissive after that. Didn't you say these harsh words to them at that time?"
Jin Ruyi suddenly fell silent.
After a long while, he spoke quietly, "It's not a good idea to say I protested. Protesting without results is useless. I went on a hunger strike and tried to commit suicide, but they saved me. After a year, I was tired and didn't want to hear my mother cry anymore, so I gave up and volunteered to go to school abroad."
"I was ready not to come back, but still..."
"You came back when you were 20?"
Seeing Jin Ruyi's surprised expression, the judge explained: "This is the only year you booked a flight home."
"You can even find this. Never mind. It's not surprising."
"I came back because we agreed to celebrate our 20th birthday together. In our relationship, 20 is a very special age. When we were 16, we thought we would be in control of our own lives at 20, but she was proven wrong. She was the one who was not afraid of death, and she always was. But I couldn't even be brave enough."
Jin Ruyi said absentmindedly: "Sometimes I even feel that my bones have become soft and ground by my mother's preaching day after day."
"I used to be afraid of being scolded by my parents, afraid of being discovered by the teacher, afraid of being embarrassed if I didn't do well in the exam, afraid of being pointed at by others, afraid of not wiping my mouth clean when eating, afraid of not dressing properly at parties... I was afraid of so many things."
"When I was 20, I had something even more to fear."
"I was afraid that she was with someone else, that she would be angry with me, and what I feared most was that she would not remember me." The two girls who had celebrated the festival hand in hand in a foreign land have since become as indifferent as strangers.
But fate had already arranged it for her.
Jin Ruyi's eyes were out of focus. "She's dead."
…
"It seems that because her friend died, she completely gave up and resigned herself to her family's arrangement of a blind date for her, and then got married and had children. Well, it seems that the timing is right."
Jiang Yuelu didn't hear the voice in her ear, and whispered in a way that only the two of them could hear: "Xia Yi, what's wrong with you?"
“Just wondering.”
"What are you thinking about?"
Thinking about the feeling of having a best friend die... Xia Yi paused and changed the subject, "I really want to know, how did you determine that the essay was very important to her? You seemed to know something that allowed me to look for this information specifically."
If Jiang Yuelu had not instructed in advance what he wanted, it would be impossible to investigate such a complicated life of a person.
"It's a bit complicated to explain. I can only say that I roughly guessed that she wasn't that happy, and she didn't really want to listen to her parents."
"Why?"
Jiang Yuelu smiled slightly. Xia Yi was still not very sensitive to people's emotions.
"Because Yan Lu has also been through that age. Even if she listens to me, she won't live completely according to my arrangements. Except for death, Jin Ruyi's life resume is too perfect. It's so beautiful that it seems fake. I see traces of deliberateness in it. It doesn't make sense."
"Why are you keeping silent?" Jin Ruyi looked at the judge. His conversation with Xia Yi seemed silent to others. "Are you laughing secretly after hearing a sad story?"
"Let's make a bet, Jin Ruyi."
"bet?"
The Inquisitor nodded and said quickly, "I bet I know who your hatred comes from."
"You haven't given up yet." Jin Ruyi was impressed. "Let me tell you in advance, the story just now doesn't mean anything. I haven't forgotten that we are still in the PK stage, so I won't let you know any useful information. I told you those stories because I felt at ease. And."
She paused, her eyes turning cold.
"She's been dead for so long, and I've been dead for so long, it doesn't mean anything anymore."
Jiang Yuelu was busy here quickly, while dealing with her, "Just tell me whether you want to gamble or not, don't say this nonsense."
"Hmph. You are so cold-blooded. I haven't even charged you for telling me your story." Jin Ruyi didn't care at all. He picked up the skeleton man on the ground and played with it in his hand.
"Let's gamble. I can afford it."
"Very good. Then you watch out. I will bring you here just like I brought Tang Ze's enemies here." After the judge made the cold announcement, the barrage of comments became faster. There were many people in the PK between him and Tang Ze that day, but not as many as today, so more than half of the audience present had never seen the "trial".
They stared at the screen intently, even Jin Ruyi was no exception.
Jiang Yuelu spoke with such confidence that even she became a little curious.
All eyes were focused on the dark live broadcast room. The coffins hanging on the wall became two, one was white and the other was black.
The only thing that hadn't changed was the black iron chair. It was here that Zhao Erliu was held accountable for his crimes and punishments last time. The iron chain on the back of the chair was shaking, as if the dead soul was still struggling in pain, making meaningless howls.
The judge standing in front of him held a black sword in his hand. The solemn aura seemed to flow through the screen to Jin Ruyi. Her eyes slightly dilated, reflecting a dark black object. She was stunned for a moment, then laughed out of anger, "Is this my hatred?"
Inquisitor: "You are naturally the most aware of your hatred."
"Yes, I know. So I know you failed. This thing—" Jin Ruyi frowned and glanced at the monster, "I don't even recognize it."
A huge dark black object floated in the Judge's live broadcast room. It was pointed at the top and round at the bottom. The base was very full and the surface was uneven. Xi Mujin, the president of the Corpse Club who was watching the PK, suddenly hummed and moved closer to the screen. He felt that the wrinkles on the surface of this object were somewhat familiar.
"Are you sure you don't recognize him? Take another look."
"I said I don't know him, so I don't know him. Are you deaf or--" Jin Ruyi's voice stopped abruptly, and she recalled something in disbelief.
"Holy crap, isn't this the weird thing that sends out invitations to contestants?!"
Many participating anchors realized that they were dragged into Linya City for the competition by this black thing!
"No. It's not a weird thing. It has a name." Ximujin looked at the mysterious black bud spinning in disbelief. "Only we old hosts who have participated in the competition many times know that it has a name, called Lin Ya. This is the ability of Cycas. He became the Lord of Ghost City with this ability!"
He looked at the judge in shock.
Who the hell is this guy?
"How did you get the scion bud?" Jin Ruyi's eyes were very dangerous. "I have never seen it after the game started. It always appears before the game starts."
Is this Lin Ya?
Jiang Yuelu just subconsciously condensed an object, and the mysterious object he had seen before the competition appeared. Because he didn't really want to pull someone over, Jin Ruyi couldn't deal with it like he did with Tang Ze, but he didn't know why Lin Ya appeared.
But he pretended to be mysterious and omnipotent, "You don't have to ask more questions, we still have our own things to do."
Jin Ruyi had been planning to let the skeleton man attack immediately, but he couldn't help but calm down after seeing this scene. After thinking for a while, Jin Ruyi said fearfully: "Even if you take out the unicorn bud, it will be useless. I said, this has nothing to do with my grudge. If you really want to defeat me, you have to find my enemy."
"Who says enemies have to be human?"
The judge interrupted her and tore off a piece of the scion bud, "This is what your parents wanted you to be."
"This is what your relatives want for you."
"This is what the teacher wants you to do."
…
Every time he spoke, a piece was torn off the bud. Soon, the bud, which looked like a black lotus bud about to bloom, became thinner, leaving only the lonely snow-white fragile tip in the center.
"This is the real you, who wants to fly a plane, be with the girl you like, get away from your parents, and grow up wild. The real you is bound by these hopes."
After hearing his words, Jin Ruyi was silent for a moment, and suddenly sneered.
"Hundreds of thousands of people are watching your livestream, and you're talking about these meaningless philosophical questions?"
"No." The judge faced her as if she were a child who was making trouble for no reason. "Your resentment was not generated all at once, but accumulated over time."
"Did you obey your parents willingly? Did you really come to your senses and agree with their ideas? To me, your enemies are not your parents. They forced you, but they did so out of their own limitations. Your fear and terror all came from the pointing and criticizing eyes around you."
"Your enemy is a gigantic monster. Its influence on you is difficult to get rid of even after death. You know what it is." The Inquisitor's tone became sad as he looked at the layers of black scales.
…
"Brother, can I open a shop in the future?" Yan Lu hugged his legs with her small arms.
"Okay, what kind of store?"
"A toy store. Is that okay?"
“The toy store is great.”
"Really?" Yan Lu, who was happy, suddenly lowered her head. "But they say that girls will lose money if they open a shop. I'm afraid I'll lose your money. It's not easy for you to make money."
Jiang Yuelu thought her words were funny, so she squatted down and asked, "Why would a girl lose money if she opened a store?"
"Because I'm not good at math, numbers and stuff, I can't calculate as well as they can."
"Nonsense, your brother's math score at this age is twice as high as yours." Jiang Yuelu said seriously: "Lulu, let's do whatever you want to do. We only live once in this life."
…
"Why is flying a plane suitable for men but not for women? Why can't women run and jump? How did this idea come about and persist in this world?"
Xiaoyi, you should...
You should...
This is the right way...
Every time you choose to do something you don’t like, there is a part of you that dies on the spot - turning your back to choose another possibility, being completely killed, isn’t it?
"In other words, if you live in that reality like this, you will die thousands and thousands of times."
Jin Ruyi looked at him for a long time. No one knew what she was thinking at the moment. Finally, she slowly smiled.
"After talking about philosophy, you're now giving me psychological counseling? Are you an inquisitor or a teacher? You don't think you can defeat me this way, do you?"
"I told you, that's all in the past."
"Even if I was full of resentment, didn't I get my reward after I died?" Jin Ruyi smiled. "You don't know how happy I am here. The death of ghosts is in my hands. Yes, your life and death are also included."
Having said that, she made up her mind and ordered all the skeleton men to rush forward.
"Children, you have been hungry for too long, go eat him!"
"You don't have to be patient like before. This time, you can tear him to pieces as much as you want!"
The barrage and the members of the Corpse Society were shocked.
"Team battles have restrictions. Is she going to ignore the rules?"
All nine members were standing here intact, except for a tired look in their eyes, they had no other external injuries. This was the rule restriction imposed by the team battle - you cannot kill the anchor in a team battle PK.
To a certain extent, Linya City condones Tang Ze's method of killing ghosts by harvesting the host's blood line.
But perhaps because they felt that extending this rule to team battles would lead to the deaths of many anchors and reduce the fun, Linya City added a restriction that both parties could die in PK and still leave the live broadcast room alive.
But Mom tore her face desperately, as if she didn't want the Inquisitor to get out alive.
"Tonight... don't even think about getting out alive." Her face was blocked by countless skeletons, but they couldn't hide her crazy and murderous eyes.
Facing such a look, the judge pretended not to see it. He glanced at the bones and suddenly asked a heart-piercing question.
"You must hate these kids, right?"
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