Zheng Jingjing sighed: "Yes, Lao Zhao was getting a divorce at that time. Because it involved property, Xiao Zhao accidentally discovered that Lao Zhao had given me two houses when she was helping her mother with the liquidation. That's how she found out about our relationship."
Upon hearing that the topic was related to property, Shi Jinzhe was already experienced: "I guess she said some bad things to you because of this."
“Those were very hurtful words.” Zheng Jingjing’s face, already contorted with bloodshot veins, twisted even more. “She spoke without thinking, calling me a habitual offender.”
Zheng Jingjing paused for a moment: "Then I stopped paying attention to her. After a while, Lao Zhao found out about it and came to apologize to me. He gave me a pair of white high heels. It was a brand I really liked. They were a bit expensive, and I had never been willing to buy them. He gave them to me in the hope that I could forgive Xiao Zhao. He also told me that Xiao Zhao's words were said by someone who was stirring up trouble."
As for who is stirring up trouble, the answer is obvious.
Only an artsy young man could use subtle, euphemistic language to completely deceive someone unaware of the truth. Between the two women, he naturally played the role of a petty troublemaker.
He likes Zheng Jingjing, but he can't bear to part with Xiao Zhao. He enjoys the bliss of having two women but doesn't want to take any responsibility.
When facing Zheng Jingjing, he said he was looking for true love and was willing to do anything for her.
When facing Xiao Zhao, he is also the good man who is actively seduced by other bad women.
Shekh: "You agreed?"
“I agreed. Although Lao Zhao didn’t accompany me through my childhood, he never neglected me or made me feel inadequate. As my mother’s ex-boyfriend, not my ex-husband, he did everything he was supposed to do. Xiao Zhao was also very good to me. She’s my only friend, and I don’t want to lose her, so I agreed.”
“You…” Shekh tried to think of an adjective, but her vocabulary was too limited, and she couldn’t find a suitable word.
Zheng Jingjing seems to be someone who can remember even the smallest kindness for a long time. Even if the person treats her badly later, she will still be willing to compromise and abandon her bottom line because of that little bit of kindness.
Shi Jinzhe whispered in her ear, "A subtle attempt to please."
Yes, Zheng Jingjing has a somewhat people-pleasing personality.
Because Xiao Zhao was willing to keep her company when she was lonely, because Lao Zhao provided for her material needs, and because her boyfriend had saved up to buy her that necklace, she was willing to accommodate everyone.
Besides their potential for ingratiation, such people have another obvious characteristic: they are easily tempted to take responsibility out of guilt.
Shi Jinzhe looked up and asked, "Have you two made up?"
"Yes, I gave those high heels to Xiao Zhao. She preferred that style. But when I went to see her, that gigolo had his eye on her again."
He wanted to be with me. I knew he wasn't a good person. I wanted to persuade Xiao Zhao, but I was also afraid that what he had done would implicate her. So, in a moment of weakness, I told Xiao Zhao to hide and listen to what he had to say, so she could see the true face of that man.
Zheng Jingjing lowered her voice, filled with regret: "Who knew she would have an accident... It was a Sunday. We were arguing and didn't notice that Xiao Zhao, who was hiding, almost got into trouble. Later, Xiao Huang from 605 brought her back."
"Wait a minute...didn't Xiao Zhao make six calls for help?"
“No, not on Sunday,” Zheng Jingjing said. “That was the last day before the world completely changed. Xiao Zhao was sent back by Huang Zhuoqiu, but because he was close to Wu Li’s brother Wu Yu, he helped to cover it up. Apart from him and Xiao Zhao, none of us knew about it.”
Linlang, having observed her like this for a while, gradually grew accustomed to it, and said with considerable emotion, "No wonder you wanted to kill Wu Li..."
“He deserved it,” Zheng Jingjing said. “Xiao Zhao looked unwell after she was brought back. I thought she was frightened by our argument, so I left without thinking too much about it. But Xiao Zhao’s husband… when he saw Xiao Huang, he thought of a way to be with me.”
With these words spoken, Shi Jinzhe finally connected all the clues.
"When you were arguing, your necklace fell off. The necklace ended up in the hands of the artsy young man, right? He met Xiao Huang and knew that Xiao Huang's mother, who was a teacher, studied chemistry. So he used your necklace to make a deal, getting the greedy teacher to produce a large amount of 'miracle water'."
The artsy young man mixed the "miracle water" he got into the liquor; he wanted to kill Xiao Zhao and his wife.
Anyway, Zheng Jingjing is also Lao Zhao's daughter. Even though Xiao Zhao is gone, as long as he wins over Zheng Jingjing, he will still have a share of Lao Zhao's house.
"Yes, Xiao Zhao was tricked into drinking the alcohol by him," Zheng Jingjing confirmed her answer.
Shi Jinzhe continued to seek answers: "The artsy young man killed her, and to prevent Xiao Zhao from dying at home, he sent her to 603?"
“Yes, he set a fire.” Zheng Jingjing’s aura turned cold: “Then the world began a seven-day cycle, and the moment Xiao Zhao died was just the beginning of the repetition.”
She was burned to death in the last minute of Sunday, which is also the last moment of every seven days.
And all I could do was repeat that clumsy, pretentious trap that I thought would make Xiao Zhao see through, to inevitably trigger a chain reaction, to watch Xiao Zhao drink the drugged wine, and to watch her die in the fire.
In this endless cycle of reincarnation, she could find no way out and could only watch helplessly as it all unfolded.
She couldn't stop it, she couldn't do anything, all she could do was regret it and keep questioning herself, why did she do this!
It's all her fault for acting on her own initiative, and for being soft-hearted and agreeing to the test in the first place.
Xiao Zhao clearly didn't have to die. She had so many chances to avoid this happening, but she missed them all.
Self-blame and guilt wounded Zheng Jingjing's heart. She was in great pain and regretted it every day. In this endless cycle, she suddenly gained the ability to weave illusions and saw Xiao Zhao again.
She remained friends with them and did not realize they were sisters.
Later, she created illusionary spaces, capable of altering parts of the course of events within these false spaces.
She let Xiao Zhao continue living in 602. This time, Zheng Jingjing didn't interfere with anything else and just focused on being Xiao Zhao's friend who was always there for him.
Until the new week began, her bedroom door was opened by her boyfriend who had been away on a business trip for a long time, and her life was no longer in order.
Zheng Jingjing didn't understand why, but time restarted and everything took a turn for the better.
“You’ve changed the course of things, and I’ve been watching you closely.”
Shi Jinzhe stared at the spatial ring on his hand: "You want to change the past, but there's only so much you can do, so you have to change the order in which things happened or change the people involved, right?"
Zheng Jingjing's hallucinations are inseparable from reality; she cannot fabricate something that doesn't exist out of thin air.
The reason Xiao Zhao was able to make six SOS calls the second time was because Zheng Jingjing changed the order of events, moving Sunday's events to Tuesday.
However, on Tuesday night, because of his and Sher's arrival, Xiao Huang stayed at the door of 402. He did not go up to the sixth floor and did not interrupt Wu Li's stalking in time, so Xiao Zhao was even more frightened.
Her shock made Lao Zhao and Zheng Jingjing dissatisfied with the artsy youth once again, especially his indifferent attitude towards Xiao Zhao, which angered the two of them.
Shi Jinzhe asked, "This world will make fear concrete. Your words made the artsy youth afraid that those people would retaliate against him, so there was a corridor of human bones outside his door. And these people have not been able to harm him because of Lao Zhao, am I right?"
"What do you mean?" Zhou Xiao frowned. He switched hands because of the pain, and now he felt like he had missed out on so much.
Shekh glanced at his blood-stained face: "Old Zhao would turn into a wall to protect Little Zhao every night. Because of him, the human bones couldn't get into 602, and the artsy youth wasn't killed. But last night, Old Zhao took Little Zhao to the seventh floor, so without the protection of the wall, the artsy youth was killed by the hallucination of fear."
What followed was everything they did today.
Linlang went to 602 to investigate information and bumped into Wu Li in her haste, who took the "miracle water" from her.
Then, at night, taking advantage of the situation, they accidentally started a fire, Wu Li escaped, 602 exploded, and Xiao Zhao could not escape death.
This is the whole truth about this instance.
Intentional or unintentional verbal provocations indirectly ruined two people.
One died, and the other went mad.
Sher speculated that the human tissue bookmark Linlang saw in 602 was made by Zheng Jingjing using her own body during reincarnation.
In order to get revenge on the artsy youth and make him even more terrified of the human bone corridor, Zheng Jingjing, who drove herself crazy, was capable of anything.
Or perhaps, she was treating this as a form of punishment for herself.
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bite--
[Player Shi Jinzhe has successfully deciphered the dungeon "Slander". Please confirm whether you wish to leave?]
"Wait a minute."
Shi Jinzhe looked at Zheng Jingjing, whose body was almost completely blackened by the calamity: "I have another question. Xiao Zhao's second death hallucination only happened today. How did you let me see it three nights in advance?"
"Ahead of schedule? Ha."
A sarcastic black smile cracked across Zheng Jingjing's sharply defined face.
Countless ashes fell from her mouth, and her heart withered and shrank rapidly because of this problem, inexplicably reminding Shi Jinzhe of the phrase "utter despair."
"Who says that what happened today is necessarily the first time it's happened?"
Shi Jinzhe's pupils widened slightly.
Could it be that they are also in the cycle of reincarnation?
[No, you two aren't here. You two came to save the day. In the first round, they failed to break through the final illusion and were all wiped out.]
The system coldly informed Shi Jinzhe: "I resurrected a few people who made it to the end in the previous round. To prevent them from discovering this, I specifically erased their memories of the previous game and then selected other people to join this game."
...
Shi Jinzhe: [System, do you know what it means to repay kindness with enmity?]
Is there some absolute necessity to clear this dungeon? Why force someone to clear it even after they've secretly revived? Isn't that just asking for trouble for anyone who enters?
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