"I understand. Could you dim the lights in the room a little? I need to rest." After saying that, Qiao Qiu really closed her eyes and lay down.
"Yes, Master, please rest well." The ring didn't mind her habit of wanting to sleep as soon as she got back. It's normal to want to relax after experiencing birth, aging, sickness, and death.
The lights dimmed instantly, and at the same time, a soft blanket was placed over Qiao Qiu.
Qiao Qiu was a little surprised, but when she thought about what the ring had said before, that the room would change every time a diamond was lit, she calmed down.
The light was dim, and Qiao Qiu put her ringed hand under the covers and didn't move it.
Actually, she didn't want to sleep at all. In the previous world, she had contradicted herself and realized that the freedom she wanted might not be what she imagined.
She thought leaving the cursed world meant freedom, but it was just psychological self-comfort. What does a curse matter? What does reality matter? They are all living, breathing worlds, and anything that matters is bound to be a shackle.
In these worlds, she has a family and a lover, and has achieved almost everything she could want in real life. So why is she so determined to return to reality?
Qiao Qiu thought for a while and came up with the final reason. She was not alone. She had family. Even if she was willing to stay here and be destroyed, what about her parents? And her niece and nephew? When she came to the cursed world, they were only a few years old. Could she bear to watch them possibly repeat her fate one day?
The answer is no.
Since that's the case, she no longer sees the curse as a cage imprisoning her freedom. She treats it as a place for studying, a place where she can enjoy being alone.
That's right. Even though Qiao Qiu was heartbroken at first, she never believed that having trouble together meant turning each other into enemies. After all, in real life, which couple doesn't have their share of problems? They just amplified them.
If you like someone, you have to face these things. If you can't face them, then it's not true love.
It has to be said that being involved in politics for too long has really had an impact; she's begun to be skeptical of some things. Take this ring, for example. On the surface, it seems like she and the ring are mutually beneficial, but the 'truths' it told us before were all just its own version of events. Even back in the real world, it was all just what it said; there was nothing to directly prove that what it said was true.
It's terrifying to think about. If the ring was all a lie, then it was just using her.
She was merely a pawn, used to achieve its own ends, and had only received a small favor in return.
Qiao Qiu was very angry, but she still acted as if she were asleep—one of the advantages of having been involved in politics.
Qiao Qiu took a moment to calm her anger, sorted out the current situation, and only after she felt that nothing had been overlooked did she open her eyes, then sit up and rub her eyes—she still had to play her part completely.
The ring saw that she had woken up and turned on the light.
The sudden light made Qiao Qiu a little uncomfortable, and she reflexively covered her eyes with her hands.
"Master, are you ready?"
Qiao Qiu nodded, lifted the covers, got out of bed, and walked barefoot to the door—the ring space was very clean, and apart from the clothes she was wearing, her feet were bare; no shoes had been prepared for her.
This time, she didn't ask anything more, sticking to her style, she opened the door and jumped straight down.
It seems a bit cold...
...
Qiao Qiu's feeling was correct; when she woke up, she was lying naked on the bank of a deep pool.
The water in the pool was quite cold, and the weather was also quite cold, so Qiao Qiu could basically conclude that the person had frozen to death.
A warm current surged through her body, and she regained some sensation wherever this warm current passed. It must be the ring repairing her frozen body.
She could use this time to see what was happening in this body.
However, the moment Qiao Qiu took her first look, she was shocked!
This is... a man!!
Holy crap, what's going on?!
Ring: Hehe, master, are you surprised? I did it! Want to fall in love? Maybe in your next life!
Qiao Qiu couldn't hear the ring's sound, of course. The man she possessed was a teenager, sixteen years old, named Shen Junbai. His family had been merchants for generations, and the elders valued their children's education. Almost everyone was proficient in both literature and martial arts, and there were no restrictions on their development.
Shen Junbai is an outstanding young man. He is not only good-looking but also highly skilled in martial arts. Nothing he can't sell. A shop that looks like it's about to go out of business will become a booming business after he makes a few changes.
His parents were proud of him, his two older brothers were proud of him, and he had a large group of female admirers when he went out. He was basically a young version of a winner in life, but things went wrong because of Shen Junbai's fiancée.
His fiancée was named Li Xuening, the daughter of his father's good friend. She was beautiful and dignified, and was the most beautiful woman in Shuzhou City.
In everyone's eyes, these two were the perfect match, both in terms of family background and other aspects. But who knew that Li Xuening actually had someone she liked?
The man she admired was named Liu Ran. His family was also in business, though not as wealthy as the Shen family. His family was grooming him for a career in government.
Liu Ran also liked her, and the two secretly met, with Li Xuening's father completely unaware. When he learned that Li's father had betrothed her to Shen Junbai, he immediately became restless, but the wedding date had already been set, and he couldn't openly tell Li's father that he liked her.
So Liu Ran devised a plan to lure Shen Junbai to a brothel, where Li Xuening would catch him red-handed.
Shen Junbai was truly wronged. He hadn't done anything wrong, and he had apologized and explained to Li Xuening, but Li Xuening cried and insisted on not marrying him.
Shen Junbai liked Li Xuening very much, and after some persuasion from Li's father, the wedding date remained unchanged.
When Liu Ran saw that this didn't work, he hired a very ruthless assassin to kill Shen Junbai—Shen Junbai was highly skilled in martial arts, and ordinary people definitely couldn't get close to him.
The assassin lived up to his reputation as a pervert; he first went to investigate, and upon seeing Shen Junbai, he immediately agreed.
Liu Ran didn't know why he agreed, and he didn't dare to ask. He readily paid the deposit and then waited for an answer.
That night, the deranged killer murdered the Shen family, killing all fifty-two members except for Shen Junbai.
Next, the most insane part is about to happen.
The deranged killer abducted Shen Junbai to the edge of this deep pool, severed his tendons in his hands and feet, stripped him of his clothes, and attempted to rape him!
Even if Shen Junbai is handsome, he is still a man, and he has a woman he likes. How could he possibly be with a man who killed his whole family?
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