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"Don't you have anything else to ask?"
Rao Tingxue's face turned pale, completely losing the charm she once had. She had already heard footsteps approaching and knew that Ning Han must have been subdued. If Xu Nuan didn't release her, she could already foresee her own fate.
"If you have no more questions, then let me go. This is an equal exchange, and you wouldn't go back on your word."
Rao Tingxue was well aware of Xu Nuan's temperament from before. Ever since Qin Yaojie started working at Fengtong Technology, and especially after she fell in love with him, she began to investigate what kind of person Qin Yaojie's girlfriend was.
As the heir of Rao Group, she had a multitude of people at her service with just a wave of her hand. She naturally obtained a lot of firsthand information about Xu Nuan, and the conclusion she reached was that Xu Nuan was an ordinary woman—simple, persistent, and warm-hearted.
She couldn't understand why Qin Yaojie would fall for such a woman. If it was due to childhood feelings, then seeing other outstanding and beautiful women would surely make him realize that Xu Nuan was nothing more than a weed.
She had failed, and she was unwilling to accept it.
Memories flashed rapidly through her mind. Rao Tingxue realized that Xu Nuan had changed significantly; she was no longer the shy and bright woman who liked to snuggle next to Qin Yaojie.
Not being able to see into someone's heart was the most terrifying thing because she didn't know if Xu Nuan would truly adhere to her principles and not harm her, letting her go.
She met Xu Nuan's gaze—seemingly calm but filled with surging anger.
"Did I ever promise to let you go?"
Xu Nuan smiled enigmatically. Normally not one to smile much, she suddenly appeared particularly joyful in the darkness, a joy tinged with madness.
"How could you not know who poisoned me? How could you not know who targeted those around me? That Game Company was established under your father's call. Regardless of any forces involved, your father holds an absolute position."
Seeing doubt begin to surface on Rao Tingxue's face, Xu Nuan became even more convinced that Rao Tingxue was merely a pawn. If the daughter of Rao Group could be treated as a pawn, then who exactly was the chairman supporting? Was it that illegitimate son? Or was there another hidden truth? Or perhaps she had overlooked something?
"Unless your father is a puppet and the true instigator of the game is someone else, or if the heir of the group is someone entirely different. Do you have any doubts about this?"
Xu Nuan struck Rao Tingxue mercilessly, causing Rao's face to turn pale. Rao instinctively raised her hand to hit Xu Nuan, but Xu did not dodge, allowing the slap to land on her cheek.
"How is that possible? I am definitely the heir of Rao Group. My father has only one daughter, and the company belongs to me and Yaojie. Hah, you envious woman who can't have what I have, don't think you can provoke me."
The footsteps in that direction grew closer, but she continued to press on without hesitation.
"I can let you go, but only if you tell me what other forces are involved with Game Company. If you don't even know that, then you are certainly not the heir."
Whether it was a provocation or a test, Xu Nuan aimed to gauge both Rao Tingxue's and Ning Han's awareness of the situation.
She noticed the confusion in Rao Tingxue's eyes and realized that Rao was utterly worthless now. Turning her gaze to Ning Han, she found him shouting at her.
"Don't you dare hurt Ting Xue! You are the person the chairman cherishes most. If you harm her, you won't live!"
Before Ning Han could finish his words, Gu Ze punched him again. Bloodied and bruised, he glared at Xu Nuan with red eyes, seemingly furious because she had harmed Rao Tingxue. Xu Nuan had no doubt that if Ning Han broke free from his restraints, he would immediately rush at her to attack.
Amidst this chaos, she heard Rao Tingxue's triumphant laughter. When she looked back at Rao, the confusion and doubt had vanished from her face, replaced by the demeanor of a proud heiress.
Rao Tingxue no longer seemed afraid of the short knife in Xu Nuan's hand; instead, she smiled arrogantly.
"If you want to live, you can't kill me. If you want Yaojie to live, you can't kill me!"
Rao believed she held the lives of many in her hands.
Unfortunately, that was just an illusion.
Xu Nuan looked at Rao Tingxue with a pitying gaze and soon noticed that Rao was getting agitated again. This time, Xu would not hold back; she reached out and broke one of Rao Tingxue's arms, relishing the expression of pain and anguish on her face as she cried out.
The returning group was startled by Xu Nuan's demeanor. Xu Hang restrained Ning Han, who was eager to help, and nodded at Gu Ze.
Gu Ze stepped forward, intending to calm Xu Nuan while also addressing the concerns weighing on everyone's minds.
"Is the danger you mentioned related to this woman?"
Xu Nuan ignored Gu Ze and fixed her gaze on Rao Tingxue, laughing softly.
"You can't save him; you're an accomplice, even when you didn't know it."
Her certainty was so profound that it silenced Rao Tingxue's wails. Rao stared blankly at her, forgetting the knife pressed against her neck, the leg that bore down on her abdomen, and the pain from her broken arm.
In that tense moment of confrontation, Xu Nuan swiftly moved the knife away from Rao Tingxue's neck and plunged it downward. The first to react was not the victim, Rao Tingxue, but Gu Ze, who quickly grasped Xu Nuan's hand holding the knife. He placed a hand on her shoulder, his eyes focused on her downcast face, trying to soothe her.
"Tell me."
Tell him what she had been hiding since that blow to her head had changed everything about her.
Xu Hang kept a watchful eye on the situation while still restraining Ning Han. At his signal, Xie Huai took Deng Yinyin aside to comfort her. Having narrowly escaped death, such an experience would leave Deng Yinyin shaken for a long time.
"Let go!"
Xu Nuan reached out with one hand, attempting to pry Gu Ze's hand away.
"This isn't your concern; I want blood for blood!"
Although Xu Nuan was startled by Gu Ze's vague words, he still locked onto her shoulders and insisted on holding her hand, preventing her from striking.
He knew that actions taken in a moment of lost Rationality would inevitably lead to regret. He had experienced it once himself, consumed day and night by remorse. He did not want Xu Nuan to endure such pain.
However, the thought of Xu Nuan losing her Rationality and wanting to kill Rao Tingxue made the idea of blood for blood particularly haunting, especially since Qin Yaojie was still alive.
"Let's clarify the situation before we make any judgments."
Gu Ze continued to soothe her softly, trying to move his hand from her shoulder to her chin, urging her to look him in the eye.
But his hand was shaken off by Xu Nuan.
With her mind set on killing Rao Tingxue, she confronted Gu Ze, who was solely focused on calming her down. Both of them overlooked the previously frozen Rao Tingxue.
"Heart!"
The first to react to Xu Hang's warning was Gu Ze. His gaze shifted just in time to see Rao Tingxue viciously thrusting a knife toward Xu Nuan's abdomen. Instinctively, he released his grip on Xu Nuan and raised his arm to block the blow.
The blade plunged into Gu Ze's arm, blood flowing freely as Xu Nuan finally reacted. She swiftly grabbed Rao Tingxue's knife-wielding hand and broke it, then seized her by the throat. Watching as Rao Tingxue's face began to turn purple, she spoke slowly and deliberately.
"Do you still want to kill? Today, you will pay with one life for two. No, soon it will be one life for three."
"Warm!"
With the hand still bleeding from the wound, Gu Ze grasped one of Xu Nuan's hands. Blood seeped from his sleeve onto her fair wrist, slowly trickling down onto Rao Tingxue's neck.
As Rao Tingxue's complexion grew increasingly pale, she still persisted in questioning.
"What are you talking about? I have never killed anyone, but I... will definitely kill you!"
Xu Hang looked anxiously at the three people confronting each other, only to find that Ning Han, who was bound by him, had stopped struggling. Instead, he was gazing at the trio with an indescribable expression.
Ning Han's bizarre demeanor made Xu Hang feel uneasy.
"They are not the ones you killed," Xu Nuan's tears fell onto Gu Ze's arm, quickly mingling with the blood pooling there.
"But your Rao Family is absolutely involved."
"Absolutely!"
Gu Ze, unable to see Xu Nuan's expression, began to panic. This version of Xu Nuan was truly on the brink of collapse, more desperate than during their encounter at the Cliff. He sensed that if he didn't stop Xu Nuan now, she would be lost for good, truly under the control of this game.
"Don't dirty your hands."
Gu Ze gently pulled Xu Nuan's hand back little by little, his voice growing softer.
"Nuan, don't you want to see him? Don't you want to ask questions? Didn't you promise to help me uncover everything?"
Seeing that Rao Tingxue was breathing again and seemed to be planning something, Gu Ze, worried that she might provoke Xu Nuan further, knocked her unconscious and slowly turned Xu Nuan away from Rao Tingxue.
"Let's use legal means to make them suffer. Isn't that better?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Nuan suddenly threw herself into Gu Ze's arms and began to cry. Amidst her sobs, she expressed the torment she had endured over the past few days.
"I remember everything."
"I remember now... my parents... they died."
Gu Ze was taken aback, reaching out to embrace Xu Nuan, gently patting her back without uttering a word. Before he confessed his feelings to her, they were merely companions who could chat. Xu Nuan had once expressed her guilt about leaving her aging parents behind to immerse herself in the game, admitting she had been too reckless.
At that time, Xu Nuan's words clearly indicated that her parents were still alive. But now, she recalled their passing. Xu Nuan's memories were flawed and forced; Gu Ze suddenly realized this.
"It was a car accident. That car killed them..." Xu Nuan's words came out in fragments, but it didn't hinder Gu Ze, Xu Hang, and the oddly smiling Ning Han from understanding her.
"They even tried to kill me... but I'm still alive. I even forgot about it."
Xu Nuan's thoughts began to spiral into chaos as she slowly pulled away from Gu Ze's embrace, staring at him with wide eyes filled with despair, confusion, and anger.
"I remember that when I entered the game, I deliberately found reasons to deceive them. But they died; they passed away two months before Yaojie entered the game. And by then, Yaojie was already poisoned."
Xu Nuan pressed her hand against her aching head.
"I remember that Yaojie was perfectly fine during the car accident; he treated me the same as before. But I forgot about it."
The memories in her mind were fragmented and disjointed.
"He told me many things that I forgot. He didn’t want me to enter the game, but I did."
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