latelenovela Chapter 576 Past
Chapter 576 Past
Not far away, the gray edge of the exhibition stand was splattered with many tiny red bloodstains, a shocking sight.
The owner of the bloodstains, Wu Huimin, was already struggling to breathe. From a distance, her skin was deathly pale, her cheeks were swollen and bleeding, and her eyelids were bruised... It was hard to tell how sweet and delicate her original appearance was.
After watching the men with horns on their heads leave, Mr. Yao, who had his back to her, hurriedly turned around and looked down to check on Wu Huimin's injuries.
"Huimin!"
Mr. Yao wiped the blood from his mouth. "How are you? Can you still bear it? I'll take you home, I'll take you home to get some medicine—"
"Brother Yao."
Wu Huimin slowly opened her eyes. Looking at the luxuriously designed ceiling above her, she coughed up a mouthful of blood and smiled, saying:
When can I leave?
"..."
Mr. Yao's outstretched hand froze in place. He turned his face away somewhat guiltily, his voice low:
"It'll be here soon, it'll be here soon, just wait a little longer, you'll leave this place—"
“I’ve been waiting for almost two months,” Wu Huimin interrupted him, coughing as she said, “Next month, next month I’m starting school, school is starting…”
Wu Huimin: "Do you know what the start of school means to me, cough cough, to me?"
"For me, it represents a change of destiny—"
"All right!"
Mr. Yao suddenly growled, reached out and grabbed Wu Huimin's arm, and whispered:
"I know, I know what you're thinking, but can you wait a little longer? I'll arrange for you to disembark after the new person takes your place, okay?"
Wu Huimin's gaze slowly shifted back, her bloodshot eyes fixed on Mr. Yao's face. She stared at him intently, almost without blinking.
"really?"
Mr. Yao lowered his eyelids, avoiding her gaze, and nodded:
"Believe me, it's true."
Wu Huimin fell silent.
She slowly closed her eyes, and began to cry because of the pain in her body, gradually increasing the volume of her cries.
Wu Huimin felt she was in too much pain.
It really hurts.
She felt her heart pounding like she was having a heart attack, she felt her limbs were twisted and broken, she felt…
In the end, Wu Huimin could only grab Mr. Yao's arm that was holding her. Her slender, pale fingers trembled slightly as she tightened her grip until her knuckles turned white and revealed a slightly frightening bluish tinge.
"You didn't, you didn't lie to me, right?"
Wu Huimin asked.
Mr. Yao picked her up and stood up, shaking his head: "No."
"Can I register when school starts, right?"
Mr. Yao: "Yes, you can."
"...Don't lie to me."
Wu Huimin loosened her grip, revealing an unpleasant smile on her bruised and pale face.
She looked at Mr. Yao, who had his head down, as if she had already received the answer she wanted.
—Wu Huimin will definitely be able to disembark…and then she will go to school to register. She will never, ever work on this ship again.
Only after Mr. Yao carried Wu Huimin away did He Lingling and Shi Yuan, who had been watching the plot from a hidden corner, come out.
He Lingling quickly walked to the booth that was stained with a lot of Wu Huimin's blood, and looked at the bloodstains on the black and white piano keys with complicated eyes.
"Wu Huimin, in the end, didn't get off the ship."
He Lingling said softly.
"Ah."
Shi Yuan walked to the piano, lowered his head, and stopped just as his fingers were about to touch the blood on the keys.
"If she gets off the ship, there will be no more storylines about her here."
He Lingling didn't say anything.
She glanced at the empty dance floor around her, and her eyelids twitched as she thought of the men and women in their finest attire dancing and twirling together as night fell.
The faces of those men and women are now completely blank in my memory.
He Lingling couldn't remember any of their faces.
This instilled fear in her heart.
The faces of the NPC guests are obscured, and there are many guests coming and going on the second-floor deck. How many people are there yet to appear?
Shi Yuan is right... After all, it's only the first night.
"Let's go back."
When He Lingling's tired voice rang out, Shi Yuan, who was hesitating whether to reach out and touch the piano keys, immediately withdrew his hand.
Shi Yuan dismissed his dangerous idea of tentatively touching the piano keys to sense the plot and nodded.
"it is good."
"..."
The journey back was quiet.
Neither He Lingling nor Shi Yuan were the talkative type. They each had something on their minds, their brains racing with all sorts of terrifying speculations about what might happen in the scenario... For a moment, the silence around them was almost frightening.
Just as she was about to turn the corner and walk to the room door, He Lingling suddenly stopped and asked a question.
Have you ever been to a place similar to this place before?
Shi Yuan paused in his steps.
The only sounds in the corridor were the two people's slightly heavy breathing and the faint shadows cast by the dim light, making the place seem unusually dark.
“It’s okay if you don’t want to talk about it—” Shi Yuan responded just as He Lingling gave up asking.
"There's nothing that can't be said."
Shi Yuan's voice was a little hoarse: "My family is actually quite wealthy..."
Before entering the Dawn Game, Shi Yuan was just an ordinary—well, not exactly an ordinary female college student, after all, her family was very wealthy, not just any ordinary wealthy family, but the kind of third-generation rich family that had been passed down for several generations.
Since you have enough money, you can also have some power or something similar.
Of course, these things have little to do with Shi Yuan.
She had little presence in the family and was a girl, so she could only be used by her elders for marriage alliances to consolidate their interests after she came of age.
At first, Shi Yuan didn't think there was anything wrong with this, but she couldn't resist... after all, her sisters and cousins were all sent out for arranged marriages in the same way.
The ones I've heard of are all pretty good?
Shi Yuan didn't care much about who her future husband was, nor did she care whether he was ugly or pretty. In their social class, unless they had really strong genes, most men and women could have a passable face through the genetic "transformation" of marrying beautiful wives generation after generation.
As long as it's not so ugly that it makes people lose their appetite, it's fine.
Shi Yuan was raised to be very "well-behaved," in the traditional sense.
She was obedient, diligently learned to treat others politely, and even smiled at the blind date banquets arranged by her parents and uncles... It was at one of these chance blind date banquets that Shi Yuan met Wang Xiaoling.
Wang Xiaoling is from a completely different "world" from Shi Yuan.
She could only be considered pretty, but what was more attractive about Wang Xiaoling was her seemingly indomitable aloofness and stubbornness.
When Shi Yuan first met Wang Xiaoling, he witnessed her being harassed by a group of drunk, rich second-generation heirs...
"……That's it."
Shi Yuan said, "Coincidentally, Xiaoling was also working part-time as a waitress on the ship at the time. By the way, you should know those cruise ships, right? The big ships that rich kids use for fun and travel?"
"..."
He Lingling, a blind girl raised in an ordinary family: "..."
She paused for a second, then shook her head with great self-awareness:
"No, I do not know."