After a period of dizziness, Ruan Xianbei opened her eyes and saw the white ceiling and chandelier. She blinked and found that she was in a familiar room - this was her room.
There were blue curtains, a bay window in the bedroom and a dressing table. She was lying on a soft and comfortable big bed, with her favorite bear cub on the bedside.
Is she...at her own home?
Wasn't she just with Shen Xuan...
Ruan Xianbei felt that his brain was a little confused for a moment, and when he was about to think about it, he felt a headache.
The dense pain felt like needle pricks. When the pain passed, she thought about the name again, but she couldn't think of who among the people she knew. Who was Shen Xuan? There seemed to be no one like him among the people she knew. .
She turned over and touched her phone. The screen showed four o'clock in the afternoon, a beautiful Sunday.
Maybe I stayed up late last night and watched for too long, so why did I fall asleep at this point?
"Ruan Ruan, your friends are here and you haven't gotten up yet!"
Her mother opened the door and came in to see her still lying in bed with a dissatisfied look on her face. Seeing that she was about to get angry, Ruan Xianbei jumped up and got up quickly, "Come on, come on!"
Ruan Xianbei felt a little strange when she left the room. She couldn't help but look back at the room. She always felt as if someone was looking at her. It must be an illusion. There was nothing in the room.
She ran to the living room to greet her friend. The two chatted for a while and then went back to the room laughing and joking. The friend brought some cakes and milk tea. After a while, Ruan's mother brought them a plate of fruit and put it on the table.
"Shall we have dinner at home later?" Ruan's mother said to them with a smile.
"Okay, thank you for your hard work, auntie." My friend responded with a smile.
While the two were talking, Ruan Xianbei suddenly looked out the window and became distracted. Her friend elbowed her, "What's wrong with you? You're absent-minded."
She rubbed her eyes, pointed to the construction site in the distance, and smiled: "I just looked at the building over there. It seems to be newly built, right? I remember it used to be a park."
My friend said regretfully, "Yes, the park was demolished and the former artificial lake was filled in. We used to go there to play when we were kids. It's such a pity."
"By the way, you won't leave when you come back this time, right?"
Ruan Xianbei was stunned and didn't understand what she meant: "Let's go? Where should I go?"
Her friend hit her with a backhand and scolded her: "Some time ago, you said you were going to relax. You traveled for more than a month, and you had a fever just after you came back a few days ago. Are you crazy because of the fever?"
"Fever? So I'm resting at home because I have a fever? I feel like I'm fine..."
Her friend looked at her suspiciously and thought she was speaking very strangely now, "Is everything okay? Do you want to go to the hospital again?"
"No, I probably just woke up and I'm still a little awake."
My friend didn't ask any more questions: "I'm going to school tomorrow. You can't be late for Monday's class."
Faced with his friend's concern, Ruan Xianbei could only smile, "Yes, please don't worry, young lady, I will be on time."
The two played games in the room for a while, and after dinner the friends went back.
The week passed quickly like this. There was a sense of joy in campus life that she had not seen for a long time. She was happy to see her classmates, enjoy the scenery, and even study. Her friends also laughed at her for coming back from a serious illness to work hard. Could she be preparing to win the prize? Is the motivational scholarship available?
College students live on campus on weekdays and only go home on weekends. Ruan Xianbei returned home casually and found that the lights were on, there was a table of steaming dishes, and his parents were busy in the kitchen.
Seeing her come back, her mother wiped her hands and poked her head out of the kitchen, telling her to wash her hands quickly and put the dishes and chopsticks in order to eat.
Just...why does she feel like someone is always watching her?
...
the other side.
Shen Xuan's body was filled with coldness. She stood in front of the bed and asked Wan Zhangtian: "Senior, please give me an explanation."
Time went back to a minute ago, when the maid pushed the two through the door, Shen Xuan felt a squeeze of repulsion, and he returned to the room, but Ruan Xianbei was no longer around.
"It's a long story." Wan Zhangtian replied slowly. Shen Xuan couldn't do anything to him anyway.
"Then let's make a long story short."
Wan Zhangtian was silent. If Shen Xuan could do it, he would demolish this place now.
"Why can Ruan get in but I can't?"
Wan Zhangtian sighed: "This has nothing to do with me. This is the choice of Mirage Pearl. Only the chosen ones can enter."
"Senior, please help junior try again."
Shen Xuan walked over and stood in front of the door. The maid glanced at Wan Zhangtian. Wan Zhangtian nodded. The maid pushed him forward again, but this time the door lit up!
A barrier directly blocked Shen Xuan from the outside. He was rejected without even a chance to enter and be squeezed out.
Wan Zhangtian had known for a long time that there would be such a result and it was no surprise: "You have also seen it, it's not that I won't help you..."
"When can she come out?" Shen Xuan pursed her lips and clenched her fists, showing rare emotional fluctuations on her face.
Wan Zhangtian: "If she can destroy this place, Mirage Pearl will naturally send her out to end all this. If she fails...then I can only have you buried with me."
This was really not a pleasant thing to say, and Wan Zhangtian himself smiled cheerfully.
"I have long since exhausted my fuel. I have been waiting for this day for so many years. If the little girl can destroy this place, it will be regarded as my repaying the debt for the traitor. By then, all this will be done to you. Everyone will understand—all we can do now is wait.”
It had only been half an hour since he met Wan Zhangtian, and what he said was all about that time and after that. Before Ruan Xianbei did this, he would not and could not say any more unnecessary words, and what Shen Xuan and the others wanted to know was him. Can't say now.
Shen Xuan could only find a chair and sit on the opposite side of the door. She didn't know when she would wait.
Shen Xuan asked Wan Zhangtian with a cold face: "How long do we have to wait?"
"I don't know very well, she has never been out before."
"Before?" Shen Xuan seemed to have caught the flaw in his words.
"Oops, I spilled the beans, I can't say any more." Wan Zhangtian scratched his beard in annoyance, "Ping An, serve Mr. Shen some tea."
The maid responded safely, brought tea and put it on the table.
"You can eat and drink these. I need to take a rest, you can do it yourself."
Shen Xuan looked at the door, and her heart sank a little as time passed.
