"Only death can bring peace."
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When I opened my eyes from sleep, I still saw the familiar ceiling in front of me.
Tian Guo lay straight on the bed, his eyes full of exhaustion, without the liveliness and cheerfulness of a young man at all, like a lifeless corpse.
"The corpse...it would be nice if it could really be a corpse" she thought and sighed silently.
Tian Guo tilted his head, his gaze unbiased, and happened to fall on the bright red rose on the dressing table. Perhaps it had just been picked, and the budding petals were still stained with some morning dew.
It was early in the morning, the sun had just risen, and the servants had been busy with important matters in the house for a long time. Who would come to send flowers at this juncture?
At first, Tian Guo also had such doubts. She guessed that this might have been prepared by her personal maid Lilian.
But later, as her consciousness awakened, she discovered that the appearance of the rose was not accidental...
At first, Tian Guo just fell into a nightmare. In the dream, she experienced countless silent and terrible deaths. When she woke up and saw the first red rose on the dressing table, memories burst out. She had to believe that she seemed... trapped in a cycle.
In this cycle, Tian Guo repeats the same day, listening to the same words, doing the same things, and at the end of the day, reaches the same ending...
Over and over again, the ending of death!
In the cycle, Tian Guo's death is the only end and the only starting point.
“The way to break the cycle is to change the uniqueness.”
So, after realizing this, Tian Guo began to try to avoid death.
In countless cycles, Tian Guo was poisoned to death by a glass of poisonous wine.
So, the first rose appeared, and Tian Guo declined all the toasts, but in the end, she was pierced through the chest and abdomen by a strange man who rushed into the hall, and she suffocated to death.
When the second rose appeared, Tian Guo investigated all safety hazards and strengthened security measures throughout the mansion. She escaped poisoned wine and assassination, but was pushed during an argument, slipped and fell from the balcony to her death.
The third rose appeared, and Tian Guo chose not to worry about it. However, on the dance floor, someone's high heels took off and hit Tian Guo's temple, causing her to die on the spot.
When the fourth rose appeared, Tian Guo simply lied and claimed that she was seriously ill. She locked herself in the room for a whole day, thinking that this would be foolproof, but too much anxiety caused her spirit to fall into extreme panic and make it difficult to sleep, so Tian Guo took After taking sleeping pills, I accidentally slept to death...
When the fifth and sixth roses appeared on the dressing table, Tian Guo discovered another problem.
This is the seventh rose and the seventh reincarnation...
"Today's roses are also very fresh, but it's a pity that they were picked before they could bloom." Tian Guo picked up the delicate flower and put it into the vase.
"Counting the time, Lilian is almost here to wake me up..."
Lilian—a maid who grew up with Tian Guo and served Tian Guo since childhood.
Sure enough, before he finished speaking, there were footsteps outside Tian Guo's door, followed by a knock on the door.
"Knock knock knock——"
"Miss, I'm going in!"
Lilian pushed the door open and walked in. Her childish voice complemented her smart appearance. No matter how many times she heard or watched it, it was still as eye-catching as ever.
"Oh, my lady, you got up before I even called you? Sure enough, should I say you have grown up?"
Facing Lily's teasing, with Tian Guo's original character, she would respond with "You are only the same size as me!"
But maybe it was because she had heard this sentence too many times, so in the end she just responded vaguely and perfunctorily.
"It smells so good, these roses!" Lillian noticed the flowers in the vase at first sight after entering the door. She leaned up and sniffed, "Miss, you are so lucky. Someone sent flowers early in the morning..."
Good blessing? With death as the ending and cycle as the infinite blessing?
Tian Guo did not refute, but just shook his head helplessly. Sometimes, living in numbness without knowing the truth is a blessing, isn't it?
Because of the coming-of-age ceremony dance, the house has already been very busy. Tian Guo, as the protagonist, has been organizing everything since the morning until now it is already sunset.
