Jiang Nanshu only felt the sun was blinding. She abruptly opened her eyes to find herself in a three-meter-wide alley.
Her mind sobered up in an instant, and she barely managed to stop running before she reached the mouth of the alley.
A large truck zoomed past her at a distance of just three centimeters.
The wind whipped up by its speed blew her black hair about.
The suffocating sensation of seawater still lingering, Jiang Nanshu took deep breaths.
Looking down at her pale hands, her slender arms were covered in purple bruises from needles.
She was back.
The sense of joy lasted but a second.
She was suddenly seized from behind by a group of people who twisted her arms, pressed her head down hard, and pinned her against the wall, immobilizing her.
"Heh, the little lady sure can run."
Jiang Nanshu turned her head to look at the middle-aged man with a scruffy beard walking towards her, his sweat odor making her nauseous.
The man saw Jiang Nanshu’s look of disgust.
He grabbed her chin forcefully, revealing his yellow teeth, "Bitch, you’ve got a pretty face at least. Keep running, continue the chase. You’ll see what’s coming when we get back."
They were the guards from the mental hospital, in reality, monitors Zhou Yanbai had placed there.
"Get lost."
Her cold demeanor completely infuriated the man.
In their eyes, Jiang Nanshu was a prisoner, with her life or death at the discretion of their boss.
He raised his hand and slapped Jiang Nanshu across the face, "Don’t bite the hand that feeds you."
The pain on her cheek awakened the violent streak deep within Jiang Nanshu.
She forcefully broke free from the grip and snatched an electric baton from the guard behind her, beating the man mercilessly with it.
"Control her, she’s having another attack. Sedative! Give her the sedative!"
The man was knocked to the ground by Jiang Nanshu, powerless against her relentless assault.
Jiang Nanshu picked up a stone and smashed it onto the man’s head.
A cold fluid was forcefully injected into her skin.
Before she passed out, Jiang Nanshu caught a glimpse of the distressed young nurse, Xu Yun, running towards her.
...
In fact, Jiang Nanshu didn’t have to leave.
In the world within the book, she was at her most relaxed and happy.
She didn’t have to fear her parents’ beatings, didn’t have to pressure herself into becoming a fine lady in the eyes of high society, nor did she worry about revenge from her enemies—she was so formidable, who could defeat her?
She was reminded again of her friends’ warm inquiries, her memory vague as though returning to the day she jumped into the sea.
The seawater was really cold.
When she was swept away, she only wished to die a bit faster.
But a figure swam desperately towards her, holding on to her hand tightly in the surging sea, unwilling to let go even half-drowned, stubbornly dragging her towards the shore.
Jiang Nanshu saw Lu Qingyan cry so helplessly for the first time, even more than when he was betrayed.
He kept shaking her, giving her cold body mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, and it seemed like he was saying something.
Jiang Nanshu couldn’t hear clearly, only his choked sobs.
She had thought that even if she died, Lu Qingyan wouldn’t spare her a glance.
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