The Woman in the Corridor

At 23:50, I received a text message from my roommate:

[Xiaoye! Can you come to the bathroom and pick me up now? There’s someone parked outside my cubicle.]

The dormitory corridor has been unsafe recently. I was about to turn off my phone and pretend to sleep, but she suddenly called me via video…

This reminds me of a post I just came across:

[On the third floor of Building B, the girls’ dormitory, after the lights are turned off at 11:30, a woman with a rotten face will walk in the corridor holding a rope.]

A few days ago, a post appeared below saying that she was going to meet the woman made up by the poster. The poster updated the post every day. Two days ago, she said she seemed to have seen that person.

The time was also 23:50, and from that moment on, this floor had never been updated.

My hairs stood on end.

The third floor of Building B is where I live.

Our dormitory is at the easternmost end of the corridor, next to a laundry room, and the toilet is at the westernmost end of the corridor.

That is to say, if I want to go out, I must cross the entire corridor.

The corridor is winding and complex in structure, and I feel scared just thinking about where the woman with a rotten face holding a rope would be hiding.

I can only pray desperately that this post is a prank by a bunch of bored people.

[Xiao Ye! Please come and pick me up soon. My legs are numb from squatting and I dare not go out. That person has been standing outside without moving. I don’t know what to do. I am really scared to death.]

Jia Xun was still urging him desperately.

In the darkness, the white light from the phone screen hurt my eyes. I clutched the phone, wondering whether I should pretend to be asleep.

It was summer vacation, and most of the students in the building had gone home. My two roommates also went out traveling with their boyfriends, leaving only Jia Xun and I in the dormitory.

The entire dormitory building has no electricity after 11 o’clock at night. Even if I feel like peeing, I will choose to hold it in instead of going there in fear.

I asked myself if I was a kind-hearted person. Jia Xun and I were just two thin and ordinary female college students. If the person standing outside her cubicle was really a bad guy, then if I went over there now, I would just be saving another life.

Damn it, Jia Xun couldn’t just pretend to call someone and go out, instead of asking me to pick her up. I’m obviously even more timid than her.

Recently is the critical moment for competing for a place in graduate school. If I reject her directly, and she goes out and says that I have a bad character, it will definitely affect my image in the eyes of my teachers.

I made up my mind to pretend to be asleep and pressed the power off button, but the next second, Jia Xun called me via video.

My finger pressed down accidentally, and my heart sank the moment the video was connected.

With the light coming in from the toilet window, I saw Jia Xun trembling all over. She desperately covered her mouth with her fingers to signal me not to make a sound, and then turned the camera of her mobile phone.

A pair of very dirty women’s sneakers was standing outside. The person was standing outside quietly, not knowing what he was waiting for.

In the dead silence, the chirping of insects at night is particularly creepy.

Suddenly, the shoes took two steps back.

A few strands of hair fell down, and then a face with unrecognizable features suddenly appeared in the camera.

The woman was clinging to the ground, looking inside.

I immediately covered my mouth to prevent myself from screaming.

The rotten-faced girl, I am sure she is the weird rotten-faced girl mentioned in that post!

For some reason, Jia Xun didn’t realize what was happening. When I mustered up the courage to look at the camera again to remind her, the shoes outside the door had disappeared.

Then I heard the sound of a door opening in the compartment next to me, and the woman seemed to have gone in.

I breathed a sigh of relief and was about to remind Jia Xun that he could take the opportunity to quickly open the door and escape when I suddenly realized something was wrong.

There are two rows of squat toilets in the toilet. The one on the north side that can be illuminated by the moonlight is two cubicles in this row. Jia Xun is in one of them, and in the other cubicle is an abandoned toilet that has long been used to store tools.

Why should women go in there.

I thought of something and my face suddenly turned pale.

The only explanation is that she wanted to stand on it, and then…

“ah!”

Jia Xun suddenly screamed, and the screen showed a black shadow swooping down from the sky. She bumped into the door and her cell phone fell to the ground.

I listened in horror to the crazy biting sounds coming from the other end of the phone. Jia Xun was banging on the door desperately, and I heard her shrill cries gradually disappear.

Guilt and panic made my heart feel like it was being rubbed by a pair of big hands.

The next second, a pair of blood-stained hands picked up the phone from the ground.

The woman with the rotten face still had a few strands of hair hanging from the corners of her mouth, and she gave me a scary smile.

I could tell she was lip-syncing to me:

“I came to see you.”

The video call was hung up.

In the empty corridor, there was a creaking sound of an old wooden door being pushed open.

I immediately got out of bed and tried to escape, but it was too late. I heard quick footsteps in the corridor. The footsteps pounded on my heart. I immediately locked the door and prayed fearfully that she didn’t know which dormitory I was in.

Soon, the noise in the corridor disappeared.

Everything fell silent, as if nothing had happened.

I put my ear to the door, trying to hear the sounds outside.

The next second, suddenly, there was a loud “bang” and the dormitory door was hit hard by someone. It turned out that the person had been standing outside the door!

The sound scared me, and just as I was trembling and wanted to call the police, I heard the window being pushed open from the balcony.

I watched helplessly as the woman climbed in from the window using her hands and feet.

At the moment of death, what I saw was the woman’s eyes rolled back like mothballs.

23:40.

The sound of the door closing woke me up.

My neck still hurt badly, and the feeling of being sucked and bitten was still there. I stared blankly at a familiar figure that flashed by.

“Jia Xun!”

I immediately sat up and shouted, and I heard her response from the corridor:

“Why are you yelling? You scared me. I’m going to go to the toilet and you continue to sleep.”

I was stunned, and then I started breathing heavily.

Was everything that just happened just a nightmare?

This dream was too real.

But fortunately it was just a dream, fortunately it was just a dream.

I patted my chest hard to calm myself down, and opened Tik Tok to watch videos to dispel my fear.

At 23:50, just when I was enjoying watching videos, a message popped up on WeChat, which made me feel like I was falling into an abyss.

[Xiaoye! Can you come to the bathroom and pick me up now? There is a person parked outside my cubicle. ]

Extreme panic struck me, and I couldn’t even tell whether I had just had a dream or I was already dead. Just when my limbs were stiff and I didn’t know what to do, Jia Xun quickly sent me a second message:

[Xiao Ye! Please come and pick me up soon. My legs are numb from squatting and I dare not go out. That person has been standing outside without moving. I don’t know what to do. I am really scared to death.]

Every word was engraved in my eyes. My feelings were so real that I immediately called the police and told them the current situation and begged them to come as soon as possible. At the same time, I jumped out of bed nervously without even wearing shoes.

Yes, I want to escape.

Jia Xun, I’m sorry, neither you nor I are a match for that woman. I have done everything I could. Now I just want to save my life. Please understand me.

My breathing was heavy and I opened the door tremblingly and walked into the corridor. If I was halfway there, I would see the stairs, and then I would be saved.

I walked on the ground very lightly, afraid to disturb the woman, but before I took two steps, the phone screen lit up.

It was a video call from Jia Xun.

I suddenly realized that this time the process was faster than the previous one. Soon, the video call hung up by itself. I heard with horror that the old wooden door of the toilet was opened with a “creak”.

My legs immediately went limp, and my instinct for survival made me rush forward madly regardless of the noise. I screamed so loudly that I almost rolled and crawled, and tears came out of my eyes.

On the other side of the corridor, a figure rushed out from the darkness. Her speed was several times faster than mine. I heard a woman’s strange and sinister laugh gradually approaching.

Just as my hand was about to touch the stair handle, someone grabbed my hair tightly.

Two fingers were thrust directly into my eyes.

…

I woke up again at 22:00.

Jia Xun hasn’t returned to the dormitory yet and no one knows where he is.

At this moment, I suddenly realized that I seemed to have entered a cycle.

Time is always moving forward. Every time after Jia Xun dies, I will be the next victim. But I am innocent. The cycle is the chance God gives me to escape.

I immediately called Jia Xun, and after the call was connected I told her everything as quickly as possible. As I expected, Jia Xun didn’t take it seriously and thought I was playing a prank.

“…I knew you wouldn’t believe it,” I said while packing my things and talking to her on the phone, “Then don’t blame me for not reminding you. Tonight at 23:50, no matter how urgent it is, don’t go to the bathroom. I won’t be returning to the dormitory, so be careful.”

I packed my things and took a taxi to the busiest street in the city center, then gritted my teeth and checked into a somewhat expensive hotel.

I told the front desk in advance that I hoped they would knock on my door on time at 23:50, as something might happen to me tonight.

After checking in, I checked the room carefully again and locked the doors and windows. I thought I was finally safe.

I encouraged myself, hoping I could get through tonight and break the cycle.

At 23:30, Jia Xun asked me where I was. I answered truthfully and asked her if she wanted to come with me, but she didn’t respond.

I turned off the lights and lay down on the bed, only to find that there was an oil painting hanging on the wall next to the bed. It was a woman’s back.

It was worth the money I spent.

At 23:40, I made a video call to Jia Xun. She seemed to be fine. She was lying on the bed eating snacks. I felt relieved.

However, only two minutes later, Jia Xun suddenly sent a WeChat message:

【Xiaoye, I’m sorry. 】

My pupils shuddered. I asked her again but she didn’t respond. She didn’t answer my calls either. It was not until 23:45 that Jia Xun finally answered my call.

“Jia Xun, what on earth are you doing? What’s wrong? Did you see that woman?”

“I’m sorry, Xiaoye, I, I…” Jia Xun stammered, his voice choked with sobs.

“Hurry up and tell me!” I was so anxious, “It’s okay, just tell me, I warned you a long time ago but you didn’t listen, tell me quickly, if there is any danger, I will be prepared in advance!”

“Hahaha, I was just kidding!” Jia Xun suddenly laughed, “Just now the monitor came to check the dorms, and I helped you get away with it.”

“……ill.”

My heart just sank, but then someone knocked on my door.

“Hello ma’am, I’m here to deliver the midnight snack.”

I said in a stiff voice, “No, thank you.”

There was no sound from the person outside the door.

My intuition told me that she didn’t leave.

“Jia Xun,” I said in a low voice, “Didn’t you go to the bathroom tonight? Didn’t you see the woman I was talking about?”

“I went to the bathroom, but I didn’t see anything.”

Jia Xun seemed to be eating something, and his voice sounded a little vague: “In order to avoid the time you mentioned, I went to the bathroom early at 11:30. I was so scared by you that I forgot to bring my phone. When I came back, I found the door of the dormitory open. I thought a thief had come in. I was shocked.”

“…”

Half past eleven.

I looked at the information on the WeChat interface and my heart sank.

Jia Xun didn’t have his cell phone with him at that time, so who was the person who sent me a message asking me where I was?

“Xiao Ye, are you still listening? I feel like you’ve been studying too hard lately and you’ve taken your dreams for granted. We modern college students must believe in materialism and not be so superstitious…”

I listened to Jia Xun’s words in a daze, feeling a chill on my back.

Because I discovered something even more terrifying.

There is a window on the wall next to the bed.

At this moment, I was looking at the night view of the city in fear, and the back of the woman who had just appeared had disappeared.

until–

A “beep” sound was heard.

The door was opened.

In the dark corridor, the woman stood at the door, her half-rotten face giving me a terrifying smile.

She pinched a thick rope and closed the door.

…

The moment I closed my eyes, I heard the voice of the front desk coming from outside the door.

It’s a pity it’s too late.

When I woke up again, the time was a full week earlier.

I suddenly realized that it was not me who died because of Jia Xun, but that from the very beginning, I was the one targeted by that woman.

No matter where I hide, she will find me. Jia Xun is just an unlucky person who was implicated by me the first two times.

I was extremely terrified and decided to take advantage of this week to tell my roommates about this incident, hoping that we could work together to catch the murderer.

But no matter how hard I tried to recount those three experiences, no one believed me.

After all, no one had ever met that woman when they got up at night, so they all thought this was ridiculous. Some even suspected that I had mental problems and wanted to report it to the teacher.

I am speechless.

I suddenly remembered that post. The poster must know something. If nothing unexpected happens, she also lives on our floor. She will definitely believe me!

I confidently bet with my classmates that I had evidence, but unfortunately something happened. No matter how hard I searched, I couldn’t find the post.

It seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, leaving no trace on the Internet.

Now it’s completely over. Everyone will think I’m a lunatic and no one will believe me. I’m doomed.

That night, just as I was slumped on the bed in despair, Jia Xun came back all wet.

“Oh my god, it’s raining outside?” I sat up suddenly and found that Jia Xun had sent me many messages on WeChat half an hour ago.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t see the message you sent me. I’m so sorry that you got wet!” I hurriedly apologized. Jia Xun’s face looked a little ugly, but she didn’t say anything and waved to me.

I felt guilty and was afraid that she would be angry, so I made her a cup of brown sugar ginger tea. After Jia Xun drank it, her face looked a little better. She said to me in shock:

“You know, something happened in our school!”

“What?” I immediately thought of the story of the girl with the rotten face.

“Ahem, it’s not what you think,” Jia Xun saw what I meant, she leaned over and whispered, “Do you know why you can’t search for the post you mentioned? Because a girl in our school was raped! The school launched a clean-up operation to block the news, and deleted many previous posts at the same time, so it’s normal that you can’t find it.”

I shuddered.

“Rape… violence?”

“Yes.” I don’t know if it’s because Jia Xun is too close to me, but the chandelier above her head makes her face look pale and her eyes look a little scary. “She was dragged into the woods by a drunk migrant worker and raped. What’s more unfortunate is that she could have been rescued. There were people passing by at the time, but somehow, no one of them heard the noise and went to take a look. Then she…”

“That’s tragic,” I sighed.

“Yes,” Jia Xun said, “the worst is yet to come. The girl hanged herself after returning home. In order to suppress the news, the school allowed the other three people in her dormitory to be admitted to graduate school. Tsk, they are taking advantage of their roommates.”

After saying that, Jia Xun went to take a shower. I stood there in a daze for a long time before I came to my senses.

It’s such a pity that a young girl died innocently like this.

Life is so fragile and death is so close to us.

But now I have no time to sigh and regret, because in another week I will face the same ending.

But Jia Xun’s words just now woke me up. Since the post has been deleted, I will post a new one based on my memory. As long as public opinion is created, there will always be people who believe what I say.

That night, I took out the small account I had registered for a few years and logged into the school forum.

As soon as this post was published, it was pushed up by many people, but unfortunately everyone treated it as a story like a novel, and few people took it as true. Most of the comments below were:

[It’s so magical, but it’s fun.]

【Exciting, looking forward to the update. 】

[I am squatting in the toilet now, come on, keep writing. ]

…

Maybe because of this, the school did not delete my post again. Even though no one still believed me, I did not give up because I remembered that a brave “explorer” would appear in another day.

And she would insist on updating every day until she was killed.

Sure enough, the next day, a new account named “Koutunshi” appeared. She said that since the poster insisted that the incident was true, she would verify it personally and expose the poster’s scam.

In order to avoid being accused of being a hired assassin, I placed a mobile phone in the corridor on the night she was going to meet the girl with a rotten face, and adjusted the angle in advance so that I could see the entire corridor in real time.

At 23:30, a girl in hooded pajamas appeared in the corridor.

Her figure looked familiar to me, but because her face was covered by the hat, I couldn’t tell who she was.

All I know is that in twenty minutes she will face the most terrifying moment in her life, and all this is caused by me, so I will do my best to save her.

The tension and fear left me no time to think about anything else. I called
110 in advance. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, this time I did not tell the police about the loop I was in. I just told them to be prepared because in twenty minutes, the lives of a girl and I would be in danger.

At 23:45, the policeman called and asked me if there was anything unusual. I held the phone in a daze, not knowing how to answer.

According to the original development of events, the woman with the rotten face should have appeared soon. She should at least have appeared in the corridor and lurking in some corner. But why didn’t we notice anything?

“Koutunshi” was even leaning against the wall and yawning. She was talking on the phone and looked like she was getting ready to leave.

Did my intervention change the original timeline of events?

I tightly gripped my phone, and could already imagine what I would experience tomorrow. I was afraid that I would experience another round of cyberbullying before I died.

Time passed by minute by minute, and there was nothing unusual in the corridor. “Koutunshi” was already preparing to leave. I apologized to the police officer weakly and had just hung up the phone when suddenly, the screen in front of me went black.

As if it was intentionally blocked by something, I heard a girl’s voice from the other end: “Who are you?”

I screamed that something was wrong and instinctively rushed out of the dormitory door. But to my shock, the corridor was empty and there was no one.

I went to check my mobile phone which was placed in the corner in surprise. I didn’t know if it was because I was too nervous, but every step I took I felt someone following me, but it was clearly my only shadow on the ground.

I endured the discomfort and walked to the corner, only to find that my phone had simply turned off due to low battery.

But when I turned it on, the screen did not light up as usual, but a line of red font slowly appeared:

【Don’t look up.】

A cold hand suddenly pressed on my shoulder.

I instinctively raised my face and found the rotten-faced woman hanging from the ceiling.

The rope in her hand was tightly around my neck.

At the moment of my death, a bolt of lightning struck in from the window, and I was horrified to see a row of bloody footprints on the ground extending to the corner.

This is the fifth time I woke up.

This time we arrived in advance, the day before the holiday, and my roommates were still in the dormitory.

I felt mixed emotions as I watched everyone excitedly packing their luggage and discussing where to go for the holiday.

“Hey Xiaoye, where are you going on vacation?”

Liu Shan suddenly asked me.

I said weakly, “My parents are too busy with work to care about my life or death, so I’ll just stay in the dormitory and not go back.”

“That won’t work. It’ll be so boring living alone in the dormitory. Why don’t you come out and play with us?” said another roommate, Zhao Nana.

I glanced at Jia Xun who was reading a book nearby and seemed to have heard nothing. I slowly closed my legs and said, “I am not alone. Jia Xun always stays in the dormitory during holidays. How can I be bored when she is around?”

“Her family is so poor that they can’t even afford a train ticket. Where else can she go if not staying in the dormitory and using the water and electricity for free?” Liu Shan said sarcastically, throwing her clothes into the suitcase in annoyance.

“Yeah,” Zhao Nana sneered, “We still have so much money in our card, how could she let it go? A country bumpkin can’t find a boyfriend, so she’s only fit to stay in the dormitory. Xiaoye, you’re so beautiful, how can you be like her? Hurry up and find a boy and bring him back to show us, hahaha.”

“Oh, stop talking.” I felt very upset. Although Jia Xun was still concentrating on reading as if she didn’t hear anything, I knew that the two people’s voices were not small. Jia Xun’s straight back trembled slightly, which obviously exposed the fact that she had heard everything.

But what could I say? I could only hand Jia Xun a bag of snacks to tell her not to be angry when they went out to eat. Jia Xun smiled at me reluctantly.

“They always say rude things to me, too. Don’t take it to heart.”

Jia Xun hummed, “I know. My family is from the countryside. They looked down on me from the beginning.”

She turned her head away, holding the bag of potato chips, and I saw her shoulders twitching slightly.

Yes, from the first night of school, when Jia Xun took out a very simple vanishing cream, the smiles that Zhao Nana and Liu Shan had for her gradually disappeared.

When making the bed, Jia Xun’s bedding was a little black and worn. Liu Shan lived in the bed next to her and told her with a look of disgust not to cross the line.

The next day, we went out to eat hotpot together in our dormitory. When it was time to pay, Jia Xun looked at the total amount of more than 200 yuan with his eyes wide open and didn’t say anything for a long time. At that time, Zhao Nana was very impatient.

Jia Xun usually eats just a steamed bun and some shredded potatoes in the cafeteria, so Zhao Nana and Liu Shan both feel it is embarrassing to sit opposite her. Jia Xun’s clothes and pants are all outdated or made by her mother, so she often attracts jokes and behind-the-back criticism from the two of them.

What’s even worse is that Zhao Nana and Liu Shan exaggerated how unclean and unhygienic Jia Xun was, and even mobilized other students to isolate her…

Maybe it’s because a dying man speaks kind words. I used to be an indifferent bystander, but now that I’m about to die, I’ve finally softened my heart.

I gave Jia Xun all the snacks I had been hoarding for a long time, and also gave her a skirt that I was wearing but couldn’t bear to cut the tag off.

Facing Jia Xun’s confusion, I sighed and said, “Take it. I don’t need it anyway. It looks better on you, really.”

To be honest, Jia Xun is the prettiest among us, and before Zhao Nana and Liu Shan spread rumors about her, she was the girl that many boys in the college had a crush on.

Sometimes I wonder, maybe it’s because she is poor but has beauty that most people don’t have that she arouses the jealousy of her roommates.

“Xiaoye…thank you.”

There was a gleam of crystal light in Jia Xun’s eyes.

The next night, Liu Shan and Zhao Nana were about to go home, so they invited me out for dinner. They didn’t plan to invite Jia Xun, who was also tactful enough to leave the dormitory early and go to the library to study.

We ordered a lot of dishes and drank some wine. I never drank alcohol before, but now I was feeling upset, so I also had a few drinks.

On the way back to the dormitory, Liu Shan suddenly felt like vomiting, but there was no toilet nearby, so she staggered into the bushes. I felt dizzy and didn’t follow her. Seeing that she was getting farther and farther away, Zhao Nana became worried and chased after her.

It rained lightly that night and the rain was getting heavier. My classmates on the road were running fast with their books on their heads. I looked at the hurried flow of people and felt a little panicked for some reason.

Thinking of the girl who was raped by Jia Xun in the last loop, I looked into the depths of the grove and seemed to hear screams.

After a long time I didn’t see Zhao Nana and Liu Shan come back. I was about to go over to see them, but I saw them running back with a very nervous look on their faces.

They both seemed to be mostly sober. Even though their steps were still unsteady and their tongues were still talking, their eyes were flustered and clear.

“Xiao Ye, hurry up and go back to the dormitory! The instructor is checking the dormitories!”

“Yes, the instructor is going to check the dormitories, let’s go! Let’s go!”

Liu Shan carried me and was about to leave, Zhao Nana pushed me from behind. I felt like vomiting because of the torment they caused me, but they pushed me hard and wouldn’t let me look back. When we passed the end of the path, I seemed to hear a girl crying in the distance.

Jia Xun didn’t come back that night, and the next day Liu Shan and Zhao Nana left without saying goodbye. When I woke up from my nap, it was already evening. There was no one in the dormitory except Jia Xun, who came back a while later, all wet.

“Oh my god, is it raining outside?” I rubbed my eyes, sat up suddenly, and found that Jia Xun had sent me many messages in succession on WeChat half an hour ago.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t see the message you sent me. I’m so sorry that you got wet!” I hurriedly apologized. Jia Xun’s face looked a little ugly, but she didn’t say anything and waved to me.

Her body seemed a little heavy and she sat down on the chair tiredly. Under the dim desk lamp, I saw that her index finger seemed to be black.

“Well, are you hungry? I have instant noodles, do you want some?” I asked embarrassedly.

Jia Xun turned around and looked at me. She smiled and said, “You gave me a lot of snacks yesterday. Don’t you remember?”

“Yeah… I remember, but snacks won’t fill you up. It’s better to eat something hot when it’s cold.”

I felt a little uncomfortable with her gaze, Jia Xun said slowly: “Yes, it’s better to eat something hot.”

She repeated, “It’s hot.”

“Are you okay?” I looked at her cautiously. “Zhao Nana and Liu Shan have both gone home. We are the only two people in the dormitory now. If you have anything to tell me, what did you do last night?”

Jia Xun did not answer my question, she only said:

“I know. They left.”

A post was exposed in the school forum.

Two blackened female corpses were found in the basement of the library.

They died in tragic ways, as if they had experienced something terrible before they died.

This post was quickly censored and not many people saw it, so it didn’t spark much discussion. Even though I spent the entire day on the forum, I didn’t feel too emotional about it.

Because, at the same time, there is something else that is a matter of life and death for me.

The post about the woman with the rotten face appeared.

The timing is about the same as before. Soon there will be netizens exploring the mystery of “Swallowing Ten in Mouth”, and soon I will also be killed by the woman with a rotten face.

Before this, I struggled helplessly over and over again, felt despair over and over again, but I didn’t give up again and again, wanting to try to survive again.

I knew that maybe I really couldn’t escape, but this time, I suddenly wanted to see that woman with my own eyes and ask her why she wanted to kill me. At least give me a reason and stop letting me cycle in fear endlessly.

I registered a Tieba account.

The name is “Tun Shi”.

I repeated what I remembered the poster doing until 23:30 that night, when I walked out of the dormitory door.

I don’t know why Jia Xun didn’t come back tonight. I sent her a message asking her to stay out tonight to avoid being implicated by me again.

I have made up my mind to seek relief. If I cannot escape the fate of death, I might as well face it calmly and decisively.

At 23:45, the window in the corridor suddenly opened and I smelled a burning smell. Soon, there were messy footsteps coming from downstairs.

It seems that he is not alone.

“Xiaoye, run, run…”

“She won’t let you go. She’s going to kill us all, all of us…”

Two familiar voices sounded from below, but before I could listen carefully, the voices disappeared.

After a moment, I heard someone coming upstairs.

Step by step, heavy and slow, gradually approaching.

There was a faint smell of blood hitting my nose.

My intuition told me that the person who went upstairs this time was that woman.

Unlike what I imagined, at this moment, I didn’t feel panicked or helpless. I just stood there quietly, waiting for her to come.

Time passed minute by minute, until a rope gently climbed up my neck.

The moment she tightened her grip, I caught it.

“Jia Xun, you’re back.”

The person behind him shuddered violently.

“So you remembered it. You knew it was me.”

Her voice was very cold, and I whispered, “No, it was only later that I regained my memory and realized that the woman was yours.”

I slowly held her finger. “Your burnt index finger was caused by killing those two girls in the basement of the library. It must have hurt you when the fire burned your body.”

Jia Xun didn’t say anything.

“I know you were giving me a chance. You didn’t have the heart to attack me right away,” I gently stroked her finger and said softly, “Thank you for keeping me until now. I know you have a lot of resentment and resentment in your heart. I know you died an innocent and tragic death.”

Jia Xun was silent for an unknown amount of time before her trembling voice rang in my ears: “I entered your dream, and I repeated it so many times because I wanted to find the truth. Now I finally know…they are the ones who deserve to die. They all deserve to die!”

“That night, why did they hear my cries for help but didn’t save me? Why did they drag you away so quickly? Why did they let me die in such humiliation…” Her voice sounded close to madness and endless sorrow. “Is it just for those few places in graduate school? Is my life not worth mentioning in your eyes?”

“Yes, I know. You looked down on me from the beginning. My family is poor, I am rustic and cowardly. I deserve to be teased and laughed at like a dog. But do you know that dogs also have hearts? They can feel pain. They can feel everything!”

Jia Xun cried out at the top of her lungs, and I suddenly turned around and hugged her tightly.

“you……”

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” I hugged this rotten body tightly, transferring my body temperature to her. “I’m sorry, it’s my indifference that caused all this, Jia Xun. I have no right to say anything about the harm I caused you in the past, and I have no right to beg for your forgiveness. If you want to kill me, then do it.”

My tears slowly slid down her body. Jia Xun seemed to be stimulated by my tears and trembled violently. She reached out and hugged me.

I felt the rope around my neck again and I closed my eyes.

“Thank you for giving me a quick death and not letting me suffer this torture again.”

But to my surprise, the rope slowly dropped again.

“Xiaoye…”

The person in his arms let out a soft cry.

She held me like that, crying like a child, as if she wanted to cry out for all the grievances she had suffered over the years.

Finally, I only heard her say to me in a very soft voice: “Your potato chips are delicious, and the brown sugar ginger tea is also very warm, thank you.”

The person in my arms gradually softened, and I knew that her resentment had dissipated.

Thank you, Jia Xun, I said silently.

Jia Xun didn’t know that, in fact, in the third cycle, when I saw the woman’s back, I knew who she was.

Because in the beginning, when Jia Xun committed suicide in the toilet, the person hiding in the corner watching everything was also me.

I watched her stand up on the stage in despair, and I watched her thin back swaying.

No one knows how happy I felt at that moment!

From the beginning, I was the one posting.

Swallowing ten in one mouth is also me.

Jia Xun, don’t you want the truth? Okay, then I will let you into my dream.

But everything you see is controlled by me.

Just as I closed my eyes contentedly, a dazzling white light suddenly came from the front.

A diary fell in front of me.

The moment I saw the cover clearly, I almost trembled all over. I rushed over to hold down the diary, but it was too late.

A pair of hands stretched out from nowhere and threw the diary into the air. The pages fell like snowflakes, and my pupils were stung by the words on it.

[September 1, 2017 I am so annoyed. There is such a beautiful roommate in the dormitory. Zhao Nana and Liu Shan seem to like her so much. No, I cannot allow anyone to compete with me for the position of dormitory head.]

[That’s great. I just made up a few lies and Zhao Nana and Liu Shan believed that Jia Xun was a dishonest person. Now they both look at her unkindly. I’m so happy.]

[September 2
Damn, are Zhao Nana and Liu Shan crazy? They want to treat Jia Xun to hotpot together. She is poor and can’t let us pay. I will tell them that Jia Xun just received a 5,000 yuan scholarship. I will make them think that Jia Xun is a mean person who likes to take advantage of others! ]

[October 23 I’ve had enough. The man I’ve had a crush on for so long actually wants to write a love letter to Jia Xun. Why? Does she deserve it?

I must make everyone think that Jia Xun is a dirty and disgusting person, but I can’t say it in my own name. I want to instigate Zhao Nana and Liu Shan to say it…】

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[June 23, 2020 I am so annoyed. I am so close to being admitted to graduate school. What should I do? Jia Xun is so disgusting. She studies every day even though her grades are so good. I really want her to die.]

[June 28
I was so scared, there was a drunkard peeing in the woods, it was so scary, I was so scared that I sent a message to ask Jia Xun to pick me up there, but I didn’t expect her to really go there, and that drunkard seemed to have… Oh my, this is none of my business, who made her so obedient. ]

[June 29
Are Zhao Nana and Liu Shan sick? I kindly pushed them away last night so that all three of us could get into graduate school. Two years ago, a senior student committed suicide by jumping off a building, and her roommate was able to get into graduate school. How could they have such a heart to meddle in other people’s business? Now they have a conscience and want to go to the counselor to explain the situation. Please, are they stupid? ]

[I finally got admitted to graduate school. That matter must become a permanent secret, and no one can know the truth.]

…

…

My ugly and dirty heart was stripped bare and exposed to the dazzling white light. I was so embarrassed that I wanted to grab all the papers and stuff them into my mouth and swallow them so that no one could pry into my dark secrets.

However… a very thick rope hung down.

I recognized it. This is the rope that Jia Xun used to hang himself!

Jia Xun… Oh my god, Jia Xun hasn’t left yet, she was just testing me!!!

“Ye Ye, you have been pretending all along. Even your dreams have been changed by you. What a pity…”

In the hospital, three girls who caused an explosion by using illegal electrical appliances in the dormitory were lying on the hospital beds. One of them looked extremely painful because of an unknown reason.

There were several policemen standing at the door, and a middle-aged man with a red face was arguing with the police until one of them took out a diary.

After the man snatched the book away, he quickly flipped through a few pages and couldn’t raise his head anymore.

Late at night, at 23:50, a doctor said something, and then the family members surrounding the girl’s bed burst into tears.

The other two people showed signs of improvement, but the girl, after experiencing a roller coaster-like cycle, gradually lost her vital signs.

“She’s only 21 years old…” the woman burst into tears.

What they didn’t know was that a week ago at 23:50, a girl about her age also chose to end her life in the toilet with a rope.

That day was also her 21st birthday.