NOVEL NEXT 2: Huff~
Pain is a memory deeply etched into one’s bones, and Bai Ling’s memories of the past ten years remained fresh.
The whole family went on a vacation but encountered a calamity. Overnight, only she remained of the Bai family. After half a year of wandering, she finally returned to the city, only to find that the family assets had been seized. She had no choice but to seek refuge with distant relatives, living under others’ roofs.
Originally planning to endure this silently, she unexpectedly received a gift of spiritual energy, awakening the power of the “Mind” foundation. She decided to investigate the truth behind the incident, but this also brought mortal danger.
During those years, Bai Ling faced multiple assassination attempts, both natural methods like car accidents, poisoning, and shootings, as well as attacks from spiritual energy wielders.
Although she survived, one assassination attempt left her with a severed index finger and nerve damage to her middle finger, rendering it useless.
After surviving the series of assassination attempts, Bai Ling finally gained some strength. She gathered some companions, growing stronger while continuing to seek the truth.
As her strength increased day by day and clues gradually approached the truth, everything seemed to be improving.
At that time, Bai Ling felt that her miserable life had finally taken a turn for the better, until that day when she was walking side by side with her most trusted companion… a gentle girl who plunged a small knife into her lower back.
This was followed by falling into an ambush of numerous spiritual energy wielders.
It was a trap.
She would forever remember the girl she trusted most standing beside her enemy, looking at her with a fawning expression, her gaze like looking at a dead person.
“Remnant of the Bai family, we spared your miserable life back then, but instead of being grateful and living quietly, you came here to seek death. Today, I’ll grant your wish.”
“You probably never imagined that even your most trusted companion was nothing more than our dog. How did you think you could fight against us?”
“Hahahahahahaha.”
Ahhhhh!!!
Bai Ling went berserk, fighting the enemy with her severely injured body. The ten-mile stretch of river in Tianhai City was dyed red because of it.
But a few days later, she finally succumbed to exhaustion, collapsing by the riverside, dying from excessive blood loss.
Was everything going to end like this?
At the moment of closing her eyes, Bai Ling thought so, but when she opened her eyes again, she found herself back ten years ago, just starting to live under others’ roofs.
Yes, she had been reborn.
With memories of her past life, the fifth-level strength she had before death, and the deepest anger and hatred for this world, she returned from hell.
Standing on the river embankment, gazing at the river under the night sky, the rippling water surface reflected the moonlight, appearing especially pure, as if it had never swallowed the blood of those who died unjustly.
The white-haired girl curled her lips, revealing an eerie smile.
There were too many names on the list, where should she start her revenge? Ah, right, let’s start with these so-called distant relatives.
This family was also one of the beneficiaries of the Bai family’s downfall, receiving part of the family assets, and had also provided assistance to those who tried to assassinate her.
However, at this moment, Bai Ling saw a blonde, busty girl holding a box of strawberries, swaying as she walked back.
It’s her.
The young lady of the Yuan family, Yuan Xiaoning, beautiful and shapely, pursued by many in her past life, including even Bai Ling’s enemies.
Whether her past enemy succeeded in pursuing this young girl or not was no longer important, because Bai Ling herself had a score to settle with Yuan Xiaoning.
As a pampered rich young lady, Yuan Xiaoning looked down on her as a fallen noble, taking pleasure in mocking her. Although she didn’t have the power to harm her directly, every time Bai Ling suffered, she was always the first to kick her when she was down.
“Oh my, Bai Ling, you’ve even lost your fingers. What will you do in the future?”
“Guess a riddle, why is Bai Ling the most polite person in school? Because she can’t give anyone the middle finger, hahaha.”
“What kind of person has no mother, no father, and no fingers?”
“Eh, now you don’t even have a kidney? Well, it’s fine, you don’t have fingers anyway, so you won’t need it.”
Even when she was dying by the riverside, Yuan Xiaoning, who happened to pass by, came over.
“Wow~ Bai Ling, you’re bleeding so much.”
“You’re so generous, why don’t you let me dip some bread in your blood?”
“Never mind, respect for the dead. In a few days, I’ll burn some paper hands for you. You had no use for hands while alive, might as well make up for it a bit in the afterlife.”
“Remember to come back on the seventh day after death to collect them.”
There was no need to wait for the seventh day. The day after her death, Bai Ling returned to the human world ten years ago, captured Yuan Xiaoning as she passed by, and threw her into an empty house, tying her up.
With the power of the fifth-level Mind foundation, capturing a person was easier than catching a chicken.
Crackle, crackle.
The flames roared, and by the light of the fire, Bai Ling finally saw fear on that cute little face.
Not enough!
“You know, pain and wounds are different,” Bai Ling gently caressed Yuan Xiaoning’s face, “Wounds heal, they’re erased by time, but pain is engraved in the memory of nerves. In the future, when encountering similar situations, one instinctively avoids and fears.”
“Just like hatred, it doesn’t fade with time, it only grows deeper!”
She looked at Yuan Xiaoning’s eyes, unfocused from fear, and whispered softly: “Now, choose a method of pain.”
In fact, Yuan Xiaoning wasn’t stunned by fear, but shocked by the system’s instructions.
‘Hey, hey, can’t you see the situation now? You want me to humiliate her?’
[I see it, but the contract has been made, these are the rules.]
The system seemed helpless as well.
Yuan Xiaoning’s small mouth turned down.
‘I’m sorry, I can’t do it.’
[According to the rules, if you don’t comply with the contract, what was given to you will be taken back,] the system said flatly, [I will take you back to the car accident scene and then leave. Opening the spatial channel in reverse…]
‘Ah, no, no, no, let me think of a way, thinking of a way is fine, right?’
Having barely persuaded the system to stop, Yuan Xiaoning was crying bitter tears inside. Given the current situation, how could she humiliate the protagonist? She didn’t have that ability at all.
“What’s wrong, can’t choose?” Bai Ling’s crimson eyes blinked, “Then I’ll use them all.”
Saying this, she extended the red-hot iron rod.
“No, no, no, I choose the other one, the other one!” Yuan Xiaoning said in panic.
Forget about humiliation, let’s just get through this first.
Bai Ling clicked her tongue softly, seemingly a bit disappointed. With a clang, the iron rod was casually thrown aside, sparks flying.
Then, the girl extended her fingers, examining them closely in the firelight.
At this time, having just returned from fleeing, after half a year of running, not eating enough every day, her already slender body appeared even more frail, and her fingers naturally were thin and small.
But in Bai Ling’s eyes, they were ten thousand times more precious than the most expensive jade.
Intact hands, belonging to me…
On the other side, Yuan Xiaoning was also observing this thing—hmm, just looking at it, it seemed very delicate, so fragile.
That shouldn’t hurt, right?
“Huff~” The blonde, busty girl sighed in relief.
The smile on Bai Ling’s face disappeared.
The sigh was very soft, but in the small, quiet room, it was very obvious, not to mention to a spiritual energy wielder with enhanced senses.
[Ding dong, congratulations to the host for completing the novice task, humiliating the protagonist once (1/1), settlement will be carried out shortly.]