My whole family is the protagonist, and I am the only cannon fodder!

She was already very familiar with the scenery on these streets. Today a tree was cut down here, tomorrow a new flower patch was planted there, and the day after tomorrow the land was demolished and a skyscraper that could not be seen to the end with the naked eye was built on it. Everyone came and went in a hurry.

Lu had been wandering in such a city for a long time, surrounding this scenery from birth to death, like a trapped ant.

She touched the indigo butterfly earrings on her ears, but her dream was to be a butterfly, a flying bird.

The car stopped in front of the villa area. Lu Zaozao opened the door and walked out. The umbrella was opened in an instant. A few tiny drops of water on it were shaken off and seeped into the asphalt road and disappeared. Lu Zaozao walked towards the residence with the things in one hand and the umbrella in the other.

Seventy times.

Lu recited the number silently in his mind early on, seventy times - actually, less than seventy times, as long as he went back and forth on this road sixty more times, everything would be over, everything would come to an end.

While she was thinking this, a car slowly stopped beside Lu Zaozao. The window was opened, revealing the delicate faces of Lu Aotian and Shen Xingyao. Lu Zaozao was still thinking about something in her mind and was unable to even notice such movements. When the people stood in front of her, she reacted very slowly.

When seeing these two faces, Lu Zao Zao subconsciously pulled the bag in her hand back, but then she came to her senses and felt that there was nothing to hide.

Because she was afraid that Aunt Li would see the medicine in her hand and get worried, Lu had already gone to the mall and bought a cute packaging bag printed with cartoon pictures of cats and dogs. Others had no idea what was in the bag and might think it was a gift or pet supplies.

It has been a long time since they last met. Lu Zao Zao has been a little confused in the past two months. She feels that what happened during the Chinese New Year seemed to be a thing of the past life. She held an umbrella, looked at the two faces in the blurry rain, and blinked lightly.

Water droplets slid down the umbrella, forming a natural protective barrier around Lu Zaozao.

"It's raining hard, get in the car."

Lu Zao Zao glanced at the road ahead and saw the Lu family's yard, which was only a few meters away. She shook her head, said nothing, walked past the two people blocking her way, and walked straight forward.

Nothing unusual happened to Lu Zaozao during this period. She went to school and came home as usual. She stayed in the small western-style building most of the time, occasionally coming out to take care of her flowers and plants. When the weather was good, she would go out for a walk, like some kind of animal that liked sunny days and sunshine.

Moreover, Lu Zaozao didn't seem so thin anymore, and looked better than before when she was as thin as a piece of white paper. Shen Xingyao and Lu Aotian breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. Although there were some unexpected events that caught them off guard, the overall situation was still good.

My child, you are about to turn eighteen, and a fulfilling life is about to begin.

After dinner in the evening, the rain was getting heavier. The original sound of the rain became heavy, and it seemed that every drop of rain hit the ground and leaves with a loud and powerful sound. The sky was so dark that there was not a trace of light, and there was no sign of stopping.

Aunt Li was quite worried. "It has been raining a lot recently. It's even more rainy than last year. I saw the weather forecast says it will rain in the next few days. The flowers in the garden will definitely wither and die again. Their roots will be rotten by the rain."

"After this rainy season is over, I'll plant some seasonal flowers again."

Aunt Li nodded, "I just don't know when this rainy season will end."

The rain stopped for a while around eight or nine o'clock, and then started again a few hours later. It wasn't the kind of rain that started light and then gradually got heavier, but it was a sudden downpour.

A fragile azalea plant in the garden had been crushed, its leaves lying on the ground, stuck in the soil. Everything was blurred in the rain, the lamp in the courtyard emitted a faint light, the night was as dark as ink, and all sounds were well covered in the rain.

Lu Zao Zao stood up from the bathroom floor in a daze, then stumbled out. There was a lingering smell of blood in her nose, thick and sticky. Her hands hung down, and blood dripped onto the floor as she walked.

It could be that the organs in her body were functioning too slowly and she was no longer sensitive to pain, or it could be that her endurance had become stronger year after year and day after day. In any case, Lu had not felt that extreme pain at this time and her brain was no longer clear.

But he also remembered not to fall on the bed or carpet immediately, otherwise the blood would be difficult to clean. Mainly because he was afraid that Aunt Li would see it, Lu sat leaning against the wall early in the morning with his hands hanging on the floor, and the blood flowed slowly.

The curtains were not closed. Lu took a look at the weather outside, but he couldn't see anything clearly. The faint moonlight was completely blocked by the darkness. Raindrops hit the window and flowed down the window. The sky turned into an inverted ocean.

There was only one bedside lamp on in the room. In the dark rainy night, the pale yellow light seemed very dim, as if it would go out at any time.

The pain outside the body was still tolerable for Lu Zaozao, but the pain inside the body made her unbearable. She had a splitting headache, as if her body was about to be torn into countless pieces. She clenched her fists and beat her head hard.

She felt as if the sharp chopsticks in her dream had been inserted into her head again. The blood did not spurt out, but flowed slowly in her body in another way, bringing the same sourness and pain.

Lu Zao Zao was breathing heavily, his chest rising and falling weakly, and he looked like a trapped beast being cruelly tortured by invisible hands.

There were several shadows swaying in front of me, jumping around the window, like the flickering flame of a candle.

It has no face and no organs, but is as tall as a human. It looks like the faceless ghost in movies and TV shows, clinging heavily to the wall, casting a shadow that can completely swallow Lu Zao Zao.

Lu Zao Zao sat weakly on the ground and looked at the heavy ghost shadows. Suddenly, all the voices started talking. It was like the devil's whispering, but it had the power to bewitch people and control their bodies and brains.

She stood up unsteadily and walked to the window - just like she had opened this window countless times in the past in the dark and quiet night, countless times, she opened this window with the same idea in mind.