The holiday soon arrived, and Xie Jiashu insisted on buying a plane ticket for Bai Yanning. From City A to City C, Bai Yanning took a 36-hour green train, but the plane only took more than two hours.

At the boarding gate, Xie Jiashu handed her a small bag containing an eye mask, a neck pillow, earplugs, as well as biscuits and candies. He chattered to her, "If you experience tinnitus after takeoff, don't use earplugs. Yawning with your mouth open or chewing gum can relieve it. It's all normal. Don't be nervous. It will be fine after a while."

"If you really feel uncomfortable, just call the stewardess. Don't be embarrassed."

"If you feel sleepy, wear an eye mask and sleep, but remember to bring a blanket, otherwise you will catch a cold."

Bai Yanning found it funny, "You treat me like a child."

She took the bag, rummaged through it, and found a small box of orange-flavored gummy candies. She ate one herself and fed one to Xie Jiashu to stop him from chattering.

This was the last time they met at the convenience store, and he wanted to buy her the candy she refused.

After they were together, Xie Jiashu seemed to have an obsession and especially liked to buy this kind of candy for her.

The screen was broadcasting Bai Yanning's flight number. She stood on tiptoe and gave Xie Jiashu an orange-flavored kiss, "Goodbye, Jiashu."

She smiled happily, "Wait until I come back."

She passed the gate and followed the crowd for a while. She looked back and saw Xie Jiashu still standing in the same place. He was wearing a black plaid scarf and a gray-blue coat. Among the crowd rushing to and fro in the airport hall, he seemed to be the only one in the center of the picture. He stood silently, looking at her intently and waving at her.

She smiled at him across the crowd, turned around and walked out, holding the small bag he gave her.

She would take care of everything, and from then on, their lives would go just as he had envisioned.

At twelve o'clock noon, Bai Yanning arrived in City C.

She called Xie Jiashu to report that she was safe. Instead of going home directly, she wandered around City C for an afternoon and took the last bus to the county town. There were no buses back to the countryside anymore, so she had to take a taxi back.

When she got home, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening.

Bai Wenfeng heard the sound of the suitcase wheels scraping against the uneven stone pavement outside the gate. He immediately put down the wine bottle, stood up with a smile on his face, and opened the door. Sure enough, he saw Bai Yanning standing outside the door.

"You're back," he rubbed his hands, his eyes shining, "where's the money?"

Bai Yanning told him on the phone that he didn't need to wait until the end of the holiday, as she already had 200,000 yuan and would give it to him when she returned today.

City C was much colder than City A. Bai Yanning moved her fingers around the suitcase, and a stream of white air blew out as she spoke, "Let me in first."

Bai Wenfeng immediately moved aside to let her into the house.

He followed her into the room, which was filled with all kinds of junk, and the bed sheets were still the same ones she had made when she left a year ago.

Bai Yanning didn't care. It would be strange if Bai Wenfeng prepared a place for her to sleep and wait for her to come home.

She spread the suitcase on the dusty ground, opened it, took out a bag, unzipped it, and took out a bank card from the safe bag.

Bai Wenfeng immediately reached out to take it, "What's the password?"

Bai Yanning closed the suitcase without even looking up, "Six for one."

"Okay, okay!" Bai Wenfeng left with satisfaction.

It was almost eleven o'clock now, and he had to wait until tomorrow to go to town to get the money.

Bai Yanning looked through the open door at Bai Wenfeng who happily sat at the table and continued drinking, and sneered in his heart.

What a pity, he won't live to see tomorrow.

At half past twelve, Bai Yanning, wearing a thick mask, walked to Bai Wenfeng, who was drunk and asleep, and covered his mouth and nose tightly with a handkerchief soaked in ether.

There was also a bundle of strong and thick hemp rope on the ground, which she had originally planned to use to tie up Bai Wenfeng later.

She covered her hands with a handkerchief, and her left wrist was tingling from the posture. The broken ends of her bone were not properly aligned, and she often felt pain and numbness due to nerve compression.

In the silent darkness, she suddenly became extremely calm, yet seemed to be filled with boundless madness. She did not let go of her hands for a long time. She thought that the rope seemed unnecessary. If she kept holding him like this, he would die in a few minutes.

Next to it is the kitchen. They still use an earthen stove. There are a lot of hay and firewood piled in the kitchen. When the fire starts, no one will suspect anything.

No one in the village would be suspicious and call the police. She was the only family member. She would organize a few funeral banquets and then go to the police station to cancel the account. Bai Wenfeng would then completely disappear from this world.

She gave a crazy smile, but tears rolled down her cheeks unconsciously. She thought about her plan again in her mind and felt very happy.

A flash of pink-white light quickly cut through the darkness. Bai Yanning felt a pain between his eyebrows, and a heart-wrenching voice echoed in his mind: "Stop! Master! Stop!"

A pink pig with white wings flitted anxiously through her mind, "Stop! Stop! The police are coming soon!"

"...What?" Bai Yanning loosened his hand.

She asked the strange creature that suddenly appeared in her mind: "What are you?"

"I'm not a thing." Seeing her let go, the piglet immediately breathed a sigh of relief. He answered subconsciously but then realized that it was wrong, "No, no, no, how can I not be a thing."

Zhuzhu patiently introduced his identity and origin to her.

"Master, in this world's plot, the male protagonist is Qin Yunchuan, and the female protagonist is Gu Yunzhen. They follow the clichéd tactic of abusing their wives for a momentary pleasure, but then chasing them ends in a funeral procession." Zhu Zhu complained about Siming's lack of literary taste again, and continued, "Master, you are just a small cannon fodder in the plot, mainly serving to exacerbate the male protagonist's dislike for the female protagonist in the early stages."

"Tonight, Aunt Liu from the village and Liu Quezi had an argument over the salty dinner. Aunt Liu took a kitchen knife and slashed Liu Quezi's neck. When her daughter-in-law opened the door and saw him, Liu Quezi was bleeding all over the floor, already dead."

"The Liu family's daughter-in-law called the police. They will be here in a few minutes."

"In the original plot, when the police arrived, they saw flames blazing high into the sky, so they sent most of their forces to put out the fire. Master, you have too many flaws. Bai Wenfeng's body showed no signs of struggle, there's also the surveillance footage of you buying hemp rope and ether in the store, and those text messages Bai Wenfeng sent you. The police only need to do a quick check to confirm that you committed arson and murder."

Bai Yanning sneered, "Aunt Liu has endured it her whole life, why can't she endure it today?"

She looked at Bai Wenfeng, whose chest was rising and falling regularly on the bed, and said, "That Siming really hates me."

Zhu Zhu noticed that she didn't seem to have given up the idea of ​​killing Bai Wenfeng, and hurriedly persuaded her: "Master, based on my experience in the previous world, although the plot is not omnipotent, as long as it randomly creates an accident and attracts the police, you will be in great danger."

Bai Yanning turned her numb and painful left hand, finding a more comfortable position to support it. She asked, "I was convicted of murder, and now what?"

"And then..." Zhu Zhu said reluctantly, "In the plot, Master, you were sentenced to twenty years in prison. But in your third year in prison, you couldn't stand the long-term bullying from your cellmates, so you hit your head against the wall and committed suicide."

"But that's just a plot!" Piglet said excitedly, "Now that I'm here, I will definitely protect my master and prevent him from having a tragic end!"

Bai Yanning stood quietly in the darkness, without moving. She asked, "Where's Xie Jiashu?"

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