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The temperatures beca cool and chilly. Thus, all the male students in the Institute began wearing quilt jackets while the female students were dressed in colorful leggings, winter dresses, and heeled boots.
Wen Xinya took a stroll along the sidewalk of the Institute. She took a deep breath and allowed the chilly wind to fill her lungs, making her feel cool and refreshed.
“Wen Xinya!” Shen ngting yelled in a shrilling voice, seething with exasperation and resentnt. She sounded just as cold as the weather.
Wen Xinya stopped in her tracks and turned around slowly to see that Shen ngting was standing at a short distance away from her, appearing horribly gaunt and emaciated. Her sunken eye sockets and hollowed cheeks made her eyes appear even larger than they already were. Her fair and porcelain skin had beco jaundiced, and her hair was hoarse and brittle. Wen Xinya almost could not recognize her.
Staring at Shen ngting with raised brows, Wen Xinya wondered to herself, Why is she here?
Shen ngting had already been expelled from the Institute and was on the blacklist. Given how tight the security was at the entrance, how did she even manage to sneak in?
“You’ve already been expelled. How did you sneak into the school compound?” Wen Xinya asked, taking a step back, knowing that Shen ngting must have had a reason for sneaking into the Institute to look for her. She was afraid that Shen ngting might have gone through so emotional trauma and beco deranged to the extent of committing terrifying acts of violence. She also did not rule out the possibility of Shen ngting being manipulated by Ning Shuqian, who might have instigated her to harm Wen Xinya.
“You don’t need to know how I managed to sneak in. I ca here especially to look for you.” Shen ngting screeched, glaring at her maniacally.
“To look for ?” Wen Xinya scoffed with raised brows and a cold smirk.
Overwheld with resentnt, Shen ngting glared at Wen Xinya and said, “Wen Xinya, do you know why I’ve beco like this? I was sent to the police station and put behind bars for more than half a month. I faced cunning and intimidating policen every single day. They were just like devils who continuously interrogated and forbade from eating or drinking whenever I refused to comply. They even locked up in a freezing, air-conditioned room.
Wen Xinya guffawed sarcastically. She thought that Shen ngting should really count her blessings that the police did not subject her to physical torture in order to force her to own up to her cris. Several nations were relentless and cruel when punishing drug addicts like her.
Greatly angered by Wen Xinya’s insensitive laughter, Shen ngting hollered. “Wen Xinya, this is all your fault. If it weren’t because of you, I wouldn’t have ended up in such a pathetic plight. Did you know that the police sent for rehab in a remote village just to kick my slight drug addiction? I was locked up together with other drug addicts. They were all a bunch of lunatics, lunatics...” She then covered her ears with her hands and began shrieking while shaking her head, clearly reminded of a traumatic experience.
“What has your drug addiction have to do with ? Was I the one who got you hooked onto the drugs? You were clearly the one who tried to get addicted, but your plan backfired and you ended up getting addicted to drugs instead. How dare you have the cheek to accuse when you’re the one at fault. Who sent you here? Was it Ning Shuqian?” Wen Xinya questioned sternly. No wonder Shen ngting would end up in such a state. Turns out she had been sent to rehab. Although Wen Xinya had never been to rehab, she could imagine how harsh the conditions were.
Every single day during rehab, Shen ngting had to face emaciated drug addicts who were just skin and bones and behaved like zombies. Although they were still alive, they were only physically living. In order to curb their addiction, they smashed things onto the ground, self-hard, inflicted pain onto others, and even resorted to having sex with each other in order to curb the withdrawal symptoms. They did not care about the gender, age, and consent of the subjects they had chosen.
Shen ngting flew into a rage. Glaring at her with bloodshot eyes, she quipped. “Wen Xinya, you cruel and cold-blooded bitch. How could you bring yourself to say those things to when I’m already in such a sorry state? You’re inhumane!”
Wen Xinya could already tell that Shen ngting was no longer in the right state of mind. Thus, she kept her guard up against her and said, “What’s the point of shifting the bla to ? Was I the one who landed you in this predicant? You’re so ridiculous it’s almost amusing. There wasn’t any no feud between us at all. If you didn’t agree to help Ning Shuqian and plot against , none of those would have happened to you. This is life. You’re bound to receive bad karma for the misdeeds that you’ve done, and accumulate good rit for the kind deeds you’ve done. Everyone has to pay the price for their actions.”
Shen ngting pressed her hands against her head and shook it hysterically. She yelled at the top of her lungs, “It’s you, it’s you, you were the one who caused all the harm. I could have gone abroad to further my education and return ho with glorious achievents. I had a bright and promising future, and I was the subject of envy to many others. I could have had the chance to earn lots of money and send my mother for better dical treatnt. Yet, because of you... my dreams were shattered and there’s no turning back for now... I hate you... I hate you...”
“Were those the privileges that Ning Shuqian promised to reward you with, should you succeed in harming ? I can only say that you brought all of these upon yourself, all because of your greed,” said Wen Xinya, who felt zero sympathy for Shen ngting at all. After all, Shen ngting was the one who resorted to unscrupulous ans to get what she wanted. Thus, she deserved the retribution she got.
Shen ngting stumbled forward and covered her ears while screaming and murmuring, “No, no... Wen Xinya, you were the one who hard . It was you...”
Wen Xinya gibed. “Ning Shuqian gave you so many benefits. She gave you the chance to study in Lanfeng and even sent your mother to the best sanatorium. Given her power and wealth, she could have saved you from imprisonnt, but why didn’t she do that? Why didn’t she intervene to stop you from being sent to rehab? There are lots of drug rehab centers in the city that have better conditions than the one that you were sent to. She could have saved you from those nightmares by spending a little bit more money.”
Shen ngting barked. “Wen Xinya, you shaless wretch. I forbid you from badmouthing Aunt Ning! If you’re trying to sow seeds of discord between and Aunt Ning, you can forget about it. I won’t believe you. Aunt Ning treats very well. Apart from my mother, she’s the person who’s the nicest to ...”
Wen Xinya glanced at her calmly before turning around to walk away. She had already expected Shen ngting to react that way. After all, the fact that Ning Shuqian had decided to instigate Shen ngting to look her up in school just went to show that she was confident of manipulating Shen ngting.
“No...” Shen ngting scread and charged towards Wen Xinya’s back.
She stabbed the cold, sharp knife into Wen Xinya’s back.
At the instant that she did, the knife was prevented from digging into Wen Xinya’s flesh by the fabric of her clothing. Wen Xinya then bent backward at a seventy-degree angle and stabbed her pink fingernails into Shen ngting’s bony neck.
The fruit knife dangled on her back. It was an inch away from being fatal.
Wen Xinya then turned around swiftly and kicked the hand that Shen ngting was holding the knife in.
“Ah...” The knife flew out of Shen ngting’s hand while she collapsed onto the ground.
Wen Xinya walked towards her slowly and stared at her from above. “Shen ngting, everything that happened to you has nothing to do with . You ended up like this because of Ning Shuqian...”
She then strutted away.
Wen Xinya did not call the police nor inford the security guards. She saw it as the last ti she would show rcy to Shen ngting, as a form of payback for the ti that she had shielded her from the hot soup.
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