She has been trapped in a novel’s world nine times, and each time she dies at the hands of her yandere uncle, Shi Yichuan.
At her engagement ceremony, his scalpel cuts open her chest as he smiles and asks, “Is this heart warm?”
Before she freezes to death in a cold-storage room, he crushes out his cigarette. “How is it that the Xia girl is colder than ice?”
Even as she drowns, he grips her chin. “Can’t swim? You should’ve said so. I’d have taught you.”
When she opens her eyes in the ninth life, Xia Yimo drives the scalpel into the System panel. “This time, I’ll teach him what pain feels like.”
The System drains all her points? Then she’ll snap the nerve prongs of its punishment mechanism and make the current backfire on the program.
Mu Wanning uses a gold chain to recreate her scheme to have Xia Yimo committed to an asylum? Xia Yimo wraps the chain around Mu Wanning’s throat and teaches the white lotus how to choke.
The scars beneath Shi Yichuan’s suit are burning. They were branded by Xia Yimo’s blood in her eighth life. She’s going to rub salt into them and make him taste every ounce of fear she swallowed across nine lifetimes.
A strange ripple stirs in the yandere uncle’s dark eyes. He has wielded death for nine lifetimes, yet he can’t understand the wildfire in her eyes in this one.
The System is panicking because its target has turned against the NPC. Mu Wanning is terrified because the gold chain choking her feels too real. But Xia Yimo understands better than anyone: could Shi Yichuan’s “loss of control” be just another manipulated performance?
She wants to tear apart more than just her “tool character” label. She wants to splash the blood debts of nine lifetimes across his suit.
She’ll make the madman who has always reaped lives taste what it’s like to be hunted.