She Once Lived This Way

Name: She Once Lived This Way
Author: Expired Yeast

她曾这样活着

by Expired Yeast (过期酵母)

Status: Completed
Length: 89k Words
Genre: Modern Romance
Subgenre: Workplace & Marriage
Updated: 5mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

[One female lead + mild thrills + no CP + villainess’s growth + victim fights back]

[Complete, so you can read with confidence. It has not been abandoned.]

[Warning in advance: This story introduces the worldbuilding of a later work, but can still be read as a complete story about real life.]

[Also known as: Cocoon Collapse]

Under the double pressure of a high-stress workplace and malicious harassment by a stranger, graduate Gong Shu’s old psychological trauma resurfaces. Her inner world crumbles, and she ultimately chooses “hunting” as a ritual to violently sever ties with her past self.

This was a long, carefully plotted collapse.

When did it begin?

Was it that late night, meeting the eyes of a figure outside the door through a surveillance screen?

Was it the early morning spent hiding in the stairwell shadows, silently watching them?

Or the last time she calmly studied that bloodied, unrecognizable face?

Gong Shu looked at the unfamiliar face in the mirror and confirmed one thing: perhaps that madness had been planted in her very bones long ago, at some point in the past.

“Human nature” is like the dissolving tissue inside a cocoon as it transforms into a butterfly.

Everything from the past is shattered and melted into a chaotic mass of slime, undergoing a complete, nearly annihilating reassembly.

The butterfly that had long lain dormant within her finally tore off its disguise and beat its damp wings.

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