After I Died, The Little White Flower Heroine Went Mad - Chapter 1

What was going on?

Had she transmigrated?

Surely she was dreaming, right?

How had everything turned into this in the blink of an eye?

Standing at the doorway and looking at the scene inside, Li Zhu could hardly believe her eyes.

At this very moment, right in front of her, a bullying scene was unfolding.

Two girls in expensive school uniforms were blocking the outside of a stall halfway down the restroom. The one with long, pale-gold curls was holding a mop across the door, while the one with short, straight black hair stood on a stool in front of the door, carrying a small bucket and pouring water down from above.

Splash!

The next second, the bucket in the short-haired girl’s hands tipped completely over, and the clean water inside came pouring down like rain.

“Ah!”

The girl inside the stall was drenched from head to toe in cold water and let out a short, instinctive cry.

“Hahaha.”

That cry only fueled them further. The two girls outside grew even more excited. They exchanged a look and giggled. The short-haired girl jumped down from the stool, tossed the bucket aside, removed the mop, and reached out to open the stall door.

They wanted to clearly witness the results of their work—the pathetic sight of the person inside, soaked through by the water.

The bullied girl inside did not immediately rush out and fight back. After that one startled cry, she made no more sound. For a moment, the empty restroom with only four people in it fell silent.

Only after a while did another sound come.

The person in the stall finally moved and slowly walked out.

The hem of a soaked uniform skirt swept past the open doorway. A glossy, dripping leg lifted and stepped out of the stall. On her feet were slightly old but clean white sneakers. One step, then another, until she finally stopped on the quiet tiles between the two rows of stalls.

It was drizzling today. Outside the window at the end of the restroom, fine silver threads of rain fell densely, little by little dyeing the entire world in a damp, hazy gray.

That faint misty color seeped in through the closed glass window and fell over the girl standing in the middle of the room, the girl who had just been bullied.

She was drenched all over. Her pure white uniform shirt clung to her skin, faintly outlining her thin body. She was clearly much frailer than most third-year high school students her age.

Her head was lowered slightly, black hair falling down, her posture somewhat shrunken.

She looked like a slender willow broken in the wind, and also like a cat soaked by the rain—so pitiful it made one’s heart ache.

Li Zhu stood at the restroom doorway, directly across from that pitiful sight, taking in her fragility and everything that had happened in those few breaths.

She only felt one thing.

This person.

This scene.

They were really familiar.

Of course they were familiar!

Because she had just seen this exact scene a few minutes ago!

Because everything happening before her eyes at this very moment was clearly a scene from the game she had just been playing!

Recently, a subsidiary of Liming Group, “Baozhu Entertainment,” was preparing to develop its first holographic game.

Because of that, Li Zhu, as the general manager of the subsidiary, had been trying out some games currently on the market for research.

Tonight, or rather, ten minutes ago.

After finishing a day of work, Li Zhu went home, washed up, and as usual opened the app to browse the game rankings.

She lay on the sofa, scrolling and scrolling, when she unexpectedly saw a supporting character in a new game whose name was exactly the same as hers.

Hmm?

What a coincidence.

Li Zhu became a little interested and stopped swiping on her tablet.

Looking again, it was even more of a coincidence. Judging by the title, this game seemed to be a horror mystery. Her company’s first game also happened to be in the thriller genre.

Li Zhu was actually quite afraid of horror-related things. Even the lowest-level haunted house could scare her legs weak. But she was the kind of coward who loved to play anyway—the more afraid she was, the more addicted she became.

So after that coincidence sparked her interest, the genre made her even more intrigued.

Thus, with a slight movement of her finger, Li Zhu finally tapped into this game called Murder at the Noble Academy. Even though the game was not ranked very high and was not one of the currently popular holographic games.

When she entered the game interface, she felt a little nervous, but also full of anticipation.

In the end, after playing for less than five minutes, both her nervousness and anticipation vanished into thin air, replaced entirely by a surge of anger that rushed straight to her head.

Because this game’s opening animation was simply infuriating.

Five minutes. A full five minutes. It was all footage of the protagonist being bullied at the noble academy.

The protagonist of Murder at the Noble Academy was named Bai Wei. She was an impoverished student who had been specially recruited into Nyx Academy because of her outstanding grades.

Who could have expected that on just her third day at Nyx, Bai Wei would offend some truly formidable people—the three most powerful people on campus.

She could not stand the domineering behavior of these nobles and got into a conflict with Gu Xing, one of the trio.

Gu Xing, who had always stood high above everyone else, had never encountered someone who dared talk back to her like that. Feeling that her authority had been challenged, she angrily decided to regain face.

And so, the heroine began to suffer bullying from Gu Xing, her followers, and the admirers of K3.

Bai Wei was very strong. She was not defeated by that overwhelming malice and targeting, but instead resisted unyieldingly.

Because of that, the three noble young ladies came to clearly sense that she was different, and gradually began to see Bai Wei in a new light.

However, being seen in a new light was not a good thing.

The faint attention and protection from the other two members of the trio only made their worshippers hate Bai Wei even more.

Especially Hua Yi’s childhood friend, one of the K3, who was also the vicious supporting female character with the same name as Li Zhu. She began to resent Bai Wei all the more.

The vicious supporting character “Li Zhu” joined forces with her lackeys to warn Bai Wei, and those crazed admirers bullied Bai Wei more and more.

The five-minute opening animation after entering the game had been like that the entire time. Not only was it long and tedious, it was all scenes of the heroine being bullied.

What a bastard of a game!

Li Zhu was so angry she almost died from watching it.

She felt this was exactly the kind of typical old-school “make the female lead suffer” game.

Perhaps the game’s title did not mean it was a horror mystery at all, but instead referred to how the poor protagonist, after entering a noble academy where class divisions were stark and people devoured one another, would be bullied in every possible way, even to the point of death.

Perhaps the so-called happy ending after clearing the game would be that K3 were gradually moved by the heroine’s resilience and courage, began all kinds of tangled romantic push-and-pull with her, and finally one of them would walk hand in hand with the heroine toward a dumpling-wrapper-style perfectly rounded happy ending.

The more Li Zhu thought about it, the more disgusted she felt. How could she still be in the mood to keep playing? She exited the game, opened the comment section, and immediately gave it a one-star bad review.

Over the next five minutes, she wrote several hundred eloquent words, roasting that lousy game until it was utterly shredded from head to toe.

However.

Never in ten thousand years would she have expected—

Her bad review actually angered the game’s creator.

Right as Li Zhu passionately typed the final word of her bad review—

Boom!

There was a thunderous sound.

A line of text suddenly floated up in front of her.

It hung in midair, glowing with fluorescent light. So magical. So eerie.

[You only played for five minutes. You didn’t even properly start the game and experience it seriously, yet you’re already making such a careless judgment? Isn’t that way too biased?]

It was like some unscrupulous seller hard-selling their own work, insisting it would get good if you just pushed through to the later parts.

Who knew whether it would really get good later? And even if it did, maybe that “good” was only visible to the creator. Besides, did she have to eat a fixed amount of poop before she was allowed to eat candy?

Li Zhu was startled by the words that suddenly appeared before her eyes. She instinctively stared at them, and once she read them clearly, she instinctively complained in her heart.

Who could have imagined that this game creator seemed capable of hearing her inner thoughts? The instant Li Zhu stubbornly thought those words, the other party seemed to grow even angrier.

A few more lines of text quickly appeared one after another, their light flickering nonstop, showing the mood of the person behind the scenes.

[Wha!]

[Poop!]

[You actually called my work poop!]

[You!]

[You!]

[Fine!]

[Since you think the game I created isn’t good, then if you’re so capable, you do it!]

The furious text vanished in a flash.

And in the instant it disappeared, a sudden change occurred.

The light before Li Zhu, who had been curled up on the sofa, twisted violently.

It twisted so much that although she clearly had not moved, she felt as though the whole world was spinning.

Yet right at the dizzying peak of that spinning, she suddenly felt herself land on solid ground and stand steady.

At the same time, the dizziness receded like a tide. Li Zhu instinctively opened her eyes.

Then she saw the opening scene—the pale-gold long curls and the short, straight black hair pouring water into the restroom stall.

This scene had clearly existed only in the game in her hands just a few minutes ago, yet now it was happening so realistically beside her, right before her eyes.

No way.

Had she really transmigrated?

In just that instant, she had been kicked into the game world?

Just who exactly was that game creator? And besides, all she had done was leave a bad review. Was that really worth this? Way too petty!

As young President Li reeled in disbelief, her instincts for self-preservation kicked in, and she began observing her surroundings. Looking down at herself, reality once again cruelly told her that she had indeed transmigrated into the game world because of a single bad review.

Not only had her posture changed from sitting to standing, but the pajamas she had originally been wearing had now become the Nyx school uniform. The nameplate on the chest of the uniform jacket read: Li Zhu.

With just one look, Li Zhu understood that this meant two things.

First, her identity from now on in this game world.

She had gone from Li Zhu to “Li Zhu”—from the future person in power of the Li family’s group in the real world to the vicious supporting female character in the game who shared her exact name.

Second, the progress of the story.

As a vicious supporting female character specifically written to oppose the heroine, “Li Zhu” did not appear late, but she also did not appear especially early. So the fact that “Li Zhu” had already appeared at this moment meant that she had not transmigrated directly into the start of the game. Instead, she had transmigrated into some point after the story had already progressed for a while.

Connecting that with the game animation she had watched before transmigrating and the restroom bullying scene she had just witnessed, Li Zhu further confirmed the exact plot point she had entered.

The story had now progressed to the third minute of the five-minute game CG she had watched, the second appearance of the supporting female character “Li Zhu”—

The protagonist Bai Wei had already been enrolled for almost a month. During this period, although she had clashed with Gu Xing and suffered retaliation from Gu Xing and her admirers, her stubborn strength had also gradually attracted the attention of Hua Yi and Wen Yan, the other two members of K3.

But that attention and concern made Hua Yi’s childhood friend, “Li Zhu,” feel dissatisfied. After “Li Zhu” failed to warn Bai Wei away from Hua Yi the first time, she became even angrier and issued a second warning.

At this very moment, it was precisely that second warning.

“Li Zhu” wanted to make that hateful special-admissions student learn her lesson, so she used even more excessive methods and, together with her two lackeys, cornered Bai Wei in the restroom to teach her a lesson.

Of all things, she had transmigrated into the bully she hated most. It gave her the faint nausea of a fly stuck in her throat that she could not swallow down.

And the moment she arrived, this was the kind of scene she faced. She was in the middle of bullying and teaching the heroine a lesson. She had already offended the heroine to death.

Without even thinking, she knew what ending awaited a vicious supporting character who opposed the protagonist. Her fate was definitely going to be incomparably miserable.

[Successfully triggered keyword: Ending]

[Congratulations, you have obtained the newbie gift pack: Li Zhu Ending Preview—The Rainy Alley No One Cared About]

It was as if the system had appeared to confirm Li Zhu’s thoughts.

Just as she was inwardly sighing, her pupils flickering because of this absurd transmigration, everything that had happened in the past few moments, and the chaotic thoughts churning in her mind—

A mechanical voice suddenly appeared by her ear, issuing her a reward like a system in a game.

Oh?

There was even a newbie gift pack?

“Li Zhu’s” ending? What would it be like?

The question was answered very quickly, and it was more or less what she had expected.

The instant the voice by her ear faded, the scene before Li Zhu’s eyes abruptly changed. The originally realistic world was suddenly covered by a drifting layer of mist. The mist became a curtain, and a scene began playing on it like a movie.

[A rainy night.

Raindrops struck this cold world like stones, and they also struck the person deep in the alley with brutal force.

It was “Li Zhu.” She was lying face-up on the ground. The dark night blurred her face, making it impossible to see her appearance clearly, but one could vaguely make out her wide-open eyes. They were filled with disbelief—disbelief at what she had seen earlier, and even more disbelief that she had actually died just like this.

The rain grew heavier.

It fell like water being poured from the sky, soaking through her clothes. It also made the blood on her body flow out even more, carrying it away from her and spreading it in all directions beneath her, staining the ground like a small river.

The river of blood flowed and flowed, nearly reaching the end of the alley.

Only then did the pair of feet at the mouth of the alley finally move. The black shoes took a small step back, then turned away mercilessly and left.]

The scene went abruptly dark.

Li Zhu was deeply shaken.

She had known the villain’s ending would be miserable, but she had not expected an actual murder case!

Then again, the game was called Murder at the Noble Academy, after all. It truly lived up to being an old-school angst game that did not bother discussing law or reason with you!

Even worse, she was now the villain herself! Wasn’t she doomed to die?

Who was the person at the alley entrance? They had stood at a distance that was neither near nor far, coldly watching “Li Zhu” die.

Was it the heroine Bai Wei? Or was it one of Bai Wei’s admirers?

Was this the result of opposing the protagonist?

As she lamented, the white mist dispersed.

The game world, as realistic as reality itself, once again appeared before her eyes.

At the same time, Li Zhu seemed to sense something. She instinctively lifted her head and looked forward.

In the cold, lonely restroom on this rainy day, the heroine Bai Wei, who had just been taught a lesson and drenched all over, slowly raised her head. Her pitch-black eyes shone through her wet black hair and looked at Li Zhu quietly.

In the faint rainy light, those eyes, black and white in perfect contrast, contained no emotion. They were like two drops of cool mercury—cold and still.

It was over.

The instant their eyes met, Li Zhu’s heart gave a heavy thud.

Right at the start, she had offended the protagonist.

Judging by the look in Bai Wei’s eyes, she probably hated her to death.

Tsk. That stingy, petty game creator!

Tsk. This inexplicable, unreasonable transmigration!

Sigh! Right from the start, this was a catastrophic opening where she had already made an enemy of the protagonist!