After I Died, The Little White Flower Heroine Went Mad - Chapter 7
[Continue Game] or [Continue Game]
Looking at the options before her, which gave her no choice at all—
“Ha.”
Li Zhu was so angry she laughed.
Even if she were stupid, she should have realized by now that Bai Wei had set her up.
And Li Zhu was not stupid. On the contrary, she was very clever.
Now that she had calmed down and thought it over, she quickly understood the whole sequence of events—
The falling caterpillar had been an accident, but Bai Wei’s fall had not. When Bai Wei walked to her side, she had paused first, then fallen backward. Even without that falling leaf, Bai Wei still would have screamed and fallen into the water at the right moment.
And the witness who immediately shouted afterward was most likely Bai Wei’s accomplice.
The moment Bai Wei fell into the water, the other person instantly ran out to attract people over. At the welcome gala, where school leaders and the media were all gathered, she exposed the matter of Li Zhu harming a classmate.
And so Li Zhu had been completely trapped in this setup, with no possibility of turning things around.
Bai Wei had entered the game herself as bait, deliberately falling into the water to frame her, ruthlessly playing her for a fool.
But Li Zhu felt that she could not be blamed entirely for falling into the trap this time.
It really was not because she was too stupid. It was because she had been misled by the animated CG.
The game’s opening animation had tried its hardest to portray Bai Wei’s misery, while hiding key information from several important plot points and only letting players see one side of things.
Everything she had seen was only what the game creator wanted her to see. She had been misled, so much so that she truly believed this was an old-school angst romance game, and that the protagonist Bai Wei was a strong yet pitiful little white flower. She had not been on guard against the heroine at all.
Who could have expected that the little white flower in the story would suddenly strike at her?
Then there was no need to think about it. In the original plot, the incident where “Li Zhu” pushed Bai Wei down the stairs was definitely Bai Wei’s setup too.
Bai Wei’s original plan should have been to pretend she had been pushed down by “Li Zhu” at the auditorium staircase.
But unexpectedly, this Li Zhu was no longer that “Li Zhu.” Tonight, she had not stayed in the auditorium and had come out early. So the two of them had met ahead of time, which was why Bai Wei had frozen back then.
What had Bai Wei been thinking during those few seconds when she saw her? That the plan had been disrupted? And then she instantly decided to make the best of it, thinking the lakeside was also a good place, so she might as well carry it out here?
So over the past week, and when they met just now, Bai Wei running away every time she saw her had been a tactic of playing hard to get. That way, she could both show her own innocence and attract Miss Li’s attention while lowering Miss Li’s guard.
Then her fall by the lake had also been intentional. She had been afraid of overdoing the playing-hard-to-get act and that Miss Li really would not chase her this time, so she deliberately showed weakness to lure her over.
Bai Wei knew “Li Zhu’s” personality. Miss Li loved mocking her romantic rivals most of all. It was impossible for her to turn a blind eye to Bai Wei’s miserable state.
What a good strategy.
Bai Wei had used either a head full of blood or a fall into deep water in exchange for “Li Zhu’s” ruined reputation.
She really was ruthless. Ruthless to others, and ruthless to herself too.
Then why had Bai Wei done it?
Simply to take revenge on “Li Zhu”?
Or did she have some other goal?
For the time being, that was unknown.
Li Zhu suddenly remembered the words she had seen on Bai Wei’s character card before.
[Do you really understand her?]
Their heroine was truly a mysterious person.
How was she a harmless little white flower? She was completely a deadly poisonous flower.
Wait…
Wait!
Li Zhu suddenly thought of something else.
Since Bai Wei was such a scheming person, could that earlier incident really have been so simple?
The incident where Bai Wei, after being splashed with water by “Li Zhu,” ran to the infirmary and cried.
This person had cried in the infirmary at noon, and Hua Yi came that evening. Could everything really be that coincidental?
A few days ago, Li Zhu had already been wondering: the restroom water-splashing incident had actually been quite secretive. Only the four people involved knew about it. Then how had Hua Yi found out later?
At the time, she had suspected that Li Nali or Qian Duo had leaked the news, but recalling their behavior then, it did not seem very likely.
So after eliminating those two possibilities, who else was there?
Li Zhu thought of one person: Dr. Tian.
What if Dr. Tian was the channel through which the news was spread?
Combined with the fact that Bai Wei was not someone pure and without schemes, everything made sense.
Perhaps the truth of that day was like this—
Dr. Tian from the infirmary was not entirely innocent either. Perhaps she truly did pity Bai Wei’s situation, but she was also someone’s informant.
Possibly Hua Yi’s informant. Hmm, or possibly Wen Yan’s informant. There was no way to be completely certain, since both of them had been secretly looking after Bai Wei, intentionally or unintentionally.
Dr. Tian was Hua Yi’s, or Wen Yan’s, or perhaps someone else’s informant. Because she had received orders from some young lady, she usually took care of Bai Wei, and that was why she dared to take care of Bai Wei.
And Bai Wei, that clever person, had long known whose informant Dr. Tian was, but pretended not to know.
It was precisely her “knowing clearly yet pretending not to know” that allowed her to execute a perfect borrowed-knife murder.
After being bullied by “Li Zhu,” Bai Wei wanted to maintain her delicate and innocent image while also taking revenge.
But she did not openly complain. Instead, she attacked from the side and killed with a hidden arrow, deliberately running to the infirmary to cry.
Dr. Tian would definitely ask what happened. Sure enough, Dr. Tian asked.
Since Dr. Tian was someone’s informant and had been instructed to occasionally look after her, she would definitely report this matter upward too. Sure enough, Dr. Tian reported it.
So when school ended, Hua Yi came and publicly accused “Li Zhu.”
That made “Li Zhu” suffer a lesson and lose face, while also making her relationship with her childhood friend worse and worse.
Looking at it now, Bai Wei’s earlier apology had actually been deliberate provocation, further igniting Hua Yi’s dissatisfaction.
This person… No wonder Li Zhu had felt something was strange at the time. The heroine had seemed a little green-tea-ish.
And so, just like that, Bai Wei killed two birds with one stone. She both continued hiding her sharpness and made “Li Zhu” suffer a lesson.
And from beginning to end, all she had paid was a few tears.
Perhaps Bai Wei’s tears were not completely fake. Perhaps Bai Wei really had been sad at the time. Of course, anyone would feel sad after being bullied and targeted like that.
But Bai Wei had not merely cried. She had turned her sadness into a weapon and thrust it outward.
And that was not the end. Immediately after that came today, the welcome gala. Bai Wei had made another move and stabbed her once again.
First, she borrowed Hua Yi’s hand to make “Li Zhu” suffer a lesson, while also spreading the matter of “Li Zhu’s” bullying and establishing the foundation that “Li Zhu” bullied classmates.
Then she avoided “Li Zhu” for an entire week, leaving “Li Zhu” with nowhere to vent her anger and making the resentment in “Li Zhu’s” heart toward her grow stronger.
Finally, at the welcome gala, she attracted the angry “Li Zhu’s” attention, designed a trap around “Li Zhu,” and ruined “Li Zhu’s” reputation.
Impressive.
Truly impressive!
How many days had it been since Li Zhu transmigrated into the game world? Yet Bai Wei had already played her several times, both openly and secretly.
And each move was linked to the next, a series of interconnected traps.
So this game was not as tacky and shallow as she had thought. Not a single person here was easy to deal with.
So the heroine of the story was not a simple little white flower, but a poisonous flower that looked delicate and beautiful on the surface while being filled with venom underneath.
She had underestimated this game. What that five-minute animated CG had shown was only the surface of the story.
And beneath that surface, there was clearly a deeper truth hidden.
Li Zhu lowered her eyes slightly and looked at the option buttons floating before her. Her gaze flickered faintly in the darkness.
She thought: good. At least the game creator behind the scenes was not so inhuman that a single bad ending would cost her life. She still had a chance to start over.
But at the same time, that meant that as long as she could not reach an ending that satisfied the game creator, she would be trapped in the game forever.
Then again, this failure was actually a good thing. At the very least, it had allowed her to see the true nature of this game.
Now, she had suffered a lesson, but she had also prepared herself.
This time, she understood the rules of the game.
After finishing her thoughts, Li Zhu did not hesitate. She reached out and casually tapped one of the [Continue Game] buttons with her fingertip.
[Player, please choose]
[Restart Game] or [Start from Save Point]
Of course Li Zhu tapped [Start from Save Point].
The system responded very quickly. In the very next second after she pressed the option button—
Boom!
The surrounding darkness suddenly receded like a tide, and the world before her eyes instantly regained its brightness.
In the blink of an eye, Li Zhu once again stood back on Nyx’s campus, beside Bright Moon Lake.
Unfortunately, the situation was still irreversible.
The leaf had already fallen. Her hand had already stretched out. Bai Wei had already taken a slight step backward and leaned back, about to throw herself into the cold waters of Bright Moon Lake.
Li Zhu had no time to move, so she did not move. She simply stood by the lake and looked at Bai Wei.
Time seemed to slow at this moment, so Li Zhu noticed many things she had failed to notice during the first playthrough.
For example—
Bai Wei’s eyes.
Li Zhu looked at the person before her, falling backward into the lake. She gazed at Bai Wei’s beautiful face, and at those eyes of hers.
At this moment, those eyes no longer pretended. They returned to the way they had looked when Li Zhu first saw her.
Silent. Calm. Black and white in clear contrast. Emotionless.
The next second—
Splash!
Bai Wei fell into the water like a pearl broken loose from its string.
But at that moment, Li Zhu’s body suddenly began trembling faintly.
Not because she was angry, nor because she was panicking over being unable to change the situation.
She was excited.
She was so excited she started trembling.
Interesting.
She thought this was truly so interesting.
If Bai Wei had merely been a simple little white flower, then out of good upbringing, Li Zhu would have pitied her, cherished her, and protected her—but she would never have been this excited.
Yet Bai Wei just had to be white on the outside and black within, someone scheming enough to play others in the palm of her hand.
She was not pure white, but she was so full of charm.
Li Zhu liked people like this.
Li Zhu was someone with proper values and good upbringing, but that did not mean she followed every rule. On the contrary, beneath that abstinent collar always buttoned to the very top flowed blood that loved a challenge.
She loved extreme sports. She loved skiing, diving, and skydiving. The feeling of weightlessness when leaping down from the sky made her adrenaline soar and excited her to the extreme.
And now, in this moment, although she was clearly standing on flat ground, she felt that same excitement from Bai Wei.
She was not angry. If Bai Wei could scheme against her, that was Bai Wei’s ability. Instead, Li Zhu admired her greatly.
Li Zhu liked people like this.
Their Miss Protagonist was truly full of challenge, and that was why Li Zhu was excited.
Before, when she told Bai Wei that “she was curious about her,” it had only been for the mission.
But now, Li Zhu had truly developed an intense interest in Bai Wei.
What kind of story did their Miss Protagonist have, exactly?
She wanted to explore it properly.
Then—
Now—
Since Miss Protagonist had already made her move,
Li Zhu could not fall too far behind. It was time to start countering.
Looking at Bai Wei in the water, Li Zhu curved her lips faintly.
Before the witness behind her could shout, she acted first.
With a gesture that was elegant yet carried a trace of wildness, she swept the hair at her forehead back, then casually kicked off the high heels on her feet.
Then she took a step forward. Her red dress was like a great swimming fish as she jumped into the lake, cutting through the water and heading toward Bai Wei.
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Seriously this good haha