Shen Yi didn't expect to bump into her.
She thought that by this time, the female lead would have long since evacuated.
To her surprise, the protagonist of the comic appeared before Shen Yi in such a dramatic fashion.
Who wouldn't call this a fateful encounter?
Song Yi was not alone; she was accompanied by many members of Heguang. Her initially panicked heart quickly settled, and she shouted:
"Just surrender, Shen Yi. As long as you die, everything will be over."
She had said this sentence many times.
She truly believed that as long as Shen Yi died, her father would smile at her again, her younger brother would call her sister again, and all her pain would vanish into thin air.
Seeing that Song Yi had the advantage of numbers, Shen Yi did not hesitate. She flipped over and swung directly down from the upstairs railing.
Song Yi didn't want to let Shen Yi leave just like that. Without a word, she fired a shot downstairs.
The shot missed, making her exceptionally anxious.
"Why don't you guys shoot and chase her!"
Song Yi's voice echoed in the empty corridor, hoarse and urgent.
"This is your territory, what are you afraid of?" Her voice cracked completely on the last word.
No one dared to make a move or answer.
Because the next moment, red dots gathered on their foreheads.
The red dots of sniper rifles were pinned in their eyes, sweeping across like a threat, carrying a glaring red light.
Instantly, they all froze in place.
Song Yi also froze.
A red dot landed right between her eyebrows. She couldn't find the direction of the sniper rifle; she could only feel that beam of red light shooting from some unknown corner, landing on her face.
The sniper seemed to have a wicked sense of humor, admiring the changing expressions on her face.
The dot of light slowly moved from her pupils to her surroundings, flashing past from time to time.
It caused the color to drain from Song Yi's face bit by bit, until she slumped to the ground.
She realized she was finished.
Shen Yi jumped down from upstairs and landed completely unscathed. This kind of scene would be the protagonist's highlight moment in any action movie.
However, she hadn't even felt proud for two seconds in her heart.
Shen Sigui's people were already waiting there.
A group of people had formed a perfect encirclement, blocking her path.
Shen Yi's heroic feat of jumping off the building was caught red-handed. She turned her head and saw Shen Sigui, immediately feeling delighted.
"Was my reaction fast?" She tilted her head, her messy little curls swaying with her movement, eager to show off. "Uncle? Did you see me jump just now? Even the bullets couldn't catch up with my speed!"
Shen Sigui's gaze swept from the top of her head to the soles of her feet, and then, he spoke with a smile.
"You jumped down from upstairs?"
"Yeah." Hearing his tone, Shen Yi didn't know why, but she felt something was a bit off.
Shen Sigui took a deep breath, inexplicably feeling the same sense of powerlessness he usually had when facing subordinates who couldn't understand human speech.
The difference between the two was that he could dispose of useless subordinates, but he couldn't just dispose of this annoying brat in a fit of rage.
"I ordered you repeatedly not to act recklessly."
He had tirelessly told Shen Yi many times not to run around with Wisteria and the others, but to stay by his side. And what was the result?
She promised nicely every time, but then she would disappear the next moment.
Shen Sigui used the gentlest tone to say the most biting words:
"Shen Yi, you are simply as stupid as a pig."
"Is your head just for adding height?"
"You brainless carbon-based lifeform, how on earth did your father feel at ease letting you leave the house?"
What a filthy scolding.
Shen Yi tried to look up and talk back to him, but she was interrupted every single time. She found that she actually couldn't out-argue him.
Soon, the girl was scolded until she hung her head in dismay.
"Can you stay by my side now?"
Seeing her hastily jump down, Shen Sigui knew something was going on upstairs.
Shen Yi covered her ears and begged for mercy: "Yes, yes, yes! Can you stop scolding me first? My mom is also here today."
Shen Sigui: "..."
The mention of Wen Ya made him flinch as well. The displeased curve of his mouth slowly flattened out. Suppressing an almost inaudible sigh, he merely said two words lightly: "Let's go."
Shen Sigui walked in front with his hands in his pockets, his trench coat swaying. He looked just like a sinister villain from a cartoon, saying something utterly heartless, "Let's go see what fun things the snipers have caught."
Shen Yi didn't make a sound and silently followed him.
All the organization members in the upstairs corridor had been arrested. Song Yi's gun had been confiscated, and for once, she didn't cry.
Rather than crying, her expression leaned more towards bewilderment.
"Why?"
She slumped on the ground, confused. "Why does fate always like to deceive me?"
At first, Song Yi could hold it in, but unwillingness seeped out from the cracks in her heart, turning into resentment:
"I'm not a very bad person, and you're clearly much worse than me, so why?"
This sentence was obviously referring to Shen Yi.
Shen Yi listened with zero emotional fluctuation and only replied, "You're about to die, why do you still have so much to say?"
As the currently victorious party, no matter how you look at it, shouldn't she be the one giving the acceptance speech?
Why was Song Yi making accusations first?
She turned a deaf ear to Shen Yi's retort.
"None of you have ever pitied me." She was accusing everyone.
Her father, her brother, the people of Heguang, the government people, the classmates at school who had never looked her in the eye.
Everyone owed her.
Shen Yi endured it for two seconds but couldn't hold back. She turned her head and asked, word by word, "Then have you ever pitied me?"
Song Yi was stunned.
"You always like to pity many people. Oh, maybe you have sympathized with me." Shen Yi thought that Song Yi had indeed shown her kindness, but so what?
Song Yi's kindness was sometimes more terrifying than malice.
That kind of condescending pity, carrying a sense of superiority, would only make people feel more disgusted.
"What are you talking about?" Song Yi's eyes gleamed with confusion and hatred. "You were the one who disturbed my life..."
Her voice lowered, changing from muttering to herself into something between sleep talking and accusation.
"You clearly didn't choose to go back either, so why did you disturb my life? We used to be very happy, it's all because of you..."
It's all because of you.
She truly believed from the bottom of her heart that everything she had encountered was because of Shen Yi.
Before Shen Yi appeared, her life was normal and happy.
After Shen Yi appeared, everything changed.
This causal relationship was exceptionally clear and unshakable in her mind.
Shen Yi stood there, her head lowered, looking at Song Yi acting as if she had suffered a monumental grievance. Only bafflement remained on her face.
It wasn't that she hadn't thought about properly settling the grudges of two lifetimes with Song Yi.
But the words reached her lips and were swallowed back down.
Because she suddenly realized that those grudges seemed to have nothing to do with this current Song Yi and everything happening right now.
Even if the accounts of two lifetimes were settled clearly, it wouldn't bring anything back.
Shen Sigui hadn't spoken the whole time, standing to the side with great interest, his gaze slowly shifting between the two. He had originally wanted to enjoy this unknown drama.
His state of mind was very relaxed.
It wasn't until Shen Sigui watched Song Yi render Shen Yi speechless with just a few words that he lightly tapped his arm with his fingertips, feeling an indescribable surge of impatience.
She was actually so clumsy with her words that she couldn't even win a verbal spar against a prisoner...
What else could Shen Sigui expect from this little mascot?
He sighed silently and swiftly snatched the gun from the subordinate beside him.
The pitch-black muzzle aimed directly at Song Yi.
He cocked the gun and pulled the trigger.
All in one fluid motion.
Shen Sigui had made his move without the slightest warning. The gunshot exploded in the cramped corridor like a crack of muffled thunder.
Bang.
Song Yi's impending accusations were instantly lodged in her throat as the bullet struck her squarely between the eyebrows.
She collapsed limply to the floor, her pupils dilating in sheer disbelief.
Shen Yi was also startled by the sudden noise, her pupils shrinking sharply.
She watched as Song Yi fell into a pool of blood, the eyes that had just been brimming with hatred and bitter resentment slowly losing their light.
...
Under the lighting, Shen Sigui's face took on an almost sickly, cold pallor. Faint smoke still curled from the muzzle of the gun in his hand. His expression was indifferent, laced with a nearly cruel disdain.
"Why are you wasting your breath on her?"
He raised his free hand and gently patted Shen Yi's tense shoulder. To the ears of the surrounding subordinates, his flat tone could only be described as a bizarre, coaxing gentleness meant for a child:
"Just kill whoever makes you unhappy. Talking too much nonsense with people you hate will only drag you down with them."
