Quick Transmigration: Striving Every Day to Overcome Tribulation

Chapter 39: Fake Gold's Counterattack - Real Gold's Best Friend (Part 5)

Xu Zhiyin still did not give a direct answer to Su Su's question.

She lowered her eyes slightly and forced a smile: "If I were to be ruthless or make a scene, whose side do you think Mom and Dad would take?"

"Why don't you try it and you'll see!" Su Su really couldn't understand why Xu Zhiyin thought it was a pointless question.

Xu Zhiyin quietly gestured to the clouds in the sky, her head slightly raised, her gaze distant and dreamy.

Su Su stood to the side, trying hard to see the emotions in Xu Zhiyin's eyes, but she could never quite grasp them.

“But the story you told me wasn’t finished! And Su Zizhu knew her own identity all along. Her goal was to force me to my death. If it weren’t for her biological parents wanting to buy me into the deep mountains and make me disappear from everyone’s sight, how could I have fallen into such a predicament?”

"She has the love of her parents and the protection of her younger brother. I have nothing. I don't want to fight for anything, I just want to live a good life, why is it so hard!"

"You really don't want to fight?" Su Su remained deeply skeptical.

In her view, no matter how well a person can hide their ambition and desires, they will eventually reveal them unintentionally.

"One last question, I want to know, were you ever my friend, or in a past life?" Xu Zhiyin's eyes were full of anticipation, as if the answer to this question was of utmost importance to her.

"I don't know." Xu Zhiyin's answer was concise and straightforward, without the slightest hesitation.

Her eyes remained calm, revealing no emotion whatsoever.

In a past life or in this life, we may have been good friends, or we may not have been.

Perhaps it's a pastime for you when you're too lonely, or perhaps it's my greedy climbing.

After that conversation, Su Su never saw Xu Zhiyin again during the summer vacation.

She thought that was it, and that she might never see him again in this lifetime.

The Xu Zhiyin of today is no longer the kind-hearted Xu Zhiyin of her past life.

In her past life, even though her adoptive parents treated her badly, they still fed her and sent her to school, and her neighbors and classmates also cared for her very much.

In such an environment, Xu Zhiyin remained kind-hearted and always considered others.

In this life, she is surrounded by people with ill intentions, all arranged by Su Zizhu. What good could they be?

In such circumstances, she became suspicious and cold-hearted. Even if a very kind and selfless person appeared, she would not be moved.

On the contrary, she would repeatedly feign weakness and play the victim.

Longing for it yet afraid to get close.

They resist it yet are extremely dependent on it.

Jin Li, who is close to Xu Zhiyin, is bound to the system. On the surface, he saves the female protagonist and gains her favor, but in secret, he absorbs the female protagonist's luck.

For several days in a row, the rain poured down like beads from a broken string from the gloomy sky, which seemed to be dripping with water. The rain pattered against the window, making a crisp sound.

Through the rain-blurred glass, the outside world appeared completely dark.

The leaves drooped in the rain, as if they were overwhelmed. Occasionally, a drop of rain would slide off a leaf and drip onto the ground with a soft "plop".

On such a rainy day, Su Su stayed at home alone, listening to the rain and enjoying this rare moment of leisure.

She lay on the soft sofa, holding a favorite book in her hands, but was occasionally drawn to the sound of rain outside the window, her thoughts gradually drifting away, and she became drowsy.

Su Su was originally immersed in a lazy atmosphere, her eyelids drooping as if she could fall into a sweet dream at any moment.

However, at that moment, a loud knocking sound suddenly rang out, the sound being particularly loud in the quiet room, instantly pulling Su Su back from her drowsy state.

She frowned slightly, a hint of doubt rising in her mind: who could be knocking on the door at this hour?

Filled with curiosity, Su Su slowly walked to the door and looked out through the peephole.

This sight left her stunned.

Standing outside the door was Xu Zhiyin, soaking wet and looking utterly disheveled.

Rain dripped continuously from her hair, and her clothes clung tightly to her body, outlining her slightly thin figure.

She stood quietly at the door, her eyes filled with an undisguised sense of grievance and deep weariness.

The dim light shone on her, casting a long shadow that made her look somewhat lonely and helpless.

Her body seemed to have been ripped from its soul; she mechanically raised her arm and knocked on the door again and again. The knocking echoed in the silent corridor, lifeless, as if it were just an unconscious action.

Su Su frowned and reached out to open the door.

As soon as the door opened, a damp smell rushed out, mixed with a hint of nighttime coolness.

Su Su couldn't help but shiver. Her gaze fell on Xu Zhiyin at the door, and she finally saw a red handprint on her face.

"Xu Zhiyin, what brings you here? It's raining so hard." Su Su looked at Xu Zhiyin, who was soaking wet, with surprise and worry in her eyes.

Xu Zhiyin didn't speak, but her lips trembled slightly. Tears streamed down her face uncontrollably the moment she saw Su Su. The tears fell like beads from a broken string, one after another, rolling down her reddened eyes and leaving streaks on her rain-soaked cheeks.

When she was arguing with her family, she was just like an enraged wolf cub, fierce and menacing. Her eyes were wide open, and her cheeks were puffed out in anger, like a small, aggressive animal.

She roared at her biased family members, venting her dissatisfaction and anger without shedding a single tear. At that moment, she had courage from who knows where, showing no weakness whatsoever.

Seeing her like this, Su Su pulled Xu Zhiyin, who was still standing there blankly, into the room without saying a word.

As she pulled him along, she kept saying, "Come in quickly, don't catch a cold."

Then he pushed Xu Zhiyin to the bathroom door, turned around and quickly walked to the wardrobe, took out clean and soft clothes from it and gave them to Xu Zhiyin to change into.

Xu Zhiyin was like a robot without her own consciousness, doing whatever Su Su told her to do.

She walked into the bathroom with a blank look in her eyes, mechanically changed her clothes, and then walked out blankly, sitting on the sofa without moving.

When Su Su sat down next to her, Xu Zhiyin seemed to have suddenly found someone to rely on and hugged Su Su tightly.

Her arms were wrapped tightly around Su Su's waist, her head buried in Su Su's chest, her body trembling slightly.

"Cry if you want to!" Su Su gently stroked Xu Zhiyin's back, again and again, as if comforting a wounded little animal.

"I am clearly their daughter, why, why..."

Xu Zhiyin kept murmuring this sentence until she fell asleep from exhaustion.