The suffocating feeling returned in full force as the slender fingers tightened continuously.

"Cough... Cough... Let go!" Ji Yao said hoarsely.

Seeing Ji Yao's current appearance, Yan Xi almost laughed out loud.

"So I guessed correctly right? Yao Mei, hmm?" Yan Xi deliberately adopted an intimate tone.

A storm was brewing in Ji Yao's eyes. She forced herself to calm down.

"Do you have any evidence? Are you smearing me with just empty words? Who do you think will believe you?" Seeing that resistance was futile, Ji Yao had completely calmed down now, with her mind racing quickly.

She knew there was nothing much she could do. With her current influence in school, no one would believe it.

"Ahahahaha..." Yan Xi laughed as if she had heard a joke.

"It seems they don't know at all? The prestigious Ji, a big beauty on campus, secretly instructed people to collect protection fees in private. Such explosive news, even if they don't believe it at first, there are traces that can be followed, right?"

"They are not children from ordinary families. There are many powerful families on campus. With Ji's popularity..."

"Take a guess? When will they find out?"

"After all, there are many boys and girls who like you."

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"Although I don't know how you concealed your past identity in the West District, but I have ways to play this game with you."

"What do you think?"

The malice on that beautiful face was like a hidden reef in the deep sea, usually hidden below the surface, but also harboring the energy to capsize huge ships.

【I feel like you are more sinister than the villainesses I've read about in novels....】 Pandora commented.

Strangling someone's neck while threatening them, paired with that excessively beautiful face, it's a perfect one-to-one replica of a sinister villainess.

Wow! A sinister villainess crying out that she's the real deal!

"What exactly do you want to do?" Ji Yao's heart turned ice-cold.

She had offended the wrong person.

She thought Yan Xi was just an ordinary transfer student with a moderate family background and a pretty face, but she did not expect her to not be a harmless lamp!

What good would exposing her do for Yan Xi?

It would only humiliate her, right?

"So you admit it? You were the tyrant of Qingteng West District?"

"So what if I am.... What do you want from me?" Ji Yao said desperately.

Unable to win and with her secrets exposed, what else could she do?

Yan Xi looked at her and fell into contemplation, seeming to think about what to do next.

"As long as you keep today's secret, I will grant you one request," said Ji Yao. Over the past few days, she had vaguely sensed something.

After all, exposing her would not benefit Yan Xi.

She had to compromise. She did not want to lose everything she had now. If her deeds were exposed at Qingteng, she would be expelled.

She had painstakingly nurtured everything here. At least for now, it could not be destroyed.

"A request? I do have one." Yan Xi instantly let go, as if she had heard a satisfactory proposal.

Yan Xi walked out of the room.

"Cough... Cough..." Ji Yao covered her strangled throat, very uncomfortable.

Yan Xi quickly returned, throwing something directly in front of Ji Yao.

It was a fruit knife.

Then Yan Xi's icy words came to her ears.

"Use this and cut your face. If you do, I'll promise to keep it a secret."

【Damn! You've changed!】 Pandora roared in her heart.

Is she that deranged?

【Shut up, Panny, you're hurting my ears. Why make such a big fuss? 】

It's really hard not to make a big fuss!

"After all, with my face tonight, you earned quite a bit of money... I'm very unhappy."

"Were you dreaming?" Ji Yao felt that she had gone crazy.

There was no way she would do that! Ji Yao knew how important her face was to her!

"Have you gone crazy? Just go and tell everyone, let's see if anyone believes you!" Ji Yao said to her in shock.

"But...what was said just now... I recorded it!" Yan Xi revealed a righteous smile and took out the voice recorder that had been in her shirt pocket all along.

Yan Xi's expression was innocent and pure, very much like Ji Yao's original one, but it clearly told Ji Yao that she did have evidence!

"You were recording it just now!"

"Didn't you stick glue on my chair just now? With that expression, it's as if I'm the only bad guy here." Yan Xi frowned unhappily.

A lunatic!

Ji Yao's hand trembled, her voice seeming hoarse.

"If you don't agree... then forget it. Have a nice life. See you at school tomorrow."

Without any hesitation, Yan Xi turned to leave this place.

Watching Yan Xi about to leave, Ji Yao felt that if she didn't keep Yan Xi here, her world would collapse.

She had barely made it from the West District to the East District. She had finally escaped from that filthy and lowly place. She had finally drawn a line to distinguish herself from the past. She did not want to be beaten back to hell.

She seemed to vaguely see the red and purple marks all over her small body in winter, being locked out in the cold, with clusters of women gossiping as she passed by carrying groceries home.

She could only curl up at the door, her already chapped hands futilely slapping the door, hoping that the hungover woman inside all night could hear it and open the door to let her in.

"Auntie, I'm so cold," Ji Yao would say ingratiatingly with a sweet smile whenever she was about to not be able to endure any longer, to those women gossiping about her family affairs.

That little face that was born so pretty back then could easily win the favor of others, avoiding the fate of being frozen to death.

But that feeling of cold from the past spread all over her body at this moment. She couldn't help but tremble all over, with tears streaming down her cheeks.

Yan Xi, who had just pressed the cold door handle, heard Ji Yao's overly hoarse voice coming from behind.

"Is this... enough?"

.....

Ji Yao's face was covered in tear stains, with a bloody gash on her left cheek. The knife next to her was stained red, with red dripping to the floor.

Ji Yao's eyes were numb, like a plea before shattering to pieces.

Was this the ending?

There was a hint of astonishment in Yan Xi's eyes, but the show was not over yet.

"Ah... I was just joking earlier. This is still not good enough~"

"I will still expose you."

Yan Xi's tone was gentle, but she spoke those utterly heartless words.

Ji Yao felt instantly as if she had fallen into an icehouse.

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