What are you looking at? You're the female lead too!

"Eh?"

Upon hearing Ye Wen's reply, Gu Jiangyi raised her head blankly, her bitter expression turning forlorn, before a self-deprecating smile appeared on her face.

"Really? Even you, senior, say I did something wrong. Then it can only be that I did something wrong."

"I was wrong."

She raised her head, her face filled with deathly palpation and pleading. Gu Jiangyi gripped Ye Wen's hand tightly, as if grasping at her last hope.

"Then, senior, can you correct me?"

"Since I'm wrong, then you must be right, senior. If a right senior is guiding my life, then I definitely won't make the same mistake again, right?"

"That way, everyone will stop ignoring me, right?"

The girl smiled numbly, her lifeless eyes filled with a thick darkness.

It's obvious that Gu Jiangyi is on the verge of breaking down. She wants to completely hand over her life to Ye Wen, including her thoughts, feelings, and actions. She wants to be completely under Ye Wen's control and only do what Ye Wen agrees to.

She wanted to give Ye Wen all the choices.

It's like a robot that only acts when it receives instructions.

external.

The Witch of Nightmare Roses emanated an eerie, flowing light.

If Ye Wen really agrees, the girl's broken heart will be the best nourishment for the witch, the witch's affairs will be completely solidified, and a tomorrow with no future will come.

just now.

The choice is in Ye Wen's hands.

And he...

He raised his hand with a look of utter disappointment.

Then, with a sudden downward motion, he delivered a barrage of hand chops to Gu Jiangyi.

One, two, three, four, five...

Ye Wen attacked faster and faster, as if he had stacked a sheep's knife, making Gu Jiangyi's head bounce like a spring. Her eyes changed from numb despair to clear bewilderment.

"Why don't you ask me what I did wrong?!"

The final chop landed with the end of his words, knocking Gu Jiangyi to the ground. Looking at Ye Wen's indifferent yet clearly focused face, tears involuntarily streamed down her cheeks.

She muttered to herself, "What...what did I do wrong, senior?"

Ye Wen remained silent, but helped Gu Jiangyi up and then sat down on the ground back to back with her.

The rain stopped.

The sun is out.

"Your mistake is that you believe you must be wrong."

Ye Wen looked up and said calmly, "Is there any possibility?"

"You just ran into a fool?"

"Senior, it sounds like something you said was censored..."

Ye Wen: "Don't worry about those important points."

Gu Jiangyi: "...Okay."

She shrank back and said weakly, "But it's not just one person, everyone's like this, everyone's like this, does that mean everyone is that...that thing?"

"Otherwise what?"

Ye Wen said definitively, "They're all idiots."

Gu Jiangyi: "..."

Seeing the girl's expression, as if she wanted to say something but couldn't, Ye Wen glanced at her and said, "Are you trying to say that having such thoughts is silly?"

Gu Jiangyi lowered her head and remained silent.

"It's okay, just say what you want to say. I won't blame you. At most, I'll just deduct all your credits."

Gu Jiangyi: "(•̩̩̩̩＿•̩̩̩̩)"

"Okay, I'm not kidding anymore."

Ye Wen said calmly, "Even if you've always believed it was your fault, you still sounded surprised when I actually said it was your fault, right?"

"This shows that, subconsciously, you still believe you are not wrong."

Gu Jiangyi bit her lip: "Is that so?"

"Questioning the vice president will result in a deduction of 20 credits."

Ye Wen casually uttered words that made the girl blush. He continued, "This is normal. The real self and the self in a group should be viewed separately."

"Humans are social creatures, and we always change ourselves protectively in response to the influence of our surroundings."

"Even though I don't like a certain trend at all, I force myself to learn about it because everyone around me is talking about it."

"Even though you really dislike a certain public figure, you pretend to be indifferent because everyone around you likes them."

"He clearly likes small-breasted, cute little girls, but because of societal expectations, he stubbornly insists that he likes mature, powerful women."

"Oh, of course, don't overthink it. I'm just giving an example; it doesn't mean I'm a lolicon."

Ye Wen spoke expressionlessly.

Gu Jiangyi: "..."

She has to stay calm, or her credits will be in danger.

"Ahem, in short, that's just how humans are—contradictory creatures that torment themselves at all times."

"But we can always find a balance between pain and suffering, seeking happiness within reach on a narrow bridge, which is why humanity has persisted for thousands of years."

"And Gu Jiangyi, your mistake is losing this balance."

Ye Wen looked at her with pity: "I don't know exactly what you went through in the beginning. All I see is you now."

"I want to tell you that if you encounter something abnormal, your first thought is that there's something wrong with you, which is a mistake in itself."

"You need to correct this mistake."

Gu Jiangyi remained silent for a long time.

She began to recall all the unwarranted suffering she had endured so far, but behind the suffering, she discovered that it seemed that the ones who had inflicted this suffering on her from beginning to end were... simply her "family."

After discovering that she had suicidal tendencies, her classmates would carefully watch over her every day.

The student council members all treated themselves kindly, and together they worked to create a film that can be described as epic (I'm sure of it).

Even though the senior always bullies her and deducts her credits, as long as he's her senior, that's enough.

It turns out that there was so much kindness around her, but she had been hiding it in her pain and had ignored it.

The senior is right.

This is who I am.

That is undoubtedly wrong.

It needs to be corrected.

Gu Jiangyi looked up at the clear blue sky, the warm sunlight making it hard for her to open her eyes.

She doesn't dislike it.

"So, I didn't actually do anything wrong, right?"

"Yes."

"The fault lies not with me, but with my family, right?"

"Yes."

"Can I love others, and can I be loved by others?"

"Can."

Ye Wenxin nodded: "In my capacity as the vice president of the student council, overseeing thousands of students at Tianyu High School, I agree."

If he is absolutely correct in Gu Jiangyi's mental world, then let him allow it.

Allow girls to receive love, to crave love, and to give love.

Click.

The sound of breaking rang out one after another.

The cage was broken.

The scene they were in changed, now the interior of a magnificent villa. A woman was sitting on the sofa in the living room. Although it was the first time Ye Wen had seen her, he recognized her.

She is Gu Jiangyi's nominal mother, and also the source of Gu Jiangyi's life tragedy.

The nightmare begins.

"Go."

Ye Wen gently patted Gu Jiangyi's shoulder: "You've said everything you wanted to say."

Although he could tell Gu Jiangyi that the thing wasn't actually her biological mother, Ye Wen felt that would affect Gu Jiangyi's resolve.

She must, as a "daughter," resist the violence of her "mother."

"Um!"

Gu Jiangyi nodded vigorously.

She walked firmly to her mother and paused for a moment to gather her thoughts.

Ye Wen suddenly blurted out, "If you dare say that you're so mean, I'll deduct your credits until next year."

Gu Jiangyi: "...No, I won't tell."

"Seriously, senior, don't interrupt. I just finished thinking about my lines."

Gu Jiangyi paused for a few more seconds to think.

"I hate you, Mom."

Gu Jiangyi spoke slowly and deliberately, in a declarative tone: "When Father was still alive, I vaguely sensed that you were only being nice to me out of obligation. I only had what my sister had. You never really cared about what I wanted. You cared more about how others perceived me than about me."

"Later, my father passed away, and you stopped acting altogether. I always thought I had done something wrong, but now it seems I was terribly wrong."

She said calmly, "I shouldn't have had any unwarranted expectations of you, and I shouldn't have tolerated your unwarranted violence."

"I didn't do anything wrong."

"It's just that you're not fit to be a mother."

Gu Jiangyi didn't become hysterical or make a scene. She simply spoke her thoughts calmly and gently, as if she were speaking to an outsider.

Therefore, they became even more resolute.

"I will no longer mistakenly crave warmth."

Gu Jiangyi looked at her mother's face, which was gradually becoming clearer: "I won't hate you, because you were the one who raised me."

"But I will never love you again."

"that's all."

"Farewell, Mother."

Gu Jiangyi bowed deeply to Madam Gu.

She has found someone she can rely on, someone who will treat her gently.

She has a new home now.

When she returned home, there were people to greet her, cook for her, boil water for her to take a bath, say good morning and good evening, and help her lose credits at home.

Click.

The dream was shattered completely.

She woke up.

The body of the Nightmare Rose Witch withered completely, turning into snow-white ash. Gu Jiangyi opened her eyes, and the first thing she saw was Ye Wen's blood-stained profile.

The problem of magical girl witchification has been solved, but the label of purple heroine still exists on Gu Jiangyi's head. Since it was data forcibly implanted by Kyubey, Ye Wenshang does not know what kind of impact and pollution it will bring.

It needs to be resolved as soon as possible.

Ye Wen glanced at the buff's duration; there were still about 60 seconds left.

Gu Jiangyi stood up.

She knew clearly that the Ye Wen in her dream was the real Ye Wen, and she could see how much he had sacrificed and how much effort he had put in to save her.

Such a gentle senior, such a dazzling senior, such a handsome senior...

How should she repay this kindness?

Gu Jiangyi didn't know.

But at least, she wanted to finish saying what she hadn't said before.

So the girl came to Ye Wen's side, mustered up the greatest courage she had ever had, and grabbed Ye Wen's sleeve.

She spoke softly, "Senior."

"I like you."