The game's heroine has come true? The aloof school beauty is in tears.

There is absolutely no room for overturning You Lian's case.

What's more, she fled to avoid punishment and did not turn herself in.

Therefore, her assets were frozen and she was imprisoned.

But she didn't come back to die.

After all, she was a mentally ill person with a criminal record.

Of course, even if they're not locked up in jail, they'll be locked up in a mental hospital.

It's just a different place to serve time in jail.

She had no family.

In other words, if she had a sudden inspiration to cross Lop Nur and die in the no-man's land, no one would look for her.

Similarly, if she died inexplicably in the hospital, no one would care.

So she prepared a story for herself when she was admitted to the hospital:

"I have evidence that will bring you to ruin, and if I die, this evidence will be brought to light."

Apart from that sentence, You Lian had prepared nothing else.

Dean Niu certainly wouldn't believe it; nobody would believe it either.

After all, words alone are not enough to prove anything.

But the more you have, the more afraid you are of losing it.

Dean Niu suddenly connected the dots with You Lian's movements.

For a month after the incident, she did not run away and remained in a village not far from the scene of the incident.

In the end, they even voluntarily surrendered.

Why is this person doing this?

Is she an idiot?

You Lian was certainly not a fool; on the contrary, this woman was very shrewd.

If she wanted to, she definitely had the means and channels to get far away.

They can even sneak out of the country without swiping their ID cards, far from the reach of the emperor.

Dean Niu was very familiar with You Lian's past experience.

So, working backward from the result, why didn't You Lian run away?

"Could it be that she wants to elope with that child?"

The idea that Dean Niu himself proposed made him laugh first.

Stop joking around. Just listen to your own thoughts; don't you think they're laughable?

For the sake of a village child, they decided to give up their freedom and surrender...

It would be more accurate to say that You Lian inexplicably heard the call of the earth and decided to become an old farmer in the village.

Dean Niu, who had missed the only true answer, was on high alert.

He could never have guessed that You Lian's sole purpose was to be a legitimate nanny and then happily plant a few acres of rapeseed flowers.

But this is the reason.

Even if you put the world's most advanced lie detector on You Lian and make her say those words herself.

Dean Niu wouldn't believe it either.

He would quickly put on his bulletproof vest, fearing that You Lian would arrange for a special forces soldier to jump out and shoot him.

The unknown is the most terrifying.

And so it ended.

You Lian began a leisurely vacation in the mental hospital, bored but with no worries about food or clothing.

Dean Niu was terrified that she was dead.

Her life consisted of nothing more than feeding more mouths and serving others.

Anyway, there are plenty of nurses in this hospital who get paid. At most, they'll arrange a VIP room for You Lian for free and assign two nurses to take care of her.

But she's dead, who knows what might happen next.

You Lian lived a life here, receiving treatment like an emperor.

He even set a record of eating Boston lobster as a midnight snack for fifteen consecutive nights.

If she wasn't given food, she would pretend to be dying.

Anyway, he already looked sickly.

She just wanted to tell Dean Niu: whether in the hospital or outside, as long as I don't die, you'll be fine. So you'd better release me right now, or I'll eat you dry.

However, Dean Niu is inherently suspicious, and he would never do such a thing.

Because allowing You Lian to be discharged from the hospital means that an evaluation certificate needs to be issued.

At that time, You Lian will be free, and he will no longer have any means to control her.

So he bit him to death.

He took on everything except for issuing certificates.

And so began a long and drawn-out battle.

This pull lasted for four years.

From the depths of winter to the sweltering heat of summer, the leaves under the ginkgo trees have fallen time and time again.

You Lian always looked south.

I imagine there is a field of rapeseed flowers there, representing hope.

A child dressed as a monkey sat by the river in the fields, waiting for her to go to town together.

And so we waited and waited.

Until she vaguely saw a familiar face appear in front of her.

At that moment, she couldn't describe the feelings she had.

Although that child has grown tall and big, like an adult... he is already an adult.

But she recognized him at a glance.

She didn't know what to say when they met again, because she was filled with guilt.

Because she had promised to take him to the city, promised to raise him, and promised never to leave again.

She lied to him so many times without him noticing.

She waited expectantly for the child to sit down beside her until he spoke his first words.

As a result, he sat down and fell asleep immediately.

If an outsider saw this scene, they would just scoff and say, "Wow, that's amazing."

When Ke Youlian saw this scene, tears streamed down her face.

Because Lu Yuan was like that when they first met.

Seeing her hands stained with blood, he shouted that he would kill the enemy and then come up to her; if he couldn't kill them, he would go to sleep.

You'll win if you just take a nap.

When we met again, the road was still long.

She wasn't crying because she felt like a child again; rather, she felt like she had become the enemy once more.

So she stopped communicating with Lu Yuan.

Because she didn't know what kind of image she had in the heart of young Lu Yuan back then.

When they were surrounded by police, everyone was loudly discussing Yu Lian's crimes.

Only that child stubbornly shook his head in disbelief.

Until she finally nodded and confessed.

She saw a dark look in Lu Yuan's eyes at that moment.

From Lu Yuan's perspective, her confession meant that Dr. Niu had said those things to Lu Yuan back then.

It's all true.

Even if you don't want to believe it, you have to believe it.

Because even she herself admitted it.

In the four years since she left.

Will this brat toss and turn at night, wondering why he was tricked?

You Lian didn't know.

All she knew was that as the rising sun plunged once more into the winding stream, and the setting moon surged and spread across the hills, dreams were being nurtured one after another in that village filled with the fragrance of rice.

A child running around in the village prays for a dream where "promises will definitely be kept".

Then it shattered again.

Therefore, You Lian did not communicate with Lu Yuan again.

I watched him ask the nurses about "Honey Badger," talk to the patients in the hospital who were dating flowers about "roughness" and "flower stamens," and ask Dr. Liu about his condition...

She knew that Lu Yuan had definitely dreamt about her, and it wasn't a good thing.

So You Lian was sitting in front of the iron door of the solitary confinement cell, touching the patterns on the iron door.

As dawn broke, I was overwhelmed with mixed feelings.

"Lu Yuan, do you still believe me?"

...

"I will never trust You Lian again."

Lu Yuan woke up from his sleep and stared at the pitch-black solitary confinement cell.

I laughed in exasperation.

He came to the solitary confinement room because he refused to take his medication and wanted to rewind time once more.

But after I woke up from a nap...

There was no backtracking, nothing at all.

And so he attained enlightenment.

This simulation has only two objectives.

First, leave the mental hospital.

Second, don't die.

At the time, Lu Yuan was puzzled and said, "How could a game with a time rewind feature possibly end?"

Now he finally knows.

Death triggers a backtracking process, and continuous death means continuous backtracking.

He can never leave this mental hospital.

If I can't leave the mental hospital, the game will fail...

The second point tells him that if he dies and triggers a time travel, then the first point cannot be completed.

But as Lu Yuan kept retracing his steps, what was the cause of his death?

The first time, he trusted You Lian and came to the ginkgo tree, where he was bitten to death by a honey badger.

The second time, he trusted You Lian and felt there was more to the story, so he secretly followed Dr. Liu to his office and overheard the conversation about aphrodisiacs. He was then drugged to death by Dr. Liu.

The third time, he trusted You Lian and didn't take the medicine; he did it again...

So don't die.

That means you shouldn't trust Yu Lian.