kvmb Is Chapter 198 a coincidence?
Is Chapter 198 a coincidence?
Lu He sat in the extended Lincoln, staring blankly out the window.
It's 7:30 in the morning, and she's being driven to school by her driver.
Indeed, things aren't so urgent in the world of comics. Back when I was actually in school, I was already on my way at six o'clock, when it was still dark.
Unlike now, I can leisurely enjoy a breakfast carefully prepared by my maid at home, be picked up and dropped off by a private car, and comfortably watch people come and go outside the window.
Just as he was enjoying the comforts of being rich, he saw a familiar figure on the roadside ahead—Lin Yingxin.
She lives in this direction too? What a coincidence. (Lu He didn't know that Han Xi used to bully Lin Yingxin on her way home from school, and even went to her house to bully her.)
The driver had obviously seen Lin Yingxin too. He sighed and asked, "Miss, should we pull over?" Before, every time Han Xi saw this girl, he would pull over and throw things at her or splash water on her.
"Huh?" Lu He didn't understand for a moment, but quickly guessed what it meant. It was likely that Han Xi and Lin Yingxin had a conflict before, which the driver had witnessed.
Since she needed to interact with the female lead anyway, she nodded after weighing the options and gestured for the driver to move closer.
Lin Yingxin was walking slowly when she sensed a vehicle approaching from behind. She caught a glimpse of the hood of a stretch Lincoln out of the corner of her eye, so she simply stopped and waited calmly for the other party's next move.
The car window slowly rolled down, and Lu He leaned out, smiling, and said, "Lin, want to go to school together?" Lin Yingxin was slightly taken aback. She hadn't expected Lu He to not avoid her today, but instead to take the initiative to approach her, though she didn't know what Lu He was up to...
The air around them seemed to freeze for a few seconds as they each pondered their own thoughts. Then, Lin Yingxin smiled and said softly, "Okay."
The driver's eyes widened; this was completely different from what he'd seen before. But he didn't dare say anything and could only silently open the car door to let Lin Yingxin get in.
The car started again and headed towards the school, the atmosphere inside slightly awkward. Lu He broke the silence first: "Lin, what do you usually like to do?"
Lin Yingxin politely replied, "I prefer reading." She paused slightly, then continued, "I want to go to business school in the future..."
“Oh, with your grades, there’s absolutely no problem,” Lu He agreed.
However, he did not notice that Lin Yingxin frowned slightly.
They arrived at the school gate quickly, and the two got out of the car after it came to a stop. The students' eyes immediately turned to them, and whispers arose.
"Lu He actually came to school by car with Lin Yingxin?"
"When did they become so close?"
Lin Yingxin was observing Lu He beside her, whether intentionally or unintentionally. Almost the entire school knew that the two had a tense relationship.
Lu He naturally took Lin Yingxin's arm and led her into the campus, leaving a group of astonished classmates standing there.
Zhao Rongrong also witnessed this scene. She bit her lower lip and stared intently at the backs of Lin Yingxin and Han Xi, who were walking hand in hand, her resentment growing and spreading.
As Han Xi approached the classroom door, her former classmates greeted her warmly.
These people are really perceptive; they can tell in a blink of an eye how to speak to Lin Yingxin.
Those warm greetings of "Good morning, Lin" made it seem as if they had always been harmonious and loving classmates, and had never bullied or humiliated her.
The abuser can so easily erase the pain he once caused the victim.
Lu He felt inexplicably uncomfortable. She turned to look at Lin Yingxin, who greeted them warmly without any hesitation, as if she had never been bullied. She was either very magnanimous or very tolerant.
However, Lu He felt that she was the latter, the kind who was very shrewd and calculating.
Ya Xiu sneaked up to Lu He and whispered, "Boss, now that your relationship has improved, should we delete those old videos?"
"What video?"
"Those guys who bullied her before..."
"Delete...wait, let me see it..." Lu He, who was originally going to ask Ya Xiu to delete the videos, suddenly thought of something. She felt that she should take a look at those videos first to understand what had happened in the past.
So she grabbed Yaxiu and rushed out of the classroom.
Lin Yingxin, who was still chatting and laughing with her classmates, withdrew her gaze, pretended not to have seen their actions, and continued to chat and laugh with the others as if nothing had happened.
"Here," Ya Xiu said as they arrived at the stairwell, handing her phone to Lu He.
Several hundred videos and photos, how could there be so many?
I can't imagine how Lin Yingxin managed to get through the past two years.
Lu He watched a few videos and felt nauseous, so she couldn't watch anymore... It was too much...
"Which video showed her first instance of resistance?"
"This happened a long time ago. She resisted twice, but was slapped into submission..." Ya Xiu opened a video from two years ago showing Lin Yingxin being slapped in the face by ten people in a circle.
Lu He pressed her hand against the screen: "I'm asking, the first time she beat you all down..."
"This one is from the art studio."
This was the video Lu He wanted to see. He carefully watched Lin Yingxin's various reactions in the video: being bullied passively, being beaten obediently, the changes in her eyes, the sudden shift from doubt to ruthlessness, her agile movements, and the completely different changes in her expression.
The fake Lin Yingxin entered this body suddenly while she was being beaten in the art studio.
No wonder there was no hatred in her eyes for Han Xi and his group, because she had never truly been bullied.
From the moment she arrived, she single-handedly beat up Han Xi's group of people.
Therefore, to find the main quest, we probably need to know the original trajectory of Lin Yingxin's life. And perhaps only…she knows…
Lu He returned to the classroom and, seeing Lin Yingxin already sitting in her seat reading, decided to ask her directly.
Lu He returned to her seat and turned to Lin Yingxin, wanting to say something.
"Let's make a deal." Before Lu He could speak, the other party spoke first.
"What deal?"
“I know what you just went out to do. I can tell you what you want to know, in exchange, I want to know your real name.”
"Okay, deal!" Lu He readily agreed.
“When I came into this world, I was kneeling on the floor of the art studio, being held down by them, with them grabbing my hair. Before I even understood what was happening, Han Xi slapped me. So I just took action and beat them all up. This should be pretty much what you just learned,” Lin Yingxin said.
Lu He nodded.
Lin Yingxin continued, "Then I obtained the memories of the original owner of this body. She originally wanted to commit suicide by jumping off a building after being humiliated in the art studio that day."
"Suicide? Isn't she the main character? How could she die?"
"That's what makes this comic interesting. It doesn't have a single protagonist; there are two protagonists, just in different timelines," Lin Yingxin said. "The original owner also had a younger sister named Lin Zhao. After her older sister committed suicide, she transferred to this school to investigate the cause of her sister's death."
Lu He immediately answered, "I know, it's a comic that uses flashbacks, with two storylines intersecting and running in parallel, right? I must say, this comic is quite interesting."
Lin Yingxin glared at her: "What do you mean by being a bully who drove someone to their death?"
"Hey! You can't say that. The murderer is Han Xi, not me." The word "murderer" was too heavy, so Lu He quickly distanced herself from Han Xi.
"Then who are you?" Lin Ying thought, trying to get information out of her.
"Tell me what I want to know first, and then I'll tell you." You promised to share all the information; don't even think about going back on your word.
"Alright, alright," Lin Yingxin said calmly, continuing, "Now that I've intervened, the first protagonist won't have to die, the story has changed, the second protagonist won't appear, and I'll continue living here forever as Lin Yingxin..."
"Can you leave once you have no more tasks to complete?"
"No, the only way to leave is to be killed by the time traveler."
Lu He now understood what the other party wanted to trade: if she wasn't the person they were looking for, she would probably have to kill her herself to keep the story going.
Otherwise, neither of them could escape this comic.