“Ah… Danya, why? Save me… ah… save me… save…”
Amid the pain that wracked her entire body, Tong Qingyan suddenly woke up.
This clean and tidy room looked so familiar…
What was going on?
How had she returned to the hotel room again?
Had she not already been pushed into the water by her “good best friend,” Liu Danya, and fed to the sharks?
How was she alive again?
Could everything that had happened over the past few days have been nothing more than a dream?
No, that was impossible. How could a dream ever feel so real?
Even now, she could still feel an unbearable pain throughout her entire body.
The sensation of being viciously torn apart, bitten to pieces, and swallowed whole was something she would never forget.
Tong Qingyan fiercely pinched her thigh.
“Hiss…”
It hurt so much. This was not a dream. She had really come back to life!
She picked up the phone beside her pillow and glanced at the time. July 2, 2137, half a month before the apocalypse.
She had actually returned to the time before the apocalypse?
Hahaha…
Wonderful!
Heaven had given her another chance to live.
Knock knock knock…
“Qingyan, are you up? Qingyan, get up quickly. We still have to go out early and have fun!”
Listening to the knocking and repeated calls from outside the door, Tong Qingyan narrowed her eyes, which were filled with overwhelming hatred.
In her previous life, Liu Danya had insisted on dragging her to Japan for a trip to cheer herself up after a breakup. Yet when disaster struck, she had not hesitated for even a moment before pushing her into the sea to feed the sharks.
Tong Qingyan took a deep breath, trying to suppress the anger surging within her.
But no matter what she did, she could not suppress it.
Since it could not be suppressed, she simply stopped trying. The apocalypse was coming anyway, so she might as well send Liu Danya to meet God ahead of time.
She stepped onto the floor barefoot, her feet sinking into the soft carpet as she walked toward the door one step at a time.
The person outside continued urging her to hurry, completely unaware that danger was already approaching.
Tong Qingyan reached the door and looked through the peephole. When she saw Liu Danya’s anxious face, it overlapped with the twisted expression Liu Danya had worn when pushing her into the sea in her memories, causing her heart to clench sharply.
Her hand tightened around the doorknob until her fingertips turned white from the force.
She suddenly pulled the door open and glared furiously at Liu Danya standing outside.
Liu Danya remained completely unaware of what was coming. The moment she saw the door open, she walked straight into the room while continuing to chatter.
“Qingyan, why did you take so long? Hurry up and get ready. We will go downstairs for breakfast and then head out to have fun…”
Before Liu Danya could finish speaking, a sharp pain suddenly shot through her scalp.
Before she could even cry out, the world before her eyes spun violently. Her entire body was slammed heavily onto the soft carpet, and she let out a muffled groan.
Tong Qingyan twisted both of her arms behind her back, then straddled Liu Danya and pinned her down with all her strength.
She then yanked off the belt of her bathrobe, wrapped it tightly around Liu Danya’s neck, and pulled with force.
Looking down at the best friend beneath her as she struggled desperately, Tong Qingyan no longer had even the slightest trace of the warmth she once held for her. Only cold hatred and absolute resolve remained in her eyes.
Liu Danya was completely panicked. She had no idea why Tong Qingyan had suddenly turned on her like this.
Was she finally tired of letting herself be taken advantage of?
Or had Tong Qingyan discovered that she had been spreading rumors about her everywhere?
Or perhaps she had discovered that Liu Danya had deliberately ruined the chances of all those boys who had once pursued her?
In the short span of time, everything Liu Danya had ever done flashed through her mind, yet she still could not figure out what had made Tong Qingyan treat her this way.
“Ugh… Qing… why…”
A suffocating sensation swept over Liu Danya like a rising tide. She tried to pull her hands free so she could remove the bathrobe belt around her neck, but Tong Qingyan held her down firmly.
Her constant struggling not only failed to free her hands, but her sharp manicured nails also tore into her own hands.
“Do you want to know why I am killing you?”
Tong Qingyan slowly bent down, her warm breath brushing against Liu Danya’s ear, but the words she spoke were as cold as ice.
“Go down and ask Yama himself!”
Tong Qingyan practically gritted her teeth as she spat out those words.
Her hands slowly tightened. A harsh choking sound came from Liu Danya’s throat as her body began struggling even more violently, her pupils widening in terror.
Her face was filled with horror and despair. She wanted to beg for mercy and ask why Tong Qingyan was doing this to her, but the damned suffocating sensation left her unable to produce even a complete sound.
Whenever Tong Qingyan thought of how she had died horribly in the jaws of sharks because of the woman before her, overwhelming hatred surged through her heart.
The strength in her fingertips suddenly increased, and the bathrobe belt dug deeply into the flesh of Liu Danya’s neck.
Tong Qingyan stared fixedly at her thrashing legs as the scene of being pushed into the sea replayed over and over in her mind. Cold seawater flooded into her nose, the shark’s sharp teeth tore through her skin, while Liu Danya stood on the yacht with undisguised coldness and delight on her face.
“When you watched me being torn apart by the sharks, did you ever think this day would come?”
Tong Qingyan’s voice trembled, not from fear, but from the overwhelming hatred and intense satisfaction of revenge intertwined within her.
Liu Danya’s struggle gradually weakened. The violent kicking of her legs turned into weak spasms, and her pupils slowly became unfocused.
Tong Qingyan still did not let go. Only after Liu Danya had completely stopped breathing and her body lay limp against the carpet did she slowly release the bathrobe belt, which was soaked through with sweat.
She stood up and looked down at Liu Danya’s corpse. There was not the slightest ripple of emotion on her face.
She had merely brought an end to the death she had suffered in her previous life.
But soon, the reason returned. This was not the time to lose herself in the pleasure of revenge. The apocalypse was only half a month away, and she had to dispose of the body as quickly as possible and prepare supplies to take back home.
With half a month still remaining before the apocalypse, she could not simply leave Liu Danya’s corpse here.
There was no way she was going to let her suitcase be used by someone like this. She would use Liu Danya’s instead.
She searched through the pockets of Liu Danya’s clothes and found her room card. She went to Liu Danya’s room, emptied everything from the suitcase, and brought the suitcase back to her own room.
Tong Qingyan stuffed Liu Danya’s body into the suitcase as best she could, but Liu Danya’s arm kept slipping out.
Looking at the bracelet on her wrist, Tong Qingyan suddenly remembered something. After she had been pushed into the water, what she saw was not tears in Liu Danya’s eyes, but Liu Danya shaking the wrist that wore the bracelet Tong Qingyan had given her, smiling smugly. It seemed that she had even said something about thanking Tong Qingyan for giving her the bracelet space.
A bracelet space?
Was it the kind of space she had heard about?
Tong Qingyan was also an avid novel reader, so she knew quite a bit about spaces like that.
She had never imagined that a bracelet she had bought casually would actually contain a space.
She had spotted the bracelet while she and Liu Danya were shopping the previous day. She liked it very much, so she bought it.
Liu Danya then insisted that she liked it too, but there was only one bracelet. Tong Qingyan had not thought much of it and simply lent it to her to wear for the time being.
They had been university classmates and even shared the same dormitory room. They ate delicious food together, exchanged clothes to wear, and took turns wearing each other’s jewelry. They had been closer than biological sisters.