"Don't eat that dirty stuff, be careful you'll get a stomachache."
Su Qingyu could now understand why Shuangxi had such a strong reaction when she ate sushi.
Shuangxi opened its pitch-black mouth and pointed, "I'm hungry."
Su Qingyu opened her tablet computer, clicked on the "Underworld Treasure" shopping software, found the bizarre delicacies section, and clicked in. Inside were all sorts of bloody foods made from severed limbs and broken bodies.
"Here, what do you want to eat? My treat."
Shuangxi's mouth watered as it looked at the delicacies on the tablet. It extended its pale fingers and tapped with its sharp fingernails.
Su Qingyu placed the order directly without even carefully looking at what she had selected.
The food appeared with white mist, and the strong smell of blood choked Su Qingyu, making it difficult to breathe.
Su Qingyu left the bedroom, telling Shuangxi to eat quietly inside.
Her younger brother was no longer playing with his ball. He stepped on a small stool and stuck his head out the window.
"Bang!"
Another huge falling sound came from outside the window.
Mom came out with a large iron pot, placing it on the induction cooker. Inside, a red and white soup was simmering.
"My precious daughter, your exam is the day after tomorrow.
Mom specially stewed this soup for you to nourish your body.
You absolutely must eat it, or Mom will be angry."
Su Qingyu looked at the scalp with black hair still attached and floating palms in the pot, and her stomach churned.
Clearing the instance tested acting skills.
Even though Su Qingyu's stomach cramped from the soup, she still said regretfully and humbly, "Mom, Younger Brother should be the one to nourish his body.
Let Younger Brother eat more, so Younger Brother can grow taller."
During this time, no matter how Mom threatened or bribed, Su Qingyu did not touch the soup.
"You are such a naughty child!"
Mom slammed her fist on the dining table.
Su Qingyu wanted to soothe Mom, but Mom looked at her ferociously and handed her a ladle full of soup, bringing it to her mouth.
Dad scooped a ladle of soup from the pot. He uncharacteristically spoke up for Su Qingyu, "If the child doesn't want to eat, don't force her."
Hearing this, Mom covered her eyes and started crying.
Fresh blood seeped from between Mom's fingers.
"But if you only eat healthy food, my daughter will get sick."
Su Qingyu waved her hand and guaranteed, "Mom, I won't get sick."
"Then tell me, what did you see in the soup?"
Su Qingyu's pitch-black eyeballs rolled nimbly, "Of course, it's delicious soup and fresh meat."
"Really?" Mom wiped away bloody tears. "But I visited Grandma today and happened to ask the doctor about your picky eating.
The doctor said that you've become a picky eater precisely because you eat healthy food.
You see all of Mom's cooking as inedible things."
《Thriller Descends》 This book mentioned that instances could have a weak influence on each other.
Especially higher-difficulty instances could affect lower-difficulty ones.
Su Qingyu cupped her face, "Really, I love Mom the most."
"Mom loves you too."
Su Qingyu lowered her head, poked the soybean paste mixed with rice with her chopsticks, and then casually mentioned, "Mom and Dad love me so much, if I were to leave home, would you worry about me?"
The air froze for an instant.
Mom's originally sad expression and Dad's joyful expression as he tasted the soup vanished in an instant.
They were replaced by numbness and an expressionless look.
Much like Shuangxi's state most of the time.
Dad said, "Dad loves you and will support your choice."
Mom said, "Mom loves you too much to bear letting you leave home.
You're still young; when you grow up, you can travel far away."
Extreme love can turn into a control freak.
Su Qingyu felt a point flash through her mind, and a strong sense of strangeness arose within her.
Rule One.
【Please remember, you are Mom's good daughter. Mom loves you so much. Love is not wrong, even if the method is a bit off.】
Rule Nine.
【The black cat loves you.】
These two rules appeared on the first rule of 【Sweet Home】（ above ）.
And on the first rule of 【Sweet Home】（ below ）.
Love! That's the source of pollution in this instance!
Extreme love, twisted love, is both protection and harm!
If Mom's love is about controlling her daughter and keeping her daughter at home forever.
Then what is the black cat's love?
Where did the black cat come from?
Su Qingyu stood up and looked at her mother with a firm gaze, "Mom, if you love me, you should let me be free.
Home is a warm harbor, a place to return to, not a restraint, not a cage."
Mom's eyes overflowed with obsession, like a pious believer, "No, no, it's too dangerous outside, you can't just leave home.
My treasure, just wait a little longer, and you'll become one with this home.
The doctor said that when the time comes, you can return to Mom's womb.
Mom will give birth to you again.
All your sadness and sorrow will be forgotten with your rebirth.
We are a loving family."
Su Qingyu really wanted to give her pathological mother a good slap.
This is an instance, and the rules are absolute, supreme.
Su Qingyu could not do anything that violated the identity of "daughter."
Otherwise, no matter how rich she was, she would be instantly erased by "it."
If the rules are understood as an umbrella, then outside the umbrella lies an endless wilderness and extreme cold.
Holding the umbrella allows one to barely survive.
Abandoning the umbrella means certain death.
Su Qingyu had no appetite for this meal.
Dinner ended.
Su Qingyu returned to the bedroom. The door lock was so broken that it couldn't be locked from the inside.
Many mold spots had grown in the corner of the original bedroom, and the patches had turned from dark green to black.
Bulging wall skin occasionally shed a few spiders and cockroaches from within, and no matter how many times the bedsheets were changed, they would become damp within a day.
A bench was used to brace the door, bedsheets were changed, and a mask was worn to sleep.
At night.
Su Qingyu was woken up by a cat licking her. She heard someone whispering in the room.
Younger Brother's voice was like a mouse's. He was lying outside the bedroom door, "Sister, are you asleep?
The door is being held shut. Can you open it for Older Brother?
Older Brother said that only if Sister opens the door can he take me to the hospital to see Grandma.
Sister, I miss Grandma.
Sister, when do you think Grandma will come back?
When Grandma left, she even asked Sister for help.
Sister, did you hear me?"
Every word was like a death knell.
Although Su Qingyu's eyes were tightly closed, she could be sure that something was crawling out from under the bed.
That thing was standing by her bedside.
Shuangxi guarded Su Qingyu's side, making no sound.
If there were truly life-threatening danger, Shuangxi would offer the initial resistance for her.
Su Qingyu forced herself to calm down and continued to sleep.
As long as she didn't violate the rules, she was safe.
On the morning of the fifth day, Su Qingyu woke up.
When she got out of bed, she found her room filled with sewage.
One shoe was washed to the bedroom door by the sewage, while the other shoe had disappeared.
Su Qingyu, wearing one shoe, hopped out on one foot.
The other shoe was placed neatly on the windowsill of the grey bedroom.
That was a trap.
Su Qingyu went to the shoe cabinet in the living room and changed into a new pair of shoes.
Seeing Su Qingyu get up, Younger Brother ran to the window and pulled open all the curtains in the living room.
This was the first time Su Qingyu saw the outside world through the window.
"Thump!"
Outside the window, there was that familiar huge sound again.
Su Qingyu walked towards the balcony.
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