73: save5 The Broken Puppet
"No, I don't believe it!" Lu Lele declared with unwavering firmness.
She couldn't believe that Liu Lili would choose to break up with her, let alone say such things.
Betrayal by a lover was forever the hardest thing for a yandere to endure. In Lu Lele's eyes, she had clearly treated Liu Lili so well. Liu Lili had no reason to leave her, and no reason to say such excessive words.
Liu Lili should clearly have happily accepted her love and gone on the date with her in high spirits. That amusement park was something she had finally managed to get to open on weekends.
"Then, it can only be this way..."
Lu Yanyan, as if she had prepared this long ago, took out her phone, opened a recording, and transmitted a familiar voice that haunted Lu Lele's dreams.
"...rd. I feel very afraid. The Lele in my heart shouldn't be such a selfish and willful person. And she can actually do such unimaginable things... I dare not imagine. I completely dare not imagine what will happen if I continue to be with her. Please, I beg you, let me separate from Lele!"
In the recording, Liu Lili's speech was fast and sounded quite agitated. However, Lu Lele keenly sensed something was off.
Because the recording was clearly a clipped segment. Before "I feel very afraid," there was an attached sound. Due to Liu Lili's fast speech speed, it stuck together with the "I" that followed, making it hard to hear clearly. However, it was certain that this was absolutely a recording extracted from a complete sentence.
Because of this, Lu Lele didn't explode immediately. Instead, she pursued the matter.
"What about before? What did Lili say before that?"
Lu Yanyan answered almost without pause.
"Before? The part before had no nutritional value, so I didn't record it. Lele, please accept reality."
Lu Lele vaguely felt her sister was concealing some important things and asked loudly.
"Did you say something to Liu Lili?"
"I did chat with her for a while. However, your sister didn't deliberately badmouth you in front of Lili. I just repeated the words you said when you threatened me, in response to her inquiries."
Lu Yanyan paused, then continued.
"Judging by the looks of it, Lili seems to have developed concerns about your mental state. But, this is quite normal. After all, Lele, today you can use your own life to threaten your own sister; tomorrow you might use your own life to threaten Lili. Who knows what you will do? It is very normal for her to feel fear and choose to leave you."
Lu Lele instantly flew into a rage and shouted.
"Sister, you did this on purpose!"
"On purpose? Think whatever you want, Lele. In any case, Lili will walk her own life path from now on and won't have any more entanglements with you."
Having said this, Lu Yanyan sighed again, looking like iron that failed to become steel.
"Lele, to say something unpleasant, you really played a winning hand terribly. With a girl like Lili, you could have gotten her without doing anything at all. Yet you insisted on doing these things self-righteously, hurting your sister and hurting her as well. In the end, you can only pay the bill for what you have done."
"You don't understand anything at all!" Lu Lele screamed hysterically. "Lili definitely still loves me. Is she still at your house? Let me see her. I want to talk to her!"
"Your mental state is already abnormal, my poor sister. Perhaps I should schedule a psychiatrist this afternoon to give you a proper diagnosis. Under medication treatment, Lele, you will get better soon."
Lu Yanyan held Lu Lele's hand, her voice very gentle.
"Lele, please calm down. You should feel lucky. Even though you did so many things that hurt your sister, your sister still won't leave you. However, punishment is necessary, I will take back the freedom I gave you in the past, until the day I turn to dust. Please reflect well on your actions, my foolish sister."
Lu Lele had already lost her reason. She shouted and yelled.
"If you don't let me see Lili, I will die!!"
Lu Yanyan said softly.
"You won't be able to seek death even if you want to. I will take good care of you until the day you die. That is my sister's destiny for the rest of her life."
So, Lu Lele began a hunger strike.
At first, Lu Yanyan didn't pay it much mind.
In her view, the instinct for survival was incredibly difficult to resist.
But immediately following.
One day, two days, three days.
Lu Lele went without food or water. It wasn't until the morning of the third day, looking at her sister whose gaze remained firm, that Lu Yanyan finally realized Lu Lele's determination.
However, Lu Yanyan had long since made preparations.
She tied Lu Lele up and then prolonged her life through intravenous infusion.
Although Lu Lele was wholeheartedly seeking death, the glucose and saline solution injected into her body were absorbed so well by her that she recovered her health in just a short day or two.
"I won't let you leave this world, Lele." Lu Yanyan said this.
Lu Lele felt utterly despairing and roared.
"Why? Is it that I don't even have the right to end my own life?"
"That's right."
Lu Yanyan smiled faintly.
"Perhaps you won't be happy. But, this is something your sister must do."
...
Fifteen years later.
Long-term consumption of psychiatric medication made Lu Lele become so quiet and well-behaved. She spoke less and less, and gradually stopped moving around much.
Perhaps in Lu Yanyan's eyes, Lu Lele had already accepted reality and become the obedient, cute sister who wouldn't cause trouble.
Until that day. Lu Lele accidentally fell to the ground but never managed to climb back up.
The doctor who was invited, after examining her with professional tools, said in a tactful tone.
"It seems that because the medication itself possesses a certain toxicity to the mind, the accumulation over many long years has allowed these toxins to breach the critical point. Miss Lu is now... to use more understandable layman's terms, she is in a vegetative state."
Lu Yanyan asked back emotionally, her voice trembling.
"Why didn't you say this before!! Didn't you say this medication was the most advanced and safest on the market?"
"...I am very sorry, Ms. Lu. Significant breakthroughs in the research regarding the toxicity of this medication only occurred in the last six months. And Miss Lu, she..."
"Get out, you useless thing. Get lost!!!!"
Lu Yanyan lost her reason. She smashed all the examination tools on the ground, squatted on the floor, her whole body trembling.
The doctor said in a small voice.
"Ms. Lu, these instruments are all very expensive..."
"I will compensate you at ten times the price. Now disappear from my sight immediately! Get lost!!!!"
The doctor left in dejection.
She didn't know how much time passed before Lu Yanyan stood up swayingly and hugged her motionless biological sister on the bed, crying as she spoke.
"Sister only lived in this world for you, Lele..."
That night, Lu Yanyan said many things to Lu Lele. She spoke of everything from when they were little until recently, telling her sister everything without reservation. She choked on sobs as she spoke, crying until she became a person of tears.
That woman, who looked almost exactly like Lu Yanyan, seemed like the most exquisite puppet, listening motionless from the side. However, she would never give any response again.
That night.
Two gunshots rang out in the quiet villa in the outskirts, representing the end of everything.