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Su Mian did not know that she had already been targeted by someone.

Even if she did, she likely had no time or mood to consider it right now.

Her current appearance had undergone a massive transformation.

She wore an oversized coat as her top and thick denim jeans for her bottom.

She even wore a large baseball cap on her head, and the lower half of her face was completely hidden by a black mask.

She was fully armed, having even changed into a different pair of shoes, leaving only her eyes exposed.

These clothes were items she had just stolen from the residential complex.

Although stealing clothes was wrong, she truly had no other choice.

Otherwise, with her previous outfit that was more provocative than being naked, she would have been photographed and uploaded to the internet the moment she stepped out!

Su Mian did not want to see herself on adult websites.

She would rather slit her own throat than let that happen.

She had considered leaving an equivalent amount of money behind, but the problem was she had no cash on her.

It was impossible for her to make a special trip to the bank for that.

If she stole someone’s clothes and left money, once word got out, people would check the surveillance out of curiosity and her secret would be exposed instantly!

So Su Mian really had no choice but to wait and see.

She planned to wash and dry the clothes once she got home and see if she could return them later.

‘Sigh.’

To be honest, it was currently late September.

Although the air was turning cold, it was far from freezing, so this outfit looked somewhat eccentric.

But Su Mian could not care about that.

She only wanted to get home as quickly as possible.

Every step on the street was a form of torture, and she did not even dare to take a car.

She could only look around for a shared bike, which would at least be faster than walking.

But before that…

Underneath the mask, Su Mian exhaled a breath of scalding air.

She glanced at a nearby supermarket and resolutely walked inside.

There were many people in the supermarket, making it a place she should have tried her best to avoid.

However, she needed a certain tool to help suppress her condition, or she feared she would not make it home.

Since she had never been to this particular supermarket and her head was spinning, she wandered around like a headless fly for a while.

Finally, having no other choice, she grabbed a passing staff member.

The staff member looked like a very young woman, likely in her early twenties.

She was quite pretty, but there was a coldness in her expression.

After being grabbed by Su Mian, she looked at the heavy autumn outfit, which seemed odd for the weather, but she did not ask questions.

“What is wrong? Are you looking for something?”

Su Mian nodded.

Then, word by word, she struggled to force out a sentence.

“Where… are… the… band-aids?”

She spoke with great difficulty.

This was not due to a lack of strength, but because she had to constantly suppress the boiling impulses within her.

Her body and mind were in a state of extreme tension that never relaxed for a second.

Several seconds passed without a response.

The cold-faced girl stood frozen on the spot, her eyes wide.

A flush of crimson rose uncontrollably to her face.

The girl seemed to fall into a state of semi-consciousness within a single second.

If one looked closely, she had an abnormal pink layer in her eyes.

That pink hue was rapidly spreading, threatening to consume her entire gaze and spread to her whole body.

‘Tch… I cannot even speak? I am sorry!’

Su Mian realized the issue immediately.

She apologized to the woman and gave her a gentle push.

The woman was slender and light, but that gentle push sent her back four or five meters.

She hit a pile of snacks, which prevented her from falling over.

Su Mian took the opportunity to turn a corner.

While others were distracted by the noise the woman made, she left the supermarket without drawing much attention.

The young woman snapped out of it as Su Mian left.

She looked at the friend who was helping her up in a daze.

“What just happened?”

“You suddenly walked into the snack pile. Are you okay?”

The friend looked concerned.

The woman could not remember what happened.

Strangely, she felt as if the entire world had turned pink.

She felt light, as if she had ascended to heaven.

‘Wait, heaven?’

The woman’s face changed instantly, turning a dark red.

Ignoring her friend’s confused look, she turned and ran toward the restrooms with a strange gait.

The friend stood there scratching his head.

“What is going on? And what is this weird smell? Did the snacks go bad?”

He searched for the source but could not find it.

Instead, he caught a strange, lingering fragrance.

As he breathed it in, his expression gradually became odd as well.

After leaving the supermarket, Su Mian found another small shop dozens of meters away.

Because it was small, it was easier to find items.

The band-aids were right on the shelf in front of her.

The owner was an old woman dozing in a chair behind the counter.

She barely opened her eyes as Su Mian approached with a box of band-aids.

“Five yuan.”

Because of her previous mistake, Su Mian simply used her phone to scan the WeChat Pay code to pay.

She did not say a word.

She doubted her effect would be as strong on the old woman, but she did not want to take risks.

She paid and left without staying for even a second.

She turned another corner and entered a public restroom she had spotted earlier.

It was a paid restroom where the door could be locked from the inside.

She did not have to worry about anyone barging in.

It was relatively clean.

She was not there for physiological needs.

Su Mian sensed the surroundings to ensure no one was nearby.

She pulled out the box of band-aids.

“I never thought I would do something like this one day…”

She let out a mournful sigh.

She had no choice.

Since she had no bra, the two specific points on her chest rubbed against her clothes as she moved.

If she did not seal them, she feared she would collapse halfway.

She had seen bras in the neighborhood earlier, but she could not bring herself to steal intimate clothing.

Su Mian still had some standards.

Band-aids were a similar solution.

If she could handle those two points, the rest were minor issues.

It proved to be very effective.

As she stepped out of the public restroom, she let out a long sigh of relief.