Ping Yan, damn it!

‘This isn’t love at all!’

But Song Ning couldn’t bring herself to say the words.

She forced herself to calm down.

“Chengcheng… I believe you. You do love me, okay?”

“Then, Big Sis… can we stay together~”

Hearing Song Ning’s words, the girl let out a faint smile.

“Um… of course we can, Chengcheng. That… can you let go for a moment? These… uh, vine-like things?”

These tentacles looked rough, and they were still writhing with a slimy texture.

Song Ning really didn’t know how to describe them.

Ping Chengcheng’s smile remained healing.

“Of course, but Big Sis must not try to run away~”

As she spoke, the tentacles were all retracted back into the girl’s body.

Song Ning’s posture remained the same as before.

In her right hand, the heart was still beating.

‘What a powerful life force…’

Song Ning’s right hand trembled slightly.

Carefully, she held the heart and, under the girl’s gaze filled with twisted affection, placed it back into her body.

With a series of squelches…

The flesh moved, frantically repairing the girl’s ravaged body.

“Big Sis… you’re so gentle~”

Ping Chengcheng smiled faintly, reaching out to stroke Song Ning’s cheek.

Song Ning took a deep breath.

She now felt that she could no longer look directly at the girl.

Ping Chengcheng’s true form was more terrifying than she had ever imagined.

“I guess Big Sis loves me too, right?”

Ping Chengcheng took the young woman’s hand and held it tightly.

Song Ning gave a helpless, bitter smile.

“I… do love you.”

It was eight o’clock in the evening.

Song Ning sat dazedly on a clean quilt, her clothes all taken by the girl, making it impossible to even think about escaping.

Song Ning looked at the completely dark sky outside the window and sighed.

She estimated Ping Chengcheng had been gone for two or three hours.

What did she go to do?

Thud, thud!

A muffled banging sound came from the doorway.

Song Ning looked over curiously.

“Creak~”

“I’m coming in, Big Sis~”

The door creaked open, and the girl entered, hugging a massive black iron chain.

One end was connected to a collar, its material made of some unknown alloy.

The end of the iron chain dragged on the floor, making a “clatter, clatter~” sound.

The girl kicked the door shut and locked it from the inside, then looked at Song Ning with excitement.

“Big Sis, look what I brought you~ Look, look!”

She giggled.

“With this, Big Sis will never be able to leave my side again~”

“Chengcheng, this…”

Song Ning frowned, swallowing hard.

“What is this for? You can’t be…?”

“Big Sis, look, doesn’t it look good?”

“Chengcheng, you’re not going to put this on me, are you?”

Song Ning’s voice trembled as she spoke.

“What’s wrong? Doesn’t Big Sis want to? But Big Sis… you said you love me!”

The girl looked at Song Ning with grievance in her eyes.

“You love me so much, can’t you indulge me this once?”

Song Ning took a deep breath and let out a laugh.

“Chengcheng… I don’t want it. I think… besides, I don’t really like it.”

Ping Chengcheng lowered her small head, tears welling up in her eyes and falling like pearls from a broken string.

“Big Sis… I’m begging you…”

“Don’t you… like being restrained by me with chains? Then Big Sis… what do you like?”

“Does it have to be restraining me with chains? Aiya~ Big Sis is so disobedient…”

“That’s too selfish, hmm! I want to spoil Big Sis!”

Song Ning gritted her teeth.

“Chengcheng, what on earth are you thinking! I…”

Before she could finish her sentence, the girl rushed toward her like a gust of wind.

Song Ning only saw a blur before feeling something cold on her neck.

“Clack~” A sound, and Ping Chengcheng had already locked the collar on her.

“Big Sis~ See, you look so cute now!”

“Chengcheng… you… why are you still like this…”

Song Ning was also at her wit’s end.

“You’ve lied to me so many times. With a relationship like this… it’s just not possible for us!”

The girl tilted her head, looking at Song Ning.

“Hmm? Big Sis, why are you suddenly talking about loving me?”

“Aiya, I want Big Sis too~ Big Sis, hey hey, good Big Sis, I love you the most~”

The girl happily leaped up and then pounced into Song Ning’s arms, nuzzling her like a little kitten.

Song Ning’s heart went from angry to confused.

She subconsciously held Ping Chengcheng in her arms.

Didn’t she just say she loved Ping Chengcheng?

‘Something’s not right!’

Song Ning suddenly felt a little suspicious of what she had just said, and why the girl’s reaction was what it was…

If she wasn’t having a mental breakdown, then the girl was.

‘What’s going on? Ping Chengcheng, how did you suddenly become like this…’

She was too strange!

“Chengcheng?”

“Hmm~ What’s wrong, Big Sis? Hee hee, I knew Big Sis liked me the most, right?”

As if testing the waters, Song Ning said, “Chengcheng, I hate you.”

Ping Chengcheng blinked happily, her small face moving towards Song Ning’s cheek.

“Big Sis, I like you too.”

Song Ning was stunned.

The alloy collar on her neck was heavy, making Song Ning a little uncomfortable.

She fiddled with it, her eyes complex.

‘Does Ping Chengcheng have paranoid delusions?’

Suddenly, Song Ning recalled many past experiences.

For example, in the small wooden hut at the armory.

Song Ning had managed to find a piece of hardtack and wanted to give it to the girl, but what did Ping Chengcheng say at the time…

“If I eat that hardtack, will you die, Song Ning?”

At the time, Song Ning thought it was just nonsense from Ping Chengcheng.

The girl was running a fever then, so Song Ning didn’t take it to heart.

So, the girl’s paranoia has existed for a long time?

What else did Ping Yan say? “If I continue to stay by her side, I will harm her.”

Could it be that this was also because of the paranoia?

Is that why Ping Chengcheng did something so threatening?

She had been hiding her identity, hiding her true self all along, because she was afraid that Song Ning would dislike her after finding out?

Thinking this way, Song Ning realized that everything Ping Chengcheng had done was out of fear of losing her!

‘Did Ping Chengcheng like her this much, love her this much? But this love is too suffocating, too oppressive…’

Song Ning felt a little… terrified!

What should she do?

She didn’t know. It was just a fact that Ping Yan was dead.

Song Ning felt a little hesitant.

What should she do, how should she handle this?

She had already thought about this question countless times.

If Ping Chengcheng’s paranoia was real, then how should she face Ping Chengcheng?

She was conflicted…

On one side was the lover who had once saved her, and on the other, a childhood friend.

How should she choose? Should she break off with Ping Chengcheng completely, or should she…

“Chengcheng…”

Song Ning took a deep breath.

She didn’t know what the world of a psychiatric patient was like, but Ping Yan’s death was irreversible.

Song Ning felt that Ping Chengcheng’s feelings for her were probably not fake, but she couldn’t convince herself to continue being with her as a lover.

‘Since that’s the case, let’s just be ordinary friends for now…’

But…

“Chengcheng, can you apologize to Ping Yan?”

Yet, what astonished Song Ning was that when Ping Yan was mentioned, the girl’s eyes flashed with a blood-red murderous intent.

“Ping Yan, he deserves to die!”