Chapter 168

Chapter 168

No one had any idea what to think.

At that moment, Lin Junruo reached out again. Clutched in her palm was a Hair Ribbon.

“Um… could there be something wrong with this Hair Ribbon?” Lin Junruo asked.

The moment Lin Junruo spoke, it really did jog everyone’s memory.

Among those six points in time, one of them had also been related to the Hair Ribbon. And since the Strawberry Hair Clip had been useful, then this Hair Ribbon should have some purpose too. What did this Hair Ribbon mean?

And that was not all.

Jian Fan also took the Memory Card from his pocket and said, “The Memory Card.”

What secret the Hair Ribbon was hiding was still unclear, but as for the Memory Card…

“We need to find somewhere that can read a Memory Card,” Qin Weiyi said.

They all understood that much, but where were they supposed to go?

“The dorms,” Jian Fan said.

“The student dorms have computers!” Qin Nan reacted at once.

There had not been one in the dormitory supervisor’s room, which was why they had been helpless before. But now that they were out, they could simply look for a dorm room that had a computer.

Of course, they did not dare go back to the sixth floor.

So they needed to search between the first and fifth floors for a dorm room that was unlocked and had a computer.

Although Jian Fan had taken the front door key at the time, unfortunately, he had not brought out the other key rings. But even if he had, he had only taken the ones for the sixth floor, so they would not have helped.

Still, given how urgent the situation had been, the fact that Jian Fan had remembered to take the front door key was already an unexpected blessing.

No one dwelled on it for long.

They began searching room by room.

Most of the dorm room doors were locked. Once in a while, they found one that was unlocked, but there was no computer inside. The group searched for a long time, and when they reached the third floor, they finally dug out a laptop in one of the rooms there. Even more fortunately, they also found a card reader in the desk.

At least they would not have to waste more time looking for one.

After deciding to stay in that room, the first thing they did was close several doors. Once that was done, everyone gathered in front of the computer.

The Memory Card was in Jian Fan’s hands, so he operated the computer as well.

The computer was a little sluggish. Just turning it on took quite a bit of time. Everyone stared at it eagerly, only for the screen to keep spinning and spinning. It spun for almost a full minute before the computer finally managed to start up.

As soon as it booted, Jian Fan inserted the card reader into the laptop’s USB port.

The computer was slow, but in the end, it still read the Memory Card.

Jian Fan operated the computer and opened the removable drive.

Only a single document appeared on the screen, which was far beyond everyone’s expectations.

Who would have thought that a Memory Card like this would contain only one document? But after they came back to their senses, they stared at the document with even greater urgency. There had to be many important things inside.

Jian Fan unconsciously tightened his grip, then moved the mouse cursor onto the document and selected open.

It was a piece of writing.

The very first sentence told them whose it was.

“I am Zhao Yingguo.”

This was a document left behind by Zhao Yingguo.

Everyone quickly focused and continued reading.

“I died. I died on February 27, 2014.”

That sentence stunned everyone again.

Was this definitely written by Zhao Yingguo? Hadn’t she already died? Or had she written it after she became a ghost?

Their minds were filled with doubts, so they could only keep reading with those questions in mind.

“I know everything.

I know that the person pushing everything from behind the scenes is named Li Xiting.

But I don’t want to kill her.
I want to be free. Hatred will only trap me, leaving me with no place to be buried for all eternity.

To the kind souls who find these words, I hope you can help set me free.”

What?

Everyone was completely baffled.

Zhao Yingguo knew Li Xiting was the one who had harmed her, yet in the end, she killed everyone else and left Li Xiting alone. Then she said hatred would only trap her?

No one could make sense of it.

If she wasn’t going to kill Li Xiting, why kill those other people? Sure, those people had gotten what they deserved too, but compared to Li Xiting, weren’t they more innocent? No one could understand Li Xiting’s way of thinking, and right now, they couldn’t understand Zhao Yingguo’s either.

But whether they understood or not, they still had to keep reading.

In the pages that followed, Zhao Yingguo suddenly went all the way back to her childhood.

She started from the happy, complete family she had when she was young. She devoted a great deal of space to those beautiful memories, reminiscing all the way up to college, to the first day she arrived on campus.

Then the tone shifted abruptly.

The first time Zhao Yingguo met Li Xiting was not in the dorm, but on a small path at school on the day of enrollment.

She saw Li Xiting being stopped by a group of people, both boys and girls.

They blocked Li Xiting’s way.

The leader was a girl.

She looked Li Xiting up and down, then gave a mocking snort and said, “You’ve really got the nerve to show up at school. Pretty bold, aren’t you?”

Li Xiting was frightened. She pressed her lips together, lowered her head, and trembled all over, not daring to make a sound.

Seeing her like that, the girl immediately began ridiculing her. “Look at that scrawny little body shaking. What, having a seizure?”

As soon as she said that, the others around her burst out laughing.

And what they did to Li Xiting was not limited to verbal mockery.

The girl stepped forward and seized Li Xiting by the chin. “You treating my words like they went in one ear and out the other? I told you to drop out. Did you not hear me?” As she spoke, she slapped Li Xiting across the face again and again.

Li Xiting had already bitten her lip until it bled, but she still did not make a single sound.

Seeing that, the girl’s anger did not subside. Instead, she grew even more furious. She shoved Li Xiting forward, sending her sprawling to the ground. Before Li Xiting could get back up, the girl stepped forward and planted her foot directly on Li Xiting’s hand, grinding down hard with the tip of her shoe. Li Xiting’s face went pale with pain, but she stubbornly refused to cry out.

“Same as usual. Clear her head for her,” the girl said.

The moment the words left her mouth, the others beside her moved.

They stepped forward and stripped Li Xiting’s clothes off. Li Xiting tried to struggle, but she was powerless. Very quickly, she had been stripped completely bare. All she could do was slowly curl in on herself, huddling up as tightly as possible.

The girl took the water someone handed her and poured it straight over Li Xiting’s head.

It was clearly a sweltering summer day, yet Li Xiting was shivering from the cold.

That was when Zhao Yingguo appeared.

“What are you doing? I’ve already called the police.” Zhao Yingguo frowned, looking at the group with disapproval. Then she walked straight over and wrapped Li Xiting in the sun-protection jacket she was wearing.

The girl gave a scornful laugh. “Well, well. Where did this clueless little brat come from? Trying to stick your nose where it doesn’t belong? You should take a good look at who you are first.”

“I’ve already called the police.” Zhao Yingguo took out her phone.

The screen still showed that the call was connected, and the emergency number was clearly displayed at the top.

When the girl saw it, her expression changed. She spat out a curse and said, “You’ve got guts. Let’s go.”

Clearly, the other party did not dare let the matter blow up. Once they knew Zhao Yingguo had called the police, they quickly left with the rest of the group.

At the time, Zhao Yingguo did not know Li Xiting. She helped Li Xiting get dressed, then took out some tissues and helped wipe the water from her face.

And what was Li Xiting like back then?