“Why are you here?”

Julian was awakened by pain again after sleeping for less than two hours. He had to admit that he was truly afraid of pain, especially the persistent kind.

With the development of medical technology in the interstellar era, although everyone had times when they were seriously injured and on the verge of death, such continuous pain was rare.

After the anesthetic wore off, Julian's face remained pale, and his temper became subtly irritable.

Just then, the door of his ward was pushed open, and an unexpected person appeared before him.

Yuan Fang was actually here!

Something was wrong.

Julian instinctively felt that something was amiss.

Bai Xiao had only been in trouble for less than a day, how could this person come to his side?

"I came to see you. After all, this was done by Xiao Xiao, and she is very sorry."

Yuan Fang was also carrying fruit, but in his current state with a missing arm and leg, the fruit basket was hanging on his only arm, supported by crutches.

Seeing this, Julian slightly eased his guard and shook his head, saying, "I'm fine. I know this wasn't Bai Xiao's intention, but—is Bai Xiao awake?"

Julian's question about being "awake" naturally had a specific meaning, and Yuan Fang's face also showed a look of melancholy as he said, "She wasn't awake when I went to see her. Later, when she finally woke up, my visiting time was almost over. She didn't have time to say anything else to me, and could only ask me to tell you that she was very sorry for the trouble at this juncture."

"Sorry... I accept it. After all, she can't control it. But... what exactly is going on with your roles?"

Julian first asked about their role identities.

Although Ming Mei and Mu Chen had said almost everything last night.

But the content from an observer's perspective and the person's perspective might differ greatly.

"The only daughter of the couple that Xiao Xiao and I played died two years ago. They wanted to know the truth about their daughter's death, but no one could ever explain why their daughter died that day. The final conclusion was nothing more than adolescent emotional fragility and extreme emotions."

"So you found out later?"

"Yes, later we discovered that our daughter had been in a relationship."

"Is that so?"

As Julian asked this question, he looked at Yuan Fang, who was sitting on the stool next to his bed, looking down at the ground, his expression unreadable. His only good hand had already touched the alarm bell on the head of the bed.

Unknowingly, Yuan Fang's words had shifted from "they" to "we."

This was not a good sign.

"Yes, she fell in love with a hypocritical scumbag."

Yuan Fang described to Julian how a young girl was gradually deceived by an adult man, and then falsely accused of having an improper relationship with another man, and finally, when she had no way out, she chose to end her life.

"Why didn't she tell her parents?"

Listening to the other person talk about how the girl was deceived, framed, unable to explain, and jumped off a building in despair when no one reached out to help her, Julian couldn't help but ask where her parents were.

"Because she was afraid. She had always been a good child in her parents' eyes, but she not only fell in love with an older man, but she was also pregnant... Hehehe..." Yuan Fang's face was full of tears as he looked up at Julian and said, "Maybe, she was afraid that when she asked her parents for help, she would have to face their blame before they even helped her solve the problem?"

"Perhaps your usual behavior made her feel distrustful?" Julian sighed softly, "Maybe she subconsciously thought that telling you wouldn't change anything..."

Julian also had this mentality. He had caused trouble for his father before, and he didn't dare to tell him, until things got out of hand and the truth couldn't be hidden any longer, his father finally knew everything.

That was also the first time Julian's parents were called in. He stood anxiously in the office, facing the federal presidential election. He was very afraid that his affairs would have an indelible negative impact on his father.

However, after his father entered the office, he never said a harsh word to him. After talking to the teacher to understand the cause and effect of the matter, he took him home.

[This has happened. What do you need me to do for you? What can you do to remedy this situation?]

When he met his father's deep gaze, Julian always felt incredibly at ease, so much so that when he was talking to Yuan Fang, he was once again distracted and thought of his father.

However, recently, his father seemed very busy.

"You're right."

Yuan Fang was silent for a long time before suddenly saying this, pulling Julian's thoughts back.

"I'm just sharing a personal thought. Everyone's thoughts are different, so what I'm saying is just one possibility."

"I understand." Although Julian emphasized again and again that not everyone was the same, Yuan Fang seemed to take it seriously, earnestly saying that he understood.

This left Julian speechless. He suddenly felt a little suffocated being in the same space as Yuan Fang.

He had interacted with him outside the game before, and it had never felt as bad as it did in the game.

Just as Julian was wondering why no one at the nurse's station had heard his bed buzzer and come to check, Yuan Fang continued to talk about the topic from before.

"The teacher who was fired because of my daughter's death was the same one who was falsely accused of having a relationship with my daughter. Later, he took pity on us and told us the truth. That person had a lot of connections and tricks in the school, and the people he colluded with were basically corrupt.

They treated those flower-like girls as their 'private property,' secretly exchanging their 'conquest targets.' Sometimes they would even try swapping..."

As he spoke, Yuan Fang's eyes became colder and colder. He suddenly looked up, staring unblinkingly at Julian, who had already sat up in bed. "What are you doing?"

"I..."

Julian, who had almost crushed the bed alarm in his hand hidden under the blanket, saw that no one had come yet and that the person in front of him looked very abnormal, how could he dare to lie half-reclined like before?

But he was discovered as soon as he sat up!

"You weren't thinking of calling for someone, were you?"

Yuan Fang's gaze had already fallen on a white line that was exposed from the blanket, which was connected to the bed alarm.

"But, too bad~"

Yuan Fang murmured, and the bottom of the crutch in his hand made a muffled sound. Then, to Julian's horrified gaze, the other person picked up a completely severed wire.

"Oops, sorry, I didn't know when I stepped on the wire..."