The girl's tears stopped despite herself. "...Huh?"
She didn't quite understand what Xiao Xiao meant.
Meng Jixi, however, quickly understood.
After all, Master Xiao had asked him this question at the very beginning.
He had been puzzled by it as well.
He was even more annoyed that he hadn't noticed such an obvious anomaly all this time.
"Why did you choose to hang yourself?"
Xiao Xiao explained his question. "Why didn't you jump from a building or choose some other, more convenient method of suicide?"
"Hanging isn't easy, is it?"
"It requires preparation, and it's very painful before you die."
"Why choose it?"
"Why?"
The girl repeated the question under her breath, feeling almost absurd for a moment.
Wasn't it... obvious?
However, just as she was about to open her mouth and answer, she froze.
She thought she knew the answer.
She should have known the answer.
But even though she told herself that, the fact was that her mouth opened and closed several times before she finally asked the same question.
"That's right. Why?"
Why had she chosen to hang herself?
Just imagining the rope tightening around her neck already made her feel horribly suffocated.
Given her personality, even if she wanted to commit suicide, she would have chosen a less painful method, such as taking sleeping pills or jumping from a building.
She had never considered hanging herself.
Then why?
Ah, she remembered.
"It seems... someone told me to hang myself."
"They kept telling me that."
"When I had thoughts of suicide."
"So I followed their suggestion and chose hanging as my method of suicide."
"Maybe that was what I really wanted deep down?"
"Am I mentally ill?"
The girl suddenly looked terrified as she clutched her head.
"Just like they always show in movies, the