A Crushing Blow!

In front of a row of body specimens, everyone was pointing at one of the corpses and begging Qin Wenrou to explain. "Wenrou, will they test us on causes of death? I heard this anatomy exam will include forensic medicine. It's super hard. Hurry and explain it to us!"

Qin Wenrou spoke gently. "It's not hard. You just judge it like this. See? Check whether livor mortis has appeared. If it has, there's a high chance the person froze to death. They'll look really ugly... Hmm, this one doesn't have it, so the cause of death must be something else."

Everyone praised her, full of admiration. "A top student and the campus belle—she really is amazing..."

She even knew forensic medicine off the top of her head!

Qin Xin hurried past.

She hadn't had time to pay any attention to Qin Wenrou and the others.

But the words "livor mortis looks really ugly" made her stop in her tracks.

In an instant,

the scene of her being sealed in an ice coffin and freezing to death came back as clear as day!

"Are you cold, sis?"

"It's minus forty-five degrees, sis. You'll freeze to death."

"If you die, how will you compete in the National Medical Competition...?"

"Stop struggling, sis."

"I heard people who freeze to death get covered in frostbite, and their skin turns green. It's called livor mortis. It's so ugly."

"Brother Jun already thinks you're a stuck-up fake, with that cold face and no femininity. Now he finds you even more disgusting."

"Just wait here in this ice coffin on Ice Lake, sis, and hear the good news when I marry Brother Jun. Hehe!"

Qin Xin's gaze gradually turned icy.

Slowly, she turned toward the body specimen.

She pushed through the crowd and walked up to Qin Wenrou.

"Hey! Ugly Freak, why'd you shove me? That hurt!" someone complained, rubbing their arm.

"My foot! You've crushed my foot!" someone yelped, hopping around.

Qin Wenrou looked a little surprised to see Lan Qingxin suddenly walk over, but put on a gracious air. "Classmate, did you want to study with me too? You're wel—"

But then,

Qin Xin cut her off coldly before she could finish. "This person froze to death."

Qin Wenrou's mouth fell open. In disbelief, she turned to look at the corpse, then faced Qin Xin again and smiled with confidence. "That's impossible. My judgment can't be wrong."

The other students all chimed in. "Ugly Freak, stop joking around. The top student is explaining the questions to us. If you can't understand, just shut that ugly mouth of yours, okay? Stop trying to get attention!"

Qin Xin's expression was cold. Ignoring their taunts, she said, each word clear and deliberate, "The deceased donated blood while she was alive, so her blood vessels were empty. With no blood in them, the blood proteins couldn't react and decompose, so the corpse wouldn't turn green. On the contrary, she'd stay just as beautiful and lovely as ever."

Qin Wenrou's mind exploded with a bang!

It was as if an invisible slap had hit her hard across the face!

And for some reason, when this Ugly Freak emphasized that "there was no blood in the blood vessels," her heart began pounding, and she felt terribly guilty.

Maybe it was because she'd remembered that Qin Xin had also been drained of all her blood before she died...

Back then, she'd even mocked Qin Xin for dying so ugly.

Could it be that corpses drained of blood didn't turn ugly, even if they froze to death?

Even after she died, Qin Xin would stay just as beautiful and lovely?

She forced herself to stay calm. "If there's no blood in the blood vessels, the corpse won't turn green? The book doesn't say that..."

Qin Xin raised an eyebrow, her expression indifferent. "That's basic knowledge. You don't need a book for it. You seemed to know so much about livor mortis. Turns out you don't?"

Qin Wenrou's face flushed red.

Then, for no apparent reason, a layer of cold sweat broke out across her back!

What does Ugly Freak mean? Is she hinting at something?

But that was absolutely impossible. No one else knew how Qin Xin had died. Besides, Ugly Freak didn't even know Qin Xin. Why would she make sarcastic remarks about Qin Wenrou on behalf of someone who was dead?