The bedroom and study had different window designs. The study window opened outward, while the bedroom window slid upward.
Liu Jingqing could now even see her reflection in the raised windowpane above her head.
As soon as "it" saw the reflection in the glass, it would know she was hanging outside the window.
Was there no way out...?
Liu Jingqing stared blankly at the raised windowpane and the shadow drawing ever closer along the wall inside. Her heart was already filled with despair.
In truth, she had long known this day would come. To her, surviving until now had already been very lucky.
She simply had not expected to die so foolishly.
She had clearly had a chance to escape, yet she had squandered it herself.
Still, she did not understand. She and Mr. Xia Nan were both at home, so why had nothing unusual happened to Xia Nan, while it had happened to her?
If there was an order to their deaths, this meant she was supposed to die before Xia Nan. Why was that...?
Watching the distorted shadow draw closer and closer, Liu Jingqing slowly closed her eyes.
Just then, she suddenly heard "her own" voice from the window above:
"You should be dead."
Then...
There was a crash-
The raised window above her shattered, and shards of glass rained down on her.
Yet Xia Nan, Su Yu, and Yue Qiuchi, who were still alive, along with Liu Jingqing herself, all heard a strange, androgynous voice in their minds at the same time-
"Liu Jingqing has cleared the Game."
Terror, shock, bewilderment, disbelief, joy... all these complicated emotions flooded Liu Jingqing's mind at once. She was utterly stunned.
What did I do?
Why... did I clear it?
The other Players were equally bewildered, but they soon came to