The bedroom and study windows were designed differently. The study window opened outward, while the bedroom window slid upward.
Liu Jingqing could now even see her own reflection in the raised windowpane above her head.
As long as "it" saw the reflection in the glass, it would know she was hanging outside.
Was there no way out...?
Liu Jingqing stared blankly at the raised windowpane and the shadow drawing closer on the wall inside the window, her heart already filled with despair.
In truth, she had known all along that this day would come. Living this long was already fortunate enough for her.
She simply had not expected to die so stupidly.
She had clearly had a chance to escape, only to ruin it herself.
Still, she did not understand. Both she and Mr. Xia Nan had been at home, so why had Xia Nan encountered nothing abnormal, while it had come for her?
If death followed an order, that 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 her:
"You should be dead."
Then...
There was a crash-
The raised window above her shattered into glass fragments, which rained down on her with a clatter.
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 sorts of complicated emotions flooded Liu Jingqing's mind at that instant. She was completely stunned.
What did I do?
Why... did I clear it?
The other players were equally bewildered, but they quickly