Joy turns to sorrow.

Liang Li, paralyzed and stinging from the electric shock, collapsed at the entrance to the changing room, with only these four words in her mind.

Joy! Turns! To! Sorrow!

She had no strength left in her body, and she even suspected that the mastermind behind this so-called “Golden Canary Cultivation Manual” system was the infamous electric-type Pokémon, Pikachu.

When He Ruoyan saw her half-dead leaning against the wall, she screamed.

“Liang Li!” she shouted.

Liang Li still had the energy to joke, listlessly lifting her eyelids and glancing at He Ruoyan. This ethereal beauty was standing a meter away, trembling with her delicate fingers, her pupils dilated in shock.

“You’re quite cultured, you can read my name,” Liang Li said weakly, using the little breath she had left.

He Ruoyan stamped her foot several times, covering her mouth and repeatedly saying “Oh my god, oh my god,” like a panicked female lead in a drama.

“Can you help me inside first?” Liang Li reminded her.

He Ruoyan nodded. Despite her slender build, she could still manage to drag Liang Li into the room. Liang Li used all her strength to collapse onto the sofa, only to hear He Ruoyan’s anxious voice again: “This sofa is newly bought by Boss Jin, you’re all wet, don’t ruin the sofa for Boss Jin!”

Liang Li: So what? Am I a tsunami or a small stream now? Can I soak the sofa or something?

He Ruoyan came closer, carefully placing her hand under Liang Li’s nose for a while. Liang Li irritably blew out a puff of air from her nose. He Ruoyan recoiled in disgust, rubbed her hands, and let out a long sigh of relief.

“You’re still alive.”

Liang Li: “I was just talking, didn’t you hear me?”

He Ruoyan said solemnly: “I thought you were having a deathbed vision.”

Liang Li: “I suspect you have dementia.”

He Ruoyan didn’t mind her childish bickering, examining her from head to toe.  Seeing the marks on her neck and wrists, she gasped again.  Then, seeing her soaked body and weak legs, she had an unsavory guess.

“You wouldn’t have been—”

Liang Li mimicked her tone, drawing out the words, “I wouldn’t have been—”

“I never heard Xiao Feng mention that Miss He had this kind of fetish,” He Ruoyan was terrified, “Luckily I didn’t go.”

Hearing this, Liang Li knew she had misunderstood, so she went along with it, feigning tears, “You’ve all been deceived by her, she’s ruthless!”

He Ruoyan patted her chest, gasping for breath, “You’re just unlucky!” After saying this, she leaned in and whispered, “Miss He’s… uh… skilled, right?”

“Which part?” Liang Li didn’t react immediately.

He Ruoyan glared at her, “Forget it.”

“Looking at how you’ve been ravaged, it’s obvious that Miss He has some skills.”

Liang Li: The one with real skills is the damn system.

Speaking of the system, Liang Li’s anger flared up.

She wanted to smash that broken ball on the ground, sell the scraps for a penny!!

It actually dared to deceive her!!!!

【Xiao Hua didn’t deceive the player.】 System Xiao Hua popped up.

Liang Li rolled her eyes: “Didn’t deceive? Then why ten minutes ago did you tell me I could choose a new target, and now you tell me that if I choose a new target, that woman He Xi will be killed?”

—That’s right.

Liang Li was able to toy with He Xi so ruthlessly and recklessly because she had taken the time to ask the system if she could choose a new target.

She didn’t want to serve He Xi with her bad temper and strange fetishes!

There was no need to torture herself to this extent to torture Qiao Yunshang! It wasn’t worth it!

After her inquiry, the system gave an affirmative answer.

Only then did Liang Li turn against her, watching He Xi’s changing expression with satisfaction.

But—it wasn’t satisfaction, it was clearly self-inflicted suffering.

All thanks to the damn system!

Xiao Hua was wronged, emphasizing again: 【Xiao Hua didn’t deceive the player, Xiao Hua just didn’t tell the whole truth.】

Liang Li chuckled, “Do you know that the last one who said that was roasted online?”

The magical girl MLM leader.

QB, is that you, QB?

【Xiao Hua doesn’t know.】

Liang Li: “Get lost! I don’t want to talk to you!”

【Although Xiao Hua understands the player’s anger now, Xiao Hua still needs to explain the current situation to the player.】

【In this world, once the target is replaced, the storyline will be reset, and the boss’s identity will also need to be adjusted. Therefore, the current He Xi will definitely not appear in the world after you choose a new target. You can understand this behavior as killing, or you can think of it as going to another parallel universe to take on a new task.】

【Xiao Hua doesn’t understand. Since the player hates the target, what does it matter if she is left to be killed? She is just a part of the game, in a sense, just data. Everything in this world is artificially created, and when you reach a certain level, you can even become a god, deciding their life and death.】

Liang Li sneered.

“Hate? Not really.”

She didn’t have that much free time to hate someone. She just felt that she and He Xi had somewhat conflicting auras, and most importantly, she had a keen intuition about this woman as a fellow creature of the same kind.  This is the instinct to escape when an abyss faces another abyss. If the abysses gaze at each other, in the end, either one will swallow the other, or they will create a greater chaos together.

So she didn’t want to submit to her, she was too lazy to fight. Liang Li wasn’t one to seek trouble.

But now, to make that woman disappear from this world because of her selfish decision? Liang Li couldn’t do it. She could accept her own death at any time, but she couldn’t accept the death of an innocent person.