I'm the Victim Here

As early as when Lin Yu and Tang Manman were eating, Tao Yaoyao's phone calls had already started bombarding him.

At that time, Lin Yu didn't take it seriously and simply chose to mute it.

Now, picking up the phone again to look, the missed calls and text messages were almost enough to drown someone.

Lin Yu ignored her, continuing to choose to disregard them.

Actually, without even needing to think about it, Lin Yu knew that her contacting him so anxiously meant something must have happened to Xu Mingyao.

As for why something happened to Xu Mingyao neither earlier nor later, but exactly right now...

Lin Yu fell silent for a moment.

And arrived at an answer in his heart.

When he was standing by the river, were Qing Mo's informants watching nearby?

Thinking of this, Lin Yu couldn't help but chuckle out loud, shaking his head with a deep sense of powerlessness.

"It seems that wanting to die isn't an easy thing either."

After a helpless, bitter smile, Lin Yu withdrew the smile from the corners of his mouth. His face was calm, but the breath in his chest became steady along with his firm resolve.

He wouldn't foolishly seek his own death anymore.

Although from the current perspective, he had suffered a crushing defeat in the face of unpredictable fate.

But he still hadn't lost all the chips in his hands.

In the very end.

Let's use the plotline of Tang's mother to decide the final victor!

Lin Yu's pure-colored eyes revealed firmness and determination; the hands resting on his knees gradually closed, clenching tightly into fists.

The chips he currently held and the resources he could mobilize were terrifyingly abundant.

Even sending Tang's mother abroad would be a breeze.

Sending people to monitor and protect her twenty-four hours a day was also not an impossible thing.

Destiny was not necessarily absolute.

If he had chosen to transfer schools right after he crossed over...

Recalling the past, Lin Yu suddenly felt a deep sense of powerlessness, as if the strength in his very marrow had been drained dry by some terrifying entity.

Yes.

Actually, he had countless opportunities to prevent all of this from happening.

But every time, every single time, he had chosen the most incorrect path, the choice that sent him hurtling wildly toward a ruined ending...

...

Amidst the desolate gray of despair, a speck of light suddenly burst forth.

Although that bit of light was very faint, in the dead, silent sea of despair, it was no different from the only lighthouse in the dark night.

The faint light dragged a tail flame of hope, brushing past Lin Yu.

With no time to think, only vaguely realizing that this was the sole answer to break the deadlock, Lin Yu instantly sprang up, trying with all his might to grab this sudden flash of inspiration in his hand.

He succeeded.

That faint light was clenched in his palm, dissipating into nothingness like a gust of wind.

His mind was still completely blank.

Because he didn't need to think about anything at all.

The answer was right before his eyes.

Lin Yu slowly raised his head and saw Xia Yueshan lying on the hospital bed. That single experience of breaking destiny replayed before his eyes like a revolving lantern.

Amidst the frames of memory, Lin Yu quickly grasped the key point.

That's right.

Actually, he had never escaped the control of fate.

In that homeless man incident, whether it was the cause or the outcome, he had lost completely.

If he hadn't stayed at Xia Muzhu's house every day in the name of protecting her, that homeless man might not necessarily have gone crazy.

It wasn't hard to hear from his words at the time that a large part of the reason he did that was because his goddess was having fun every night with a guy he looked down upon, which birthed that twisted, sick mentality.

If Xia Muzhu had found a well-dressed boyfriend who left him miles behind in every aspect, would he still have developed that twisted mentality of "If someone worse than me can get my goddess, why can't I"?

Hard to say.

Really hard to say.

Next was the ending. By the time he realized that erotic plotline had started, the homeless man had almost succeeded.

If it weren't for the interlude of Xia Yueshan.

By the time he returned to Xia Muzhu's house, what kind of scene would he have seen?

He would very likely have once again felt that extremely bizarre, terrifying sense of familiarity.

Therefore.

Just like how he had answered Xia Yueshan's question about winning and losing back then.

He had lost, lost completely.

But he won!

He successfully changed all of this, preventing the tragedy destined to play out in the erotic manga.

So, the key to breaking the deadlock was never himself, but people outside the erotic manga's plot?

Thinking of this, it was like the clouds parting to reveal the sun. A surge of ecstasy welled up in Lin Yu's heart, making him unable to stop wanting to laugh.

In his silent ecstasy, Lin Yu almost laughed until tears came out.

He had the answer!

He had the answer!!!

Even though Xia Yueshan was almost becoming a lackey of destiny now, this was actually all what he wanted to see.

He wanted him to live together with his sister.

Then if he could find someone who absolutely, absolutely did not want to see him have relations with Tang's mother, just like how one wouldn't want to see their sister defiled by a bad guy...

Wasn't this candidate already sitting right there?

If he had her, plus the personnel supervision from Qing Mo and Zhao She, and then found a way to send Tang's mother further away.

Under triple insurance.

He might not necessarily lose!

He didn't ask for much; as long as that kind of thing didn't happen, nothing else mattered!

Thinking of this, Lin Yu could hardly sit still.

He wished he could go arrange everything immediately.

But thinking that Xia Muzhu was eating, it wouldn't be good to leave now and leave Xia Yueshan here alone.

So Lin Yu struggled to hold his patience, planning to wait until Xia Muzhu returned to let her know before leaving.

While waiting, the feeling of wild joy gradually faded.

He already had a technique to deal with the biggest trouble in the future.

But what about the present?

What should he do right now?

Lin Yu felt a bit of a headache.

After going in a circle, the problem returned to the original issue.

Tang Manman, Xia Muzhu, Qing Mo.

What should he do about the three of them?

Not to mention Ye You and her group.

He couldn't possibly have to take responsibility just because they had relations, right?

...

Damn it!

Why does this sound so much like a scumbag?

I'm the one who was forced!

I'm the victim here!!!