"If that's the case, then this deal is off!" Guo Linfei said angrily.
Hearing this, the young girl was not annoyed.
She took out a mirror inlaid with shells and starfish from her embrace and aimed it at Guo Linfei.
"Don't you know what you look like? Her injuries were almost healed, but it was you, time and again, who made her like this again."
In the mirror, Guo Linfei's eyes were filled with fine black lines.
As his anger grew, wisps of black energy emerged from his body.
"This, this is me?"
Guo Linfei murmured, looking at the scenes that followed in the mirror with disbelief.
He saw his home.
He saw his wife returning from outside, carrying groceries in one hand and changing her shoes.
She was chattering, "Pork prices have gone up again. I was planning to buy more ribs..."
"Oh, right, I'll go see our daughter at school tomorrow. Transfer me some money later."
In the scene,
He was lying on the sofa and replied:
"Didn't I transfer half of my salary to you as soon as it was paid? Can't you be more thrifty?"
Out of a six-thousand salary, he transferred three thousand to his wife.
The remaining three thousand, one thousand was for gas and other car expenses.
The remaining two thousand had to cover the monthly utility bills, property management fees, and his own living expenses.
There wasn't much left.
Hearing this, the woman put down the things in her hands on the table.
She also got a little angry, "What can three thousand yuan do? Doesn't our daughter's schooling cost money?"
"Don't the medical treatments and rehabilitation cost money? Doesn't nutritional supplements cost money?"
"How am I not being thrifty? I tear a tissue in half to use it, and I make ten yuan of minced meat last for two weeks of braised meat..."
As she spoke, the woman's eyes welled up with tears, her voice choked with emotion.
"When I buy groceries at the market, I haggle over fifty cents for a long time. When have I ever spent money lavishly..."
"Wife, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry..."
His heart ached, and he stepped forward to hug his wife.
"But I really don't have any money to spare right now. Please wait, and I'll give it to you when my next salary comes in."
In the mirror, the scene shifted.
In the dark of night,
He woke up groggily and found his wife using his hand to operate his phone.
Fingerprint unlock.
He was momentarily confused, then suddenly sobered up.
He quickly sat up and tried to snatch the phone away.
"What are you doing? Didn't we agree to respect each other's privacy when we got married?!"
The woman dodged with the phone and scrolled through it for a few seconds.
Then she turned the phone screen towards him, "Is this what you call having no money?"
The screen showed his bank card balance: over thirty thousand.
"I knew you didn't need that much money every month. You used to buy things for me and our daughter.
But lately, you haven't bought anything, and you're so stingy when I ask for money, always finding excuses."
"Tell me, have you found another woman?!"
Faced with his wife's questioning, a surge of anger rose in his heart, rushing straight to his head.
"I'm this old, what woman would I find!"
"Then why are you secretly saving so much money!"
"Can't I keep it for emergencies!"
He snatched the phone away and lay back down on the bed, "Sleep!"
In the mirror, the scene changed again.
...
The sun was shining brightly outside the window.
He was taking a nap at home.
When he woke up, he found his phone screen lit up, paused on the chat page.
From the bedroom, his wife's voice could be faintly heard.
"Hey, Old He? Yes, it's me. I wanted to ask if Lin Fei has been out with you guys anywhere recently?"
"No, how could that be... It's okay, it's okay, I'll hang up now."
"Hello, is this Brother Xu? Yes, it's me..."
He stood at the bedroom door, listening to his wife make call after call.
The sunlight outside fell on him, but he felt a chill all over.
He felt as if he had been nakedly thrown onto the street, with no sense of security whatsoever.
It was as if a crack in his heart was widening.
"What exactly do you want to do!" he shouted at his wife in the room.
The woman turned to look at him, tears sliding down her face.
"I want to ask you what you're doing! Where's the money in your phone! Where's the money!"
"Didn't you say you were saving it for emergencies? Over thirty thousand, who did you give it all to!"
He said hysterically, "Can't you just trust me a little more!"
The woman also cried out, "How can you expect me to trust you! Where's your money!"
"You weren't like this before, wife, you weren't like this before..."
He squatted on the ground, holding his head, his vision darkening.
His money...
It was all used to buy insurance for himself!
How could he possibly say that!
...
[Water Park]
Inside the light blue water sphere—
The young girl was also watching the scenes in the mirror.
After the scenes ended, she put away the mirror and looked at Guo Linfei in front of her.
"Everything in here happened to you. Now the truth is revealed, isn't it? You were the one who hurt her."
In the mirror, whenever the two people got angry or emotionally agitated, faint black threads would appear on their bodies.
Clearly, both of them were affected.
But whenever they were calm, that black aura would disappear.
No, to be more precise, it would hide without a trace.
Hiding was always the strong suit of those black things.
Even when she first encountered this person, she almost didn't notice it.
Because she initially approached him by saying she could cure his daughter's injuries.
She never expected that there was someone even more severely injured.
...
Guo Linfei did not answer the young girl.
He held his wife's remains, two tear tracks streaking across his face.
"After I die, all that money will be for you and our daughter..."
He remembered everything.
Ever since he learned that there was something wrong with his body, he had started making preparations.
He had even asked that person to stay at home for a longer period to make more preparations.
He never expected...
He never expected it would turn out like this.
"I didn't expect to lie to you..."
He touched his wife's face, filled with regret, "I never betrayed you, nor did I spend money carelessly..."
"All that money was saved for you."
"Lin, Fei, Lin, Fei..."
The woman in his arms looked at him with vacant eyes.
A tear track slid down the corner of her eye.
The young girl spoke, "You need to leave her for her to have a chance to recover."
"Otherwise, even if she recovers, you will affect her again."
"..."
The man did not reply, and the young girl did not rush him, simply sitting aside and waiting.
Unbeknownst to all three of them.
A small live-streaming sphere was wandering around the [Water Park].
It gradually flew closer to the light blue water sphere.
There were many water spheres here, and fearing it might not see clearly, the live-streaming sphere approached each one to get a closer look.
...
...
On the other side, in the [Planting Area] of the Mirage City.
Jiang Lin stood in front of a field, looking at the live-streaming footage that only he could see.
The moment he saw Guo Linfei, his heart stirred.
The next second, the live-streaming sphere in the [Water Park] flew to a corner and tapped on those inconspicuous small paper scraps.
Upon receiving the command, those small paper scraps began to tremble.
Gradually, they transformed into small paper figures.
While the [Water Park] outwardly had no paper figures or ghost envoys, it did have live-streaming spheres.
The paper figures in his hand were indeed running out, but there were still live-streaming spheres.
The paper figures that were openly released were merely to confuse the opponent's judgment.
What truly had an effect were those small paper scraps casually thrown in the corner, and those live-streaming spheres that only he knew about.
He had truly utilized the system's live-streaming device to its utmost.
...