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Chapter 99: Chapter 95: Collapsed Again

Xu Xi walked ahead to drop off her luggage at the student dormitory and parted ways with Xu Shuo on the main road.

As she approached the girls' dormitory building and turned her head back through the lush trees, she saw that figure enter the teachers' office building.

He really went to see a teacher...

Xu Xi pursed her lips, looked away, and climbed up to the sixth floor. She already had the dorm key in hand, only to find that the dorm door was ajar and not fully closed.

She pushed the door open and walked into the six-person dormitory, where only one figure was hunched over the desk, seemingly asleep.

It was just that the posture was a bit indecent, the body so askew it was nearly falling out of the chair.

With light footsteps, Xu Xi put away her luggage and was about to help straighten the figure when suddenly it sat up abruptly as if gasping for breath and opened its eyes!

Xu Xi paused and stopped in her tracks.

"Crap." The girl cursed while rubbing her sore neck.

The next moment, as she realized someone was nearby, she quickly turned to look and saw the expressionless Xu Xi.

The girl's face had shown no excess emotion in three years, akin to facial paralysis, but thanks to her delicate beauty and academic excellence, she managed to be very popular at school.

She was dubbed the Ice Queen by the lively young men and was a regular mention on the school's confession wall, and the Queen's method of refusal was equally scholarly.

"Beat me in the monthly test rankings."

And perhaps out of fear of actually being courted, she perennially topped the ranking list, effectively blocking all their paths!

Having lived with her for three years, Shao Dandan had come to understand Xu Xi quite well; despite her outward coldness, she was warm-hearted inside and sometimes quite kind.

By refusing suitors in that way, she inadvertently spurred on the students' ambition.

After all, how dare you chase an academic goddess with such poor grades?

Wiping the drool from the corner of her mouth, Shao Dandan managed an awkward smile and said, "You're back, everybody else went to the canteen for dinner. I was just reading and accidentally fell asleep."

Xu Xi, looking at her, calmly acknowledged with a word and then turned to go back to her own bed.

During the May Day holiday, only Xu Xi had gone home; her grades were good enough that she needn't worry about the upcoming college entrance exams, but the others had to make use of the time to review.

In their six-person dormitory, the living conditions were pretty good: loft beds with desks underneath, a balcony, and a private bathroom and toilet.

Shao Dandan went to the balcony to wash her face, looking into the mirror on the wall.

The girl reflected within looked pale, and there was a subtle sense of exhaustion emanating from her, betraying her poor state.

Staring at her reflection, she felt suddenly that something was off, and the next moment she turned her head sharply to look inside the room!

Xu Xi had just returned and was organizing the contents of her backpack.

Feeling the intense gaze upon her, she looked up expressionlessly, then tilted her head slightly to show her perplexity.

Shao Dandan forced a stiff smile, quickly looked away, and splashed more water on her face, her damp hair hiding her expression as she silently screamed.

In the game, players' memories would be blurred, and they might not recognize people from the real world, but once they left the game, that feeling of vagueness would dissipate.

Xu Xi looked just like Qiuzi!

They might not be exactly identical, but the resemblance in their eyes and brows was striking, and when players referenced this, it made their resemblance skyrocket by assimilating characteristics of their avatars.

Was Xu Xi also a player?!

And had she just entered the game with her?

Shao Dandan was profoundly shocked, feeling a bit at a loss.

She thought about Qiuzi's tea-scented demeanor in the game, then about Xu Xi's facial paralysis and lack of emotion, and her generally helpful nature, realizing it was impossible to associate the two as the same person!

But they looked so similar, didn't they?

Even if not the same person, there must be some connection!

Shao Dandan finished washing her face and returned to the dorm room, looking with an indescribable expression at the girl with an impassive face, who had finished organizing her things and was now looking at her phone.

Xu Xi looked up again, puzzled, and asked her, "What's wrong?"

"Well..." Shao Dandan tentatively probed, "Xi, do you... have any sisters at home?"

"No," Xu Xi said calmly.

"Really none? Not even a cousin?" Shao Dandan kept a sharp gaze on her, repeatedly asking with penetrating eyes.

Xu Xi's eyes dimmed slightly, but her tone remained utterly unfluctuating, "None, I only live with my brother."

Hearing this, Shao Dandan recalled that Xu Xi indeed had a brother, whom everyone in the dorm had seen a few times, and knew that they depended on each other in life.

But the idea that Xu Xi's brother might be Qiuzi was somehow even harder to accept than the idea that Xu Xi herself might be Qiuzi...

Could it really just be a resemblance?

Shao Dandan did not pursue the matter further, but she still harbored the thought, occasionally casting a strange glance at Xu Xi.

It was too late, she couldn't go back now.

Whenever she saw Xu Xi, all she could think about was Qiuzi, filled with that signature Qi.

The image of that unapproachable ice queen had completely shattered!

Overwhelmed, Shao Dandan collapsed, holding her head in her hands as she sat down, thinking about how she had been manipulated and toyed with by that little vixen in the game. She was already furious, and seeing Xu Xi, who looked just like her, made her feel even worse.

With an expressionless face, Xu Xi observed her for a moment before saying, "I'm going to the cafeteria. If you're not going, do you need me to bring back food for you?"

"Thank you," Shao Dandan replied without looking up, her voice filled with dejection.

After she spoke, she didn't hear a response but only when the dormitory door was gently closed did Shao Dandan look up again.

She hurried to the door to open it, peering outside stealthily, then closed it once again after watching Xu Xi's figure disappear into the stairwell. She then locked the door.

Shao Dandan lay straight in bed and entered Script Space.

...

Unlike Xu Shuo's blank Script Space, Shao Dandan's had floors and wallpapers, along with a sofa and a table, looking like a simply decorated small room.

She quickly opened her Player's Handbook, flipping to the last page, only to find that "Dancer in the Dark" was still under production and not available for review yet.

Seeing this, Shao Dandan had no choice but to exit the "Performed Scripts" section, but she didn't leave Script Space. Instead, she decided to wait patiently, as the production process generally wasn't very long.

She opened the forum and used the search function to check for posts related to "Dancer in the Dark."

There were quite a few posts; after all, as a low-level script, many players had played this Scripted Murder Game, and some experts had even compiled plot reviews and game guides.

Shao Dandan had already played through this script, so she was purely killing time reading these posts, intending to see how others' experiences playing the role of "Xuena" were.

But the more she read, the more she felt that something was off.

No one had told the story from "Qiuzi's" perspective!

There were many players, and in the forum posts, there were perspectives from "the priest," "the police officer," "Xuena," and "Teacher Changying." But there was no "Qiuzi"!

Wait, Teacher Changying was also a player?

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Confused, Shao Dandan's face frowned. After the script settlement, she saw the list of four objectives and the entire plot, but she couldn't think of any objective related to Teacher Changying.

It was then, as she racked her brain, that her eyes suddenly widened as if a bolt of lightning had streaked through her mind. She remembered the incident a few days ago when a script was removed!

At that same moment, a new post about "Dancer in the Dark" suddenly appeared in her search results.

[Shocking! Another script "The Dancer" has been removed!]

Shao Dandan: "???"