Under One Person: I, Jiaqian Jushi, work from nine to five.

"???"

Hearing Zhou Fengliu's words, the sheer amount of information made everyone feel even more uneasy.

late at night...

A lone man and a lone woman...

What kind of relationship could make Chen Duo go to see Zhou Fengliu late at night?

...

"Didn't you say I could come to you with any problems I had?" Chen Duo looked at Zhou Fengliu seriously, then said:

"Besides... I also said that I would find a way to pay you back the money I owe you."

...

"Brother Liu, you're really obsessed with money. How could you be so heartless as to lay a hand on such a pitiful little girl?"

Zhang Chulan then added insult to injury, making the matter even more complicated.

Zhou Fengliu: "..."

What is all this nonsense...?

This is really impossible to have a conversation with.

The more they talked, the more something seemed off. It was as if Zhou Fengliu had become the villain who cheated a naive girl with a tragic past out of money.

But is that really the case?

Obviously not...

He said those things unintentionally, but who could have imagined that Chen Duo would take them to heart!

You say he's refuting this now...

He couldn't refute it either... after all, what Chen Duo said was true.

What Chen Duo said was true, but what he said was also true... It was clearly a legitimate transaction, so how did it end up being described like this?

Zhou Fengliu pondered the conversation for a moment, then suddenly realized what had happened and turned his gaze to Qiu'er from the Southwest region and Zhang Bilian from North China.

He discovered the blind spot...

The conversation was perfectly normal until these two troublemakers interrupted with a couple of sentences, and then the conversation completely changed.

...

"Wang Zhenqiu and Zhang Chulan, if you two keep stirring up trouble, see this hand? I guarantee this slap will be thrown in your faces in a moment."

Zhou Fengliu warned Qiu'er and Zhang Chulan that they were both cunning and scheming.

Faced with Zhou Fengliu's threat, the two brats finally quieted down for a while, after all, they didn't want to try to force the God of War into a major confrontation.

Without these two people chiming in, the rest of the conversation finally sounded much more normal.

...

"What should I do next?" Chen Duo looked at Feng Baobao beside her.

"Ah..." Feng Baobao, who was being watched by Chen Duo, scratched her butt.

How could she know what to do?

"I don't know," Feng Baobao answered frankly.

"I don't know?" Chen Duo was clearly dissatisfied with Feng Baobao's answer:

"Are you lying to me too?"

"No, I don't know, but you can ask them, they have a lot of ideas..."

Feng Baobao pointed to Zhang Chulan and his group, saying that sometimes the people there were more witty than she was.

Well?

Listening to Feng Baobao's words, Chen Duo looked at the people present, seemingly waiting for their suggestions.

Seeing that things were truly taking a turn for the better, Old Meng, who least wanted Chen Duo to die, was overjoyed. He looked at Chen Duo and said, "Chen Duo, come with us..."

Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Qiu'er beside him.

Qiu'er leaned closer to Lao Meng and whispered, "Brother Meng...you must be careful what you say. Never make a decision or choice...you must give her a choice."

choose...

That's right.

It's about making a choice.

Apart from Zhang Chulan, everyone present, after hearing Feng Baobao's account of meeting Chen Duo last night, realized that only by letting Chen Duo make her own choice could things take a turn for the better.

Hearing Qiu'er whispering her choice to Lao Meng, Zhang Chulan secretly agreed in his heart.

Compared to the other temporary workers present, he was the first to guess from Chen Duo's killing of Liao Zhong and her defection from the company that Chen Duo needed to make a choice, but he never took the initiative to say it...

...

Hearing Qiu'er's reminder, Lao Meng nodded in agreement.

"Chen Duo...you have a choice! You can choose to come back to the company with us...I will never let them hurt you..."

"You can also choose..."

When Lao Meng mentioned the second option, his expression changed drastically. He glanced at the people around him, as if he wanted someone to come and help him.

"You can also choose..."

"die."

Seeing that Lao Meng was stammering and unable to speak, Zhang Chulan said the word "death" for Lao Meng.

“You can also choose to die…” Zhang Chulan said to Chen Duo with a serious expression.

"Zhang Chulan...you!"

Old Meng grabbed Zhang Chulan's collar in a fit of emotion.

He definitely didn't want Chen Duo to make this choice.

"Zhang Chulan... if you can't speak properly, then shut up. Nobody's forcing you to talk."

Zhou Fengliu glanced at Zhang Chulan and said.

"Brother Liu... I was just saying it casually. The choice is still in Chen Duo's hands."

Zhang Chulan scratched his head and gave a reply.

"Chen Duo, what are you thinking?"

"I?"

After being asked a question by Zhang Chulan, Chen Duo stroked her chin and then said:

"I won't choose to die... Only by living can you have choices; once you're dead, you have nothing. Only a fool would choose to die..."

Chen Duo repeated what Zhou Fengliu had told her back then, which she found to make sense.

Hearing Chen Duo's words, everyone present was stunned. Even the flustered Lao Meng was surprised by Chen Duo's answer.

Is this something Chen Duo could say?

"That's right, only a fool would choose to die."

While everyone remained silent, Feng Baobao raised her hand and echoed a comment.

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P.S.: I'm begging for everything, please, please. The humble author is online, sobbing.

Chapter 188 Zhang Chulan Has No Profit to Gain (First Update)

Even now, Chen Duo still doesn't know what she really needs.

She only remembered one thing: whatever she wanted or needed... everything was predicated on being alive.

Of course.

She could also choose to die, to escape this world, and leave this world that she seems unable to fit into as a Gu.

But she did not choose that option.

After her conversation with Zhou Fengliu that night, the question "Are you human or a poison?" deeply affected her.

She belatedly realized that the gears of her fate had actually started turning when Liao Zhong and the others rescued her from the Medicine Immortal Society.

Over the years, she has unknowingly transitioned from being a Gu (a type of venomous insect) to being a human.

Although she hadn't realized it before... it's undeniable that only humans think about what they want, what they need, and how to choose their next path.

...

If one's body is not one's own, and one's mind is not one's own, then how can one's body truly be one's own...?

Chen Duo's decision to continue living was, in essence, a choice made according to her own heart, a choice made as a human being, rather than wavering between humanity and the Gu...