The end of the world is approaching, I'm handing myself over to the country.

The whole world seemed to fall completely silent in that instant.

Lin Miaomiao remained frozen in place, still holding her phone, her mind buzzing.

The man who used to fawn over her and would lower himself to the dust for a few source crystals just now... not only insulted her?

Did he hang up on her?

humiliation.

An unprecedented sense of humiliation overwhelmed her like a surging tide.

"ah--!"

A piercing scream burst from deep within her throat, echoing through the empty, deathly silent apartment.

She suddenly slammed her phone against the wall!

"Bang!"

The phone, which already had a cracked screen, shattered completely upon impact, with parts and fragments scattered all over the ground.

But this is not enough.

Lin Miaomiao rushed to the center of the living room as if she had gone mad, and with all her might, she raised her foot and kicked the bare wall hard.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

She didn't know how many times she kicked until she felt a piercing pain in her ankle and collapsed to the ground, completely exhausted.

She hugged her knees, buried her head deep in them, and suppressed sobs rose intermittently.

"No! That's not how it is..."

My success is not due to luck!

"It was me who led the Sky Fox Guild step by step from an unknown small group to one of the top guilds in Wasteland Era!"

"It was my discerning eye that discovered so many players with potential! And it was I who formulated every strategic step in the guild's development!"

"All of this is thanks to me, how could it be luck?"

"I don't believe it!"

"I'm just... just going through a temporary low..."

Lin Miaomiao muttered to herself, her voice broken and fragmented, yet carrying a stubborn determination.

"This is all only temporary!"

"If I can succeed once, I can succeed twice! I'm not just lucky!"

Thinking of this, Lin Miaomiao clenched her fists tightly: "Wang Yu...you ungrateful dog!"

"When I rise again, even if you kneel down and beg me, you can forget about my forgiveness!"

"I'll make you... make all those who look down on me pay the price!"

Lin Miaomiao raised her head, and beneath her disheveled hair, a pair of bloodshot eyes burned with a mad flame.

Just then, a piercing ringtone suddenly rang out.

It wasn't the phone she smashed earlier.

It was another spare phone that she had tossed under the sofa cushion in the corner.

Lin Miaomiao's body trembled, like a frightened bird.

She staggered to her feet, rushed to the sofa, and pulled out the spare phone from under the cushions.

A familiar nickname flashed on the screen—Xiao Rou.

It's her daughter.

Lin Miaomiao took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the rage and collapse in her heart, and tried her best to make her voice sound normal.

She swiped to answer the call.

"Hey, Xiaorou..."

But before Lin Miaomiao could finish speaking, she was interrupted by an extremely impatient girl's voice on the other end of the phone.

"Mom, why can't I use my card suddenly?"

Lin Miaomiao's heart sank.

The thing I feared most still happened.

To make up for the fatherly love her daughter had lost, she got her daughter a supplementary credit card with an alarmingly high credit limit.

She never restricted Xiaorou's spending; after all, she had to satisfy either love or money.

But now, all of Lin Miaomiao's accounts have been frozen, and her supplementary card has naturally become a useless card.

Lin Miaomiao licked her chapped lips and explained in an almost ingratiating tone, "Xiaorou, Mom has recently... run into some financial trouble."

"Write down what you want, okay? I'll make it up to you double in a while."

There was a two-second silence on the other end of the phone, followed by an even more indignant outburst of questions.

"What's the point of making up for it later! I want it now!"

"My classmates and I have already picked out our food and are just waiting to pay! And now you're telling me the card won't work?"

Lin Miaomiao felt her temples throbbing. She could only patiently plead, "But Mom... really has no money left."

These words exhausted her last bit of strength and dignity.

She works hard outside, not only to make herself a decent person, but more importantly, to give her daughter a happy childhood where she has everything she needs.

It was also to make up for the lack of fatherly love she had.

But now, being questioned by her own daughter, Lin Miaomiao felt an unbearable pain in her heart.

Upon hearing this, the daughter on the other end of the phone exploded as if a fuse had been lit.

"You should have said you didn't have money earlier!"

A sharp, suppressed scream pierced Lin Miaomiao's eardrums, causing her pain.

"If you had said so earlier, I wouldn't have gone out! You had to wait until I bought my things and was about to pay to find out! You did it on purpose! You just wanted to embarrass me in front of my classmates!"

This accusation, which completely distorted the truth, left Lin Miaomiao utterly bewildered.

She wanted to explain, to refute, but the words that came out were subconscious explanations.

"Xiaorou, Mommy's really going through a tough time lately. Please be understanding, okay?"

"I understand you? Who understands me?!"

The voice on the other end of the phone was choked with sobs, filled with grievance and resentment.

"How can someone like you exist in this world!"

"Everyone else has a dad since they were little, but I don't! Now that I've finally grown up, I want to buy myself something to make it up to me, and you treat me like this!"

The girl's accusations grew more vicious and heart-wrenching with each sentence.

Lin Miaomiao listened blankly, feeling as if her soul was being slowly tortured.

Lin Miaomiao: "No, that's not how it is. Mom loves you. You must believe Mom. No one in this world loves you more than Mom."

Lin Miaomiao's sincerity only earned her a cold snort: "Love? How much is your love worth? Is it more expensive than my pencil case?"

"My close friends all use the latest flashing pencil cases, while I'm using an old model that came out last month. How can I face going to school with such a crappy pencil case!"

"I think you just look down on me. You think I'm a burden because I'm a girl. If I were a boy, you definitely wouldn't treat me like this!"

"No! No, you're my own flesh and blood, how could I not like you?" Lin Miaomiao explained frantically, "Xiaorou, believe me, I really never thought that way..."

But Lin Miaomiao's explanation only made the girl angrier: "If that's not the case, then prove it to me and get my card back, instead of making me go crazy in the mall like a madwoman."

Lin Miaomiao remained silent for a long time before saying, "I'm sorry, it's really not possible right now..."