Oh no! I'm surrounded by female ghosts!

It rained all night long.

It didn't gradually subside until dawn.

The sky outside the window was a pale gray, as if covered with a layer of dust that couldn't be washed off.

The figure that stood in the rain all night has disappeared.

Su Ming didn't know when she left.

But then came a piece of bad news.

This devastating news instantly stunned Su Ming.

The bad news came from Chen Zhiwei.

She said, "Tangtang is dead."

"What?!"

Su Ming was jolted awake and suddenly sat up in bed.

His scalp tingled instantly, and his blood seemed to freeze for a moment before rushing to his head, making his ears ring.

He stared intently at Chen Zhiwei, his eyes filled with disbelief, even thinking he was hallucinating.

Tangtang was fine yesterday, how come she died today?

Chen Zhiwei had only just learned of the news.

She didn't avoid his gaze, but spoke in a slightly heavy voice.

"Her body was discovered this morning."

"The specific cause of death is still under investigation, and no conclusion has been reached yet."

Su Ming's face turned deathly pale, and his fingertips trembled uncontrollably.

The next second, his eyes quickly became covered with dense red blood vessels, turning them a deep crimson.

Then he grabbed Chen Zhiwei by the neck and roared, "You did it!"

"Tangtang was driven to her death by you."

His strength was astonishing; the veins on his arms bulged, and the grotesque blood vessels writhed wildly beneath his skin.

A sudden feeling of suffocation instantly overwhelmed Chen Zhiwei.

Her breath hitched, and she gripped Su Ming's wrists tightly with both hands, but she couldn't break free from his terrifying strength.

Within seconds, her face flushed red, she made gurgling sounds, and her vision began to darken.

Hearing Su Ming's roar, the caregiver outside the door burst through the door.

Several burly men rushed forward, trying to forcibly pull Su Ming away.

But at this moment, he was incredibly strong, like a wild beast out of control, and even with the combined strength of several people, they could not budge him an inch.

Chen Zhiwei was on the verge of being strangled to death by Su Ming.

The door was pushed open for the third time.

It's Wen Qi.

As soon as she entered the room, she shouted, "Su Ming, don't kill her yet."

Wen Qi rushed back in a hurry after learning of Tang Tang's death.

Upon hearing Wen Qi's voice, a glimmer of clarity finally appeared in Su Ming's reddened eyes.

He loosened his grip and forcefully threw Chen Zhiwei aside.

Having narrowly escaped death, Chen Zhiwei clutched her neck, gasping for breath.

Strangely, there was no fear in her eyes.

When she came to see Su Ming, she had already made all the necessary preparations.

Wen Qi was the one she called back.

In retrospect, the timing was just right.

After coughing violently a few times, Chen Zhiwei looked at the group of helpless caregivers, waved her hand and said, "You can all go out first."

"We were just joking."

The caregivers looked at each other in bewilderment.

Is this what you call a joke?

You were almost strangled to death by him.

But they didn't ask any more questions and simply left the room silently.

It's a mental hospital!

Even the strangest things seem understandable.

After the caregiver left, Chen Zhiwei touched the clear finger marks on her neck, and she could still smile, and it was a genuine smile from the bottom of her heart.

"Su Ming, Tang Tang is not dead."

Su Ming was taken aback again.

At this point, he no longer knew whether he should believe Chen Zhiwei's words.

She first said Tang Tang was dead, and now she says Tang Tang isn't dead.

So, is Tang Tang dead or alive?

Wen Qi's expression was rather unpleasant inside the room.

Chen Zhiwei's appearance disrupted all her plans.

She didn't expect Chen Zhiwei to act even faster than her.

So she looked at Su Ming and explained, "You could also say that Tang Tang didn't die."

"Because of forced favorability."

She looked at Su Ming, who was completely bewildered, and earnestly explained this absurd and terrifying truth to him.

"She is the one in this game who has been forcibly bound to a certain level of favorability from the very beginning."

"Forced favorability transcends life and death."

"So, she won't die."

"If she dies, how can she continue to love you?"

Su Ming became more and more confused as he listened.

Why are we bringing up forced favorability again?

Until Chen Zhiwei, sitting on the ground, uttered a single word: "ghost".

The word caused Su Ming's pupils to contract sharply, and the hairs on his body to stand on end instantly.

Wen Qi nodded: "That's right, it's a ghost."

"Tangtang will come back as a ghost."

"Everyone around you will become her target."

"Especially me, Chen Zhiwei, and Yu Mengnian."

Su Ming's Adam's apple bobbed: "She... wants to kill you all?"

"So, if you die, will you become ghosts too?"

Chen Zhiwei answered this question.

She rubbed her neck, stood up, and said, "If I die, then I'm truly dead."

"If they die now, they will truly be dead."

"The reason is that I am not a character you raise, and there is no such thing as forced affection."

"And the forced goodwill they have received has not yet been successfully restored."

"Su Ming." She took a step forward, looking him directly in the eye. "Su Ming, you've always underestimated Tang Tang."

"That's why she chose death."

"She knows how to use forced favorability."

"After all, she posed no threat to us while she was alive."

This is Chen Zhiwei's honest opinion.

Tang Tang is no threat to either her, Wen Qi, or Yu Mengnian.

Her only advantage was that, before the others' forced goodwill could recover, she could transform into a ghost and kill everyone in advance.

Su Ming's pupils trembled, and a monstrous wave surged within his heart.

"You mean, Tangtang chose to die."

"It's all for the purpose of killing you."

He had considered many possibilities, but never this one.

That's absolutely amazing.

She cut off all her escape routes, risked her life, and set up a trap that was doomed to fail.

Because Tangtang sees things more clearly than anyone else.

The forced favorability originated from her.

She knew all too well how terrifying it was.

She also understood that Su Ming could never give up on anyone.

"Yes." Chen Zhiwei nodded frankly.

"Su Ming, Tang Tang will start killing people tonight."

She then turned her head to look at Wen Qi, who was silent to the side, and a smile appeared on her lips.

"I think Miss Wen has already found the dean."

Wen Qi's gaze darkened.

She underestimated Chen Zhiwei.

This guy has made a complete mess of things.

This put her in the spotlight, leaving her with no way out.

At this point, she couldn't deny it.

Therefore, she could only nod frankly: "That's right."

"I took control of the dean last night."

"Su Ming can now use forced favorability to bind the Dean at any time and end this future timeline."

"However," Wen Qi's tone suddenly changed, "he'd better not end this future timeline now."

"According to my speculation, the future line was not severed, but rather filled in."

"In other words, even if Su Ming activates the next future timeline, he will still be in this world."

"Ending this future line now will not only bring no benefits, but will also leave more hidden dangers."

She analyzed the pros and cons clearly and logically, and every word revealed a well-thought-out calculation.

"Currently, only Tang Tang is forced to bind her favorability rating."

"In the next future timeline, the newborn Lin Jiajia will be directly bound by a forced favorability rating."

"By then, once she dies..."

"It will not be one ghost that kills, but two ghosts."

Su Ming glanced at Wen Qi, then at Chen Zhiwei.

His gaze lingered on Chen Zhiwei for a longer time.

Since Chen Zhiwei could say such a thing, it means that she believed her own story.

As her own attending physician, she actually believed her patient's delusional stories.

Putting himself in Chen Zhiwei's shoes, Su Ming couldn't do it.

So, what is Chen Zhiwei's purpose in getting involved when she could have chosen not to?

Although Tang Tang's death was not directly caused by her, it was certainly orchestrated by her.

At their level of strategic maneuvering, they no longer bother with personal involvement.

For them, personally committing murder was the lowest of the low.

Just like now.

No one laid a hand on it, and no one shed blood.

But Tangtang still died.