My game, Orange Flavor, is great!

This was the best solution she could think of.

Even if the truth comes out later, it doesn't matter if her boyfriend, with whom she has little affection, chooses to break off the engagement because of her background...

It doesn't matter.

"From that moment on, you had already decided to die on the day you awakened, right?" Lu Zhao's voice was unusually low.

Wang Yuemei on the stretcher smiled silently and said nothing.

Who would have thought that she actually wanted to die when she was hit by that car?

At least in the children's minds, Teacher Wang died in an accident, not by becoming a spirit and then choosing to commit suicide.

Lu Zhao looked at her calmly and said slowly, "At that time, you were awakened by the strong impact. In those few minutes of awakening, your body was controlled by instinct. Someone hurt you, so your body spontaneously retaliated and constantly extracted its own energy to repair the wound."

Your body itself desires to live, so why must your will so desperately seek death? Moreover, after injuring someone, your instinctive thought was to run away; isn't that also a manifestation of a desire to survive?

As she spoke, she placed her warm hand over Wang Yuemei's tightly closed eyes, "You don't want to die, and I've already rescued you from the lake, so don't die. Live well. Even the Spirit Race has the right to live well in this world."

A tear slid down the woman's pale face. Lu Zhao gently curled his lips, consciously turning his head away and not looking at her.

The ambulance drove into the hospital, and Lu Zhao breathed a sigh of relief as he watched Wang Yuemei being taken into the emergency room. Just as he was about to sit down and rest for a while, his phone vibrated.

"Hello?" She quickly answered the phone. "Captain Li? How are things on your end?"

Li Manqiu said on the other end of the phone, "The car owner is still being rescued. It seems he won't die now, but he will probably be left with a lifelong disability."

Oh, this.

Lu Zhao paused for a moment, then turned to look at the emergency room where surgery was still in progress. He scratched his face with a troubled expression, "I've been saved too, so there shouldn't be any major problems."

"Then what happens next is no longer our concern."

He heard a voice on the phone behind him and turned around in surprise, only to find that Li Manqiu had appeared behind him at some point.

The other person waved the phone in their hand, "It seems we happen to be in the same hospital."

“…Oh.” Lu Zhao then hung up the phone.

Li Manqiu looked her up and down, and couldn't help but frown her pretty brows. "Were you soaked?"

She subconsciously lowered her head. Because of the white flame, the excess water on her body evaporated the moment she came out of the water, but since she had been in the water, there would definitely be some marks on her body.

"It's nothing, we just went into the water and pulled the person out." She waved her hand with a smile.

But Li Manqiu's expression was still not very good. She went over and pinched her clothes to look her over. "No, you still need to go back and take a hot shower. It's winter now, and it's easy to catch a cold."

Captain Li, you look a lot like her mother right now.

Lu Zhao muttered to himself, then looked back at the operating room with concern.

"I'll keep an eye on things here for you. Go back and take a shower now, and hand over the mission while you're at it," Captain Li said, crossing his arms and sitting down on the bench.

Since that's what they said, Lu Zhao couldn't disagree. Anyway, she did feel a bit uncomfortable in the current situation, so she nodded, gave her a few important instructions, and then turned to leave.

Unbeknownst to her, after she left, Li Manqiu withdrew her gaze from her retreating figure and murmured, "Still not good enough."

……

"Ah!"

After taking a shower at home, Lu Zhao couldn't help but sneeze as soon as he stepped out of the bathroom.

Ah, even with Bai Yan inside her body, she can still catch a cold, right?

"Of course, I'm not an antiviral granule; I can only improve your physical condition and immunity." A faint voice came from my chest.

She rolled her eyes. "Can you please stop talking if you don't have to? It feels really weird to hear another voice coming from my chest!"

"Heh, if we hadn't been in the lake and I hadn't instantly heightened your senses, you would have just been exhausted and died in there!" Bai Yan said this and then fell silent, seemingly angry.

Such a big temper for a ball of fire.

Lu Zhao muttered to himself, then comfortably sprawled on the sofa. After taking a shower, this was the kind of lazy, carefree lying down he should be!

She's been so tired lately, and this incident this morning almost killed her.

It's 11:30 in the morning. I'll lie down at home for half an hour first, then go out for lunch. There's a tough battle to fight this afternoon, which concerns Xiaoyue's future, so she absolutely can't be careless.

But before that... let her lie down for a while longer.

Chapter Ninety-One: Her Fairness

After ordering takeout and finishing his meal, Lu Zhao took out a formal suit from his closet and changed into it. Looking at himself in the mirror, he suddenly felt a sense of unreality and disorientation.

She had never worn such a formal suit in that world before; even if she wanted to, she would wait until graduation a year later.

However, she quickly recovered and remembered the most important thing for her today, so she didn't want to think about anything else.

She awkwardly put on the high heels, but fortunately, her body was exceptionally strong. Not to mention high heels, even if she wanted to walk on stilts on a whim, it would be no problem at all.

She glanced at the time; it was almost 1 p.m., and there were still two hours until the 3 p.m. meeting. She needed to get there early to prepare.

Without further hesitation, Lu Zhao stomped out the door in her high heels and even hailed a taxi, which was quite extravagant.

"It is understood that there has been further progress in the assault incident that occurred at the Chang'an Road intersection this morning. The special envoy from the Spirit Management Bureau swiftly apprehended the spirit who committed the assault in the shortest possible time..."

Listening to the radio in the car, Lu Zhao couldn't help but frown. The bias of the broadcast was too obvious. It didn't mention at all that the driver had hit the person twice first, but only mentioned that the Spirit Clan had injured someone.

Most people are now quite wary of the Eldar, and these public broadcasts are a tool to fuel this fear.

"Another case of Spirit Race violence," the middle-aged driver in the driver's seat sighed. "These things, they were all human before, but as soon as they become Spirit Race, they start to disrespect people. Do they really think they have some special privileges?"

Lu Zhao paused for a moment, then said, "Sometimes, we can't just listen to one side of the story."

"This is a public address system, do you think it would lie to us ordinary people?" The driver chuckled, though it was hard to tell if there was any sarcasm in his voice. "By the way, young lady, what are you doing at that abandoned factory in the suburbs? I heard there's a spirit management bureau nearby, full of spirits. You'd better be careful."

“I had no choice,” Lu Zhao said with a slight smile, “who told me to work there?”

The taxi screeched to a halt. The driver, his face pale, turned to look at her, and after a long, awkward smile, gave her a frightened one: "Oh, I was just... I was just joking!"

Lu Zhao stared at him for a while, until he saw sweat starting to bead on the other man's forehead, before suddenly laughing: "I was just kidding."

The driver subconsciously swallowed and stepped on the gas again. Although his complexion had improved, he didn't dare to say another word from that moment until the car reached its destination.

She got out of the car, glanced back at the taxi still parked on the side of the road, and understood the driver's thoughts. She immediately walked outside the factory, scanned her palm lines, and the scene before her instantly changed, revealing the high-tech building.

When I turned around again, I saw the taxi drive away in a panic.

It will take a long time to correct people's prejudices against the Eldar.

Lu Zhao shook his head and turned to walk deeper into the building.

She retrieved the documents from the second-floor conference room and checked them again carefully. Only after confirming that everything was correct did she sit down with peace of mind. When she checked the time, it was already almost two o'clock.

"Captain Lu."

There was a knock at the door. Lu Zhao walked over and opened it with some surprise. When he saw that it was Li Manqiu, he quickly welcomed her in.

"How is it? Is Wang Yuemei out of danger?" She asked impatiently as soon as she sat down.

Li Manqiu glanced at her thoughtfully and nodded slightly: "No one is hurt. The people on the car owner's side tried to cause trouble, but I sent them away."

Lu Zhao paused, his fingers unconsciously clenching. "That's right... she did injure someone after all, so what should we do next..."

“The subsequent lawsuits have nothing to do with us,” Li Manqiu interrupted her directly, coldly reminding her, “Our only task is to bring the perpetrator back to prevent the impact on public order from escalating.”

How could this be...

She lowered her eyes, looking somewhat lost and dejected.

The driver hit the person first, so he should be fully responsible. However, Wang Yuemei suddenly became aware of the situation and seriously injured the driver.

This creates a lot of wrangling between the two sides, but a disadvantage for Wang Yuemei is that she is now a member of the Spirit Clan. Although the Spirit Clan and humans are legally equal, it is clear from what she has seen and heard these past few days that people are not very friendly towards the Spirit Clan.

This incident will cause a huge uproar in society, and with the public outcry, Wang Yuemei's situation will become very difficult.

She had managed to save the person with great difficulty and persuaded them to stop thinking about suicide. If Wang Yuemei were to be exposed to public criticism like this, it might cause her to lose hope in life again.

"Is there anything we can do?" she asked after a moment's hesitation.

Li Manqiu didn't seem surprised at all. Instead, she subtly curled her lips and asked, "You really want to help her?"

“I’m not trying to help her. Wang Yuemei is also at fault. It’s wrong of her to hurt someone, and she should be punished accordingly,” Lu Zhao shook his head in defense.

"But in the current situation, both sides are at fault, but people subconsciously lean towards one side... I just want to minimize the public criticism she faces before she receives the judgment she deserves."

The original owner of this body had experienced something similar, and she had also seen it in her memories, so she could empathize with the possibility of it.

That memory was too dark, and even from an outsider's perspective, she didn't want to recall it.

After realizing she had transmigrated into this game world, she could no longer treat the people here as emotionless data; everyone standing in front of her was a living, breathing person.

Therefore, she didn't want anyone else to suffer like that.

“You want to give her fairness.” Li Manqiu leaned back in her chair, her smile widening.

Lu Zhao thought for a moment, "I'm just an ordinary spirit, I can't give her fairness, at most... just a little bit of pity between people who have had similar experiences."

"It doesn't matter what the reason is. To me, what you need to give is fairness." Li Manqiu chuckled, and it was clear that she was in a good mood.

Although he always felt that she was mocking his excessive sympathy, Lu Zhao accepted it.

She was just an ordinary female college student, with no particular strengths like decisiveness or composure. Her only notable strength was probably her strong empathy.

“I will think about this matter carefully,” Li Manqiu said, pushing the documents in front of her toward her. “What’s in front of you now is Duan Yue’s matter.”

Lu Zhao took a deep breath and subconsciously straightened his back.

Chapter Ninety-Two: The Four-Party Conference

At 2:45, Lu Zhao and Li Manqiu arrived at the sixth floor, which is the top-floor general planning conference room. This place is usually not open to the public, and only people at the ministerial level or above are qualified to make an appointment.

"Don't shake your legs." Li Manqiu stood outside the conference room and glanced at the seemingly calm person next to her.

Lu Zhao denied it with an upright expression: "Am I shaking!"

Captain Li nodded without giving him any face: "You do."

Okay, she does seem a little nervous.

A short while later, the elevator across the street rang with a "ding". Lu Zhao looked up and saw Chi Ying, Tian Mu, Liu Qingluo, and an unfamiliar middle-aged man getting off the elevator.

That middle-aged man must be Yan Wen, the head of the technology department.