It seems that the villain is targeting me.

There are no classes and not much to do on the first day of freshman registration. After submitting the forms, students can leave on their own.

She quickly left the classroom, walked through the corridor, and went all the way to the bottom of the teaching building.

The No. 1 Middle School in the city has a history of more than 50 years. Many osmanthus trees are planted within the courtyard wall. The flowers are in full bloom at this time, and the branches emit a refreshing fragrance. Chen Xiaoya stood under the tree for a while, and his shoulders were covered with golden flowers.

She didn't move, even her breathing was cautious, as if this was a beautiful dream, and any movement would suddenly shatter like porcelain.

After many twists and turns, she finally stood on the high school campus of her dreams.

Inexplicable emotions surged in his chest, making Chen Xiaoya's heart burn.

She took a deep breath, trying to calm her overly excited heartbeat.

Suddenly, she heard a soft rustling sound in her ears. She turned her head slightly and realized that someone was approaching her.

The footsteps were light enough that Chen Xiaoya didn't notice her presence until she stood behind him.

A pair of hands gently passed by her ears, brushed her shoulders and collar, and swept away the fragrant osmanthus flowers.

"Why are you standing here like an idiot?"

Xiao Niao cleaned up the tiny petals stuck in her hair, "They're almost falling into your clothes."

Chen Xiaoya said "Oh", lowered his head and obediently let the other party play with him.

"How is the new class?" Xiao Niao asked.

"Not bad," Chen Xiaoya blinked, "The head teacher is pretty good."

Xiao Niao seemed very satisfied with this answer. She grinned and said, "Let's go. I'll take you to dinner."

The procedures required for admission are almost all handled here.

There is no need to attend evening self-study on the first day, so it is the perfect time to go out and hang out.

The management regulations of the No. 1 Middle School in the city are strict. Boarding students are not allowed to leave the school unless otherwise required. Taking the children out for a walk can be considered as a final relaxation.

Chen Xiaoya stuck to Xiaoniao like a tail, looking reluctant to leave.

Students at the No. 1 Middle School in the city can only live on campus, and can only go home during holidays.

In Chen Xiaoya's understanding, she would have to separate from Xiaoniao after high school started, so she especially cherished the time they spent together.

Finally, the two found an old shop near the back street of the school. There was not even a sign on the old door plaque, and it relied entirely on word of mouth to attract customers, and was deeply loved by the students of the middle school.

The place to eat was recommended to Xiao Niao by Lu Zhiqing - otherwise, it would be difficult for her to find such a remote old restaurant as a newcomer.

As for Lu Zhiqing himself, he left in a hurry at this moment.

In the middle of the campus tour, Xiao Niao separated from her, saying that something urgent had occurred and Lu Zhiqing needed to go over and deal with it quickly.

Xiao Niao vaguely heard key words like "car", "driver", and "ran away" - but didn't take it seriously.

She pondered the menu on the wall for a while, ordered mixed noodles and clay pot soup, and cut an extra plate of braised pork platter and placed it in the middle of the table.

The steaming hot angelica chicken soup was served first. I scooped it from the earthenware pot in small sips using a small flat iron spoon. Each spoonful carried a strong and hot medicinal flavor.

The mixed noodles are also very delicious. The fine noodles are soaked in fragrant soy sauce, sprinkled with dried radish, peanuts and chopped green onions, and the rich flavor of lard runs through it, making your mouth full of fragrance when you chew it.

From the moment the shop owner brought the bowl, Chen Xiaoya never raised his head. The bowl of mixed noodles was swept away like fallen leaves in the wind in a few seconds, leaving not a single grain behind.

Her food had improved for more than two months, and her complexion had become visibly rosier, her originally skinny arms had gained some flesh, and she even showed signs of growing taller.

Xiaoniao saw all these changes.

She silently commented in her heart: It’s a good thing that the child doesn’t have to worry about growing up.

If Xiaoniao knew that this kid would grow taller year after year in the next three years of high school, until he was half a head taller than him, he would definitely feel very complicated.

...Maybe it will even prevent Chen Xiaoya from drinking milk.

Of course, Xiao Niao doesn’t know now that this kid will grow to 1.75 meters in the future, and she is still worried about the living expenses for the next two months.

"...I can't eat out for the next two months."

Xiao Niao announced with a slightly heavy voice, "Before the salary is paid, the remaining money is only enough for the two of us to eat in the cafeteria every day."

Chen Xiaoya is not picky about food. He was used to a hard life when he was young, so now everything he eats tastes delicious.

She subconsciously responded, "It's okay, the food in the cafeteria is delicious too."

A few seconds later, Chen Xiaoya realized that something was wrong with this sentence: Xiaoniao just said "the two of us", did she want to eat in the cafeteria too?

"Oh, by the way," Xiao Niao suddenly said, "I almost forgot, I haven't told you yet."

Her heart skipped a beat, and then she had some kind of premonition—a good one—and surprise flashed in her dark pupils, which looked at the bird with sparkling eyes.

“I found a job and taught here.”

Xiao Niao said it lightly, but there was a warm smile in his eyes, "It seems we don't have to separate for the time being."

Chen Xiaoya was stunned by the news for a moment, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses, blinking his eyes.

She didn't know what to say first: congratulate Xiao Niao on finding a job? Or express her inner shock?

Chen Xiaoya had many questions: When did she get the certificate? Would Xiaoniao continue to study at the same school as her?

But in the end, there was only one thought left in Chen Xiaoya's mind.

Great, she thought.

Chen Xiaoya felt like he was hit by a pie falling from the sky, and he was immersed in joy.

Personally speaking, she really didn't want to be separated from Xiao Niao.

At this time, Chen Xiaoya's thoughts were still very simple. He just felt that separation was very painful - even if it was only a short separation, they would be able to see each other again during the holidays.

She was not a person who missed home or the past. When she was living in the boarding school in junior high school, she never missed her gambler father.

The roommates all cried quietly in bed on the first night away from home and living on campus, but Chen Xiaoya didn't feel anything at all.

But perhaps it was because this had never happened before that she felt that this separation was so painful.

It's like the fledgling complex: a newborn animal will regard the creature it sees when it first opens its eyes as its parent, and humans will also develop a similar sense of dependence.

She met the only adult in her life who was kind to her, so she instinctively wanted to get closer to him and even imitate his words and actions.

This situation is actually very dangerous: if Chen Xiaoya meets a bad person now, he will be in trouble.

Fortunately, she met a little bird.

They will live together in the future, Chen Xiaoya thought almost as if it was a matter of course.

Even if it is just to repay the pain I suffered when I was young and helpless.

If someone gives her a gift, she will be willing to treat this person well for the rest of her life.

It's ridiculous to say that the deepest hurts Chen Xiaoya suffered in her short life of more than ten years were basically caused by her blood relatives.

Of course, she would rather maintain a good relationship with Xiaoniao than with her genetic father or those distant relatives who are not related at all.

Of course it would be best if we could stay together forever, and even a short separation would lead to a reunion - you could say that this idea is naive, but you cannot deny that this is indeed the truest thought in Chen Xiaoya's heart at this moment.

Don't separate, don't separate.

Chen Xiaoya silently thought to herself that this was all she wanted in her life.

Chapter 74: Lu Yao, fleeing for fear of crime?

Doctor Chen sneezed violently.

She stayed in a temporary rented house. The lights in the room were off and the curtains were all drawn, leaving only a narrow gap for her to observe the outside world.

The doctor stood sideways by the window, watching the movements below through the glass.

This room was specially chosen so that it could overlook the alley behind.

Unlike what is shown in movies and TV shows, surveillance is extremely boring. You have to be on edge and wait for a long time, which is more uncomfortable than working overtime.

Dr. Chen had been standing by the window for at least the entire morning.

She was starving—and it was infuriating that her smaller version was enjoying a delicious lunch with Xiao Niao.

Fortunately, Dr. Chen actually doesn’t know what he is doing in this world.

She focused her attention on the surveillance, keeping her eyes fixed on the back alley, afraid that she would miss the key point if she was distracted.

This alley is extremely desolate, and on weekdays no one passes by except for garbage trucks.

Also because it is sparsely populated, there are not many shops nearby, and you have to walk half a mile to find a noodle restaurant.

The doctor waited patiently for about ten minutes.

Then, she finally saw a silver-white van as she wished - the car had no license plate and drove silently into the alley.

The rear door was opened, and two people carrying a huge black woven bag walked out of the car and briefly disappeared from sight.

Dr. Chen noticed that when the two men returned to the car, their hands were empty.

The van stayed for less than two minutes in total and then quickly left along the same route.

Dr. Chen recognized this car and knew why it was driving here.

After all, the same thing had happened eight times, and it would be difficult for her not to remember.

She went downstairs.

The doctor first carefully confirmed that the van had indeed left, and then carefully walked out from the shadows at the stairs.

The location here is remote and bad enough. There is a garbage disposal site downstairs of the residential building. The rent has been reduced again and again but it has not attracted many tenants.

She walked all the way into the garbage disposal site, searched for a while following the direction she remembered, and soon found the black woven bag she had just seen.

Dr. Chen put on gloves - although it was almost impossible for her to leave any DNA evidence, long-term experience had made the doctor develop the habit of wearing gloves before doing anything.

Even without the 'help' of the world's will, she would choose to clean up the traces she left behind.

The doctor carefully unzipped the woven bag, and the man's bloodless, ashen face appeared before him, his eyes wide open, filled with twisted despair.

There was actually a corpse in the woven bag.

She did not panic, but calmly examined the man's appearance, then pressed her hand on his carotid artery to confirm that he was indeed dead.

After Dr. Chen finished all this, he closed the zipper back to its original state.

There is no need to move the woven bag, just leave it here.

There is no need to wait for the garbage truck to arrive the next day. People who come to pick up rubbish in the evening will find it, and the nearby police station will soon receive the news and rush to confirm the body information.

Friends who have killed someone know that it is easy to kill someone but difficult to dispose of the body.

Those people threw the woven bags in such a place, of course not to destroy the body, but to let the body be discovered by the police as soon as possible.

For criminals, this behavior of actively providing evidence to the police is of course incomprehensible.

But if the crime is committed by a group, then it is easy to understand why they do so.

Dr. Chen pieced together the complete logical chain in his mind.

It's actually a form of deterrence, similar to hanging the enemy's heads on the city walls to dry in ancient times. Both things are essentially using corpses to send a signal to those around them - this is what happens if you mess with us.

Dr. Chen knew Gu Yilan's style of doing things well enough. She knew that the corpse was actually the old woman's warning to herself: no matter what your purpose is, you'd better consider it carefully.

As a gang leader, the other party would of course be extremely wary of someone like her who appeared out of nowhere.

But Dr. Chen didn't care what the old woman thought - her goal had been achieved.

She had no interest in Gu Yilan's money and power, she just wanted to kill someone with a borrowed knife.

The doctor looked at the black woven bag and muttered, "The second one."

This is the experience of survival, Dr. Chen

There is a carefully compiled list of people who must be killed, arranged in a certain order.

If these people are not eliminated, they will threaten the safety of those around them in the future.

Dr. Chen did not have too many moral concerns, so she chose to strike first.

This assassination list would occasionally expand but rarely decrease, and the last candidate would always remain the same, always being Gu Tianjiao, the son of destiny.

The doctor has found a pattern in the process of multiple reincarnations: when Gu Tianjiao dies, everything will start over again - that's why she put this person at the end of the list.

At first, she was full of hatred and took brutal revenge on this man... Later, she began to use this guy as a reset button.

Whenever Dr. Chen gets bored of a certain reincarnation, he kills a son of luck for fun.

Of course, she would definitely not attack Gu Tianjiao now.