After listening to the girl's accusations, Alex's eyes widened. From the girl's words, he could easily imagine how hateful the little Great Demon King, Miao Meiyuan, was when she was a child. Doing such things wasn't just mimicking TV; she probably saw some movie somewhere, was young and ignorant, thought it was fun, and learned to use the children around her as experiments.
From the girl's perspective, Miao Meiyuan's behavior was indeed hateful. The girl in front of him had been bullied to the point of having psychological trauma; otherwise, why would she resort to this method to retaliate?
Alex looked at the girl with sympathetic eyes and said gently, "I sympathize with your experience, but you don't need to worry so much. Now that she's grown up, Meiyuan won't treat you like that."
"She's a delinquent girl now, and you're telling me to trust her? You really aren't a good person, wuwuwu..."
The girl wiped her eyes, her tearful expression invoking pity.
Alex had a secret headache. What kind of trauma had Miao Meiyuan suffered to aim to be a delinquent girl? The girl in front of him had a very bad impression of her and didn't believe Miao Meiyuan would turn over a new leaf.
Alex found it hard to tell the girl to let go of the past and forgive Miao Meiyuan. After all, having been bullied so miserably, she was the victim, and it was only natural to hold a grudge. However, he didn't want to get involved in their affairs, nor did he want to continue entanglement with the girl.
"You should just give me the money. Once I take the money, I'll pretend I didn't see what just happened."
Alex said this directly. He didn't care about a few dozen yuan, but if it could put the girl at ease, there was no harm in accepting it. For the girl, it was just a week's allowance, so the impact wasn't significant. How could a girl not have some spare pocket money?
"Wuwuwu, what did you see?" The girl squeezed out a few sad tears, looked at Alex resentfully, and then pouted, "You're so rich, how could you look at my little bit of money? You must be lying to me."
"You don't believe this either?" Alex was going a bit crazy; he was practically shooting himself in the foot. In frustration, he simply said, "So you insist on me taking advantage of you before you'll believe me? Fine, that's good then. Stand still, I'm going to whip you a few times."
As he spoke, Alex took out a large whip. The girl turned pale with fright at the sight, hugged her chest in fear, and said, "You're actually a pervert, a Sadist, I, I, I..."
She said "I" for a long time, but in the end, she didn't say anything. Her expression kept changing, sometimes angry, sometimes conflicted, and even carrying a hint of shyness.
Finally, the girl gritted her teeth, closed her eyes as if facing death, and said with a trembling voice, "Come on, hit me. I definitely won't make a sound. I hope you keep your word!"
The girl seemed to finally believe Alex, but Alex felt exceptionally speechless.
He was stunned for a moment, sighed, and finally picked up the whip and lashed the girl a few times. Anyway, it didn't hurt; on the contrary, it would be a kind of enjoyment. Plus, having been annoyed by the girl, Alex didn't hesitate; he wanted to get it over with quickly.
After a strange cry of "Ah...", the girl fell to the ground, whispering in disbelief, "What's going on? Why do I feel so comfortable? Could it be that I am the legendary Masochist?"
Alex said indifferently, "Alright, I've taken advantage of you. I won't tell anyone about this matter. Anyway, that's it, goodbye."
Alex turned and left.
This time, the girl didn't force him to stay. She lowered her head, looking dejected, doubting life and doubting herself.
"Oh right, I forgot to ask her name."
Walking halfway, Alex remembered this, but immediately realized, what did it matter to him what the girl's name was?
He didn't take it to heart. Currently, the matter he was most concerned about was still how to find Chen Luoqiu.
He was afraid that Chen Luoqiu was still unwilling to wake up and was still lost in the dream. He remembered that Chen Luoqiu had said once that her mother still needed her care. She might be an immobile patient, or it might even be a single-parent family. Alex was very worried that if it dragged on too long, something would happen.
Two days passed, and no news came. Alex gradually began to lose his composure.
Until the third day, the school leader helped him get the list of students in all high schools in the city. Alex specifically skipped an afternoon of classes to find a deserted place to compare the lists one by one, yet he gained nothing.
He thought disappointedly, "Could Chen Luoqiu be a student from another city? How can I find her like this? It's already been three days."
Alex was a bit desperate. He even took out the newly obtained Third-Party Wish Crystal Ball, hoping to receive a wish from Chen Luoqiu, but unfortunately, he couldn't get his wish.
At night, heavy-hearted, he opened the website and found that the reading index of legend of fengyun hualong had exceeded one million, and he had three more movie tickets in his hand.
Holding these three movie tickets, Alex lay on the bed, his expression changing unpredictably. Finally, he gritted his teeth and decided to use one.
He closed his eyes, his mind stirred, and he waited silently, but after a long while, nothing happened.
Alex's expression changed. He opened his eyes and saw that the three movie tickets hadn't decreased. He had failed to enter the dream.
He was rejected.
Alex deeply realized this problem. Chen Luoqiu in the dream world was rejecting his entry. That is to say, Chen Luoqiu was still living in the dream, and had even closed herself off.
Alex's expression was dull, feeling helpless. Perhaps he should go talk to Freya and use her channels to find the person.
But the concealment of An Suling and her organization was to prevent Freya's identity from being exposed. If, because of him, he instigated Freya to contact the organization, causing Freya's existence to be detected by the Alligator Worshipper organization, Alex would feel uneasy. Therefore, he couldn't make up his mind for a long time.
Freya said she wanted to find Xiao Kou back, using only social channels, so there wouldn't be any trouble. But he only knew the name Chen Luoqiu at the moment, and it was very difficult to find someone based on that.
That night, Alex suffered from insomnia for the first time, and dawn came while he was half-asleep and half-awake.
...
"Xiao Kou, why are you crying? Are you unhappy?"
In a dreamy room decorated with a very girlish atmosphere, on the large Simmons bed in the middle, the young girl wearing silk pajamas slowly woke up. Her expression was sad, and her exquisite, beautiful face was covered in tear stains, and the pillow had also been silently wetted by tears during her sleep.
Hearing the silent and worried greetings of the kind woman in front of her, the young girl was a bit flustered. She wiped her tears with the back of her hand, but the tears wouldn't stop; instead, they flowed more fiercely.
She looked confused and sad, murmuring, "Yeah, why am I crying? It seems like I had a very long dream. The things in the dream are already blurry, but that feeling of sadness has remained. I... I think I dreamed of him."
She said softly at the end, her expression dazed.
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