Chapter 18: Narrow Road of Enemies (2)

  "Cough...cough...cough..."

  Xia Tong's face was beet red, and he coughed violently, looking like he was about to suffocate.

  His hand grasping her collar began to loosen slightly.

  "Cough...cough..."

  Xia Tong was coughing violently again, looking like he was about to run out of breath at any moment.

  He relaxed his hand, and Xiaotong finally landed on solid ground!

  "Cough, cough..." Xia Tong lightly coughed a few times, took a deep breath, then lowered her head and pointed to the hand that was tightly grasping her wrist. She looked up at him: "You're holding onto me so tightly, are you afraid I'll run away?"

  "Hmph! You want to run away?" The man snorted, shaking her off.

  Xia Tong stood firmly and looked back at him, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she exclaimed: "Wow, what's that?!"

  He was taken aback, then turned around and walked away.

  "Get out!"

  With a loud "splash", water splashed high, Xia Tong kicked the man into the lake with one foot, and then ran away. She didn't stop until she was far away, where she finally stopped to catch her breath.

  She stared at the lake, stunned: The ripples were still flashing, calm and peaceful, as if the person had never fallen in! Looking back at the bridge and around the lake, there was no one to be seen, not even a shadow.

  Xiatong was suddenly panicked: He shouldn't be unable to swim, right? He sank so quickly!

  Xiatong thought and quickly ran back, then bent down, lying on the place where he was kicked down to look down, hoping that he had not yet sunk! Hoping to find him and rescue him! She didn't mean to take his life!

  The lake surface is still calm and peaceful, that person just now seems to have vanished into thin air!

  Xiatong grasped the edge and strained to lower his head further!

  A figure emerged from behind her and overlapped with her shadow, casting it into the lake. Xia Tong stared blankly at this strange scene, then saw the shadow's hands slowly rise, and then move.

  She fell into the water with a loud cry before she could even react.

  Water rushed in from all sides, pouring into her mouth and blurring her vision.

  "I don't know how to swim!"

  Xiatong gulped down a few mouthfuls of water, kicked her legs wildly, and flailed her arms about in distress, struggling to float to the surface. In her panic, she saw that embroidered-clothes man standing on the bridge, wearing an unrestrained smile as he gazed at her, his face full of triumph. "You little scamp, you dare to deceive me!"

  "I really... wow... can't swim..."

  Xia Tong could no longer care about so much, choked a mouthful of water, and then struggled to float up and stretched out his hand to shout at him on the bridge.

  "Dead girl, you're trying to deceive people again! This time I won't fall for it!" He still smiled with a carefree expression, watching her struggling in the water without batting an eyelid.

  "I... really don't... want to... coo..."

  Xia Tong mustered up her last bit of strength, struggling to float to the surface, and shouted to him on the bridge with a pleading tone, but then a mouthful of water came over her, drowning out what she was going to say next.

  Her body began to sink down little by little, surrounded by an icy blackness all around. With her eyes open, she could still see the light reflected from above like a mirror!

  "Dead girl, you can pretend all you want! I'm not going to play along with you!"

  Faintly audible was his voice.

  Water kept pouring in from all sides, drilling into her mouth and nose! Xia Tong felt extremely uncomfortable, weakly flailing a few times, but couldn't stop the invasion one bit.

  Vision gradually became blurred, and consciousness also began to slowly dissipate!

  Modern buildings, the anxious faces of Dad and Mom, the LCD screen in the bedroom, and that eerie red word - your past life, they appear in fragments, changing and emerging.

  Her eyelids began to feel heavy, and she couldn't open them! "It's too late, I should go to sleep!" Xiaotong muttered to herself, as exhausted as she was every day after staying up all night surfing the internet.

  "Boom!"

  This was the muffled sound she heard after closing her eyes.