309: Chapter 309 This is the human world.

Tang Ruan pried at Huan Du's hands with all her might, trying to force them open.

However, Huan Du remained completely unmoved. Suddenly, several flesh-colored vines sprouted from the back of his hands, slowly entangling her own.

They rendered every single one of her knuckles unable to move.

A powerful sense of suffocation washed over her; Tang Ruan could no longer utter a single word.

Her face was flushed red as she glared at him.

In her heart, she said to him, [If you kill me, aren't you afraid Fen Tian and Heng Zhou will seek revenge?]

Huan Du replied, "Being alive is meaningless anyway.

Seeing them live in as much pain as I do makes me very happy."

Tang Ruan thought: [Pervert! Another one with psychological issues—]

Suddenly, her mind went completely blank.

In a daze, she seemed to hear many voices, including some that were familiar to her.

[What's going on?]

[No! I have to find a way.]

Tang Ruan focused her concentration...

Suddenly, Huan Du threw Tang Ruan onto the ground.

He stared at his own skeletal hands in disbelief.

"Your Supernatural Ability... absorbs Energy?" Huan Du asked.

Tang Ruan knew full well that chatting with a villain was a waste of survival time.

She didn't answer his question, but instead lunged directly at him.

Caught off guard, Huan Du was tackled to the ground by Tang Ruan.

Tang Ruan straddled him, pressing her hands firmly against Huan Du's face.

A continuous stream of Energy was sucked from his body into hers.

Huan Du tried to resist, but the moment his arms touched her, they also instantly withered.

Tang Ruan forced herself to endure the discomfort caused by his distorted, deformed face.

She silently prayed: it must work!

Though he could be reborn, if all his Energy was gone, what would he use to be reborn with?

However, just as things were progressing as Tang Ruan had envisioned...

She suddenly realized that the Energy inside her body was flowing in reverse.

"Sister, aren't you a bit too weak right now?

Even I use your Supernatural Ability better than you do.

Hahahaha..."

Along with Huan Du's arrogant laughter, Tang Ruan felt as if all the strength in her body had been drained in an instant.

A massive wave of dizziness hit her.

The things before her eyes began to turn blurry and distorted...

The surrounding light grew darker and darker.

Something wrapped around her throat again.

It gradually tightened...

And she no longer had the strength to resist...

In an instant, the surroundings fell into complete darkness, as if a hand had pushed her into an endless abyss...

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"Dad! Sister... seems to have moved."

A familiar voice drifted into her ears.

Tang Ruan suddenly took a deep breath. As oxygen rushed into her lungs, she instantly became much more alert.

Her consciousness slowly gathered, and her vision gradually cleared...

"Tang Ruan, Tang Ruan, you're awake?

That's great!

My house back in my hometown is saved!"

What came into view was the familiar face of her 'Scrooge' Boss, and Dou Dou, who was leaning over her bedside.

Tang Ruan sat up abruptly and looked around.

The Boss was quite startled and tried to push her back down onto the hospital bed.

Then he suddenly realized it wasn't appropriate to touch a young girl, and his hands stopped awkwardly in mid-air.

"Lie down first. The doctor said it's a concussion. Don't move! Don't move anymore!

I'll go find the doctor."

Tang Ruan seemed not to have heard his words at all.

She turned her head and saw the IV needle in her hand.

Gritting her teeth, she pulled it out.

She stood up quickly, instantly feeling her legs go weak and limp.

Failing to stand steady, she nearly fell over.

The Boss instinctively reached out to support her.

"Don't move!"

Tang Ruan saw the window not far away.

She pushed him away, strode to the window, and looked out.

She was currently on approximately the fourth floor. Across the street were perfectly ordinary shops.

In the distance were office buildings towering into the clouds.

From here, she could even see the location of her rented apartment.

This is the human world.

She turned her head.

Standing behind her were her Boss and the Boss's son, Dou Dou.

She—had she transmigrated back?

Had she been killed by Huan Du?

Tang Ruan's heart jolted.

A massive sense of fear washed over her.

She was in a daze for a moment...

No!

Maybe she was just dreaming.

Just like that time when she saved Fen Tian and Heng Zhou; because her Energy was overdrawn, she had a dream about this world while she was on the verge of death.

Thinking of this, Tang Ruan's eyes suddenly widened.

What if... what she saw last time wasn't a dream?

Does that mean everything right now isn't a dream either?

She died, so she transmigrated back.

No!

She can't die; she has to go back!

Tang Ruan's brain spun rapidly.

If she died in the Beast World and transmigrated to the human world, then if she died in the human world, would she be able to go back?

"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Seeing Tang Ruan's eyes glazed over, the Boss asked in a panic.

He reached out and pressed the call button at the head of the bed.

The doctor said Tang Ruan hadn't woken up because of a concussion.

At best, her memory would be impaired after waking; at worst, she would be in a vegetative state.

Of course, there were also a very few people who miraculously suffered no effects at all.

His company had just been destroyed by fire, and the insurance company's compensation hadn't come through yet.

He currently had nothing to his name.

If he wanted to continue paying for Tang Ruan's treatment, he would have to sell his house in his hometown.

He had thought about ignoring her.

But while a person can be a unscrupulous businessman, they still need to know gratitude.

If Tang Ruan hadn't rescued Dou Dou from the fire in time, he wouldn't have a son anymore.

As it was, Dou Dou was only frightened during the fall.

He had also thought about contacting Tang Ruan's family to have them pay the medical bills first, and he would pay them back once he had money.

But he had met this young girl's family before.

There was absolutely no hope of them spending money on her.

If they learned of Tang Ruan's situation, they would surely try to blackmail him for a huge sum.

And then they would leave Tang Ruan all alone in the hospital.

The Boss sighed.

He was both afraid of being blackmailed and afraid of failing to save his son's savior.

Fortunately, she woke up after being unconscious for only two days.

As the Boss was thinking, he suddenly heard a 'creak'.

He looked toward Tang Ruan.

He jumped up in fright instantly.

"Tang Ruan! What are you doing?"

He saw that Tang Ruan had already climbed onto the window ledge.

Tang Ruan looked back at the Boss. "Boss, this is complicated to explain.

But I must go back to the Beast World!

My—"

The Boss didn't wait for her to finish speaking at all.

He grabbed her and yanked her down.

Fortunately, the doctor and nurses arrived at that moment.

Seeing Tang Ruan struggling desperately to jump out the window...

"Let me go! If I don't go back now, I'm dead for sure!"

They immediately used all their hands and feet to restrain her and concluded that her brain had been damaged in the fall.

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During the subsequent treatment, Tang Ruan exhibited suicidal tendencies multiple times.

But she was always saved by the doctors, nurses, and the Boss.

She then underwent two months of psychological therapy.

Two months later.

Tang Ruan, who could now accurately recite the answers to psychological tests, finally received her discharge papers.

Walking out of the hospital gates, the Boss drove her to the bottom of her apartment building.

As the car door opened, Tang Ruan stepped out of the vehicle.

She strode toward the building.

She knew her chance had come...