The Awakening of the Substitute 8: Biting Cold
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One of the windows revealed the familiar office of Lu Chen Zhou, filled with the cold scent of cedar! 0
 
What made my blood run cold was that the wall, usually adorned with famous paintings, was now covered with a dense array of photographs! 0
 
All of them were pictures of me! 0
 
Candid shots taken from various angles without makeup! 0
 
While I was painting, while I was sleeping, while I was lost in thought… 0
 
Each one showed my expressionless face, my vacant eyes, marked by that distinct scar. 0
 
It resembled a display wall filled with failed experiments. 0
 
In the lower right corner of the last photo, there was a line of delicate yet chilling handwriting. 0
 
The camera shook slightly with my movements, and that line became momentarily clear— 0
 
"On day 3782, she still hasn’t smiled." 0
 
The live stream went completely wild! 0
 
The comments flooded the screen like a tsunami! 0
 
"Surveillance??? He’s been watching you all along???" 0
 
"The photo wall!!! Oh my god! What kind of hellish control freak is this!" 0
 
"3782 days… ten years?! He’s been documenting every single day?!" 0
 
"This isn’t love at all! This is imprisonment! This is psychological abuse!" 0
 
"Teacher Su Yan, call the police! Hurry and call the police!" 0
 
As I looked at the furious and shocked words on the screen, tears finally streamed down my face. 0
 
Not from sadness, but from the tremors of extreme anger! 0
 
Ten years! 0
 
He had been using this method all along to coldly observe my suffering and numbness! 0
 
Like a scientist studying a test subject! 0
 
 
He doesn't care about me at all! 0
 
He only cares whether his "work" is perfect! Whether his "pet" is obedient! 0
 
A surge of reckless courage seized me! 0
 
I suddenly dug out that yellowed piece of paper I had hidden for ten years from the drawer! 0
 
It was the admission letter from the Central Academy of Fine Arts that was supposed to belong to "Lin Yan"! 0
 
I held it high, almost thrusting it into the camera, my fingertips turning white from the pressure! 0
 
"Lu Chen Zhou!" 0
 
My voice was hoarse and sharp, filled with a blood-curdling accusation that echoed in the small apartment and spread through every corner of the internet! 0
 
"Do you see this?! Look closely!" 0
 
"Ten years ago! It was this letter! Central Academy of Fine Arts! Oil Painting Department!" 0
 
"What did you turn it into?! A third-rate university! A major in archival management that I have no interest in at all!" 0
 
"Tell me! Why did you do this?!" 0
 
"You have controlled me for ten years! Transformed me! Monitored me! Turned me into Su Qing's shadow! And now you want to extend it for another ten years!" 0
 
"What are you really after?!" 0
 
I stared fiercely at the camera, as if I could see the panicked face of that high-and-mighty man who controlled everything through the screen. 0
 
"Dare you admit it?!" 0
 
"You never loved Su Qing! She is so proud! So opinionated! How could she ever willingly be your caged bird?!" 0
 
"What you love is only what you created! A puppet with a scarred face that will never leave you! Forever begging for your affection!" 0
 
"What you love—" 0
 
Before I could finish my sentence. 0
 
Click. 0
 
The live stream screen instantly turned pitch black. 0
 
 
The signal was cut off. 0
 
Darkness. 0
 
Cold, complete darkness. 0
 
The moment the live broadcast was interrupted, the world seemed to fall silent as well. 0
 
All that remained was my heavy breathing and the dull thud of my heart pounding against my chest. 0
 
He cut it off. 0
 
Lu Chen Zhou, he was on the other side of the screen, like a deity looking down from above, easily choking off my only, feeble resistance. 0
 
The courage I had mustered in a desperate gamble quickly turned into a bone-chilling dread in the face of absolute control. 0
 
Fear washed over me like a tide. 0
 
Yet, amidst this icy terror, the fleeting image from the live broadcast burned into my mind like a searing iron! 0
 
His office! 0
 
That wall filled with my candid photos! 0
 
 
 
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