Chapter 61 - Self-Rescue Manual of a Villainess

Chapter 061: Please Do Not Fall "No… n...not exactly, ahem, you carry this name? What is your full name?" Nan Yin barely caught her breath, goodness me, she had just taken her heart medication, almost did not make it this time. "The full name… San Hao?" The young girl tilted her head, gently uttered a name. “…” Nan Yin suddenly fell silent. For some reason, looking at the innocent and lovely girl before her, she felt a wave of inexplicable sadness, a sadness for herself and for the young girl. She is full of southern accent, so... you will be called Nan Yin from now on. Softly dismissing the aloof words of a man in her thoughts, Nan Yin approached and took the hand of the young girl, leading her to a bench in the garden. The young girl could feel a warm small hand suddenly clasping hers, sending an unease shiver throughout her body, but Nan Yin didn’t mind, and the girl didn’t resist either. She obediently followed behind Nan Yin and sat beside her. Feeling the closeness of another human's warmth, she was at a loss, regardless of gender. All through her conscious years, this was the first time someone was so close to her. "You said your name was San Hao? Why would you choose this name? It's just a number." Nan Yin looked at the quiet little girl beside her, and asked again after a slight pause. Although she knew about the girl's background, clearly she couldn't tell her at this point, so Nan Yin decided to approach her gently, trying to lower the girl’s guard. "A number?" San Hao was somewhat confused. Indeed, it was just a number, the same as Yi Hao and Er Hao who have been decommissioned, she was just a test subject marked with a number…… But this was something she could not tell Nan Yin— it was an instinctive feeling of San Hao. She felt that if she revealed the truth about her name, something terrible would happen. Therefore... Right away, San Hao came up with another pretext—she could bet her decommissioning on it, this was her moment of brilliance. "Well… my parents didn't like me, so they abandoned me when I was very small, but those who adopted me also didn't like me… so they just called me San Hao, because I was their third child…" San Hao spoke softly, feeling the warmth coming from Nan Yin's hand. "I see…" Nan Yin nodded gravely, and thought it was very good that the girl could explain to that extent, "Then why did you come here alone? Unless I'm mistaken… you are blind, aren't you?" "Blind?" San Hao paused, "Blind, well, it doesn't matter, I've been used to seeing nothing since I was a kid. I got used to the darkness." "…" Hearing San Hao speaking about her blindness in such a calm tone, Nan Yin felt as though her heart was being tightly squeezed, the pain was sudden, she quickly changed the subject: "Why were those high school students bullying you just now?" "Why bully me?" San Hao raised her small head and thought, "They said that my eyes were red, so they wanted to see…" "I… are my eyes really red? I… I can't see…" San Hao suddenly grabbed Nan Yin's hand. Nan Yin could even feel the nervousness in the girl's voice. "Uh… may I lift your blindfold to see?" Nan Yin asked after a thought. With San Hao’s nod of agreement, Nan Yin carefully approached her, gently pulling away the blindfold. Then, she saw. They were very beautiful eyes, unlike Nan Yin's wine-red pupils, San Hao had a pair of pink eyes, looking incredibly adorable… The only flaw was that the eyes were lifeless, they lacked luster, they had never seen this colorful world since birth. "They are red, your eyes." Nan Yin cautiously closed the blindfold again, then her hand inadvertently touched San Hao's face. The latter slightly flinched at Nan Yin's touch. She was scared, instinctively scared. "Is … is it red?" San Hao tried her best to picture a pair of red eyes in her mind, but she failed, as she hardly had any memory of what the world looked like. "Is it pretty?" San Hao lifted her small head, her voice carrying a hint of hope. "…" Seeing the young girl's look, Nan Yin felt a pang in her heart. "It is very pretty. Pink eyes, just like an elf." "Hmm… like an elf…" San Hao quieted down again, but in her heart, she remembered the words of her first ever contact in her life. She said… herself was like an elf. "Just now... those people were bullying you, didn't you think about fighting back?" At the end, Nan Yin asked this question. "Fight back… why should I fight back?" San Hao was puzzled, "When they are tired of bullying… or get bored… they will leave on their own." "…" At this moment, everything Nan Yin wanted to say eventually turned into a deep sigh. "Nan Yin… Can... I call you that?" San Hao lifted her tiny head towards Nan Yin's direction, she was trying hard to create an image of Nan Yin in her mind. "Of course, you can call me Xiao Yin or Yin Yin" Nan Yin thought for a moment and said, they are all the names that girls usually use to address her. "Nan Yin... are we... friends in this way?" San Hao asked carefully, as if her words would anger Nan Yin. Yi Hao was a boy with pleasant words, he loved telling her things about the outside world, including things about her parents - even though San Hao didn't know how Yi Hao knew all those. As for Er Hao, she was a lively girl, she once told San Hao that her hair was a beautiful black, while she herself had golden curls… Then came Mr. Wang's test, Yi Hao and Er Hao did not pass it, but San Hao did. After that, San Hao never saw Yi Hao and Er Hao again. San Hao lost her friends. “Are we... friends like this?” Upon hearing San Hao's words, Nan Yin couldn’t help but think of the night she met Jiang Mi six years ago. Orange-haired girl was walking barefoot in light rain, waveringly following behind her across most of Filo Block, only to call her 'boss'. "Of course, we are friends like this," Nan Yin snapped back to the present, chuckled, and gently ran her fingers through San Hao's black hair. "Hmm…" San Hao suddenly became nervous again. It seemed like she had something to ask Nan Yin, but she didn’t know how to bring it up. Finally, it was like a decision in her heart: " Then… Nan Yin... do you know my original name?" “I forget my name." Upon hearing San Hao's words, Nan Yin was slightly startled, "I don't know. Your original name…" Such a thing, only San Hao's parents would probably know, right? “Is that so…" San Hao became extremely disappointed in an instant. She understood very well that she would definitely never find her parents, but wouldn't she even be able to find her name? "Don't hurry, although I don’t know your original name, I can guess what name your parents might have given you." Nan Yin saw the disappointed look on San Hao’s face and spoke after a moment of contemplation. "I think your parents would probably call you... Wu Luo." "Wu Luo?" San Hao tilted her head, surprisingly she didn’t doubt Nan Yin's words. "Hope Mr. Wang… wishes to call me that." Wu Luo, the cry of wild geese in a frosty morning moon, a broken sad flute playing... Please don't fall.