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The system was no longer with her. She could not feel its presence. When Zhang Mei Xing returned to that dark room, which was at the exact moment when she planned to take away her mother's ID, she realized this.
When she glanced down, the phone that lit up upon being powered on displayed 12:01. Her eyes went to the displayed date that said it was still June 14, 2010… It meant tonight was the night when the whole Zhang family celebrated a bit for her astounding rank in her grade level.
She briefly closed her eyes. Wondering. The system was not with her, and she could no longer see a faint image of an hourglass in her subconscious. Does it mean the fake world and everything that happened there were false? Xiang Linxin, Song Heng, and Shen Li... Were they just a product of her imagination?
'Hah…' After a full minute, Zhang Mei Xing collapsed on the floor, feeling powerless and hopeless.
