Li Hani was left blinking her eyes in confusion as she focused her eyes on the person who came to her like a savior. But that person's eyes weren't on her.
"You bitch!" screamed the fat and ugly man as he held the back of his head which was bleeding now. "How dare you ruin my good deed?"
"I am not here to ruin your good deed. I am here to ruin you, bastard!" said the thin but tall girl who stood in front of Li Hani, seemingly protecting her behind her thin figure. Li Hani had a complicated look in her eyes at the moment when she was faced with such a situation.
She already couldn't make sense of things around her but now, there was something new added to the mix of her confusion. But Li Hani had no time to think as her thoughts were pulled back to reality by a scream that sounded like a pig's cry.
Li Hani looked at that fat man who fell to the ground with his hands clutching his crotch. It seemed the thin figure was quite deceptive as she was ruthless enough to deliver the damage.
The stranger didn't stop there, she looked around the luxuriously decorated room before finding a lamp and slamming it on the man's crotch once again. After making him thoroughly scream, she wasn't satisfied and finally decided to slam the lamp on his head once again.
She crouched down to check his breath and her tense nerves loosened when she realized that the man was finally dead.
Li Hani would have thought she was courageous if she hadn't noticed the trembling of her hands after she realized that she had killed someone.
The girl turned around to look at Li Hani and called out, "Ni Ni, are you okay?"
'Ni Ni? Again?'
Seeing how Li Hani frowned, the girl thought she was in pain right now, so she hurriedly untied her hands that were tied to the bedpost. Li Hani wanted to say something but suddenly, she saw a line of text appear above the girl's head.
[Hey, isn't that Ni Mei? She really came to save Ni Ni.]
[Looks like she appeared on time this time around and managed to save Ni Ni from humiliation or this girl would have committed suicide from shame.]
The text interface seemed to be only visible to her just like the voice in her head earlier. But the information in that text made her feel disillusioned. She slowly opened her mouth and called out, "Ni Mei?"
"Hm?" the hands of Ni Mei didn't stop as she continued to fiddle with the chains that tied Ni Ni's hands but she still hummed in response to her call. "Wait a minute. I'm trying to untie these stupid chains. Where did he even find these things?" There was clear disgust in her voice that she didn't even try to hide.
But she didn't realize that her response had a huge impact on Li Hani. It seemed that the comment above her head was telling the truth, her name was indeed Ni Mei and she was Ni Ni's sister. But... But why was she saving her? She wasn't Ni Ni.
Finally Ni Mei managed to open the chains and pulled Li Hani out of the soft bed. She looked at the satin night gown on Ni Ni's body with obvious discontent. "I told you not to trust that cheating boyfriend of yours. Look, wasn't I right? He sold you here just for a bag of rice. Can you believe it? Your worth is only a bag of rice in his eyes!"
[Ni Mei's mouth is as sharp as ever. She is clearly worried about Ni Ni but would never speak nicely.]
[This is called a pair of awkward sisters.]
Li Hani read the barrage again and mentally agreed with those words. She wasn't blind or a fool. She could see that Ni Mei was worried about her but she was still speaking like spewing fire. Oddly enough though Li Hani didn't feel like this fire could burn her but instead she felt like this fire had the ability to warm up her heart that had been chilled for so long.
"Ssss..."
Li Hani hissed in pain as Ni Mei touched the side of her forehead lightly. "You are really my nemesis," muttered Ni Mei as she turned to look for something in this luxurious room. Finally she managed to find a medicine box in the room and opened it to find some gauze and disinfectant to clean up the wound on Li Hani's forehead. "The cut is so deep. How did you get injured?"
Li Hani didn't answer as she also didn't know how the wound on the back of her head turned into a cut on her forehead instead after a good sleep. When she couldn't make sense of the situation, the best she could do was to stay silent and observe the surroundings. She couldn't be hasty about this at all. Even if it was just a dream, she had to make sure to calm down and think rationally.
Ni Mei treated the wound carefully. She was frowning the whole time as she applied the antiseptic on the wound before covering it with a gauze pad. "Okay, it's done. Let's keep it clean and dry for a few days." She closed the box but then she paused. Her eyes again looked at the room with a thoughtful look. "Let's raid."
"Huh?" Li Hani didn't understand her meaning.
"This kind of disgusting shit has been enjoying so much while we had been suffering outside. Why can't we take his stuff? Anyway, the winner takes all these days." She went to find a bag and emptied the content of the medicine box. "Medicine is necessary. It can save life. Oh, he has clean water too." Ni Mei seemed excited with her discovery as she took all the dozen or so water bottles too. Then she looked through each and every cabinet in the room. When she found the easily storable food, she was happy like she had won lottery, "Great! We have food now!"
She took a few packets of bread and instead of eating it herself, she first brought it to Li Hani, "Pad your stomach first. You lost blood and need to replenish your energy. We can't stay here for long. We have to escape before anyone finds out that we killed this ugly pig."
"Not we," said Li Hani. "You killed him," she reminded in a soft voice and was shocked to just realize that her voice didn't seem to be as unpleasant and sharp as it had been. But it wasn't like her own voice either. It sounded rather sweet and delicate.
Ni Mei gave Li Hani a once over, "You sure know how to burn the bridges after crossing them." Then she gave her a thumbs up, "Good! If you had this attitude earlier, you wouldn't have been so easily deceived by that bastard's sweet words."
Li Hani did not expect such a response from Ni Mei at all.