Bab 89: Chapter 89: Don't Look Back, Can't Look Back _1

She bit her lower lip hard on purpose. The jolt of pain grounded her, allowing her to take one step after the other, onward, onward, onward...

Don't look back, can't look back!

Finally, as the thud echoed from behind her, she let out a shaky breath and began sprinting forward in panic.

She wanted to get away faster, but her legs simply wouldn't cooperate...

Just as she reached the corner, sweaty and breathless, Fu Jingchen's voice rang out again from behind her: "Gu Qianqian..."

With a gasp of fear, she gathered all her strength and started to run like her life depended on it.

Head feeling dizzy, limbs going limp, Gu Qianqian felt she was at the end of her enduring capacity. The shouts behind her grew louder and the path in front of her seemed to twist and turn.

Amidst her hazy consciousness, a crack of light suddenly flashed into her vision.

Someone was opening a door of a room...