Chapter 5

“What did you say?”

My mind instantly went blank, and my ears buzzed.

I stared hard at Adrian Foster’s lips, trying to find even the slightest trace of a joke on his face.

There was none.

His gaze was cold and cruel, as if he were admiring the final struggle of dying prey.

“I said I already replaced your brother’s targeted medication.”

He let go of my hair, stood up, and calmly straightened his cuffs.

“Counting the time, his organs should already be starting to fail by now.”

“Adrian Foster!”

I suddenly lunged up from the ground and clamped both hands around his neck.

“I’m going to kill you!”

“Then kill me!”

Tears broke free like a dam had burst, blurring my vision.

That was my only brother!

He was the only family member I wanted to desperately protect through these ten cycles of reincarnation!

Adrian Foster did not dodge and let me choke him, without even furrowing his brows.

“If you kill me, your brother still won’t survive.”

He looked at me coldly, and there was no emotion in his voice.

“Lily Carter, this is the price of disobedience.”

My strength gradually drained away.

I let go, and my whole body collapsed to the ground.

Why?

Why did he have to be this cruel?

If it was for the plot, stopping the medical fees would already be enough abuse.

Why replace the medicine?

Why cut off my brother’s last chance to live?

“Why…” I murmured to myself.

Adrian Foster looked down at me from above.

“Because the system determined that your hatred for me still isn’t enough.”

In an extremely low voice, he said something that made my blood run cold.

“Lily Carter, only when you completely hate me can the plot continue.”

I suddenly raised my head.

Looking at his expressionless face, a flash of lightning suddenly crossed my mind.

No.

This was not right!

In the previous nine lifetimes, although he was a scumbag and although he was cold, he had never once mentioned the system or the plot on his own.

He had always been a paper character controlled by the system without knowing it.

But now, he had actually said the words “the system determined” himself!

And if he had really replaced the medication, my brother’s attending doctor could not possibly have failed to notify me.

I suddenly wiped away my tears.

“You’re lying to me.” I stared hard at him.

“You never replaced the medicine.”

Adrian Foster’s eyes flickered slightly.

“You think I’m just scaring you?”

“If you had really replaced the medicine, you wouldn’t have made me kneel just now.”

I stood up and brushed the dust from my knees.

“You made me kneel to complete the system’s humiliation quota.”

“And what you said about replacing the medicine just now was to make me experience an extreme emotional fluctuation, so you could deceive the system.”

I looked at him, and the corner of my mouth lifted into a cold smile.

“Adrian Foster, you’re not actually being controlled by the system, are you?”

Adrian Foster looked at me, his gaze shifting unpredictably.

After a long while, he suddenly laughed.

“Lily Carter, you’re smarter than I imagined.”

He did not deny it, and that meant I had guessed right.

He had memories.

He knew everything.

He was even trying to fight the system.

But his way of fighting the system was to keep abusing me, and even use crueler methods to enrage me.

“So what?”

I looked at him, without the slightest ripple in my heart.

“Do you think I’ll be grateful that you didn’t kill my brother? Grateful that you treated me like a monkey for the sake of fighting the system?”

I pressed closer to him step by step.

“Adrian Foster, remember this.”

“From now on, I’m done playing!”