The core of it all was the four words He Ao had mentioned: "maintaining humanity."
Of course, the term was easy to say, but putting it into practice was not so simple.
If someone was exceptionally handsome or beautiful, they did not need to realize it themselves; the people around them would remind them.
If someone held an exalted position, they did not need to realize it themselves; the people and environment around them would remind them that they were "a noble person."
Likewise, after an angel became an angel, they did not need to consciously recognize themselves as one. The people around them would constantly remind them that they were already an angel.
Even if they deliberately emphasized that they should not be treated differently, the attitudes shown by those around them—their friends, subordinates, and colleagues—would inevitably differ from how they treated ordinary people.
This was an inevitable change in the corresponding social relationships after a person's strength and status changed.
And those changed social relationships would in turn constantly remind them: "You are no longer mortal."
This was not something an angel could solve merely by insisting that they were human. Their living environment and the people around them would continuously remind them, making them aware of their inhumanity.
If the people around someone all held the same expectations and perceptions of that person, then under their influence, that person would naturally draw closer to the direction of those perceptions.
Not to mention that this "perception" was also an objective fact.
Even angels with resolute wills could hardly avoid being influenced by this intangible perception.
Over a short period, the impact on their cognition might be negligible. But given enough time, it would still be enough to gradually tilt their self-perception toward that of an "angel."
And pure