"When did you find out? I thought you would never discover it."
There was a trace of exhaustion and relief in Chen Cheng Two's voice.
Chen Cheng, meanwhile, spoke with a mixture of pride and loss:
"Actually, it was very simple. Once I truly chose to blend into this era and treated myself as a part of it, such an obvious flaw could be seen through at a glance.
"I was not from this era, yet I was reborn into it, and the script for my entire life had already been arranged.
"If this had merely been a game world, then it would have been easy to explain.
"But once I accepted that this was a real world, the problem emerged. How did Old Ke and the others arrange a person's life? And how did they ensure that the lives they arranged would not deviate in the slightest as time advanced?
"Don't tell me their technology was so incredible that they could truly control the whole picture. If that were the case, there would not be so many problems now.
"And there was another crucial point. If the experiment had failed and I had not been reborn, how would this life have continued? How would they have remedied it?
"So it was obvious. I stole the life that originally belonged to you. You were the true Brown Hopps, the sixteenth emperor of this era who led his household retainers to overthrow the kings and rebuild the Empire."
"Only, what I could not understand at first was how you became my recorder. That was why I had never dared believe that you were the true 'me' of this era.
"Not until this time, when I experienced a flashback and saw the results of their research. Technically speaking, making you a recorder