I Was Always the One at Fault

Kaleidoscope had taken over Suo Rui's body? How had he done it? He still had a fallback like that?

Everyone was startled at first, then broke into incredulous smiles.

Tartarus, however, stood frozen, his eyes blank, his mind barely able to process it.

His boss's soul could actually revive inside Suo Rui. Didn't that mean Suo Rui was effectively his second life? So all that talk about "I can die" and "Let them both go" had been lies meant to deceive the Zi Wei Crowd?

Had his goal been to get Suo Rui out of there, so that even if Huang Ji killed him, he could escape and start over? Tartarus recalled something his boss had told Suo Rui earlier: "Don't fight alongside me."

After Suo Rui returned, his boss had even reproached him: "I told you to stay away from me. Why did you come back?"

Only now, as Tartarus connected all those details, did he realize that Suo Rui had been Kaleidoscope's final lifeline.

Kaleidoscope had claimed to be pleading for both of them, but in truth, he had only wanted to plead for Suo Rui.

No. Ultimately, he had wanted to save himself.

At that thought, Tartarus looked at Kaleidoscope, only to find his gaze cold and utterly indifferent toward him.

"Boss..."

"Don't call me boss. Huang Ji is your boss. Didn't you hear him say he'd already forgiven you?" Kaleidoscope's voice trembled, his eyes dull and defeated. He wasn't stamping his feet in fury, but his words were already ice-cold.

He felt he had come so close to succeeding, only for Tartarus to hate Suo Rui so deeply over that sneak attack that he tried at every turn to get him killed.

Kaleidoscope had nearly gone mad with rage then. Tartarus seemed to be his personal