Xiao He had once existed in Ji Li's mind as two possibilities: either she was a clue, or she was the root cause.
But after encountering the "doctor," Ji Li had leaned infinitely toward the first guess.
After all, judging from A Chun's Ghostification and Kun Sheng's Parasitic Thought, the doctor was the most likely root cause of this Supernatural Incident.
Yet as Act Three remained impossible to begin, Ji Li suddenly noticed something was wrong.
"If Xiao He is merely a Key Figure, why must she awaken Supernatural Power before the story can begin?"
With that starting point, Ji Li put forth two hypotheses and reverse-engineered everything that had happened. To his surprise, he was able to piece together an almost complete storyline!
Hypothesis one: the "doctor" never existed in the first place.
Hypothesis two: Xiao He was the true root of everything, and all the horror had been created by her.
With those two hypotheses in mind, he reviewed the entire story again.
Act One: the mother, A Chun, underwent Ghostification for no reason.
In this story, Xiao He was an innocent young girl, Kun Sheng was an exhausted husband, and the protagonist was the gravely ill A Chun.
This mother suffered from a Strange Illness, sometimes going mad and sometimes fainting. To little Xiao He, that illness would have felt abrupt, abstract, and twisted.
In Xiao He's young mind, she could not understand why her mother would suddenly become violent, cold, and terrifying.
She needed a reason.
So Xiao He used her limited understanding to create the role of a "Terrifying Doctor."
The Terrifying Doctor gave her mother an unknown injection, turning her into a monster that killed people.
Wouldn't that plot make more sense?
That was why, in Act One, Ji Li had no way of