Ji Li saw his own head move, lifted off his neck by his own hands as though he were cradling a ripe watermelon.
Then, naturally enough, the ripe melon fell to the ground.
His skinless left hand held Luo Xian's head, her long hair hanging loose and her gaze unfocused.
Meanwhile, his right hand held Ji Li's head and set it where Luo Xian's had been, completing the exchange.
His perspective underwent another bizarre, inexplicable shift.
Ji Li became one of the heads in the melon patch. The unconscious Su Chenghe was to his right, and the edge of the patch was to his left.
From this angle, he saw Luo Xian's head sitting atop his body. The two fit together seamlessly, as though they had always belonged together.
The sight, impossible to describe in words, filled him with a profound sense of wrongness.
Even now, with his head separated from his body, he showed no sign of dying. On the contrary, a faint connection to him still lingered within that body.
His viewpoint was now on the ground and severely restricted, yet through his connection to his body, he could still tell what it was about to do.
It was as though... Ji Li had entered the state the Second and Third Personalities had once occupied.
The main personality had switched to Ruru, who then switched it to Luo Xian, leaving him as a secondary personality.
And so, in this state, he watched Luo Xian walk past him. Through his connection to his body, he also knew what happened next.
At that moment, he realized that Ruru was actually still in control of the body.
Because Ruru took Luo Xian's head off the body again and fitted it snugly into the recess in the Stone Pillar.
At that very