Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west.
Gu Xingjian had won through the rules, securing an overwhelming victory in the Game. For a time, no one could rival his prominence.
Ji Li watched him silently, his gaze as deep as a sea of stars, a cold smile tugging at his lips.
"Now, you, Gu Xingjian, aren't the only one who has taken the rules to their extreme."
Perhaps ever since this contest had begun, everyone had forgotten Huangfu Jiajia.
Yet this branch manager, who had never shown herself from beginning to end, would ultimately become the extraordinary woman who changed the course of everything.
She had opened up an entirely new path.
She had given Fang Shenyan another angle from which to reshape the Evil Spirit's origins, thereby seizing the initiative.
As a result, certain established facts had changed.
Now, with Huangfu Jiajia's help, Fang Shenyan had obtained the most exceptional identity in the entire past Timeline.
As long as Fang Shenyan followed the steps dictated by the black Patient Gown and completed them one by one,
he would shed his identity as a player in this "game" and become the wood carving's master, standing above the Evil Spirit.
Then all of Gu Xingjian's so-called connections to the Evil Spirit and the wood carving would naturally be overturned.
Such dominance, such utter impossibility to counter, was what rules were.
This was something no one had anticipated, including Gu Xingjian.
Of course, Gu Xingjian knew that Huangfu Jiajia possessed such a peculiar Sin Object.
But it was precisely because he understood the Bracelet of Cycles' properties that he was certain it only targeted the living and would not interfere with the situation.
What no one could have foreseen was that the Evil Spirit's sudden invasion when the Sin Object