Why Was That Damned Nirvana So Rotten?!

"I'm such a fool. Truly."

In the brilliant afternoon sunlight, Ji Jue lay sprawled on the sofa, staring blankly at the sun outside the window like an idiot. Drool and tears streamed down his face.

"I should have realized... I should have realized... I'm such a fool..."

Even after so many days, that damned smile remained branded on his retinas, impossible to shake.

Whenever he closed his eyes, he saw the Heavenly Furnace baring its teeth at him.

Whenever he opened them, he saw the Matrix Child dropping his disguise...

The Heavenly Furnace! The Heavenly Furnace! The Heavenly Furnace!

It was the Heavenly Furnace, and then the goddamn Heavenly Furnace again!!

The Heavenly Furnace clung to him like some wandering ghost. Once it latched on, there was no shaking it loose!

Ji Jue had even climbed onto the table and yanked at that face with all his might, but he still couldn't pull it off... In the end, he had given up and accepted this damned reality.

Marika was Radagon...

Who could accept that?

The heavens had collapsed, okay?!

But how could he not accept it? Was there any more reasonable explanation? Otherwise, why had his teacher become so deeply entangled with Nirvana after breaking away? And how could someone from the Ye Clan and the Association know the Mohists' legacy in such detail?

Otherwise, why had that bastard Heavenly Furnace helped him hide his Lu Changsheng identity from the very beginning?

Even the disguise had been something that bastard Heavenly Furnace led him to discover!

Otherwise, how could the mighty Matrix Child, the world's number one terrorist, the kind of person who wore an iron codpiece to bed, let someone spot a flaw in his disguise so easily...

Looking back, had he been eyeing Ji Jue as a fresh