Hate him without holding back

Qu Xuanqing's friend is named Zhu Yan.

A child from an orphanage.

Actually, they couldn't really be considered friends. Zhu Yan was two years younger than her, and they didn't usually talk much. However, in Qu Xuanqing's meager social circle, this little girl, who, despite being in an orphanage, still made a point of keeping herself neat and pretty, was one of the few people who would strike up a conversation with her.

Therefore, Qu Xuanqing used his own methods to find the person.

This kidnapping case involved many children and many families. Zhu Yan was very unfortunate. Her death was a warning, a way for the perpetrators to make an example of her. And she was the only possible target—because the other children all had parents who could pay the ransom, but Zhu Yan was someone no one cared about.

In short, Yu Xing ignored the advice and went inside after realizing that the criminal had already harmed the child.

It took a little effort and a little time.

Yu Xing rescued all the children, as well as a corpse.

He couldn't quite describe Qu Xuanqing's expression at the time, probably because it had been a while and he didn't remember it well. He only remembered that Qu Xuanqing's tone was very calm, as if even if he had risked his life to find her all the way here, it was just a one-sided effort. Whether she succeeded or not, whether she could catch up or not, Qu Xuanqing wouldn't put the pressure on herself.

The matter should have ended there. Even if Yu Xing thought Qu Xuanqing was a special little girl, he wouldn't have developed any extra interest at that time.

The turning point probably still lies with Zhu Yan.

Yu Xing also thought Zhu Yan was dead. He pointed out a road leading to the police station to the children he had rescued. Although the children were rescued by him, he looked terrifying, so when one child ran towards that road first, the rest of the children followed suit and fled frantically.

Only Zhu Yan's body remained at the scene.

Qu Xuanqing knelt beside the corpse, watching quietly, as if silently mourning the only friend she could talk to. Yu Xing was about to leave when Qu Xuanqing called her back.

"You're different from everyone else," she said. "You're amazing, unlike anything human."

If this had happened thirty or forty years earlier, it would have been like jumping into Yu Xing's minefield. Yu Xing didn't care much about that back then. He walked over, squatted down, and stared expressionlessly into Qu Xuanqing's eyes. "So?"

"It's nothing, it's just that you showed me a hidden side of this world," Qu Xuanqing replied earnestly. "Thank you."

After she finished speaking, she bent down to pick up Zhu Yan's body, seemingly intending to carry Zhu Yan on her back. Yu Xing frowned. No matter what, he didn't think it was a good idea to let a child carry a corpse all the way. So he picked up Zhu Yan's body and held it in his arms. "Where are you going?"

Their destinies likely intersected at this moment.

Zhu Yan, who had been thought to be dead, opened her eyes in Yu Xing's arms and looked at him weakly. As if sensing something, she used all her strength to raise one hand and grab Yu Xing's collar tightly. Although she couldn't speak, the strong will to live in her eyes pierced Yu Xing's nerves.

At that moment, Yu Xing strongly felt that this little girl wanted to live, she really, really wanted to live. It was an indescribable stubbornness, and also an instinct.

"She..." Qu Xuanqing's expression changed. After a few seconds of silence, she suddenly reached out and grabbed Yu Xing's sleeve. "If you're really not human, could you please save her?"

"Demon, monster, ghost, or whatever, it doesn't matter, just please save her. She's willing to give anything." Qu Xuanqing said this, and although it was strange, Yu Xing suddenly understood the little girl's will to live in her arms.

Later, Yu Xing thought that Qu Xuanqing must understand Zhu Yan very well. If Zhu Yan could speak at that time, she would definitely say that no matter what the cost, she should be allowed to live, even if it meant selling her soul to the devil or never being able to accept sunlight again.

However, Zhu Yan's consciousness lasted only a few seconds. Her life force had been completely exhausted, and she lay there in Yu Xing's arms, her pupils dilating, her arms hanging limply, her life force extinguished.

Yu Xing suddenly had a strange idea. The curse within him was related to death. Although there was no precedent for it, at this moment he felt instinctively that he could make the girl in his arms open her eyes—as long as he transferred a portion of the curse's power to her.

Once she had such an impulse, Yu Xing never hesitated to follow it. Wisps of black energy seeped into the girl's corpse, and a strong aura of death emanated from it.

Yes, she was definitely dead, undeniably dead, and Yu Xing couldn't bring the dead back to life, but he could maintain the girl's soul in another way.

The power of the curse surged, and after an unknown amount of time, the girl stirred and opened her eyes. A pair of lifeless eyes, filled with evil and terror, were reflected in Yu Xing's retina. He knew he had created a new monster.

Ghost? Walking corpse?

Yu Xing transformed this girl into a human ghost with a warm body, just like him, one of his kind.

During that time, the kidnapping case caused a sensation. It had a tense and desperate beginning and an absurd ending. No one knew who had taken care of everything before the police arrived. Qu Xuanqing, who was called to give a statement, only said that it was a stranger, but she did not remember the stranger's physical characteristics.

The local police took a long time to close the case. It was a very remote town with poor public security, backward thinking, and inadequate infrastructure; otherwise, the police wouldn't have taken so long to arrive.

After everything settled down, two new faces appeared in Yu Xing's residence: Zhu Yan, whom he had adopted, and Qu Xuanqing, who often stayed overnight.

In any case Qu Xuanqing had witnessed Yu Xing's abilities, and when Yu Xing taught Zhu Yan some combat skills, Qu Xuanqing would also learn along with her.

According to her, her family was very strange. She often felt that there were unseen things living in the same house as her family. Every night, her mother or father would come out of the bedroom, go to the kitchen, take out a knife, and quietly walk to another person's room. They would stand at the foot of the bed with the knife in their hand and stay there all night.

Qu Xuanqing knew this, because she had once pretended to be asleep with her eyes half-closed, watching her mother who had become strange, enduring that chilling gaze, and remaining awake all night.

This situation lasted for a very long time. It was already a miracle that Qu Xuanqing hadn't gone mad. She managed to survive in that kind of home, and although her personality became increasingly eccentric, Yu Xing actually quite liked this personality. She was sensible, independent, and wouldn't hold anyone back.

This kind of life seemed to settle down.

No longer being a living person, Zhu Yan's personality has changed drastically. She will no longer try to talk to Qu Xuanqing in a cheerful voice like before, nor will she follow behind Qu Xuanqing and call her "sister".

But the two girls continued to get along. After all, they were still children. No matter how impatient Yu Xing was, he had to be more patient with children. And listening to children's voices every day, he was unconsciously influenced and moved out of that cold and tyrannical state.

Hua Subai had studied him very thoroughly. In any case, Hua Subai said that since becoming immortal, Yu Xing's personality had been like a series of independent cycles, undergoing huge changes every once in a while. These changes were so illogical that they would spread like wildfire as long as there was a trigger.

Yu Xing was led astray by the two little girls calling him "brother" every day. He visibly and rapidly transformed from a cold and aloof adult who commanded their respect into a gradually gentler but increasingly annoying and despicable adult. Only his madness remained unchanged, the difference being whether it was revealed or hidden.

So at the beginning Qu Xuanqing and Zhu Yan were very afraid of Yu Xing during their interactions. Even though they had almost forgotten Yu Xing's initial personality, there was still a faint sense of fear hidden deep in their souls. This feeling made them subconsciously avoid disobeying Yu Xing's words. Even though Yu Xing let them make their own choices in everything, which was very democratic, they would definitely support Yu Xing's decisions with all their might.

Zhu Yan gave Yu Xing a big surprise. He didn't expect that Zhu Yan could grow up like a living person, regain her mental health, and even slowly change her personality back to its former state, and even have her own hobbies.

Although they can't go back to their previous way of Qu Xuanqing, they seem to have found a new balance, transforming from obvious affection and trust into a more tacit understanding.

About four years later, when Qu Xuanqing was seventeen, she resolved the family's problems on her own. Her parents suddenly realized the gravity of what had happened over the past few years and were extremely frightened. They hurriedly moved with her to another city.

Yu Xing and Qu Xuanqing exchanged phone numbers. Strangely, after Qu Xuanqing moved away, he didn't contact him for a long time. He even complained to Zhu Yan that Qu Xuanqing didn't miss him at all.

Several years later, they finally added each other on WeChat.

In fact, Qu Xuanqing entered the Absurd Deduction Game not long after she moved away. Because of her desire for power and the twisted personality that gradually spread in her soul, she became addicted to the deduction Yugi for a long time, and the name of the witch had already quietly spread at that time.

Yu Xing knew about the existence of the Absurd Deduction Game, and Qu Xuanqing also knew about Yu Xing's understanding of the deduction Yugi, because during the years when they lost contact, Qu Xuanqing found out the reason why such strange things happened to her family.

The Lingren Zeng Lai her.

Everything she experienced in her childhood was just a scheme orchestrated by the Lingren, designed to cultivate Qu Xuanqing's incorrigible personality like raising a venomous insect, and then logically lead her into the deduction process. With the addition of Single Prism, the Lingren always seemed to be able to find some special targets and prepare in advance.

This process was unexpectedly interrupted by Yu Xing, which was something no one had anticipated. However, after Lingren learned that his plan had been ruined by Yu Xing, his attitude became very strange. One night, he appeared in Qu Xuanqing's room with an overwhelming sense of power and revealed the whole truth to Qu Xuanqing.

It seems that letting Yu Xing know about this through Qu Xuanqing was more satisfying for the Lingren than successfully recruiting Qu Xuanqing.

When Qu Xuanqing told Yu Xing about this, she also very coldly relayed a few words on behalf of the Lingren: the Lingren said that Yu Xing might want to hear it, otherwise she would not agree.

"He said that everything he did to you back then was for this reason, to plunge you into the deepest despair, resentment, and pain, so that he could pull you to the side of depravity. It wouldn't have been so complicated, but the young master's heart was just too bright, which made him go to great lengths and almost lose." Qu Xuanqing said expressionlessly, as if reciting a poem.

She learned from the Lingren that Yu Xing had also been harmed by Lingren. Although she didn't know the specifics, it was enough to make her furious.

"What else was there... Thanks to you, and with this lesson learned, he never again ruined someone by getting too involved in the role. This is his one-of-a-kind malice towards you."

"From exploitation to exploitation, the actor never truly existed, so hate him without restraint."

Yu Xing's "unbridled" nature, all her fake smiles and morbid madness, awakened on that day. From then on, Yu Xing became the person she is today.

He was no longer afraid of the Lingren's way of thinking, nor did he deliberately avoid actions that would excite Lingren. He could use the Lingren without restraint, using his understanding of Lingren to get what he needed, just like killing Han Yan in the live broadcast. Although there were many other ways, he chose this one.

In conclusion

Qu Xuanqing and Yu Xing share a common enemy and an inextricable connection. Their influence on each other is profound. Yu Xing is a teacher, an older brother, and, more importantly, the person who sustained all of Qu Xuanqing's "family affection" during that period, thus creating the current situation.

Although Qu Xuanqing is a notorious female demon known to almost everyone in the deduction system, she will always be the weaker party in front of Yu Xing.

If one had to use a single word to describe Qu Xuanqing's feelings for Yu Xing, it would probably be "respect and love."

Yu Xing fell asleep, slumped over the table.

Qu Xuanqing quietly stopped pressing on his shoulder, her gaze fixed intently on Yu Xing's face. When she touched her own heart, she heard it thumping.

This body shouldn't have a heartbeat.

But Qu Xuanqing heard it; it was the panic coming from her soul, floating in another dimension behind her body.

She is afraid.

On the surface, she was advising Yu Xing to rest and handing things over to her. In reality, she suddenly didn't know how to face Yu Xing. The moment she opened the door and saw Yu Xing, she felt somewhat lost.

Qu Xuanqing covered her eyes, feeling the darkness for a moment, but the feeling of panic did not subside at all; on the contrary, it seemed to be getting worse.

Yu Xing was so exhausted that she fell asleep right there.

This is the girls' dormitory, and he has to go back. Even if she were here, Yu Xing couldn't possibly let herself fall asleep. It definitely wasn't because she was tired, but because...

Weak?

Qu Xuanqing shook his head.

No, Yu Xing's condition worsened every day when she was a child. Due to the torment of the curse, weakness was a common occurrence, but she never panicked.

It should be illusory.

This was the first time she had ever felt this way, looking at Yu Xing as if she were looking at someone who could disappear at any moment, as if if she turned around, this person would vanish into thin air and be gone forever.

Yu Xing might fall asleep unknowingly at some point, immersed in a fleeting dream, never to wake up again.

Qu Xuanqing's soul is special. Compared to her body, her soul is her true and only weapon, so her Spiritual Sense is almost never wrong.

Now, looking at Yu Xing makes her feel very sad.

The island made her uneasy, more so than ever before.