The shadow personality didn't resist. It remained in its original pose, watching him. Then the black smoke drifting around its body slowly condensed into a new hand. The hand reached out from behind the shadow personality and rested on Xu Huo's head. It then brushed over his face and slid down to his neck, as if trying to choke him.
Xu Huo paid no attention to its movements. Looking at the shadow personality, he said, "Before I found you, I wondered what would happen if we merged. From then on, would you influence me, or would I influence you? You're a personality Dr. Zhang trained, and you're not what I wanted. But I can't cast you aside either, because you're also a part of me."
"Were you scared in the hospital?"
"I know Dr. Zhang forged the hospital's diagnosis and took you away from home. You tried all kinds of ways to contact your parents and older brother, but your brother had no say in the matter back then. Your parents even doubted for a time whether you really were, as Dr. Zhang claimed, someone who could become a danger to others without proper guidance. The doctors and nurses were kind to you too, but under Dr. Zhang's influence, they still feared and guarded against you, the way they treated Xiao Liang."
"You knew that was one of Dr. Zhang's lessons: isolating you through your environment to force a change in your mindset. You also tried approaching the medical staff, hoping they'd take you outside, but Dr. Zhang always saw through you. He could make anyone in the hospital turn into someone you didn't recognize. So in that hospital, you were always alone."
"Someone like Xiao Liang, who was brainless and even obsessed with Dr. Zhang's teachings, could never be