The skinny guy and the fat guy agreed at once when they heard my request. It was clear they'd both breathed a huge sigh of relief when I said that.
Neither of them was as openly hostile as Guo Yujie, but they still couldn't adjust so quickly to a friend who had become a completely different person.
Being able to leave had relieved the awkwardness between us.
All four of them said their goodbyes and headed out, and soon I was alone in the hospital room.
I could hear people talking outside the room. Their indistinct voices buzzed too softly for me to make out what they were saying, with a hypnotic quality to them.
I wasn't sleepy. I just felt desolate and lost.
The fact that we hadn't immediately become enemies could probably be considered good news. But that didn't mean there were no problems anymore.
The divide was there; it was only a matter of how wide it was.
I was still alone.
Everyone from Greenleaf was dead, and the only one left, Ye Qing, had lost control.
My friends and family didn't recognize me either.
Though I still wanted to protect them, for a moment I'd also found myself wondering.
Were the people I wanted to protect the same people I'd originally wanted to protect?
To them, I'd become a completely different person. In a way, it was the same for me.
A lot hadn't changed, but the things that had changed were devastating.
Ye Qing's grand plan came to mind.
Start everything over...
Perhaps this was what things would be like afterward. Maybe I wouldn't be myself anymore, or the person they saw me as.
If we didn't deal with the person who had taken over my body and was moving it around, this problem couldn't