My gaze swept across the three people seated there.
As a member of the supernatural world, Ye Zhengyi knowing these secrets wasn't strange. Xu Tiancheng and Yao Nie had probably heard them from him long ago, so neither looked surprised now.
But Xu Tiancheng's confusion when I'd mentioned Greenleaf earlier hadn't been an act. They didn't know anyone named "Ye Qing."
Xu Tiancheng started smoking again and cut in. "Oh, so that Ye Qing guy is the chess player you keep talking about? And in your previous life, you were called Liu Che?"
Ye Zhengyi answered casually.
"That's one hell of a grand scheme. Impressive." It was hard to tell whether Xu Tiancheng was being sarcastic or sincere; his tone was flat. He blew out another smoke ring, then pointed at me. "And who's this big shot? Was he some amazing figure in his previous life too?"
Ye Zhengyi grinned.
I immediately grew extremely nervous. I was torn, and my head started to ache.
The theories about my previous life being a murderer and arsonist, spouted by Perfected Master Xuanqing and Greenleaf, had already given me a terrible headache. If Ye Zhengyi now said something shocking about how I'd murdered and set fires in my previous life, I wouldn't even know how to deal with it.
Ye Zhengyi said, "Calling them villains in a hundred lifetimes isn't quite right." His tone was a little teasing, as if correcting a child's mistake, and he wore an expression that gave me goosebumps. "That sort of thing is just sour grapes from people without any ability. In our era, capable people were still treated like monsters. That's how the idea that they'd committed evil in a previous life came about."
His answer was completely unexpected, and I was a little surprised.
"Think about