"Yeah. The whole world has changed. I told you just now, I had no choice. From the moment I met Liu Che, I had no choice." Ye Zhengyi seemed to lose his temper, suddenly growing agitated. "I just wanted to live a carefree life. I wanted nothing else. Fame, fortune—I didn't care about any of it. Saving the world had nothing to do with me, either. If I hadn't met Liu Che, I'd have been free to roam wherever I pleased! Who knew I'd be so unlucky..." He let out a heavy breath. "After that, I couldn't get a moment's peace... Luckily, he had the ability back then, and I was forced to realize my potential. Heh... Otherwise, I'd have been killed long ago! And not just killed—my soul would've been obliterated!"
He sneered and went on. "Things are even better now. His reincarnation is more capable than he was in his previous life, and he's found a lucky person like you, so he has even fewer scruples. He's already backed the other side into a corner. You played no small part in that, too. A little nobody like me can only go with the flow. I wanted to become a spirit, and now you've ruined that for me. And you ask why I didn't become a Ghost King? I wanted to. Did you give me the chance? Oh, no—you took that chance away from me!"
Ye Zhengyi stood up and glared at me. "You hated a world ruled by the Ghost King, so you simply rejected that world, didn't you?"
I shot to my feet and met Ye Zhengyi's gaze.
He remembered the changed world!
Back then, I hadn't met Ye Zhengyi, but clearly, he had become a Ghost King in that world overrun by Ghost Kings!
However, when