Knowing he was scum, Chen Rui could not help feeling rather depressed.
Gabriel had already returned to the reading room, a book in her hands. Chen Rui noticed her eyes were a little red and asked in surprise, "What's wrong, Tessaniel? Did someone bully you?"
Gabriel shook her head and held up the book. "I just read this passage and found it rather sad."
The Gabriel of this world truly was a gentle, captivating girl. Now it seemed she was quite sentimental as well. Chen Rui looked at the book's title. "The Book of Isaiah? What kind of novel is this?"
"A novel? This is the twenty-third book of the Bible..." Gabriel had grown used to a certain scumbag's utter lack of learning and did not bother looking down on him. "It's this passage... When I read this, I don't know why, but I just can't help feeling sad."
Crying over the Bible? As expected of a theology enthusiast. Chen Rui was not particularly interested in such books, but he could not brush off Tessaniel, so he leaned closer and saw several passages.
O bright star, son of the morning! How art thou fallen from heaven?
How art thou cut down to the ground, thou that didst lay low the nations?
For thou hast said in thine heart: I will ascend into heaven; I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the depths of the pit...
Fallen? For a moment, a feeling he could not explain welled up inside Chen Rui. These words seemed to describe