"I'm not worried that your perception is wrong. I'm worried about something else." Chen Ge couldn't explain the details to the students, so he could only think it through himself. How did Chang Wenyu's aura end up on me? Was it because I spent so much time with her brother? Or did Chang Gu put one of Chang Wenyu's belongings on me?
"Don't worry. You'll get your lost memories back eventually, and I have a lot of confidence in you now." Zhou Tu didn't understand Chen Ge's situation, but he remained optimistic. "Don't waste your energy on unimportant things. What I'm about to tell you is very important."
"Every student who enters the school has a choice of their own, and each choice leads to a different outcome. The Painter doesn't decide how those choices are judged. The school itself does. The Monster formed from all those desperate souls is the school's true master. The Painter can only be its spokesperson at most."
"What we need to do is earn the School Will's recognition, see one particular choice through to the end, and then face the final outcome without flinching." Zhou Tu thought for a while. "The Painter's choice was probably to escape reality and build a home behind the door for all the lost souls. Chang Wenyu's choice should be to do whatever it takes to leave the school and return to reality. We can follow the path Chang Wenyu left behind, but first, we have to earn the school's recognition."
"What exactly should we do?"
"Don't treat this school as a cold, lifeless setting. Treat it as a person, someone who's been bullied and is filled with despair." As Zhou Tu spoke, he lowered his voice as much as he could. His expression was very strange; with every