"Player?"
"What do you mean?"
Qin Ran froze and asked in bewilderment.
"Aren't you a player?"
The phantom was even more taken aback, her illusory eyes filled with surprise.
"Mary, I don't understand what you're saying."
"Did death cause irreversible damage to your memories?"
Qin Ran asked, his face full of concern.
"You're actually not?"
The phantom stood there in a daze, at a loss.
"Mary, although I don't know what you're talking about... it's good to see you."
Qin Ran naturally stepped forward and spread his arms to embrace the phantom before him, but his hands passed straight through her body.
"My current state is different from before..."
"I know."
"I was just confirming something."
The phantom explained awkwardly, but before she could finish, Qin Ran smiled.
It was a calm smile that kept others at a distance.
The smile Qin Ran habitually wore.
That smile put the phantom before him on high alert.
"What did you do to me?"
The phantom demanded sharply.
She examined her body.
But she found nothing.
Precisely because of that, however, she grew even more suspicious and uncertain.
The unknown always inspired fear.
Unconsciously, she began preparing to use her final trump card, but just then, Qin Ran suddenly said solemnly, "You're not Mary! Who are you?"
The question stopped the phantom's covert actions.
He only realized I'm not Mary?
The phantom breathed a slight sigh of relief.
Of course she wasn't Mary.
That was why she had already prepared a flawless explanation.
After all, given her current state, no one would suspect anything.
"Relax!"
"There really are differences between who I am now and who I was before!"
"But I really am Mary!"
The phantom explained.
"Prove it!"
"Mary knows a secret only the two of us know!"
Qin Ran frowned, looking