["He knows my Golden Finger is the [Simulator]."]
[You were truly stunned.]
["Are you kidding me?"]
[The [Simulator]... logically speaking, this should not have been your Golden Finger.]
[To be precise, you were currently within the [tenth ordinary simulation], playing things out from the Simulated Clone's perspective.]
[Even tracing back to your "original self" before the simulation began, the [Simulator] was the foundation of your survival, a forbidden secret that absolutely could not be exposed.]
[Even within a simulation, you would never let any existence learn this fact.]
[You even instinctively wanted to strike immediately and erase the person before you who knew your greatest secret.]
[Meanwhile, "Old Self," who had been standing beside you all along, seemed to sense the violent fluctuations in your emotions.]
[That indifferent, majestic gaze shifted faintly toward you, and an invisible protective force from a higher dimension quietly settled over you.]
[But Wang Hao had clearly noticed this change as well, and immediately continued:]
["You told me yourself!"]
[Then, as Wang Hao recounted what had happened, a long-buried memory began to replay around him. It was the "past" observed from Wang Hao's perspective.]
[Through it, you also saw the conversation from back then—]
[Back then, you had sought out Wang Hao.]
[You: "I need you..."]
[Wang Hao: "You?"]
[He looked you up and down, carefully sensing you, his face full of disbelief:]
["You seem to be... you really are Chen Fan!"]
[Clearly, the deeply calculating person you usually were would never have uttered such words of weakness so easily.]
[Yet you seemed unsurprised by his reaction at the time, your words filled with helplessness:]
["There's no need to doubt me. There's no trap. I really do need you!"]
["Because I... have reached the end of the road."]
[Wang Hao's expression instantly turned serious,