Bo Xi felt as though he had had a nightmare. In that nightmare, he saw someone he had not seen in a long time-or rather, someone who had long since died-
Qin Ke.
They seemed not only familiar with each other, but like the most intimate of lovers. He watched his own body behave as though possessed, treating Qin Ke the way he had imagined treating Lin Xingye.
And there were Qi Sijing, Cheng Yu, An Shi, and the others beside him, too. Only Lin Xingye was missing.
What was more, they acted as though they had never known Lin Xingye. Not only did they never mention him, they treasured Qin Ke like a precious jewel, even tolerating him flirting with other people everywhere he went.
When he finally heard news of Lin Xingye again, it was at a banquet. Several men nearby were discussing their wives, and one of them shamelessly mocked Lin Xingye for his stupidity and the Lin family for their uselessness.
Even Qin Ke went over to chat with that man, all smiles, openly and discreetly making eyes at those men as though the rest of them were blind. And that man was actually Li Hanwen!
The man Star found utterly disgusting, the man he loathed intensely for reasons Bo Xi did not understand.
He said Star was his spouse, yet they remained unmoved. Not only did they ask no questions, they walked past Li Hanwen as though they had heard nothing.
Bo Xi was so furious he nearly coughed up blood, but he still could not control his body. He could only act at Qin Ke's bidding, while some of the people he had met before never appeared at all.
He could only piece together Lin Xingye's fate from scraps of other people's conversations.
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