"He always accommodated my feelings like that, giving me the impression that everything was fine. It made me feel awful, like my whole heart was being squeezed."
"The doctor said he had severe depression and prescribed a lot of antidepressants. He also told me to try to help him work through it."
"But when I asked him who Lou Yunxiao was, he went pale and even had a trauma response, leaning over the railing and vomiting."
"His reaction frightened me. I hurried to pat his back, and only after his breathing eased a little did I hear him say, in a very, very quiet voice: I hate him."
"Later, I remembered that Lou Yunxiao was the name of the protagonist in a novel I'd written. During the month my brother was unconscious, the contents of that novel had changed on their own, without any revisions from me. Only then did I finally realize that, during that month, my brother had very likely... traveled into the world of that book."
"As far-fetched as that idea was, when I considered the contents of the book, I understood that my guess was probably the closest thing to the truth."
"And the ridiculous thing was that I was the original author of that book... In the revised version of Ask the Heavenly Dao, all the plot holes I'd written were filled in by my brother. Because of that, Ning Ke endured ten thousand years of loneliness and watched Lou Yunxiao die horribly before his eyes. Later, a demon plotted against him in the Flowing Cloud Sect, and he personally killed the elders he respected and loved, along with so many disciples. Overwhelmed by guilt, he took the blame for everything. As for Lou Yunxiao, he gave him his own demon core and foxfire, and