Guo Jiuxiao's words left Li Tianming utterly stunned.
"What... Ye Hongqing had her memories rewritten by you?!"
The nurse nodded firmly. "Yes. After we both awakened our Sequences, I often visited your home or worked with you. I used those opportunities to rewrite her memories."
"True."
"You?!"
"This Lie Detector is getting a little noisy." The nurse's lips curled upward as he put the Lie Detector away. "Old Li, what do you think? A pleasant surprise?"
Li Tianming's eyes were filled with bewilderment.
His first reaction wasn't shock, but incomprehension.
"Guo Jiuxiao, I remember we awakened our Sequences around the same time. You weren't among the first people to awaken Sequence Abilities, were you?"
"That's right. We both awakened our Sequence Abilities on New Year's Day five years ago."
"You spent a year rewriting her memories so she'd frame me two years ago? So you were already laying your plans over three years ago, when we were still like-minded, researching together without any disagreements?!"
The nurse shook his head. "No. Not long after we awakened our Sequences together-about two or three months later-I started trying to rewrite Ye Hongqing's memories."
Li Tianming looked even more horrified. "Five years ago?! Why?! We were classmates, colleagues, and friends! Why would you do this?!"
Li Tianming roared furiously, "Did I ever wrong you in any way?!"
The nurse thought for a moment, then shook his head. "As far as I know, probably not."
"Then why did you do this to me?!"
The nurse tilted his head up slightly, looking at the incandescent light on the ceiling. "At school, we competed over our studies. After graduation, we competed over our research. After all those years, neither of us had won, and we were going to keep competing forever... Perhaps I did it because I