Moon City.
Lian Yan stood before the enormous floor-to-ceiling window, gazing out over the entire city. Xinxin sat on the sofa behind him, playing with the little teddy bear in her hands.
As he watched, Lian Yan grew somewhat distracted.
Scenes from his memories surfaced in his mind. They had clearly happened long ago, yet they seared Lian Yan's heart as though they were happening in the real world.
He saw it again...
Scorching waves of air swept toward him, carrying sparks. The ceiling was collapsing, the floor was caving in, and cries and wails filled the air.
Severed limbs lay piled among broken walls and rubble. Flesh and stone alike had been charred black.
"How did this happen? Weren't we supposed to be able to get out?"
"Where's Guan She? Where is he?!"
"Oh no! Guan She's still in the fire!"
"Lie?! You..."
"Lie!"
"No... you lied to us..."
"You lied to us!!!"
Guan She...
When that former name of his surfaced in his mind, Lian Yan abruptly snapped out of it.
The memories of the past still refused to leave him alone.
A large part of why he had abandoned the name Guan She and chosen Lian Yan, the name of the villain protagonist in [Ping'an Hospital], was that he wanted to shut out those memories completely.
The Moon City Eye Realm... had not always been like this.
He, the First Seat at the time, and everyone else had also progressed to the point where they were about to clear it completely.
Yet in that final, infernal Ghost Story, everyone had suffered the most horrifying blow.
Fake...
It was all fake.
The game was fake, the wishes were fake, and even everything about the First Seat was fake!
Lian Yan would always remember just how mocking the