"Sit wherever you like."
Xi Wutong took off her white coat as she walked toward the washroom.
Qin Manjiang sat down in a daze.
His mind was in turmoil, more than it had ever been before.
No Vengeful Ghosts or curses had appeared so far, yet the panic in his heart was stronger than on any previous occasion.
The same kind...
She was the same kind.
Looking toward the washroom, Qin Manjiang heard those words echoing in his mind.
This was a future without ghosts or monsters. Or rather... compared with the world he came from, this place was more real.
Listening to the running water in the washroom, he felt dazed for a moment.
Was he really cold-blooded by nature?
He could not be sure. In the past, Qin Manjiang would still have been able to judge his own state accurately.
But after the doll [I] had stripped away several of his emotions, he could no longer be certain what state he was in.
Wait...
The doll?
Qin Manjiang immediately reached inside his clothes and took out the doll.
It...
The palm-sized doll "met his eyes" in his hand.
The words Jiang Du had once said echoed in Qin Manjiang's mind...
"Like you, I'm what it became after growing up."
Qin Manjiang had been deliberately avoiding those words, because he did not dare think too deeply about them.
If Jiang Du had been telling the truth, the reality was far too incredible.
The doll could absorb emotions, and all the emotions it absorbed were its holder's Positive Emotions.
Over time, the holder would be left with nothing but negative emotions, along with some terrifying desires absorbed from Vengeful Ghosts.
The doll, meanwhile, filled with positive emotions, would develop into a new life.
Jiang Du and he himself might both