"Why... did you have to force me to remember the past?"
Zhou Shangqing's eyes were filled with despair.
Under the obelisk's power, he remembered everything from his past.
"I just wanted to find somewhere to slowly rot away, to die punishing myself... can't even that tiny wish come true? Why? Why do you have to be just like those people who placed their expectations on me without asking, insisting on forcing me?!"
He slowly climbed to his feet. The intense resentment surrounding him seemed to make him look less like a human and more like a devil that had crawled out of Hell.
The rain washed the blood away.
The ragged clothes that had covered him all this time slowly fell away.
They revealed the spikes beneath, piercing inward through his flesh.
"How can fate be so unfair? Why does everyone have to force me? All I wanted was a peaceful life. I never did anything wrong..."
As Zhou Shangqing muttered, he looked toward Ye Qiyan with eyes that streamed tears of blood.
Or, to be precise.
At the cube in his hand.
"You already got that cube, got that power, so why can't you leave me alone? Fate is so unfair... I never wanted a Talent, yet it gave me that damned Surpass the Stars. I gave up everything just to rot away in this world...
"But someone still found me... heh, hehehe... kill me. Do whatever you want. I don't have the strength to resist anymore."
Zhou Shangqing staggered and fell painfully to his knees, his head hanging low. Everything from his past was like a series of spikes, endlessly piercing his heart until it was riddled with holes.
Ye Qiyan looked at him and shook his head.
"I never said I wanted to kill you, senior. I'm