I reached out to knock on the door, but faint sounds from inside the room came through.

“An…?” It sounded like Qi Xia’s voice. “Yu Nian’an?”

“What ‘An’?” Another female voice came from inside the door.

“An… are you really here?”

The conversation inside the door left me confused for a moment. Qi Xia had actually seen Yu Nian’an inside?!

But I had just been standing across the way watching—there were only two people inside!

Wait a moment…

At this moment, I suddenly understood. There were two people inside the door. Who was the other person?

Li Xiangling…?

From a certain perspective, Li Xiangling’s “Manifestation” had the same lethal power against Qi Xia as my “Transformation.”

She could make Qi Xia see illusions of the person he missed. And now Li Xiangling’s “Echo” trigger condition “encountering warfare” had been fulfilled—she was “Echoing.”

“If that’s the case…” I held my forehead and began thinking. Li Xiangling had invisibly become a helper for me at this critical moment.

As long as her emotional fluctuations were large enough, she could continuously activate “Manifestation.”

If that was the case… how could I maximize her emotional fluctuations?

After pondering for a few seconds, my thoughts suddenly became clear.

I could finally score a point in this “scheme.”

Scoring this point would not be easy at all. Qi Xia had to die, and I had to die too.

At this moment, the room door happened to open, and Qi Xia actually stuck half his body out.

I knew my moment had come. I immediately reached out and pressed against him, pushed him back inside the door, then turned around and closed the door.

From this moment on, no one could escape.

“Qi Xia! Damn… it’s too dangerous outside, be careful!” I turned around and said.

Seeing the injuries on my body, Qi Xia couldn’t help but be startled. Actually, not just him—even I hadn’t expected to disguise myself with such severe injuries.

It seemed that deep in my heart, I still harbored some fear of “Cat’s” strength.

With just a few words, I steadied Qi Xia and tried to make him believe I was prepared to take him out of the room.

During this time, I continuously used my peripheral vision to observe Li Xiangling. There wasn’t even a trace of suspicion in her eyes. As long as I could pull out the knife at the first opportunity, I would occupy absolute initiative.

I wanted to let Qi Xia thoroughly know my capabilities. I could not only make him die but also make him “Echo.”

Next time, what he would throw at me would no longer be “thorns” but a true “olive branch.”

But I didn’t expect that after only three steps, just as I touched the dagger, an unimaginable heavy blow came from behind my back.

A chair swung at my back, then shattered into pieces.

I had thought Qi Xia would suspect me, but I never imagined his attack would be so ruthless. For a normal person, even if the person in front of them had an eighty percent chance of being fake, they absolutely couldn’t instantly deal a fatal blow to them.

Qi Xia rode on top of me, then reached out to choke my neck, just like when he first saw me impersonating Chu Tianqiu.

“Are you seeking death? You actually dare to impersonate even Qiao Jiajin. What have you done to him?”

Yes, he had seen through me. My flaws in front of him were always this enormous.

Even when I played Chu Tianqiu, who was very unfamiliar to him, I was seen through—let alone Qiao Jiajin.

“Heh… heheh…” I struggled to show a trace of a smile. After all, I had already grasped the dagger in my pocket. This point still belonged to me. “It doesn’t matter that you saw through me, Qi Xia. I’ve found a way to prove my abilities…”

I pulled out the dagger. “My mind is made up. Only by killing you here can I make you understand what capabilities I possess.”

“Hey! I said that’s enough. Don’t you understand?”

“I don’t want to pretend anymore. I don’t want to be anyone’s pawn. I only want to be myself.”

I had played other people for so many years, and never once had I wanted to return to being myself this much.

Let me disappear, or let me return to my original life—either way is fine. I don’t want to continue anymore.

I reversed the blade tip and aimed it at my own heart. This time, the mission had become simple.

Qi Xia, if you encountered “Xuanwu” who wanted to kill you for no reason at all, how could you possibly just let it happen?

Would you not resist?

But that’s exactly what “Xuanwu” is like. She would anticipate your resistance, then slowly torture you to death.

You wouldn’t ask Li Xiangling to help either, would you?

You would let her quietly watch you die from the side.

When you die, her emotional fluctuations would reach their peak, then materialize the “Yu Nian’an” you’ve been longing for day and night.

This Yu Nian’an would be even more lethal than my impersonation. She wouldn’t have any flaws, because she would be exactly what you imagined in your heart.

Even heaven was helping me.

“Near death,” “Yu Nian’an”—the two trigger conditions I deduced already existed.

Now, as long as I could send the knife into my own heart, everything would be over.

Qi Xia never thought I would have this scheme and couldn’t block it in time.

Yes, for you, there have already been many unexpected changes today. How could you possibly guess every single thing?

You haven’t even figured out who the intruders are, and I’ve already come before you and inserted the knife into my own heart.

After feeling a sharp pain, I saw confusion clearly appear in Qi Xia’s eyes. Taking this opportunity, I stuffed a “Tao” into his pocket.

A heart injury was truly agonizing. I felt my consciousness rapidly distancing itself from me.

When I opened my eyes again, I was already sitting beside Chu Tianqiu.

I had been to this interview room countless times, but no one had discovered that I didn’t belong here at all.

Chu Tianqiu acted as if nothing had happened, warmly greeting me, but his eyes were more crazed than last time.

He seemed to have seen something very interesting and couldn’t wait to leave the interview room immediately.

I turned my head to look at Yun Yao on the other side. Her eyes were also very complex.

That’s right—this was the first time in two years that she had seen me, although I had seen her many times already, but all in Chu Tianqiu’s appearance.

“Yun Yao!” I called out happily. “Long time no see!”

Yun Yao looked at me once without any reaction and nodded very perfunctorily.

At this moment, I roughly understood everything. Chu Tianqiu had really betrayed me.

And Yun Yao was also treating me coldly because of this matter. In the “Land of the End,” where was there any true friendship?

We were all just running around for our own interests.

Like reading a book that had been flipped through countless times, Chu Tianqiu skillfully led everyone through the games of the Man-Pig, Man-Horse, and Man-Ox, then came to the small alley.

After landing, he had us proceed to “Heaven’s Mouth” first. After waiting for Jin Yuanxun, he also hurried without stopping to the area where Qi Xia was about to appear.

It seemed Qi Xia had really “Echoed.”