As soon as Chen Junnan’s question came out, even Qi Xia’s brain felt somewhat blocked.

“What did you say?” Qi Xia was stunned.

“I said when the hell did you become a fraudster?” Chen Junnan repeated his question again, his face still full of confusion. “Is this a new identity you’ve fabricated for yourself?”

“What are you saying, Junnan boy?” Qiao Jiajin showed a puzzled smile on his face. “Liar boy already said it in the ‘Liar’ game…”

Before he finished speaking, Qiao Jiajin felt something wasn’t right.

They seemed to have never played the “Liar” game with Chen Junnan.

Chen Junnan had been killed in the first two games, and in the third game, Man-Goat had committed suicide.

In other words, Chen Junnan had never heard Qi Xia’s self-narration from beginning to end, nor had he heard Qi Xia personally say “My name is Qi Xia, I’m a liar.” If that was the case, then what exactly was Qi Xia’s self-narration in his memory?

“So… who am I…?” Qi Xia’s lips trembled slightly as he looked at Chen Junnan.

“What kind of question is that…” Chen Junnan said with furrowed brows. “You don’t even know who you are yourself?”

“No…” Qi Xia stopped walking and asked very seriously, “Chen Junnan, in your memory… what story did I tell in ‘Liar’?”

“You said at the time that you were a liar who swindled two million from someone,” Chen Junnan answered without hesitation, then felt something was off. “Wait, Old Qi, you didn’t deceive yourself, did you?”

“What…” Only now did Qi Xia discover what was strange. “So the version you heard… is the same as what I narrated.”

“Did you switch versions or something? No matter what we said at the time… wasn’t it all lies?” Chen Junnan said with a laugh. “Was there anyone in the initial stories who told the complete truth? You know what identity cards everyone drew, right?”

Hearing this, Qi Xia suddenly realized what his sense of dissonance had been all along.

In his memory, he had indeed defrauded someone of two million, and had revealed it all in the initial story. After all, he knew that even if he drew “Liar,” there was no need to lie, so he told the truth right away.

Qi Xia organized his thoughts and said to Chen Junnan again, “Since the version you heard is the same as the version I told, doesn’t that prove I’m indeed a fraudster?”

This statement made Chen Junnan laugh. “Old Qi, what exactly are you doing? Are you trying every means to prove to me that you’re a fraudster? What’s the point? Normal people would rush to explain when they hear themselves slandered as a fraudster, but you’re afraid I won’t believe you?”

“I…” Qi Xia decisively shook his head. “This isn’t about ‘fraudster’… This concerns something very important, so you need to tell me everything you know.”

Seeing Qi Xia’s serious expression, Chen Junnan also felt something might be wrong, so he thought for a moment and said, “Old Qi, to be honest, no one told the truth in the ‘Liar’ game, including you. You once confided in me that before coming here, you had just graduated with a master’s degree and were recently job hunting. Among our nine people, the lies you told were the most outrageous.”

“What…?” Qi Xia’s eyes slowly widened. “I graduated with a master’s degree…?”

“You know… I can choose not to believe what you said in ‘Liar,’ but your confession afterward had no need to deceive me.” Chen Junnan laughed bitterly with confusion. “You’re not going to tell me now that you’ve been lying to me all along, are you?”

Qi Xia also carefully considered this question. Logically speaking, Chen Junnan was a decent person. Although he talked a bit much normally, he was reliable in his actions and conduct—not the type Qi Xia disliked. He should have no reason to specially fabricate a lie to brush him off.

But how could he possibly be a master’s graduate?

After graduating high school, he never studied again. He struggled alone, fully experiencing the dark side of human nature. At nineteen, he met Yu Nian’an, and the two were together for seven years. Now at twenty-six, he had come to the “Land of End.”

This damned place had lost Yu Nian’an and trapped him for a long time. He wanted to escape and also wanted to find Yu Nian’an back—wasn’t this his entire life?

Thinking about this matter more carefully… even the hairs on Qi Xia’s back stood on end.

Wait a moment… why would he go defraud that two million…?

“Because that scumbag offended Yu Nian’an…” Qi Xia murmured. “My one and only fraud was to recover two million for Yu Nian’an…”

In an instant, Qi Xia once again felt the world spinning around him. A fundamental logic surfaced in his mind.

If there was no Yu Nian’an… would he still be a fraudster?

“The situation is very bad…” Qi Xia said with furrowed brows and an expression of disbelief. “Why does all the evidence point to this path? Why are they endless? Why is it that as soon as I investigate this question… it leads to this answer?”

Seeing Qi Xia’s expression change so obviously, both Chen Junnan and Qiao Jiajin felt somewhat uneasy. Even when everyone had faced life-and-death situations before, Qi Xia had never shown such a flustered expression.

“Old Qi… what’s really wrong with you?” Chen Junnan asked with an awkward laugh. “Although you’re very smart, there’s no need to insist on being a fraudster… This young master only has a high school education, but don’t feel inferior—having a master’s degree really isn’t shameful…”

“My memories have been tampered with…” Qi Xia completely ignored Chen Junnan, only saying with flickering eyes, “The lie I told in ‘Liar’… has actually become my real life… What kind of bizarre situation is this…?”

“Huh?”

Chen Junnan finally understood what Qi Xia was troubled about, but this news was somewhat difficult to comprehend, leaving Chen Junnan unable to think of how to respond for a while.

After a long pause, he finally said, “Old Qi… you… the last time you returned to the ‘Real World’…”

“I was already a fraudster,” Qi Xia answered decisively. “I stopped attending school at eighteen. I muddled through my life until now, even bringing back laundered money… At that time, Yu Nian’an was waiting for me at home… Are you telling me all of this is fake?”

“What…?” Chen Junnan felt Qi Xia was getting more and more absurd. “Old Qi, I don’t care about the rest… I just want to ask one question… If you only have a high school education, how did you use so much theoretical knowledge to lead us through all those challenges?”