Su Mo’s gaze lowered again.

"I think... that ability wasn’t just to manipulate the dead or find information."

"It lets me see memories. To feel the emotions of the deceased."

He paused.

"When I saw Li Wei’s memories... I understood his obsession with resurrecting his sister. Even using evil techniques."

"When I saw the prison guards’ memories... I understood their sense of duty."

"When I saw those criminals... I understood their fear."

"Although I understood them. I never cared. I was like a person watching a movie and giving reviews."

His voice slowed.

"But it was different this time."

His fingers curled slightly.

"When I saw that little girl’s memories..."

He stopped. His jaw tightened.

"For the first time... I felt it clearly."

"Her innocent self. The fear. The helplessness."

"Her despair until the very end..."

His voice became quieter.

"I felt... angry."

"Not the kind of anger I’ve ever felt before."

"This time... it felt like my chest was burning."

He placed a hand lightly over his chest.

"As if something inside me wanted to tear everything apart."

Yang Qingxi looked at him carefully.

Su Mo continued.

"I felt guilty."

"I had the power to prevent that tragedy."

"For the first time... I felt like my choices had consequences."

He turned his head slightly toward her.

"Why?"

"Why would I feel this for someone I don’t even know?"

"Isn’t she just a stranger like anybody else?"

There was genuine confusion in his voice.

Not a denial of his guilt, nor avoidance of his actions.

Just plain confusion.

Yang Qingxi looked at him quietly. Then she shifted closer.

Her shoulder lightly touched his.

"...Su Mo," she said softly. "I think you’ve misunderstood something."

She raised her hand and gently placed it on his shoulder.

"It’s not that you didn’t care before."

"You just... never faced it."

Her voice remained steady.

"You ignored it."

"Because it was easier that way."

She gave a faint smile.

"But this time, you couldn’t avoid it."

"Using your abilities. You saw everything."

"Felt everything she experienced from her perspective."

Her fingers tightened slightly on his shoulder.

"So your reaction now..."

She leaned a little closer.

"...is your real feelings. That’s the real you... the one who does care about others."

Su Mo didn’t speak.

Yang Qingxi continued.

"You’re not a disgusting person."

"If you were... You wouldn’t feel this way."

She hesitated for a brief moment.

Then, she wrapped one arm lightly around him.

A quiet, simple gesture.

"You’re just someone who never had the chance to care before." 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

Her voice softened.

"And now that you finally did..."

She paused.

"...it hurts. Right?"

The room fell silent.

Su Mo didn’t move.

But the tension in his body slowly eased.

Just a little.

Yang Qingxi felt it, and a faint smile appeared on her face.

"Want to avenge her?"

"Yeah..."

"What about your no-kill bottom line?" She chuckled.

"To hell with restraint! To hell with my bottom line!"

"Yep! That’s the spirit I want." Yang Qingxi looked at his side face and said, "Let’s go kill Ye Chen and those criminals."

System? Luck Points? She didn’t care about any of that. All she wanted was to help Su Mo deal with those bastards who made him feel these nonsensical thoughts and caused such harm.

However, Su Mo denied her suggestion. "No! Just killing them isn’t enough to quell my anger. Miss Yang."

"Then how do you want to do it?" Yang Qingxi asked with interest.

Su Mo showed a cold smile as he uttered. "I’ll make them regret being born in this world."

When Yang Qingxi saw the evil look on his face, she shuddered, and her heart pounded.

’What’s this feeling...? Was that an illusion...?’

’Why did Su Mo look much more charming just now?’

She couldn’t quite understand her current feelings, but a blush appeared on her face.

She suppressed those thoughts and asked. "You have brought all the criminals, right? Let’s find Ye Chen and deal with them together."

Su Mo nodded. "That was the plan. Unfortunately, I don’t know where Ye Chen went. I left some insects to stand by at the Mayor’s villa and wait for Ye Chen’s arrival. Leng Shuang had also contacted Spider to track Ye Chen. I don’t know how long it would take."

"Until then, I was thinking of letting Mayor Gao wake up first and tell him about his family."

At the end of his words, he couldn’t help but sigh.

Yang Qingxi was the same, feeling pity for Gao Xufan. After all, they were acquainted. They had even seen each other at the Chu Family’s party.

Who knew he would face such a disaster?

"It seems that’s the only thing we could do... Where the hell did that bastard Ye Chen run off to?"

"Yeah, once I find him. I’ll chop off his balls." Su Mo, beside her, said with a cruel expression.

Yang Qingxi was about to ask, ’Why only balls?’, when the system notifications appeared in her mind.

[Ding!]

[Due to your indirect manipulation. You have made the Destiny Protagonist Ye Chen lose his manhood and change his gender to a girl!]

[Ye Chen experienced physical harm!]

[Ye Chen experienced psychological harm that he could never recover from in his life!]

[Ye Chen’s Luck: -200]

[You have obtained 2000 Luck Points!]

Yang Qingxi was dumbfounded. Her mouth opened wide in shock.

"What’s wrong?" Su Mo asked, seeing her strange reaction.

She gave him a complicated look and said, "It seems you won’t need to cut his balls?"

"Why? Do you think it’s cruel?"

"No, because he doesn’t have balls anymore."

"?"

"He went to that tomb and took the gender-changing pill. Now he is not a man anymore, but a woman."

"!!!"

Su Mo’s eyes widened in shock as he stood up. "Ye Chen went to Tianzai Village?!"

"It seems so," Yang Qingxi nodded. "My system notified me just now."

"Good! I’ll go catch him right now."

Without hesitation, Su Mo transformed into a bird, ready to fly there at top speed.

"Wait, transform me too. I’m coming along." Yang Qingxi stopped him.

"... Alright." Su Mo didn’t refuse.