Granted, it wasn't in his nature to do something like that. But if the stakes were high enough, who knew what he was capable of.
'If that's the case...'
'He must have planned it all out before his rebirth, making sure his new personality wouldn't take over.'
'Then when their memories merge...'
'Will the Zhao Ci I know... cease to exist?'
The very thought made Gu Xiangzhu feel as if she were suffocating.
Zhao Ci had plenty of his own little schemes, but other than her master, he was the only person who had ever been genuinely good to her.
'No, no, no!'
'Why am I thinking this way?'
'My only goal in this life is to fulfill the Holy Sect's long-cherished wish.'
'Personal feelings have never been, and must never be, a factor in my decisions.'
'No!'
'I... I'm just using him.'
'What... what personal feelings could there be?'
'I'm only delaying things to influence him more, so that the Demon Monarch might change his ways.'
'But is this influence really enough?'
