Help! The Villainess Trapped in the Beast World's Drama!

Chapter 818 - 656: I Wish You a Lifetime Together

At the moment Shen Tang heard this, she froze completely, staring at the man in front of her in disbelief, unable to come back to herself for a long time.

Jin’s eyes grew redder and redder, jealousy, rage, unwillingness, self-mockery... all kinds of tangled emotions surged up in his gaze like an erupting volcano!

His thin lips curved slightly, his hoarse voice thick with biting irony. "The ’Ah Jin’ you keep talking about is nothing but my Replication. Do you understand now?"

"..."

His voice turned even colder. "’Hand of Creation’ used my genes to create Replications and sent them to other planets for genetic experiments. Your Beast Husband Xiao Jin is just my copy. He and I have never been the same person! You got it wrong from beginning to end!"

Shen Tang’s pupils trembled violently, her face went deathly pale in an instant, and she could barely breathe.

She murmured under her breath, like she was talking to herself, "You... aren’t him..."

"Right, I’m not him! I’m not him at all!" Jin roared hysterically, his scarlet eyes turning turbid and deranged. The aura around him grew unstable, wisps of black mist seeped from his body, faint signs of losing control and madness flickered at the edges, even carrying a trace of killing intent.

His hand that was pinching her chin slowly slid down and hovered lightly by her neck.

He had actually become a stand-in for a Replication. How ironic, how ridiculous!

As long as he killed this stupid female, there would be no "Xiao Jin" left in this world.

But his fingers were trembling, and he couldn’t bring himself to exert any force.

Jin slowly withdrew his hand. As his emotions gradually calmed, he seemed even more indifferent and distant than before. "...So stop being good to me, and stop following me."

Shen Tang snapped back to herself, feeling hollow inside.

So they really had never been the same person. No wonder Jin’s attitude changed so abruptly, turning so cold, after he learned about the memories and the truth.

So that was it—Xiao Jin and Shou Jin had never been one and the same.

She’d doubted it before, but because of the System, she had patched over every unreasonable point with excuses of her own.

Now that the Truth Revealed, all those discordant details from before suddenly made perfect sense.

With a tangle of indescribable emotions, she asked the System in her mind, [But when you first bound Shou Jin as a target, why did it take up Xiao Jin’s target slot instead of adding a new one?]

The System was a bit stunned as well, and answered sheepishly, [Sorry, Host, the System messed up! Going by what he just said, Xiao Jin was created using Shou Jin’s genes. Their genes, appearance, even their aura are almost identical... They’re different individuals, but their genetic information is completely the same, so it’s easy to judge them as one person.]

[And also, Host, I really can sense a trace of Xiao Jin’s existence in him... The original body and the Replication are affected by gene expression and external factors, so they’re not necessarily 100% the same, but he really does have Xiao Jin’s power in his body. That’s why the System judged them as a single entity.]

Shen Tang also frowned and said in a low voice, "But on you... there really is his aura."

Jin suddenly thought it through and let out a self-mocking laugh. "Looks like it’s because of that Crystal Core."

"Crystal Core?" Shen Tang’s breathing tightened. Could it be Xiao Jin’s Crystal Core? Isn’t that exactly what she’d been trying to find all this time?

Seeing her suddenly agitated expression, Jin’s emotions grew even more complicated. His fist clenched and then loosened, but his tone remained indifferent. "Yes. The only reason I came back alive after Shou He hunted me down was because someone gave me a small part of the energy from an external Crystal Core."

"And if I want to return to normal, I have to find that complete Crystal Core."

"I took the risk to go to the lab for that—the complete Crystal Core is hidden at the very bottom level of the lab."

This time, he did not hide anything. He laid out everything that had happened that day.

So that was it.

At last, everything was Truth Revealed.

No wonder even the System got it wrong.

Back then she had the System bind him right when their relationship was about to be confirmed, and that timing was exactly after this whole thing had happened.

Shen Tang let out a bitter laugh. "I’m sorry. I recognized the wrong person and bothered you for so long."

Jin looked at the desolate, disappointed expression on her face. Her voice was slightly hoarse, as if choked with tears. Her eyes were a little red, glazed with a thin, aggrieved sheen of moisture.

His Adam’s apple bobbed as he took half a step toward her. He wanted to say something, but in the end he kept silent and didn’t move, as if he didn’t care about her words at all.

Staring at the man who was still as cold as a glacier, Shen Tang forced down the ache in her chest. Some things still had to be made clear.

"But I never wanted to lie to you, and I never treated you as a stand-in."

"You’re right, I shouldn’t keep pestering you. I’ll leave."