The shadow personality did not resist but maintained its original posture, watching him. Then, the black mist floating around it slowly condensed into a new hand, which stretched out from the shadow personality’s back, first placing itself on Xu Huo’s head, then stroking his face and settling on his neck, as if to choke him.

Xu Huo paid no mind to its actions, gazing at the shadow personality, "Before I found you, I also thought about how, if we merged, whether you would influence me or I would influence you. You are a personality trained by Doctor Zhang, not what I wanted, but I cannot abandon you, because you are also a part of me."

"Were you very scared in the hospital?" 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

"I know Doctor Zhang forged the hospital’s diagnosis to take you away from home. You tried many ways to contact your parents and brother, but at that time, your brother had no say in the matter, and your parents once doubted whether you really were, as Doctor Zhang said, someone who could turn harmful without proper guidance. Although the hospital’s doctors and nurses were good to you, under the inducement of Doctor Zhang, they still feared and guarded against you, treating you like Xiao Liang."

"You know it was one of Doctor Zhang’s lessons, using your isolation in the environment to force a change in your mindset. You also tried to get the medical staff to help you escape, but Doctor Zhang always had the foresight to thwart your plans. He could make anyone in the hospital become someone you didn’t recognize, so in that hospital, you were always alone."

"People like Xiao Liang, who lacked brains and were even obsessed with Doctor Zhang’s teachings, could not become your friends. Chang Bei and the other children were too timid, so after a long struggle, you thought of a way to end it all."

"I thought of a way to end it all, which was to kill Doctor Zhang."

"Initially, I didn’t intend to really kill him. I just wanted to make him poisoned or paralyzed by the potion he had introduced. I spent two months separating some of my usual medication to put into Doctor Zhang’s food."

"But it didn’t succeed because Doctor Zhang didn’t miss my little actions."

"Doctor Zhang wanted to cultivate geniuses who could operate outside the rules, but he made all his students call him teacher. I once suspected that he wanted to cultivate a group of students who honored their teacher but would become criminals... This idea was ridiculous because how could they respect a teacher if he turned all the children into people without a conscience or limits?"

"So I understood that his real goal was to cultivate geniuses who could kill their teachers. When a student killed the teacher who had absolute authority over them, his training was truly successful."

"Realizing this, I thought of many ways to kill Doctor Zhang."

"After many failures, there finally came a time when Doctor Zhang ’consumed’ my poison and announced that I could graduate."

"I was the only child in the hospital to successfully graduate, but before leaving, I learned that the ’Doctor Zhang’ I killed was actually an ordinary patient."

"Immense remorse flooded me. I regretted following Doctor Zhang’s plan to get rid of him, only to kill an innocent person."

"This was the final lesson Doctor Zhang taught me. Out of self-protection, I lost some memories when I woke up."

"Doctor Zhang appeared before me again and rewrote my memories."

With the complete unlocking of childhood memories, Xu Huo stopped and placed the shadow personality back on the ground, then squatted in front of it, "Thank you. Next time we go home, let’s pay respects to him. If we can’t find his grave, we will make one for him."

The shadow personality stood in place for a long time, then reached out to hug Xu Huo’s neck. At the same time, the floating black mist around him gradually dissipated, turning into a little boy wearing hospital clothes.

Seeing the sadness in his eyes overshadow all other emotions, Xu Huo touched his eye corner, "Don’t wear hospital clothes anymore. How about changing into pajamas?"

The hospital clothes gradually transformed into a set of black pajamas. The shadow personality stepped back two steps, then, along with the rotating staircase that appeared at his feet, sunk into the white space below.

As he sunk, ripples appeared in the middle of the white space, and the library building reappeared in front of him. The table was pushed to him, and this time the four people sitting around the table were his childhood self, his teenage self, his young adult self, and his current self. The materialized cores representing different personalities on the table remained unchanged: the childhood personality was still a black slice, the teenage personality corresponded to playing cards, the young adult personality corresponded to a dagger, and Xu Huo’s was still a book with a white cover. However, these materialized items no longer suppressed each other and were distributed in front of each personality.

The other three personalities gazed at him. Xu Huo slowly placed his hand on the book cover. At that moment, the entire library building started to collapse from the ground up, and the vast space peeled away piece by piece like paper. Whether it was the floor, stairs, or levels, rooms, books... they all turned into various fragments and finally flew around the desk in the deepest part, which remained motionless.

These fragments quickly skimmed through Xu Huo’s vision, seemingly in their original form and yet transforming into all he had once experienced. Countless memories flashed through his mind in an instant, finally freezing on the mental space he once saw in Flower City. In that spiritually evolved Super Player’s spiritual dungeon venue, he once witnessed himself appear in the Mirror World. But that was a spiritual dungeon’s alteration of spiritual power and wasn’t something he could achieve. However, the "Mirror World" had given him a very good idea.

The fragmented library began to rebuild. Besides the original huge circular building, the expanded one-story library had a table and the underlying spiral staircase. Behind the stairs appeared a new door. The mirror-made door opened inward, then returned to Rose Castle.

Yan Jiayu, just thrown from the Mental Portal, now fell back onto the corridor. She looked up to see Xu Huo standing before her, her expression suddenly changing slightly. Then she reached out to touch the wall beside her, only to find, to her shock, that her hand went straight through it. Taking a step forward, she could even see the furnishings inside the room.

She quickly retreated a step, then cast a suspicious glance at Xu Huo. Seeing him staring at the ground, she also looked down, and the next second, she unexpectedly fell toward the first floor. However, Yan Jiayu was indeed Yan Jiayu; as she fell, she managed to grab the second floor’s floorboard—which shouldn’t have been possible—because in this Mirror Spirit World, Yan Jiayu was equivalent to the wall of the library’s first-floor Spiritual World.