TSFLIP Chapter 345

The man seemed filled with melancholy. “It seems, Feng Guang, that you truly care for An Yi.”

“So what if I do?”

He let out a short, soft laugh. “You know I both love you and want to kill you. But do you also know that An Yi and I are the same kind of person?”

“What nonsense are you talking about?” Feng Guang raised her eyes, meeting his obsidian-like gaze beneath his hood. For a moment, she forgot how to react.

He lowered his gaze and spoke slowly, “Feng Guang, many things seem unrelated because people perceive them differently. For example, even if you see my face now, it wouldn’t occur to you to make a connection. But what if I told you that I have the same face as An Yi?”

As he finished speaking, Feng Guang’s eyes widened. Reflected in her pupils was a face identical to An Yi’s.

“As I thought, you suffer from cognitive bias,” he said with a smile that grew colder. Leaning closer, he pressed a kiss to the corner of her stunned, wide-open eye.

“That’s impossible…” Feng Guang’s mind went blank. “How could this… you’ve become An Yi…”

“I don’t have that kind of ability, Feng Guang. The truth is, I’ve always looked like him. Whether it’s our faces or our personalities, we’re the same. The only difference is your perception.”

It wasn’t that she couldn’t remember faces. It was just that once she had decided these two were not the same person, she subconsciously refused to make any association between their appearances. Unless someone explicitly pointed out that they looked alike, her mental framework would remain unshaken. Unbeknownst to her, she had a non-typical cognitive disorder.

“No… it’s still impossible. How could you and An Yi look the same? It makes no sense… unless, unless you’re twins…”

“You’re wrong. We don’t look alike because we’re twin brothers. We look alike because he is me, and I am him.” Watching her shocked, blank expression, he couldn’t help but lift his hand and gently caress her soft cheek. In a hushed tone, he said, “You have to understand something. My desire to kill you is as strong as my love for you. And his love for you is just as strong as his desire to kill you. We’re the same, yet we’re different.”

She clutched his clothing tightly. “I don’t understand… What are you trying to say?”

Her panic and unease made her seem pitiful, and he couldn’t help but pull her into his arms. Gently stroking her hair, he explained everything in detail. “On the day we died, our soul split in two. I inherited the memories and the hatred that made me want to kill you. He lost those memories but kept all the love for you. But Feng Guang, you must understand—because he loves you, he wants to pull you into death with him. The more his love for you grows, the stronger his desire to kill you becomes. I exist because of my hatred for you. When he begins to feel the urge to kill you, my power will be taken from me little by little, until I finally disappear.”

“You… you’ll die…” she said, tightening her grip on his clothing so much that the veins on the back of her hand stood out.

“It’s not death.” With a satisfied sigh, he buried his face in the crook of her neck, inhaling the sweet scent of her skin. “See? You still care about me.”

“This isn’t the time to argue about that! You’re about to disappear!”

“Don’t worry. I won’t die. I’ll simply be absorbed into him. First, my hatred for you will fade. Then, my memories will go. In the end, we’ll become one complete person.”