The young man remained silent as he slowly turned around and stared at Qin Ye. It remained like that for one minute… three minutes… and then five minutes later, his body trembled vigorously, and he choked up, “You know about this?” 

Qin Ye didn’t respond.

It was incredibly bizarre. The young man had a shadow while he was squarely facing Qin Ye, but Qin Ye could have sworn that the man had no shadow from his side profile.

“You know how to undo this, don’t you?!”

The man was ostensibly so emotional that his voice was hoarse and cracking up. And then, he suddenly lunged over, thinking to grab Qin Ye by the arm. However, the chains clattered and held him dead in his place.

That said, it was precisely because he had turned around and stood up that Qin Ye noticed the man wearing an SRC emblem on his chest.

“I don’t.” Qin Ye remained expressionless as he set his backpack down on the counter, “I’m here for redemption.”

“I want to exchange all of my merit points for spirit stones!”

The young man stared at him for three whole seconds, leaning heavily against the counter without making a single move. Then, just as Qin Ye began to grow impatient, the man suddenly spoke with a hoarse voice, “I’ve come across far too many people over the years.”

“The question that I often get is - ‘why are you tied up’ or ‘why don’t you have a shadow’?”

He looked up at the ceiling with a distant gaze in his eyes, as though he were recalling his memories of the...