Chapter 45: I'm Sorry to Have Been Born Human

When he was little, Gu Yuan had memorized the Three-Character Classic. Its opening line went: People are born good. Yet everything playing out before his eyes seemed to twist that into something else entirely: people were born evil. Kids like that never truly understood good and evil. They only knew what felt fun. It was only later, as they grew up and learned from books or from life, that the line between right and wrong finally took shape. The scene kept rolling. It did not stop for Gu Yuan's...