At this point, "Teng Yu" no longer hides anything from me. He tells me the whole truth.

He is indeed Teng Yu, Teng being a common surname from a small island nation.

However, he is mixed-race; his mother is from the same country as mine.

Both are from Daxia.

Teng Yu and I attended the same school and majored in the same field. We both majored in Biology.

During my university years, I had donated blood twice. Teng Yu secretly used his connections to obtain volunteer sera, continuously testing them and found that my blood was very compatible with the objectives of their long-standing secret experiments.

So, he planned to get close to me and make me fall in love with him.

His death was also planned.

Because I had been taking snake venom for several years, my memory often became confused.

In fact, I never saw Teng Yu being cremated with my own eyes; it was just what my parents told me.

Teng Yu feigned his death at that time, bribing the crematorium staff. The ashes were not human but animal ashes.

While I was preparing for the funeral, Teng Yu was always around me, secretly monitoring my movements.

And that black phone I once saw did indeed exist. The series of eerie scenes I saw while working overtime that night, some were horrifying illusions he created for me.

Even the gravekeeper uncle was bribed by him.

So, from beginning to end, I was in the palm of Teng Yu's hand.

After hearing all this, my heart was ashen.

I stared blankly at Teng Yu, tears streaming down my face, unwilling to ask, "So, all those years of affection were fake? Did you ever genuinely love me? Not even for a second? Tell me, Teng Yu! Why am I so stupid? Fooled by you for years! I'm such a damn love fool. I should have suspected you long ago."

Teng Yu avoided my eyes.

The young woman gently stroked Teng Yu's handsome face with a smile, "How ridiculous, how could he ever love you? Qiao Han, he and I were married before your engagement. We are the legal couple."

"I've been generous enough to let him stay by your side for a few years. You should just obediently be our lab rat."

Teng Yu did not avoid her touch.

The scene made me feel nauseous, hatred rising in my heart, wishing they would die.

"Haha, Qiao Han, do you see? He's my man, Suzuki Jiu Yang's man, uh..."

Blood suddenly trickled from the corner of her mouth. She looked down at the bleeding wound in her chest, unbelievingly looking up at Teng Yu.

"Why, Teng Yu?"

Teng Yu pushed her away without expression, holding a small curved knife in his hand.

The so-called village chief noticed something, turned around, saw this scene, and pointed tremblingly at Teng Yu.

"Teng Yu, how dare you kill the Suzuki family's daughter for a woman from Daxia? For a sacrifice, you betray our country? Have you forgotten your mother?"

Teng Yu coldly took out a handkerchief, leisurely wiped the blood off the knife, and smirked.

"How could I forget? My dear uncle, wasn't my mother long sacrificed to that damned mutant snake by you all?"

"You're my nephew and my proud disciple. If I had known, I shouldn't have let you join this great and glorious experiment. Damn! You're not a purebred member of our family, just as lowly as your mother."

"Lowly? Just how noble are you? Just a dog of those people. Dear uncle, I suggest you take your so-called great task and offer it to the underground as a tribute to my mother."

As he said the last sentence, hatred filled Teng Yu's eyes.

Teng Yu's uncle showed panic, quickly commanding the villagers with vacant stares.

"You all, catch him! Kill him!"

Teng Yu looked at his snarling ugly face with amusement.

He casually pushed a villager, who immediately fell, eyes wide open, and stopped breathing.

The others were the same, leaving just the three of them alive in the cave.

Teng Yu's uncle, seeing this, struggled to pick up the black box containing the monster snake statue, turning to flee.

His body suddenly stiffened, a knife piercing through his back and out his abdomen. He turned around in disbelief, opened his mouth, and slowly fell.

"You dare kill me. I am your uncle, uncle..."

Teng Yu laughed coldly, kicking him over.

He stomped hard on the man's ribs with his boot.

The sound of breaking bones mixed with his sharp cries of pain.

Teng Yu crouched, cutting his hands and feet tendons with satisfaction, watching the man lie like a pile of mud, breathless.

I watched the sudden turn of events in utter shock.

When Teng Yu approached, raising the knife to strike me, I immediately closed my eyes, awaiting death.

A low chuckle sounded in my ear.

He untied the ropes binding me, carefully lifting me out of the coffin.

Even now, I am filled with fear of Teng Yu, trembling in his arms.

Teng Yu pressed my head, gently stroking my hair, and I heard him speak.

"Really foolish. Sigh, I'm sorry for deceiving you all this time. But, deceiving you is true, and loving you is also true. The people in that organization are all mad, including me... I'll end it all."

I felt a wetness on my neck, shuddered, reached over and felt blood in my palm.

The man in front of me swayed violently, falling with me to the ground.

I quickly knelt beside him, seeing blood continuously spill from his mouth, and tears flowed uncontrollably.

"Teng Yu, no, you..."

Teng Yu looked at me as he used to, tender and doting.

He lifted his hand to caress my face, "Han Han, in the statue, there's... a recording..."

Before finishing, his hands fell.

I held him, crying out loudly, my heart aching, the world spinning...