Qi Shantong was not a good person by any definition. The way he thought about people and things differed from most of the people Han Qingyu had encountered in the Azure Coalition. His tendency toward obsession and unhinged behavior made Han Qingyu uneasy.

At this time, Han Qingyu was widely considered a genius, albeit a strange one with no awareness of his own prodigious nature. Even if he was a genius, he was simultaneously still that village boy who had failed the Gaokao and never seen the world beyond.

From when he first came into contact with Lao Jian all the way through every day he had spent with the Azure Coalition since, he had actually been using a stubborn, narrow logic to disguise and protect himself.

At first, he only cared...