"Why would you think I'm not from this world?" Li Meirong asked, her eyes growing wide as, instead of giving him an answer, she responded with a question of her own.
She looked completely and honestly bewildered, and Mo Cheng frowned at her with an uncertain expression.
"At first, I wasn't so sure," he admitted. "I thought you were, perhaps, a side character who had never been important enough to be introduced into the main storyline. But then, after inspecting your writing and your mathematical equations, I harboured suspicion."
At that juncture, Li Meirong's look of surprise gradually disappeared, and her eyes narrowed slightly.
A soul possession was considered a sinful deed, and it was not a topic to be easily spoken of in this particular realm. It was not unheard of for a person who had been possessed to be hunted down and exorcised like some kind of malevolent ghost come to terrorize mankind, regardless of the truth of the matter.
