Note: this chapter contains a flashback scene, and it took place ten years ago.
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[Six years ago, his thoughts were very simple. Knowing how his mother was kidnapped before being mercilessly killed in a river not far from Mount Heping, he thought he just needed to kill himself in the same river so he could meet his mother in the afterlife.
He was a naive nine-year-old kid at the time, and since he assumed that his life would be useless without his mother, he foolishly thought of ending it. Moreover, he also hated himself back then. Whenever he looked at his reflection in the mirror, he could see the disgusting golden scales on his forehead, and he assumed that he was no longer human with the scales that normally belonged to a fish.
