Siheyuan, integrating everything, cultivating the city

Li Xiangqian was stunned for a moment, his heartbeat accelerated involuntarily, and he seemed to see something wrong in He Yuzhu's eyes. He wanted to refute something, but he didn't know where to start.

"You all know it." He Yuzhu suddenly smiled, his smile was cold, but it was also full of meaning, "But it doesn't matter."

Li Xiangqian's heart sank, and he quickly stood up and asked, "You...what do you want to say?"

He Yuzhu's smile remained unchanged. He took out something from his pocket and slowly placed it on the table. Li Xiangqian looked closely and found that it was a few yellowed old photos. The people in the photos looked blurry, as if they had been eroded too much by time. Li Xiangqian's heart suddenly rose to his throat.

"Do you think I will keep these things in my heart like you do?" He Yuzhu's voice was low and cold. "In fact, I have long known that you will doubt me. You always like to complicate things and like to regard everyone as an enemy. But I tell you, I am not what you think."

"What are these?" Li Xiangqian asked with some trembling. His eyes were fixed on the photos, but he did not dare to look directly at the contents on them.

"The people in the photos are people you once knew." He Yuzhu's tone was as cold as winter frost. He stared at Li Xiangqian, his eyes seemed to hide an unspeakable secret. "Your neighbors, your relatives, I have seen them, but they have never returned to you."

This sentence was like a bolt of lightning that struck Li Xiangqian's heart. His heart instantly fell into endless confusion and fear, and the oppressive feeling from the abyss made it almost impossible for him to breathe.

"You...what do you mean?" Li Xiangqian's voice trembled a little, and his lips turned slightly pale. He felt like he was standing on the edge of an abyss from which there was no escape.

He Yuzhu did not answer, but just looked at him silently, the coldness in his eyes seemed to become more intense. Li Xiangqian suddenly had a strong intuition that the person in front of him was not the ordinary person they had seen. Behind him, there was a dark world that they could not understand at all.

"You'd better explain yourself." Li Xiangqian gritted his teeth, a strong impulse rising in his heart, "What on earth do you want to do?"

He Yuzhu remained silent, but his deep eyes seemed to be able to penetrate everything and reach Li Xiangqian's heart. His heartbeat accelerated, and the air around him seemed to become heavier. The heavy pressure made Li Xiangqian's chest rise and fall constantly, as if he would suffocate at any time.

Li Xiangqian's heartbeat began to accelerate, and his palms began to sweat involuntarily. He stared at He Yuzhu's cold eyes, as if he could see an invisible force in them, tightly binding him. The words "this is all destined" were like a sharp knife, cutting through the most vulnerable part of his heart, bringing pain. Li Xiangqian felt that his world collapsed in an instant, and everything familiar began to become blurred, as if the beliefs he had held on to all his life were shattered by a moment of doubt.

"What do you mean?" Li Xiangqian tried to stay calm, but his mind was in a mess. He didn't dare to act rashly, and didn't know how to respond. He felt that every word he said became heavy, as if his words would be crushed by something in the air.

He Yuzhu sighed softly, his expression remained unchanged, but the coldness gradually faded, replaced by a hint of complex emotions. That emotion was like a layer of mist hidden in his eyes, which made Li Xiangqian unable to see through, but made him want to explore further.

"Do you really want to know?" He Yuzhu's tone became low, as if he was talking to himself, or asking Li Xiangqian if he was ready to face all this. He paused for a moment, his eyes no longer looking directly at Li Xiangqian, but at the sky outside the window. "Some things, if you know them, you may not be able to bear them anymore."

Li Xiangqian's throat was dry. He tried desperately to calm himself down, but he couldn't suppress the emotions surging in his heart. That kind of uneasiness and confusion was like a huge black hole, slowly devouring his reason. He took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down: "I'm not afraid."

He Yuzhu's mouth curled up slightly, as if with some sarcasm. "Are you really not afraid?" He paused, with an elusive look on his face. "Do you think I live a simple and peaceful life like you? In my eyes, your world has long ceased to exist."

Li Xiangqian's heart skipped a beat, as if he heard a strange and terrifying voice, hidden in every word He Yuzhu said. "What did you say? What do you want to express?" Li Xiangqian's voice was trembling. He didn't understand what He Yuzhu meant by these words. Was it a threat or a warning, or was it simply a kind of indifference that he couldn't understand?

He Yuzhu slowly turned his head and looked at Li Xiangqian deeply. His gaze seemed to penetrate the dimension of time and reach Li Xiangqian's heart. He spoke softly, his tone low and full of threats: "You think you live in a normal world, but in fact, you know nothing. I am not an ordinary person as you imagine, and I am not a person from your world."

Li Xiangqian was shocked. Those words seemed to strike his brain like a bolt of lightning, and he understood something instantly. His face turned pale, his eyes widened, and his mouth opened, but he couldn't speak for a while. He began to doubt all his previous knowledge of He Yuzhu, and even doubted whether the world he had seen over the years was really real. What was He Yuzhu talking about? What did he want to do?

"You mean..." Li Xiangqian uttered these words with difficulty. His mind seemed to be working frantically, but he couldn't find any rational support. "You don't belong here?"

A complicated expression flashed across He Yuzhu's eyes. He did not answer directly, but smiled slightly, as if he was satisfied with Li Xiangqian's reaction: "You finally understand." He lowered his head and said slowly, "In fact, this place is just a place where I stay temporarily. And you, all of you, are just the objects of my observation."

Li Xiangqian stood there, his head seemed to be bombarded by a powerful force, and his heart seemed to be pinched by an invisible hand. He realized that what He Yuzhu said was not groundless, but had a deep background, perhaps some secret that he could not understand. But why was he so foolish to ignore these signs? He never thought that the person in front of him might really be a different person from ordinary people.