Starting as a Wallfacer, his defection to the Three-Body Problem shocked the world.

"So, you've come here to kill me?"

When Yun Tianming returned to the ward, he listened to Cheng Xin recount the entire process of the Ladder Project. He felt as if his life had been betrayed once again!

"I'm not here to kill you. I'm just representing PIA to ask for your opinion. You have every right to refuse."

Looking at her old classmate Yun Tianming, Cheng Xin noticed that he looked even more haggard than she had imagined.

Unbeknownst to her, Yun Tianming had spent the past five months constructing a staggering 180,000 data models in the Dream World so that Cheng Xin would not live in a world threatened by the Trisolarans.

The sheer volume of work shocked Lin Xuan.

To ensure that Yun Tianming's body wouldn't die directly from overwork, he had no choice but to inject Yun Tianming with a cell stabilizer. This would prevent Yun Tianming's organs from failing too quickly, and even delay the progression of his cancer.

“Tianming, I hope you can understand the significance of the Staircase Project. It's for the sake of all humanity, and you need to make a decision as soon as possible because…”

Cheng Xin swallowed the rest of her sentence. She felt that Wade was probably already planning to get the next person to get leukemia, and the selection of the person for the Ladder Project was becoming increasingly urgent.

"Hahahahaha!"

Yun Tianming laughed, a wild, maniacal laugh.

He could no longer suppress his anger.

"Considering all of humanity? Hahaha, why should I consider all of humanity? What has human society given me?"

Yun Tianming's expression changed from maniacal laughter to ferocity!

“I was abandoned by the world when I was a child. I have never been accepted by anyone. They think I am an outsider, a monster. Now, you are telling me to consider all of humanity?”

A violent coughing fit ensued, and Yun Tianming, overwhelmed with emotion, coughed up a mouthful of blood.

"Tianming, calm down!"

Seeing this, Cheng Xin dared not say anything more to provoke Yun Tianming, fearing that Yun Tianming would vomit blood and die because of her few words.

That would make it very difficult to find another suitable candidate to implement the ladder plan.

Blood seeped from the corner of Yun Tianming's mouth. He slowly raised his head and met Cheng Xin's gaze.

At that moment, his eyes changed.

His gaze towards Cheng Xin was no longer filled with love; the sun in his heart was slowly setting, eventually plunging into complete darkness!

When someone loves you to the extreme, their hatred for you will also be at its extreme when their feelings change.

Yun Tianming wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. His gaze was fixed on Cheng Xin, and anger had now swallowed up the last bit of love he had for her.

He wanted to roar.

He didn't understand why things had turned out this way.

But he soon understood.

Looking at Cheng Xin in front of him,

For the first time, Yun Tianming realized that his eyes were filled with Cheng Xin's image, while Cheng Xin's eyes did not see him at all.

"Her love is for everyone, and she treats everyone the same."

Hu Wen's words echoed in Yun Tianming's mind once again.

She has a handful of candy and hands it out to everyone she meets, but you insist that the candy she gave you was the sweetest!

You've been deluding yourself all along!

"How stupid I was! I thought that if I gave her a star, she would come crying to me? I thought that if I gave her the world, she would fall in love with me!"

"Hahaha, how ironic. I did so much so that she could live well, and she came to kill me."

"They told me to have euthanasia, but how can I really have peace of mind? This is definitely the most painful way for me to die."

Cheng Xin seemed to be feeling guilty and didn't dare to look Yun Tianming in the eye.

“Tianming, you know that humanity is currently under threat from the Trisolaran world. We need you, and we’ve launched you into space. If the Trisolarans successfully capture you, perhaps you’ll have a chance to be resurrected…”

"To be resurrected and then suffer their torment every day?"

Yun Tianming let out a cold laugh.

"Cheng Xin, you are a PhD in aerospace engineering. Do you know what the Trisolarans would do with my brain? They would connect my brain to various sensors and conduct all sorts of experiments. A human brain must be of great research value, right?"

"And what they are most interested in is the human brain's pain processing. They will torture me madly. I have no hands or feet, and I can't even commit suicide. At most, I will go into cerebral shock. And all of this will be thanks to you!"

Cheng Xin shook her head slightly.

"Don't think like that, Tianming. Maybe the Trisolarans are friendly. According to the intelligence we've received, they are extremely rational beings. They might not torment you. Your body is very weak right now. Sending you to the Trisolaran world to be resurrected and using their technology should free you from the pain of cancer. I'm trying to save you!"

"Furthermore, if you are unwilling, you are free to refuse my proposal. At worst, we can find someone else to do the ladder project."

Yun Tianming gradually calmed down and nodded.

"Okay, I promise you."

"My sister wants me dead, you want me dead, you all want me dead, so I'll just die!"

When he said this, his voice was unusually calm, as calm as stagnant water.

This is because Yun Tianming no longer needs to express his emotions to the outside world; he will put all his emotions into action.

Before Cheng Xin could say anything, Yun Tianming suddenly grabbed a fruit knife from the table and stabbed Cheng Xin with it!

……

The ladder plan was completed in its final preparations a few months later.

Unsurprisingly, Yun Tianming became the executor of the Ladder Project.

He originally had several competitors, but in order to ensure that Yun Tianming could successfully become the executor of the Ladder Project, Thomas Wade secretly killed several of the most likely candidates.

Yun Tianming failed to kill Cheng Xin.

After the knife pierced Cheng Xin's body, the blade quickly retracted.

That was a small plastic knife that Yun Tianming had prepared, similar to a movie prop. Once it was actually used, the blade would retract and not cause any harm.

But Cheng Xin knew that her relationship with Yun Tianming had been completely severed by that one strike.

Moreover, what was severed along with Yun Tianming's feelings for Cheng Xin was not only his last bond with the human world, but also his last connection to it.

"I will not assist humanity in any work. As for whether I will assist the Trisolaran world, that depends on what I see of them."

Yun Tianming made a surprising statement during the final oath-taking ceremony.

But Thomas Wade immediately applauded, because Cheng Xin had found him the most suitable candidate.

"Are you crazy? He already said he won't assist humanity. What if we send him to the Trisolaran world and he ends up helping the Trisolarans instead?"

“We think this way, and the Trisolarans think the same way. He is the most suitable spy,” Wade said.

Cheng Xin began to regret it the day after that stab wound.

Torn between conscience and responsibility, she ultimately couldn't help but meet with Wade and demand that Yun Tianming's status as an executive of the Ladder Project be revoked.

The reason given was that his educational background was too low to handle such an important task.

Wade simply smiled.

Do you know what he was doing for the five months before you met him?

Cheng Xin shook her head.

She didn't know anything about Yun Tianming beforehand, and she wouldn't even remember him if her classmate from New York hadn't mentioned him.

"He worked hard for about five months at the Red Coast Third Base of Wallfacer Lin Xuan to carry out the Super Dream Project, building a huge database system."

"At the same time, he has been instilled with a massive amount of knowledge, so in terms of knowledge volume, he is now at least a doctoral candidate."

Wade seemed to remember something and suddenly laughed.

Cheng Xin recognized that smile; it was the smile of despair that Wade was about to witness.

"As you know, building database models is a very complicated task, requiring a lot of imagination and knowledge."

"But Lin Xuan told me that Yun Tianming had only one model that he built without any prior knowledge, and that it was built quite perfectly."

Wade pointed at Cheng Xin.

"That's your model, which means that he, or rather, the former him, has always had you in his heart!"