Zayn was shocked. He had heard about selective amnesia before. It was an extremely rare form of amnesia that was very difficult to treat as well. Generally, Faye was already a master fighter now that she had consumed the Aeon Karpos. Her physique as well as her powers were much stronger than that of ordinary people, so why would she have lost her memories? Moreover, it was selective amnesia!“Where is she now? I want to see her!” Zayn demanded in an extremely determined tone. At last, it was George who answered him again, “Sigh! Fifi lost all her memories related to you. Even if someone were to bring up your name, she won’t remember anything at all. She only remembers that there was a very important person in her life but she can’t remember a thing about the person. Her temperament changed drastically as a result of that. She would only speak very little in a day, and she felt indifferent about everything in this world. She was not even concerned about us as her family members.
“Sir, please don’t go any further.”Zayn made his way to the door of the Miao Xuan Temple. Just as he was about to enter the church, two young nuns walked out immediately to dissuade Zayn from entering the place. The two young nuns were actually trained in martial arts and were both experienced fighters though they were only about 15 to 16 years old. Moreover, there was a tinge of calmness and transcendence in their presence that could not be found in the normal world. It felt so unfamiliar and unpleasant to Zayn who came from the normal world. Zayn bowed and said respectfully, “My name is Zayn and I’m the husband of Faye Carter. I’m here especially to pick up my wife so that we can return home. Please kindly make an exception for me.”There was nothing powerful about Zayn’s presence now. He was just a graceful, gentle-mannered ordinary man who missed his wife. “I’m sorry, Mr. Larson. There’s no such person named Faye Carter in our church.”As they spoke, they were about to
“Sir, please don’t go any further! Wang Que is undergoing Tonsure!”Worried to death, the two young nuns hastily chased after him. The commotion here startled the other nuns in the Miao Xuan Temple. A few slightly older nuns walked out at once and saw the man breaking into the temple. They furrowed their brows tightly and said in a displeased tone, “Sir, the Miao Xuan Temple is a holy place for religion. Please leave now!”The two nuns were actually acquired fighters. Before Zayn came here, he had never expected that there would be so many skilled fighters living in concealment in the Miao Xuan Temple. However, he soon discovered that although the nun was trained in fighting, her fighting capacity was merely average. In other words, she was powerful but was not skilled in actual fighting. Zayn pondered on that and figured that it made sense. The nuns in the Miao Xuan Temple were trained in martial arts, but they did not engage in fights in the world. It was reasonable that they
“Fifi!”The word sprung out of Zayn’s throat the moment he caught her silhouette. His eyes began to water.In the past, hearing his voice would have made her spin on her heels and lurch straight into his arms, crying and laughing as they shared a loving embrace—However, she did none of that. She simply remained kneeling on the floor, unmoving. Zayn’s sudden appearance startled the other nuns. They glared at him disapprovingly, their features sharpened by hints of anger for disrupting their erstwhile silence.One of them was quick to remove him. Unsurprisingly, they did not look very happy—a boorish layperson who had barged into their serene cloister with his barbaric screams. “Sir, you should not be here. You’re trespassing on our sacred ground. It is an area that is barred from public entry! Please, leave!”More nuns began to pour into the space, all of them just as displeased. It was simply unbecoming of Zayn to crash their latest member’s tonsure rite. One of them raised her v
Zayn shook his head. “Apologies, Venerable, but I cannot let you perform the tonsure rite on my wife.”Wary hostility resurfaced on the senior nun’s face as she fixed her gaze upon Zayn’s features. “I take that as a proclamation of non-cooperation?”Zayn bowed slightly. “I must bring my wife home. Please, let me fulfil that wish.”The senior nun sneered loudly, “Yes—you’re here to create trouble. If that is what you seek, do not blame us for what is to come!”In the blink of an eye, every nun in the prayer hall drew a wooden club and stood at the ready. They surrounded Zayn, leaving no room for him to escape. They were going to boot him out of the temple the hard way.Zayn exhaled a long sigh. The last thing he wanted to do was to offend the nuns, so he raised his voice and called out to his wife, “Fifi! Fifi! I know you still remember me! I’m back, Fifi, and I promise—I’m never going to do anything life-threatening ever again! Please… Please don’t be mad at me. Come on, let’s go
The senior nun did not believe the abbess’s claim right away. She frowned slightly, but did not offer any rebuttal. Pressing her palms together, she lowered her head and whispered, “Alright.”A faint smile shadowed the abbess’s lips. “You might not believe it, but you’re looking at a perfect class elite fighter. He’s stronger than he looks. He could reshape terrain with a single punch,” she said. “It is only out of the kindness of his heart did he refrain from killing you all. He didn’t need to explain himself. He could have just uprooted the entire temple from its foundation with a finger.”The nuns were startled. They turned to Zayn, eyes wide and mouth slightly agape, though they believed every word the abbess uttered. The abbess would never lie to them.Her words were all they needed to see Zayn in a brand-new light—one that was devoid of hostility. Instead, they looked at him with renewed respect.A perfect class fighter was akin to a superhuman at the apex of human evolution—
Faye and Zayn were now face-to-face.She frowned slightly… and that was the extent of her emotional response. She backed away from him. Her voice was slightly strained with exasperation when she warned, “Please respect the distance between us, sir.”Zayn was startled. He had envisioned every possible scenario in his head—how he would be happily reunited with Faye—over a thousand times. He thought he had predicted every alternate ending. He thought she would be moved, overjoyed, happy, or even angry; anything but cold.She was so steely, so distant. She acted like they were complete strangers.It was not even an affectation of any kind, because Zayn could not detect any emotion or yearning for him at all. When he looked into her eyes, he saw nothing but a soulless pit. She was looking at him like he was a stranger she had never met before.Zayn could not understand what happened. She was fine, right? No blunt trauma to the head—no nothing, so why was she acting like an amnesiac? Sh
Faye’s words caused Zayn’s blood to run cold. It felt like winter had just fallen in the prayer hall—nipping, bitter, and nothing like he had ever felt before. His grandfather once tossed him into a bucket of ice during a harsh winter when he was younger. Though, the biting frost from back then was in no way comparable to the frigidity he was facing.Her words were simple and straight to the point, yet it felt like an ice drill that had driven straight into Zayn’s skull. It was as though his brain had been frozen over. His head was empty. How could that be? He was a perfect class elite fighter, for God’s sake!She did not recognize him at all. She might have looked the same outwardly, but there was nothing left inside of her body that was distinctly Faye Carter.It was as if another soul—a stranger’s—had inhabited Faye’s body altogether.It was more than just selective amnesia. Faye was in such intense denial and grief that she had somehow created a new personality. It had caused h