Live for around thirty years or so, and it'd become increasingly harder to experience new and unfamiliar emotions.0

Emotions were like an automatic feedback mechanism of the human body designed to respond to external stimuli. And the longer you were alive, the more things you'd have experienced. As such, the emotions felt as one got older would only vary in their intensity.0

However, Guo Liqin found himself no longer constrained by that simple truth of life.0

What was this unfamiliar emotion? A feeling he had never once experienced before until today ruled over his entire being.0

'What the hell is this?'1

Fear? Yes, this emotion could be categorized under 'fear'. Even then, Guo Liqin felt deeply unfamiliar with this emotion simply because... This fear was on a whole other level than his previous experiences!0

His body wasn't even shivering. And it didn't even feel like his death was just around the corner, either. In a way... How should he describe this? As if he was in a dream?0

He realized something after a lengthy pondering. He was just standing there in stupefaction despite clearly being aware of things happening before his eyes. Why was that, though?0

Was it because this situation no longer felt real?0

Step, step...0

The man who opened... No, destroyed the door wordlessly headed toward the bed. That was when Guo Liqin realized the intruder was younger than he thought. Which was odd, considering the intruder's face had never been covered and was fully...0