2240 True objective Ye Wanwan intently stared at Nameless Nie. After a long silence, she finally spoke. “In truth, Ji Xiuran’s hypnotism on you lost its effect a long time ago, right?” Nameless Nie nodded. “Although the hypnotism was impressive, it didn’t last too long in reality. It only lasted half a year.” 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞 “So when you came to find me in China, you weren’t hypnotized anymore,” Ye Wanwan proposed pensively. Nameless Nie smiled. “That’s right. But when I first met you in China, I merely thought you looked like Worriless and really didn’t recognize you.” “Then… just what did you come to China to find?” Ye Wanwan asked. “I just wanted to find you; there weren’t that many reasons. And also to find the ring, of course,” Nameless Nie replied truthfully. Ye Wanwan didn’t rebut him. The ring Nameless Nie was wearing might’ve been crafted by him and was completely unrelated to the Rose of Death. It held enormous meaning to Nameless Nie. This ring represented his relationship with Ling Miao. Ye Wanwan believed that Nameless Nie absolutely wouldn’t agree if she tried to use her ring to trade for his ring. “Then… why did you make the Direct Line steal the other ring?” Ye Wanwan asked him. “Very simple.” Nameless Nie smiled faintly. “If I possessed that ring… I would be able to mobilize a lot of power and destroying the Independent State would be a piece of cake.” “But why did you give up in the end?” Ye Wanwan launched another question. Nameless Nie sank into contemplation. “What else could I do?” A while later, Nameless Nie shook his head. “You would rather die than hand it over. Should I have really killed you for that ring?” “I see…” Ye Wanwan nodded lightly. Everything was very clear now. Back then, after Ling Miao died, Nameless Nie sank into madness, wanted to avenge Ling Miao and annihilate every faction that participated in Ling Miao’s encirclement. But these factions encompassed nearly all of the Independent State. Nameless Nie originally sought out Ji Xiuran so that Ji Xiuran could lend him a hand, but Ji Xiuran didn’t have the heart to do it and was unwilling to watch Nameless Nie be in such agony, so he used hypnosis to make Nameless Nie forget about that memory segment. Furthermore, Ji Xiuran changed Nameless Nie’s personality into a businessman who worshiped money like his life and only liked to earn money. This way, Nameless Nie would be running around every day and busy with earning money, never getting tired of it. This should be considered a fortunate outcome for Nameless Nie. However, what Ji Xiuran didn’t expect was that Nameless Nie’s willpower was truly too formidable and Ji Xiuran’s hypnotism lost its effect in a mere half a year. From the moment Nameless Nie recalled everything, he used his disguise as the black-robed person to become the Direct Line’s military counselor and helped Direct Line regain control over the Independent State. The truth of the matter was now clear at a glance. The Direct Line also participated in Ling Miao’s encirclement back then. The reason Nameless Nie was willing to help the Direct Line was so that he could trigger the war between the Direct Line and the Collateral Branch as soon as possible. Nameless Nie was well aware that once the war between the Direct Line and the Collateral Branch began, all the factions in the Independent State wouldn’t be able to stay out of it and all had to participate. As for Nameless Nie’s true objective, it was to make the Direct Line and the Collateral Branch eradicate each other and perish together, including all the factions who supported the Direct Line and the Collateral Branch. As she thought up to this point, a layer of sweat blanketed Ye Wanwan’s forehead.