When exactly did things turn out like this?
To be honest, Su Mian himself could not remember clearly.
In this life, he seemed very different from others right from birth because he was born with another set of memories.
Those were completely strange memories belonging to a young man from another world, also named Su Mian.
That young man died of a serious illness, and his memories appeared out of thin air in this world’s Su Mian.
Many times, he could not tell if he was that person’s reincarnation or if he simply inherited their memories.
But it did not matter; the extra memories and knowledge only made the young Su Mian more mature and intelligent than others, and the benefits clearly outweighed the downsides.
The real trouble was that this body also seemed very different from others.
Su Mian noticed this when he was very young; he would always see another person in the mirror.
This happened rarely during his childhood, and when he told his parents, they just thought he had watched too many horror movies.
Later, as he grew up, the person in the mirror appeared more frequently.
Initially, Su Mian tried to show others, but no one else could see it.
Instead, it led people to think he had a strange illness, and they started to distance themselves from him.
His parents took him to the hospital, but the result was predictable: he was diagnosed with delusions.
They used a lot of medicine, but he did not show any improvement after taking it.
After that, Su Mian never mentioned it to outsiders again.
However, the figure in the mirror did not disappear because of this; instead, it became clearer and more vivid.
Eventually, it could even communicate with Su Mian and displayed a completely different personality.
Through conversations with her, Su Mian learned she was not a ghost or a hallucination, but his other self—his demonic self.
At first, he naturally thought this statement was complete bullsh*t.
Him? A demon?
What kind of international joke was that!
He had been a pure human since childhood, winning Triple-A student awards every year in elementary school, and was currently excellent in both character and studies; how did he look like a demon?
So, he did not believe the words of his mirror self at first.
But she also told him that as he grew up, the part of his body representing the demon would gradually awaken and overpower the human part.
When that time came, he would know whether it was true or false.
As it turned out, she had not lied to him.
As he got older, Su Mian found his body becoming more and more abnormal.
His strength became far greater than a normal person’s, and his speed and explosive power were also exaggerated.
He could easily see his surroundings in the dark and was sensitive to smells, able to catch scents from far away.
Most importantly, at some point, he became able to see a constantly emanating aura on other people.
It was hard to describe what exactly that was.
According to the girl in the mirror, it represented the concentration of a person’s desire.
Part of the demon bloodline in his body came from a succubus.
Succubi feed on desire and are rulers of desire, which is why he could see the concentration of desire in others.
Observing the concentration of desire also made it easier to choose a target.
What target?
A target for feeding, of course.
Desire is the sustenance for a succubus; although they will not die without eating, not eating for a long time leads to both physical and mental weakness.
However, Su Mian still could not accept such things.
Especially the claim that he was a succubus!
This was simply a challenge to his worldview.
In his impression, succubus was not a good term.
In the many works he had seen in his previous life, these things were often portrayed as cannon fodder or tools for pleasure.
It was fine to watch such things in certain adult videos or comics, but to be one himself?
Forget about it.
Su Mian did not have any strange hobbies!
Therefore, he had always been very resistant to the part of himself that was a demon.
Facing the continuously awakening instincts, he was also mentally repulsed, which caused him great pain recently.
After his eighteenth birthday in this life, the speed of his awakening greatly accelerated.
Now, only a year later, the demon’s instincts had completely overwhelmed the human part, causing Su Mian’s body and mind to suffer serious consequences.
At this time, his other self told him more bad news: he had to consume active and powerful blood or meat as soon as possible.
Otherwise, his body would likely be unable to maintain a certain balance and would collapse.
This was because what flowed in his body was not just the power of a succubus, but also parts of other demons.
As for what those other demons were?
The girl in the mirror did not say much about it; she might not know, or more likely, she did not want to say.
Regardless, her words were definitely not alarmist.
Lately, Su Mian had been unable to swallow food.
The food he used to eat tasted like sand in his mouth recently; he could not taste anything and could not even swallow it!
He began to resist normal food and became fascinated by the scent of blood and desire.
Su Mian held out for a long time.
Later, he thought about using some animal blood he could buy as a substitute.
However, to him, the smell of that stuff was even more disgusting than the filth in a latrine.
Let alone drinking it, he almost threw up just by getting close to it.
Then he thought maybe he could get some from a hospital, but after thinking for a long time, he could not come up with a good plan.
After all, he could not exactly go and steal it, right?
He had been a good kid since childhood and had never even committed petty theft, let alone something like this.
Moreover, his other self reminded him that it had to be blood full of activity and power to quench his thirst.
Although the blood in hospital blood banks was still active, it certainly did not possess power.
As for what kind of power was needed?
Sorry, even the girl in the mirror was not sure.
So in the end, she suggested that if he really had no other choice, he could go out to the streets and look; maybe he would encounter it?
Su Mian did not want to go at first, but finally, he was so hungry he could not take it.
In a daze, he eventually ran out to the street.
Then he discovered that his craving for flesh and blood seemed to have upgraded.
In his eyes, the people on the street had practically turned into walking skewers of meat.
The intense hunger urged him, making him want to immediately tear off his disguise and devour all these people!
But in the end, his human side triumphed over the demonic desire.
That was why Su Mian had fled in a panic and lost consciousness in the alley.
This led to the questions and answers after waking up this morning, fearing his other self had done something bad with his body.
Because such things had actually happened before.
Whenever Su Mian voluntarily fell asleep or fell into a deep coma, the other me would replace him and take control of this body.
Once, after she woke up, she turned more than ten people into idiots who only knew how to praise her beauty.
She also drained the desires of several people completely, turning them into vegetative states with no desires or needs.
Although those people were not exactly good people, it still terrified him at the time.
Precisely because he knew how terrifying his other self was, Su Mian had worried she would run out to cause trouble again and chose to make an agreement with her.
It seemed to be effective so far.
At least that unknown young couple, whose faces he did not even know, would be able to recover.
“Sigh.”
Thinking of this, Su Mian could not help but let out a deep sigh, feeling incredibly exhausted.
‘Setting aside how to deal with the other me for now, where on earth am I going to find blood or meat full of activity and power?’
‘Hmm, speaking of which, that man I met yesterday smelled much better than anyone else. I wonder if he would be suitable…’
Of course, even if he were suitable, he could not find the man now.
Even if he found him, he would not know what to say.
It was not as if he could say—”Excuse me, could you let me take a bite to see how you taste?”
In that case, there was a high probability he would be treated as a lunatic, a small probability he would be seen as a mental patient, and a 100% probability he would be beaten up!
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