"My luck has truly turned for the worse!"
It was not a mere feeling, but a profound realization. In the past, whenever he fell into despair, he could always turn danger into safety and hold on to a shred of hope. But this time, after being tortured for a full year, all he wanted was an end—he wanted everything to come to a permanent halt.
Every few days, the tree spirit would wake up. Regardless of Zhou Chuan's condition or expression, it would subject him to a brutal beating first. It wasn't as if Zhou Chuan hadn't resisted with stubborn defiance; refusing to yield even in death, he had pointed right at the tree spirit and cursed it out. But it had done absolutely no good. The more dramatic his reactions, the happier the tree spirit became, laughing with ever greater abandon.
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