"My heart was literally stolen, and yet I was able to stand up again, isn't that a bit too much?" Shiyu Ling crossed her arms, looking at him as casually as if they were chatting idly, "Is your real superpower immortality?"
"Perhaps I am creating robots, and the current me is a puppet remotely controlled by the original body, how about that idea?"
She rolled her eyes.
"Puppets don't have hearts that possess power."
The moment his heart had been dug out, such a lie would be immediately seen through.
He needed something more feasible, something more convincing.
"You are right, I'll tell you the real reason then," Gongsun Ce pushed up his glasses, "The answer is love. It's with the love I have for Miss Shiyu that I was able to return from the abyss of death!"
"——What, what, what?!"
Clearly, the black-haired woman hadn't expected such a reply; her face turned red as she let out a sound of disbelief.