Shen Qingqiu makes a face. "That's disgusting." It reminds him a little of the Skinner Demon, but in reverse - stealing the bodies of people and mutating them into you, rather than mutating yourself into them.

He shifts uncomfortably. For some reason it suddenly feels very wrong that he isn't wearing a guan and he doesn't have his fan. "I didn't kill him," he says. "The original scum villain. I—I don't think I did, anyway."¹ He certainly called for his death many times, online, along with his castration, but—that doesn't mean he'd killed him. The system had just—yoinked Shen Jiu out and yeeted Shen Yuan in. It wasn't intentional.

^{1 Nightingale has very much not implied that he has.}