I Am Nobody Episode 25 Recap
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Addressing the members of the Sinister Pleasure, Lyu Liang assumed a new identity, declaring his intention to reform and revitalize the organization to its true form. He stated this was a day he had long awaited. Ten years prior, a young Lyu Liang and Huan were close friends. Their playful time together ended abruptly as they raced home to meet their great-grandpa's eight o'clock deadline.
During their journey, Huan revealed she had used a specific technique to delete their shared memory of playing together. This act exposed to Lyu Liang a hidden secret of the Lyu family in the Outsiders' world: their Ming Hun Shu ability, which could, unexpectedly, not only extract but also "delete" existing memories – a capability Lyu Liang believed even his brother, Lyu Gong, didn't possess. Huan claimed she learned this technique from an old lady.
Upon returning home, Lyu Liang feigned ignorance about his afternoon activities. Lyu Gong attempted to extract Lyu Liang's memories to verify his story but found the afternoon's memories blank. Their great-grandpa, Lyu Ci, criticized Lyu Gong's clumsy use of Ming Hun Shu, blaming him for the missing memory, and warmly welcomed Huan. After Huan restored Lyu Liang's memory, the two children went to eat together.
At the dinner table, Lyu Liang, curious about the old lady Huan mentioned, pressed her for details. Huan refused to disclose anything further, making Lyu Liang pinky swear to keep her secret forever. Lyu Liang mused on the nature of memory and identity, presenting his "Cola Sprite Theory" to Huan. Shortly after, Huan secretly entered the Lyu family's wine cellar, where she found the old lady locked away.
The old lady, knowing Huan was connected to the Lyu family, warned her to leave, expressing intense hatred for their family. Before Huan could escape, Great-grandpa Lyu Ci entered the cellar carrying a newborn baby, the fifth generation of the Lyu family. He spoke to the old lady, revealing she was the source of the Double Quan Palm.
He explained he had kept her alive for nearly sixty years, having realized the Double Quan Palm was not a teachable manual but something inherent in her blood. Since the third generation, he had been working to incorporate her bloodline into the Lyu descendants, later renaming their derived technique Ming Hun Shu. He stated blood from the old lady was needed for the baby and he would return for more when the child was a month old.
Hidden, Huan overheard Lyu Ci's chilling confession about the family's pursuit of Double Quan Palm through her blood. After Lyu Ci left, Huan emerged and asked the old lady if she, too, had undergone a blood swap procedure when she was young, and if the old lady's blood flowed in her veins. The old lady then asked Huan to repeat the Cola Sprite theory she had mentioned earlier. When Huan left the cellar, her demeanor had significantly changed.
Meanwhile, outside the ancestral hall, other Lyu family members gathered, eagerly awaiting Great-grandpa Lyu Ci to name the new baby. The child was named Lyu Ying. As the family banquet began, Huan quietly left. Lyu Liang later admitted he didn't notice her strange behavior that day. What followed next dramatically altered his life forever. Later, it was revealed that Lyu Liang had pushed Huan off a cliff, and her body could not be found.
The family, considering Huan and Lyu Liang among their most talented Ming Hun Shu practitioners, suspected Lyu Liang acted out of jealousy. Lyu Gong brought Lyu Liang to the ancestral hall, and Lyu Ci promised the family he would handle the matter. Lyu Gong tried to interrogate Lyu Liang, but found his memory qi orb for that time blank, just like the previous instance. Lyu Ci questioned Lyu Liang directly about pushing Huan.
Lyu Liang insisted he had no memory of it and asked if Huan was truly dead, expressing disbelief that he could have harmed someone he was so close to. Despite his pleas and requests for Third Uncle and Seventh Aunt, who were present, to speak for him, they presented their memory qi orbs, which depicted Lyu Liang pushing Huan off the cliff. Lyu Liang was stunned, unable to reconcile the image with his feelings for Huan.
While some family members called for punishment according to family rules, Lyu Ci deemed Lyu Liang's blood too precious to waste and ordered him confined to the cellar. The plot summary indicates Lyu Liang pushed Huan without being aware of it. Lyu Liang spent a long, agonizing time locked in the Lyu family's cellar, enduring psychological torment from relatives like Lyu Gong, who mocked his refusal to admit guilt.
During this isolation, Lyu Liang became determined to find Huan and uncover the truth behind the events, convinced the old lady Huan mentioned held the key to what truly happened. He waited for an opportunity to escape. Eventually, Lyu Liang managed to obtain a key and flee the Lyu family mansion. To continue his investigation, specifically into Huan's fate and the underlying truth, and seeking protection, he joined the Sinister Pleasure, publicly announcing his membership.
He viewed the organization, including its interim leader and their plans, as merely tools to achieve his personal goals. Through subsequent investigations, including accessing the memories of Zhang Huaiyi and Tian Jinzhong, Lyu Liang confirmed his theory that the Lyu family's Ming Hun Shu was intricately linked to the Jiashen Calamity. However, the dispersion of the Sinister Pleasure left him without support, forcing him into hiding.
Ultimately, he realized he had no choice but to return to the Lyu family to find the answers he sought. He reappeared at the Lyu family mansion, no longer the broken boy they had imprisoned. To their shock, Lyu Liang, whose limbs had been cut off by Lyu Ci, had regenerated. He revealed he had acquired the true Double Quan Palm, which he demonstrated could not only control memory but also regenerate the physical body.
He mocked Lyu Ci, calling him a foolish and vile old man and quoting the saying, "Living on to old age, that is to be a pest." He told Lyu Ci that the act of cutting off his limbs had inadvertently given him the opportunity to master the Double Quan Palm.
He confirmed that the old lady Huan spoke of was indeed Duanmu Ying, the true source of Double Quan Palm, whose ability Lyu Ci had only superficially understood despite decades of effort. Gathering the family in the ancestral hall, Lyu Liang confronted them. He reminded them that eight years prior, they had all blamed him for Huan's death, despite knowing how much he loved her, and not a single person had defended him or questioned the accusations.
He accused them of hypocrisy, using Ming Hun Shu to torture him and force a false confession in the name of justice for Huan, while in reality, they cared little for lives. He declared Huan was the only person he truly cherished, yet they had falsely accused him of killing her. He finally understood their actions: the Lyu family had no room for genuine happiness.
They had always claimed their blood was precious, but the true value, he realized, stemmed from Lyu Ci's scheme to incorporate Duanmu Ying's bloodline. Knowing this, they had aided Lyu Ci's wickedness. He proclaimed that since they embraced evil and disregarded the lives of their kin, he would make them experience the agony of losing their most cherished loved ones and beautiful memories.
Using his perfected Double Quan Palm, he condemned his family, the accomplices in Lyu Ci's scheme, to live out their lives trapped between the beauty of their memories and the emptiness of reality. With the family defeated and imprisoned within their own minds, Lyu Liang stood before the Sinister Pleasure members and declared, "From today on, call me Sect Leader of the Sinister Pleasure."
