Chapter 287 - 286: He Is Dead
He named it the Emotional Routing technique.
The name alone gave away its purpose —it was a technique that manipulated emotions at their roots.
More specifically, it didn’t create feelings out of nothing. Instead, it magnified the emotions a person already held and rerouted them, redirecting deep affection from one person to another, as long as both targets already existed in the subject’s heart.
For example, if a woman loved a man but also held affection for her child, this technique could sever her bond with the man and amplify her love for the child until it became all-consuming.
The process had to be delicate and subtle.
If done right, the target would mistake the shift for a natural change of heart. But if applied too forcefully, it could fracture the mind or destroy it completely.
Yun Wuji was willing to take that risk.
He intended to turn Yue Wugou’s love for Yue Wuya and Xia Hongyi, two men she loved, into something greater, and redirect it entirely toward her daughter, Xia Qingyue.
He had already decided to kill Yue Wuya. But unlike the original story, where Yue Wugou killed herself after Wuya’s death, Yun Wuji was determined to change that outcome.
If her feelings for him faded, and her love for her daughter surged beyond reason, then she wouldn’t dare abandon her. She wouldn’t be able to bring herself to die.
With the love meant for two men pouring into one bond, she would become a mother in the truest, most obsessive sense, a woman who cherished her daughter beyond everything.