Capítulo 1768: Chapter 1747: You’ve Changed
Yarebin was just quietly observing Gao Yang. Gao Yang felt uneasy under his gaze. After glancing at himself, he softly asked, “Uh, why are you looking at like that? Did you find sothing?”
Yarebin slowly said, “You’ve changed.”
Gao Yang, sowhat puzzled, asked, “Changed? What’s changed? Could you not speak so, uh, profoundly?”
Yarebin maintained his enigmatic expression and said softly, “Although only one night has passed, you have indeed changed. I don’t know what has happened to you, but you have truly changed.”
Gao Yang decisively shook his head and said, “I don’t understand, I can’t comprehend it.”
Yarebin smiled and said, “Now, you have a deanor that matches your identity.”
Gao Yang looked at himself again and still shook his head, “I don’t understand.”
Yarebin stood up, walked back and forth two steps in the room with a cane, then stopped, turned around, and looked at Gao Yang, “Yesterday, when you called Arseny for the first ti, your words were not wrong, but you lacked a certain aura, an aura that cos from a strong inner self. I was observing you at the ti. Perhaps Arseny on the other end of the phone couldn’t tell, but I could see that you believed you were speaking empty words of bravado.”
After taking a few more steps, Yarebin got closer to Gao Yang and said sternly, “Today, when you called Arseny again, your deanor and aura changed. Your words weren’t boasting because you genuinely believed that Arseny’s fate was in your hands. So, when you warned Arseny today, it was a warning you genuinely believed could be enforced at any ti—it’s a warning, not intimidation. The power you hold hasn’t changed; what has changed is your inner self. Your strengthened inner self has given you the aura, or one might say, montum of an authority figure.”
Gao Yang pondered Yarebin’s words, while Yarebin continued in a deep voice, “You often say you’re a small person, but you need to understand, you truly aren’t a small person anymore. Having self-awareness is a good thing, but failing to update your self-perception is also a lack of self-awareness. The result now is good; the aura you possess matches your identity. Only now have you truly grown into soone who controls their destiny. If I were to put it simply, you have beco the one playing chess, not the pawn being manipulated by others.”
Gao Yang smiled slightly and murmured, “No matter who it is, after experiencing a battle like last night, they should let themselves improve sowhat, right?”
Yarebin replied with a stern face, “Do you think it was last night’s battle that changed you?”
Gao Yang responded seriously, “Yes, I feel that I…”
Yarebin waved his hand, his face solemn, “You’re wrong. It wasn’t last night’s battle that changed you. Battles only teach you to battle. If we talk about battle, we are the best in the world, but do you think we can master our own destiny? Clearly, we cannot.”
After saying this solemnly, Yarebin pointed at Gao Yang and said in a deep voice, “What truly changed you is yourself. When you stood up for that traitor’s child and pointed a gun at , you completed a transformation from a small person to an authority figure.”
Gao Yang also stood up, but he was still confused.
Yarebin walked a few steps, with his back to Gao Yang, and slowly said, “Authority figures have strong inner selves that aren’t altered by others. They use various ans to achieve their goals but don’t change their core values or beliefs. Understand that trading benefits or changing thods don’t equate to altering your fundantal beliefs. I’ve seen too many great figures, I understand this, and I see it very clearly.”
Turning around, Yarebin looked at Gao Yang and said, “Given your experiences, I thought you would already have succumbed to the environnt. I thought you would learn to weigh the pros and cons and make choices beneficial to you, but you didn’t. You chose to stick to your bottom line. From that mont, I knew you had a truly strong inner self and wouldn’t beco anyone’s pawn.”
Yarebin smiled as he approached Gao Yang, with a look of admiration, “The personalities of authority figures have commonalities. It may not be a virtue, but they do share many traits, and you possess this precious trait. Choosing to succumb is easy, but choosing to persist is hard. Especially under great external pressure, persisting is indeed much harder.”
Gao Yang remained silent, he was absorbing the teachings. There was no need for words at this mont.
Yarebin watched Gao Yang intently and said seriously, “When you protected that child, you weren’t just protecting that child or what you call humanity; you preserved your independent personality. Independent personality has nothing to do with good or bad; it can be good, it can be bad, but independent personality is not controlled by others, not changed by anything.”
After finishing, Yarebin patted Gao Yang’s shoulder and smiled, “Initially, I wanted to train you to be the next Satan, but I was wrong because you’re already on your own path. I can’t alter your direction, so there’s really nothing more I can teach you. My status should be higher than yours because I once held great power, but I didn’t have your persistence. Thus, I am a tool, and you are not.”
Gao Yang hurriedly said, “No, no, I think there is much I need to learn from you.”
Yarebin laughed, “Of course, you indeed must learn from —experience, knowledge, many things you have to learn. But I can no longer guide you; you are already on your own path. For a teacher, do you think it’s more rewarding to set an everlasting path for a student, or just to teach so knowledge without having an impact? Which one has more sense of achievent, which the more frustration?”
Gao Yang remained silent. Yarebin patted Gao Yang’s shoulder again and then laughed, “So your change started when you drew your gun on us yesterday, not when you started battling them. They can make you a better warrior, but they can’t give you a strong heart. Once you completed the most significant transformation in your life, you naturally beca stronger. Because of your strength, when you talked to Arseny again, you had enough confidence—that’s what I call the aura of an authority figure.”
Gao Yang exhaled, then softly asked, “Thank you for thinking so highly of . But why are you telling this?”
Yarebin laughed, “Because I am very moved. I find that you learn things quite quickly, no matter what you learn, you only need once to grasp it. But what I didn’t understand is that as a rcenary for several years, having killed many, why you still hold beliefs a rcenary shouldn’t have. But just now, I figured it out, so I shared this with you. And now, I can tell you what I’ve truly discovered.”
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