Honkai: Star Rail: After I Die, I Forge Their Madness

First Life: Ruan Mei’s Student In his first life, Qi Zhimu was a student of Ruan Mei. “You’ve graduated. Leave. Until my research is complete, I won’t see you again.” “Yes… Teacher.” Qi Zhimu left alone—but he didn’t go far. He returned to the place they once knew and lived there in seclusion. From then on, he sent her plum-blossom wine once a year—never intruding, never disturbing her. Until the day he died of old age, he still did not live to see Ruan Mei emerge from her forbidden research. Much later, when she finally stepped out of the laboratory, she learned that Qi Zhimu had long since passed away. In that instant, she realized—almost as if waking from a dream— Her world had already been filled with his shadow… everywhere. When she uncovered the truth of the past, she finally understood: she herself had created it all with her own hands—only to bury everything in the end. Second Life: Jingliu’s Master In his second life, Qi Zhimu became Jingliu’s master. “Master… why have you never once been willing to look at me?” “Master… why is there no place for me in the softest part of your heart?” Day by day, she drew closer. Day by day, despair hollowed her out—until closeness turned into darkness, and longing curdled into obsession. Only when she witnessed Qi Zhimu’s death did she finally understand— The softest place in his heart had always been her. “Heh… hehehe… Master, you deceived your disciple so cruelly…” Third Life… Qi Zhimu respects the laws of reincarnation. He faces every death with calm acceptance. He lives openly. He dies unafraid. He carries no fixation, no lingering regrets—untouched by sorrow, unstained by grief. But the women left behind—burned by remorse and condemned to a lifetime of “almost”—do not see it the same way.