Absolute Choice 10

by Pear Lands In The Autumn Spring

  That's not true.

  It shouldn't be like that.

  She shouted in her heart.

  "But I still chose to like him."

  Suddenly, Mu Yuesheng gently smiled. She stretched out her hand to hold Mu Lengxi's tightly clenched fist. She whispered, "Even if there's no outcome, and even if you will never be together, so what if you have to lie to him forever, preventing from ever knowing? Can all of this be more painful that forcing yourself to give up on that liking of yours? True regret is not that you cannot be together with him when you like him. It is when you like him so much but have to resolutely choose to give him up when the time comes."

  After having heard what Mu Yuesheng wanted to convey, Mu Lengxi's tightly clenched right fist gradually loosened.

  "So, avoiding Shi Xiaobai does not mean giving up on your liking of him. That's because liking a person…doesn't necessarily mean you must be together."

  So, she had said so much just to tell her that.

  She was truly a fool.

  Mu Lengxi nodded her head vigorously!

  Even if they were destined to never be together, there was no need to give up on her liking.

  Yes, that's it!

  The tears finally came to a stop.

  Mu Yuesheng gave a gentle smile as she raised her hand to caress Mu Lengxi's head.

  Since Speechless isn't around anymore, let me take care of his younger sister.

  Come to think of it, I'm her elder cousin.

  At that moment, Mu Lengxi suddenly turned around to pick up a writing board beside her. She picked up a pen and quickly scribbled on it.

  Moments later, Mu Lengxi turned the writing board over.

  Mu Yuesheng's expression changed drastically when she caught a glance of it.

  The writing board read, "That's not the case. Even if you are cousins, you can still be together. Brother doesn't care about things like blood-relations!"

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  Chapter465 Warming each other

  "That's not the case. Even if you are cousins, you can still be together. Brother doesn't care about things like blood relations!"

  Mu Lengxi had written that line on the board.

  Mu Yuesheng's expression changed drastically when she saw that. A drop of sweat oozed out of her forehead.

  Brother doesn't care about things like blood relations?

  Wait a moment, what was the meaning behind those words?

  Why did Mu Lengxi believe that Speechless thought nothing about blood relations? Could it be that Speechless had done something to her that ignored their blood relations? Or else, why would she say such words?

  "Why do you say so? Could it be...Could it be that Speechless did something to you?"

  Mu Yuesheng immediately turned flustered.

  Mu Lengxi immediately shook her head and turned the writing board to face her and began scribbling once again.

  Mu Yuesheng felt like a cat on hot bricks. She felt as if the strokes on the writing board were scratching at her heart.

  What was going on?

  To say that he did not care about blood relations was terrifying upon careful thought.

  Not long later, the writing board turned around once again.

  Mu Yuesheng hurriedly focused and it read, "Brother did not do anything to me. It's just that Brother has always liked Little Aunt! He kept insisting that he will marry Little Aunt in the future and that he doesn't care about blood relations!"

  Mu Yuesheng was surprised. Speechless liked his Little Aunt? That meant...he liked his mother's younger sister?

  Eh!?

  Wait!

  If she did not remember wrong...

  "If I recall correctly, Speechless and your little aunt is that person right? The Mu family's strongest person, one of the top ten S-class heroes in China. Mu Xiyan that has the title of 'Queen'." Mu Yuesheng swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

  "That's right! Little Aunt is very strong and she's very pretty. Brother often says that Little Aunt is the number one beauty in China. He would not marry anyone else but her," wrote Mu Lengxi.

  "Wait...if I remember correctly, Mu Xiyan is now twenty-eight years old, right? Their age gap is more than ten years. Eh, could it be just a joke? Right, it must be only a joke right? Things like marrying my father when I grow up. A joke like that?" said Mu Yuesheng.

  Mu Lengxi shook her head and suddenly turned solemn. She wrote, "It's not a joke. Brother was serious. For Little Aunt, Brother had rejected the confessions of many girls. Brother really likes Little Aunt although it has always been one-sided. However, Brother made a confession last year!"

  As the writing board could not contain all her words, Mu Lengxi's stunning words stopped at a cliffhanger.

  "Confession? That can't be...Was...was it successful?"

  Mu Yuesheng nervously held her breath.

  This time, Mu Lengxi did not nod or shake her head in reply. Instead, she took her sweet time writing on the board. It was as if she wanted a particular girl to die of anxiousness.

  After a few moments, she stopped writing and raised her board. "Of course he failed! Erh, back then, I had actually peeped in hiding. After Brother confessed, Little Aunt was very angry. She gave him a thorough beating, sending him into the hospital for half a month! Erh, I was rather far away back then. Little Aunt had lowered her voice and said something I couldn't hear. But it was definitely a rejection. Brother suffered quite a setback and remained gloomy for months."

  "A thorough beating... It does sound like what the rumored 'Queen' would do."

  Mu Yuesheng wiped the sweat from her forehead while she remained unsure of what to make out of it.

  However, Mu Lengxi immediately wrote, "So, Brother doesn't care about blood relations. Things like cousins not being able to be together, no way!"

  In order to comfort her elder cousin, she had dug out her brother's hidden past. Such a sister was sick!

  "Speechless has never changed after all. He always does something that I want to do but never dare to. Even things like a confession...If..."

  If she knew earlier, would she have mustered the courage to confess?

  But, such an if was just an if.

  With the present situation, nothing could be changed no matter how much regret there was. She no longer had the chance to tell the boy of the truth in her heart.

  Mu Yuesheng suddenly felt very upset. In the end, all she could do was chase after his back, but she did not have the courage to do whatever she wanted like him.

  Mu Yuesheng fell into silence once again. The gloomy penthouse that managed to finally have a bit of liveliness was once again shrouded by a dead silence.

  Blood relations might be traversable, but what about the distance between life and death?

  Speechless was dead.

  That was the truth.

  Such a truth was really cruel...

  Mu Yuesheng felt her eyes felt a tinge once again as her vision gradually blurred. It appeared as if those irritating tears were about to well again.

  Suddenly, she felt her right palm warming up with a soft touch.

  Mu Yuesheng looked down and saw Mu Lengxi's right hand grabbing her hand.

  Looking up, she saw Mu Lengxi's pretty and pallid face with smeared marks from her tears. But now, she was beaming with a gentle smile.

  That smile seemed to say—Don't cry Sister. I'm here.

  Ah...

  Despite her being a younger sister and how I should be the one comforting you, why did it turn out to be you comforting me?

  Ah, how odd.

  How odd.

  But!

  But!

  But, it's so warm...

  Mu Yuesheng wiped the corners of her eyes and stretched out her hand to hold onto her sister's other hand.

  "Erh...shall we have a chat?"

  Thank you.

  In that cold room, there is still you for us to mutually exchange warmth.

  It
's nice.

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  ...

  Outside the Infernal King's bedroom, Pulp Farmer and Feng Yuanlin were standing on each side of the door. They were leaning against the wall with their eyes closed to rest their minds. However, none of them were completely relaxed. Instead, their ears were pricked up in alertness.

  Shi Xiaobai was still unconscious and he was sleeping inside the bedroom.

  And at that moment, there were two women responsible for taking care of the unconscious Shi Xiaobai.

  The two of them were terrifying women from a particular point of view. They were Sunless Ye and the Infernal Queen.

  These two women shared a room and simultaneously bore the burden to tend to Shi Xiaobai, such as wiping and cleaning his body, It was unknown if such welfare, erh, that's wrong. It was unknown if such a mission would result in them coming to blows. It was a matter that was truly difficult to predict.

  Hence, in order to stop them in a timely fashion when they came to blows, Feng Yuanlin and Pulp Farmer took up the important role as guards for the past three days.

  The duo were actually beginning to doze off because the two women in the room were surprisingly cordial. They did not come to blows in the three days, and it was unknown what was happening inside the room. Therefore, it was impossible to imagine how they got along with each other and who gained victory at splitting...the roles of taking care of Shi Xiaobai's body.

  Well...it was truly a curious matter.

  At that moment, an exclamation was suddenly heard inside the room.

  "Darling!"

  It was the Infernal Queen's voice.

  "You've finally awakened!"

  That was the Infernal Queen's delighted voice.

  Pulp Farmer and Feng Yuanlin immediately widened their eyes as they looked each other in the eye with a tacit understanding.

  "Boss Shi Xiaobai has woken up?"

  "Shi Xiaobai has finally woken up!"

  After three days, everything had undergone tumultuous changes.

  Shi Xiaobai had finally awoken!

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  Chapter466 Do you dare believe?

  More than half a month had passed since a thousand rookies from the organization faction had entered the Nine Revolutions Transcendental Tower for the training selection. During this period, there were rookies that were sporadically eliminated. However, the results of the batch were rather striking. The number of trial-takers that reached the sixth level had far surpassed prior trials.

  And the number of trial-takers that had entered the seventh level was surprisingly eight, strangely one more than usual.

  The eight rookies had spent more than ten days in the seventh level. Matters regarding rookies did not have much of an astounding factor to China that had many 'major situations' happening every day. The topic of conversation during this period was naturally lackluster, but it surprisingly welcomed a peak three days ago.

  Shi Xiaobai had killed another three Level Lords!

  With that, the eight remaining Level Lords in the Nine Revolutions Transcendental Tower had all been 'cleaned up' by Shi Xiaobai alone!

  This matter that came with inklings of 'fantasy' caused a topic that stirred the masses. Citizens began to discuss the matter fervently as it turned more intense over the past three days.

  And another matter that was related to the organization selection was pushed to the forefront at that moment.

  …

  In Shanghai City, a landmark building stood in a business district that resembled a concrete jungle. It reached far into the clouds. And at the top of the skyscraper, there was a large white U-shaped table inside a spacious meeting room. Senators of all shapes and sizes sat by the table as they conversed in whispers, as though they were discussing something.

  It was noon and hot air swirled above the city. The interior of the room was extremely hot and stuffy, but the mood of the crowd's discussion did not seem affected in any way.

  A large door in the meeting room was slowly pushed open without warning as a short white-browed elder with a benign and kind countenance entered. He walked to the podium slowly and following closely behind him was a tall and lanky beauty in a uniform.

  The uniformed beauty wiped her black-rimmed glasses out of habit. The unbridled discussion from the crowd sitting beneath her made her somewhat annoyed, but she quickly calmed down as she said with a serious tone, "Everyone, please quiet down."

  The uniformed beauty's voice wasn't loud, causing it to be instantly drowned by the unbridled discussion. It was as if the crowd had not discovered their existence as they continued their conversations.

  Were they trying to put them down a notch?

  The uniformed beauty sneered as she turned to look at the white-browed elder. In response, he slowly shook his head as he continued maintaining an amiable smile.

  The uniformed girl nodded and remained silent.

  The two stood quietly in front of the meeting room's podium as they silently watched the conversing senators like two silent statues.

  These senators were representing China's various organizations in the meeting. There was no lack of members of the upper echelons of top tier organizations. In the beginning, they would maintain their politeness and respect for the white-browed elder, who was the organization senate's chairman. But after several meetings without an amicable outcome, they had finally ripped off the masks that hid their false pretense.

  Taking the other party down a notch before a negotiation was a common tactic used by the upper echelons of organizations who were accustomed to using their power to suppress others.

  The uniformed beauty sneered inwardly as she glanced helplessly at the white-browed elder. She was certain of one thing—if the benevolent-looking elder were truly enraged, a tiny application of a punishment or even maiming the so-called organizational upper echelons would leave the true leaders of top tier organizations so silent that they would not even dare produce a fart.

  The elder was good in every aspect, except for his maintaining of an extremely low profile. He was very accommodating.

  The uniformed beauty lowered her head slightly as she ignored the matter. Compared to wondering when the retarded senators would quiet down, she was more concerned with the plot of a television serial that she was following.

  From the preview, it was likely a Shura battlefield between the main lead and the second and third male leads?

  The uniformed beauty began fantasizing the plot and was soon immersed in her reverie.

  The senators that were conversing on the surface had, in fact, had their eyes trained on the podium. The corners of their mouths twitched silently as they felt that their act of defiance had figuratively hit cotton. Despite having the strength of will, they lacked the power. Soon, they found it pointless as they gradually quietened down.

  Regardless of the matter, the smile on the white-browed elder deepened with his goal achieved. He remained silent as he turned his head slightly and gave the uniformed beauty a nod.

  The uniformed beauty had just fantasized the male lead kissing the second male lead. The latter had struggled initially before relenting. Finally, at the moment of subservience, he suddenly pushed the male lead and cursed out angrily, "What joke is this!? Why are you so proficient!? How many times have you kissed the third male lead?" Such an interesting scene had been suddenly interrupted. She silently cursed the organizations' upper echelons at their inability to continue their act of 'putting them down a notch or two'. They were indeed a bunch of lame fools.

  However, work was work. She had to do it even if she was unhappy. With a sigh, she looked expressionlessly at the backbone of the hero organizations below her.

  Seeing everyone cast their gazes at her, she deliberately cleared her throat a few times before saying, "I believe everyone already knows that the academic faction will finish their selection today. The name list for the collective training was also submitted
long ago when it was the match of the final eight. However, our organization faction has been dragging it again and again. We have delayed determining the final two candidates for the collective training. The association has been urging us and it has even given us a final deadline. Therefore, today's meeting will be the final round of discussions before we make a decision."

  After the uniformed beauty said those words, she swiftly walked to a wall beside the meeting room in her clacking high-heel shoes. She reached out her hand and pressed a button situated at a corner of a wall. A gigantic screen immediately rolled down and filled an entire wall. As a projector flashed to life, a series of text and figures appeared on the screen.

  The uniformed beauty pointed at the wall and said, "Everyone, please take a look. These are the figures indicated on the stone monument. It was completely determined by the assessment program, as well as the final score and rankings of the trial-takers for this batch."

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  The figures displayed on the stone monument was not complicated. Written in rows, each row only had a name and a number.

  The name represented the trial-takers, and the number was the score that the trial-takers had obtained during the trial. The score was determined by the assessment program and it was done with a specialized algorithm to create a summarized score. Therefore, the trial score was absolutely fair and authoritative. No one could doubt the values.

  And ranked from top to bottom was the ranking of the people with the highest trial score.

  The first place was undoubtedly Shi Xiaobai. With a high score of 95,601, he stood atop the rankings. As for second place, Speechless had only managed to barely break a score of ten thousand. The score Shi Xiaobai had earned was extremely exaggerated. It had already broken the highest score in human history and it had even exceeded the previous record by more than two times.