Chapter 12

Translated by boilpoil Edited by boilpoil

Bai Lianhua does not stay in the system space for long, entering the next world after just a short rest.

He still feels a bit psychologically uncomfortable… The area for rest is too empty with just endless fog. In an environment like that, people start to feel nostalgic or depressed more easily. He wanted to give himself something to do, so then maybe after becoming busy, he’ll stop recalling every so often the last glance he took at Wen Fu in the last world.

Bai Lianhua is certainly correct in making that choice, because he no longer had time to think about anything else, instead, there’s just grudges against the system playing in an endless loop inside his mind.

The damned system set him up again!

He appeared very peculiarly in this world. After wave after wave of psychic powers ebbs and flows through the air without apparent cause, his body gradually materialised, instead of fully materialising in an instant like last time… What’s worse, he didn’t appear in some sparsely populated rural area, but instead on a crowded street.

Bai Lianhua “…???”

He thought he and the system would have had some kind of tacit understanding after having successfully cooperated so many times… Why didn’t it choose a safe and unmonitored location? Why make his appearance so eye-catching?

His wild and dramatic way of appearing out of thin air has unavoidably led to him being surrounded by a bunch of shocked people after finishing his materialisation, as if saying ‘Jesus Christ what on Earth was going on with that person.’

Bai Lianhua “… Not me, I didn’t!”

Right now, he is hoping he was a mimosa, and in this awkward moment, he would still be able to naturally curl up into a pile.

Since a commotion erupted, and he didn’t manage to produce any form of identification, Bai Lianhua had to lose his personal freedom for a moment——Right, he was taken away while the people looked at him like a member of a protected species.

Bai Lianhua can almost picture his fate afterwards… He’ll be taken away to be researched, to be manipulated at will on an operation table, how sad it would look like! Perhaps he would just mentally collapse after he is unable to withstand the pressure. Given he’s just existing as a mental projection, if he mentally collapsed, would he, the person, just stop existing?

All the shocking segments Bai Lianhua has viewed before is flashing nonstop before his eyes.

Bai Lianhua really feels he’ll be going mad, and he interrogates the system, “what in the name of all that is holy are you doing? Murdering your host? What would you even gain from this?”

The system looks a bit reluctant to speak, “but… host, you chose this yourself.”

Bai Lianhua appears stupefied, “I chose this myself? Why would I drop a bomb on myself? Are you kidding me? I wouldn’t have ordered something like this even if I were dreaming!”

The system reminds him quietly, “host, do you remember that world where you completed your white lotus mission with over 100% completion rate? Because of the rules, there would be a bonus for you when you overachieve a mission, so I asked if you wanted to take a random surprise prize, you said yes, so I asked what criteria of prizes you wanted. You said you’ve always been saving the world as the unsung hero, so if possible you also wanted to shock the world once…”

“So, this is the surprise prize that was picked following your requirement of shocking the world.”

Bai Lianhua is speechless. What kind of fresh new way of setting someone up was that?

He does recall such a thing happening before. He already asked out of curiosity what the result of the prize draw was, but the system vagued its way out and told him he’ll know when the time comes.

Alright. He finally knows now that the time the system said meant when he returned to this world, and it’s this ridiculous kind of surprise. Now that he thinks about it, the system had a weird expression on already at that time, that was definitely spelling out ‘guilt’!

Bai Lianhua is furious, “you’ve said it’s a surprise, so this prize lot of yours only contains these that only do the job of overly taking over my emotions ?”

The system counters weakly, “it’s not my decision though. This is generated using the system’s own rules, so I can’t control it… And I did give you a friendly reminder that drawing prizes is a very much luck-based thing, and it might end up not being what the host wanted.”

Bai Lianhua opens his mouth but stops himself from speaking. It happened when he was not yet deeply aware of the system’s nature of loving twists. Because all his missions up to then have all been easy-peesy, he might have been spoilt by all the antagonists and actually had an awkward confidence that made him feel as if he’d be enjoying endless good fortune even when drawing prizes, and his wishes would come true.

——He didn’t even think about how if he were so lucky, then he wouldn’t get picked by this damned system in the first place. Nope, luck doesn’t exist on him.

Bai Lianhua looks at the system in exasperation, “then… There’s only this world right? I asked for that prize like a dummy, and I didn’t act as dumb in the other worlds right?” He’s really afraid he might have fallen into another trap who knows when.

The system shakes its head decisively, “right, no. As far as I recall, this is the only time.”

Bai Lianhua sighs in relief. Good, good. Just falling for it this once, and there won’t be twice or thrice.

… Shit!

Such a mortifying thing couldn’t even have a twice or a thrice, could it? He’d die of a heart attack before seeing the light of day.

The only good thing out of this is that thanks to the keywords ‘overachieving mission’ and ‘bonus random surprise,’ Bai Lianhua also knows which world with which antagonist he is in.

——Looking at the surrounding onlookers and the style of buildings earlier, plus the small mechanical robots patrolling nearby, he’d knew he was in a future world. Though, as a white lotus who’s had quite the experience living his life, he’s been through a lot of worlds, several of which are in a futuristic setting.

But right now, he’s finally sure his target this time is Jian Yiguang… Huh, speaking of who, he’s actually kind of relevant to that horrifying treatment he imagined he’d receive earlier.

Given he can’t do anything right now, Bai Lianhua starts to recall the situation in this world from his memories.

The antagonist Jian Yiguang is someone with exceptional natural psychic strength. This would have been a good thing, but too much of a good thing can be a bad thing as well. When his psychic strength is so high that it can only be looked up to, but he’s also unable to defend himself, it has led to his lifelong tragedy.

When he was young, Jian Yiguang was in a happy family. While neither of his parents was famous or rich, they loved each other very much, and they especially loved their only son Jian Yiguang too.

Yet an accident occurred, and both his parents passed away. Jian Yiguang was young and incapable of living independently. His custody thus landed in his uncle’s hands.

While his uncle is the brother of Jian Yiguang’s father, but the two are only friendly on the surface. The root of which is that the uncle, the father’s older brother, was someone who has been tested to be of no psychic power in his coming of age ceremony, yet the younger brother, the father of Jian Yiguang, had C-grade psychic power in his own coming of age ceremony.

The psychic strength might not be great, but it was strong enough to rip a deep, uncrossable fissure between the brothers.

Especially when Jian Yiguang’s father managed to find a job that paid well with his psychic strength and knowledge, while the uncle, due to his lack of abilities, had had mundane days instead.

Afterwards, the uncle only married through a relationship barely set up in a blind date. Not soon afterwards, the father met Jian Yiguang’s mother in a gathering and quickly fell in love. The two people walked the aisle after they have built up an enviable romantic relationship.

Jian Yiguang’s mother, who is kind and generous with a C-grade psychic strength as well is way better than his aunt, that is the wife of Jian Yiguang’s uncle. When Jian Yiguang was born, he was already confirmed to be psychic, just that his grade is unknown yet because he is too small. What is sure is that it seems he’ll end up psychically more power than his parents, not just B-grade either, perhaps even reaching A-grade.

Thus this uncle completely descended into jealousy. They had the same father and mother, so why did he and his younger brother differ so much in talent? Even his son, who he had placed great hopes in, was another normal person without psychic powers. His son and Jian Yiguang are like a continuation of his and his younger brother’s story.

When he is thinking like that, after Jian Yiguang’s parents’ accident, the uncle certainly did not want to take care of this little nephew.

Not only that, when he discovered that Jian Yiguang perhaps actually possessed an outrageously strong psychic power, he acted like he had managed to maximise his potential and contacted researchers saying “this is a child that you will definitely be interested in,” and sends Jian Yiguang into a research institute with his own hands.

He understands very clearly what kind of hell he has pushed the kid into, and is even feeling happy about it.

——Didn’t the kid’s father manage to have a better life than him with his C-grade psychic strength? Then he’ll have his kid be tortured for this damned psychic strength.

As the closest living relative as well, he can even manage to secure a great pile of material compensation for this. Talk about killing two birds with one stone.

Author’s notes: Bai Lianhua looks exhausted: Is there anyone who hasn’t made a silly decision? Even the gentle, beautiful white lotus would have had an eighth grade syndrome period… It’s just unexpected how great the prize was when he tried to have some fun. He’s scared, scared now_(:з」∠)_

PS: Don’t worry little angels, our little white lotus boy won’t be hurt. Since he’s so pure and weak and cute, nobody can bear seeing him hurt right =w=~ [Hey, that’s enough!]

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