Chapter 424: Chapter 424
In the hotel elevator, Qian Qi asked to add Nangong Yan as a friend.
Nangong Yan readily agreed and initiated a friend request to Qian Qi, but inadvertently glanced at Su Ang’s friend request chat in Qian Qi’s request list.
His gaze shifted with some surprise, "You don’t have Su Ang as a friend?"
Qian Qi lowered her head and responded with an "Oh," "It’s just a playful thing between friends."
Nangong Yan was noncommittal. If it was just a playful thing between ordinary friends, she wouldn’t be doing this kind of thing with Sikong Wang.
It’s likely a romantic relationship.
And it seems like a pretty unstable one.
This gave Nangong Yan pause in his original plan. Qian Qi didn’t seem like someone who would recklessly pursue love; perhaps, for her, love was actually the first thing to abandon and something she didn’t need.
The boyfriend role... seems unsuitable.
In that case, the role of a friend might be more stable.
He put away his charm and smiled at Qian Qi, "Then, good night."
Qian Qi sensed that Nangong Yan seemed a bit different, nodded, and walked out of the elevator, watching Nangong Yan head upstairs.
Then, she looked down at the Light Brain.
In Nangong Yan’s Light Brain Number’s circle of friends, there was nothing, as clean as if he had no desire to share anything. Qian Qi’s gaze moved slightly upward, landing on his Light Brain username:
Qian Qi turned her head, "System, look, his username is a smiley face!"
The system glanced at it, [What’s so surprising about that.]
Qian Qi continued to chatter, "But this expression is something only you use frequently... wait, system, are you Nangong Yan? Honestly, I’ve always felt that Nangong Yan has a kind of inexplicable danger aura, but when in contact, he doesn’t seem that scary, and he inexplicably wants to get close to me, even willing to give me the Blast Flame Gun, and just now he even called me Qiqi, could it be..."
Qian Qi took a sharp breath, her face pale, "Nangong Yan is your entity in this world?!"
The system roared furiously: [Bullshit!]
Qian Qi was startled, "What? Nangong Yan is your bullshit in this world?"
Are you freaking kidding me with your incoherent sentences!
[Don’t you dare to equate me with a bullshit like Nangong Yan!] the system angrily shouted at Qian Qi’s back of the head, [That lunatic...]
The system abruptly stopped, seeming to recall some embarrassing history, its face full of black lines, [Anyway, you’re not allowed to like him.]
Qian Qi covered the back of her head, confused, "Why not?"
They all say Nangong Yan might not be a good guy, yet no one is willing to explain why, like they have no evidence.
[When I first came to this world, there were actually two best candidates.] The system slowly displayed the text on the panel, its tone heavy, [One was your predecessor Qian Qi, and the other...]
Its binding mechanism, actually, is not that complicated nor that simple, Qian Qi and Nangong Yan both had a hatred for the Demons that surpassed everyone else’s, triggering its binding mechanism at the same time.
Initially, the system favored Nangong Yan because Nangong Yan had the Nangong Family as a background, and at the time, he had just triggered an A-level Awakening Ability and gained a Second Spiritual Power.
In contrast, "Qian Qi," although possessing a Second Spiritual Power as well, lacked background and wealth, making Nangong Yan the obvious choice.
Just as it was about to bind with Nangong Yan, to be safe, it decided to observe further and ended up witnessing Nangong Yan maiming Nangong Xu at home. Additionally, it discovered some things, and upon confirming that Nangong Yan’s extreme hatred was not just directed at the Demons, it decisively abandoned binding with him.
In comparison, "Qian Qi" in the orphanage, during a seizure, dislocated her arm holding a knife with what little sanity she had left, glaring with red eyes and shouting at the children approaching her to get lost, demonstrating her compassion for human life, and thus the system chose "Qian Qi."
Recalling the events of the following year, the system sighed in sentiment, [Qiqi, there are some things I can’t tell you. When you find out the truth in the future, don’t be angry with me.]
Its mission is to save the sentient beings of this planet, by any means necessary.
National Beast Taming was merely the best result from its calculations, but that doesn’t mean there’s only that one path for humanity. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ Novᴇl_Fire(.)net
The other path lies with the Nangong Family.
It might be very cruel, but it might also be the alternative path for humanity on this planet to discover after National Beast Taming fails.
However, with Qian Qi’s character, she would definitely not accept the actions of the Nangong Family.
Because in her original world, life was priceless and should be revered.
Qian Qi stared at the system, thinking for a long time, unable to figure out what the system was hiding.
So from those two brief sentences [I had two initial choices] [There are things that can’t be said, don’t be angry when you find out], she speculated doubtfully, "Is Nangong Yan your ex-boyfriend? Are you afraid I’ll get jealous?"
System: ... What ex-boyfriend, seriously! [I’ve never bound with him! I can only bind with one!]
"Then why are you so guilty." Qian Qi snorted, "It’s not like when you were observing if he was qualified he happened to be peeing and then sprayed your face..."
The next second, a pleasant thud sounded from Qian Qi’s back of the head.
And in the corridor, echoed the scream of a girl like a butchered pig.
It’s impossible to end like that. Qian Qi entered the presidential suite, took a lovely bath, and went to sleep.
Nangong Yan entered the presidential suite, rubbing his temples wearily.
After coming out of the punishment room, he was covered in injuries from half a month of punitive abuse, unable to move.
Nangong Zhang was ruthless in his discipline and also generous in using good medicine to treat his wounds, but ultimately, the treatment delayed four hours.
Luckily, she wasn’t angry.
Removing his suit, Nangong Yan laid his coat on the coat rack by the door, but accidentally tugged at his unhealed wounds.
He inhaled sharply, the pain that seemed to penetrate to the bone was piercing, and he staggered to the sofa, suppressing the pain, with cold sweat trickling down his fair forehead along his peach blossom eyes, making him look even more fragile and broken.
He removed his gold-rimmed glasses, dangling from his finger, like his shaky, beaten body, and after a few unsteady steps, Nangong Yan collapsed onto the couch in the living room and fell into a deep sleep.
It had already been a long time since he’d had a good night’s sleep.
The night breeze from outside slowly wafted inside, gently moving the soft curtains, bringing the night chill towards him, unveiling the trembling eyelashes beneath his messy bangs.
Like the chills when he felt his blood was almost drained back then.
The sensation of cold and heat gradually plagued his body. The man frowned deeply, curled up his fevered body, and sunk into an unknowable nightmare...
In the middle of the night, Qian Qi was awakened by the ringing of a call on the Light Brain.
Groggily she was about to answer when the other party hung up, squinting in the darkness to open the Light Brain, she found several messages from Nangong Yan.