Pretending To Be A Boss

"You can choose to leave, I'm serious. He won't remember you afterward, he will watch you die with his eyes wide open. But I'll give you a chance. You can choose to leave him now."

"Six hundred meters beneath my feet is a different world, where people bustle about every day for a living. There, you can see all facets of life, and there's so much more to feel than just love. Besides, Telekinesis is so boring, isn't it?"

"He won't get angry, nor will he laugh. He only feels sadness and fear, just like a coward. Don't you want to see your beloved smile sweetly at you?"

"All you have to do is be willing to leave Telekinesis."

Xi He's words were essentially forcing Mirror to make a choice.

Mirror asked cautiously,

"And what about Telekinesis... Why won't you let him come with me?"

"Haven't you figured out the situation yet? Telekinesis can't leave, understand what I mean? Only one of you and Telekinesis can live. If you leave, Telekinesis will die. Don't ask me why; for me, it's just an interesting experiment. But rest assured, I keep my word. After you go to the human world, the organization will no longer trouble you."

"I want to go with Telekinesis. Please, I beg of you, Your Excellency!"

"That's not possible, oh greedy one. There's no good end for the greedy. Think about it, is Telekinesis really worth it? When you die, he'll only watch you coldly."

"I think..."

Xi He furrowed her brows, and Mirror suddenly dared not speak anymore.

"Think about it well. If you stay, Telekinesis can live, but you will die. If you leave, Telekinesis will also die."

Xi He had thought it would take a long time to get an answer, but it only took a little over ten seconds for Mirror to make a decision:

"Your Excellency, if it's Telekinesis, he will have a more brilliant future than me, right?"

"Yes, he's actually not the same as you, but I can't tell you how he's different."

"I choose to stay. Telekinesis must not die."

"You've decided that quickly?"

"Although Telekinesis doesn't laugh, he's really very gentle. In that world six hundred meters below you spoke of, there will be many people who like him."

The surveillance video ended there.

Telekinesis remembered, that was the day Mirror's mood was off. It was the day Mirror crouched in the corner, appearing exceptionally lonely, and then said to Telekinesis:

"Telekinesis, let's escape this place, okay?"

So that was it.

After learning the truth, Telekinesis stumbled and fell into a corner.

Xi's expression carried infinite regret:

"Such a good child, not knowing the value of life. So easily, she gave her all to someone else."

"Seven times, between you and herself, she chose you every single time."

"She knew her fate well, but felt that only when she was with you was she complete."

"Later, Mirror asked me what would happen to Telekinesis. I said Telekinesis would forget all this cleanly. Her expression was lonely, yet fulfilled. She probably thought that her life had been entirely devoted to Telekinesis, and that was enough. Telekinesis is different. He could forget himself and had an endless future waiting for him."

Every word was like a knife stabbing into Telekinesis's heart.

All the emotions of sadness, fear, and suppression surged over him.

"You, who never laugh or get angry, have become her entire world. She never gave up on you, not once. Yet every time, you just watched her die, cluelessly."

It was as if countless mountains within him were collapsing, and Telekinesis's face was filled with despair, coupled with a sense of shocking disbelief.

He clenched his hand so tight, as if trying to hold onto something, yet he could never stop something from slipping away.

The anger, which was extinguished the moment it flared up every time, was finally coming in a wildfire's fury.

But in the end, swept up by an unprecedented wrath, Yuan Wu fell into unconsciousness.

Anai's telekinesis injected into Yuan Wu's neck.

And so all of this... once again perished with the fading of his memory.

But in a corner of his heart, there had forever been a place secretly harboring the rage that he was supposed to have vented over the years.

"Yuan Wu, don't cry."

Yuan Wu did not cry. When the mirror died again, he just silently smiled.

This young man, also about to be killed by the beast horde, finally remembered everything at this moment. He remembered the sensation of anger and the feeling of a smile.

What a pity he had never smiled at the mirror, not even once.

His stiff smile was accompanied by scalding hot tears.

"In that world six hundred meters below, there must be many people who like Yuan Wu."

"I am just a mirror... I am fake, Yuan Wu is the real one."

"If it were Yuan Wu, he would have a future far more brilliant than mine, wouldn't he?"

Every sentence was like the coldest tide, washing over his battered body, bringing wave upon wave of soul-wrenching pain.

...

...

Consciousness finally completely awakened at this moment.

With an unprecedented fury and reluctance, or perhaps the dying wish of a certain young girl, Yuan Wu opened his eyes.

A slash-iron beast was gnawing at his body.

Prey on the brink of death might have a final, terrifying struggle. As experienced hunters, the slash-iron beasts quickly backed away.

Their sensitivity to danger, however, did not spare them from their fate.

Because they had no idea that they had shifted from being the hunters to the hunted.

Yuan Wu's eyes were filled with a blinding white light, as if extreme anger had erased everything else in his vision.

His silver hair grew wildly.

The broken flesh all over his body also started to heal rapidly.

At the same time, within this cobweb-like vast battlefield, all the raindrops suddenly suspended in mid-air, and the tiny debris and stones on the ground were also frozen low in the sky.

A terrifying telekinetic force swept through the entire space.

Even the flames enveloping the two nine-tailed foxes in another battlefield were solidified by the telekinetic power.

Yuan Wu slowly got up, hunching his body, standing alone.

Like a lonely king after the world's end, but when he lifted his head, he resembled a tyrant about to destroy everything.

(Some readers asked me if this book is cruel. Speaking from the perspective of the big finale, the book is actually sweet, but some of the supporting characters, I admit, were conceived with a rather ruthless heart. To become stronger without the protection of the protagonist's halo, the supporting characters have to pay a corresponding price. The story of the two tyrants was also determined very early on. The protagonist won't suffer, and later, brother Yuan Wu will also be treated gently. Rest assured, and by the way, I'd appreciate a monthly ticket, as today, to avoid breaking the narrative, I wrote four chapters' worth in one go.)