Capítulo 16: There's Only One Option

"Heartless bastard! Bastard!"

Half an hour quickly flew by.

The brief meeting ended up with her thrown outside the office under the piercing glare of her father.

Things developed the same way as her previous life, and the stares she was getting from her father's employees were not at all friendly, if not disdainful. None of them greeted her respectfully anymore.

However, she had no time to mind the stares thrown her way.

"I have no disgraceful daughter like you! Xiang Linxin! You don't listen to me anymore, and you even did those atrocious things! So fine. From now on, we walk our separate ways! We are no longer father and daughter, no longer related to each other!"

Xiang Linxin was overcome by both grief and fury as she recalled the words that she had already heard twice in her two lifetimes.

As her way of rebelling and declaring strength, her steps when she marched away were purposely made heavy as if she wanted the whole company to quake under her. Moreover, she made sure to look like she was concerned at all.

If one would only look at the change in the response compared to the previous life where she was practically dragged out by the guards crying, then there had truly been an improvement.

…. However, the girl still seemed to be lacking in the IQ department as the first thing she did after getting back to her flat was to post on her Weibo account. It was a post addressing the disownment issue.

'Blood is thicker than water? Puh! Who's the fool who said that?'

'Since you don't want me and want to break relations with me, Fine! I don't want you too!!!!!'

She expressed her stance this way.

The name of CEO Xiang was even tagged blatantly as if she was scared that people would not know who she was referring too, that they wouldn't know she no longer had anymore relationship with the prestigious Xiang family.

'Mark my word! I'll prove that it's you who's losing out here and not me!'

This part was made into a photo, followed by a row of emojis that showed how immature the twenty-one-year-old girl was.

Well... Xiang Linxin was a sheltered woman who wore her heart on her sleeve and whose thoughts had always been simple. She had not yet to learn how to scheme against others or sound out the scheme of others against her. About what she just did, it was only because she wanted to do something 'big' and different from the previous life. After all, when she got disowned for the first time, all she did was to panic and spend her entire day crying in her room.

So for her, it was already an enormous achievement to tell the world how heartless her father was.

… Alas, while she was caught in a momentary satisfaction, she forgot one fatal thing, that she was already involved with many scandals and no matter how faked those were, her reputation being stinky in everyone's mind was real.

Zhang Mei Xing who was watching Xiang Linxin's joyful laughter from nearby facepalmed and helplessly shook her head at the woman.

'Somehow, this is more painful to watch than her first life…' Zhang Mei Xing thought. When the fair hand left her face, a grimace could still be seen from it.

The trainee guide chose to look away and resume going through the 'instruction manual'.

"Contrary to what most fiction novels depicted, a soul did not simply die, close their eyes, and then wake up in another world or wake up back in time…."

"After all, if this all happened, then everybody would just reincarnate or transmigrate. Everyone would become the protagonist. The laws of the universe would collapse since it does not have the capability to hold too many blessed children of heavens at once."

"So what should be done?"

Zhang Mei Xing briefly scanned the rows of texts that appeared in front of her which gave her a rough understanding of her job here. A pity that there was nobody to teach her the real ins and outs of this so-called test. But thankfully, the mysterious screen did not use alien language that was difficult to understand.

Zhang Mei Xing quickly resumed scouring through the texts in the holographic panel hoping to grasp her role as quickly as possible.

Her goal was to know what she could do for the woman. Because at this rate, unless the gods were fond of watching people self-destruct, they wouldn't give a pass to Xiang Linxin.

It was unfortunate that as a trainee guide there were very few things that Zhang Mei Xing had control over. Even now, she was at a ghost-like state that could not interact with the examinee. It would have been a bit better if she was a ghost that could be seen by the other. In that way, at least she would be able to employ sign language. Unfortunately, she was in this state.

'Sighs… Those I'm in charge of will probably all be people like her, in dire need of directions, if not some serious whacking on the head.'

'However, even though there are only a few criteria given to me, in reality, I have little authority and all I can do is to play around with the panel, press 'okay' every time a milestone is reached.'

'But at this rate, when will there be any milestone reached?'

Zhang Mei Xing was still paying attention to Xiang Lixin and laughed dryly upon seeing the change in the girl's face when the attacks online began.

A few minutes passed like that. Both were absorbed in reading, but while one wore a serious pondering expression, the other looked like fire was about to burst out of her eyes and mouth.

It was apparent that the foolish lady Xiang once again reaped the consequences of her actions. To be honest, if not for seeing how miserable the innocent but proud girl, the trainee guide would have simply let her be, thinking she deserved the terrible end.

A moment later, Zhang Mei Xing's eyes blinked before they twinkled in delight.

'Found it!' She was looking at this, 'Tools That Can Be Lent To The Examinee During The Trial', words that were seemingly highlighted on purpose to catch attention.

But then, as quickly as the glee came to her, it also left as fast, in the same manner. 'Uhh-uh...?' Zhang Mei Xing even blurted out.

It was because under the first few words depicting the title of the page and the instruction that said that only one could be distributed, were these three options.

***

Option 1: Cannon Fodder Counterattack System

- Upgradeable Level 1, Inclusive Of A Very Friendly AI

Option 2: One-Time-Use Cheat Token

- Can Imbue Space Power To An Heirloom In The Examinee's Possession

Option 3: Scene Overwrite Ticket: An Impactful Encounter With A Powerful And Helpful Man

- Target Has a High Chance of Getting Interested In the Examinee

Note: Selected options, depending on the type and availability, can be obtained permanently if all criteria are passed by the examinee.

***

Ignoring the post-script, her expression froze precisely at these listed choices.

Because the first two were simply greyed out and unable to be touched.

In other words, the one who made the program or app used all his efforts to indirectly tell her that from the very beginning, there was only one option to pick, the third one.

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