Astral Flower
“Your past built the present you, but it shouldn’t be a shackle for your future.” A peerless assassin, codename Hua, received her last big mission after nearly died in an avalanche. Everyone knew that the Nan Family had a long missing daughter who only recently returned. She was raised in the village and didn’t have common sense of the nobility daughter, inviting mockery all over the Green Planet. Hearing various jokes about this daughter, they only shook their head and feel that she was not worthy of the Nan Family. However… Those who bullied her were bullied back by others suddenly. Those who wanted to hurt her suddenly got oppressed. Those who tried to harm her fell unlucky and got hurt instead. Nan Hua watched this all with an innocent look. They didn’t know that the one who put them in this predicament is precisely the unsightly young miss they looked down upon. Everything was doing well, but why did her supposed indifferent fiancé paid so much attention to her? Shouldn’t he just focus on the examination and his career in the military? A while later, Nan Hua saw Long Qian Xing staring at her gently and smiled back. ... Story set in fictional world with some advanced technology. Join the discord to chat with the author and other readers: https://discord.gg/pBy2wGB ... Note: This story can be read separately, but if you want to, you can read her other stories in: Prequel: Forgotten Legend of the Bloodied Flower [on going] ... Other novels: -Flowers Bloom from Battlefield [complete] - Under the Veil of Night [complete] - 7 Path of the Lilies [on long hiatus] - 1 Year of Beginning [complete] - Villain Lady [complete] - Science and Fantasy [complete] - 2 Years of Restarting [complete] - The Quiet Empress [complete] - The Villain's Little Cat [on going] ... Follow me on IG: @sora100518
Invitation (2)
"Competition?" Nan Hua was a bit surprised at Long Qian Xing's sudden question. With Nan Hua's current strength and rank on the surface, it was a bit hard for her to join any competition no matter what kind of competition it was.
Long Qian Xing nodded seriously. "There's a group competition that my friend had to pass but he lacked teammate."
Nan Hua blinked her eyes. "I don't think it'll be suitable for me to come."
Even though Long Qian Xing didn't say it out loud, Nan Hua could guess that his friend had to be someone from the military academy. The academy was stricter than the high school. Aside from participating in real missions where they needed to bet with their lives, they had to participate in some competition and obtained results.
For those with mediocre or lower ranks in the class, they would rather participate in the competition rather than betting with their lives and possibly lost their lives.
Long Qian Xing himself is an excellent student who had participated in real missions, so Nan Hua knew that he didn't need to participate in this competition.
"It's a breeze for me to participate. If you join in, there would be a challenge." Long Qian Xing chuckled. "Besides, it'll look good on your resume if you participate in this competition."
In other words: she only needed to make an appearance.
Nan Hua blinked her eyes. "Why does Second Young Master Long wants to help me so much?"
"My grandfather ordered it." Long Qian Xing thought of his grandfather who had been yelling at him not long ago and shook his head. "He and your grandfather had good relationship and they asked me to take care of you when I have time."
Clearly, he could stay silent about this matter. However, Long Qian Xing felt that it was troublesome to concoct some kind of story for Nan Hua to hide this matter. It would be easier for him to tell the truth and come out clean.
Nan Hua nodded.
Old Master Long and Old Master Nan have good relationship was something that Nan Hua already knew from a long time ago.
The two of them had appeared in various meetings together and there were some press news about them. It was not strange for other people to know about their good relationship with each other.
"Thank you."
Long Qian Xing smiled. "There's no need to thank me. So, do you accept?"
"Can you tell me about the type of competition first?" Nan Hua asked.
"Sure. It's a group competition of killing in a special field. The game is in the Virtual World and you will feel pain when you died, but you will be fine after some time recuperating." Long Qian Xing even felt that there was no need to recuperate because the pain was suppressed.
The nation was pampering these soldiers and Long Qian Xing scoffed when he thought about it.
But knowing that his friends were all quite weak compared to him, he was not very surprised that they were not ordered to do missions like him. If they were ordered to do missions from the very beginning, it was estimated that they would not even be able to return with intact corpses.
Many of the missions were very dangerous.
"When will the competition be?" Nan Hua asked again.
"In mid February. I forgot the exact date." Long Qian Xing didn't really care about this competition but he decided to help his friend out.
"How many people per team?"
"5 people. The other three are my friends."
"Ok." Hearing that, Nan Hua thought for a moment before nodding. "I'll participate and make the competition harder for you, Young Master Long."
The corner of Long Qian Xing's lips curled up slightly. "I'll give you the details of the competition after we got out."
"Yes."
The two of them stopped in front of a large hall. There were many other people who were walking inside and outside. The records were not made public except if they wanted to participate in the special rankings.
Most people didn't care about it and only some people wanted to show off their strength.
This could be said to be another way for them to pull others to be willing to practice more and show some results. After all, competition like this was very suitable for those of the young and hot blooded youth.
Who among them didn't want to express themselves?
Being admired and praised by many people, it was the dream of many hot blooded boys and even girls.
"We're here."
Nan Hua looked at the building in front of her and nodded. "Yes."