NOVEL WEB Chapter 138 - Contradiction
If Mai Dongzi didn’t have her own property, she would definitely have to accept what Major General Su arranged for her.
She had considered this from the beginning. Just based on Major General Su’s guidance, she would do her best to care for his immediate family.
However, she had her pride. Once she had enough capability in the future and if Major General Su truly wanted to hand over his connections to her, she wouldn’t refuse.
As for finances, with the fixed support from the direct descendants of the Xi family each month and her share of the profits from energy potions, Mai Dongzi’s current financial situation was sufficient for her to be self-sufficient without needing to rely on Major General Su’s monetary support.
Of course, it was difficult for Mai Dongzi to refuse some gifts from Major General Su as her mentor, such as the Peace-class flying car.
Although the flying car was expensive, it was a consideration for her safety, making it hard for her to decline. But property was different.
By reducing financial dealings, when she interacted with the Su family in the future, she wouldn’t feel inferior due to money.
This time, Mai Dongzi’s decision to leave school was not just for Zhuang Huaiya, but also for her own training issues.
While her martial arts training was fine, she encountered difficulties with her mental abilities—more accurately, a bottleneck. Since her rebirth over half a year ago, she had been working hard to restore her original cultivation level.
During this process, after Major General Su adjusted her cultivation methods, her recovery speed was two months faster than she expected, and her mental abilities had even risen a small level compared to her previous life, reaching the early stage of mid-level seven.
However, shortly after this improvement, she found herself stuck in a bottleneck; no matter how much she practiced, her mental abilities remained stagnant.
She knew the reason for this stagnation: her mental powers had rapidly grown in the midst of apocalyptic battles.
While retraining solidified her cultivation, greatly increasing her overall combat effectiveness, her mental abilities had developed explosively in a catastrophic environment. Thus, in the comfortable campus life, no amount of effort could lead to improvement.
Moreover, it wasn’t just that the Blue-Black Empire lacked such an environment; the entire Dagula Star System didn’t have it either.
Mai Dongzi didn’t want to live in such an environment all the time.
At the beginning of her rebirth, she had hoped to finally enjoy a relatively peaceful life. She even considered living as a happy, simple interstellar university student, according to the original character’s persona.
However, not long after, she realized that she had been reborn from an apocalyptic era into one that was about to face another apocalypse. This unfortunate fate was truly frustrating.
Mental abilities were different from martial arts. A martial artist could gradually improve their cultivation by following training steps every day, which was the situation with Mai Dongzi’s martial arts level.
On the other hand, mental abilities could also increase in strength through meditation, but to advance to a higher level, one needed to engage in real combat.
Using the same method she had in her past life during the apocalypse, if she could find a mental ability user with a higher level than hers to fight against, she might break through her training bottleneck.
Unfortunately, given her current level, no one at the Imperial Capital University could challenge her.
Even if there were, unless they were her instructors, she couldn’t ask them to practice with her regularly.
Mai Dongzi had already informed Major General Su of the predicament she was facing. With her powerful mental abilities and rich combat experience, she hoped that Major General Su would find a way to resolve this dilemma.
After returning to the new house, Zhuang Huaiya saw that his father and grandparents looked completely different than before, and his gratitude for his cousin rose once again.
Before his cousin turned eighteen and entered the Imperial Capital University, she had been constrained by a cruel couple, who were completely aware that she had been replaced.
However, once she broke free from her constraints, she stepped in to help the Zhuang family escape their predicament and dedicated herself to teaching him how to cultivate.
Therefore, when his cousin planned to have him take a potion to enhance his potential for cultivation, Zhuang Huaiya agreed without hesitation. He understood his cousin’s strength and believed she would not suggest it if she weren’t confident.
Over the past month, Zhuang Huaiya felt that his cousin was showing her true self in front of him. He knew she wasn’t an indifferent person, but she wasn’t particularly warm either; her willingness to bring up this matter was a gesture considering he was her younger cousin.
Zhuang Huaiya had a feeling that if he and his father hesitated about this matter, she would never mention it again.
He just didn’t expect his cousin’s situation to be so dangerous that she couldn’t even travel freely.
But he lacked the ability to help her out of this predicament.
Therefore, aside from working hard to cultivate and grow quickly—so that their cousin relationship wouldn’t be exploited to harm her—he felt powerless to do anything else.
After returning home, Zhuang Huaiya found that his father was still out busy, and his grandparents asked him many questions about his cousin.
Once they heard that his cousin would try to visit the Zhuang family in the next few days, the elderly couple stopped their inquiries, feeling both happy and worried.
After lunch, Zhuang Huaiya planned to practice. His father had set up a dedicated training room for him, so he no longer had to rent a public training room as he had before.
He initially thought his cousin would come to see them after a day or two, but just as he stood up to practice, he received a request from his cousin to grant her access to the villa.
Once Zhuang Huaiya agreed, he was shocked to discover that Mai Dongzi didn’t enter through the front door, but through the side entrance.
What did this mean? It meant she had come from the neighboring villa.
“Sister, were you next door just now?”
“The house next door is mine,” Mai Dongzi said calmly.
Hearing that she lived next to his home, Zhuang Huaiya was both surprised and delighted, but his question was interrupted by the appearance of his grandparents.
Mai Dongzi looked at the elderly couple from the Zhuang family, who were actually younger than Aunt Zhang and Uncle Mu, yet appeared much older, and felt a mix of emotions.
This elderly couple were merely third-level cultivators; given their age and cultivation level, they would likely struggle to survive the first wave of the apocalyptic crisis.
Even if they survived the initial wave, they wouldn’t be able to escape the subsequent dangers.
In this situation, she could only interact with them lightly to avoid future sadness.
However, looking at the elderly couple, who resembled her grandparents from her past life, and seeing the way they looked at her with memories of their daughter, along with their moist eyes, Mai Dongzi felt lost…