NOVEL WEB Chapter 149 - Clue
After Mai Dongzi came out of the treatment chamber, she learned that while she was recovering, Prince Arthur’s flying car had flown to Imperial Capital University and parked in the instructor’s parking space.
So, she returned to school without any trouble.
The incident of Mai Dongzi being attacked and seriously injured was known to very few students, except for Chen Xinhe, Zhuang Huaiya, and Renguang, who learned about it from his father.
However, among the instructors and mentors at Imperial Capital University, everyone was aware of it.
Therefore, they went over the safety of the military exercise three days later several times, making sure that no strangers would have the opportunity to approach Mai Dongzi before finally putting their minds at ease.
Among the first-year students in the Command Department, Zhuang Huaiya had successfully passed the danger period and advanced to a Level 5 Warrior with the help of Mai Dongzi and the use of the Warrior Training Potential Enhancement Potion. This matter was continuing to spread.
The news was shared because Mai Dongzi had hinted to Zhuang Huaiya to reveal it.
After Mai Dongzi discovered energy plants on Water Blue Star, Prince Arthur gave her one-tenth of the harvest. Therefore, over the past few months, she had been receiving two to three million credit coins each month.
Originally, she felt justified in receiving this money, as without her discovery, it would have taken a long time for those energy plants to be found by others.
However, when she realized that Prince Arthur might also be a time traveler, and that the identity of the traveler could very well be that man, the sense of justification completely vanished.
To confirm her suspicions, on the night she returned to school, Mai Dongzi carefully researched Prince Arthur’s past and found that his greatest change occurred five years ago.
When Prince Arthur was in school, the flying car he was in was rigged with a timed bomb, causing the entire vehicle to explode into pieces.
It was said that the guard who shielded Prince Arthur from most of the explosion’s force died on the spot, while Prince Arthur was severely injured and even lost his breath for a time.
This incident caused quite a stir at the time, prompting King Gujia to send his own younger brother, as well as the current empress’s parents and younger brother, to exile in the Star Prison, showing no mercy towards the current empress. As a result, the incident became widely discussed across the Star Network.
Seeing this, Mai Dongzi’s certainty increased from seventy percent to ninety-five percent.
But she hoped for one hundred percent.
Although thinking this way felt unfair to the real Prince Arthur, she wished it was him who had been reborn.
Mai Dongzi knew that this line of thought was completely contrary to the principles she had once adhered to.
When she first discovered that, for some unknown reason, she had crossed over and been reborn into someone else’s body, she had sought out the existence of the original owner.
If she found that Little Lucy’s soul still existed, she would definitely return the body to her.
Because this was not her body; it wasn’t hers, and she had to return it to its rightful owner.
This belief remained unchanged even now. Even if she discovered Little Lucy’s soul existed, she would unhesitatingly give the body back to her.
Although Mai Dongzi couldn’t be completely selfless, she had always been very principled; she wouldn’t do anything without principles.
It wasn’t until this moment, when she realized that Prince Arthur was very likely that man reborn, that she understood she also had this selfish side, as well as the potential to act like a green tea princess.
Despite feeling guilty, she still hoped it was that man who had been reborn, hoping he could live well in the identity of Prince Arthur.
However, if Prince Arthur truly was that man, Mai Dongzi thought about the day he had come to save her, and her heart was very conflicted.
She couldn’t make sense of Prince Arthur’s attitude towards her.
From the very beginning on Water Blue Star, Prince Arthur had given her a lot of help, even coming to her rescue when she was in danger.
But he didn’t seem to plan on getting close to her; during normal times, he never appeared in front of her, giving off an impression that they were each living their own lives in peace.
For Mai Dongzi, she hoped that Prince Arthur indeed intended for them to be fine apart.
Thinking back to that day, she was immensely relieved that she had closed her eyes and pretended to faint upon sensing his presence.
As a result, Prince Arthur was unaware that she had already discovered his secret, allowing her to maintain an appearance of ignorance.
Mai Dongzi didn’t want to be involved with Prince Arthur, at least not for now.
When she first entered the Imperial Capital University, her life plan for the future did not include any intersection with Prince Arthur.
So no matter what changes happened with Prince Arthur, as long as he didn’t interfere with her, she could continue with her original plan.
Mai Dongzi couldn’t imagine what would have happened if she had faced Prince Arthur while awake and had discovered that he was very likely that man. She probably wouldn’t have been able to control the change in her expression.
That man had already displayed remarkable observational skills while he was still a student. After experiencing a family crisis and spending years abroad, he returned home only to find himself in the apocalypse and then underwent reincarnation.
Having gone through so much, especially being reborn as Prince Arthur and in such a position, his observational skills would only be stronger than they were back then.
By closing her eyes and adjusting her breathing to feign fainting, she, having undergone special training, could manage to not give herself away. However, when she was awake, she might not be able to control the changes in her expression when stimulated.
Mai Dongzi couldn’t be certain how Prince Arthur would react if he knew that she had discovered his true identity.
She knew almost nothing about him now, so keeping her distance was the best choice.
However, she could no longer be as carefree as before and treat Prince Arthur as a golden thigh to lean on; part of her plans had to be adjusted.
Firstly, regarding the dividends from the energy plants she discovered on Water Blue Star, she could no longer shamelessly accept them.
Water Blue Star belonged to Prince Arthur, and the energy plants were originally the property of the planet’s ruler.
If she and Prince Arthur were strangers, he should reward her with a sum and provide her with a monthly quota of energy agents.
Accepting dividends would be too generous; she couldn’t continue to take those with a clear conscience.
But to prevent Prince Arthur from noticing her change in behavior, she couldn’t refuse to accept them, although she could choose not to use them.
Then she could use this substantial amount of money to prepare some supplies, which she could donate to the team led by Prince Arthur after the apocalypse struck. By then, these supplies would be far more valuable than credit coins.
However, this meant that she would once again become a poor person. The rewards Prince Arthur gave her for discovering the energy agents had already been used to pay for the custom mecha.
The prize money from the survival live broadcast game group and the compensation from the Xi family had also been largely spent by her.
After all, wanting to advance quickly required consuming a lot of resources, especially since she was a tri-element warrior, meaning she needed more resources than others—at least double.
So she had to figure out a way to earn credit coins; otherwise, in a few months, she wouldn’t even be able to afford training resources. The remaining credit coins in her account were almost all unusable dividends.
While Mai Dongzi was pondering how to make money, Zhuang Huiya sent her a message.