Special Strength Training

The beep beep sound rang up suddenly.   

Qian Xu was as if waking up from a dream and immediately took a big step back, widening the distance between the two.   

Lorraine panicky looked down at the personal terminal and found that the incoming call was Chen Sha.   

Lorraine was breathless with anxiety. She took a deep breath before picking up the call: "What's up?"   

"Feng Lin asked me to escort you back home."   

"No need. There are bodyguards."   

"I'm at dormitory's downstairs."   

Lorraine was confused. What did that mean? Suddenly she came to understand, Chen Sha was at Qian Xu's dormitory downstairs.   

She didn't have the guts to let Chen Sha wait and hurriedly said, "I will go down immediately."   

Lorraine hung up the call and said to Qian Xu: "No matter what your decision is, I will accept it."   

Life was indeed precious. But in the unpredictable fickle life, there were always some things and some people worth fighting with her own life. She was like him, putting a gun that could kill her in the hand of the other, hanged her life and death upon the other thoughts.   

Fate was mysterious and unpredictable. Since a tiny person like her was unwilling and wanted to struggle free from the formidable fate, she could only risk all she had. Win or lose, she accepted it all!   

Qian Xu didn't response at all. His face was still expressionless as before.   

Lorraine's heart sank dim. She lowered her head and hurriedly walked out. When the two brushed pass, Qian Xu suddenly grabbed her arm. Lorraine's body stiffened and looked back at him.   

"That story was just a story!"

"What?"   

"Don't tell this story to anyone. I will also forget it all. You never said anything. I never heard anything."   

Under the dim night light, Qian Xu's face was hidden in the darkness. Nothing was clearly visible. His voice was cold and stiff, as clear as a knife scraping the bone, sharply pierced into Lorraine's ears. However, her heart settled all at once.   

Even though he knew that she was a broken-out death row convict, even though he knew that she had deceived the entire Odin Federation, Qian Xu still choose to keep it a secret.

Lorraine cracked a smile: "Don't worry. I'm not an idiot. How could I randomly tell this kind of thing to others? However..." She bit her lip and emphasized each every word: "I said it. You heard it. You must not forget!"   

Qian Xu's body stiffened. As if the arm he was holding burnt him, he abruptly let go of Lorrain.   

Lorraine still had many words to say, but thinking that Chen Sha was downstairs, she did not dare to stay any longer: "I'm leaving now. I will come to see you later."   

Lorraine rushed out of the building's door and saw a flying car parked on the side of the road.

Chen Sha brought her back to Sparta Palace. She asked Chen Sha about the special training that could help her leveled up from B to A and he advised her to speak with Consul of the Federation. That evening Lorraine dressed up and went to meet him. No one ever saw Consul's face since he always wore a mask and his body was always covered up to hide his hideous skin which he suffered from the 'living dead disease', a disease that slowly decayed body into a corpse.

Lorrain found that there was only her tea cup in front of her and there was nothing in front of Consul. She automatically glanced at his mask, only at the eyes area that had two holes so it was naturally impossible to drink tea.   

Consul obviously noticed her little movement: "Apologies, I'm afraid I could not drink tea with you."   

"It's... it's ok." Lorraine's small thought was being discovered. She was extremely embarrassed.   

She held up the tea nervously and brought it to her mouth right away. Consul suddenly reached out his hand and held her wrist. With a light touch and quickly retracted back was enough to make Lorrain became stiffened.   

"It's hot." Consul said in tranquil.   

Only then did Lorrain feel that the cup in her hand was boiling hot and hurriedly put the cup down. She quietly shook her hand under the table.   

Consul picked an ice cube and handed it to her. Lorraine instantly received it. Her warm fingers finally cooled down.   

Consul asked: "Why do you want to meet me?"   

"I want to apply for the A-level strength training."   

"The job of your work has no special requirements for strength. I don't see the reason why you need to improve your strength that urgent. Of course, if you give me a sufficient reason, I will consider it."

"I..."   

"You only have one chance."   

Lorraine swallowed the lie that had came to her lips. She thought about it and decided to tell the truth: "For one person."   

Consul silently looked at her.

Lorraine nervously said: "I once promised him that when he happen to change and loses his consciousness, I will tie him up and wait for him to recover. But I am too weak, even 15 minutes I wouldn't be able to hold him. I don't want to kill him and I don't want him to kill me, so I have to be strong enough."   

"At level 3A you still dare to wish?"   

Lorraine was blankly taken aback then recalled, Consul thought that it was Chen Sha. Lorraine was a little uneasy. But if she asked her heart, what if Qian Xu was at level 3A, would she choose to give up?   

"Because of genetic limitations, I am afraid I can't be as strong as him, but I will try my best to shorten our distance, remained the smallest gap..."   

Thinking of the distance problem between her and Qian Xu, it was not a small gap. Lorraine suddenly felt very distressed. She used the identity of a princess to survive, and then she must accept the obligations of this identity.   

Consul put the tea that was no longer hot anymore in front of her. Lorraine lowered her head and picked up the tea cup, let herself drinking tea to covering up her emotions.   

Consul's face mask was ice-cold. He asked offensively, "What will you do about that small remaining gap?"

"I will work very hard, very hard... If there is still a small gap left, I hope he will try to find a way too." She put down the tea cup and looked up at Consul with a smile, pretended to say lightly, "Thing between two people need them two to sort it out together. As long as they work hard together, all can overcome."   

Consul sank into silent.   

Lorraine waited nervously. She wanted to ask but didn't dare to, afraid to interrupt his decision   

After a while, Consul said, "Sorry, I can't approve it. You should go back!"   

Lorraine stood up in silence. She gave a standard curtsey to Consul, then turned around and left. She felt very disappointed and awful, but no one in this world had an obligation to fulfill her wish.   

Lorraine returned to the Duke's Mansion spiritless. She saw Chen Sha sat on the sofa, frowning in thought at the virtual screen on his personal terminal as if he had just finished talking with someone.   

She was not in the mood to ask so she just said hello and wanted to go into her room right away.   

Chen Sha plainly said, "Consul asked me to give you special training."

"Ah?"   

"Consul said, "The quota is limited so don't have the princess take up the military's resources, let you give her special training instead."   

Consul had actually closed the door, but still left her a window? Lorraine was completely astonished: "You mean that Consul approved you to give me special training?"

"Right."   

Lorraine restrained her waver heart and declined: "That's no need, I'll take it step by step and take it slowly."   

"Didn't you really want to be an A level strongman? Why don't you agree to accept my special training given to you?"   

"Because..." Lorraine wanted to say but hesitated to speak and looked down at the floor.   

Chen Sha did not press her and waited quietly.   

After a little while, Lorraine suddenly raised her head and asked, "Do you love me?"

Chen Sha stunned for a moment and said, "No."   

"I don't love you either."

"I know."   

"Ten years ago, you said that we were a fake husband and wife..."   

Chen Sha scolded coldly: "I have no amnesia, get to the point!"   

"We divorce, can we?"