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
[Bonus chapter]Mental Strength Test
"Go in. I'll wait here."
Nan Hua nodded and walked into the building and signed up easily. There were many people who come here every single day, so they could do their own self registration and then waited for their identity to be verified before entering the special passage.
There were a few hundreds of test room, which could be opened at the same time. This was mostly to accommodate the huge number of people who come to test their mental strength every single day.
The rooms were rarely full, so Nan Hua got her turn immediately and then teleported to the room where the test was located.
<Ding! >
<Welcome Miss Nan Hua to the Mental Strength Test Room>
<It's detected that Miss Nan Hua used to be 1-3 in mental strength, whether proceed test the 1-4 strength qualification?>
Nan Hua looked at the row of text and sound that appeared in front of her and replied, "Start the test."
<Ding! >
<It's detected that Miss Nan Hua is tested the first time after test in life. Please ask to walk stairs up.>
Nan Hua looked at her surroundings, which had changed at some point of time. One of the convenience of the Virtual World was that everything here was virtual and in the form of data. This made it easy if they wanted to change something or do something that was usually hard to do in the real world.
Looking at the short stairs of 10 steps, Nan Hua lightly stepped on it and walked to the other side very calmly.
She made sure that her speed was not very fast as she tried to detect the changes.
Unfortunately…
The pressure was simply too weak for her current mental strength. There was almost no pressure at all for Nan Hua.
Soon, Nan Hua reached the other end of the stairs.
<Ding! >
<Congratulations for Miss Nan Hua completing the 1-4 mental strength test. Would you like to continue?>
"Continue."
Since Nan Hua wanted to blend in, it would be better for her to increase the evaluation of her mental strength first. That way, everything would be much easier when she wanted to do something or had her strength improved.
After all, one's mental strength would also affect their memorization ability and comprehension.
The stronger their mental strength, the better their comprehension ability would be.
Nan Hua was not entirely sure about how fast the fake Nan Hua would be, but since she was the one here, she would arrange so that it would be easier for her to blend in without attracting suspicion.
<Ding! >
<The 1-5 mental strength test has begun. Please proceed, Miss Nan Hua.>
The 1-5 mental strength test was the same as the previous mental strength test.
For Nan Hua, this test was easy to do and didn't require much of her strength. Her speed was still the same as before, leisurely. But she made sure that she controlled the pace and didn't show any special expression.
This was to prevent others from being suspicious should they check the record of her examinations in the future.
<Ding! >
<Congratulations for Miss Nan Hua completing the 1-5 mental strength test. Would you like to continue?>
Nan Hua thought for a moment before agreeing, "Continue."
<Ding! >
<The 1-6 mental strength test has begun. Please proceed, Miss Nan Hua.>
After some time, in which Nan Hua slowed down greatly with her head kept lowered all the time, she finally made it to the end of the stairs.
Rather than the examination, she felt that the acting was more troublesome.
<Ding! >
<Congratulations for Miss Nan Hua completing the 1-6 mental strength test. Would you like to continue?>
"No." The 1-7 mental strength was a greater leapt as compared to 1-5 to 1-6. Nan Hua didn't want to cause a lot of sensation because 1-6 alone was already strong enough.