Pretending To Be A Boss-Chapter 913 - 65: The Lord of Eden’s Weakness

Chapter 913 -65: The Lord of Eden’s Weakness

Whether or not there are flaws in this world, Tang Xian was still unsure.

But from Zhong Yao’s words, he understood one thing.

The Master of Eden possesses great power, power so immense that it can ignore the rules.

The Eden Ruins exist in reality, but are gradually becoming an illusion.

While the Eden Sanctuary, though originally illusory, is slowly turning real.

This kind of power, Tang Xian had only ever seen in some over-the-top villain from a pseudo-science fiction movie. That big purple guy with six embedded gemstones had the ability to alter reality, too.

However, the Master of Eden had not yet reached the level of obliterating the entire world instantaneously. At least judging by the expansion speed of the Eden Sanctuary, as long as he could find a way to leave this place, defeating the Master of Eden was still within the realm of possibility.

Zhong Yao said:

“Give it up, child. We… simply have no way to fight against such an existence.”

Hmm, he needed to find a way to restore hope in this woman first.

Tang Xian pondered for a moment. If there really was a flaw in the Eden Sanctuary, Zhong Yao might have a clue.

Because she’d lived here for a long time and knew everything about this place inside and out. The only problem was, in her mindset and subjective consciousness, she’d already concluded that the Master of Eden was invincible.

He couldn’t just analyze the weaknesses of the Master of Eden; he needed Zhong Yao to ignite the will to fight on her own.

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“Actually, there’s something I’ve been holding onto, planning to tell you after we leave this place. But now, seeing that you’ve already decided we can’t leave, I have no choice but to tell you in advance.”

“What is it?” Zhong Yao asked, puzzled.

“I met Xiuxiu.”

Tang Xian’s tone was calm, like a beam of sunlight.

As the first sliver of twilight light pierced into the Academy’s temple within the palace, deep in the originally dim, backlit space, countless tiny, previously invisible specks of dust were tumbling in that ethereal light.

When Zhong Yao saw Tang Xian, she was always a mixture of joy and sorrow. The more she loved him, the more helpless she felt.

Because she understood better than anyone else that this place was inescapable. To traverse the ruins with a bodiless consciousness would result only in the annihilation of one’s Divine Sense.

Exhaustion and despair forced Zhong Yao into a state of calm.

She began persuading herself to let go. Gradually, her attachments to the human world, the memories of days gone by—all began to lose their importance.

She had already accepted the idea of living endlessly in this place.

But there were three people she could never let go of: Tang Wen, Tang Xian,

and most of all, Zhong Xiuxiu.

That was her child, her own flesh and blood. And her greatest failing as a mother.

Those memories were like dust in the darkness. She thought they’d long since settled, but when truly stirred, she’d realize they had always been swirling.

Tears glimmered faintly in Zhong Yao’s eyes. She trembled as she asked:

“Xiuxiu… how is she?”

“Not well,”

Tang Xian replied directly.

“A child born to two Sons of Order, like the Sons of Order themselves, has an exceptionally brilliant mind but also suffers from extraordinary cognitive challenges.”

“From childhood, she kept wondering whether she had done something wrong, something that made her mom and dad abandon her. She couldn’t find an answer. And on life’s long road, unlike me, she didn’t encounter anyone capable of completing her humanity, of guiding her.”

Every word, every sentence Tang Xian uttered, cut into Zhong Yao’s heart like a knife.

“She told me that her days in the school district were unpleasant. Everyone looked at her as if she were a monster. They always kept their distance from her. Especially after she later developed an interest in plants and the brain, people thought she was sick, not like any normal girl at all.”

“She had no family. Although you and Dad arranged for someone to take care of her, she remembered clearly that she bore her mother’s surname. To her, it felt like her mom and dad had abandoned her!”

“Stop it… please stop…” Zhong Yao’s soft sobs broke the silence.

Tang Xian felt terrible, too.

He didn’t want to say such things because every word of it hurt Zhong Yao and pained him as well.

Why was Zhong Xiuxiu abandoned? Because Zhong Yao and Tang Wen had given all their love to him.

All the familial affection he had, he had stolen from his poor younger sister.

His voice was slightly choked as he continued:

“Later, because of her talents, she went to work at the Chemical Science Institute. You always wanted her to live an ordinary life. But even so, she was eventually found by the people of the Eye of Nature, and came to know their leader, the current Ju Mang.”

Zhong Yao felt her heart sinking lower and lower. A desire to leave this place to protect her daughter began to sprout within her.

“Ju Mang didn’t harm her, and she didn’t learn about the other side of this world because of it. She simply grew lonelier. No one wanted to be friends with someone whose entire demeanor was so incompatible with the people around her.”

“What is Xiuxiu like?”

As Tang Xian spoke up to this point, he, as her elder brother, felt a deep sense of guilt:

“Xiuxiu is like a robot with only half a soul. The half that’s missing is the love any normal person should have.”

“No one loves her. And she doesn’t know how to be loved. So, little by little, she became more and more like a robot. Her daily routine became unbelievably structured. Shang Lu once told me that Xiuxiu is extremely punctual and precise. Never a single moment of delay. In her lab, everything is placed in perfect order, meticulously categorized according to labels.”

“Because these were the only things she could do, no one else would disrupt her arrangements. The loneliest thing in this world isn’t spending your whole life utterly alone.”