Perfect Fiancé

(T/N beginning footnote: Lu Xi"s name in italics refers to his name in his past life, Shen Luxi (dry land and the setting sun), while Lu Xi refers to the one we all know and love (prosperous land).

"Please, don"t cry." With a hoa.r.s.e voice, he rasped out, "I would feel saddened."

"That"s because I want you to feel sad, for such a long stretch of time, who permitted you to……" In an instant, Su Jin"s voice had paused as she looked towards the man before her with a deep smile on his face. After her momentary daze, she then reacted, "you heard all of that then?"

Lu Xi lightly nodded.

"You–" Su Jin was just about to say something when she heard the sound of the door creaking open.

Su Yue and the doctor had both entered the room.

Su Jin shot them a nod but then when she had turned back to look, she noticed the man on the bed had already closed his eyes.

"Doctor!" She hastily called out.

Hearing her shout, in a few steps, the doctor had walked to the bedside and attentively looked over the man on the bed. After doing some tests, only then did he turn around and smiled to the Su Family"s siblings who had anxiety written all over their faces, "don"t worry, he is not in a coma. He is still a little weak so he is asleep now."

Hearing this, Su Yue and Su Jin both heaved a sigh of relief.

"That"s right, Ge." Su Jin raised her head and questioned, "have you told home yet?"

Home? Su Yue"s lips had curled, what a clever use of this word.

"Are you trying to ask……" Raising his eyes, he looked at his own little sister, "about Uncle Lu and Aunt Lu? Oh and there"s still big brother Lu Jing."

"Ge!" As if she was threatening him, Su Jin had pinched his waist. Without waiting for him to admit defeat, she had changed tactics and tugged on his shirt hem while asking somewhat nervously, "Gege, his family…… Are they easy to get along with? These past few days, I……"

In these past few days, the Lu family came by daily. Only, due to Lu Xi"s matter, she was still a little muddleheaded so she had not paid heed to anyone else. She was also unsure if she had already left a bad impression on her future big brother and her parents-in-law.

"Don"t think too much." A little amused, Su Yue had pinched her cheeks, "Uncle Lu and them, they are very fond of you already."

Fond of her already?

All of a sudden, Su Jin"s beautiful phoenix eyes lit up.

In that familiar conscious s.p.a.ce, Lu Xi sat on a sofa and somewhat helplessly, he looked at the tiny fellow who was confronting him.

"Xiao Qi[1]……" He lightly began to speak yet, like a shot of flames, it had lit up the inverse scales of the person before him.

[1] Xiao Qi here is a nickname for the person he is talking to, it means Little Seven.

"Lu Xi!" That childish voice that had initially been young and tender had become rather pointed, "are you crazy!"

"I had definitely warned you before about this and you obviously could have avoided it! Are you crazy, why did you just let it b.u.mp into you! Do you know how dangerous it had been this time around? To save you, I had spent the final bit of acc.u.mulated points. If you don"t complete this mission in the end before dying, then we both would never be able to wake up any longer, do you know that! To irregularly break away from completing the task would result in death, do you know that! You……"

"I know." Lu Xi had drooped his eyes slightly, "I know, Xiao Qi."

"I am truly mad." He raised his head and looked towards the azure blue sky in this conscious s.p.a.ce of his that had always remained unchanged. With a slight curve of his lips, he continued, "ever since I had accepted this mission entrusted to me, ever since I knew that she had a brand new ident.i.ty to start over in this world, I had truly become mad."

"Lu Xi……" The little boy before him, who had been made up of particles of light and shadows, gaped at him yet did not know what to say.

What could he even say?

His obsession, his persistence towards her, no one was clearer about it than he was.

On the character attribute panel that was similar to those of a role-playing game, he had always recollected about that one billion points that he (Lu Xi) finally collated enough and had even had a little in surplus.

"From what I have seen thus far, you are the most perfect wish agent."

"The most perfect?" Lu Xi lightly chuckled, "your spiritual intelligence had only been borne for no more than three centuries. Of the hosts that you had been bound to have, there has only been me alone, don"t tell me you have seen other wish agents?"

Xiao Qi had been silent for a while before he spoke, "although I have never seen any, in the Wish Agent system, the information about the hosts" achievements can be shared. In addition, the general headquarters also has a rating system."

"Oh?" Lu Xi raised an eyebrow and had asked with some interest, "then how is my ranking then?"

"Lower first tier." Xiao Qi finally spoke with some reluctance.

"Lower first tier?" Lu Xi shot a glance at Xiao Qi, "don"t tell me that there isn"t any middle first tier or upper first tier."

"That"s different." Xiao Qi had rather impatiently replied, "the general headquarters can only rate you based on your mission completion rate. Yet from what I know, you are different."

"What is so different?" Lu Xi shook his head, "isn"t it just helping some other person to live their life."

"The existence of the Wish Agent system: its purpose was initially to provide a.s.sistance to the Wish Agents by amending the world lines[2], aiding in obtaining acc.u.mulated points and then, a.s.sist in purchasing from the system. Furthermore, at the most crucial juncture, it can even help to offer credited points in advance. Only, due to the differences in rankings, the credit limit of the points offered in advance would be different too. All the other Wish Agents had also done so."

[2] 世界线 (shì jiè xiàn) – A fundamental concept in modern physics and theoretical physics; the world line of an object is the path that the object traces in the four-dimensional s.p.a.cetime. Basically, the world line is the sequence of s.p.a.cetime events that correspond with the history of the object/person, it is a special type of time-like curve wherein it happens on a collection of points called events on a singular path.

"However, you were different." Xiao Qi"s gaze was extremely earnest, "before this mission, you had never even approached the system to request for any a.s.sistance that needed points. Everything that you had, it had been given to you through relying on the entrusted body"s memory, your insight of the story plot, the perfect control over the plot and the calculative abilities to complete the mission."

After he had said till this, it was as if Xiao Qi"s gaze towards him was filled with admiration, "you had the ability to perfectly fuse such an enormous bank of memories without the help of the system"s medicinal mixtures. Moreover, you were able to skillfully and easily handle all the various sorts of genres in all of the different worlds with all kinds of storylines. In the crucial circ.u.mstances of almost being separated from the system, to be able to bring a whole world under your complete control while engaging with it; it was even possible for you to use some of the entrusted body"s abilities so easily as if they were your own."

"A thousand one hundred and thirty-seven years and eight hundred and fifty-six missions, out of all of them: seven hundred and twenty-one of them completed and a hundred and thirty-five of them failed." The smile on the curve of Lu Xi"s lips remained unchanged, "so just with this, it could still be considered as perfect?"

"At the beginning, I did not understand and I was merely a cold robot that only knew how to compute." Xiao Qi seemed to have laughed, "later on, as your successes grew in number, my intelligence, too, became increasingly comprehensive and now, I finally understood."

Lu Xi raised his gaze to look at him.

"From never using your acc.u.mulated points to exchange for the system"s a.s.sistance and to only rely on one"s own self to complete the mission, it was because you were trying to collate a total of one billion points in the fastest speed possible. Furthermore, in that period of time, while you were doing so, you did not even waste one iota of time. As for those one hundred and thirty-five failed missions, all of those had only appeared in the last six hundred years."

"In other words, since those last six hundred years, once your acc.u.mulated points were enough for you to be able to choose your own missions, you had never once failed anymore. As my intelligence had been born, I had investigated on those failed missions. Never was there any exception, all of those missions had been about love. Yet, now after six hundred years, apart from this one time, all those missions that you have chosen- none of them had anything to do with love."

"Lu Xi, all those missions, were you unable to complete them or were you unwilling to complete them?"

"Unable to, and unwilling to." Lu Xi looked at the facial features of the little fellow in front of him who had about 70% of resemblance to himself with a somewhat distracted gaze in his eyes, "it"s both: can"t and unwilling to do so too."

"Hm?" Xiao Qi had tilted his head in puzzlement.

"After her, I no longer have any ability to love another; after her, I no longer want to love another either."

"Even if it was just for show?"

"Even then."

"Forget it." Xiao Qi sighed, "anyway, this time, you were really taking too much of a risk. Have a look, ever since you"ve entered into this world, how many times have you put me to use? To alter Fu Yanzhou and Xu Zixin"s love line and bring them together earlier; to put coordinates into that jade pendant of yours to find your kidnapped sweetheart, and even to help you to find this Ming Kai of yours. Luckily, I am quick-witted and had given you the phrase: "where the water flows, a ca.n.a.l is formed" and when the conditions are right, success will follow naturally. With that, I had saved you numerous amounts of points, otherwise this time, where would there even be enough points to save you!"

One needed to know that points that had already been cast into the acc.u.mulated points box could no longer be used and most Wish Agents would reserve an adequate amount of points before the next mission. Who would be like this lunatic, where as long as he had gained points, he would shove it into the acc.u.mulated points box. This time round, because it involved Su Jin; on the contrary, he had even kept some of his prepared points but who would have thought that the very first thing he had been asked to do, apart from accompanying him for the basic job, would be to modify the world line! Thankfully, it was only modifying and it wasn"t a complete change. Otherwise, just paying up with the use of his allotted limit of credited points, it still would not be enough.

Su Jin had been a transmigrator so what she knew was the original plot in the book. However, what Lu Xi had received was entirely different from hers.

Transmigrator Su Jin"er, due to her knowing the plot, had then been entirely uninterested in the male lead. Yet as for the male lead, while receiving such a cold treatment that was close to a spurn from Su Jin; with this, he had then developed some interest in her. Of course, it too had merely been an interest. He had a.s.sumed that his true love was still Lin Xiyue. So while on one hand, he had been dating the original female lead. On the other hand, he had been teasing Su Jin who had been treating him in an icy manner. He was truly a first-rate sc.u.mbag. Afterwards one day, his actions had finally been exposed and when he tried to frame Su Jin for seducing him, those attempts to pin the blame on her had failed. Thus, the chicken had flown from the coop and all the eggs had been broken instead. He had suffered a complete loss and had been kicked away by Lin Xiyue. Facing such a setback, the male lead had gone to a bar and had gotten drunk. As he had been driving home, he had driven himself into the river and thus, the story ended.

Only, due to the male lead dying midway in the story due to an accident, the boundaries of the world had been on the verge of collapse.

Consequently, Lu Xi had become a trustee in the Wish Agents system.

The trustor"s Wish Agent would take his place and live his life and look for a lover that he would mutually and sincerely be in love with.

As for Lu Xi, when he heard this name Su Jin and after clarifying it with him (Xiao Qi), without the slightest bit of doubt, he had accepted this mission.

"That"s because I believe in you." Lu Xi lightly smiled as his gaze became gentle and tender, "I also believe in her."

I had believed that you would save me and had also believed in her understanding her own feelings towards me.

It was not a gamble because I had thus firmly convinced that you would fall in love with me, or perhaps, you had already fallen in love with me.

"Fine." Xiao Qi feigned an act of being proud of his age and experience as he waved a hand, "since the mission has already been completed, then the matters here have already ended. You have acc.u.mulated enough points and you can now return your original world."

As the faint white light began to twinkle, Lu Xi abruptly spoke and interrupted Xiao Qi"s actions.

"Who says that I want to return?"

"Hah?" Xiao Qi was stunned and the divine light in his hand trembled as he instantly lifted his head, "you won"t go back?!"

"I"m not returning." Lu Xi nodded.

"Lu Xi." The expression on Xiao Qi"s face had become stern, "as a Wish Agent, don"t tell me you don"t know the truths about all of these worlds?"

"I do know them." The laughter in the depths of Lu Xi"s peach blossom eyes was unbelievably clear, "these worlds had been derived and borne through books and lie in between the boundaries of reality and imagination. Each has two sorts of endings; the first, the main lead of the plot had died, no Wish Agent had appeared and therefore, the world had collapsed. In the second, the world line had been developing normally or perhaps, before its collapse, a trustor had been born and had a Wish Agent to meddle in it. Thus, based on the trustor"s requests, the Agent had fulfilled their wishes, mended the world lines and had ensured everything to develop as per normal."

"Finally, the world would then freeze as it follows the natural death of its final story character and decay. It would turn into the divine light and with its strength as a completed world, it would become the nutrients needed for the main universe."

"That"s right, the main universe"s spiritual powers are drying up and therefore, the G.o.ds had used their supreme and mighty forces to form these worlds that exist between the boundaries of reality and imagination." Xiao Qi had stared at him hatefully, rather resentful towards him for failing to meet his expectations and had hoped Lu Xi would change his mind, "you obviously know all this and yet you are willing to live in this illusion. Finally, together with the divine light, you would turn into nourishment for the main world?"

"What is real? What is fantasy?" Lu Xi shook his head and stood up as he gazed towards where he knew as the distant edge of the world, "Xiao Qi, for more than these thousand years of mine, it is only now in this world, do I feel like I have been living. As far as I am concerned, the place where she is at; that is the reality. As for the days that were without her, they seem like a long spell of a dream to me."

"But in the main world, her presence is there too!" Xiao Qi worriedly yelled, "Lu Xi, let us return, alright? Just like how it was when we had first come to an agreement."

Like how it was when they had first come to an agreement?

Lu Xi slightly narrowed his eyes.

At that time, his consciousness had fallen into the darkness for who knows how long that he could not even feel the gradual pa.s.sing of time. After that, he heard Xiao Qi"s voice.

At that time, Xiao Qi did not have any spiritual intelligence yet and was merely an icy robotic voice.

He had spoken, "Lu Xi, are you willing to become a Wish Agent? After you complete the missions and acc.u.mulated a billion points, you can return to the main universe and I can turn back time to before Su Jin"er had boarded the plane."

"Returning to the main universe, I can let time turn back to before Su Jin"er had boarded the plane." Xiao Qi raised his head to look at him, "the main universe"s natural laws and time-s.p.a.ce are excellent and does not have so many restrictions such as these worlds. You too can be together with her for your whole life. There are still some points left, I can help you to cure your body and help you to completely change your former appearance, Also, with your apt.i.tude, I can add on some spiritual influence to the main universe"s developing facilities."

"When there is a will, there is a way."

"When there is a will, there is a way?" Lu Xi raised his eyebrows as he pursed his lips in a light chuckle, "what way? What does it look like?"

"Lu Xi……”

"In the main universe, the sole person that she has any lingering attachments with is no longer in the world of the living. As for me, I don"t have any attachments anymore. What point is there in our return? Most importantly……" Lu Xi lightly sighed as his smile became rather pained, "Xiao Qi, with you turning back time, she won"t have any memories of this place. To do this once more, especially in the main universe, I have no confidence that I can make her fall in love with me."

"Before seeing《Sunflower》, I had no confidence. Now, after seeing it, more than ever, do I not have the confidence to believe that I could."

"Perhaps I would become her most important person but after all is said and done, she would not be in love with me. For a person to go from rags to riches, it is easy. But from someone to go from extravagance to thriftiness, it is hard. As far as I am concerned, the me who has already experienced the taste of love right here, how could I possibly be satisfied with just companionship?"

"Let"s just let things remain like this. Here, we can be husband and wife; lovers." Lu Xi drooped his gaze down as a faint curve of a smile was on his thin lips, "we will always be together until this universe has traversed its time until its uninhabited limits."

In that conscious s.p.a.cetime, all was silent for a long while.

"Is this what you have truly decided upon?"

"I have."

"Any chance for you to change your mind?"

"None at all."

A long sigh sounded through the air.

"With one billion acc.u.mulated points to exchange for one wish, what do you want?" Xiao QI lightly asked, "you know the rules."

"One billion points. I want to exchange it for a joyful, safe and sound life for her, without worries or illnesses."

"You…… There is still the last bit of acc.u.mulated points left, do you want to convert it for anything?"

Concluding this final transaction, Lu Xi looked at the little fellow before him that he had a.s.sociated with for hundreds of years and lightly laughed.

"Xiao Qi, you will definitely meet a better host than me."

Xiao Qi blinked and stared at him for a long while. Finally, he could not help but rush towards Lu Xi in an embrace and with an open jaw, he bit him on his arm.

"Goodbye."

"Perhaps…… I would never meet another host that would be as abnormal as you again." From some distant unknown area, that young and tender voice had rung out.

"Also, I wish you both happiness."

Translated by Irisu

Edited by TokyoFool

All the plot points have been revealed! Whaddya think? ? I"m so curious to know what everyone thinks! Lemme know and I can"t wait to reply to all our readers~ :3

One thought that I have is that the one person that Lu Xi feels he can never win is Su Jin~ How interesting~ :3

Dedicated to our editor-volunteer/reader: Anamoly~ Thanks for volunteering! ?

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