A bath scrub?
Suddenly wanting to do this… Yun Ruoxi pursed her lips, completely unsure of the reason why.
During these three difficult years in the abyss of death row, Shi Linglin had been the one taking care of her almost the entire time.
But something like a bath scrub… they had truly never done that before.
Because her constitution was naturally quite sensitive, and she had developed the Synesthesia World which enhanced her sensory abilities.
It wasn’t to the point where she couldn’t be touched at all, but overly intimate skin contact would still make her somewhat uncomfortable.
It should be clear, under her deliberate cultivation, Shi Linglin should have a perfect understanding of her preferences…
Yun Ruoxi pondered silently.
Shi Linglin waited for a while, and seeing her remain silent, thought she had tacitly consented.
She mustered her courage and knelt down.
Wetting the towel, her hands trembling as she held it out.
However, the moment the towel was about to touch her back.
A powerful surge of telekinesis instantly erupted, firmly seizing Shi Linglin and lifting her into the air.
Choked by the telekinetic force around her throat, Shi Linglin’s face turned bright red, her hands instinctively clutching her neck.
Plop!
The wet towel fell onto the edge of the bath. The white-haired girl, her face full of pain, begged for mercy:
“Si-sister, my lady, I… I was wrong, let me go.”
Yun Ruoxi, with her back still to Shi Linglin, coldly raised her right hand. The telekinetic force instantly dissipated.
Shi Linglin fell heavily from the air, landing on her side on the floor. Clutching her throat, she gasped violently, her face full of lingering fear. It took her a good while to recover.
She scrambled over to behind Yun Ruoxi and picked up the towel.
“My lady, I’ll leave first.”
Shi Linglin said with her head bowed, then turned to leave, wishing she could flee from this monster’s side immediately.
But at that moment, Yun Ruoxi suddenly called out to her.
“Wait.”
The girl’s voice was icy cold, like unyielding ice that could never be warmed, carrying a sense of distance that kept strangers at bay.
“Wh-what?”
“Scrub my back.”
Shi Linglin was stunned, hardly able to believe her ears. Then, a wave of anger surged from within her heart.
What kind of joke was this person playing? Was she teasing her?
She gripped the wet towel tightly, her knuckles turning white from the force.
Clenching her teeth, she remained silent for a long time.
Shi Linglin raised her head, revealing a smiling face.
“Of course, my lady!”
She knelt and walked over behind Yun Ruoxi, wet the towel, and began gently wiping Yun Ruoxi’s back.
The back, smooth as jade, was covered with scars like ravines.
Each one represented a life-and-death battle, proof of Yun Ruoxi’s ascent to the peak of the abyss of death row.
The moment the towel made contact with her back, Shi Linglin keenly sensed the girl’s entire body tremble as if shocked by electricity.
But soon, this strange reaction vanished without a trace. The girl, as if nothing had happened, began to enjoy her back-scrubbing service.
Scrub, scrub, I’ll scrub you to death!
Harboring resentment in her heart, Shi Linglin deliberately used a lot of force.
‘Scrub your back, scrub your back, I’ll freaking scrub you to death!’
After just a few scrubs, the girl’s skin had turned red over a large area. Shi Linglin thought about when Yun Ruoxi would speak up, and then she would reduce the force.
But for some reason, even though it was clearly uncomfortable.
Yun Ruoxi didn’t utter a sound, just bit her lower lip hard.
Only after Shi Linglin had scrubbed her entire back did she stand up, her voice trembling:
“I’m finished bathing.”
After saying that.
She got up and left the bath, walking out of the room completely naked, leaving Shi Linglin kneeling by the bath’s edge, staring blankly at the towel in her hand.
***
The living room on the first floor of the villa.
Yun Ruoxi, wearing her Starforce Battlesuit, walked in through the main door. Shi Linglin, dressed in a maid’s outfit, followed closely behind.
Dr. Forefinger sat on the sofa, legs crossed. He glanced at Yun Ruoxi, then discreetly looked at Shi Linglin, whose neck bore obvious red marks. He nodded in satisfaction.
Good.
Even Shi Linglin, who was treated as a familial substitute, could be ignored by Yun Ruoxi with just a word from him.
The effects of this personality remodeling were truly excellent.
“You may go!”
Dr. Forefinger stood up and said with a smile:
“The new look suits you very well!”
Praised by Dr. Forefinger, Yun Ruoxi seemed somewhat shy, lowering her head slightly. She followed him out of the room. Before boarding the flying shuttle.
Yun Ruoxi took one last look back at the villa. She saw Shi Linglin standing at the doorway with an inscrutable expression, bowing to them. She sighed inwardly.
‘Don’t blame me. This was all Dr. Forefinger’s test.’
‘There’s no rough outline, no audience footage, during the time between the First Season and the second season.’
‘I can’t predict what will happen next.’
‘To safely make it to the second season, I have to use all my strength to deal with every sudden challenge each time.’
‘So sometimes, the responses I come up with aren’t the best.’
‘Just like this time.’
‘If I could have determined in advance what Dr. Forefinger intended to do, I wouldn’t have used such a crude method to dispel his suspicions.’
The flying shuttle’s engine started, roaring as it ascended. The villa quickly shrank in size. Yun Ruoxi thought to herself:
‘I’ll find a chance to make it up to you later!’
***
Central District, Underground Sealed Training Field A23.
Dr. Forefinger brought Yun Ruoxi here, told her to stand by, and then left directly.
Yun Ruoxi looked around the empty training field, then stood silently in the center of the area, waiting.
The training field lights were dim, and it was sealed off from the outside, making it difficult to truly grasp the passage of time.
Ten minutes, twenty minutes, an hour…
Time passed minute by minute.
It was as if Dr. Forefinger had completely forgotten that Yun Ruoxi was still in the training field, waiting bitterly for his instructions. He never appeared again.
But whether it was five hours, ten hours, twenty hours, or even a hundred hours.
The girl still stood straight as a ramrod, like an unsheathed sharp sword.
Until ten days later, the sleepless girl’s body went limp, and she collapsed directly onto the floor.
A robot flew out from the wall, picked her up, and placed her into a nearby Treatment Capsule.
“Xinglan, after personality remodeling, will obey the instructions of the Saints’ hand society’s higher-ups one hundred percent.”
In the monitoring room, Dr. Forefinger looked at Yun Ruoxi with satisfaction, explaining to the projections of the Shengcai and Instructor Behemoth beside him.
“Even if the instruction is completely unreasonable, in her mind, it will be twisted into a test from the organization, or some kind of challenge that must be undertaken.”
“Ten days—that’s her current physiological limit, but not her mental limit. If no second instruction is given, she will continue waiting in the training field after she wakes up.”
“Very good.” The Shengcai nodded slowly. “I have seen her level of acceptance towards general instructions. However, this is not enough.”
“What do you mean?” Dr. Forefinger asked, puzzled. Instructor Behemoth also looked at the Shengcai.
“I saw from the records that she formed deep friendships with some trainees during her time in the battle camp.”
The Shengcai said calmly.
“Next, let me make the arrangements.”
“A weapon does not need any emotions. The organization needs to see her level of acceptance towards extreme instructions.”
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