Asking About Love

The mechanical voice continued, "Even if she bore you sons and daughters, you still don't love her?"

Tang Chen gritted his teeth. "Love is love. If I don't love her, I don't love her. Feelings have nothing to do with those things."

The golden light shifted onto Tang Chen's Wife again.

The mechanical voice continued, "You heard everything she said. Do you still love him now?"

The woman shook her head tearfully. "Please, stop asking."

"Please answer."

The woman suddenly said, "I don't know. I really don't know."

The mechanical voice continued, "You now have two choices. One: your soul and spirit are utterly destroyed, condemning you to eternal oblivion, in exchange for ten years of his lifespan, allowing him and Bo Saixi to live happily together. Two: his soul and spirit are utterly destroyed, in exchange for your resurrection. Which do you choose?"

The woman said through tears, "Can I choose neither?"

"No."

"I choose for my soul and spirit to be destroyed. Let him live!" The woman gritted her teeth. "I've already died once. I'm not afraid of dying again!"

Tang Chen's expression turned complicated, and he sighed.

The golden light shifted back onto Tang Chen. The mechanical voice asked, "Did you hear her choice?"

"I did."

"What are your thoughts?"

Tang Chen remained silent. After a long while, he finally said, "I wronged her!"

"If you faced this choice, how would you choose? Her soul and spirit destroyed, or yours?"

Tang Chen fell silent for a long time again before saying, "Mine."

"Then what if the choice was between her and Bo Saixi?"

Tang Chen paused, then finally burst into curses. "Is there something wrong with you—"

Before he could finish, three bolts of divine lightning descended, striking Tang Chen, Bo Saixi, and Tang Chen's Wife.

"Insulting