A Meeting of Minds

"Jiajia, you're already over twenty. You need to be more mature in how you handle things."

Though he said that, Bao An selfishly still liked seeing her this way.

The way she pouted in frustration, the way she swung her legs while acting spoiled—those childish moments always filled him with affection.

There was less and less time left.

Companionship, support, affection—all of it had become a luxury.

He had never dared to imagine Huangfu Jiajia losing Bao An, or Bao An losing Huangfu Jiajia, because he did not know how he could face it.

"If that day must come eventually, then let me die before you."

That was what Bao An thought.

Because if he died before Huangfu Jiajia, Jiajia would fall apart.

Things in this world never went as people wished. The cruelest Fate was always bestowed upon those with the deepest feelings.

In the end, Bao An died first, leaving all the mess behind for that girl who had only just turned twenty.

A coin seemed to have been tossed into a prize pool, waiting for some winner to fish it out.

Ji Li killing Bao An did not mean he would obtain this Revival Coin.

That nonexistent prize pool would gather the final total, then distribute it to individuals through some unknown method.

Killing Bao An was a more moderate choice.

The struggle among the three people in the Supernatural World was what would determine the situation. The dead could only be chosen from among them.

And Teng Shan and Tian Xiao Ou were not impossible to kill.

It was simply that Ji Li needed to use the two of them to restrain and test Hou Guisheng.

Thus, Bao An was the one who inevitably had to die first.

On the Tenth Floor, Ji Li lit his