Highest Realm of Lies (First Update)

Only then did Xia Chujian rapidly start thinking, trying to come up with an excuse to deal with her aunt.

Should she say she had played games without eating or drinking for one week and ruined her health? Or that she had been attacked, severely injured, and spent a week lying in a Medical Cabin, leaving her physically weak? Xia Chujian hesitated between the two excuses before finally deciding on the second one.

Still, the second one could not entirely be called an excuse.

She really had been attacked—outside the game.

And she really had been severely injured—inside the game.

As for the Mechanical Intelligence attacking her in the game and denying her food and water in an attempt to starve her to death, she had better not tell her aunt and frighten her...

Having made up her mind, Xia Chujian instantly fabricated the entire story in her head, from beginning to end.

This included the reason she had come back this time: the person who had attacked her wanted to kill her whole family again! That was why she had rushed back.

That explanation was indeed very believable.

The Highest Realm of Lies was nine parts truth and one part falsehood.

Xia Chujian felt that her mastery in this regard had reached the pinnacle of perfection.

Sure enough, not long after Xia Yuanfang learned that she was awake, she came to her room to see her.

She first examined Xia Chujian and confirmed that her body had recovered even better than it had two days ago. Only then did she sit at the bedside and ask with a frown, "What exactly happened?"

Xia Chujian blinked, wanting to squeeze out a few tears. When she failed, she gave up and told her the excuse she had just made up.

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