Victory and Defeat
Even with the Ice Muscle Jade Bone physique, Le Mulan still felt as though her body was about to melt at this moment.
Under the urging of the medicine's effects, the power within her erupted like lava, sending her sprinting forward like a gust of wind.
Whether it was Ziyun High School, Purple Cloud Pharmaceutical, or the Lineage behind her, all had poured immense resources into this competition and the upcoming promotion of the new technology.
It made Le Mulan feel a burden she had never felt before.
But she did not resent that burden.
The Lineage's care, her parents' investment, her brother's guidance... all of it had allowed her to live as a heaven-favored daughter since childhood.
Because of her genes, her talent had been deemed the finest after test upon test.
And so she had kept asking, kept receiving care, kept being treated with every sort of preferential condition...
Yet this had also left Le Mulan with a breath of pent-up resentment in her heart.
She wanted everyone in the Lineage to know, wanted those brothers and sisters who had been screened out to understand.
She was worth those investments.
And with this breakthrough in Body Tempering technology, with the corporate battlefield extending into the Physical Competition, she had finally gained a chance to prove herself to the Lineage and repay her parents.
Le Mulan's eyes remained fixed on Yu Xinghan and Zhang Yu in the distance.
"I thought I could at least take second..."
With a soft whoosh, Le Mulan leaped past Bai Zhenzhen at her side.
"This distance..." Still staring at Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan's figures, Le Mulan gritted her teeth inwardly. "It's too hard to catch them... No, I have to at least try..."
Just then, Le Mulan suddenly noticed a