You Can Choose to Give Up

Yu Ziyang listened to the assessment assigned to him, and his face immediately flushed red. Timidly, he said, "Senior Sister Chu, can I switch to another one? I... ever since I was little..."

Chu Youwei cut him off. "You can choose to give up."

Yu Ziyang was so frightened that he did not dare speak again, though his face remained filled with fear and unease.

Unable to bear it, Liao Minmin spoke up for him. "Senior Sister Chu, Ziyang got lost in the fields as a child and was bullied by toads at night, which left quite a shadow on him. Even now, hearing croaking makes him tremble all over. Let alone catching one with his own hands—this assessment is simply too harsh for him. Could I take his place?"

Chu Youwei glanced at Yu Ziyang. Seeing his childlike, frightened appearance, she felt some pity as well, but she still put on a stern expression.

"You can help him this time, but what about later? Surely he cannot bring you along on every field expedition and training trip?"

Chu Youwei looked seriously at Liao Minmin. "Compared to your task of picking Jade Nectar Dates, his assessment is already easy to the utmost! Ask the others—is there even the slightest bit of harshness to it?"

Fang Ya opened her mouth instinctively upon hearing this, but the words, "It truly isn't harsh," reached her throat and went unsaid.

Her earlier experiences had made her more thorough and meticulous in her thinking. Catching a Three-Eyed Toad truly was not difficult, but considering Yu Ziyang's temperament and childhood experience, this assessment did indeed pose a challenge.

But she knew that Chu Youwei must have considered everything carefully before making such an arrangement. Just like the two methods she had assigned Fang Ya and Liao