Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 605 For the Sake of Marriage!

Ignoring the huge commotion behind him and the white light shining from behind, Li Miaosheng buried his head and walked forward.

The bride arrived at the wedding venue.

The hall was decorated in bright red for a festive occasion. Although it was quiet and sparsely decorated, it had all the necessary hardware for a wedding.

Xu Wenli stood alone in front of the hall, until he noticed something and slowly turned around: "Li Miaosheng..."

"Hello, Mr. Xu. It seems like we haven't seen each other much since graduating from high school," Li Miaosheng greeted him with a smile.

Xu Wenli was not surprised by Li Miaosheng's early arrival. He glanced at his watch and said, "We still need to wait a little longer."

“No need to wait. I’ll decide my own wedding. It can’t be like what you say, Mr. Xu.” Li Miaosheng stood with his hands on his hips, poised and confident. Although he always had a smile on his face and spoke respectfully, his attitude was quite different.

Xu Wenli frowned, shook his head, and sighed: "Li Miaosheng, I know that the current development of things is largely in line with your expectations. Even the fact that I have the opportunity to touch this possibility that I have been longing for is all because of your arrangement."

"Wouldn't that make things much easier to discuss?"

“But I can’t give up,” Xu Wenli said resolutely.

Li Miaosheng's smile faded slightly: "Elder Xu, your ideal is indeed great, hoping to enable everyone in Dadu to obtain the power of life and have the right to choose their own evolution. But no matter what, you need to sacrifice me as a bridge before that, right?"

Xu Wenli: "..."

The old man had no words of defense; his choice already went against his past principles: no research should sacrifice innocent people.

Not to mention that Li Miaosheng was Fan Zhonghong's childhood sweetheart... the two children were inseparable since childhood, and their future should have been bright.

Ultimately, the cause of this incident is also inextricably linked to Xu Wenli.

He should have firmly stopped Li Meng from conducting experiments on himself and his child from the beginning.

Now, ironically, the bitter fruit of his past research into the dead has become the very thing he has to face again after shifting his thinking to what he considers the right approach, from the gate of death to the gate of life.

The dead hiding is not the stable evolutionary path that Xu Wen wanted, while the living hiding in Li Miaosheng, although the specific reason for its appearance is unknown, is obviously related to the experiments conducted by her father and brother.

“I also know that the reason you accepted Ahong as your student is because of his special talent. Ahong has super-sensory abilities at the ritual level. Unlike those half-baked ritual practitioners who can only barely piece together the connections, he can truly see the doors and boundaries that others cannot see. In some aspects, his naked eye can even surpass the observation equipment that the Pure White Society has painstakingly developed... He can even sense the world of life and death.” Li Miaosheng reached out and held onto the pillar next to him as he spoke.

"Did he tell you?"

“He didn’t tell me; I sensed and understood it myself. It’s just a pity that because your research progress was not going well, you didn’t even get the chance to let Ahong truly unleash his talent. University is a crucial period, and I could see your dilemma, Professor Xu. To prevent you pure-hearted scholars from making choices that would harm Fan Zhonghong out of your stubbornness, I took him with me.” Li Miaosheng frankly explained the reason why he and Fan Zhonghong went to the University of San Zio, which was far away and not close to home.

"I won't..." Xu Wenli, who had never dodged the topic before, subconsciously denied it here.

"Really not? What's there to say in the current situation?" Li Miaosheng's words were questioning, but her tone remained gentle, and her warm gaze was like a sharp blade trying to pierce Xu Wenli's heart.

"When I presented you with the opportunity, you still chose to team up with my foolish brother to attack me without hesitation. Although I feel a little embarrassed that I was setting a trap, it was indeed you who made the choice. Elder Xu, you are highly respected and have devoted yourself to the cause of Dadu, achieving outstanding results and gaining widespread fame. You deserve high-level treatment, but in the Pure White Society, you can only watch with resentment as a promising project is buried..."

Li Miaosheng continued, "You don't subscribe to the Pure White doctrine and uphold a corner of justice in your heart, but the environment of the Pure White Society can unconsciously transform people into something different from what they want to be. You should be very clear about this. Li Meng, that man should be here too, right?"

"Tsk tsk, although I haven't seen you and Bu Si for a long time since I separated from that woman Lin Li, you've both grown into exceptionally outstanding people, more outstanding than I ever imagined. Miao Sheng." A voice of admiration came from behind, and Li Meng walked out from a corner of the courtyard. With his appearance, the people he brought no longer concealed and surrounded the scene, and the wedding became lively.

Xu Wenli fell completely silent, his old back hunched. "Our research should never be constrained. If we can't maximize the use of resources, hasn't the suffering Old Xu endured already demonstrated the truth?" Li Meng shrugged and said casually, "Besides, this is for Dadu. Miaosheng, you deliberately exposed yourself to the desperate Old Xu and your brother when you were alone with Fan Zhonghong, hiding it from that kid. You were also maximizing the use of everyone around you, even Fan Zhonghong, and even yourself."

He is, after all, the biological father. Even if he has no moral bottom line and is not that familiar with his son and daughter, he still sees things very clearly.

“My dear daughter, what I’m curious about is, why would you go to such lengths, even putting yourself in this danger? Lin Li raised you from a young age, she shouldn’t have treated you badly in any way, right? Her family is powerful and influential, she wouldn’t be prejudiced against you because of me, would she?”

"So that Ahong can marry me without any burden," Li Miaosheng said calmly, his smile fading from his face in front of his own father.

“…Huh?” Li Meng was stunned, as if he had never thought of this reason before.

Xu Wenli was also somewhat taken aback. Even though he had accepted the situation, he still felt a mix of emotions when faced with the fact that he had been tricked for this reason.

“Mr. Xu, actually your choice was not wrong. Ah Hong did help you,” Li Miaosheng said to Xu Wenli.

"What do you mean?"

“My half-open life gate…” Li Miaosheng gently touched his chest, “was opened by Ahong.”

……

“I opened Miaosheng’s birth gate. I opened it about halfway, and at that time I saw Miaosheng, who was physically weak as a child because of the birth gate she was born with, and another version of herself that was unconsciously born behind the gate in order to protect herself.”

"This is how I first met 'Li Miaosheng'." In the car, Fan Zhonghong no longer hid anything and told the story of his past with Li Miaosheng.

Fan Zhonghong and Li Miaosheng's first meeting was when they were close to each other, and Fan Zhonghong noticed the strange heaviness emanating from the little girl.

It was like the profound sense of weight he felt in his hazy, infant consciousness when he was stillborn but managed to survive by opening the hidden chamber.

Seeing that the girl seemed weak from the pressure of the birth canal, he took it upon himself to help her.

So, he opened half of the door to life.

They encountered another "Li Miaosheng" behind the door. This "Li Miaosheng" was somewhat different from the normal Li Miaosheng. Clearly, she possessed intelligence earlier and was a product of the combination of Shengzang and Shengmen. Her purpose in existence was to maintain Shengmen while protecting her original self.

Although they are the same age, "Li Miaosheng" is like a mature older sister, taking Fan Zhonghong out to play, saying it's to thank him.

The connection was established at that time.

And that "Li Miaosheng" also informed Fan Zhonghong about Li Miaosheng's situation.

After hearing this, Fan Zhonghong knew that he might have made a big mistake.

Without knowing each other at all, he made a fool of himself and changed a girl's life, which should have been ordinary but carefree.

Li Miaosheng was protected by her mother and was not taken to the Pure White Society by Li Meng's application to follow in her brother's footsteps. Her mother, being from a wealthy family in the central capital, allowed her to stay in the central capital for the rest of her life and enjoy a life with everything she could want. Even without any power, she could still be happy and fulfilled.

But things change the moment the door to life is opened.

Extraordinary achievements come at a price.

(End of this chapter)