Chapter 4655 — Trying It Out for Himself
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"The higher-up's meaning is that it would be best if we could come out on top in this West Island trial and seize the chance to climb up to the West Island princess..." As he said this, Xu Lingchong's expression could not help turning somewhat odd.
"This... Young Master Xu, why not try it yourself?" Kang Jingming seized the moment to suggest.
"Bugger your arse—don't you know what I'm like?!" Xu Lingchong flew into a shamefaced rage at these words, his eyes fairly spitting fire as though he could kill. Had this been the past, he would have been a thousand times willing for such a thing, but in the present circumstances, try it his arse!
Kang Jingming promptly shrank back his neck. That Xu Lingchong had been snipped was no secret among them; in truth, anyone familiar with Xu Lingchong knew that the man was not merely incomplete in body—his mind had long since been warped as well. Otherwise, why else would he be forever inseparable from the likes of Meng Zhou?
"Uh, then shall I do it?" Kang Jingming said after a moment's hesitation. He had wanted to say this from the very start. To rise to heaven in one step by riding on the coattails of Ning Xuefei, the West Island princess—such a thing he had always looked forward to. This was precisely how he had done things back in the secular world; at heart the fellow was a petty wretch who loved to climb to prominence by clinging to women.
The West Island princess—what an exalted and noble station that was. Once he became her husband, he would in future be a great personage standing at the very pinnacle of West Island. With skillful means, it was not even impossible to supplant her entirely and become the true master of West Island. When that time came, why would he need to toil like a miserable underling for the Center, or watch Xu Lingchong's face?
What was more, Ning Xuefei was not merely the West Island princess—she was herself a peerless beauty of the highest order. Any man would drool over a woman of such charms, save for a physiologically deficient, psychologically warped madman like Xu Lingchong.
Yet even though Kang Jingming drooled over Ning Xuefei, he had never dared harbor any wild hopes. After all, with his meager strength and standing, the gulf between him and this West Island princess was simply too vast. A toad lusting after swan meat should not dream of gulping it down in such a fashion—were word of it to get out, he would be laughed to death.
But now things were different. Kang Jingming himself carried no weight, but what if the vast, mysterious organization of the Center stood behind him as his backing? Then nothing was impossible, was it?
The longer he had been in the Center, the more fully he recognized the might of that mysterious organization, and the more profoundly his heart was shaken. If this time he could win the full support of the higher-ups, Kang Jingming believed he would absolutely have a chance of succeeding—and no small chance at that!
"You?" Xu Lingchong looked him up and down at these words, his face plainly showing some distrust—it lacked only the four large characters "overrating his own ability" written upon it.
"I... I was only making a suggestion..." Kang Jingming's heart could not help quailing. If the other knew that he had all along been thinking only of seizing the chance to rise, he would be in for a bitter time.
"Fine. As things stand, there's no one else but you." Xu Lingchong thought it over and could only nod. Though in his heart of hearts he felt the lad was unworthy of Ning Xuefei, the trouble was that he could not go himself—so who else could it be but Kang Jingming?
"Many thanks, Young Master Xu!" Kang Jingming was overjoyed. This trip to West Island had truly not been in vain—his turn for fortune had come!