Chapter 98: Final Act! I Choose to Flip Your Table!

The words fell.

The entire world was completely ignited!

【Whoa! Mid‑Autumn Festival, a global live broadcast to choose a concubine?!】

【Hey upstairs, wake up! Didn't you hear it's the "male protagonist"? This is obviously picking a siege‑lord husband!】

【This looks, this spectacle! Don't even talk about a siege‑lord, give me eight million and it's fine! Choose me! I'm willing!】

【Upstairs, taking and eating both is over the line!】

【Everyone, get out of my way! I bet a pack of spicy sticks that the male protagonist is definitely the rank‑one big boss—Jing!】

Apocalyptic horror?

Never mind!

Melon, must eat until you're stuffed!

And right at this moment.

Above the heavens, the view overlooking all beings began to zoom in wildly.

The camera passed over mountains and oceans, piercing clouds and rain curtains.

Finally… it locked onto a secluded street corner in Jiangcheng!

It locked onto the man wearing a mask, standing alone atop the Corpse Mountain Blood Sea!

【Jing】!

Under the gaze of billions worldwide, he was fully exposed!

【Crap! Who's this dude? His gear's kinda cool!】

【This… this is our Dragon Nation opera's Jing role mask! Hiss… I get it! This is the rank‑one big boss!】

【Wait! That figure… I think I've seen it somewhere…】

Jiangcheng.

The few girls who were watching the magic earlier…

Survivors, hunters, and Dragon Guard from every street and alley…

Their minds were all blank.

It's him!

It's him!

The one who monopolized rank‑one, crushing the fault line, with his own might, killed the Jing of two Twelve Heavenly King Artists…

And yet, right beside them!

"Crap! Play this on such a scale?"

"You won't even let me hide for a moment?!"

Su Ming furrowed his brows.

He was subjected to the most thorough, inescapable method.

Pulled out from the shadows and thrown into the spotlight!

From now on.

He is no longer a hunter in the dark.

But rather…

A monster that the world watches!

"Things have become completely huge!"

Su Ming could clearly feel.

In his Dimensional Reduction Warehouse, those Fourth Act tickets were now becoming scorching hot!

Karma, at this moment, closed its loop completely!

Rank‑one on the leaderboard is him!

Chosen by the female lead of the Theatre of Sorrow, who is also the woman in the heavens, it is also him!

All of this coincided to an absurd degree!

Buzz—!

The space around Su Ming began to warp violently, rippling in concentric circles.

A terrifying force from a higher dimension, without hesitation, forced to drag and devour him!

"Mr. Su!"

In the distance, a crimson after‑image tore the air, eyes blood‑red, sprinting wildly!

It is Crimson!

He sensed the king's crisis!

In the second before being completely swallowed by space, Su Ming's thoughts flashed.

"Capture!"

In an instant, Crimson's figure vanished, forcibly taken into the Dimensional Reduction Warehouse!

Following closely behind.

Su Ming's figure, clutching the Dragon Egg, also vanished on the spot.

The global expectation leaderboard.

That god‑like, towering, despair‑inducing name—

【Jing】!

Suddenly vanished!

Hm? Where are they?!

Whoa! The wall got officially sealed? Everyone's overjoyed!

Seal your head! Didn't you see she was taken away by the female lead? She's being led to the bridal chamber!

Wah wah wah! Why not me! It's because I'm incompetent; I've never even held a girl's hand!

The world roared, speculation erupted everywhere.

Dragon Nation, Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau headquarters.

One by one, news about Su Ming was rapidly consolidated!

Using Official methods…

It can no longer be hidden!

"【Jing】… indeed it's him! Jiangcheng's several Red Light, golden light… high probability…"

"From this moment onward!"

In front of the command console, Li Zhenguo resolutely issued an order.

"Classify all information concerning Su Ming as top‑level secret files! No one may disclose them!"

"Hope that he… returns safely!"

…

Su Ming's consciousness was fragmented, then reassembled!

When he opened his eyes again.

He suddenly realized he was standing at the start of the global performance, in that immensely grand, splendid open‑air Theatre!

He didn't know.

Countless people worldwide were looking up at him in the sky curtain!

"Mid‑Autumn Festival finale—"

"'Crowning of Heroes' officially begins!"

An ethereal female voice descended, the stage stretched infinitely, light and shadow shifting.

A magnificent yet cracked, precariously trembling ancient kingdom materialized out of thin air!

A royal robe embroidered with a ferocious black dragon was suddenly placed on Su Ming.

He was forcibly granted the title of king!

The female lead appeared.

She transformed into a dignified, elegant queen beside him, tears glistening at the corners of her eyes.

She tightly grasped Su Ming's cold hand and pointed beneath the throne.

On both sides stood two figures.

On one side, the Empress Dowager with a face full of love and worry.

That face, that gentle smile…

Exactly the same as his long‑gone mother!

On the other side, a people's representative dressed in a faded white robe.

Although his face was indistinct.

But Su Ming could feel clearly.

That stooped figure, that heartfelt reverence, resembled his reverence for Zhao Gang!

The queen, teary‑eyed, spoke with pleading and despair.

"Your Majesty… our kingdom is about to be completely devoured by calamities and foreign foes!"

"The divine decree has arrived; we have only two paths…"

"Either sacrifice your only closest relative, our Empress Dowager, to the heavens, using her unique bloodline to quell the Calamity and save the multitude…"

"Or activate the Ten Thousand Spirits Blood Sacrifice formation, sacrificing all the citizens who trust you, using their lives to build a barrier that protects the royal family and your mother's life!"

"Please… make a choice!"

Choice?

Su Ming's gaze was icy.

He instantly saw through the hidden trap behind this choice!

It was an outright trap!

It was to roast him over fire!

Choose familial love, save the mother.

He would bear the scorn and curses of the masses, becoming a reviled, doomed king of a fallen nation.

He would watch helplessly as the citizens who trusted him turned into withered bones.

Choose the people, save the citizens.

He would personally push his only closest relative into the abyss of death.

He would become a solitary outcast, despised and treasonous.

Whichever path, it leads to a dead‑end of tragedy!

No matter how he chooses, his Dao heart will shatter and his spirit collapse…

He would become the most perfect hero, devoured by tragedy, in the female lead's script!

How vile!

"Crowning of Heroes"?

Heh!

"King… please, make a decision quickly…"

The 【Queen】 beside him was crying and pleading.

Below the throne, the 【Empress Dowager】 and the 【People's Representative】 both looked at him with hopeful yet desperate eyes!

【Whoa? How to choose!】

【Let me go, I'd definitely choose the Empress Dowager! Wan Hao: Love you, Mom!】

【I am Yasuo! The wind will guide the way! Death is like the wind, always by my side, but Mom cannot always be!】

【Choose the people, the great cause cannot be discarded! Put the people first! Otherwise it's all in vain!】

【As a mother, if this were my son, I would jump down myself, never let him be in trouble!】

【Choosing Mom is filial piety, choosing the people is rulership, this is a moral blackmail ceiling!】

Billions of global Audience held their breath.

They became the judges of this play.

Watching the top‑ranked 【Jing】, how would he decide.

However.

Su Ming suddenly shoved the crying 【Queen】 beside him hard!

He didn't look at anyone!

Instead he raised his head, and with that bizarre mask, faced the empty Theatre sky.

"Only children make choices!"

"I…"

"Flip the table directly!"

【Whoa! This is Jing God? This vibe is perfect!】

【Bibo Burn! No matter your schemes, I'll smash them with one punch!】

【Real men never answer multiple‑choice questions!】

The global Audience's emotions exploded instantly!

Within the Light Curtain, Su Ming had already turned into a black streak of destruction and defiance, propelling himself upward!

All his power was poured into the 【Soul Dagger】 in his right hand!

Script?

I tore your script!

Boom—!!!

The Theatre's fictional sky shattered in response!

The kingdom of light and shadow, like a smashed mirror, cracked piece by piece!

【Whoa?!】

The global Audience was extremely excited.

Is this 【Jing】?!

However…

The next second.

The light reappeared!

The magnificent kingdom, the crying 【Queen】, the desperate 【Empress Dowager】 and 【People's Representative】…

All scenes were restored to their original state!

"How could that be?!"