Sister Qin Qin

As the weather gradually turned cooler, Qin Luming told Fairy Jiang not to leave the tent while he went outside to check on the situation.

Early in the morning, he unexpectedly saw Che Yun. She looked like a wronged victim, haggard and uneasy. It seemed she had not slept well last night either... though not because of Yang Xiaoyan and Brother Paris's activities in the tent.

Someone like Che Yun, who had joined the outdoor event purely because she thought it would be fun, was not qualified to participate in the search and rescue. She would only be a burden.

"I should have gone with them yesterday." Seeing Qin Luming, Che Yun walked over and spoke regretfully, her tone filled with endless sorrow, as though things could have changed if she had set off with Yang Xiaoyan and the others.

Qin Luming said nothing. Women were like this—their emotional venting mattered more. Nothing they said at times like this had any reason behind it. It was no different from farting.

"Maybe if I had gone with them, none of this would have happened. You know about the butterfly effect, right? Even the slightest change can trigger a huge reaction. If I'd woken up then and told them to wait for me, making them miss the moment when the accident happened, maybe everything would have been different." Che Yun was anxious and self-reproachful. Compared to the other strangers, Qin Luming, someone she had shared an experience with, was clearly a more suitable person for her to confide in.

Qin Luming laughed. He really could not stand women like this. Women always had so much nonsense to say and thought about all kinds of pointless things.

Be rational. If you could do something, then do it. If you could not, then face it calmly. Obsessing over how to soothe your own little emotions, thinking about how to make others comfort you through confession so you could feel a little better... that was probably how women thought.

"You can still laugh?" Qin Luming's smile clearly held no friendliness, comfort, or positive energy. Instead, it was cold, mocking, and heartless. Che Yun stared at him in disbelief. "At a time like this, everyone is praying for them, everyone is doing their part, even people who don't know them... Some students in our group even organized a prayer event last night. They lit heart-shaped candles outside the dormitory and called on everyone to repost and like it, so they could gain more support and blessings. You... you're sneering here?"

"That's even funnier..." Qin Luming could not help laughing louder. "I set out with the search-and-rescue team last night. You cannot imagine the kind of danger I encountered. Prayers? Candles? Reposts? Likes? Support and blessings? Can it get any more ridiculous? What a bunch of hypocritical, affected, melodramatic people."

"H-how is that hypocritical, affected, or melodramatic?" Che Yun found his laughter especially grating, and her expression changed. "Do I have to be like you and act as if their disappearance means nothing?"

There was no way to communicate.

As Qin Luming laughed, he gradually felt a little sad. Were women in reality all this stupid? The girls in his novels were clearly so proud and adorable, yet after coming into reality, they had brought him none of that wholehearted joy... apart from the thrill of having Fairy Jiang in his arms just now.

What a waste of excitement.

Would he really have to spend his whole life living with Zuozuo and Caicai? The perfect girlfriend he had always looked forward to seemed like she simply could not exist.

Qin Luming had extremely high expectations for a girlfriend because of the influence of what he had seen and heard growing up. His uncle's two wives, before and after, as well as his uncle's confidantes, had all been peerless beauties, each one charming and seductive in her own way.

His mother was also a very traditional, gentle, and virtuous woman, and his sister was outstanding as well... Aside from the female elders, relatives, and friends he knew—excluding An Chacha—he had not met a single woman in the real world who could compare to his mother and sister.

The beautiful and adorable Zuozuo and Caicai were still only his right- and left-hand women.

Qin Luming glanced at Che Yun. Women in reality really were hideous.

Che Yun met Qin Luming's gaze and sensed extreme contempt in his eyes, which made her even more irritated. Normally, whenever she posted a selfie, countless people liked and commented on it. She was the kind of beauty people called a "goddess." Most men could only earn a spot in her social media feed and give her likes.

Yet this Qin Luming seemed to genuinely regard her as worthless trash, stupid and ugly.

Qin Luming's phone rang. He took it out and saw that it was a video call request from his sister, Qin Qin. The photo displayed was very cute. Qin Luming looked at it twice before answering. Comparing the Che Yun beside him with his sister's photo, women like Che Yun seemed even more unbearably vulgar.

"Sis... what is it so early in the morning?" Qin Luming yawned. He had not rested since joining the search and rescue effort yesterday until this morning, and he was getting sleepy.

"Zuozuo and Caicai's adoption procedures are done. I was originally going to mail the documents to you, but I'm heading back to City A today, and I wanted to see you too... Make lunch for me." Qin Qin looked at her beloved younger brother. "Where are you? It looks like you're in some kind of park?"

"I'm camping." Qin Luming switched the camera and panned it around the surroundings.

"I think I saw a pretty girl." Qin Qin was referring to Che Yun.

Qin Luming laughed. "She's from another camping group... the people she came with disappeared, and she's the only one left."

"Ah! Then come back quickly. Don't let anything happen to you too." Qin Qin spoke nervously. He was the Qin family's only male heir. In the third generation of the family, he was the only boy. Little Uncle's family had daughters only! Uncle Tian had not even gotten married.

"Got it. When will you arrive? I'll pick you up... forget it, come over yourself. I still have things to do." Qin Luming remembered that he still needed to settle Fairy Jiang, so he probably would not have time to pick Qin Qin up.

"You brat, you won't even pick me up now. Anyway, get back quickly. People disappeared in that place, so it must be dangerous." Qin Qin sternly reminded him, then smiled. "I hope to hear good news later."

"No." Qin Luming hung up the video call after saying that. The good news Qin Qin meant was whether he had found a girlfriend.

He was only in his early twenties, yet his family was already urging him to find a girlfriend.

It was not that Qin Luming could not find one. He simply did not want to settle. Until the perfect girlfriend in his imagination appeared, he planned to stay single.

Since Qin Qin was coming over, Qin Luming did not intend to stay here any longer... The search-and-rescue team was destined to find nothing. Their search area had already expanded far beyond the dam. That black pig Ma Shilong had been locked in the Heavenly Prison, while Yang Xiaoyan and those pigs were probably somewhere inside the formation, enjoying life as reincarnated pigs. How could they possibly find them?

Perhaps, like Ma Shilong, they did not want to be human anymore.

Qin Luming packed up his things, bagging all the trash he had produced over the past two days to take down the mountain for disposal. He gave the rest of his equipment and tools to the search-and-rescue team.

But when he opened the tent, he discovered that Fairy Jiang was no longer inside. Qin Luming could not help looking around.

"I'm above your head."

Qin Luming raised his head and saw a pair of pristine white soles radiating a faint halo. Through the glow, he could vaguely see slender calves with skin as delicate as jade. There was no spring scenery beneath her skirt.

There was no spring scenery beneath a God King's skirt. Qin Luming saw only strange, fantastical specks of light—the very images of those wondrous creatures that had appeared when Fairy Jiang first descended. He had thought those lights had all vanished, but he had not expected them to be beneath her skirt.

Layers of talismans also floated along the inner hem of her skirt, forming overlapping formations and radiating dazzling golden light. It was as if the moment she lifted her skirt, countless talismans would fly out and sacred formations would activate, making people instinctively fall to their knees in worship.

"Why are you floating over my head?" Qin Luming hurriedly stepped away. Fairy Jiang had been hovering less than twenty centimeters above him, yet he had not noticed her at all.

"I found it very interesting watching you talk to that female insect." Fairy Jiang curled her lips. "That female insect was filled with a desire for you driven by instinct. When she discovered that her appearance—or rather, the influence she sensed she had over the opposite sex's reproductive instincts—was insufficient, she tried to create a sense of personal charm to move you. But clearly, she failed. You are a relatively outstanding insect, while she is merely an ordinary female insect."

"Thanks for the compliment, but we are not an insect race, God King Jiang. I hope you can recognize that correctly." Qin Luming deeply regretted giving the female lead of his novel the setting that she saw everyone as insects. If he had not, would the Fairy Jiang who came to his side have lacked this problem?

"Any race that reproduces through primitive means and displays animalistic racial traits can be called insects." Fairy Jiang did not care. "Why are you humans so arrogant as to think you do not belong in the category of insects?"

"Then aren't you an insect too? You were born to your parents, right? Didn't you reproduce through the primitive means you mentioned?" Qin Luming could not be bothered with Che Yun. The key was that Che Yun's looks and figure had not given him much interest in bothering with her... Even if Fairy Jiang did not fit the complete image of the perfect girlfriend in his mind, she was still... Sigh, Qin Luming's mentality was still somewhat different.

"Ignorant insect, you actually think I am the same as you... King of Passionate Love fought King of Fighting Landlords and neither emerged victorious..."

"Wait, last time you clearly said you were defeated by King of Fighting Landlords."

"King of Passionate Love was defeated without either side emerging victorious in her battle against King of Fighting Landlords. In order to reshape and forge a more powerful divine spark, she turned herself into a God King-level Life Tree that absorbed the core of the Divine Kingdom." Fairy Jiang paused. Seeing Qin Luming purse his lips as though he did not intend to continue arguing about "defeated" and "neither side emerged victorious," she continued, "That God King-level Life Tree finally matured and bore a Life Fruit capable of directly giving birth to a God King. That was me."

Qin Luming felt there was something wrong with that explanation. So King of Passionate Love and Aizen King were essentially the same person, weren't they?

She had given birth to herself. How interesting.