The four women busied themselves in the kitchen while Zhou Mingrui and his dad sat on the living room sofa. His dad held his phone and resumed reading, but Zhou Mingrui sat on pins and needles.
Every time one of his mom's questions came from the kitchen, he felt his heart give a violent jolt. Good thing he was already Above the Sequence; otherwise, this might really have given him heart disease.
Zhou Mingrui treasured Old Earth dearly. Unless necessary, he rarely used Beyonder Abilities here. It was not that he worried those abilities might attract something strange; it was simply that life as a Beyonder had been exhausting enough. When he came here, he just wanted to be an ordinary person.
Just as he was spacing out, his dad suddenly frowned, put down his phone, and asked in a somewhat furtive tone:
"Um, Mingrui... You know the author of this book, right?"
"Yeah, what is it?" Zhou Mingrui nodded slightly. Seeing the strange look on his dad's face, even with a Clown's Beyonder Ability, he could not immediately figure out what his dad wanted to say.
"Isn't it said that the people in it are based on real people? So I wanted to ask, do these Demonesses have real-life counterparts too?"
"Huh?" Zhou Mingrui's face darkened, and Father Zhou immediately explained:
"No, I'm just curious, curious! Are they men or women in real life? What do they look like? Are there pictures?"
"Dad, you can appreciate cross-dressers too?" Zhou Mingrui had thought he had already greatly overestimated how trendy his dad was, but he had never expected him to go even further!
"Is that any way to talk to your dad?" Father Zhou smacked the back of Zhou Mingrui's head again. "I said I was just curious. Can a