Quirk

People were strange creatures.

When Lin Qi had no scandals to speak of, many people claimed that he liked men and was gay. That was not a flattering thing to say.

Women were still fighting for their rights. No matter how well they did, at least some people recognized their efforts, and society had become more tolerant of them.

For women, this was undoubtedly the best era in history.

But for groups whose sexual orientations differed from the norm, this era was the worst the Federation had ever seen.

People gave them all kinds of names. Terms like heretics and degenerates were fairly common.

In certain scriptural interpretations, cited from places no one knew, there was a passage that said—

"The devil uses magic to corrupt people, making them unable to distinguish between men and women, hoping thereby to sever humanity's reproduction..."

The general meaning was that same-sex couples could not have children, and humanity would eventually become extinct for lack of offspring. That was the devil's conspiracy.

Of course, more often than not, this might have been caused by people outside the walls blindly speculating about what was happening inside them. They believed that these people and their love were filthy, ugly, and deformed.

In truth, as long as it was love—true love—it was pure in itself. Where did all those negative things come from?

Sometimes people could not understand that pure love did not merely cross the boundaries of gender. It could also cross the boundaries between species and life and death. Faced with pure and spotless love, they felt their own lowliness and ugliness.

So they panicked and decided that such love was wrong instead of trying to learn about it and understand it.

Mainstream society held such situations in deep contempt. The more traditional the great