During the Gathering

When it came to romantic feelings toward the opposite sex, Qi could basically be considered a blank slate, no matter which life it was.

It had been the same on Earth. He simply lacked the talent for chatting with women. Once there was no common topic, even if Xi Shi herself were sitting across from him, he could still doze off...

Of course, the most important reason was that this love-starved guy had never believed that true, pure love existed in the world.

To him, that was purely an idealized notion. With no blood relation and no prior connection, why would one person give everything for another person who had originally meant nothing to them? He did not really believe in that sort of thing. Whether it was love or hate, there had to be a reason for it.

He could understand brotherhood, especially between comrades who had fought together on the battlefield. That kind of loyalty was usually solid enough. But romance between men and women? He had never experienced it and had no way to understand it, especially that crap about love at first sight. He felt that had to be a hallucination caused by hormones being secreted beyond normal limits...

That was also why, despite not lacking women around him, he was still single.

From the very beginning, he had never thought dating had anything to do with him. In his view, forming a family was not only an inevitable extension of humanity's biological instinct for "sociality," but also a guarantee of successfully reproducing offspring.

So, in his eyes, so-called love was merely the collection of mutual fondness accumulated after two people with compatible looks and personalities formed a family, then stood the test of time. Nothing more.

After all, if it was only about venting desire,