The Daughter Ran Away? What a Filial Daughter! Raising a Daughter!

The Daughter Ran Away? What a Filial Daughter! Raising a Daughter!

Douluo Continent.

Deep within the Star Dou Great Forest stood a remote Thatched Cottage, backed by mountains and facing water, lush with greenery.

"Father, I miss Mother. Just tell me!"

"Please!" Chen Qingling blinked her eyes and clung to Chen Shenge's wrist as she acted cute.

Chen Shenge looked utterly helpless. He couldn't exactly say that he didn't even know who the woman who bore his daughter was.

The graceful young girl before him, Chen Qingling, was the product of a muddled encounter with a woman he had never even met.

As for how he knew Chen Qingling was his biological daughter?

It had been a dark and windy night when Chen Shenge heard a knock at the door. When he went outside, he found a baby girl wrapped in swaddling clothes.

He had raised her through countless diapers and sleepless nights. Her personality and appearance were so much like his that there was no way he could be mistaken.

"Ah!"

Chen Shenge let out a long sigh.

It wasn't that he didn't want to tell her; even he didn't know.

Chen Shenge smiled bitterly and stroked Chen Qingling's forehead. "Qingling, I truly don't know anything about your mother."

Chen Qingling pouted, folding her arms across her chest. "Father, why won't you tell me?"

"If you still won't tell me, I'll go find Mother myself!"

Chen Qingling stamped her foot in anger. As she grew older, she missed her mother more and more.

Yet Father had always stopped her, brushing her off with all sorts of excuses.

Either the outside was too dangerous, or people's hearts were too unpredictable. He always said it was better to stay happily in the isolated Thatched Cottage for the rest of their lives.

"Be good, Qingling. Listen to me." Chen Shenge tried to persuade her helplessly, stroking the back of his daughter's head.

But he failed to notice the sly glint in Chen Qingling's eyes as a bold idea surfaced in her mind.

What if she got Father drunk and ran away to find Mother?

No sooner thought than done.

That evening, Chen Qingling did something unprecedented and allowed Chen Shenge to drink.

Chen Shenge drained his cup in one gulp. "Hahaha, this wine is strong!"

"Daughter... do you have some good news to tell me?"

Chen Qingling's gaze darted away as she stuck out her tongue playfully.

"Hehehe~"

"Can't we drink unless there's good news? Or does Father not want to drink?"

Completely unaware, Chen Shenge hurriedly waved his hands. "No, no, no. I haven't touched a drop in two months."

To get Father drunk, Chen Qingling gritted her teeth and filled his cup again.

"Father absolutely can't drink again for the next three months. Drinking too much will harm your body."

"I know, I know."

After several cups in a row, Chen Shenge's vision went black, and he passed out drunk.

Chen Qingling reached out and patted her father on the shoulder. "Father? Wake up?"

Seeing him completely dead drunk, a victorious smile appeared on her face.

"Father... I'm leaving."

Before she left, she did not forget to carry Chen Shenge back to bed.

Five days later.

As usual, Chen Shenge walked out of the Thatched Cottage. He returned only after gathering a basketful of firewood from the dense forest around them.

"Huh?"

"Where's that girl Qingling?"

Chen Shenge set down the basket of firewood and looked around, but he still could not find any trace of his daughter.

"She ran off to play again. That girl is far too playful. Isn't she afraid something might happen?"

Though he had lived peacefully here for over a decade, Chen Shenge had never lowered his guard.

He didn't believe such a vast forest could possibly contain nothing.

Out of the corner of his eye, Chen Shenge spotted a letter on the table. His heart skipped a beat as an ominous feeling engulfed him.

His hands trembling, he picked up the letter and opened it. It was unmistakably Chen Qingling's handwriting.

"Father, don't miss Qingling. I just want to go out and see the world, and find my mother while I'm at it."

"With wisdom far surpassing my peers, I refuse to believe I won't be able to find her!"

"Don't worry, Father. Qingling is safe, so do not miss me."

Chen Shenge clutched the letter, his hands shaking uncontrollably. In the end, he closed his eyes and let out a long breath.

"Ah, a grown daughter can't be kept at home!"

It wasn't as though he had never considered going outside himself, but he simply could not leave the area within a li of the Thatched Cottage.

As a result, he did not even know what the outside world was like.

Ding! Daughter Raising System successfully activated!

Ding! User manual issued!

A heavenly voice rang out in Chen Shenge's mind.

He stood there in a daze.

Only after quite a while did he finally come to his senses.

Chen Shenge wanted to cry but had no tears.

A full twelve years!

He did not know how he had even survived those twelve years.

Fortunately, Heaven had opened a door for him. Although it had closed it again, at least he had not spent his days entirely alone.

Then, a user manual for the system appeared in Chen Shenge's mind.

After reading it, he fully understood the system's purpose.

Raise a daughter!

Whatever his daughter lacked, he would provide.

The rewards obtained through Check-In could only be used by his daughter.

However, when his daughter's strength increased, it would provide Tenfold Feedback to Chen Shenge.

In other words, the stronger his daughter became, the stronger he would become.

Ding! Would the host like to perform today's Check-In?

"Check-In."

Congratulations, host! Check-In successful. You have obtained an Awakening Stone!

Awakening Stone: Can be used to awaken a Martial Soul.

"Huh? An Awakening Stone? Awakening a Martial Soul?"

Chen Shenge was dumbfounded.

His pupils suddenly contracted as he instantly realized what kind of world he was in!

"I transmigrated to the Douluo Continent!"

"So where exactly am I?"

Unable to figure it out, Chen Shenge simply stopped thinking about it.

The urgent matter was finding out how his biological daughter, Chen Qingling, was doing.

"View Qingling's status panel."

Name: Chen Qingling

Martial Soul: Not awakened

Age: 12

Health: Healthy

The tension in Chen Shenge's heart eased.

As long as she was fine, that was all that mattered. He had been afraid something might have happened to his daughter.

Warm reminder: An alert will be issued if the cultivation target's life is in danger!

With the system's warning alerts, Chen Shenge felt even more at ease and worried less about his daughter's safety.

Chen Qingling walked for a full five and a half days before leaving the Star Dou Great Forest without incident. Along the way, she had not encountered a single Soul Beast, as though she had been blessed by the Goddess of Luck.

Looking out at the world beyond the forest, Chen Qingling's face blossomed with a smile, and her arms spread wide without her realizing it.

"So this is the outside world. It's so beautiful."

Then Chen Qingling pouted and complained.

"After walking all this way, I haven't run into the slightest danger. It's completely different from the dangerous outside world Father is always talking about!"

"Hmph!"

"Father, you big liar!"

"You had me fooled so badly!"

Far away in the Thatched Cottage, Chen Shenge had just sat down when he suddenly sneezed.

"Who's talking behind my back?"

Chen Qingling hummed a little tune as she leisurely walked onward.

She did not know how long she had walked.

Twenty meters ahead of Chen Qingling, Ning Rongrong and Sword Dao Chenxin walked side by side.

Suddenly, Chenxin sensed something and looked up.

"Strange..."

"What's wrong, Sword Grandpa? What's strange?"

"There's a girl twenty meters ahead."

"Huh?!"

"A girl?"

This was the perilous Star Dou Great Forest, where Soul Beasts were everywhere.

They had come to the Star Dou Great Forest only because Ning Rongrong had acted cute and insisted on taking a look. Left with no choice, they had come here to obtain a soul ring.

But how could a girl appear in a place like this?

She could not understand it, and neither could Chenxin beside her.

Soon, the two sides met, and Chen Qingling saw Ning Rongrong.

Ning Rongrong wore a simple white short dress, with neat ear-length hair. Her tender skin was as smooth as lychee flesh, and her delicate little face was bright and lovely. She was around one meter forty-five tall, with a very well-proportioned figure and a noble, ethereal temperament.

She did not look like a six-year-old child at all.