"That shop lady actually had an antenna on top of her head! Hehehe, it wobbled as she walked. Amazing."
"A cowlick."
"How does that work?"
"Some people have two hair whorls on top of their heads. If their hair isn't fine and soft enough, the tuft in between gets squeezed upright and won't lie down."
"You're good at your job, Secretary Ning..."
By then, they had bought their flower seeds and were riding their electric scooters slowly back.
This was University City. The roads were wide, but there were hardly any cars. The four rode side by side, taking up almost the entire non-motorized lane. With the sun on their faces and the wind blowing past, and students in the bloom of youth walking along the roadside, they felt as if they had grown much younger themselves.
"Why do you call her Secretary Ning?"
"Because she used to be her dad's secretary. I've been teasing her about it ever since."
"Oh... That was a long time ago, wasn't it?"
"More or less."
"How old are you two?"
"Hey! Why bring that up? We're forever twenty-two."
"Makes sense!"
Yaoyao nodded, apparently in wholehearted agreement. She even shouted toward the road ahead:
"I'm forever twenty-two too!"
Chen Shu smiled.
Life here really was easy.
In every sense of the word.
There were no crises here, no dangers. With their strength, Chen Shu and Ning Qing could destroy every military force on this planet. According to the stationmaster, even most cosmic travelers who reached the Spacetime Node were no match for them. Once they fused with Spacetime Energy and became "Deities," they would have even less to worry about. The stationmaster had said that, apart from another master of spacetime now entering his twilight years, the strongest person he had ever received was