Making Up Stories Is My Specialty

"So, you know me because you came from the future???"

"Yeah!!!"

"No, let me process this. This has already gone beyond the limits of my knowledge."

Inside Qi Lin's home in an upscale residential complex in Feiliu District.

Although Qi Lin had only been a patrol officer for two or three years, her family was wealthy. When she passed the exam to join the Feiliu District Police Department, her parents bought her an apartment—a modest two-bedroom, one-living-room place.

At that moment, the two of them sat facing each other on the sofa.

Long Qian was naturally full of bullshit, making up a whole pile of lies. Time travel sounded somewhat plausible, but traveling between worlds? That was complete nonsense, okay?

Forget Qi Lin not believing it—even he himself would not have believed it back then.

"No, you said that before you traveled through time—meaning in 2022—you were only twenty-five. So that means you're only eighteen this year. But doesn't that violate the grandfather paradox? Are there two of you in the same timeline?"

Faced with Qi Lin's soul-searching question, Long Qian froze. There was a hole in this story, and a massive one at that. It was riddled with flaws.

But he had already boasted, and the story was already underway. It was obviously too late to change it now, and doing so would only make Qi Lin think he was a complete liar. How was he supposed to keep fooling her then?

Qi Lin was currently his ideal girlfriend. He needed to come up with a foolproof plan.

"System, Daddy needs your help."

Unable to think of a solution, Long Qian decisively called for backup. There was no harm in using this lousy system for free.

System: "Host, can't you just say that before you traveled through time, you were caught up in the Taotie invasion? She saved you, and you survived by sheer luck. Your future self had already died, and by some fortunate coincidence, you traveled through time to come back and save her. Wouldn't that solve it?"

"Tsk, tsk. A system really is a system. Even the stories you make up are so touching!!!"

System: "???"

Afterward, following the system's suggestion, Long Qian embellished the story with vivid emotion, making it even more perfect and moving.

He even began to wonder whether he had been possessed by some award-winning actor. How could he act so affectionately?

He felt like he had the potential to become a scumbag.

He had worked hard for more than ten years in the real world. Now that he had traveled to another world, was he still not allowed to enjoy himself?

He had already transmigrated, so why should he keep cowering? Love was love, and liking someone meant liking them. Why hide it?

"You mean you've always liked me, but I never gave you an answer. But I shouldn't be attracted to a boy so much younger than me. And this time travel thing you mentioned—it's surprising. Some of what you said doesn't add up. There are huge holes in it!!!"

Qi Lin was clearly stunned by Long Qian's emotionally charged story. What shocked her most was the future war.

This alien invasion was merely a test.

Yet she also believed Long Qian's words. After all, when he held her in his arms that day, she had felt so safe. She really liked that feeling, that sense of reality filling her entire body.

"Qi Lin, you already possess a Super Gene. You're an inheritor of the Divine River Civilization's first-generation Super Gene, a Shenhe Sniper. That alone defies common sense, doesn't it? And as far as I know, Super Gene holders have lifespans of at least several thousand years!!!

"I only came back by chance, and I'm just an ordinary person. Maybe I can only live for a few decades. Maybe this will end without result again!!!

..."

Long Qian suddenly sighed heavily as he spoke. He shook his head, his voice extremely low.

"You... Don't you have an angel protecting you? How can you only live for a few decades?"

Qi Lin knew that an angel was protecting Long Qian. Curious about that beautiful and captivating angel, she asked.

"I'm just an ordinary human. I'm not a carrier of a Super Gene. She and I merely have a contract. If I die, she'll naturally leave."

"Ah... I... I'm sorry. Let me think about it. This is... I don't know how to accept you all at once. You must have suffered a lot during those years in the future!!!"

Under Long Qian's sweet talk, Qi Lin had no way to resist. His love talk was centuries ahead of this world's, and he had said plenty of it to his ex-girlfriends. By now, he could deliver such lines without blushing or skipping a beat.

"Yeah, I suffered a lot!!!"

Long Qian's reply was brief. He tried to reveal as little as possible, because he had made all this shit up. Who the hell knew what had happened in the future? Aside from a few major events, he had forgotten everything else.

"I'm sorry. Maybe I didn't mean to keep you hanging back then. You know, protecting the country came first, personal feelings came second. I..."

"Don't say that. I understand. It's just that as an ordinary person, all I could do was think about you suffering in war!!!"

"That night, in your arms, I felt warm, safe, and real. Can you... hold me again?"

Qi Lin blushed. She wanted to experience that feeling again. Once emotions came, no one could stop them. Besides, Long Qian was quite handsome, which directly cut her intelligence in half.

(Brothers, I think love at first sight really does exist. Sure, it might just be lust at first sight, but it should exist, right? It makes sense in a novel, doesn't it?

A person suddenly appears and tells her so many secrets—secrets only she knows—then adds a perfect, touching story. It's normal for her to fall for it, right?

As for what secrets, damn it, I just made them up. Don't worry too much about the details, all you handsome readers, or I'll have to go revise Chapters One and Two. What a pain.)

"System, what's going on here!!!"

Hearing Qi Lin say that, he froze. Warm and real in his arms—what did that mean?

System: "Host, you yourself are real. This is a world created through virtual means, so naturally their souls have something lacking. In the presence of a living being from a real world, it would be strange if they didn't feel that way. It's perfectly normal for them to have high favorability toward you in this world."

"I see!!!"

After learning the details from the system, Long Qian breathed a sigh of relief. He had not expected that he really had the potential to become a harem king.

However, the one thing that greatly displeased him was that he was an ordinary person with absolutely no strength.

Logically speaking, transmigrators were supposed to be protagonists, weren't they? They were supposed to have protagonist halos.

In the world of the Super Seminary, he should have been like the protagonists in those fanfiction novels. The moment he transmigrated, he should have gotten some Divine River Civilization Super Gene, some Pangu Civilization Super Gene, or perhaps an Angel Gene—some kind of cheat that could copy Super Genes. That would have made him the proper male lead of a power fantasy.

If a transmigrator was not the protagonist of a power fantasy, then what was the point of transmigrating?

Was he supposed to be a supporting character and watch the protagonist have all the fun?

But after truly transmigrating himself, he realized that perhaps other transmigrators were just like him—ordinary people. Maybe some people even died on their first day after transmigrating.

The thought that he did not have some ridiculously overpowered system, and instead had to develop slowly and cautiously like an ordinary person, lying low and surviving, made him miserable.

Still, what comforted him was that he knew some things that would happen in the future. Here, there would probably, perhaps, maybe be a few girls who would fall for him. It would be even better if a few more angels came to protect him.

As for a goal like making the Three Kings take maternity leave as long as he was bold enough, he only dared to think about it.

"Making up stories is my specialty."

Then, just as he had held Qi Lin that night, he pulled her into his arms.

"It really is warm. It really makes me feel safe."