Their Story

"Beer? Want one?"

Seeing Angel Yan sit down as well, Long Qian pulled a bottle from behind his back and handed it to her.

"'Thunder Flower, Braving Heaven'—that's pretty interesting."

Angel Yan took the beer Long Qian handed her. When she saw the label on it, she froze for a moment, then said with a smile.

"Yeah. When I first saw that name, I was stunned for quite a while too."

"Back in my hometown, where I came from, this beer was called 'Snowflake, Braving the Ends of the Earth.' As for 'Thunder Flower, Braving Heaven,' that was just something people made up for fun. I never expected that here, 'Thunder Flower' was actually the real brand."

"Hahaha, pretty funny, right?"

After opening the bottle, Long Qian took a huge gulp and spoke with a hint of self-mockery.

He had no friends here to confide in, and life had been rather stifling. But Qi Lin and Qing Qing did not seem like suitable people to pour his heart out to.

Back then, whenever he was in a bad mood, he would have good friends, good brothers, to eat and drink with, talk about life, and talk about whatever was bothering him.

Whenever he missed home, he could take a day off, get in his car, floor the accelerator, and be home in a few hours.

He had not been alone before, but here, he truly was all by himself.

He was terrified that one day he would die here, just like that fellow countryman, dying here and never being able to return.

If he really could not return, his parents would probably be the ones most heartbroken by it.

"Do you miss home?"

Angel Yan was a good person to talk to. Seeing that Long Qian's voice had begun to catch, she asked.

"Yeah. I miss home. I miss it so, so much."

Long Qian nodded honestly. He was not lying; he truly wanted to go home.

"Can I hear your story? I'm very curious about just how wonderful your world is."

Angel Yan somehow produced a pile of colorful bottles and some snacks, placing them all on the table.

She was ready to hear Long Qian's story—a story about a human from the real world.

As for the alcohol she had brought out, it was naturally part of the stock she had brewed in her spare time. Several bottles had even been cellared for five thousand years.

"I was born in a small rural village. There wasn't really anything special about my first twenty-odd years. I had a happy childhood. Middle school, high school, college—it was all normal. I was just like any other student: studying and dating in high school, muddling through college while studying and dating, then finding some dead-end job after graduation, earning a pathetic wage, paying off the mortgage. Maybe later I'd get married and have kids. It felt like my whole life was going to be far too ordinary.

"But I never expected something as unreliable as transmigration to happen to me. And my villa... sigh, I'd only had it for a few months, and then it was gone."

Thinking about how even his villa was gone made him feel even worse.

Other people came into the world with nothing and left with nothing. He was different—he had even taken his house with him when he died, transmigrating together with it. Wouldn't it have been better to leave it to his parents? At least then they would not have been left with nothing while still having to pay the mortgage.

"Mm, yes, your life really was simple... but simple is good too. By the way, were angels famous in your world?"

Angel Yan felt that Long Qian's life had indeed been like that of an ordinary Divine River Body human—simple and ordinary.

"Yeah, more or less. I'm trying to remember what year it aired... right, 2014, around then. You were popular for nearly ten years. Though your character models really got changed a lot of times."

"As for people who liked you, if not millions, there had to be hundreds of thousands. There were countless fanfictions too, though many people didn't approve of some official pairings."

"Ten years? Do you mean the timelines are different?"

Angel Yan caught an important term, one Long Qian had never mentioned before. Still, it was normal that he could not remember too much; human memory was limited.

"Yeah. Here, it's 2014. But in my world, it was already almost 2024."

Long Qian did not think there was anything to hide. That was simply the truth. Besides, he had already revealed so much to Angel Yan before; saying a little more now did not seem to matter.

"The woman in your communication device... is she your girlfriend? She's very pretty."

"She should be called my ex-girlfriend. Our love just ended without any real conclusion. We met in college and were together for four or five years, but we broke up a year after graduation..."

"..."

"What about you? My memories of you aren't very clear anymore. I only remember that your home was on Taro Star..."

Long Qian had finished telling his story. Now, naturally, it was Angel Yan's turn.

He also wanted to hear about Angel Yan's past, though with a lifespan of seven thousand years, she had experienced far too much.

"Me? Seven thousand years ago, I was born in a small town in Aslant, Duren Empire, on Taro Star..."

"Was Andrew your first love?"

Angel Yan had barely begun before Long Qian interrupted her. He did not know why that name had suddenly come to him.

"Mm, he was. He was my guardian knight. What, are you jealous?"

Angel Yan admitted it openly. Andrew truly had been her first love, her childhood companion.

"Yeah, a little. But not much. Do you still think about him now? I remember he died protecting you, didn't he?"

Long Qian nodded. At last, he remembered some useful information. Angel Yan's past seemed to have come from the official comic Silver Wing Battle Blade, but he could not remember much of the plot.

"Mm, I do. Let me continue..."

Angel Yan smiled and nodded, then continued her story.

She realized that she seemed to have fallen for Long Qian, with the same fluttering feeling she had felt when she fell for Andrew.

Of course, perhaps after Queen Keisha gave her their compatibility result, she had begun finding Long Qian more and more pleasing to the eye.

"Gruber was your second boyfriend, right? If I remember correctly, he betrayed the angels, causing enormous casualties among them back then. In the end, did you kill him yourself?"

"I haven't even finished yet, and you already know that too..."

"Come on, I just suddenly remembered it."

"Don't interrupt me."

"Alright, as you command!"

The two of them chatted and laughed until deep into the night, drinking all of Angel Yan's alcohol.

"Long Qian, do you really like me? Do you really like Angel Yan?"

Angel Yan had finished telling her story as well. Looking at Long Qian, she asked very seriously.

"Yeah. Maybe you think I'm too fickle, but I really do like you. I like all of you. I can't hide my love."

Angel Yan shook her head. She did not accept Long Qian's answer, and then said solemnly.

"Do you know? I received our compatibility data from Queen Keisha. Our compatibility reached an astonishing one hundred percent. You like Qi Lin, you like the others—that is your view of love. I believe you won't die after merely a hundred years like other humans.

"And Qi Lin, her Super Gene determines the upper limit of her lifespan. A thousand years or so will be her limit. So I will wait for you for one thousand years, or two thousand. I have already waited through seven thousand years, so I do not care about another one or two thousand."

Hearing Angel Yan's words, Long Qian froze. He did not have a Super Gene, yet his compatibility data with Yan had reached one hundred percent. Was that not a little too exaggerated? Or, as the system said, was it because his body was special, having come from the real world?

"What about Qing Qing? Weren't you the one who made her become my Guardian Angel?"

"I..."

Well, Long Qian's question instantly left Queen Yan speechless.

She had never expected her own data to match so highly with a human like Long Qian, someone without a Super Gene. If she had known earlier, she would not have allowed Qing Qing to swear angelic guardianship and become Long Qian's Guardian Angel.

After all, she followed Sacred Keisha's order of justice and obeyed Sacred Keisha's compatibility results.

And she also knew about the other person Queen Keisha had matched her with—Ge Xiaolun, the official pairing Long Qian had mentioned. Their compatibility was simply nowhere near as dazzling as hers and Long Qian's, because the matching system in the database had now been updated.

Therefore, Queen Yan felt as though she had lifted a stone only to smash her own foot with it.

She had completely dug a pit for herself.