On the side, if his features had not yet manifested, the Heavenly Way would have rolled his eyes at them hundreds of times by now.
Damn it, as a single Heavenly Way for billions of years, why should he have to witness these two spreading dog food?!
At this moment, perhaps Yue Xiuzhi noticed the awkwardness of Heavenly Way eating dog food alone and finally shifted his attention to him.
“May I ask, is A-Ming over there alright?” Yue Xiuzhi asked.
“He’s fine, just cultivating in the spiritual realm,” Heavenly Way said. “Until things are resolved here, he won’t be able to settle down in the demon realm.”
Speaking of this, Heavenly Way suddenly felt a bit itchy, and he said, “I was almost fooled by this kid before… looking back, these two guys teamed up to deceive me and dragged me onto their pirate ship.”
Yue Xiuzhi was stunned for a moment, then reacted. This was probably about the cooperation between Heavenly Way and Pei Ming. Pei Xiaoming probably conspired with Pei Ming to deceive Heavenly Way… Suddenly, he felt a bit embarrassed.
But Pei Ming didn’t feel embarrassed at all. He just finally diverted some of the attention he had on Yue Xiuzhi to Heavenly Way and said, “You act like you’re at a disadvantage.”
Heavenly Way: “…”
Stay calm, never argue with fools.
…Damn it! Is it a question of whether I’m at a disadvantage or not? You and my child of fate teamed up to deceive me! Do I have no dignity?
But Pei Ming didn’t waste any more time on Heavenly Way, turning back to Yue Xiuzhi and asking, “Didn’t I send you to the source world? How did you come back?”
“If I didn’t come back, wouldn’t you have died here and I wouldn’t have known?” Yue Xiuzhi retorted.
Sensing the dangerous implication in Yue Xiuzhi’s words, Pei Ming suddenly became a bit hesitant and said, “Before, there was no other way… At least you’re safe if you stay there.”
Yue Xiuzhi wasn’t too angry either. After all, even if he stayed, besides being used as a target by Heavenly Way and causing trouble for Pei Ming… he couldn’t do much.
Fortunately, this time he was able to rush over and save this idiot.
“The source world is not safe either,” Yue Xiuzhi said. “The main system and various Heavenly Ways have plundered too much energy from the source world, causing the decline of the source world’s Heavenly Way, and it even clashed with another magical plane.”
“That magical plane has aggressive intentions towards the source world, and the situation of the source world is not good… But it shouldn’t be a big problem now,” Yue Xiuzhi suddenly smiled and looked up. “A-Pei, would you like to come back with me?”
Pei Ming put his arms around Yue Xiuzhi’s waist, rested his chin on his neck, and muttered, “Isn’t it just to capture me and make me a soldier?”
“Then, Soldier Pei, do you want to go meet my parents with me?” Yue Xiuzhi’s eyes curved.
Pei Ming grunted in response.
In fact, fireworks were already blooming in his heart.
My wife is taking me to meet her parents!
Heavenly Way: “…”
For some reason, he felt like he was shining a bit brighter today than before.
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“…Take good care of this world,” Pei Ming said.
“Oh, by the way, please tell Xiao Ming that he’s not allowed to go to the demon realm without entering the transcendent realm, at least wait for us to come back,” Yue Xiuzhi added.
Heavenly Way: “…”
These two each have a request… shamelessly stating them so boldly.
After saying this, Pei Ming directly opened a space crack and led Yue Xiuzhi away.
Pei Ming and Yue Xiuzhi appeared in the study where he originally talked with Qin Xun.
Qin Xun hadn’t left yet, but he was startled by the sudden appearance of Yue Xiuzhi and Pei Ming.
Yue Xiuzhi’s return was one thing, but why did he bring another person back?
“Luckily I didn’t die, and even brought you a helper,” Yue Xiuzhi smiled, then turned to introduce Pei Ming, “This is Minister Qin, the Minister of Tian Shou Department of China, who has been leading the resistance against the invasion of other worlds.”
“Pleased to meet you,” Pei Ming nodded politely.
Qin Xun instinctively returned the greeting.
“Minister Qin, could you please tell me how long I’ve been gone?” Yue Xiuzhi asked.
“Not long, just under two hours…” Qin Xun said, feeling like Yue Xiuzhi had left just a second ago and now he was back.
Then Qin Xun, still puzzled, asked, “May I ask who this is…?”
“Pei Ming, the child of fate of my world, and also my boyfriend,” Yue Xiuzhi said.
Qin Xun: “…”
At this moment, Qin Xun seemed to sync up with the Heavenly Way of Pei Xiaoming’s world.
Wasn’t that sentence a bit too much information?
He hadn’t realized that Yue Xiuzhi had such a preference… Even though the information previously investigated showed that Yue Xiuzhi had had several girlfriends, he turned out to be gay.
And besides being slightly shocked by this revelation, Qin Xun felt a bit… bitter?
Wasn’t this what Yue Xiuzhi called “A-Pei” before?
He quickly suppressed this unusual emotion and then asked, “Mr. Yue, did you just say he’s… a helper?”
“Yes,” Yue Xiuzhi nodded. “A-Pei has long since become a god, so it shouldn’t be a problem to deal with that magical plane.”
Qin Xun: “…”
“…What did you just say to me?!”
In just over an hour, you brought a god to me?!
At this point, Pei Ming also nodded and said, “If needed, I can help you deal with them all right now.”
“Now?” Qin Xun was a little stunned.
Pei Ming extended his divine consciousness and, after a moment, said, “That world probably accidentally collided with the source world. Coincidentally, it’s also a derivative world, and the Heavenly Way of that world intends to invade the source world… If you want, I can capture that Heavenly Way right now.”
“…Capture him?” Qin Xun felt like he was becoming a broken record.
“The energy of a Heavenly Way is still quite useful,” Pei Ming said.
“No need for now…” Qin Xun forced himself to calm down and said, “I still have some arrangements to make. I’ll inform you and Mr. Yue at the appropriate time, alright?”
Pei Ming nodded and said, “That’s fine, but it’s best to do it within a month.”
“Since everything is fine here, shall we go home first?” Yue Xiuzhi turned to Pei Ming.
Pei Ming nodded, unable to resist a smile: he liked the words “going home.”
“Apologies for the disturbance, Mr. Gu,” Yue Xiuzhi said.
Then, the two of them disappeared on the spot.
Qin Xun stared blankly at the spot where they had disappeared.
After so many years of worrying, the big problem had now been unexpectedly solved, and he was still a bit stunned.
So… everything’s fine now?
Pei Ming and Yue Xiuzhi’s journey back home was particularly smooth. In order to make the Yue parents accept Pei Ming, Yue Xiuzhi told them that he was able to preserve his life and go to another world all because of Pei Ming.
This statement wasn’t entirely wrong, after all, if it weren’t for Pei Ming, the system wouldn’t have assigned that task to Yue Xiuzhi. In that case, if Yue Xiuzhi had been electrocuted in reality… he would have truly died.
But Yue Xiuzhi intentionally misled his parents, making them think that it was Pei Ming who saved him and allowed him to survive.
At first, the Yue parents were surprised and couldn’t accept it. After all, their son had previously liked girls, had several girlfriends, and now suddenly brought a boyfriend home. They were completely unprepared. . .
However, they themselves didn’t have any discrimination against homosexuality and were quite tolerant of other LGBTQ+ individuals. They didn’t hope their son was gay, but just because they knew that gay individuals faced more challenges in society.
But now they also knew that their son was no longer an ordinary person. Normal social rules couldn’t bind him, so whether he was gay or not didn’t really matter.
As for descendants… their son had already died once. If he could come back alive, they would be grateful to the heavens. As for future generations, they no longer had any extravagant hopes.
“Your parents are really nice, no wonder you’re so good,” Pei Ming said to Yue Xiuzhi.
“I didn’t expect them to accept it so easily either,” Yue Xiuzhi joked. “Originally, I was prepared to kneel down to them and then get kicked out.”
Pei Ming had been really happy lately because Yue Xiuzhi had given him many surprises.
Just being able to be with Yue Xiuzhi made him happy enough. He even felt that all his luck in this lifetime was spent on this. But he never expected Yue Xiuzhi to bring him to meet his parents and openly acknowledge their relationship.
He knew what this meant.
Yue Xiuzhi had completely opened up his world to him and held his hand, welcoming him inside with a smile.
Pei Ming’s heart was itching with excitement, thinking to himself: Once I’m in, I won’t leave.
On the other hand, Yue Shiyao’s reaction to suddenly having a “sister-in-law” like Pei Ming was quite different from her parents’.
Her acceptance was extremely fast… so fast that it could be described as excited.
Yue Xiuzhi was quite familiar with the species known as “fujoshis.” After all, nowadays, not to mention the majority, at least one-third of girls were fujoshis… But he didn’t expect his own sister to be one too, which was somewhat amusing and exasperating.
But all in all, everyone was happy.
Well… happy my ass!
On the fifth day after Yue Xiuzhi and Pei Ming happily returned home, Yue Xiuzhi was suddenly stopped by a girl on the street.
Yue Xiuzhi heard the girl call out, “Shize!”
After seeing the girl’s face clearly, Yue Xiuzhi’s heart suddenly skipped a beat.
Damn, ex-girlfriend.
He glanced at Pei Ming standing beside him and then thought, “…”
This is fucking awkward.
For convenience, Yue Xiuzhi was still wearing Gu Sinian’s face, but because Gu Sinian looked extremely similar to “Yue Shize,” he was still noticed by his ex-girlfriend while walking on the street.
After seeing Yue Xiuzhi’s appearance clearly, disappointment and sadness filled the girl’s eyes.
Feeling a little lost, she let go of Yue Xiuzhi’s hand and lowered her head, saying, “Sorry, you look so much like a friend of mine who passed away. I mistook you for him for a moment…”
She was about to leave, but Pei Ming spoke up, “May I ask, what was the relationship between you and that friend?”
Yue Xiuzhi: “…”
Damn, what’s with this creepy feeling?
She already said it was a friend, why are you still asking…?
Pei Ming looked straight into the girl’s eyes, and although the girl seemed reluctant to bring up that person again, she still said, “He was my ex-boyfriend.”
“Thank you,” Pei Ming’s eyes darkened, but there was no change in his expression. “I’m sorry for bringing up your sad memories. May the deceased rest in peace.”
“It’s okay…” the girl said, then left.
