This Is My Planet - Chapter 146 - Chapter 146 – Transformed Into An Egg
This time, Gongsun Jiu really left. Under Xia Guixuan’s furious aura, she couldn’t stay any longer, feeling like she was about to be beaten to death.
But she felt very happy.
Feeling like it’s worth getting beaten up.
It’s not about the “evil brother” bullying the “pitiful sister.” Given Xiao Jiu’s status, if she were to find a man, they can only be lovers. How could they possibly live together?
Yet he got angry on Xiao Jiu’s behalf and cursed that malicious “brother”.
If before, she felt hesitant and somewhat unwilling, it was because she understood that they were merely confidants, not at the point of discussing marriage, much less becoming lovers. It was just that her current situation and status had forced her into this “solution” and “plan to break up the couple.”
She hadn’t been very willing.
But his anger made her feel sweet, and she left with a smile on her face.
On the other side, Yan Wuyue looked at the angry Xia Guixuan with a strange expression. It finally dawned on her that the Xiao Jiu in the game videos was the deputy marshal’s sister… No, the deputy marshal herself.
Wait…she had originally thought that the deputy marshal’s jealousy was just a playhouse farce, but now, thinking back, why did it feel like she herself had been duped by the deputy marshal?
Is this a mutual cheating situation?
It turned out that back on the battleship, when she and Ling Moxue were catching an affair, they weren’t wrong. These two definitely had an illicit relationship. She even said she was willing to be his lover…
“Why are you staring at me like that?” Xia Guixuan asked impatiently.
Yan Wuyue cleared her throat. “Ahem, um, there’s a girl who’s willing to be a lover.”
Xia Guixuan replied unhappily, “Who said she was willing? Xiao Jiu may appear gentle and elegant, but she’s extremely proud inside, subtly looking down on her peers. Now I understand why she pitifully wanted to enter the game world as Cold Light On Iron Armor. This trash family looks down on girls and treats them as tools…”
“Pfft… Well, it’s actually quite normal.” Yan Wuyue laughed. “Since Great Xia has reverted to a clan system, to what you called ‘family interests,’ naturally, there’s a strong feudal vibe in these large families. Didn’t you notice when you visited the Yin family with Xiaoru? It’s not as good as when we first immigrated. Back then, people were more open-minded. When the Gongsun ancestors wanted to be emperors, the collective reaction was to refuse… But now, I suspect that when the time is right, they might actually do it.”
“The one most likely to do it is Gongsun Jiu himself,” Xia Guixuan said, glancing sideways at her. “Do you want to be the empress?”
“Uh…” Yan Wuyue just realized that this seemed to be the main point.
After being led astray here and there, Xia Guixuan wouldn’t be as provocative as before, and even she had almost forgotten it, but this troublesome issue still needed to be faced.
Yan Wuyue felt a headache coming on and didn’t know how to broach the subject, but then she heard Xia Guixuan sigh, “I say others are part of feudal families who don’t treat girls as human beings, but I’m not much better myself… I can’t give you the kind of guarantee that Gongsun Jiu would as a wife, yet I don’t want you to be with someone else. Maybe I’m even worse than them—they’re feudal lords, and I’m a slave master.”
Yan Wuyue blinked her eyes.
Xia Guixuan continued calmly, “You can call me selfish or domineering if you want. Either way, no matter how you all think it over, I won’t allow it. So there’s no need for you to respond to him tomorrow, because you’re about to enter your egg phase.”
Yan Wuyue: “…”
“If you really turn into an egg, and you don’t nurture it after midnight, it’ll leave an indelible mark on your body, which will be extremely difficult to heal in the future. These trivial matters between men and women shouldn’t concern you anymore. Focus your mind, calm your spirit, and understand the fetal breath of nirvana. I’ll help you transition and send you the source of the flame.”
After this absurd drama, Yan Wuyue had almost forgotten that she was injured. Her pain had nearly numbed her body to the point where she didn’t feel it anymore, but she hadn’t expected that he would still keep it in mind.
She fixed her beautiful eyes on Xia Guixuan’s serious face for a long while before saying softly, “Have you noticed that from when we first met, your ethereal, otherworldly aura has become full of mortal concerns? You now experience greed, anger, resentment, love, and hate—and you take care of people…”
Xia Guixuan said, “I’m just walking the path of mortals again.”
“For someone like you to say you don’t want attachments…” Yan Wuyue smiled. “You’re not that kind of person at all. I don’t know how you managed to suppress your true nature so tightly before. How could you cultivate like that?”
“…Carving the boat to find the sword, that was the situation at the time,” Xia Guixuan said, somewhat dazed. “I was once the worst kind of slave master, indulging myself without regard for others. The end result was terrible… Later, I overcorrected myself, and it worked out well, as it should have… Maybe I overcorrected for so long that I forgot it was ‘over,’ and thought it was the right path.”
He sighed again, “Looking back now, I feel like I’ve walked to the extreme in both directions, neither of which is the Dao. Even tyrants and despots have their good points, like being true to their emotions… So why oppose everything? Discard the false and keep the true, abandon the evil and preserve the good—that’s enough.”
As he spoke, something stirred in his heart. His spiritual platform rippled gently as if countless insights flooded into it. The injuries to his soul and Dao principles began to heal rapidly, like withered flowers and trees visibly coming back to life in spring.
Xia Guixuan stood there stunned, pondering for a while before suddenly bursting into laughter. “Is it really that simple?”
Yan Wuyue couldn’t hear his laughter anymore.
The restoration of the Tai Qing Dao principles had triggered an overwhelming resonance with the laws of heaven and earth. The sense of revival and the breath of life she felt, akin to withered wood coming back to life, was almost intoxicating. She was utterly overwhelmed and instinctively fell into a meditative state, and then… she turned into an egg.
Her last conscious thought was that she hadn’t finished speaking yet. She didn’t want to sleep… She hadn’t even asked how long she would be in egg form!
Xia Guixuan: “…”
The egg was actually quite adorable, surprisingly pink with natural, mystical patterns etched into it. Its size was about the same as Yan Wuyue’s… uh… sphere.
What kind of bizarre comparison is this… Xia Guixuan tapped his own head, wondering if this odd state he was in was truly in line with the Dao or if he was just broken.
But the fact remained that his injuries had indeed made significant progress in their recovery—this was undeniable.
It was just that the newly reformed Dao differed somewhat from the old one… like something hidden deep within had begun to surface, like the strange patterns emerging on the eggshell.
With a flash, Xia Guixuan moved into the land of flame origin, carefully placing the egg-shaped Yan Wuyue where the water condensation pearl had previously been—the very core of the flame origin.
The surrounding fire spirits seemed to sense something. Thousands of firebirds swirled around from all directions, spontaneously guarding the egg, as if they were guarding their king.
Xia Guixuan smiled slightly. “This is also a kind of fate. Let’s see how deep your destiny runs.”
In truth, he couldn’t predict how long Yan Wuyue would remain in her egg form, as it depended on how much she could absorb and comprehend while in this state. In the immortal Dao, when one closes off from the world, time becomes irrelevant. The notion of pre-determining how long one’s retreat will last is either for the very inexperienced or the exceptionally advanced. Yan Wuyue happened to fall somewhere in between.
Whatever happens, happens.
At least one matter had come to a conclusion, leaving him with a sense of satisfaction. There was no need to dwell too much on trivial affairs between men and women. If they become troublesome, just beat everyone up—who cares about leaders or commanders?
As he was thinking this, his watch beeped with an incoming call, and Xiao Jiu’s voice came through: “Want to jump into the game? I have something to discuss with you.”
“I also want to say a few words to you. That rotten brother of yours is really irritating.”
“Haha… Let’s talk in the game.”
“Why can’t we just talk on the phone…”
“Meeting in the game feels more real.” Xiao Jiu smiled faintly. “Honestly, all our interactions have been in the game. To me, that’s the reality.”
“Okay, I’ll be there in a moment.”
A moment later, inside Xiao Jiu’s Room 404, a flash of white light signaled Xia Guixuan’s arrival in the game.
Xiao Jiu was already waiting inside, dressed in a simple and elegant white dress, with short hair and glasses, looking like a girl from a university campus—her scholarly aura was fresh and fragrant. She seemed entirely different from the person who had recently plotted against the head of state a while ago…
The feeling had shifted from plotting for the main task to being like a blind date girl.
But the bright smile in her eyes, like a spring breeze or autumn water, lit up when she saw Xia Guixuan appear, full of joy and happiness.
This was clearly not a date—it was an online romance.