Chapter 1103: line with translation of chapter title

NO．8：Merciless karmic retribution

Dongyan has a saying: "In the eyes of lovers, Xi Shi appears."

People's emotions not only add a filter to memories, but also add a filter to the present; love undoubtedly is the most direct manifestation of this.

In the passionate stage, men and women often have distortions in each other's eyes, deeming the other's charm unparalleled; the so-called love brain often refers to this stage, and when two love brains clash, the pace at which their emotions and relationship intensify advances without parallel.

But this stage also similarly harbors hidden dangers.

It likewise stems from distortion.

Distorted judgment often leads to contradictions that are nearly unreasonable, such as the panic that silently spreads in one's mind due to an overly high evaluation.

——Do I deserve them?

——Do they really like me?

This then extends to "Will they be taken away?", which appears not to be the kind of anxiety that would arise during the passionate stage.

But it does indeed appear.

All it takes is a trigger, and also merely the pre-existing spiritual imbalance of the parties before they started dating; this kind of suspicious and paranoid mindset that most easily arises in male-female interactions will then surface.

And Xintiao Qian doesn't even need such a trigger.

Because she has countless times sunk into the anxiety of the gap between reality and ideal.

The self in the room, the self in the class, that self far away—all of this is precisely why she once fled to that empty computer world.

Wanting to protect a comfortable world, wanting to get along well with everyone, wanting not to be nervous in front of people, and not wanting to deliberately raise one's tone when speaking.

This, which cannot be done in the repressed reality, also remains unfulfilled in that computer world.

Even though it is a world of one's own creation, even though everything follows one's own commands, those people are still too real.

So real that it continues to accumulate the anxiety she once manifested in reality.

At this time, the one who always acknowledges, praises, and gives, forever able to let her mood be at ease, is Alexis Kailifu.

He meticulously used words to enliven the atmosphere, allowing Qian to strive proudly, while also playing the role of the girl's friend and elder.

But obviously, all of this has an end.

One who possesses power yet is anxious thus resorts to cruel actions in the gradually deepening sense of anxiety—this is how Gulite's story at Cuckoo Terrace came to be.

And after that, it is a story that needs no further elaboration.

Gulite's omnipotent restorative beam, as well as the entirely new Gulite Universe Story, are as complete as a modern fairy tale, and even seem capable of a happy life like the ending often found in fairy tales.

However, when the status, power, and wealth disparity between a man and woman is too great, you should realize that matching families is not merely an outdated dross.

That, too, is a wisdom of life.

Regardless of family will, regardless of societal gaze, simply because of love, you will strive for them, and in the endless pursuit, you will find yourself out of breath.

Throughout history, the love stories of poor boys and rich girls (and vice versa) end either in suicide for love or elopement, rarely having a truly perfect ending that involves no sacrifice.

And the essence of those two endings is the same—the baseline for both parties achieves balance at the moment of dying for love or eloping.

But, Xintiao Qian and Aomo Lindun do not have such balance.

Even Qieliena Dekesas and Aomo Lindun lack such balance.

Frankly, young people's liking ought not to require so much thought.

Countless high schoolers' romances are sweet and sour precisely because they need not imagine too far into the future, only loving everything about the other in the present.

Thus, one need not consider life's burdens, nor overly worry about the other's family background—because you have not yet truly contemplated the weight of spending a lifetime.

Even if you have thought about it, you never dwelled on it; once you do dwell, it becomes an overwhelming fatigue.

Pressure will also soon follow.

Thus, the furthest distance between you and her is nothing more than the distance between classrooms, the distance between grades—even if farther, you can still strive to catch up; this is the purity of 'I like you' and 'You like me'.

But obviously, the combination of Xintiao Qian, Qieliena Dekesas, and Aomo Lindun is extremely bizarre.

So bizarre that it's hard to find a comparable male-female conditions template to apply a metaphor; even among their ages, the most adult is Dekesas, yet the one who considers the future the least is also Dekesas.

So Qieliena is actually not in a hurry.

Even though she is now dating Aomo, not staying at her own home, and has begun coming over for meals and overnight stays for two consecutive days, she still hasn't begun to think that far ahead.

Moreover, she feels no sense of urgency.

The only thing that might make her feel pressure is even during the solemn divine residence battle, when she failed to let Aomo enjoy himself to the fullest.

She can tell, even though the other party did not directly express it.

Even Qian herself can likewise perceive it, causing that half of their chat log that day to consist of absurd yet earnest talk unsuitable for minors.

What is meant by 'shen bi'?

'Shen bi' refers to extremely absurd dialogue content, paired with a very serious conversational attitude, and interspersed in the chat record with extremely hard-to-understand study material.

But the result remains far from ideal.

This is truly a setback direction never before imagined; even Qieliena almost agonized over it all day, her work state as poor as yesterday's.

Let a certain penguin boss harshly poke Aomo's spine in the group.

Although I don't know what the situation is, but anyway, judging from yesterday's state, poking Aomo is enough!

The fact proves this action is indeed not wrong.

Although he had no time to look during the day, Aomo still had some spare time at night to browse the communication app; he noticed that message while eating, and consequently slightly increased his attention to Qieliena in his observation time.

There is indeed a problem… and this problem may be linked with Qian's problem.

Noticing that they often make eye contact, and that Aomo occasionally shows a sense of continuation when tapping his phone, he himself has a subtle feeling of investigating a case.

However, at that time he was still thinking that after dinner he would send this group of unrelated people away and then chat, but the outcome was the incident involving Yishamala.

But precisely because of the Yishamala incident, Qian's and Qieliena's abnormal attitudes prompted him to further raise the priority he had originally planned.

We must talk!

His attitude is resolute, giving them no chance to avoid.

Just as before, the childhood stance of standing before the kitchen and trying to ask Aimu Zhiji reappeared.

No matter how many years have passed, he dislikes that kind of internal drain that merely wastes time, especially when the cause of that drain obviously involves himself.

Between lovers, it's natural to have one's own secrets, but those secrets should never involve each other.

So yesterday, he shut down the terminal, also turned off both of their phones, further eliminated any possible monsters that might pop up from the office management system, and after letting the little black sheep temporarily avoid, he opened the discussion.

From some topics that are embarrassing to bring up, to Miss Xintiao Qi's concerns that are not unreasonable.

She deeply knows Aomo's charm, while also clearly understanding the limits of her own ability.

She was wary of all the women around Aomo, but in her communication with Qieli Naina she also became unsure whether she should stop them.

As for this doubt, Aomo initially still tried to get past it with talk.

Someone who has relied on talk to get past too many problems since childhood, who deeply understands the power of words, when faced with uncertainty always first reasons it out.

But obviously, he naturally hit a wall.

But it's okay, in Aomo's impression there is still a way to solve the problem, after all he originally also specially observed the Sea King.

Although he doesn't intend to become one, skills are still universal—oh well, forget it.

He gave up those references.

Although solemn vows often resolve contradictions, they also give rise to so many scumbag men and women's deeds in this world.

But as a demon who is the native-born foreign minister of the Bade Demon Realm, Aomo deeply knows the taboo of contracts, and never treats promises as a means to deal with his own people.

So what else can he do?

Perhaps only action remains.

The action that could stop that suddenly thinking pink-haired JK from wandering thoughts, when calculated specifically, is still some content unsuitable for minors.

Letting everyone sleep a bit later, also letting a certain person who already likes night running and sleeps relatively late, the little horse girl after the squat training staff's action in the dream bore no fruit, in order to be able to get up on time the next day, had no choice but to give up.

It must be said, the recent Linnton office, besides the Engel coefficient sporadically spiking, some more technological and safer adult products have also become new major expenses on the bill.

It also makes it hard for him to record it on the public bill.

This is also one aspect of actual harmony cheese.