Chapter 0: 54. Seen Daddy
“Do you believe I can slap myself to death?”
Wasn’t Mu Tangchun’s ‘Shaohua Eyes’ just used a moment ago Qin Yuan’s Natal Spirit Tool?
Two people who looked and sounded so similar, and possessed the same Natal Spirit Tool. If one were to say it was purely a coincidence, and these two had no relation at all, it’s likely Qin Yuan himself wouldn’t believe it. Qin Gou’s mind was already in chaos, even starting to wonder if he could still distinguish them if Mu Tangchun dyed her white hair black and stood side by side with A’Yuan without speaking.
“Ah? Why? Did Chun’er do something wrong?” Mu Tangchun blinked her innocent, watery beautiful eyes and asked softly.
Qin Gou gritted his teeth, his face full of frustration. “Don’t call me by those two-character terms anymore. It makes my skin crawl.”
“Oh.” Mu Tangchun nodded obediently. Her eyes flickered, and she tentatively asked, “Then… the child’s father?”
“Wh-what?”
As Qin Gou removed his veiled hat, he was instantly struck to the heart. His expression stiffened, and he asked blankly, “What child?”
Mu Tangchun seemed surprised by Qin Gou’s strong reaction, and her little face instantly turned red. “No… Chun’er was just thinking, since you don’t want me to call you by a two-character name, I’ll switch to a three-character one. As for children, of course, we need to work on it together…”
“Stop!”
Qin Gou took a deep breath, a look of relief like escaping from certain death on his face. “Don’t continue this topic. From this moment on, just call me Qin Gou.”
For a moment, Mu Tangchun’s face was filled with awkwardness, like a shy young girl in front of someone she liked. Her voice trembled, “But Chun’er accidentally angered husband…”
She only spoke halfway before remembering Qin Gou’s warning. She quickly lowered her head, looking wronged, and bit her red lips, daring not to use intimate terms anymore.
“This is irrelevant.” Qin Gou forced a helpless bitter smile. “The crux of the matter is, I don’t know you at all… It’s not that I don’t know you completely, but truthfully, until today, I really didn’t know who ‘Mu Tangchun’ was.”
“I am your… lover.”
“Who told you that?” Qin Gou’s mouth twitched. If this wench said she was a lover from a past life, it could at least be considered a common saying. But to directly say ‘lover,’ how could that be?
“Of course, I realized it myself. It doesn’t matter if you don’t want to admit it now.” Mu Tangchun’s originally bright and lively beautiful eyes suddenly lost their luster, and she spoke as if utterly dejected.
“Damn it.”
Qin Gou wanted to cry but had no tears. Judging by the momentum, he believed that if viewed from Mu Tangchun’s perspective, his face must have been written with words like ‘unfeeling scoundrel’ and ‘heartless man.’
“You can just ‘realize’ something like this? Please, Madam Mu, explain it more clearly?”
A flicker of pain flashed in Mu Tangchun’s eyes. With teary eyes, she looked at Qin Gou and said, “After I awoke that day, I forgot everything about myself, but I still knew who the person I loved most in this world was. I couldn’t figure out my own name, but I still vaguely remembered many past events related to you. If you think I’m lying, Qin Gou, you can test me however you like.”
Upon hearing this, Qin Gou pondered for a moment, his brow furrowed, and he asked questions such as his birthday.
Without exception, Mu Tangchun answered fluently. After answering, Mu Tangchun even appeared slightly proud of how much she understood Qin Gou, and her sad expression eased a little.
“Then, the day you mentioned awakening, do you remember the specific month and year?” Qin Gou asked, unable to suppress his curiosity.
Mu Tangchun gave the answer without hesitation: “The eighteenth of July.”
After confirming the specific year, Qin Gou carefully recalled… It was precisely the day Qin Yuan, using the power of his Innate Special Being to avoid death, arrived in this world. There was no deviation.
This Mu Tangchun must have a great connection with A’Yuan!
“Last question.” Qin Gou took a deep breath. “Do you know about the ‘Soul Stabilization Thread’?”
The ‘Soul Stabilization Thread’ was one of A’Yuan’s unique Innate Special Being talents, which that wench claimed was unique in the entire Cultivation World, unmatched! If it was possible for a duplicate Natal Spirit Tool to emerge, then a similar Innate Special Being talent would be an absolutely unique existence.
“This?”
As she spoke, a strand of semi-transparent silk thread appeared between Mu Tangchun’s fingers, floating slowly, moving without wind.
Qin Gou struck out as fast as lightning, grabbing a strand without hesitation and activating it with his spiritual power.
“Be careful.”
Mu Tangchun cried out in alarm and quickly retracted all the Soul Stabilization Threads in her hand. “This will be very dangerous.”
Qin Gou also snapped back from his daze. There was no mistake, this was exactly the same as the feeling of being immobilized by A’Yuan’s Soul Stabilization Thread when he was accidentally bound by it.
“I completely understand now.”
Qin Gou nodded forcefully, his expression returning to complete calmness. He smiled warmly and said, “Little Mu, it must be due to your amnesia that you’ve misunderstood the direction of your feelings for me. I am truly not your husband, nor the father of your child, but your father.”
“Father?!” Mu Tangchun was dumbfounded, her expression extremely astonished.
“That’s right, I’m serious, not joking. The questions I just asked, your appearance, your Natal Spirit Tool, and that Soul Stabilization Thread have all proven this point,” Qin Gou said, his tone as gentle and peaceful as possible. “I don’t know why this is the case, but it is a fact.”
He didn’t want to say that Mu Tangchun might have been an accident, or perhaps just a side effect of A’Yuan’s arrival in this world, because after all, he was facing a living girl before him.
Listening to Qin Gou’s words, Mu Tangchun was silent for a long time. Suddenly, she blinked her bright eyes and asked cautiously, “Then, from now on, will Chun’er call you ‘Father’ or ‘Daddy’?”
“You can call me whatever you like, I won’t force you.” Qin Gou chuckled wryly. “The reason I said all this is just to make Little Mu truly understand the relationship between us, so as to avoid making so many jokes.”
After saying that, Qin Gou couldn’t help but feel his old face heat up, but he concealed it well…
This might seem like a joke to others, but to Old Qin, it was terrifying. To be called ‘husband’ by this wench would make Old Qin’s heart leap straight to his throat, making him unable to breathe.
“Mhm, Chun’er understands.”
Mu Tangchun pursed her lips slightly, her little face burning hot, with a shy and alluring charm. She nodded her little head obediently and meekly, “So husband likes to play this kind of game… mhm, Chun’er has seen Daddy!”
Qin Gou’s eyes widened, and he stood with his mouth agape for a long moment. Suddenly, he covered his face, which was beyond embarrassed, and cried out hoarsely:
“Kill me!”
