Nightmare Light

Chapter 233 No Marriage Allowed
After that, the new god gave himself seventeen or eighteen different names.

Various combinations, including Shan Hua, Da Hua, Shan Jie, and Hua Mei, were rejected by Lin Wang on the grounds of mutual destruction.

In the end, he was the one who came up with a name for the new god.

“You… could be called Qianlan, meaning thousands of mountains and mists, which also sounds like ‘former,’ alluding to the former master of the mountains. I think that’s not bad.”

“Qianlan…that’s a good name.” Upon hearing the name, the new god’s face gradually curved into a smile. “Then I will be called Qianlan from now on.”

After Qianlan accepted the name, she gave Lin Wang a meaningful look and suddenly said to him, "Landlord, do you know? You are the first person to name a god."

"Oh." Lin Wang wasn't interested in this kind of thing and waved his hand dismissively.

"You really don't understand what this means?" Qianlan glanced at the Northerner with great interest, her eyes sparkling with endless stars.

"What does it mean?"

"Never mind, it's nothing." The former Lord of the Mountains waved his hand, naturally changing the subject.

"Next, I'm going to... retire. Please step back a bit."

Seeing this, Lin Wang took a few steps back towards the edge of the platform.

Just then, there was a rustling sound from behind, and the white cat grabbed onto a vine and rose onto the platform.

When she saw Lin Wang, she released the vines, crawled on all fours to his side, rubbed her face against his sleeve, circled around him, then squatted down next to him, making a comfortable purring sound in her throat, and half-closed her eyes.

Lin Wang didn't think much of it and habitually ruffled her hair.

But Qianlan, standing to the side, looked extremely shocked: "Who...who is this! Why is she here!"

"Huh? This girl is a Mist Spirit, she is..."

Before Lin Wang could finish his sentence, Qian Lan interrupted him hastily: "No! That's not the point! The point is, she didn't go crazy after seeing me!"

Lin Wang was startled at first, then realized the problem.

Any normal person would go crazy if they just saw Qianlan's true form!
But not only was the cat unharmed, it also...

He even took out a small dried fish and handed it to Lin Wang.

"Lin Wang, eat some small fish."

Lin Wang took the little fish, smiled at the cat girl, then looked up and frowned at Qian Lan: "Could it be because you retired that the maddening effect disappeared?"

"Do you even believe that yourself?" Qian Lan glanced at Lin Wang. "Besides, I haven't completed my retirement ceremony yet, and I'm still in a state of overflowing power."

Qianlan asked Lin Wang, "Can I talk to her?"

"She's not my pet, so please leave."

Qianlan nodded to Lin Wang and took a few steps closer to the cat girl. Lin Wang saw that there were countless stars flowing in Qianlan's dark eyes.

"Ah... I see..."

"...I can't believe such a thing exists!"

Qianlan's expression was very complicated, gradually changing from initial wariness to shock.

Then, she looked at the cat girl with admiration and praise.

And finally, he revealed a look of utter disbelief: "...That's in line with that guy's personality."

A few seconds later, she regained her calm and gentle expression: "I understand."

"What did you see?" Lin Wang asked curiously—he had always been curious about the cat girl's origins. This girl was mysterious and completely different from ordinary mist spirits. He had long suspected her origins.

He had assumed that since Qianlan had already figured out the girl's background, she would naturally tell him, but Qianlan shook her head: "I cannot say." "You... 'cannot' say?" Lin Wang emphasized the word "cannot".

“You are very clever.” Qianlan nodded. “I have not retired yet. Divine words have power. If I reveal the truth, it will not be good for this girl.”

"Then you can talk about it when you retire."

“…That won’t work.” Qianlan shook her head. “I can only tell you one thing: make this cat girl into this kind of being, above me.”

She pointed to the top of her head.

Lin Wang seemed to be deep in thought.

"Besides, you can rest assured that that being has no ill intentions towards this cat girl." Qian Lan couldn't help but laugh again as she said this. "That guy is just... well, I can't say, I can't say."

"Alright, if she's not in danger, nothing else is that important." Lin Wang ruffled the cat girl's hair again.

The cat strained to lift its head and nudged his palm.

A solid and warm touch came from my palm, along with an itchy sensation from the strands of hair.

Qianlan was a little curious, and slowly smiled as she looked at the cat girl. Suddenly, she leaned closer and asked her, "Girl, what kind of existence am I in your eyes?"

The cat girl, with her amber eyes twitching a few times, listened to Qian Lan repeat herself before finally looking up and scrutinizing him.

“You are very tall, extremely tall, as tall as Lin Wang.” The cat girl lazily twitched her ears a few times. “You must not marry Lin Wang.”

Lin Wang spat out the dried fish from his mouth with a "poof".

He looked at him, puzzled. "What are you talking about?"

Qianlan, on the contrary, smiled with curiosity: "Why can't I marry him?"

“She’s the same height as you, so if you’re the same height, you should get married, right?” The cat girl squatted on the ground and tilted her head. “But I’m still a kitten. I can’t catch enough fish to support both of you… so you shouldn’t get married.”

"...What are you thinking about every day?!" Lin Wang said, both amused and exasperated.

Qianlan suddenly revealed a mischievous smile, and she gently tapped the cat girl's forehead: "Little kitten, if... I mean if."

"If I made you as tall as Lin Wang, would you... marry him?"

The cat girl was stunned. Her ears stood up abruptly, and she froze completely.

Lin Wang looked at Qian Lan in shock: "No wonder the people who went crazy before all had such strange ideas, it turns out they all came from you! Shouldn't the Lord of the Mountains be very composed!"

Qian Lanlu bit her lip, a mischievous smile spreading across her face: "Sitting idly in the mountains for a thousand years is such a boring thing... How can you not find some fun for yourself? Haven't you heard? There are always all sorts of strange and wonderful tales in the mountains..."

"You're the one who caused all this trouble!"

Qian Lan winked at Lin Wang, a mischievous smile on her face, without directly answering Lin Wang's question.

At this moment, the cat girl looked at Lin Wang with a somewhat worried smile.

“Lin Wang… but he has neither ears nor a tail…”

The cat girl looked at Lin Wang with some worry, her ears gradually drooping.

A few seconds later, as if she had made up her mind, she raised her head again and nodded at Qianlan.

"Meow has made up her mind! If you make me bigger, I can marry Lin Wang!"

After saying that, she looked at Lin Wang very seriously again, and said as if to encourage herself, "Meow shouldn't discriminate against disabled cats!"

Who's disabled?

(End of this chapter)