I will eventually become a god through sheer hard work.

Wu Youqing hummed in agreement and nodded, saying, "It should be fine... As I said, your nature... is even more special than that of the Chosen One."

Xue Jing: "..."

I really don't know what she discovered... or rather, what did she take Ah Ban for?

Before he could think too much, Wu Youqing continued her story.

"Just as Earth is merely a planet in the universe, and all planets are encompassed within the universe... if we broaden our perspective and consider each universe as a planet, there must be a 'mega-universe' that can encompass all universes."

"And this 'macrocosm' also has the smallest basic constituent unit."

Wu Youqing said.

"I'll call it 'Big String' for now."

Xue Jing murmured, "Da Xian..."

"I have no idea what the big string is or what its function is."

Wu Youqing shook her head.

"All I know is that the alien god who was bestowed upon me was the one who once entered the 'Great String' but was ultimately expelled from it."

"If we were to forcibly translate its name into Chinese, it would be—Crimson Mist."

……

After leaving the library, Xue Jing was still a little dazed.

He heard far too many things that he, as a young Karami, shouldn't have heard.

Cosmic strings, superstrings, the Great String...

It's like a frog being forcibly pulled out of a well to see the real world.

Fortunately, as Wu Youqing said, since God's death, no superstring entity has been able to enter the present world.

Humanity, for the present and for a long time to come, need not consider how to confront these true gods.

"Take care of everything in front of you first."

Xue Jing snapped out of his daze and walked out of the school.

He chatted with Wu Youqing for a long time. It was already past six o'clock in the afternoon, and the sky was getting dark.

He hailed a taxi and headed home.

On the way, Xue Jing sat in the car, his eyes deep in thought.

Wu Youqing is the chosen one of God.

All the chosen ones will, at some point in the future, undergo a 'divine disappearance,' vanishing without a trace.

Was Wu Youqing taking such good care of him because she wanted to use him to solve the 'disappearance phenomenon'?

Xue Jing stroked his chin: "If 'disappearance' is related to divinity, then I really can solve it..."

However, since the rich woman and the domineering CEO hadn't said anything, he didn't ask.

While pondering, after driving for more than half an hour, Xue Jing got out of the car at the entrance of her residential compound and walked back home.

Xue Jing took out his key, opened the door and went inside, where he was immediately embraced by a figure already waiting at the door.

"My son!"

"Long time no see! You've grown taller!"

With a beaming smile, Xue's mother, Nan Jiayu, hugged her son, whom she hadn't seen for almost half a year, and kept rubbing his head.

"Mom, you're back... Let me change my shoes first."

With his head buried in his mother's arms, Xue Jing spoke in a muffled, low voice.

Upon hearing this, Nan Jiayu released him.

Xue Jing freed himself from his mother's great embrace, changed into indoor shoes, and looked at his mother.

She was dressed in a rather mature burgundy office lady outfit, with light makeup on her face, and looked like she had just returned not long ago.

The person who could give birth to Xue Jing and Xue Wan must have excellent genes. Nan Jiayu is quite beautiful, with a head of long, shiny black hair without a single white strand. She doesn't look like a mother of two grown children at all. Even though she has a very mature demeanor, she looks to be no more than thirty years old. She is a well-maintained mature and beautiful woman.

Xue Jing smiled and hugged her, then asked:

"Where's Dad? I can't see him."

Nan Jiayu stroked Xue Jing's face and hair with both hands, observing his growth and changes, and then smiled and said:

“Your dad still has some work to finish and won’t be back until tomorrow. I was eager to see you and Wanwan, so I came back first.”

"Oh, as expected of my son, he's getting more and more handsome and tall... But he's perfect as he is now, I hope he doesn't grow any taller, or it will put pressure on my future daughter-in-law..."

As she spoke, she began to touch Xue Jing's body.

"Wow, those muscles..."

Xue Jing quickly pressed her hand down and said:

"Mom, you work so hard, I'll cook for you tonight!"

Xue Wan's unconventional personality is largely inherited from her mother, Nan Jiayu.

Xue Jing was well aware of this.

His mother still sees him as a child who hasn't grown up, and letting her touch him like this might lead to some kind of developmental issue requiring a checkup.

It's better not to. Although it probably won't go that far, Xue Jing felt it was necessary to be on guard.

Nan Jiayu was taken aback, then smiled and said:

"Oh? You can cook all of a sudden? You don't happen to have a boyfriend, do you?"

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"Oh? You can cook all of a sudden? You don't happen to have a boyfriend, do you?"

Upon hearing this, a figure subconsciously flashed into Xue Jing's mind.

For some reason, it was Senior Sister Meng.

He then remembered that he had promised Senior Sister Meng that he would cook her a delicious meal.

This matter has been delayed until now and has not yet been fulfilled.

Xue Jing opened the panel and glanced at the cooking skills.

【Cooking Skill Lv6 (2320/3000)】

From the moment he set off for Fengcheng, he hadn't cooked a single dish.

I roasted a few dragons at the border and gained some cooking experience.

Xue Jing himself didn't value this skill, which was completely unrelated to combat power... Well, you could say it was completely unrelated. Controlling the heat and skillfully using cooking utensils did help with combat power to some extent, but the effect wasn't significant.

The skill he activated earliest is now one of the lowest-level skills on the panel, on par with the newly activated [Acting Skill].

Xue Jing touched his chin.

Hmm, it seems like I'll be leveling up soon. Once I reach Lv7, I'll cook a big meal for Senior Sister Meng.

Seeing that he didn't deny it immediately, Nan Jiayu was stunned, a look of disbelief appearing on her young and beautiful face:

"Huh? You don't actually have a boyfriend, do you?"

Nan Jiayu immediately took out her phone from her pocket, quickly typed a few words on the screen, and then put it to her ear, as if she were making a call.

Xue Jing's lips twitched: "Mom, what are you doing?"

Nan Jiayu: "I'm calling your dad to tell him the good news."

She feigned concern by wiping the corner of her eye with her well-maintained, delicate hand, as if wiping away tears, and said with a mixture of sadness and relief:

"You, who used to put on a deadpan face in front of any girl your age since puberty and only played with that girl named Li Ge all day long, have finally come to your senses... Mom is so happy."

"Until today, Mom was worried every day about whether you would open the door to a new world... Hmm? Wait a minute, is your partner a boy or a girl?"

When Nan Jiayu said the last sentence, her eyes suddenly sharpened.

Xue Jing, speechless, reached out and snatched Nan Jiayu's phone before she could react, then pressed the hang-up button on the dialing screen.

"I don't have a boyfriend, and if I did, it wouldn't be a man. Can't I learn to cook for you?"

He pouted.

Upon hearing this, Nan Jiayu's eyes immediately crinkled into crescent moons with laughter. "Mom loves to hear that."

She reached out and ruffled Xue Jing's hair: "You've become so good at talking. You still say you have a boyfriend? You can't hide it from your mother!"

Xue Wan, who was lounging on the sofa petting her cat, watching a show, and eating potato chips, chuckled and said, "Mom, hurry up and make him do it. I'm waiting to laugh at him."

Nan Jiayu turned to her and said with a smile, "If you add another nonsensical word before 'Mom,' I'll skin you alive."

Xue Wan trembled and immediately dared not speak again.

Nan Jiayu stopped smiling and said in a flat tone, "You have no manners at all, sit properly now."

Xue Wan immediately jumped up from the sofa, changing from a lazy side-lying position to sitting upright, placing her hands on her knees, looking as obedient as a child in kindergarten sitting in a row waiting for fruit.

The cat, who was sitting on the sofa next to them, watched this scene and its emerald-like vertical pupils lit up.

Faced with Xue Wan's pleading eyes, which were practically squeezing her eyes out of shape, Xue Jing shrugged, indicating that he couldn't help her, and walked into the kitchen as if it were none of his business.

"Has going to university made you more unruly, Xue Xiaowan?"

Nan Jiayu, her young and beautiful face expressionless, sat down on the single sofa opposite Xue Wan, her long legs crossed, looking down at Xue Wan, whose head was lowered.

Xue Wan muttered, "No...no way, who could be wilder than you..."

Nan Jiayu raised an eyebrow: "Hmm?"

Xue Wan quickly corrected herself: "No, what I meant was, how could I dare to be wild in front of you!"

"Meow~"

A meow that was strained to the extreme came from the side. The cat gently placed its two front paws on Nan Jiayu's thigh, opened its two innocent big eyes, and looked up at Nan Jiayu at the cutest angle.