He became the White-Haired Evil God after wearing the Seven Curses Rings.

"..."

Xie Bai remained silent for a while.

She recognized the owner of the little hand as Xie Sha, whom she had recently adopted, but the question was, what was going on in this situation?

Taking advantage of Xie Bai's confusion and lack of effort, Xie Sha suddenly yanked her hand and snatched the ice cream that hadn't even been licked yet from her hand.

"Forget it, I'll just let her have it. I don't need it anyway."

Xie Bai shook his hand and picked up another ice cream.

Just as she was about to savor it, the little hand that had crossed space suddenly reappeared in front of her and began to rub her face back and forth.

"..."

Xie Bai glanced at the bedside table.

There was no more ice cream left, but there were still plenty of other frozen treats like popsicles, with at least three of each.

After thinking for a moment, Xie Bai picked up an ice cream from above.

"They should all be about the same..."

She stuffed the ice cream into the little hand, thus sending the uninvited guest away.

"Now no one should bother us anymore."

Xie Bai smiled slightly, then reached for the ice cream she had just saved…

"Ugh! What have I done wrong this time...?"

A little blue-haired girl, soaking wet, suddenly appeared on Xie Bai's bed, wetting a patch of her sheets in the process.

Just as the other person was looking around to see what kind of place it was, her gaze met Xie Bai's.

"..."

The air was quiet for a moment.

"Uh... hi? Um... long time no see?"

The other person gave an awkward laugh, and the next second she saw a fist swinging towards her face.

……

Ten minutes later.

Xie Ling sat on the edge of the bed, covering her cheek in pain, and said with a wronged expression.

"Ugh... I know I accidentally disturbed you, but could you please not hit me so hard? It really hurts..."

Xie Bai refuted this without hesitation.

"If you were to step on me directly, I guarantee I'd hit you even harder than before."

As he spoke, Xie Bai dried her long hair and asked.

"By the way, weren't you always staying in the timeline, and you even said you were going to leave this world later? How come you're here now, and your body was so wet just now?"

"Well..."

Xie Ling scratched her cheek, explaining somewhat awkwardly.

"Based on this timeline, I should have succeeded long ago, but as you know, I wasted some time earlier, which means I seem to have missed the optimal time and encountered the moment when the two worlds merged."

"At this time, the coordinate data and such were quite chaotic, which made my previous preparations less applicable. And when I first started trying, I didn't know that the world was merging, which caused me to keep traveling back and forth between different timelines."

"In the end, I don't know what conditions were triggered, but I ended up here with you. Although the process was a bit... well, at least I escaped from the timeline."

As she spoke, Xie Ling didn't forget to put on a smug smile, as if what she had just said was something extraordinary.

Xie Bai squinted and said, somewhat speechless.

"Then tell me, how did your body get wet?"

Faced with this question, Xie Ling suddenly became somewhat annoyed.

"It's strange, there was a timeline that was entirely water. You have no idea how panicked I was when I first arrived in that timeline. I couldn't find anything to grab onto. In the end, I struggled in the water for a long time before I finally managed to escape..."

Upon hearing this, Xie Bai, who was drying her hair, suddenly froze.

A timeline that's all water?

Wait, could the other person be referring to the timeline she used to unleash the boundless sea?

Thinking of this, Xie Bai looked down at Xie Ling's hair.

She was wondering why Xie Ling's hair was so hard to dry. Normally, she could just flick it and be done, but now it had taken her so long to dry it only to be about 70-80% dry.

If it were soaked by the water of the boundless sea, that might be somewhat plausible.

Looking at it this way, Xie Ling is quite resilient. Even without the same immunity, he managed to withstand the erosion of the boundless sea, and in the end, he only ended up completely soaked.

After much deliberation, Xie Bai finally decided not to mention this to Xie Ling, lest she use it to blackmail her.

"So, you have to wait until the world is fully integrated before you can go home smoothly?"

Xie Bai asked casually.

Xie Ling thought for a moment when she was asked the question.

"Probably. Now that I'm out of the timeline, I'm only one step away from leaving this world. Once the worlds are fully integrated, I should be able to leave directly."

"Now that you mention it, I'm suddenly looking forward to it, after all... it's been a long time since I've been home."

Upon hearing this, Xie Bai instinctively asked another question.

"Do you have family members waiting for you to come home?"

"this…"

Xie Ling thought about it carefully.

"Probably not. I remember I've been alone since I can remember, and I've never met any family. Maybe... I'm an orphan? Or maybe I have some mysterious background. After all, I'm the great Time Witch who can travel between different worlds! If this background were in a novel, I'd be a protagonist at the very least."

Xie Ling smiled smugly.

Seeing her overly optimistic demeanor, Xie Bai gently shook his head.

Although Xie Bai had never paid attention to this issue before, now that it had been mentioned, she couldn't help but think about her own family.

That said, does she have any family?

I probably have, but the memories of my past life are like a dream, becoming somewhat illusory.

As for now...

She glanced down at Xie Ling.

"We share the same surname, so let's just say we do."

After thoroughly drying Xie Ling's hair, Xie Bai brought over a constant-temperature blanket and wrapped it around Xie Ling.

"By the way, aren't you the great Time Witch? Why are you getting a cold?"

"Cough cough... I don't know, maybe the water in that timeline was a bit too weird, um... This is the first time I've ever heard what it feels like to have a cold. It's so uncomfortable... my throat is so hoarse..."

"Uh... never mind, you should rest here for a while. By the way, would you like something to eat?"

"Eating...no, I feel so nauseous right now...I can't eat anything, and even if I don't eat, I won't starve to death..."

"Okay... then."

Xie Bai glanced at her, then picked up an ice cream from the bedside table.

But just as she was about to taste it, she suddenly noticed that Xie Ling was looking in her direction.

She tried shaking the ice cream in her hand, and found that the other person's gaze followed suit.

"..."

After a moment, Xie Bai asked tentatively.

"Do you want to eat?"

"Can I...eat this?"

"should?"

……