Revelation of the Way of Heaven

Qin Xiaochuan now deeply agrees with the statement that everything has two sides, as his teacher once told them in his ideological and political education class.

Take this matter of repairing the Heavenly Soul as an example. The benefits are obvious: his spiritual power level jumped directly from level 3 to level 5. As for the downside, of course, it was his vacation. He didn't even realize that the seven-day National Day holiday was over; it just passed by when he woke up.

Especially when he returned to the dormitory and listened to Gao Xiang and Ma Qichao tell him about the interesting things that happened to them during the long holiday, he felt nothing but heartache.

"By the way, Xiao Chuan, what did you do during this long holiday? Did you go home?" Ma Qichao asked him. He had spent almost the entire week with his best friend, and naturally, he had experienced a lot of good things.

"I... of course I was sleeping," he said with a wry smile.

"Sleeping?" Ma Qichao looked at him suspiciously. "I don't believe it. You haven't been meditating all week, have you?"

"Yeah, you could call it meditation," he said helplessly. It wasn't a bad idea for the other person to think that way; it was more reliable than sleeping for seven days straight.

"Holy crap, did you go crazy from meditating? You haven't gone out to play for seven days?" Gao Xiang looked at him as if he were a monster.

This infuriated him. After all, he had gained a lot in those seven days, so how could he let them look down on him like this? So he said, "You don't know anything! This was the wisest choice I made. You're the ones who made the stupid mistake."

"How could we have done something so stupid?" Gao Xiang asked him, puzzled.

So he asked, "Did you encounter traffic jams while you were traveling with your parents for the past seven days?"

"Of course it's congested! What is usually an hour's drive has been turned into a whole day's traffic jam. You didn't see it, all those drivers were playing cards on the highway," Gao Xiang complained.

He then asked Ma Qichao, "When you went to Changqing Mountain with your best friend, were there many people on the mountain?"

Upon hearing Qin Xiaochuan's question, Ma Qichao first showed a pained expression, and then said, "Of course there was a lot. We played at Changqing Mountain for two days, and half of that time was spent queuing. I don't even know how we got up from the bottom of the mountain to the top. We were just standing in the crowd. You could get up there even if you didn't want to."

"That's it." He snapped his fingers at them. "Do you know what this is called? This is a classic case of paying money to suffer. Actually, I expected this outcome, so I chose to meditate indoors rather than go out and play. Don't you think this was the wisest choice?"

"That makes sense." The two nodded in agreement.

Qin Xiaochuan couldn't help but smile smugly. Just as he was admiring his own cleverness, he heard them continue, "But I still think it's really silly to spend all seven days of vacation indoors."

When they finished speaking, they both shook their heads, their expressions clearly emphasizing the word "too stupid".

"Damn it, what's going on? This script is wrong! Shouldn't the two of them be impressed by my wit?" Qin Xiaochuan stared dumbfounded at the two people in front of him.

Just as he was thinking about how to refute the two of them, Gao Xiang asked him again, "By the way, don't you still have that childhood sweetheart from high school? You haven't asked her out for the past seven days?"

The childhood sweetheart Gao Xiang was referring to was Xia Ruoyi. Thinking of Xia Ruoyi, his heart suddenly sank. Since their unpleasant argument last time, he hadn't contacted her once, especially in the last seven days. He hadn't even sent her a text message. He really didn't know what she was thinking. Besides that, he also thought of another terrible thing.

"What's today's lunar date?" he hurriedly asked Gao Xiang. Before Gao Xiang could answer, he immediately opened his phone to check.

"I don't know," Gao Xiang shook his head and said, but Qin Xiaochuan had already found the result on his phone.

August 27th.

Xia Ruoyi's birthday is August 25th, which has already passed two days.

"It's over," he muttered to himself.

He went out onto the balcony, took out his phone, found Xia Ruoyi's number in his contacts, but hesitated to press the dial button. How could he explain it to her? He figured no matter how he explained, it wouldn't make a difference.

But he eventually got through to her on the phone. He knew he had to make amends for his mistakes, even though he wasn't confident he could get her forgiveness.

"What?" Xia Ruoyi's indifferent voice came from the other end of the phone. His heart tightened, and he felt even less confident. He stammered, "Wasn't it your birthday the day before yesterday? I... I remembered I was going to give you a gift, but I've been busy these past few days... busy with some things, and I forgot when I got distracted. I know..."

"Thank you, but no need." Xia Ruoyi interrupted him before he could finish speaking. Her voice was calm, without any anger or resentment, but he felt a chill rise in his heart.

"I'm sorry, Ruoyi, I know it's my fault, I..."

"You don't need to apologize, and you didn't do anything wrong." Xia Ruoyi said impatiently, "I'm going to sleep. That's enough for today." She hung up the phone immediately after saying that.

The dial tone kept ringing in his ears. He felt his mind go blank and stood on the balcony for a long time, holding his phone blankly. Although Xia Ruoyi didn't say anything, he knew that she must have completely given up on him, otherwise she would never have spoken to him in this tone.

"But how did we get to this point?" he wondered to himself. He had chosen this school for her sake, and he had resolutely chosen this useless major for her sake. So why did it turn out like this?

Why?

He had already successfully gotten into the same university as her, and he was just one step away from being with her forever. Why, why did everything change in less than two months?

He really couldn't understand what was wrong with them. They used to be able to talk about anything, so why did they feel like their relationship was growing further and further apart?

"What did I do wrong? Did it all start with Han Kexin making me the Blood Witch King? But what's the point of being this damned Blood Witch King now?" He took deep breaths, as if only in this way could he suppress the helplessness in his heart.

He even harbored some resentment towards Han Kexin, as she had forced him to become the Blood Witch King. If it weren't for her, he wouldn't have chosen the Department of Spiritual Studies, wouldn't have become someone from a different world with Xia Ruoyi, and wouldn't have missed her birthday.

Even if he is the reincarnation of the Blood Witch King, that was in his previous life. What does that have to do with him now? Why would he want to become a vampire again?

This is not what he wanted at all.

He grew angrier the more he thought about it, and finally couldn't help but take out his phone and call Han Kexin.

"What is it?" Han Kexin's indifferent voice still came from the other end of the phone.

Hearing her tone, his anger intensified, and for the first time, he spoke to her in a cold and furious tone: "I am telling you now, I will no longer listen to any of your arrangements. If you want to find someone to be the Blood Witch King, go find someone else. Anyway, I will no longer be your puppet king."

After he finished speaking, he hung up the phone without hearing anything else from the other end.

After making the call, he felt a little better, but he still felt a sense of loss and had no motivation to do anything, so he went to the bathroom to take a shower and go to bed early.

That night, he tossed and turned, unable to sleep. When he finally managed to fall asleep, he had a bunch of bizarre dreams. He kept seeing Xia Ruoyi walking further and further away, or Han Kexin glaring at him angrily, her gaze almost murderous.