Oh no! I'm surrounded by female ghosts!

Wait for the black fog to dissipate.

Su Ming appeared in Pingjiang City in 2019.

Seven years ago, Pingjiang City hadn't changed much; everything seemed quite familiar.

Steam rises from the milk tea shops and snack stalls along the street.

High-rise buildings stand tall, and pedestrian streets are bustling with people.

With the rise of short videos, it's common to see passersby looking down at their phones to record street scenes.

Tangtang, at this stage, has finally grown up.

If you calculate the time, you've just turned 20, which is the legal age for marriage registration.

Moreover, Su Ming doesn't need to run around.

Because Tang Tang is originally from Pingjiang City.

She looked down at the things Wen Qi had given her before she left.

There were actually three paper stars.

Hearing Wen Qi say that he could open them again if there were any problems, Su Ming simply threw them into his backpack first.

"I remember that the Lanyue residential complex was handed over seven years ago."

Unbeknownst to him, Su Ming arrived at Lanyue Residential Area.

Seven years ago, my parents bought a property here.

Four years later, Su Ming will officially move in and attend Mingde Middle School.

This is who I am now.

Su Ming thought for a moment and realized that he was probably still in elementary school in another city.

Step into Lanyue Community.

There are many familiar faces, and they are all much younger than they were in 2026.

Su Ming even saw Song Liyi and Li Tao, who were already dead.

At that time, the two of them were still quite in love.

The two returned to the residential area chatting and laughing, presumably having gone to the market to buy groceries.

Song Liyi took Li Tao's arm and asked, "Honey, are the things heavy? Do you want me to help you carry some?"

Li Tao confidently flexed his biceps, raised an eyebrow, and said, "This is nothing, a piece of cake."

Su Ming watched them leave.

Who would dare to imagine that?

Seven years later, Li Tao and his mistress Zhao Fei will join forces to murder and dismember Song Liyi, and then feed the body parts to a dog farm in the suburbs.

Seven years is neither a long nor a short time.

I heard it online.

Every three months, the body's cells complete a cycle of metabolism, with old cells dying and new cells being born.

It takes seven years for the cells in the human body to complete a 100% complete replacement.

Do not know is not true.

But from a physiological perspective, every seven years we survive, we essentially become a completely new person.

Su Ming can now be considered a cultured person.

I've been influenced by Wen Qi for so long.

When he recalled this statement, he couldn't help but think of a classic philosophical paradox.

The Ship of Theseus.

It is said that if all the parts of a ship are gradually replaced until no original materials remain, is the ship still the original Ship of Theseus?

Let's escalate the issue further.

If all the old wooden planks that were replaced were pieced together again, a second ship could be built.

So, which of these two ships is the true Ship of Theseus?

This is a matter of opinion.

However, the saying "seven-year itch" does exist.

"People!"

Su Ming couldn't help but sigh again.

He now fully understands the terrifying nature of forced favorability.

If there were no permanent binding of forced affection, one day he would end up like Li Tao and Song Liyi with Wen Qi and the others.

Judging from Wen Qi and the others' mysterious identities, the ending might be even more extreme.

This is a definite answer, and also a predetermined ending.

Nowadays, he is deeply in love with Wen Qi and the others, and their intense affection is so strong that he is even willing to "control" himself.

But what about a hundred years from now?

What about a thousand years from now?

What about ten thousand years from now?

There will always be times when you feel bored or tired.

Therefore, the forced binding of favorability is the most terrifying, the most horrible, and the most inhumane shackle.

It forcibly maintains an object that is bound to change in a state of perpetual immutability.

When he finally collected his thoughts, he realized he had already arrived at his doorstep.

They picked the lock and found that although the interior had been renovated, there wasn't a single decent piece of furniture inside.

The room is mostly filled with pothos plants.

This thing absorbs formaldehyde.

But many of the pothos plants look dead.

I don't know if it died of thirst or was poisoned by formaldehyde.

Pushing open the window, Su Ming waved his hand to fan away the rising dust, muttering a complaint under his breath.

"My parents didn't even think to bring in some furniture."

No sooner had he finished speaking than he saw a glimmer of starlight suddenly appear on the horizon.

The starlight streaked across the sky, its trajectory straight, and in an instant it hovered in mid-air outside the window.

Su Ming stared in disbelief at Yu Mengnian outside the window.

Is there anything wrong.

Whether it's open or not, you should know the answer in your heart.

He thought he hadn't disturbed her.

After all, he really didn't hear Yu Mengnian's voice.

Unexpectedly, this guy, without saying a word, traveled thousands of miles and directly locked onto his exact location.

All told, I've only been in 2019 for about two hours.

Is this Yu Mengnian's peak strength?

Outside the window, a graceful figure in plain clothes stood suspended in mid-air, exuding unparalleled elegance and aloofness, her demeanor even more ethereal than before.

Well, how should I put it?

In 2003, Yu Mengnian was like a reincarnated fairy child.

In 2012, Yu Mengnian seemed poised to ascend to heaven at any moment.

By 2019, Yu Mengnian was like a fairy descended to earth, untouched by worldly affairs, possessing only an ethereal and otherworldly quality.

She was so powerful that she gave Su Ming an overwhelming sense of pressure just by standing there.

This sense of oppression is called: instant kill.

Su Ming scratched his head slightly awkwardly and quickly called out, "Would you like to come in and sit down?"

A flash of white light.

The next second, Yu Mengnian appeared in the room.

The chill emanating from her body was almost solid.

It's like an air conditioner that's constantly blowing cold air; the temperature in the whole room is dropping rapidly.

Compared to before.

She speaks less, is colder, and has less emotional connection.

It doesn't seem like a human, it's more like a god.

The emotional fluctuations are almost imperceptible.

Those indifferent eyes were like those of a deity looking down upon the mortal world, with only a hint of curiosity hidden in their depths.

"Here's what happened."

Su Ming quickly explained the whole story to Yu Mengnian.

When Yu Mengnian spoke of being her Daoist partner and having a divine consciousness left behind in her mind by her, she frowned slightly.

When she mentioned that she had agreed to have a child with her, Yu Mengnian subconsciously reached for the blade of the sword.

Su Ming felt a chill run down his spine and hurriedly said, "I didn't say that myself."

"You said it."

Yu Mengnian glanced at Su Ming indifferently, then parted her red lips slightly: "Continue."

Su Ming continued speaking.

When he talked about entering Yu Mengnian's world of cultivation, what happened, and his promise to make her his nurturing character, he was talking about...

Yu Mengnian's expression finally changed slightly.

She looked directly at Su Ming: "Affection level?"

A cold glint appeared.

With a sharp blade pressed against Su Ming's neck, she said in an unyielding tone, "Now, bind yourself to me."

Su Ming was speechless.

I've been talking for so long.

She was not shocked by the world going out in 2003.

There was no sense of powerlessness regarding the Time Bugs of 2012.

Instead, they focused on building positive impressions.

Those eyes, which remained almost completely still throughout, truly failed to resonate with the masses.

There wasn't even the divine compassion that Bai Xinglan spoke of.

"It's really not possible right now."

Su Ming patiently explained, "This level of favorability is not something I can control."

"Only my nurtured characters can be bound to affection levels."

Yu Mengnian's expression remained unchanged, and her tone was straightforward: "I'll be your nurturing character."

Su Ming's expression became even more speechless.

"It's not something you can just decide to do; I can't control this character development process."

The blade pierced three-tenths of an inch into the flesh, the wound instantly freezing, accompanied by a single word: "Want."

Su Ming rubbed his forehead.

Looking at Yu Mengnian, whose emotional deficiency has become even more severe, her humanity has almost disappeared.

Following this trend, even if she doesn't attempt to become a Sixth Awakener in 2026, she will eventually break away from humanity and become a being similar to Him.

Based on my deduction.

"Once I break the world's limit ahead of schedule, the descent of the gods in 2026 should simply disappear."

"And for you, there are only two possible outcomes."

Su Ming began to seriously consider the possibility of Yu Mengnian becoming a character he was grooming.

After all, there is the cautionary tale of Bai Xinglan.

"The first possibility is that you have become stronger, and may have already touched upon the seventh sense, or even stepped into the seventh sense."

"The second option is that you will disappear along with the gods and be wiped out by Earth."

"If it's the second option, there's a high chance you'll become a character I nurture."

The sword blade retracted half an inch, and Yu Mengnian spoke, "Breakthrough."

Su Mingchong rolled her eyes at her.

"My physical strength is not up to standard yet."

"We must wait until our physical strength reaches 10,000 before we can break the world's upper limit ahead of schedule."

"Huh." Su Ming's eyes suddenly lit up: "With your current strength, you should be able to break the world's upper limit, right?"

"If you break through, does that count as breaking through ahead of schedule?"

As he was assessing the feasibility, he heard Yu Mengnian say, "I can't break through."

"It's not that I can't break through."

"But the world doesn't allow it right now."

She gave an example.

"This world is like an old system, while the Sixth Awakener is a brand new, high-version software."

"The old system cannot support the new software. If it is forcibly installed, the result will only be system crash, freeze, or even complete failure."

"Now it seems..."

"It is indeed the old system, because it is from the past."

So here's the problem.

Su Ming frowned and murmured, "The present year 2019 is indeed the past, but it also belonged to the present."

Why didn't you break through your limits back then?

2026 is the year that started in 2019.

Before Su Ming traveled from 2026 to 2019, this era also belonged to the present.

Yu Mengnian reiterated her stance: "The world won't allow it."

Su Ming asked in confusion, "Then why was it allowed in 2026?"

He only discovered the problem today.

Yu Mengnian already possessed the strength to challenge the sixth level of awakening in 2019.

But it wasn't until 2026 that they finally made a breakthrough at the Lychee Hotel.

Why would someone travel all the way to the Lychee Hotel to break through their limitations?

Both of them fell into deep thought.

A few minutes later, Su Ming gasped sharply.

Just now, when he returned to Lanyue Community, he saw Li Tai and Song Liyi looking so affectionate, and he couldn't help but think of the philosophical theory of the Ship of Theseus.

What if he applied this theory to Earth?

The ancient planet Blue Star was constructed from a batch of primitive "wooden planks".

Every world correction and spacetime adjustment on Earth is essentially replacing old planks with brand new ones.

As it is continuously revised.

One day, Blue Star will become a brand new Blue Star.

By then.

The old Blue Star, pieced together from old wooden planks, and the new Blue Star, constructed entirely from new wooden planks.

Which one is the real Earth?

The reason why Yu Mengnian was able to successfully become a sixth-awareness awakener at the Lychee Hotel is because...

That's because she stood at the intersection of two worlds.

One is the soon-to-be-built "Rose Hotel" with new wooden planks, and the other is the soon-to-be-disappeared "Lychee Hotel" with old wooden planks.

At this special intersection, she was essentially standing in the most complete region of Earth.

Thus, she successfully broke through to the sixth level of awakening, breaking the world's upper limit.

When he told Yu Mengnian about this idea, she had doubts: "You said that Earth has been getting lighter, so where will the new planks come from?"

Su Ming frowned, pondered for a long time, and then said uncertainly, "It might be those unknown areas that don't belong to Blue Star."

"This is perhaps how sealed artifacts came to be."

He seemed to have stumbled upon the source of the sealed artifact.

The sealed artifact did not appear out of thin air; it was a "new wooden board" that Earth actively absorbed.

"so."

The sword was still pressed against Su Ming's neck. Yu Mengnian looked directly at him and asked, "Have you thought of a way?"