The woman, Theresa, knew of her niece’s situation very well.
For four hundred years, she took care of the unconscious Shi Tian. The others also helped, but it was Kiana who took care of him every single second.
Seeing Kiana change her state to ‘Seclusion’, thoughts erged in her mind.
“He’s awake?! Then…”
Theresa only saw one reason for the Tuna to put that status on:
The infamous dual cultivation!
She could not be blad for her ‘unique’ deduction.
As a forr President of the Federation, one of the greatest crises she faced was the population sex imbalance. The ratio of female-to-male cultivators is a shocking 6:1. To deal with this, there are short-term and long-term solutions.
One of the short-term solutions is the distribution of dual cultivation techniques. The rise of ‘polygamy’ was unstoppable at that ti. The Federation, as a whole, decided to turn it into its advantage.
While the given techniques are inferior to the [Sun-Moon Creation Art], it boosted the population’s overall cultivation. However, it also produced a major problem. Every single female cultivator scrambled for male cultivators.
They could only pin their hopes on long-term solutions, one of which is letting geniuses inside the mory Space—Elysian Realm—to experint with immortal cultivation, honkai energy, imaginary energy, and quantum energy.
Fortunately, things were nded ten years after the two geniuses began. The cultivator population soon balanced out after so ti.
Theresa saw its beginning and end during her term.
Thinking of what the Tuna and her son-in-law were doing, a trace of redness appeared on her cheeks. She involuntarily bit on her lower lip before breaking out of her daze.
“No, no! How is this fine..?”
She could not lie to herself.
She longed for the taste of his blood. Envy out of the unrestrained care Kiana receives.
Theresa wants to fall in love too!
It just so happened that circumstances happened between her and Shi Tian, hence the developnt now. Theresa feels very guilty with her feelings, but it is what it is.
“Hm, I should go and ask Hiko about this…”
With a thought, her body reappeared in front of a modern residence. The futuristic developnt of Earth did not erase architectural designs from the past eras.
Moreover, the cultivators who survived from the pre-cultivation era up to now are at the Purple Mansion Realm. They have a tendency of being nostalgic towards things from the said era.
“Headmaster..?”
The door was opened, revealing a red-haired woman wearing nothing but a huge white t-shirt.
“You still haven’t changed.”
“Yawn… Yes, yes…”
Hiko welcod Theresa to her ‘abode’.
When Theresa stepped on one of her panties on the ground, the helpless look on her face increased tenfold.
“We have the cleansing spell! The laundry spell! The automatic sorting spell! How did you ss it up like this..?”
“No matter. It’s not like anyone else would co knocking to my place…”
Looking at the ssy room, Theresa wondered if all single middle-aged won are like this. In Hiko’s case, she is a four-hundred and thirty sothing years old fairy.
She was like this from the start. Her long life rely magnified these bad habits of hers.
Originally, Hiko was eager to find a boyfriend, get married, and retire after settling all of the honkai schtick. Unfortunately for her, the farthest she went was a light kiss.
Anything beyond that and n found her unattractive.
Theresa used to laugh at Hiko’s dating luck. When she fell for her niece’s husband, she could not laugh anymore.
Love is damn complex.
“How’s everything?” Theresa asked.
“Not that bad. I don’t have to work anymore, I can sleep anyti, order takeouts, drink spiritual wine…”
Hiko listed a bunch of things that made Theresa’s face darker.
Out of the twenty-one partners Shi Tian has, Hiko is one of the ‘most diligent’. Sleeping equated cultivation… thus Hiko slept. She caught up on her all-nighters hundreds of years ago, turning into a bonafide “NEET”, also known as girl losers.
Her long red hair remained untied, spreading up to her waist.
“This retirent life is aweso. You should also be enjoying yours. Why the sudden visit now?”
Her sharp questions rid Theresa’s doubts.
No matter what happens to Hiko, she is Hiko.
Finding the crux of the problem is an easy thing for her.
Theresa cleaned a place on her couch and sat on it.
“...Have you ever loved soone?”
“...”
Hiko’s footsteps halted before resuming. She took out a glass bottle inside her refrigerator filled with thousands of wines.
With a flick, the cork flew off. The familiar sizzling sound felt heavenly to Hiko’s thirty-year-old mindset.
She chugged half of it before wiping her mouth with her wrist.
“I have not. I an, there are quite a few that interested , but that’s it. You are well aware of what I went through back then, Headmaster.”
Hiko’s words ant Theresa found the “wrong person” to ask that question.
It is essentially the blind leading the blind!
“How about Tian?”
“...”
Hiko fell silent again.
Shi Tian’s matters regarding “partners” are open-secret at this point.
Out of twenty-one, six had already confird their relationship with him. This “open secret” earned varying reactions from everyone else.
“I don’t know.”
She shrugged her shoulders before drinking the remaining half.
“I expected sothing to happen. We are unlucky in the first place. All those tis he left the letters here, I was asleep.”
Theresa could feel a hint of sourness and frustration on her tone.
‘It’s not just ?’
Despite knowing it is a bad thing to be happy with, she felt happy with it.
Hiko’s frustration stemd from that “open secret”. She expected so things with it. eting the love of her life is, for a good part of her career, a lifelong goal.
She bore the typical mindset of single won at marriageable age. Her ntal maturity naturally reached that stage after going through a lot in her 20’s—her father’s death under the hands of the current Sugars Tribe and Welt Yang, for example.
When Hiko saw the failed repeated etings, she decided to lay flat and focus on cultivation. The teacher beca the doer; she exceeded Kiana’s ability to lay flat by a mile.
Seeing her like this, Theresa proposed sothing.
She could not do it alone, but if she has soone with her…
“Isn’t it simple? Let’s take the initiative.”
As if afraid of Hiko not understanding her words, she repeated:
“We will act proactively, just like the others.”
“...The others?”
Hiko’s eyes turned wide as she looked at Theresa.
The notion of the latter having investigated others’ movents is one thing. To think she would join in the chaos is another matter altogether!
‘How did the Headmaster…’
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