After the True Heiress Travels Back
Chapter 437: Humanoid Bug

Chapter 437: Chapter 437: Humanoid Bug

Quan Jinbei obviously wouldn’t become someone’s boy toy, and immediately promised, "In this lifetime, I have chosen you."

"No matter what conditions others use to threaten me, I will never compromise."

"Even if it means being a boy toy, I’d only be one for you."

Shi Yaoguang raised her eyebrows, "Really?"

Quan Jinbei nodded, looking into her eyes, filled with tenderness.

Feeling his gaze, Shi Yaoguang inexplicably felt her face heat up.

She cleared her throat, trying to maintain her composure, "Cough, since you’ve said this, then I’ll give you a chance to prove yourself."

Quan Jinbei smiled gently, his eyes instantly softening, "You said it."

Before Shi Yaoguang could react to the meaning of her own words, she felt a coolness on her lips...

A soft touch pressed against her lips.

Warm waves of affection spread between teeth, the air itself seemed to turn a few shades more amorous.

Just at that moment, a "clang" came from the door.

Shi Yaoguang and Quan Jinbei instinctively turned their heads and met the bewildered An Xiaoya’s gaze.

An Xiaoya was in a fluster, covering her ears and saying, "I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I didn’t see anything."

Having said that, she blinked, realizing too late she had covered the wrong spot and hastily switched to cover her eyes.

Her movements were neither clever nor pleasing.

Quan Jinbei looked at her as if he was about to kill her.

An Xiaoya felt extremely guilty, "I really didn’t mean to, Master’s wife~"

As she spoke, her face was full of ingratiating smiles, and she kept stepping backward, "Master’s wife, I won’t disturb you and Master anymore, please continue~"

With that, she "clanged" the door shut.

An Xiaoya had left, but the atmosphere between the two had not improved.

The amorous atmosphere dispersed, and the scene became somewhat awkward for a moment.

As the pink magnetic field faded, Quan Jinbei could no longer continue his previous actions and had to clear his throat, pretending as if nothing had happened.

Shi Yaoguang was very cooperative.

For a time, the scene took on a peacefully quiet atmosphere.

Such an atmosphere was broken by Shi Yaoguang’s words.

"Let’s go to the far south."

Quan Jinbei appeared surprised at her words, "To the far south?"

"Mmm," Shi Yaoguang focused her gaze, speaking earnestly, "I believe that the far south might have what we need."

Quan Jinbei stared at her intently, and after a few seconds, reminded her, "Before coming to Mobei, you thought the same."

Shi Yaoguang corrected, "That’s different."

Quan Jinbei didn’t see how it was different.

Shi Yaoguang said seriously, "The reason I thought the item was in Mobei was because of Xiaoya’s description, which I felt matched what I was looking for."

"However, now it seems more likely that the item is in the far south."

Before, Shi Yaoguang had not considered the far south and naturally didn’t think to search there.

Now, well...

If Aili had not lied to her and the mysterious person really did go to the far south, then the likelihood the item was there was around eighty percent.

Quan Jinbei still felt it was unreliable, "Mobei Desert and the far south are two extremes, are you sure we can find what we want there?"

Shi Yaoguang couldn’t guarantee it and simply said, "I’ve never been to the far south; whether the item is there or not, won’t we know once we go and see for ourselves?"

Seeing her determination, Quan Jinbei decided not to say more and agreed to follow her lead.

An Xiaoya originally wanted to go along, but her sect had matters to attend to, and she was urgently summoned back by the sect leader.

She could only say goodbye to Shi Yaoguang with regret.

Without An Xiaoya, the bright third wheel, the atmosphere of the trip that followed for the two became noticeably more intimate, a realm others couldn’t easily intrude upon.

Three days later.

Shi Yaoguang and another arrived at a town close to the southernmost land.

Strictly speaking, the southernmost land was not within the nation’s borders.

This place was engulfed in extreme cold year-round, with almost no difference between day and night.

To rely on the sun to tell the time was simply a fool’s dream.

After arriving here, Shi Yaoguang felt a premonition.

Compared to Mobei, the southernmost land suited the growing environment of what she was looking for even better.

Seeing her relaxed and pleased expression after coming to the southernmost land, Quan Jinbei guessed that what Shi Yaoguang was looking for was perhaps here.

Confirming this news, he was somewhat incredulous.

"What on earth grows in the southernmost land and can cure diseases?" Quan Jinbei couldn’t help asking, voicing the doubt in his heart.

In fact, he had always wanted to ask this question.

If there really was such a miraculous thing, it would have been famous overseas long ago.

How could there be no news of it at all?

Shi Yaoguang replied nonchalantly, "That’s a long story, but I could certainly give you the short version."

"The existence of Heavenly Dao, although equivalent to the helmsman of this world, it wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that Heavenly Dao balances the world."

"But with everything that grows, what thrives must eventually decline, even Heavenly Dao can’t manage everything. And those things it can’t manage, those are the tools capable of resisting Heavenly Dao."

Hearing this, Quan Jinbei’s phoenix eyes slightly narrowed, his gaze deepening with contemplation, "According to what you’re saying, to oppose Heavenly Dao, one could only rely on such things?"

Shi Yaoguang nodded, "Normally, that’s the case, but there are exceptions."

Quan Jinbei looked at her, "What kind of exceptions?"

Shi Yaoguang pointed at herself, very confidently, "Of course, exceptions like me, a human-shaped bug."

Quan Jinbei appeared thoughtful, "By that logic, am I right to think that your role, and what we’re currently looking for, is the same?"

Shi Yaoguang considered the logic of Quan Jinbei’s words.

She = human-shaped bug.

What she’s looking for = object-shaped bug.

Human-shaped bug ≈ object-shaped bug.

From the above, conclusion reached.

She and what she was looking for had a similar extraordinary essence.

Although that could be the understanding, she still felt there was something amiss.

This doubt merely flashed through her mind and was not further pursued.

Right now, she just wanted to find that thing, to break free from the plot’s oppression of Quan Jinbei.

However, the southernmost land was far too vast.

To find what she was looking for was far more difficult than a typical challenge.

To say it was like finding a needle in a haystack wouldn’t be an exaggeration.

To find what she wanted in this vast territory was truly not easy.

What’s more, Shi Yaoguang didn’t even know what she was looking for now.

Hmm...

Perhaps saying so might not be too precise, but that was the truth.

All things are born from chaos, and the thing that can suppress the storyline of Heavenly Dao probably had a sense of that same existence.

In short, she did not know what form that thing took until she witnessed it herself.

Reflecting on this, an overwhelming sensation of a long and arduous journey ahead emerged within her.

Seeing her furrowed brows, Quan Jinbei could only grit his teeth in secret, determined to find the object as soon as possible so she wouldn’t suffer too much difficulty.

As he thought this, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his head, followed by a series of strange images flashing through his mind.