CompletedAuthor's Note: Frequently revising, only responsible for the official version, not for pirated versions outside of Jinjiang Literature City.
Text Synopsis: Updates at 23:00, daily updates, HE ending. Private settings that contradict the original work are not applicable.
This world is truly insane.
Qiao Xi was just a miserable high school student who had just finished her college entrance exams. Before she could enjoy her holiday, she transmigrated to a strange world.
She was wearing a red veil, sitting on the wedding bed.
"Damn it! Marriage?!" Qiao Xi tilted her head, deciding to knock herself out first.
Just then, the door was pushed open, and a man holding a spear, wearing a hood, with a face as cold as rock, appeared.
He used the tip of his spear to lift Qiao Xi's veil.
The killing intent in his eyes did not diminish, but there was a hint of confusion, as if surprised.
Qiao Xi gave a polite and awkward smile and waved: "Hello, I'm a high school student. You can send me back to school, right?"
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Unfortunately, the man did not send her back. Instead, he found her a guardian crane and a guardian deer. Qiao Xi's days were spent sleeping, growing, and practicing with her masters.
She learned that the man was called Morax, and he was currently busy fighting various bosses.
"Master Cloud Retainer, can Morax send me back to school after he's done fighting?"
Cloud Retainer, the True Monarch of Clouds-Fleeting, tapped Qiao Xi's head with a Lapis Lazuli pouch: "When the Emperor has stabilized the four directions, he will send you to the best academy."
Cloud Retainer smiled, thinking it was good for the child to want to study.
Qiao Xi, on the other hand, was filled with thoughts of "the best academy"!
Peking University??!
Although Morax was cold, Qiao Xi now felt he was the best!!
*
Every time Morax returned from the battlefield, he would check on this orphan girl who had no home and was forced to be offered to a god.
Educating her became his responsibility, treating her as a elder and a guardian.
He taught her to identify plants, discern authenticity, simple elemental skills, and basic self-defense. When necessary, he would prepare nutritious meals for her, as in his view, the child was still growing.
However, he discovered that this child was extremely resistant to learning, even to a bizarre degree of pure hatred.
Morax was puzzled. Why couldn't this child learn anything?
Qiao Xi: I just finished my college entrance exams, and you still want me to learn? What do you think?
As time passed, Morax found that this child seemed to be becoming more and more dependent on him. With a great battle imminent, Qiao Xi confessed to him.
Time flew by, and even a hard stone should begin to feel something.
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1. The timeline spans from the Archon War to the Emperor's Travels in Liyue.
2. This is an AU story, unrelated to the original plot.
3. The timeline is mixed, and there are many private settings.
4. OOC is unavoidable, apologies, apologies, apologies again.
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Synopsis for "NPC but Zhongli Shields":
Abstract modeling, heaven-defying combat power, screen goes black, the fate of the One-Eyed Tetrapod is uncertain – this is Jiang Wu's evaluation of the NPC Jiang Xue.
Now, holding a fishing rod, she stands by the river, watching the One-Eyed Tetrapod rushing from the distant rolling smoke, her mouth twitching.
Why is it up to her to solo the One-Eyed Tetrapod?
In an accident, Jiang Wu transmigrated to Teyvat, a parallel world with the same name as the game. There is no Traveler here, but there is Jiang Xue, who constantly triggers plot points.
Jiang Xue calls her sister and, after throwing her the ancestral fishing rod, happily runs off as if finally freed from his setting.
Leaving Jiang Wu bewildered in the wind: "Why... why?"
The unreliable elder brother then starts going out early and returning late, having a great time. He tells Jiang Wu that it doesn't matter if she catches fish or not; as long as she solos ten One-Eyed Tetrapods or Giant Mitachurls every day, she can move freely.
Jiang Wu snorts. So the fishing rod is her core? She wants to return the fishing rod to Jiang Xue, but she is fixed to this area, as if waiting to be beaten at any moment.
She asks her brother how to solo, and her brother, standing outside the activity area, unreliably replies with four words: "My eyes go black."
"......"
Jiang Wu: You get back here!
Forced to take on the task, Jiang Wu meets Zhongli, who comes to fish and drink tea nearby.
When smoke billows in the distance, Jiang Wu gets an idea and says to Zhongli: "I know your secret."
Zhongli sips his tea leisurely, saying he has seen it all: "Oh?"
Jiang Wu: "You are the Geo Archon Morax, the Rite of Descension was your fake death to escape, you saved Xiao during the Chasm's struggle, and you spent a lot of money behind Madam Hu's back!!"
Zhongli almost chokes on his tea: "You..."
Jiang Wu beckons Zhongli closer: "You don't want to return to work, do you?"
Zhongli feels he's been cornered: "Young friend, be cautious."
Jiang Wu: "Help me clear out the One-Eyed Tetrapods every day, and I swear I'll never reveal your secret."
Zhongli: ...
One day, after Zhongli had cleared out the monsters for Jiang Wu and cast an invisibility shield on her, Jiang Wu tugged at Zhongli's clothes and shyly said, "Actually, I like you."
Zhongli sighs helplessly: "I know."
"Then you..."
"You cannot." Zhongli coldly refuses.
Later, Zhongli seriously asks Jiang Wu: "Do you like me, or do you like my shield?"
Jiang Wu seems to understand the reason for her rejection.
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Their underground relationship can no longer be hidden. Jiang Xue learns that Zhongli has become his brother-in-law. He is very satisfied with this brother-in-law, so much so that he pats Zhongli on the shoulder and calls him brother: "Brother, let me tell you, you and my sister are destined to be together."
Jiang Wu quickly pulls Jiang Xue aside: "Brother, just shut up."
Hoping he will never know that he is patting the shoulder of the Geo Archon himself...
Content Tags: Love that lasts a lifetime, Sweet, Slice of Life, Secret Crush, Otome, Genshin Impact
Qiao Xi Morax (Zhongli)
Others: Zhongli; Morax
One-sentence summary: Morax's one-on-one tutoring session.
Concept: Marching towards a beautiful future.