Chapter 14: 15
The day after marriage, waking up to find your wife by your side, sleeping with a silly smile on her face, he felt peaceful.
The final shackle he has in his mind, has disappeared quietly.
' I always had a sense of alienation to this reality. May be I am too much caught up in my past. Essentially, this body is of this reality, soul is of this reality, why bother with other thoughts? The freedom I have now is all that matters... '
' My past reality is what I should preserve. Even if I can, I shouldn't meddle in it even if it is possible in the future.'
His final year of graduation started. He attained all the major knowledge he needed within the first two months itself. So, as he was practically the strongest on the planet, he didn't have much of worries to get stronger faster, either. Basically, he had experience dealing with unreasonable people in previouslife, knowledge of human laws he just studied for just an appearance for others, and he didn't lack money.
The cultivation has been done silently whenever he was free, although it wasn't as efficient, it was comforting to him. He was required to incorporate the Management, Contract Laws, and Corporate Laws requiring projects involving real-world business scenarios for his project work and internships involving, participation in case competitions, law society debates, and student entrepreneurship programs.
He had excelled and seemingly relaxed ever whenever he had attempted any. He did everything in the most efficient and shortest amount of time. But sometimes humans won't be content with what they have and any such attempts as in forcing him or being tough only ended in failure.
As he completed his final work and prepared to leave, he unexpectedly ran into Xu Qing. With her family's support, she had been admitted to a prestigious film and arts college.
Xu Qing was no longer an ordinary girl; she had gained fame through TV shows, minor movie roles, and commercials. Her face was already well-recognized among the younger generation.
One of her friends noticed Han Chen and approached him excitedly, asking for his number. Before he could respond, a masked girl pushed her aside. It was Xu Qing herself, exuding elegance even in casual confrontation.
"Hey, this is against our bro code," the other girl complained, brushing herself off.
Xu Qing removed her mask, a knowing smile on her lips. "Han, you've outdone yourself," she said. "I always thought men grew rougher as they aged, but you… you've only become more beautiful."
Han Chen sighed, a faint smile playing on his lips. "I've told you before not to call me beautiful. Men are handsome. Anyway, why are you here? New movie project?"
"Come on," Xu Qing said, gesturing toward a table where three of her friends were seated. "Let's talk there." She dragged both him and the earlier girl to join her friends.
Even as they walked across the room, the sight of Han Chen—a strikingly handsome man among a group of beautiful women—turned heads. At the table, Xu Qing introduced him with casual grace.
"Ladies, meet Han Chen. We were in the same school."
" Hey, Wenjing, Youxi, and Ruolan, this is Han Chen. We were in the same school. And Han Chen these are my besties."
After the light introductions, one of them teased outright, seeing him maintaing a polite look.
"Planning to win her back, are you? No, wait—you rejected her outright back then," one of them teased.
"She told us about her first crush and how you turned her down. We're not letting you off easily!"
" Well, an apology is enough. An best thing is, you know we are open to ... date if possible."
" Yeah, we ..."
The girls went from supporting their girlfriend to asking for date pretty fast seeing his face which is almost inhumanly handsome.
Xu Qing asked: " How are you doing recently, last I know was when your parents disappeared.. later I heard they returned. It's totally confusing.."
" Well, I have been doing well. Currently studying BBA and LLB double degree. I am just on the way back to college. I was here doing the last 3 weeks as an intern at corporate bussiness consultancies...
Well, regarding the parents matter, supernatural investigative agency doesn't have any official answer. My parents believe they were saved and kidnapped by aliens."
laughters followed his reply.
While this is happening.
< Yue Lan entered the chat>
< Hey, why did you come..>
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Yue Lan :< Is that Xu Qing..Bitch. She got away easily, exploiting you. You must do something to embarrass her.>
Han Chen:
...
" So, you and Zhao Lin are still a thing?"
" Oh no, we broken up 3 years ago.. He was against me moving to a seperate college. He wanted to arrange an acting career for me through his connections.. it didn't work out well.."
< Well this is her second broken relationships. Cheers to many more.> Yue Lan complained.
...
Even though he was conversing with them, he was constantly aware of the surroundings. Hearing a group of young thugs, trying to embarass me by spilling over the drinks from the waiter. They even found a waiter who actually agreed, for their tipping.
Come on, I really can't have a social interaction, without triggering any luck events??
The server did came and staged spilling drinks and some noodles soup. But Han Chen made it real a little faster. As soon he took the stairs down the venue to the cornor, the plate slipped.
Not a drop went in his way, but part of it splashed on to the face of Xu Qing. Rest was down in ground. It wasn't over, the waiter lost his foot steps and went in a bizzare way face first into the hot soup at the table next to their.
Burning with hot and spicy, he tried to stand up only to misstep onto the spilled drinks earlier and skid to the third table of the conspirers young thugs before, hit the table which turned splashing everything onto them.
The scene happened in seconds and everyone including restaurent manager, other waiters and Xu Qings girlfriends just woke up. And series of " kya...no..ahh sounds echoed."
< Hmm that's my husband. You did it didn't you... I feel content.>
Back to the present, Xu Qing is angry and she was helped by her girlfriend to go to the restroom and clean.
Returning back, she joined the group of people berating the waiter. And returning back to the table. Her make up washed away.
" You look way better without the make up, Xu Qing. "
" Why didn't you come over before, instead of flirting now.." one of her friends asked teasingly.
" Oh, no it's not flirting, it's a honest comment. Besides I am married." And showed them the ring..
" Married!!" 4 of them exclaimed.
" Sorry we thought you were still chasing her " one of them said. Xu Qing had a lost expression.
< Take that. I know she must have always treated you as a backup. I can see regret written all over her face..Ha ha..>
Han Chen : < Girl why are you so excited?.>
"So who is she? And you didn't even plan to notify me. Aren't we like best friends before."
" You guys must have heard of Yue Lan right? From Yue family, one of the major families. It was family decision. And we are married for about 7 months already."
" Yue Lan the goddess? I heard she was involved in a car accident years before and her career ended and she became unable to move.." Xu Qing asked hurriedly.
" Yeah, that's the one. Her condition improved greatly, now. She can move around and help herself to a point, but she chose not to re-enter her previous bussiness engagements again. Now I have lovely wife back at home. I don't regret one bit. "
< Aww... Darling, my cu...>
He chose to stop her from saying something and falter his expression now.
"..Well good for you."
" Hmm. Ladies excuse me..so I need to leave now."
" Ah,... If possible can we just take a picture together.?"
" Okay.."
Well Han Chen didn't thought it was anything bad. But he will soon receive calls from a number of film channels and major characters in fashion industry.
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Like that time passed. Han Chen's graduation was completed. Still attained first rank in University. He wrote the judicial examination and obtained the lawyers license. And went to work at the legal department of his parents company Chen global solutions.
Seven months after meeting Xu Qing, Han Chen began receiving unexpected calls from modeling agencies and even a film agency. Initially, he brushed them off, assuming it was a mistake.
However, the persistence of the agencies piqued his curiosity. Their proposals were oddly flattering, citing his "unusually captivating appearance" and "natural aura" as reasons he should consider modeling.
Though it wasn't something he had ever planned, he thought, "Why not? I can give it a try in my free time. "
'Modelling wasn't a thing in immortal world. People only care about cultivation, strength and sex mostly. People from better bloodlines , families will have talent as well as appearance. And they too are temporary with advancements in cultivation. I can attend, it will be new experience.'
Han Chen attended a couple of photoshoots and commercials. At first, the work was straightforward:
Casual product shoots for a new men's cologne. Lifestyle campaigns for a premium clothing brand. Advertisements as charismatic bussiness leader. After that he stopped. Because, initially it was for his contentment.
Now he felt bored and people also want higher needs like ' wild, untamed look, bad boy vibes, shirtless scenes' he simply blocked all those contacts in his mail. Returned back full to his internship work.
But his three works had a huge success and people noticed. He didn't care and simply returned to his life with Yue Lan.
Now a year later, he had reached foundation establishment level 6. He got a legal lawyers license he also wrote bar exam and got certified the same year.
Since he already got the experience during graduation years, he also completed chartered financial analyst and project management professional certifications.
His investments in markets also returned significant money. Along with profits from different tools and services he created. He has enough to retire early.
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Having so many certifications, he didn't try to venture out.. because why bother. He stayed in job at his parents company and only had to do work occasionally.
When he was bored again at only cultivating and doing nothing after 2 months. Besides, his wife reached Transform jin peak within two years being with him. She was also fed up with staying at home.
< You should take me to that solstice expo that would be at Beijing National Exhibition Center 25 days from now. I already bought a ticket>
< You should make it two. We had enough playing cripple. It's been 6 years. It's okay to come out... I will create some fake records of health reports of your developments over years.>
<.... Yeah, let's do that.>
Yue Lan is not always at staying at home. As soon as she was okay to walk and do exercise , she was brought out by Han Chen. He will cast an invisibility spell and meet with normal people.
She eventually understood breath hiding and aura conceal skills. Now, even if it were grandmasters present she can walk around in invisibility, provided she won't make any obvious mistakes.
So over the years, they visited many scenic spots and places nearby for having fun.Ofcourse Han Chen had to keep an eye on her, because after being invisible she always had a sudden tendency for mischief and scare people.
....
Now, he came with his wife in the festival. Participated in live performances, interactive workshops and heritage displays of cultural section. Then there was a martial artist tournaments and displays for only martial artists to attend simply due to their safety requirements in place of a sudden emergency, then there was technology and bussiness innovations labs.
Many new Artificial intelligence and VR technologies are there, there were many E sports venues, regular sports competitions. Lantern parades, Fire world shows, food markets were active at night. Like that a week long festival came to an end.
Yue Lan needed to train harder. As she met some grandmaster during her visit to tournament and seeing his strength, she wanted to be like that. Her husband seemed very ordinary but she knows he can blow up that grandmaster with an exhale, if he wanted to. She felt like she can't drag his husband anymore.
So then onwards, began her extensive training from Han Chen. She was brought directly inside, the cultivation tower 🗼. He simply stayed in cultivation tower without resisting time influence, making him almost at the same temporal flow rate as Yue Lan.
She practised body refining to peak within the first three months with the help of pills. Later she was taught for 2 years by Han Chen in the tower, in which he transformed her spiritual root into gold attributed single saint spirit root and physique into a spirit body as limited by his cultivation base. Gold root specifically since she wanted to be like those sword cultivators in novels and digital books.
Even his own innate Tao body is limited at king spirit body due to realm requirements.
Her realm raised from innate to grandmaster which is 7th level qi refinement under 2 years of gradual cultivation. She learned that her husband got a wish from a powerful being to get reborn and cultivate.
Only a day has passed in the outside world.
" That's a magical treasure. It's time and didn't make much sense." She said.
"So, since you can cultivate and have a spirit root, you are fundamentally a different life form than the beings of this planet.
My life span is now more than 4990 years. Yours is 200 years. We can cultivate together and gain more life span, but I can't treat your parents nor my parents the same. I have done my filiel piety and you have given your fortunes to them. It will be two of us from now on." Han Chen explained.
" Since we both have such abilities now, let's live for ourselves. I have lived here for more than 26 years and haven't seen much of this world. Beyond this nation there is a world outside. Let's travel around." She replied.
She told him, she wanted to visit many countries with him rather than training all the time. And that's exactly what they did. Setting up the arrangements, they left.
Visited many countries and stayed for some time initially they were until their visiting license about to expire and travel to a new one but later, the time narrowed and it's all felt the same.
Not only visited many places and people, but even during those times she and him fought with few martial artists, enhanced humans, warriors and some beasts even.
They never left any traces. They will set the star convergence array at their place and cultivate during nights. Like that they visited major countries and even vacation places for another 6 years. During these things, Han Chen reached 10 th layer of foundation building. His wife crossed Foundation building.
They settled in a remote island. Due to their immense strength and less need to consume food resources, they could get by easily. It's a cover up for their parents to know.
It's again cultivating, communicating, teaching Yue Lan, dual cultivating. He stayed in side his small world during cultivation advancements. Taking full efforts into cultivating, he raised the realm into 13th after 2 more years inside island..