After experiencing some major events today, Theos was thoroughly exhausted, and fell asleep as soon as his body touched the bed of the hotel room.
It wasn’t until noon that he woke up to sound of a phone ringing. Theos reached into his pocket and fished out his phone, pressing the answer button.
“Hello?” He said, still sounding a little groggy.
“Where are you!? We need to leave for the airport in an hour! Get out of bed; I know you’re sleeping! Hurry, you still need to eat something!” Song Jinjing’s voice sounded loudly from the phone, already sounding like a nagging little wife.
“Okay, okay, relax. I’m getting up now. Order me something to eat downstairs and I'll be there soon.” He said, trying to calm the upset little girl.
“Hurry, or I’ll leave without you! Hmph!” She said before abruptly hanging up the phone. By this time, Song Jinjing already gave back the car she rented and found a printer to print out their boarding passes, thus she was a little angry at the lazy Theos.
Theos could only respond in his mind with, who says I wanted to travel with you anyways?
As he showered, Theos commanded, “Show me my stats.”
Hearing his command, the System showed Theos his stats.
To Theos's surprise, at the end of the information transmitted were the words…
Secondary dream: Find true love.
Dream mission: Accompany Song Jinjing back to Jiuzhou (Reward: 1 Skill Credit)
Theos’s mouth twitched as he saw this. Fucking dammit! This body's previous memories must be conflicting with the dream settings! Theos thought in anger, before taking a deep breath to calm down. Although Theos did owe Theodore for offering up his body to give Theos another chance at life, but if was not like he could give Theodore true love, because this dream no longer applied to Theodore. This dream now applied to Theos.
To Theos, finding true love was the least of his concerns, as his goal of achieving immortality was in complete conflict with that. Who wanted to find true love only to have that dream ripped away the moment one outlived the other? That would undoubtedly create a heart demon the further one cultivated, depending on the authenticity of that love.
There was the small chance of cultivating together and two lovers both achieving immortality, but Theos could not even consider that a chance. In his long life, Theos has not heard of one such case, as even achieving immortality alone was already practically an impossibility in itself.
I’m doomed, Theos thought, depression hitting him hard. I’ll most likely cultivate a heart demon if I don’t achieve this dream, and I’ll definitely cultivate a heart demon if I do achieve this dream.
Theos sighed. Fuck it. What will be, will be.
“System, notify me of any changes in the System.” Theos commanded, as he didn’t want to miss any more mission updates.
After Theos finished getting ready, he went downstairs for lunch.
When Theos saw Song Jinjing and her puffed up cheeks, and ticked off face, he began to figure out his feelings for her, in consideration for his new “dream.” Why would I, a thousand years old man, be interested in this little girl. Theos thought sternly, before his face softened. I guess she is kind of cute.
After changing his perspective of his priorities, Theos's opinion of Song Jinjing also began to change. And she is very beautiful. She’s been easy enough to get along with so far... Maybe, she wouldn’t make for a bad wife…
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Other than satisfying his physical needs, Theos has never let himself fall even remotely close to anything such as love. The only thing Theos considered family was his master, and that was more absolute loyalty than familial love. As such, the life Theos has lived until now mainly comprised of knowing where his loyalties lie and his obsession, which in many people's eyes was already a tragedy.
In this way, finding true love was a completely new concept to him, and he didn’t know just quite how to act. As Theos approached Song Jinjing, he actually began to get nervous, like a young boy with a first crush, not knowing how to act.
“There you are! Your food ready; hurry and eat.” Song Jinjing said, not realizing the change in Theos.
“Hahaha, yes! I love lunch! Thanks, you’re really thoughtful.” Theos said as he sat down, spewing bullshit in his nervousness. Fuck, he thought. I need to calm down. I’m acting like a thousand year old child.
Song Jinjing raised an eyebrow in suspicion. “What's with you? It's just food; eat it already.”
“What does it have to do with you? I’ll eat it when I’m ready.” Theos blurted out of his mouth, going from overly friendly to cold and aloof due to inexperience. “I mean, yes, thanks for the meal.” Theos quickly covered up, deciding to shut himself up with food. Fuck this, I’m just going to act natural. Whether that leads to true love is for the heavens to decide.
Song Jinjing gave Theos a strange look. This guy is acting weird today. Could he have escaped from a mental hospital? Is it safe to travel with this guy? Forget it, if he keeps acting weird, then I’ll just ignore him and get a new flight home.
“Why are you acting so weird?” She asked bluntly.
After swallowing a bite of food, Theos decided to be honest. Theos didn’t have much ability when it comes to love, so in a way anything he did could either be wrong or could be right, but he would not know, so he might as well let it all fall into place as it pleases. “Why else would I be acting weird? At first, we were strangers meeting by chance, and now we’re traveling together. I’m inexperienced in this sort of thing, so the possible love implications are making me nervous.” Theos said, with perhaps too much honesty.
After hearing that, Song Jinjing could only process those words slowly before laughing out loud. Why was I getting so wary of this guy? He’s obviously just an idiot who doesn’t know how to talk to girls.
After a good laugh, she said with a teasing tone, “Hmm, so do you have feelings for me?”
“Hehe, don’t flatter yourself. I merely meant the possibility of me liking you is making me nervous, because I’ve never been in that situation before.” Theos answered with a chuckle.
Song Jinjing ignored the mockery and replied with curiosity, “So you’ve never had a school crush, or admired a celebrity?”
“Nope. Up till now, I’ve been focused in other matters in my life.” Theos said before continuing to eat.
“Hmm,” Song Jinjing expressed in thought. “So what have you been focused on up till now?” She asked, trying to understand Theos.
“Not much,” Theos responded in a perfunctory manner.
“Ah, I see.” Song Jinjing said, not knowing what else to say. So open yet distant. Hmph, trying to act all mysterious with me. Is this the move he uses on all the girls and he’s just trying to act innocent? She wondered, not knowing if Theos was really a relationship idiot or if he was just acting as the pig to eat the tiger. Hmph, you won’t eat me!
After eating the two got everything ready and left for the airport.
When they were done checking in and going through security, Theos went to find some foreign language books to kill some time. When he found what he was looking for, he picked out several languages and went to the waiting area to read, first starting with Jiuzhou's language.
Theos didn’t cultivate his mind for a thousand years for nothing. Theos was easily able to understand the book, flipping through it quickly after memorizing each page.
Eventually Theos boarded the plane with Song Jinjing. After about 3 hours of peaceful reading the two had arrived at Carouver, Theodore's hometown.
At this time Theos didn't know what to do as he was planning to go back to his mansion, but didn’t know what to do about Song Jinjing, so he asked, “So, what do you plan on doing next?”
“Of course, we need to check in to a hotel.” She replied.
“But I live here, so I’m going home.” Theos said bluntly.
“Oh,” she said with slight surprise, before smiling and saying innocently, as if it was a matter of course, “Then I’ll go with you!” Hehe, of course I won’t know the degree of your wealth till I know what your house looks like, Song Jinjing thought while smiling secretly.
“Okay, if you say so.” Theos said, slightly satisfied. Of course, I still need to go back to Jiuzhou with you to get my Skill Credit, Theos thought with a secret smile. Undoubtedly, these two would be speechless if they found out they were both plotting to benefit from the other.
Theos found a taxi and had it drive the two to his mansion, which a little out of the city, on a hilly area next to the strait.