The lack of heavenly approval didn't stop Xue Xinling from undressing, nor did it stop her insisting Huang Lu be topless. At the very least, she was going to have his chest as a pillow.

Huang Lu, of course, was more than happy to have a beauty in his arms. She felt light, they all did. His muscles were so obscene that they had their own gravitational field-

[You've discovered the next potential upgrade to your body - The Superdense Muscle - Costs 500 heavenly coins. Grants minor gravitational powers] Of course, it's entirely possible, in a harem fic, that the main character is so dense that its gravitational field creates and draws the harem members in. Or is it the other way around? The high density is needed to create the gravitational field, and it keeps the satellite harem members in a state of limbo, neither able to collapse into the black hole, and not able to escape from the pull of the main character's dense gravitational field.

"This heavenly system is just so weird." Huang Lu muttered to himself. It's almost as if the writer of his fate decided to just do whatever that came to his mind.

"Heavenly legacies tend to be that way." Xinling said. "It's one of the great puzzles since time immemorial."

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"Whoever created this is weird."

"Eh, we do not question why the river flows, but observe that it does. Heavenly legacies are just such laws. There is no why, it just is."

"You're rather profound despite being in a state of undress."

"You mean, I'm profound because I'm in a state of undress."

They both chuckled.

She looked at him, her eyes seemed to shine. "Will you pick one of us?"

Huang Lu felt heavenly pressure, and he understood that he is meant to be the Heavenly Self-Insert for a Harem MC, even if he didn't understand what the context and what those words meant. "...you'll have to share."

Xue Xinling laughed and grinned cheekily. "You men are just so greedy." She climbed onto his chest, and he felt her soft skin and lush, ample bosoms rub against his muscles.

"But then again, we all are." She touched his abs and felt his muscles. She really had a thing for big strong muscles, but she was a harem FMC, so she was trapped the moment she laid eyes on him. "Tomorrow is Yuanfang's turn. But until then, this is all mine."

She hugged him to sleep.

The next morning...

[You've reached 40,000 Heavenly Qi, and you've ascended to the 2nd stage of the 5th realm]

His pants couldn't withstand his new power, and it shattered from the force of his ascension. The lady in his arms merely smiled and blushed, and whispered. "You should just sleep without pants."

Huang Lu couldn't argue with that logic.