"Does this mecha have a name?"

S-class mechas aren't mass-produced; each one has its own name.

Mu Chen, having finished plating the three dishes and a soup he'd practiced making recently, brought them to the table and asked this question.

"Yes, Uncle named it 'Jin Yi'."

"Jin Yi Ye Xing?" (Wearing brocade at night; a metaphor for keeping a treasure hidden.)

Mu Chen suddenly realized the meaning behind the mecha Yan Hui had sent; it wasn't meant for Ming Mei to show off casually.

"I think so too."

Ming Mei thought about the weapon. The Empire's staff only knew a rough idea of its capabilities.

More precise details and the mecha's full data had been encrypted and sent to her Zhinao (AI assistant), temporarily held by Gui Gui (Ghost).

Ming Mei hadn't had time to examine this so-called publicly unreleased weapon of mass destruction.

She'd finally gotten a vacation, but she realized she'd slept half the day away, wasted another half on the mecha, and now she was still talking about it with Mu Chen.

Ming Mei felt a little guilty.

"Delicious!"

Realizing this, Ming Mei began to enthusiastically praise Mu Chen's cooking.

Anyway, it was better than anything she could make herself _(:3」∠)_

Hearing this, Mu Chen's eyes filled with laughter, and he used clean chopsticks to pick up other dishes and feed Ming Mei.

Seeing Ming Mei eat so much, Mu Chen felt a sense of accomplishment.

"If it's good, eat more. I'll learn to make more dishes for you in the future, so…"

[So you don't have to keep relying on elixirs every day.]

Ming Mei thought she was hallucinating.

She seemed to hear another voice while eating.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing Ming Mei stop eating, Mu Chen thought she'd tasted something unpalatable.

"Have I been staying up too late? I feel like my sleep isn't right... I feel like someone else is talking in my head." Ming Mei tapped her head. "It sounds like someone familiar, but I can't remember their face."

"Is that so? What did they say?"

Mu Chen also slowed down his chopsticks, his gaze shifting from Ming Mei to the food in front of him.

"It sounded like someone was telling me to eat more… my childhood… my life was different from now."

Ming Mei blinked and spoke slowly. She looked up at Mu Chen. Although they both had secrets, she felt hers were more outrageous.

After all, who else could travel through time and space besides the Main Brain?

Even if Mu Chen was also pretending to be young, her world and the interstellar world were completely different. How could she talk about her childhood?

"Hmm, a different place, then what?"

Mu Chen didn't seem to notice Ming Mei's hint, looking up to meet her eyes. But because Ming Mei was nervous, she didn't notice that Mu Chen's pupils were dilated.

He wasn't really looking at her.

"When I was little, my body… wasn't bad, but it was different from what others considered good…"

After all, in a world of cultivation, without spiritual roots or talent for cultivation, even if her body was so strong that even dedicated body cultivators admired it, the heavens seemed to be joking and completely rejected her existence.

Even the path of body cultivation, using physical training to enter the Dao, was forbidden.

And her parents and sister were all famous cultivators.

Her father must have wanted to take her away from that world long ago. So, to allow her to follow them to ascend, break through the Dengxian Ti (Ladder to Immortality), and shatter the void to come here, she had to make her body even tougher and stronger.

"My family made me eat a lot of things that were good for my body, but they weren't tasty…"

Ming Mei now recalled some of the natural treasures she ate back then. Some were refined into pills, which was fine, but others had to be eaten fresh.

Some of the treasures really didn't look good, and one bite could make Ming Mei feel nauseous for a long time.

To the point where she wouldn't want to eat for a long time afterward.

In her memory, someone always seemed to be coaxing her to eat.

However, this memory was very vague.

"It shouldn't be like this. When I was lying in the medical pod, the medical AI said my brain wasn't damaged and there were no signs of memory loss." Ming Mei finished this less-than-pleasant childhood memory in a lighthearted tone.

She joked, "I seem to have forgotten a childhood sweetheart~ A Chen, would you be jealous?"

Finally, Ming Mei looked at Mu Chen seriously, but received only his charming, shallow smile, which made her ears burn.

"No."

Mu Chen shook his head.

"If you've forgotten, it means they weren't important."

Mu Chen secretly clenched his bowl, lowered his head and swallowed a mouthful of rice, along with a bitter smile.

[You need to know that because of Meimei's special destiny in that world when she was little, she will never remember you.

Even if you see her every day and stay by her side for so many years, she will forget you again after a while, just like now, she still doesn't remember.

In her eyes, the mistakes you made in the past are even more unreasonable... You need to think clearly about some things before confessing.]

Ming Yi's reminder was still in his ears, and Mu Chen's heart became even more tangled.

"That's not necessarily true. After so long, there are still occasional fragments of memory popping up. Maybe they are very important to me!"

Ming Mei didn't notice Mu Chen's mood and said these things stubbornly, as if unwilling to admit defeat because of his words.

She stared at Mu Chen, as if wanting to see him jealous to prove his sincerity.

How childish!

In response, Gui Gui silently rolled its eyes and suddenly felt that it needed a body to leave its host.

It wanted to see adult love stories!

"Well, when you really remember, I will definitely be very jealous, and then I'll hold a bucket of vinegar and show off."

Sensing Ming Mei's resentment, Mu Chen looked up and still showed that bright and warm smile like a spring breeze.

Knowing that he was being perfunctory, his appearance still made Ming Mei swallow back the words she was about to say.

In this regard, she inherited everything from her mother.

"Troublesome little fairy!"

Mu Chen: ??

What did Ming Mei just mutter while biting her chopsticks?

Mu Chen rarely showed a stunned expression. He couldn't even move his eyes from Ming Mei's sudden, out-of-character comment.

"What are you looking at?" Ming Mei regretted saying that as soon as she finished. The key was that Mu Chen was staring straight at her, his bowl was empty, and when she looked up, Mu Chen was still looking at her, Ming Mei was directly stared at a trace of annoyance!

"Pfft, nothing."

Seeing this, Mu Chen couldn't help but chuckle. He turned his head and skillfully took Ming Mei's empty bowl and filled it with soup, saying, "Here, drink the soup~"

Ming Mei: …