Chapter 1 A Good Student's Resentment

It turns out that even a natural-born genius doesn't necessarily enjoy homework. Even a good kid who loves learning like the Creator Goddess will accumulate resentment if you make her do twenty-eight sets of practice problems in a row—and when that "good kid" who has accumulated resentment also happens to be your mother-in-law, then you're really in trouble…

Whenever he thinks about this, Hao Ren can't help but sigh once again at how damn chaotic the seniority relationships of these long-lived species are…

A moment later, Hao Ren and Lily were standing at the gate of the old house in the southern suburbs.

"Oh—" The small Creator Goddess looked up at the old house in front of her, drawing out her tone in a slightly exaggerated manner, "So this is where you live?"

"Isn't it different from what you imagined?" Hao Ren was already used to Lily's reaction. "You're not the only one who's surprised."

"It's quite different. I thought you would live in a big palace, or a military base or something," Lily nodded. "After all, you're a Pope, and also the commander of a drone army—I didn't expect you to live here. Is this a hermit spirit?"

"I've always lived here," Hao Ren shrugged. "I lived here before I signed the contract with Raven 12345, and I didn't move after changing jobs. A house is just a place to shelter from the wind and rain. What matters is where people are. Everyone is happy living here, so isn't this home?"

Lily listened silently, the expression on her face suddenly a little sentimental: "Yeah… it's really good when everyone lives together happily…"

Hao Ren suddenly wanted to slap himself when he saw this—this was really pouring salt on the wound. The person in front of him had just lost her family, her former people had almost all died, and the Founding Star had been blown to smithereens. What was he thinking, sighing about these things in front of her!

Thinking of this, he quickly shifted Lily's attention: "Ah, don't just stand there like an idiot, everyone should be inside right now. Let's go in and say hello—I'm telling you, Vivian will definitely be shocked by you…"

As he spoke, he had already brought the key close to the door, but before he could unlock it, he suddenly heard a crackling sound of footsteps from behind the door, followed by the door being yanked open, Lily's smiling face shining with excitement right in front of him: "Yay! Landlord, you're back! I heard your voice in the house just now. Why didn't you just open a door in the living room and walk from outside…"

Before the husky girl could finish speaking, Hao Ren stepped aside a little, revealing Lily behind him: "Oh, I'm bringing her to take a look."

Lily's dog eyes widened instantly: "Wow! It's Lily!!"

After saying that, she quickly leaned the door in her hand against the wall, stepped aside to make way: "Come in, come in, how did you come?"

Lily looked blankly at the energetic Lily and the door she had put aside, then turned her head to show Hao Ren a puzzled expression: "Is this really…"

Hao Ren nodded with a straight face: "No problem, a daily occurrence."

Feeling like her eyes had been opened, the Creator Goddess was ushered into the house in a daze. The first thing she saw was the old demon sitting on the sofa with his legs spread wide, carefully studying a newspaper. Next to the old demon was the little demon poking at a broken radio with a screwdriver, and the octopus-shaped Nangong Wuyue was crawling on the floor of the living room, the ends of the tentacles extending from her lower body wrapped around seven or eight rags and a bean sprout, wiping the floor while teasing the child…

There were only these three people (plus a fish) in the living room right now, and they were all startled by Lily's sudden appearance in front of them. They probably never thought that the Creator Goddess, who should have been staying in the Dream Plane, would suddenly come to visit. They all widened their eyes. Elizabeth's hand slipped and the screwdriver went askew, directly piercing the dying broken radio…

"Ah… hello everyone," Lily raised her hand a little awkwardly to say hello. "I just came to take a look."

Fortunately, Hao Ren flashed over from behind to resolve Lily's embarrassment: "It's a quality projection—we just came back from Raven 12345's place. Lily's quality projection still has some time left, so I brought her over to take a look."

At this moment, the kitchen door was suddenly pushed open, and Hesperianna walked out from inside wearing an apron. Half of the little bat spirit's body was covered in flour. She didn't know what she had been doing before. She came out to see what was going on when she heard the noise in the living room. At this time, she saw Lily, who seemed to be receiving a national audience in the center of the room, and a curious expression appeared on her face: "Who are you?"

For a moment, the people in the living room couldn't figure out how to explain it, and they all spoke at the same time: "A friend." "A goddess." "A partner." "Your grandma…"

No one knew who said the last one, but when they all started shouting at once, Hesperianna couldn't hear any of them clearly. In the end, Hao Ren spoke up after everyone calmed down: "Her name is Lily, and she's Vivian's…"

As a result, before he could finish his words, Hesperianna had already struck a battle pose as if she had seen a class enemy: "Vivian's what? I'm telling you, don't just bring people home! I haven't completely admitted that you're my dad yet, so don't pull in relatives for me!"

Hao Ren's last half of the sentence was directly choked to death in his trachea. With his limited experience watching domestic dramas, he couldn't judge what the little bat spirit had made up in her mind in a thousandth of a second. What made him even more short of breath was what Hesperianna, that brat, had said—where did this undercurrent-filled exchange between a stepfather and a rebellious daughter come from? The little bat had only lived at home for two days and was already trying to fly, right?

However, considering Lily's young appearance, it seemed not impossible to guess what kind of sense of crisis had flashed through Hesperianna's mind…

At this moment, Vivian had obviously also heard the movement in the living room, and she followed Hesperianna out from behind the door: "What's wrong? Is Hao Ren back?"

As she spoke, she saw Lily standing in the center of the living room with a dazed expression, and was immediately shocked: "Ah—why are you here?"

"It's a quality projection," Hao Ren repeated what he had just said, "I brought her to visit, but Hesperianna seems to have had a misunderstanding…"

When the little bat spirit saw that Vivian herself seemed to be quite familiar with Lily, her vigilance rose to the level of red alert, and she pointed at Lily with wide eyes: "Vivian, do you really know this person?!"

"Of course I know her," Hao Ren said with a smile. "She is Vivian's creator."

Hesperianna put her hands on her hips: "Didn't ask you!"

Vivian rubbed her forehead with a headache: "But what he said is true—logically speaking, this is my mother."

At this moment, Hao Ren was already thinking about how to ease the atmosphere and smooth things over for everyone, but he saw that as soon as Vivian finished speaking, Hesperianna had already crossed more than half of the living room like a black shadow, and knelt down in front of Lily with a "plop," hugging Lily's leg with deep emotion: "Grandma!!"

With a "tearing" sound, Izax's newspaper was torn in two.

Even with the knowledge and experience of Hao Ren's team, they had never seen such a strange operation in the world…

Hao Ren and his group had never seen it, and Lily had never seen it before. The Creator Goddess was in a daze at this time, looking down at the little bat spirit who was hugging her thigh for a full half a minute, without saying a word. When she looked up at Vivian, her eyes said two things: Is this child mentally okay? Who is she?

Vivian spread her hands with a wry smile: "This is Hesperianna, who I mentioned to you, she's like my 'daughter,' and she suffered a little trauma when she was young…"

They also completed eye contact…

But after all, she was a master who had seen great storms. After being stunned, Lily quickly recovered, and immediately felt that the little bat spirit's sentence "Grandma" sounded very inappropriate—in the God Realm, she was still an elementary school student, and besides, her chest hadn't even grown yet. At this time, she was defined as a "Grandma," so what if she didn't develop in the future?

So Lily puffed out her chest, while trying to pull out her leg and sternly taught the little bat: "Don't call me Grandma, call me Lily… Sister, yes, you can only call me Sister Lily at most!"

Hao Ren couldn't help but hear this, and looked at the Creator Goddess sideways: "Ahem, this is a bit too much, isn't it? It's okay for Vivian to call you Lily, but now Vivian's daughter is calling you sister, you're all youthful and energetic, but how do we address you?"

Lily thought about it and felt that it made sense, so she lowered her head and carefully pondered the relationship: "Then… you can call me Aunt?"

…

A few minutes later, the whole family happily formed a circle in the living room, and the core figure who was warmly welcomed was naturally Lily.

Considering that this was Lily's first time in the surface world, Hao Ren basically called everyone he could call, and even Nangong's parents temporarily closed the restaurant and rushed back to join in the fun—in their words, it was not easy to see a real goddess, anyway, those old men and old ladies went to the restaurant with just a dish of peanuts and sat for two hours, the restaurant was like a cadre activity center, so it was better to close early and come back to meet the Holy Spirit.

However, Hao Ren felt that they were just joining in the fun—if they really wanted to see a goddess, what was so difficult about it? Just go to the supermarket to buy a box of instant noodles and find Hao Ren, and you could directly go to the God Realm to chat with Raven 12345 according to the standard of offering sacrifices to the heavens, anyway, that guy was very idle all day long…

But even so, it was exactly what Hao Ren wanted to have a few more people to join in the fun—because he knew very well that Lily needed such a lively atmosphere now.

She needed such a commotion too much.

Considering what the Creator Goddess had just experienced, although she had survived it relying on the powerful psychological qualities of the gods, it would be better to let her relieve some pressure than to do nothing at all.

Looking at Hesperianna crowding next to Lily and asking this and that, Hao Ren, who had quietly retreated to the outside of the circle, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Although she was a little bat spirit who always caused trouble, it was really a lucky thing to have her here making trouble at this time.

Nangong Sanba also retreated to Hao Ren's side, looking at the happy scene in front of him, he whispered, "I said, are we really not going to tell her what 'Great Aunt' means?"

"There's nothing wrong with the word 'Great Aunt' itself, okay!" Hao Ren raised an eyebrow, "And you're going to tell her?"

"…Then forget it."

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