In contrast, Qin's baby's quiet and well-behaved nature became even more noticeable.

Especially in the eyes of the nurses who were overwhelmed by the chaos, coupled with his heartwarming appearance, he was simply a little angel living on earth.

The sick elderly man sitting alone in the corridor with a gloomy face would feel better and smile when he saw him, as if he had hope again.

People who were angry and quarreling couldn't bear to keep their faces sour when they saw him, and their quarrels were calmed down.

After a long and tiring day, doctors and nurses always feel healed and refreshed when they see him.

The elderly patient in the hospital said, "This is the most intelligent child I have ever seen in my life. It's like a child that doesn't exist in the mortal world."

The doctor said, "What a quiet and intelligent child."

The nurses exclaimed in surprise, "This is the first time we've ever seen such a well-behaved and intelligent baby!"

Most importantly, she's so cute! She has an adorable charm that can heal your heart just by looking at her! She's practically a little panda!

In a short period of time, Qin's baby became the darling of the hospital, a mascot and little angel in everyone's eyes.

"So, has the name been decided?" The mother gently cradled her son, coaxing him to sleep.

“This is a child with a calm temperament, let’s name her Qin Jing,” the father said. “Jing means to stay true to oneself and uphold one’s original aspirations. As the Six Secret Teachings say: Spring is the way of life, when all things flourish; summer is the way of growth, when all things are completed; autumn is the way of harvest, when all things are full; winter is the way of storage, when all things are still.”

"Okay, let's call her Jing then. Little Jing, grow up healthy and strong quickly. I want to hear you call me 'Mommy' soon." The mother looked at her sleeping child and smiled happily.

Because the delivery went smoothly, after a brief check-up and finding no problems, the baby was discharged in five days. On the last night before leaving, the young nurses came over to bid a tearful and reluctant farewell to the Qin family's little baby.

Unexpectedly, Qin Jing, the little one who was fast asleep, won the heart of the nurse in just 5 days.

As night fell, the mother and son, exhausted and fast asleep, were unaware that several figures were watching them from outside.

Under the moon obscured by dark clouds, on the rooftop of the hospital building stood several indistinct black figures, enormous in size, some with wings on their backs and horns on their heads, clearly not ordinary humans. They were having this conversation.

"We've been guarding this place for five days! Are you sure it's him?"

"That's right! The entire hospital was filled with spiritual energy from the moment he was born. It's impossible for this kid to be anyone else who has such talent."

"Quick! Hurry! Go and inform Lord 'Ninth'!"

"Are we pinning our future on such fragile human babies?"

"Is he the creator who saved all life in the world?"

"Or perhaps a newly emerging powerhouse of this era?"

"Or is he a sage who will lead all living beings into a new era of great integration?"

"Stay calm! What we need to do now is wait for him to grow up. What the future holds is up to him to decide..."

"Then this place is yours. We need to hurry back to 'Penglai' to report back."

"We will keep our promise and watch him grow up."

"Then, goodbye!"

"Goodbye!"

Several dark figures flashed across the rooftop, disappearing into the clouds and vanishing into the night sky. Silence returned, as if it were all an illusion, as if nothing had ever happened...

Section 2.02 The Qin Family and World History

The sleeping baby Qin Jing was completely unaware of what was happening in the outside world.

As a new member of the Qin family, Qin Jing was carried back to her home in Tokyo by her parents. Although it was an old house, it was located in the heart of Tokyo's 23 wards, where land is extremely valuable, making it quite a rare find. Several generations of the Qin family had lived there before it was passed down to Qin Jing's father.

The Qin family was once a prominent clan in China, said to originate from the Ying surname. Their ancestors were renowned and influential in Chinese history, enjoying a period of great prosperity before declining. Their already dwindling numbers were further exacerbated by war, forcing them to split into several branches. They settled here, were granted official positions by the Japanese court, and gradually entered aristocratic circles. Their ancestors also had deep ties to the Fushimi Inari Shrine, but their staunch opposition to the war led to suppression and their eventual decline.

Qin Jing's family is now just an ordinary middle-class family. They have enough to eat and wear, but after paying off the car loan and living expenses, they don't have much money left. Fortunately, the house is an old house they inherited when the family divided their property.

As the youngest son, Jing's father settled in Tokyo for work. Although he was a direct descendant, he no longer had much contact with the main family in Kyoto, because Jing's grandparents, who had recently retired, lived in their old house there and would occasionally go back to visit them during holidays.

The Qin family has always maintained the tradition of intermarrying with Han Chinese, learning Chinese, and the older generation still watches the news broadcast on time every night. Every year, someone returns to China to pay homage to their ancestors. It was there that Jing's father, Qin Wei, met Jing's mother, Wei Xue. Jing's mother was the daughter of a branch of a local merchant family. She fell in love with Qin's father at first sight and later followed him to settle in Heguo.

Although the Qin family is now in decline, with the changing tides of history, the once prominent family in Kyoto has split up and gone their separate ways.

However, with the Cuban Missile Crisis, the besieged B59 submarine launched a missile, thus officially starting World War III. Afterwards, the Earth was bombed into two abyssal craters. Even more terrifying is the claim that hundreds of unexploded bombs remain missing in those craters. If any one of the bombs in one of the craters were to detonate, the resulting impact would be enough to destroy human society hundreds of times over...

This world war directly caused the countries that initiated the war to disappear into the bomb craters, leaving only traces of their existence in history books.

Humanity has come to realize that peace is the only way out; if things continue to recklessly escalate, no one will survive. Therefore, the world tacitly abandoned the development of nuclear energy and ceased all wars. Today, the world is led by two major organizations: the Huaxia Grand Alliance of the Asian Han cultural sphere and the European Union of Europe, guiding nations towards a path of peaceful development.

As China rises again and its influence grows stronger, countries in the Asian region are adopting the Chinese Union currency as a common currency. As a result, the lives of overseas Chinese living in countries like Japan and Korea are once again flourishing, and their status is rising steadily.

However, these things have little to do with the Qin family, who are just ordinary office workers. Qin Jing simply wants to be a literary youth.

While he was fast asleep, he often had all sorts of dreams, experiencing various life processes from birth to death. The dreams were incredibly realistic, with sensations and inner turmoil that felt like he had personally experienced them. However, upon waking, he would forget about 80% of them, leaving only vague, fleeting memories and occasional déjà vu.

In essence, memory is simply what the brain hasn't forgotten.

What forms do past life memories take?

For example, teeth are like a child's baby teeth. If a tooth decays and falls out, it's heartbreaking and painful. You might be hesitant to smile in front of others, have a lisp, or food might leak out when you eat. You'll remember how good teeth are during these inconveniences. But once a new tooth grows in, you'll immediately forget about the old one.

I'll probably only remember it when I'm old and lose another tooth, and by then, what I'll miss will be a vague memory of baby teeth and permanent teeth mixed together.

Once teeth are removed from the body, even if you remember what they looked like, you can no longer recall the sensation of chewing them, and the same goes for memory.

As an infant, Jing could only eat and sleep all day. When she fell asleep, her dreams were very interesting, like watching a movie and traveling in different worlds with different bodies.

But the monotonous life he experiences upon waking is so boring that he can read a dictionary with great interest.

Feeling frustrated after being placed on the big bed by the adults, Qin Jing started rolling around on the bed to vent her frustration. As she rolled around, she felt happy, as if the talent in her bloodline had been awakened. She felt relaxed and couldn't stop.

Qin's parents were stunned by the sight. They were afraid he would fall to the ground and tried to catch him, but they couldn't hold on no matter what they did. Jing rolled from the head of the bed to the foot, then from the foot to the center, and then rolled in circles around the center. He not only avoided danger but also perfectly avoided his parents' attempts to catch him. He was so agile that he didn't seem like a newborn baby at all.

When Qin's parents were so exhausted that they lay on the bed and had given up, Qin Jing finally stopped and exclaimed in admiration.

'This is really a great form of exercise. When you're in a bad mood, exercising is good for both your physical and mental health. After playing for a while, you'll feel sleepy...'

So Qin Jing rolled up her blanket, lay down on the bed, and fell fast asleep.

That carefree attitude made Qin's parents both love and hate him.

Sometimes he would dream of a strange-looking raccoon dog whispering in his ear, 'Little Qin Jing, please go and change the world, go and save the world…'

Then a strange weasel kept whispering in his ear: "Little Qin Jing, become the sage who leads us to change the world, lead us..."

Qin Jing just wanted to tell them, 'Stop messing around, I just want to be a literature enthusiast.'

Now, no matter how hard he tries, he can only make little noises. He can't even be a literary baby, so he can only resign himself to lying down and rolling around like a rag doll.

When he got a little older, whenever Qin's father had time in the evening, he would come to the crib and read Tang and Song poems to Qin Jing to lull him to sleep.

At that time, his father's uninspired and monotone reading of poetry sounded like heavenly music to him. Unfortunately, if he didn't close his eyes, his father would stop reading to lull him to sleep, but if he did close his eyes, he would easily fall asleep while listening, only to wake up to find that it was already dawn, which was truly regrettable.

Time slowly passed, and Qin Jing went from teething and eating liquid food to taking unsteady steps and getting her body used to walking.

One day, Qin Jing was suddenly picked up and placed on a carpet, surrounded by abacuses, musical instruments, calligraphy brushes, a Huameng banknote, and various other things...

"Xiaojing, come and see which one you like? This is a gift for you," Qin's mother said with a smile.

This is a traditional Chinese custom of "grasping the first fruit upon turning one's first birthday." Ancient people said that one can "see what a person will be like at three years old," hoping to discover a child's interests and talents when they are young so that they can be nurtured as early as possible.

Qin Jing glanced at the things around her. The abacus, harmonica, and calligraphy brush were all useless. What use was that piece of paper with ten thousand written on it? Without thinking, she picked up the book of Tang poems and started reading it, ignoring everything else.

From that time on, Qin Jing was considered a child prodigy by his family, relatives, and neighbors. However, he knew that this child prodigy was just like Zhong Yong, who had been misunderstood by the masses for thousands of years. Once his "shelf life" was over, his true colors would be revealed. He just wanted to be an ordinary young literary enthusiast.

Although he did have the idea of ​​striving hard to become a legend, all he needed to do was read books and dream. As long as he put himself in the shoes of the characters in the books, whether it was exploring underground, traveling in space, or traversing the world, it could have been achieved a hundred years ago.

Qin Jing can only read Chinese characters right now. She's doing alright with hiragana and katakana, but it becomes extremely difficult when she adds Japanese kanji. This is because Japan didn't have a writing system initially. After kanji were introduced, some characters were only written and read with the same meaning, but the pronunciation remained the same. This is called 'kun'yomi'. For example, 'Naruto' is written as 'Naruto' and 'Kuroko' is read as 'hentai'. This is the reason for this.

Some Chinese characters have the same pronunciation as Japanese characters, and are therefore used to express the meaning of that pronunciation. This is called "on'yomi" (音読み). For example, "大丈夫" (daijoubu) actually means "it's okay".

Furthermore, after thousands of years of evolution, learning it is truly quite a challenge.

Why is a bathhouse if it has the character for "soup" on its sign? Why is sesame oil written as "horse oil" in ramen shops, and why is carrot labeled as "ginseng" in vegetable shops? And why is white radish written as "daigen"?

He had already tried his best to force himself to drink more, but the awkwardness of the modern Japanese-style Chinese was really tormenting his brain.

He was so distressed that he even considered giving up learning Japanese kanji. After all, ancient literature written by female authors like Genji and The Pillow Book was also written in hiragana. Although they were limited by the times and could only use kana, that was fine.

However, if you want to realize your wish of becoming a well-read literary youth, simply learning kana is definitely not enough to understand books.

"Sigh...it would have been better if we hadn't spoken Chinese in the first place..."

But I still really want to read! As long as it's a good book, I'll read it to you even if it's in Japanese! Chinese-style Japanese is the best!

Don't worry! My Japanese is barely passable, but I'm really determined! Enough talk! Trouble is brewing! Trouble is brewing!

(No problem! I'm serious about learning Japanese! No joke! Thank you! Thank you!)

Section 3.03 Novelists All Have Younger Sisters

Two years have passed since Qin Jing was born. It was a scorching summer when rain was almost nonexistent and the earth was shone with blinding, scorching light every day.

The Qin family welcomed a new member; Jing had a younger sister. Her name was Qin Kui, and her parents hoped she would grow up strong and healthy, facing the sun like a sunflower.

Just as her parents had hoped, she was completely different from her brother, who preferred to read quietly all day. She was a lively little girl who made a lot of noise in every sense of the word. Like blinding sunlight, she would shine on your face wherever she went.

Perhaps this is a natural athlete; full of energy, it ran around everywhere as soon as it learned to crawl, making the adults chase after it until they were exhausted and collapsed on the ground, but it didn't seem tired at all.

Is this Supergirl?

Looking at her younger sister, who naturally had beautiful pink hair, Qin Jing was amazed by her boundless energy. She wondered if her sister had been bitten by a spider or if there had been a genetic mutation somewhere.

Kui was very popular with the adults. She was pleasing to the eye and always had a sweet smile. The neighbors all praised her for looking just like Shizuka when she was born, but even more lively. They said she would definitely grow up to be a great beauty.

However, Jing himself had not yet been exposed to the aesthetics of this world, or rather, he only had a child's level of aesthetic sense. He looked his younger sister up and down, and sure enough, apart from being noisy and disturbing his reading, he couldn't see anything special about her.

But... is this naturally pink-haired girl with the potential to be a female lead filming a Gundam movie or a magical girl movie?

Qin Jing patted her younger sister Xiao Kui's head, and the pink-haired girl smiled with her eyes narrowed, making a cute sound of joy.

Hmm... Looking closely, the hair is indeed sparse, thin and fine, but it feels surprisingly nice to the touch, like a newborn chick.

"I wonder if touching it like this will lead to the same result as when the Stone Buddha touched the Demon Blade back then," Qin Jing thought to herself, her hands continuing their movements.

"Waaaaah!!" As if sensing malice, Xiao Kui burst into tears.

"Mommy, Xiaokui is hungry!" Qin Jing shouted, patting Xiaokui's head with both hands and comforting her with a smile, "Don't cry, my good girl."

Friction! Friction! Until Qin Ma arrives.

Jing had heard of a group known as "sister complex" who constantly preached about the cuteness of their younger sisters: the gentle, virtuous, and caring homebody sister; the tsundere sister who says she hates someone but secretly loves to be pampered; the mischievous and energetic sister; the brother-obsessed sister; the bubbly sister; and so on. They were the most devoted to their sisters in the world, willing to do anything for them! Even face mountains of knives and seas of fire! Although these people often didn't actually have a sister in real life…

However, the most formidable type is the sister complex without a younger sister. It is said that light novel author Tsukasa Fushimi was a struggling writer back then, but he was inspired by his younger sister and developed the incestuous writing technique. He used words to vent his desire to be slapped and scolded by his spoiled younger sister, and then works such as "Oreimo" and "Eromanga Sensei" were born.

After finishing the Aincrad arc, Reki Kawahara, the author of Sword Art Online and Accelerate, was struggling with how to continue the story when he suddenly thought that it would be really exciting to have a younger sister with breasts bigger than his wife. Inspiration struck him, and that's how the Fairy Dance arc came about, where he could both take his sister to clear dungeons and rescue his wife at the same time.

Furthermore, Hirasaka Yomi felt that writing about the chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) younger sister Kobato and nun Maria in "Haganai" wasn't enough. In "A Little Sister Can't Be This Cute," he completely ignored his younger brother, who was clearly his sister, and instead played around with his "air sister." Every sentence revolved around his sister. He wrote about his sister while working, dreamed about his sister, wanted to eat his sister while eating, and even wanted to play with his sister while playing games. He studied his sister from head to toe. It's unbelievable that such a work could be "miserably" adapted into an anime and sell millions of copies.

Could it be that my sister really does possess some mysterious power?

Qin Jing seemed to have grasped something extraordinary!

Jing hesitated for a moment, then reached out to touch the head of her younger sister, Xiao Kui, who had been coaxed to sleep…

This! This feeling! ...The texture is really great, just touch it a couple more times... no... ten more times.

If the United States no longer exists in this world, then the Bald Chieftain probably doesn't exist anymore!

Then let's do ten more...

"Waaaaah!!" As if sensing the evil power emanating from the Stone Buddha Duncan's bald-handled demon sword Ginobili, Xiao Kui woke up and cried loudly.

"Qin Jing! You're bullying your sister again!" Qin's mother shouted angrily as she rushed over to comfort her daughter.

Qin Jing innocently shrugged, "Why did you say 'again'?"

Although Aoi is indeed noisy and clingy, and will make a fuss if you ignore her while reading, forcing people to look at her, does this little brat who can't even speak yet mean you can pester people to play a staring game with her? Even though she likes to tear up the books on the floor and sofa, she's practically a devil.

Even so, someone as upright as him wouldn't bully his sister because of that. Duncan is with me! Shine! Bald Handmaster!

If it weren't for her young age, Jing might have already placed her in the study where Qin's father works.

But that's great about kids. They're completely different from the scheming Jing. Xiao Kui cries, but once she's cried it all out, she forgets everything—whether it's worries or pain—and everything goes back to normal. She's still as sunny and innocent as ever.

After being placed on the carpet, the younger sister, Aoi, crawled towards her older brother with a bright smile.

While looking at the book, Qin Jing made all sorts of strange faces at her in an annoyed manner.

Aoi burst into laughter, rolling around on the carpet from left to right, then from the edge to the center of the living room, and then spinning in circles. It seemed as if she had awakened some special power.

"My little sister is really interesting." At this moment, Jing put down her book, sat down to watch her sister's performance, and said with great interest.

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