I Just Wanted to Live, but I Somehow Became Better Than the Main Character
Chapter 15: It’s Not Right to be Picky

Returning to the room, Ye Yong found that Yi Bai was engrossed in reading the comics he had drawn.

“Sister Yi Bai has been like this since she came in. Is she in a state of enlightenment?” Wu Xue whispered to Ye Yong.

“I don’t think so. She cultivates art, and this new style might have sparked some inspiration in her,” Ye Yong replied.

Yi Bai heard the sound and turned to Ye Yong, her eyes full of surprise. “Junior Brother Ye, did you create this?” she asked.

“Yes, just some boring comic books,” Ye Yong replied.

“How can this be boring! It already has the rudiments of a world!” Yi Bai’s hand holding the comics trembled slightly.

Qin Shi Meng and others who were not skilled in painting, as well as Ye Yong, who did not consider painting as his main combat strength, could not imagine Yi Bai’s current mood.

“The highest level of painting is ‘One Painting, One World.’ Legend has it that painting immortals can create a pure land for creatures to inhabit. Although your paintings are mainly about characters and stories, they have still vividly created a brand new pseudo-world different from here,” Yi Bai said.

Ye Yong scratched his face, feeling that Yi Bai was probably talking about the 2D world. The collision between characters and stories can give birth to countless 2D worlds. The so-called worldview is proof of different worlds. But because it is fictional, it only exists on a spiritual level, so it can be called a spiritual pseudo-world? At least, that’s how Ye Yong understood it.

“So, even if you haven’t comprehended the true essence of painting, you can still create a world through this method…” Yi Bai held the comic books and sighed. “It may be a pseudo-world now, but as long as painting reaches its peak, it can be transformed into a real world.”

Ye Yong agreed with this view. After Mu Qing Yin became the Zither Fairy, she obtained some secret treasures related to painting, and with various excellent conditions, she really used painting to create a world where creatures could live. However, the process was quite complicated, and it was only possible to create living environments, not to make creatures in the paintings come alive.

Because it was like creating life out of thin air.

Although the two painting beauties were also drawn, they were only spiritual bodies with intelligence and consciousness, so strictly speaking, they weren’t actually alive.

The Dao of Life is the foundation of the 3000 Daos and also the most difficult to grasp. Only a small number of ancient true gods have the power to create life.

Ancient true gods can easily create a real world that is completely the same as novels and comics. The difficult part is that cultivators cannot become ancient true gods.

At least, even around the end of the novel, Ye Yong did not know of anyone, the protagonist or those around him, who could achieve such a feat.

The ability of the painting immortals to create a small world for creatures to live in with a painting scroll is already extremely remarkable.

“Junior Brother Ye, I cannot stay for dinner.” Yi Bai suddenly changed her expression. “I seem to be about to break through and must go into seclusion for a period of time. Thank you for the invitation, I’m really sorry.”

“It’s okay, come again next time.” Ye Yong was not surprised and handed Yi Bai a rank 4 pill that he bought from the system store.

Yi Bai did not have time to see what was in the bottle and hurriedly left.

Although it had been less than two weeks since she broke through the 9th layer of the Golden Core Realm, for some cultivators who have been stagnant for a long time, aside from external factors, the reason for not being able to break through may also be due to the fact that their state of mind and comprehension could not keep up. Once they catch up, it is not surprising for them to break through continuously.

After Yi Bai left, Ye Yong took out the spirit dishes made by the cooking system.

Due to identity issues, Wu Xue and Lil Huan took a few spirit dishes they could eat and went into their rooms.

In the living room, only Ye Yong and Qin Shi Meng remained.

With one less person, Qin Shi Meng felt that she couldn’t face Ye Yong directly. She tilted her head slightly and made a look as if she was pondering the philosophy of life.

Ye Yong noticed that she was feeling shy, so he didn’t flirt with her, but took out a new dish and prepared to serve the spirit foods onto separate plates.

“What are you doing?” Qin Shi Meng asked when she saw what he was doing.

“Men and women are different. It’s not good for us to eat from the same plate,” Ye Yong replied.

In the world of the Emperor Within New Emperors, except for restaurants and other public places, ordinary people eat separately at home, similar to ancient China. Mortals do this to reduce disease transmission, but since it was almost impossible for cultivators to get sick, Ye Yong was doing this to avoid indirect kissing. Just because he didn’t mind didn’t mean that Qin Shi Meng wouldn’t mind either.

Qin Shi Meng was taken aback when she heard this. In fact, she hadn’t thought about this before. When eating with someone else of the opposite sex, it was necessary to eat separately, but when facing Ye Yong, she seemed to overlook some details. The small things that she used to care about seemed to be irrelevant now.

“Brother Yong…” Qin Shi Meng bit her lip lightly. “You don’t need to go through the trouble. I… I’m fine.”

“I see.” Ye Yong’s eyes turned, and he suddenly sat down next to Qin Shi Meng.

“Okay, but the table is too big. Let’s sit closer to each other, and it’ll be more convenient to share dishes.”

“Uh…” Qin Shi Meng felt her heartbeat increase quite a bit, and her breathing became a little short of breath. Although Ye Yong was still some distance away from her, she seemed to be able to feel his warmth radiating towards her, causing her body to feel a little feverish.

“Here, try this new cuisine,” Ye Yong said as he picked up some food for Qin Shi Meng.

If they were eating separately, Ye Yong wouldn’t have done this. But since she said that there was no need to eat separately, this was a signal. A signal that she was starting to accept Ye Yong.

However, Ye Yong had a sense of distance and didn’t show too much intimacy. After all, being too intimate sometimes had the opposite effect. Except for when he first served her a dish when they had just started eating, Ye Yong just ate by himself.

After gnawing on pills for four days, he could finally enjoy a delicious meal. He was too preoccupied with indulging his taste buds to pay attention to Qin Shi Meng.

Qin Shi Meng had no idea what Ye Yong had been through and assumed he was very hungry, so she ate slowly, wanting to leave some for him.

After a while, Qin Shi Meng noticed a plate of spiritual dishes that Ye Yong hadn’t touched, and the main ingredient was her favorite food.

Her heart began to race inexplicably, and she took a deep breath before stiffly picking up some food and slowly moving towards Ye Yong’s bowl.

“It’s not right… to be picky…”

Ye Yong, who was eating heartily, came back to his senses and looked at Qin Shi Meng in disbelief. The Empress Qin is actually feeding me?

After all, she was not the type of person who was easy-going, but rather cold and silent. Her personality made it impossible for her to take any initiative to make intimate moves, but now…

Perhaps the favorability rating of 90 was higher than he had thought.

Ye Yong swallowed his saliva and asked, “Can you feed me?”

He was testing Qin Shi Meng’s bottom line.

Qin Shi Meng slightly averted her gaze and didn’t say anything, but the blush on her beautiful face and the chopsticks that she didn’t move had already given him an answer.

So Ye Yong slowly moved towards her chopsticks.

“Young Master, there’s no more food left.” At this moment, Wu Xue walked out of the room.

Startled, Ye Yong quickly sat down, and Qin Shi Meng immediately stuffed the food on her chopsticks into her mouth, turned away from Ye Yong, and lowered her head to eat.

“Hmm?” Wu Xue felt something strange seeing this scene. Did Young Master upset Sister Shi Meng? But they were sitting together- so that couldn’t be right, could it?