Ruan Qiuping: "..."
Ruan Qiuping remained silent for a long time, then spoke with some difficulty: "...You really don't know?"
"I don't know, what is it?"
Ruan Qiuping fell silent again.
Silence.
Silence.
His thoughts gradually drifted away in the silence, back to over two hundred years ago.
When Ruan Qiuping was young, he was overly sensitive and stubborn. Knowing that others didn't like him, he never took the initiative to talk to anyone. Aware that other children didn't welcome him, he adamantly refused to go to the Immortal Children's School. Before coming of age, Ruan Qiuping had never properly attended school. His everyday knowledge and basic immortal techniques were either casually taught by Ruan Shengfeng or self-learned from books. After Ruan Qiuping became more aware, the immortals living near their home had all gradually moved away. Ruan Qiuping had never encountered a pregnant female immortal, so he always had a unique and deeply rooted understanding of the sexual relationships between immortals.
For instance, when Ruan Qiuping was 20 years old, he still thought that male and female immortals had children by sitting together on a bed and meditating.
He had often fantasized about such scenes in his mind: two immortals sitting cross-legged on the bed facing each other, their eyes tightly closed, concentrating their energy. Spiritual power would flow from their palms, gathering in the air, gradually condensing into a spirit orb. As the spiritual energy converged, this orb would become more solid and grow larger. When it reached a certain size, a child would pop out of this spirit orb. This, he believed, was the legendary "spirit cultivation."
Ruan Qiuping always thought this scene was very sacred and longed for it.
However, this sacred fantasy was mercilessly shattered one rainy night.
That day, he had returned from the trading forest after buying pills that were said to increase cultivation. It happened to be raining heavily, and Ruan Qiuping found a random eave to shelter from the rain. He heard a male immortal inside the house "beating" his partner.
Ruan Qiuping immediately rushed in...
An hour later, Ruan Qiuping was taken to the Immortal Punishment Center on charges of trespassing and unprovoked magical assault on others.
But because Ruan Qiuping was more severely injured—he was almost obliterated by the couple's combined magical attack—the staff at the punishment center didn't send him to be detained, but directly to the God of Medicine's emergency center.
Although Ruan Qiuping recovered from his injuries after lying in bed for over two months, this incident left a deep psychological scar on his heart.
...
The past was too painful to recall, and his thoughts gradually returned to the present.
Ruan Qiuping looked at Yu Huan in front of him and thought seriously for a moment.
Little Yu Huan was only 15 years old this year, and he had lived alone since childhood. From middle school, he even lived alone in an apartment near the school, so it was actually normal that he didn't understand those things.
Suddenly, Ruan Qiuping felt the weight on his shoulders grow heavy.
Raising a child was really difficult!
Ruan Qiuping let out a long sigh to the heavens!
It seemed that little Yu Huan's education on this aspect could only be left to him, an adult!
To prevent little Yu Huan from walking down the miserable old path he had once trodden, he must educate Yu Huan well and tell him what exactly only lovers can do in this world!
Ruan Qiuping patted Yu Huan's shoulder, with a grave expression: "...Don't worry." I will teach you well.
Yu Huan: ...What's there to not worry about?
Ruan Qiuping stood up: "You continue watching the freshman ceremony, I'll go to your apartment and wait for you."
"Wait, I'll go with you."
Ruan Qiuping pressed Yu Huan back down, with a profound look: "...No, I have some important things... I need to do alone."
After Ruan Qiuping left, Yu Huan finally reacted, his expression suddenly becoming strange.
...He was just joking, could it be that Ruan Ruan took it seriously?
Then what was Ruan Ruan going to... do?
.
On a rather secluded and narrow street, Ruan Qiuping looked at the pink little shop in front of him, took a deep breath, lowered his head and rushed forward—
—Then he suddenly turned at the door of the pink little shop and went to the store on the left to buy a bottle of mineral water.
Ruan Qiuping silently walked out of the store with the mineral water.
No, he must go in.
How could he back down from educating a child?!!!
Ruan Qiuping gripped the mineral water in his hand and walked straight towards the pink little shop—
—Then he suddenly turned again at the door of the pink little shop and went to the clothing store on the right to buy a pair of socks.
Ruan Qiuping: ...
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Ten minutes later, the owner of a certain pink little shop found that a book and two DVDs were missing from his shelf, while at the same time, three damp hundred-yuan bills suddenly appeared on his cash register.
Ruan Qiuping held the precious teaching materials tightly in his arms, then wiped the sweat from his forehead, found an empty corner, pressed the button on his wristband, and deactivated his invisibility.
Through his clothes, he felt the discs in his chest.
The human world was too crazy. Even in the immortal realm, there were only vaguely descriptive novels and picture books, but humans could actually make films of such things?!!
But this was good too.
Ruan Qiuping patted his chest, trying to comfort himself: Visual materials are more vivid and will help little Yu Huan understand better!
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When Ruan Qiuping opened the apartment door, he found that Yu Huan had already arrived home and was sitting on the sofa in the living room waiting for him.
Seeing Ruan Qiuping come in, Yu Huan immediately went to greet him: "Ruan Ruan, where did you go?"
"Ahem..." Ruan Qiuping pointed to the sofa and said in a deep voice, "Sit down first, I have something to tell you."
Yu Huan obediently sat on the sofa, looking at Ruan Qiuping with some curiosity. He always felt that Ruan Qiuping seemed to be carrying something in his arms.
Ruan Qiuping paced back and forth while speaking earnestly: "Yu Huan, you're 15 years old now, right? I think there are some things you should understand."
Yu Huan's heart immediately tensed up. What should he understand? Was Ruan Ruan leaving? Would Ruan Ruan no longer appear even once a year? Or was Ruan Ruan going to tell him his true identity??
"Ruan Ruan, you..."
"Don't speak first, let me test you." Ruan Qiuping interrupted Yu Huan, "Do you know how children are born?"
Yu Huan: "..."
Yu Huan remained silent for a long while before slowly nodding.
"How are they born?" Ruan Qiuping asked.
"After the egg and sperm combine, they form a fertilized egg, then the fertilized egg will..."
Ruan Qiuping interrupted him again: "I'm not asking about that, I'm asking... um, under what circumstances do sperm and egg combine?"
Yu Huan: "..."
Yu Huan's expression grew increasingly strange. He looked at Ruan Qiuping and answered concisely: "...Sleeping."
"Wrong, completely wrong!" Ruan Qiuping loudly refuted him, shaking his head with a grave expression, "Do you think two people lying in bed with their eyes closed, sleeping for a night, and when dawn breaks a child will be born? You're too naive! Just as naive as I was back then!"
Yu Huan: "..."
"Today when I heard you say you didn't know what only lovers can do, I sensed something was wrong. Sure enough! You know nothing about this!"
Yu Huan finally understood what Ruan Qiuping was trying to do: "Ruan Ruan, actually I know..."
"No need to explain, explanations are just cover-ups! No need to be shy either, at your age it's normal to know nothing about this, what's there to be shy about? Now seriously absorb this knowledge, so you won't make a fool of yourself in the future, and won't get beaten up!"
Ruan Qiuping said passionately. If only someone had told him this knowledge back then, he wouldn't have ended up bedridden for two months after being beaten!
As he spoke, he took out the educational materials he bought today from his arms. He first put the DVDs he bought into the laptop's disc drive, then sat down next to Yu Huan and picked up the slightly dusty "Sex Education Handbook for Teenagers."
Strange, why was such a useful book selling the least in that store?
He clicked the play button while opening the book: "I specially bought these films for you. Now watching the films while reading the book should help you understand and absorb better."
Yu Huan: "..."
As the film began to play, Ruan Qiuping also began his explanation: "That, the first to appear is a short-haired..."
Ruan Qiuping frowned slightly, and only after the other protagonist appeared did he continue: "...female, followed immediately by the male character..."
Ruan Qiuping had barely spoken two sentences when he felt the current scene was extremely bizarre. He coughed twice, then pushed the book in front of Yu Huan: "You can flip through it yourself. I'm not sure which parts you don't understand. If there's anything unclear, focus on following the video..."
Ruan Qiuping's voice came to an abrupt halt.
He watched as the protagonist in the video began to undress. His hand trembled, and the thick book fell to the ground. His face turned deathly pale as he stammered: "Yu... Yu... Yu Huan, that woman has... has..."
Yu Huan: "...That's a man."
"Then the oth-oth-oth-other... one..."
"The other one is also a man."
Ruan Qiuping suddenly came to his senses.
What... what should he do?
No, first... first turn it off!!!
Ruan Qiuping hurriedly moved to the desk and grabbed the mouse, frantically trying to close the video. But his hands were shaking so badly that he missed several times. Instead, he accidentally hit pause, freezing the frame on the part Ruan Qiuping found most incomprehensible...
"Snap." Yu Huan stood up and walked to the desk. He reached out and abruptly closed the laptop.
All images and sounds disappeared instantly.
Ruan Qiuping felt as if all strength had been drained from his body. He stumbled back two steps and collapsed onto the sofa.
He tilted his head back, staring at the ceiling, his mind completely blank.
...Humans were truly too crazy.
Meanwhile, Yu Huan remained standing by the desk, motionless.
His gaze fell on the now-closed laptop, his expression a mix of curiosity and bewilderment. But his heart was beating rather fast.
Yu Huan turned his head to look at Ruan Qiuping, who was sprawled on the sofa, seemingly still not recovered from the recent shock.
Ruan Qiuping's lips were slightly parted, his face still pale. His eyes, somewhat unfocused, stared at the ceiling as he slowly raised his hand, resting the back of it on his forehead. He was still breathing lightly, his chest rising and falling with his chaotic breaths. His slightly wrinkled white shirt had ridden up a bit with his raised arm, revealing a small strip of snow-white waist.
The scenes from the video earlier flashed through Yu Huan's mind.
As Yu Huan looked at Ruan Qiuping before him, he suddenly heard his own heart start to beat wildly, as if somewhat out of control.