What kind of girl would travel to another world?

As mentioned in the previous chapter, when Qi Xinyang arrived at the Divine Beast Mountain, Wei Qingping had already spent the entire night in the capital of the small northern kingdom of "Grilangchi," albeit in a cell. When she woke up at noon, the king of this country immediately took her to the main hall of the palace, where a long table was filled with a variety of food.

Wei Qingping had never seen, let alone eaten, such a sumptuous meal since arriving in this strange world. To her, who hadn't eaten properly in ages, the food, set off by the ornate tableware, looked like a jewel. She quickly grabbed a few pieces of cake and stuffed them into her mouth, pinching her thigh as she chewed, wondering if she was dreaming about a feast again.

The Swordsman King, seated on his throne, wasn't surprised to see Wei Qingping's outrageous eating. After all, he had been in this alternate world for a long time, and the feeling of seeing someone from his original world in this alternate world was more profound than anything else. He had originally believed himself to be the chosen one, but as time passed and he grew older, a profoundly negative feeling suddenly took hold. He no longer felt like the chosen one, more like an orphan abandoned by his original world. He had been mired in loneliness for far too long, until Wei Qingping's appearance finally lifted that loneliness. So, when he heard this morning that the city defense forces had brought back a suspicious member of the High Tribe, he was eager to meet this person, who might have also traveled to the alternate world. Instead of waiting for her to be brought to him, he went to her cell to see her, eager to confirm whether she was also a traveler. However, upon arriving, he found the suspicious person still fast asleep, leaving him to wait in a daze. He waited until noon.

Seeing Wei Qingping eating and drinking heartily, the Sword King asked her, "You just arrived in this alien world, right?"

Wei Qingping replied to King Jianhao, "I've only been here for a few months. Uncle... cough cough." She wanted to ask King Jianhao how long he had been here, but because she was eating and talking at the same time, she choked and started coughing.

King Jianhao was a little unhappy after hearing this, and said to Wei Qingping: "What uncle? I'm only a few years older than you." Judging from Wei Qingping's current appearance, he thought that he was only five or six years younger than him at most.

After hearing what King Jianhao said, Wei Qingping couldn't stop coughing. After a long while, she said, "How is that possible? I'm only sixteen!" She looked at King Jianhao's face covered with stubble and thought that if her father were still alive, he would be around his age. If she hadn't seen a photo of her parents, she would have imagined that the man in front of her was her missing father.

The Swordsman King was almost laughing when he heard this. He said to Wei Qingping, "How can you say you're sixteen when you look like this? What have you been through? You're not one of those 'forever sixteen' characters, are you? As a senior, I want to make it clear to you that no one plays characters in the other world."

Wei Qingping was a little anxious and said to the Sword King: "I am really sixteen years old! Oh, there is no way to prove it, but I am really sixteen years old!" She had experienced a lot in the past two months, and her complexion did not look very good.

Seeing that Wei Qingping was a little anxious, the Swordsman King said to her, "Eat first and stop talking. We can talk slowly after you are full." After saying that, his face was full of suspicion, and he thought to himself, "Could it be that she aged a dozen years after sleeping in the cell for one night? That shouldn't be the case. This is a cell I designed myself, and the conditions have met modern standards. It seems that this cell still needs to be studied carefully and improved." He thought that the poor conditions in the cell caused Wei Qingping to look so old.

Actually, it was because Wei Qingping wasn't good at dressing herself up to begin with, even slovenly. Furthermore, since arriving in this other world, she'd been constantly wandering through the mountains and forests, and lately, she'd been prone to flopping about, so naturally, her face wasn't looking good. To describe her current appearance as "outdoors" and "dirty and dusty" wouldn't be an exaggeration.

Wei Qingping had completely forgotten about table manners and etiquette, even though she had never had to. She hadn't had such a hearty meal in ages. In her old world, she had only enjoyed such a feast when there was a wedding in the village.

Wei Qingping slowed down a bit because she had eaten a lot. She asked the Sword Master King, "Uncle, you look quite old. You have been in this other world for many years, right?"

The Swordsman King replied to Wei Qingping, "Look, I'm already a king. How can I be younger than him when I come here? Stop calling me uncle. Between the two of us, who knows who is older."

Wei Qingping said to the Swordsman King, "How is it possible that you are younger than me? Did you also come to this alien world when you were sixteen, just like me?"

King Jianhao replied to Wei Qingping, "I'm not sixteen. First, what year were you born? Wait, we won't ask that." He thought for a moment and then asked Wei Qingping, "How old were you when the 'Nine Yaoyao Incident' happened?"

Wei Qingping thought for a moment before answering the Swordsman King, saying, "I saw this incident online. I was probably... minus four years old that year (born in 2005)."

The Swordsman King looked relieved and said to Wei Qingping, "It's okay. I was minus two years old that year (born in 2003). I'm only two years older than you! Stop calling me uncle!"

Wei Qingping said to King Jianhao, "No! Then why are you mentioning the Jiuyaoyao incident? You weren't even born yet. Why do I feel like you are setting a trap?" She believed that King Jianhao must have some ulterior motive in asking this.

The Swordsman King explained to Wei Qingping, "This definitely needs to be asked earlier. Think about it. You traveled to this alien world at the age of sixteen. If you haven't heard of events that happened too late, wouldn't that reveal your age? That would be disrespectful to ladies. Think about it, isn't it? Think about it carefully!"

Wei Qingping found this a bit confusing, feeling that it was somewhat correct, yet also somewhat wrong. She pondered for a long time, unable to come to a conclusion, and then asked the Swordsman King, "You haven't told me when you traveled through time yet?" She suddenly remembered her previous question, which still hadn't been answered.

King Jianhao saw that he couldn't avoid this question, so he said to Wei Qingping: "You traveled here in 2020, and I traveled here in 2024."

Wei Qingping tried to sort out her logic, talking to herself, "First of all, you came to the other world after me. That's not right. I should say you came to the other world before me. No matter how you put it, it's not right." After a while, after thinking things through, her jaw almost dropped to the ground. She asked the Sword King, "Are the rules of traveling to other worlds so confusing? How could you travel after me and still travel ahead of me?"

The Swordsman King replied to Wei Qingping, "How would I know? Ask the gods."

Wei Qingping asked King Jianhao, "You are not lying to me, are you?" She began to suspect that King Jianhao might have traveled through time in the year of the "Jiuyaoyao Incident".

King Jianhao shook his head and said to Wei Qingping, "You are such a suspicious person. When you were in prison, you didn't believe that I was the king. Look, I believed what you said about being sixteen years old, but you doubted what I said." After that, he muttered to himself dejectedly, "Alas, we are from the same world, can't you be a little more sincere? It's really sad." There seemed to be tears in his eyes after he said that.

Wei Qingping looked at the Swordsman King and felt that he was too much of a dramatic actor. She was speechless for a moment and thought to herself, "Blame me."

After King Jianhao finished his "sadness", he said to Wei Qingping: "Have you finished eating? If you have, go change your clothes. You look too shabby."

Wei Qingping noticed that the Swordsman King's clothes were very gorgeous. Now, when she heard him talking about clothes, she asked him, "Your clothes are very expensive, right?"

King Jianhao replied to Wei Qingping, "That's really valuable! Just repairing the holes would be enough to host dozens of banquets. The life of the rich is so simple and boring. Alas, it's just a waste of money."

Faced with the Swordsman King's Versailles speech, Wei Qingping directly said to him: "Then just take it off and throw it away, and don't wear it again. If you don't wear something so expensive, you won't waste money." Her point of view was very simple and crude.

The Swordsman King shook his head and said nothing. At this moment, the eldest princess arrived at the palace.

When King Jianhao saw his daughter coming, he pointed at the eldest princess and introduced her to Wei Qingping, saying, "This is my daughter. She is eighteen years old this year." Then he turned to the eldest princess and said, "Go, call her aunt!"

Wei Qingping was shocked, her eyes widened, and she said to King Jianhao, “Auntie?”

Seeing that Wei Qingping was unhappy, King Jianhao immediately changed his tone and said to the eldest princess, "You can call me aunt!"

The eldest princess thought to herself, "Aunt? Aunt? Could this shabby-dressed commoner be my father's sister? I've never heard anyone mention my father having a sister. Oh, and my mother said my father married into the family, so this must be my sister before he married into the family, and now they're siblings." She was completely guessing, and unsurprisingly, she was completely wrong. With this thought in mind, she immediately bowed and began to address Wei Qingping as "elder."

Wei Qingping quickly stopped the eldest princess and said to King Jianhao, "Wait! It's not a question of aunt or aunt. Your direct retaliation is not okay. You are much older than me here. Is it appropriate for your daughter to call me aunt or aunt?" She felt that King Jianhao was angry about her calling him "uncle" and was taking revenge on her.

King Jianhao slapped his thigh and said to Wei Qingping with an apologetic expression: "Look, this is what happened." After that, he turned around and said to the eldest princess, "You should just call her your sister!"

The eldest princess looked confused and asked King Jianhao, "Ah? Father, what is going on?" She was completely confused and her heart was filled with doubts. She wondered, "What is going on with this pair of "brother and sister"?"

Wei Qingping was at a loss for words at this point. With a wry smile on her face, she said to the Swordsman King, "This is like one foot in the sky, one foot on the ground! This isn't right. I'm only two years younger than you. If your daughter calls me sister, I'll be your junior again."

King Jianhao also expressed his helplessness and said to Wei Qingping: "Look, this other world is really harmful. In the original world, I am two years older than you. In this world, my daughter is two years older than you. You can decide for yourself."

The princess was completely stunned when she heard this. She had no idea what the two people were talking about. She thought to herself, "Who am I? Where am I? Am I dreaming?"

Wei Qingping muttered to herself, "I had already sorted out the logic just now, why is everything so messed up again now?"

The Swordsman King muttered to himself, "Alas, this other world is truly toxic!" Then he said to Wei Qingping, "Why don't you just call her sister, and she'll call you aunt. Just treat each of you as your own, okay?"

Wei Qingping excitedly said to the Swordsman King, "What's so good about this! This hasn't happened in so many years. Don't talk nonsense with your eyes open. It's difficult to sort out the relationship."

King Jianhao said to Wei Qingping, "Then you should slowly sort out the relationship." After that, he turned to the eldest princess and asked, "What brings you to the palace?"

The eldest princess replied to the Swordsman King, "I heard my father was entertaining a stranger in the palace, so I came to see." Unsure of what else to say, she simply improvised based on the situation. She came here primarily because the queen always told her to visit the king regularly. It's unclear if the queen's intention was to foster a closer bond between the two or to make the eldest princess more visible. After all, when she was growing up, the Swordsman King was always preoccupied with state affairs, rarely interacting with her. As she grew older, the unfamiliarity between them made it even harder to find the right conversation.