A future daughter?

"Father really loves to tell jokes," the infant spoke again.

"Even if you are Father, if you speak of Xue'er like this, I will also have Life Qi, oh."

As the words fell, Shi Hao suddenly felt his body unable to move.

Subsequently, he saw the infant in his arms float up from his embrace.

"Is this what I looked like when I was just born? It really is cute." The infant's voice was a crisp and pleasant girl's voice.

"However, this appearance is still a bit unsuitable. Let's change to a different form to meet Father." Once the infant finished speaking, she was seen growing up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Under Shi Hao's shock, the infant who called herself Xue'er grew into a graceful young girl in no time.

A purple gauze dress outlined the delicate features on her oval face; beneath her slender waist were full, almost exaggerated breasts, and her long, slender legs were faintly visible beneath the gauze skirt. Her temperament was elegant yet carried a hint of soul-captivating wildness.

"This appearance is more comfortable."

She chuckled and came to Shi Hao's side.

"Father, is this appearance of mine better looking than Mother's?" The young girl reached out, hooked Shi Hao's chin, and smiled.

"Who exactly are you?" Shi Hao was certain the young girl before him was definitely not his offspring, because no child would treat their father like this.

This was simply rebellious.

"Father, you're doing it again." The young girl let go of Shi Hao, a look of displeasure rising on her face, but after a moment, she returned to a grinning appearance.

"Forget it, since you are my Father, Xue'er will forgive you." The girl named Xue'er stepped back a few paces, held her skirt with both hands, and then smiled at Shi Hao: "Father, nice to meet you for the first time. I am Shi Xue'er. Your sixth child. You can call me Xue'er."

"I don't believe I would raise a daughter like you. No matter what, my education of children wouldn't result in someone like you, so you had better tell the truth. Who are you? What do you want by possessing my daughter's body?"

Shi Hao guessed that the young girl named Xue'er before him was not a person of this ancient history, and not even a person from the post-Shrouding the Heavens era.

He even guessed that she was not from the Sacred Ruins era, because he had never heard of such an existence.

An existence capable of freely traversing the river of time, and capable of suppressing the Willow Deity, must at the very least be a Quasi-Immortal Emperor.

Shi Hao even guessed in his heart that the young girl before him was an Immortal Emperor.

Only then could it explain why the Willow Deity had no power to resist in front of her.

"Hehehe, Father, you are joking." Xue'er came to Shi Hao's side and reached out to rest her hand on Shi Hao's shoulder. "My personality became like this precisely because of you. It is because of you, Father, that I became like this."

"Of course, Father, you must think I am lying, but what I say is all true. You, Father, are the cause of all this. And the other sisters, they also became so disobedient because of you."

Hearing Xue'er's words, Shi Hao's brows immediately furrowed. "Me? Although I don't consider myself a good father, when it comes to children, I feel I should still be able to treat them all equally."

"And with their mothers teaching them, how could they have become what you described? I am even more certain now that you are not my child," Shi Hao said very firmly to the Xue'er before him.

"Mother's teaching?" Hearing Shi Hao's reply, Xue'er couldn't help but cover her small mouth and laugh. "Father, you really dare to talk about Mother and the other little mothers? Father, you really made me laugh."

"I didn't expect that coming back this time, I would actually hear such a reply from you, Father. It was not in vain that everyone worked so hard to send me back. After I go back, I must tell them."

Xue'er's pleasant laughter echoed in the room.

"Shi Hao, she is indeed your child, just not a child from our spacetime," the Willow Deity's voice suddenly rang out in the room.

The Willow Deity, who had originally been unable to move, suddenly broke free from the restraints on her body.

"Mother Willow Deity is really careful. Perhaps our plan was discovered from the very beginning. To think there is her mark on my body; that really was a miscalculation." When Xue'er saw the Willow Deity break free from the restraints, as well as the golden mark on her forehead, her smile vanished instantly.

"Today's cause, tomorrow's fruit," the Willow Deity looked at Xue'er and slowly said: "I also did not expect that you children would grow to such a level."

Shi Hao was stunned for a moment listening to the Willow Deity's words.

"What does it mean not from our spacetime? Could it be a parallel world?" Shi Hao was so shocked by the Willow Deity's words that he felt as if he had Transmigrated to the wrong place.

Is this not Perfect World, one of the trilogy by the Red-Haired Monster? How can there be a parallel world?

"Literally," the Willow Deity looked at Shi Hao and explained: "Because of your decision, the future has become uncertain. There are countless possibilities, and her spacetime is just one possibility among your decisions."

"In her spacetime, you just blindly buried yourself in hard work. The females of the entire Heavens and Myriad Realms were captured by you, and then they all became your daughters and bore children for you."

"And these children, from the moment they were born, had never seen you. You also failed to fulfill your responsibilities as a father, only blindly and constantly bearing children with new girls."

"And in the eyes of the children's mothers, there was only strength, let alone the responsibilities of being a mother. They never experienced the love of parents from a young age, and this led to their personalities becoming..." The Willow Deity stopped there and did not continue.

"Wait... Willow Deity, are you saying? There is another me?" Shi Hao's face immediately turned grave.

"It is not another you," the Willow Deity shook her head.

"Of course there is only one Father. From beginning to end, there is only Father. Please do not doubt this, Father," Xue'er spoke up at this moment.

"Perhaps I understand now." Xue'er looked at Shi Hao, suddenly remembering something, and a helpless bitter smile couldn't help but appear on her face.

"Child, you understand now," the Willow Deity looked at Xue'er with a helpless expression. "It is precisely because of you that the subsequent series of events occurred."

Listening to the conversation between Xue'er and the Willow Deity, Shi Hao was confused and could not really understand the meaning of their dialogue.

Looking at the confused Shi Hao, the Willow Deity comforted him: "You don't need to understand now. When the right time comes, you will naturally understand. Shi Hao, you just need to know that you are unique; from beginning to end, it is only you."

"Xue'er's matter is just one wrong choice of yours. Now Xue'er has planted the cause, and in the future, it will bear the fruit of another day. All of this is a mistake derived from various coincidences."

"You are not wrong, and they are not wrong. I cannot say too much. If I say more, it will only add to your troubles, and in serious cases, it will create a few more wrong endings."