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Chapter 574 - 574: 574: Ryen: Not a Scumbag, Just Wanting to Give Every Girl a Home · Oct 25, 2026

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551 Chapter 551 - 551: 551: Guizhong’s Hundred Thousand Whys 2026-10-25
552 Chapter 552 - 552: 552: Pingzi: “Guizhong, Stay Away From Ryen, He’s a Scoundrel!” 2026-10-25
553 Chapter 553 - 553: Lisa Pulling Jean Onto Ryen’s Ship 2026-10-25
554 Chapter 554 - 554: 554: Yae Miko: Sister-Complexes Are Not Allowed to Speak! 2026-10-25
555 Chapter 555 - 555: 555: Miko: “Say one more word, you sister-complex, I’ll gift Makoto to Ryen!” 2026-10-25
556 Chapter 556 - 556: 556: Kindred Spirits in the Pursuit of Art, Guizhong and Ryen 2026-10-25
557 Chapter 557 - 557: 557: Guizhong: Eat This, Tengai Shinsei! 2026-10-25
558 Chapter 558 - 558: 558: Stowaways of Mt. Tianheng: Dehya and Nilou 2026-10-25
559 Chapter 559 - 559: 559: Brave Dehya - Proposing the Creation of a God Before Five Archons 2026-10-25
560 Chapter 560 - 560: 560: Lumine, Born to Be Overworked, Going to Sumeru Again? 2026-10-25
561 Chapter 561 - 561: 561: Ryen’s Vision for MC, A True Civilized World 2026-10-25
562 Chapter 562 - 562: 562: City-Building! Modernizing the MC World! 2026-10-25
563 Chapter 563 - 563: 563: Guizhong Gets Completely Sweet-Talked by Ryen 2026-10-25
564 Chapter 564 - 564: 564: Yun Jin Delivers Milk, and That Cures Eleazar? 2026-10-25
565 Chapter 565 - 565: 565: Guizhong: I’m a Redstone Prodigy! 2026-10-25
566 Chapter 566 - 566: 566: Dunyarzad’s Eleazar Has Been Cured! 2026-10-25
567 Chapter 567 - 567: 567: The MC World’s Bed Wars! 2026-10-25
568 Chapter 568 - 568: 568: Makoto Returns to the MC World 2026-10-25
569 Chapter 569 - 569: 569: Ryen: Guizhong and I Are Comrades?! 2026-10-25
570 Chapter 570 - 570: 570: Venti Proposes a Bed Wars Inter-Nation Match 2026-10-25
571 Chapter 571 - 571: 571: Lantern Rite Bed Wars, Inter-Nation Special Edition 2026-10-25
572 Chapter 572 - 572: 572: Nahida’s Dream, Reviving the Greater Lord Rukkhadevata 2026-10-25
573 Chapter 573 - 573: 573: Pingzi: Guizhong and I Are Comrades Too! 2026-10-25
574 Chapter 574 - 574: 574: Ryen: Not a Scumbag, Just Wanting to Give Every Girl a Home 2026-10-25
575 Chapter 575 - 575: 575: Speed-Clearing the Twilight Forest & Unlocking a New Mod! 2026-10-25
576 Chapter 576 - 576: 576: Dehya: Azar Isn’t Even Dealt With Yet, and You’re Telling Me There’s Still the Heavenly Principles? 2026-10-25
577 Chapter 577 - 577: 577: Dragon Rider Lumine Descends Upon Sumeru, Majestic and Unstoppable! 2026-10-25
578 Chapter 578 - 578: 578: Returning to the Firefly Forest, Guizhong Goes Wild with Joy 2026-10-25
579 Chapter 579 - 579: 579: Lumine: My Backing Is Solid! 2026-10-25
580 Chapter 580 - 580: 580: Sumeru Surrounded by Peril 2026-10-25
581 Chapter 581 - 581: 581: The Ultimate Twilight Forest Development Plan: Brilliant and Precise! 2026-10-25
582 Chapter 582 - 582: 582: Reform of the Millelith Light Infantry 2026-10-25
583 Chapter 583 - 583: 583: Lead the Dragon Knights, March on Sumeru! 2026-10-25
584 Chapter 584 - 584: 584: Ei, You’re Not a Good Mother! 2026-10-25
585 Chapter 585 - 585: 585: Ei: Big Sister Doesn’t Want Me Anymore… 2026-10-25
586 Chapter 586 - 586: 586: Fluffy Tails and Fragile Hearts 2026-10-25
587 Chapter 587 - 587: 587: Lumine: I’ll Gift You a Desert with Endless Water 2026-10-25
588 Chapter 588 - 588: 588: The Water of the MC World Becomes the Desert’s Sacred Spring 2026-10-25
589 Chapter 589 - 589: 589: Aether: Lumine, I Want an Enchanted Weapon 2026-10-25
590 Chapter 590 - 590: 590: The Abyss Order Sells Out Its Allies Without Hesitation 2026-10-25
591 Chapter 591 - 591: 591: Lumine! Live Shipping Cyno × Tighnari?! 2026-10-25
592 Chapter 592 - 592: 592: An Endless Water Source? Defying the Natural Order! 2026-10-25
593 Chapter 593 - 593: 593: Alhaitham: I’ve Set My Sights on the New World! 2026-10-25
594 Chapter 594 - 594: 594: A Minecraft Beginner’s Gift Pack for Sumeru 2026-10-25
595 Chapter 595 - 595: 595: Unable to Wait Any Longer to Go to Liyue and Witness MC 2026-10-25
596 Chapter 596 - 596: 596: Venti’s High-End Bedwars Record 2026-10-25
597 Chapter 597 - 597: 597: Lumine: Today I’m Shipping Menogias and Bosacius! 2026-10-25
598 Chapter 598 - 598: 598: Alhaitham: So Lumine Is the Gatling-Gun War Goddess 2026-10-25
599 Chapter 599 - 599: 599: Ryen’s Little Sweetheart, Guizhong 2026-10-25
600 Chapter 600 - 600: 600: Lumine: I’m Here to Call in Reinforcements! 2026-10-25

Outside the window.

Guizhong was crouched there sneakily, peeking through the not-so-transparent window with wide, eager eyes.

The Authority of Dust in her hand emitted a faint earthy-yellow glow. Her delicate face was tense, barely suppressing her excitement as she muttered to herself under her breath.

”Let’s see if I don’t scare you to death!”

”You actually dared to make me massage your legs in front of that many people, damn it!”

”I’m a youthful, beautiful girl, you know! Don’t I have dignity?! Who’s your brother, huh?!”

”You never play with me, just busy doing bad things with Ganyu and the others!”

”And you make me work overtime researching your redstone tech every day!”

”Unforgivable! Absolutely unforgivable!”

”Once you start, I’ll scare you senseless! I’ll make sure you don’t dare touch little Ganyu for an entire month!”

Just as she finished speaking, a low voice whispered softly behind her ear.

”And how exactly do you plan to do that?”

”That’s obvious, of course I’ll use the Authority of Dust and smear him with sand, ”

Guizhong spoke excitedly, but before she could finish, her expression froze.

She stiffly turned her head, gave a silly smile,

, and in the next instant, her eyes widened as she raised her hand, ready to fling sand straight into Ryen’s face.

But before she could act, Ryen grabbed her wrist and slammed her against the wall.

The freshly condensed dust scattered instantly, falling right back onto Guizhong’s own head.

”Pfft! Pfft! Pfft! Damn it!”

Guizhong spat out sand furiously, glaring at Ryen.

”You jerk! You’re bullying me again!”

Ryen rolled his eyes.

”Hey, I swear on heaven and earth, if you weren’t plotting something, would I even come out here?”

”That’s because you embarrassed me first this afternoon!”

Guizhong snorted angrily.

”You made me massage your legs in front of four nations! Don’t I have any dignity at all?!”

As she spoke, her gaze drifted downward, only then noticing that Ryen had come out bare-chested.

Under the moonlight, she was pinned against the wall, her arm still held by him.

Her heart skipped a beat.

An inexplicable heat rose to her cheeks.

Her eyes darted away as she muttered nervously,

”What are you doing?! Shameless! Let go of me! I’ll scream, I’ll tell Ganyu and the others!”

Ryen clicked his tongue.

”Even if you told Zhongli, I’d still be in the right. You were the one who tried to ambush me while I was handling important business.”

Guizhong pouted pitifully.

”But I’m still a girl! If you do this… I won’t be able to get married!”

”Oh, stop it.”

Ryen glared at her and lowered his voice.

”Behave yourself and scram, or I’ll deal with you.”

Guizhong immediately bared her little tiger teeth in anger.

”Can’t you just give in to me a little?! You’re always like this!”

”You were about to ambush me. I already gave you face by not challenging you to a fair warrior’s duel.”

Ryen raised an eyebrow.

”Or what, do you want an Imperial Duel too?”

At that, Guizhong immediately shut up.

Because she knew,

Ryen truly did not see her as a woman.

He treated her completely like a like-minded brother-in-arms.

After a brief, awkward silence, Ryen sighed helplessly.

”It’s late. Go back and sleep. There’s a lot to do tomorrow.”

”Tch…”

Guizhong muttered resentfully.

”You just hate that I interrupted your important business.”

”What else would it be?”

Ryen replied matter-of-factly.

”I’ve already been extremely tolerant with you. If it were anyone else daring to interrupt me at a moment like that, I’d have punched first and asked questions later.”

As he spoke, he released her wrist, rubbed her head gently, and brushed the sand off her hair with a smile.

”Alright. Go back.”

Guizhong stared at him gloomily, dissatisfaction written all over her face.

”Scumbag! You said before you’d play with me every day! You even promised to help me design skills!”

”Didn’t I help you design them?”

”Tch… that’s not the point!”

Guizhong muttered.

”I’ve been revived for so long now, and all you do is make me research redstone tech!”

”Every time we enter that world, you rush me to work and never play with me!”

Her head slowly lowered, her voice growing quieter.

”Honestly… if you didn’t want to play with me, why did you revive me at all?”

”Morax avoids me. Ping’er and Cloud Retainer are busy building things every day.”

”And you only care about dating Ganyu and the others…”

”Did you revive me just to make me work?”

”If I didn’t have talent in machinery, would you even have wanted to revive me at all?”

Hearing this, Ryen let out a helpless sigh.

At the core of it,

Guizhong was feeling lost.

She was naturally lively and energetic. And truth be told, even though she had lived for thousands of years,

When Guizhong was first born, she was filled with curiosity about the world.

But before she could see much of it, she became the god of the Guili Assembly’s people.

She ruled over countless lives during the Archon War.

Every day was lived on the brink of disaster.

Worried about monster attacks.

Worried about failing her people.

Worried she wouldn’t be a worthy god.

Her youthful nature was suppressed to its limit.

In short,

At an age when she should have been carefree, she was forced to grow up and shoulder the fate of countless lives.

And then…

She fell during a divine conflict.

Even in her final moments, Guizhong only worried about what would happen to her people without her.

Morax was a god of battle.

But when it came to governance,

Guizhong wasn’t boasting when she said ten Moraxes couldn’t compare to her.

That had been the foundation of their original pact.

Morax and the adepti would protect the people of Guili.

Guizhong would govern them.

Yet after thousands of years, upon being revived,

She expected to still be needed.

To still lead her people forward.

Instead, she learned she had been dead for millennia.

The Guili Assembly was gone.

Only Liyue remained.

And the people of Liyue barely remembered her.

Rex Lapis had stepped down.

Liyue had entered an era of human governance.

After her revival, Guizhong had quietly traveled across Liyue.

A thousand years of change.

The world had moved on.

She could not find even the faintest trace of her own existence, or any reason why she was still needed.

The people of Liyue were well-fed, well-clothed, living peaceful and prosperous lives.

They no longer needed gods, yet they had built a civilization others could only look up to.

Guizhong was lost.

To put it simply, she had run into life’s most fundamental philosophical question:

”What meaning does my existence have in this world?”

Freed from the burdens and shackles she once carried, Guizhong regained her girlish nature, but at the same time, she became more emotionally sensitive.

To Guizhong, the meaning of a god was not merely love.

It was guidance, leading one’s people forward.

And now, that role no longer seemed necessary.

Letting her research redstone technology had two reasons.

First, Guizhong truly had the talent for it, among everyone Ryen had ever met, she was the most gifted.

She would become a genuine master of redstone.

Second, it gave her something to do.

So far, two gods had been revived.

Makoto did not suffer this confusion at all, because Ei had left behind such a mess that Makoto barely had time to think about herself.

Besides, Inazuma still needed her governance.

But Liyue?

Its politics were transparent, its prosperity unquestionable.

It truly no longer needed a god.

Her love for playfulness was not mere frivolity, it was Guizhong reclaiming her true nature.

A way to rediscover her sense of presence.

Unfortunately…

Just as Guizhong herself said,

Zhongli really was heartless.

Reviving Guizhong seemed to resolve his greatest emotional knot.

After she returned, he barely involved himself in her life.

Ping’er and Cloud Retainer were close friends, but they spent most of their time tinkering with bizarre constructions in the MC world.

The only one left who could truly play with Guizhong… was Ryen.

Ryen had promised to spend time with her, but in the end, he still sent her off to work first.

Sighing softly, Ryen looked at the visibly dejected Guizhong and gently rubbed her head.

”Don’t overthink it,” he said softly.

”Your revival means a great deal to everyone.”

Guizhong froze, slowly lifting her head to look at him.

”Everyone needs you,” Ryen continued warmly.

”And I need you too.”

Her heartbeat instantly accelerated.

She opened her mouth, about to say something,

But Ryen added casually,

”If you hadn’t revived, how would I have found a like-minded comrade?”

”Those guys like Zhongli don’t understand our pursuit of art at all. Only you are my true confidant!”

Guizhong fell silent.

After a long pause, she pouted slightly and muttered,

”…Got it.”

Ryen didn’t press further. Stretching lazily, he smiled.

”Anyway, stop letting your thoughts run wild. I really have neglected you lately, always having you research redstone for me.”

”But I’ve said it before: only you can truly master redstone technology. Many of my future plans depend on it.”

”I can only ask this of you. You’re extremely important to my world. Understand?”

”As for playing, there’ll always be time. But we can’t just play every single day, right?”

He pinched her cheek lightly.

”Alright. Go back and sleep. Tomorrow we’re heading into the Twilight Forest.”

”There’s a Firefly Forest there with beautiful scenery, and all kinds of magical things.”

”I’ll let you play to your heart’s content. And once we finish exploring it, I’ll set aside three full days to help you design some truly gorgeous attack effects.”

Seeing the confusion and gloom finally fade from Guizhong’s face, Ryen decided not to linger outside any longer, he wasn’t about to leave his qilin waiting alone.

He stepped past Guizhong and headed toward the door.

Suddenly, she grabbed his hand.

After hesitating, she asked softly,

”Ryen… I have a question I want to ask you…”

”Loved before. Not dating.”

”???”

The blunt response left Guizhong frozen in place.

Ryen didn’t explain further. Laughing lightly, he shook her off and went back inside.

It took Guizhong a long moment to process what just happened.

Her face flushed with anger and embarrassment.

”You idiot! What kind of answer is that?!”

”What do you mean ’loved before’?! Who loves you?! Who wants to date you?! You’re so full of yourself!”