In order to prevent such a thing from happening again, Zhao Ling felt it was absolutely necessary to clarify things.
What if he used a character summon card, and this damn dog system, just like in the original novel, placed the summoned character more than ten thousand years into the future? What would be the point then???
So Zhao Ling hurriedly asked the system about the concern in his heart, and the system considerately gave a reply:
[In consideration of the host's personal wishes, characters summoned from the parallel world of Peerless Tang Sect will encounter the host within one week, through a rationalized means, and will have an initial goodwill score above 60 toward the host.
The host can choose the age at which the character is summoned, choose whether to retain their original memories, or selectively delete part of them. Please explore the details yourself.]
After carefully considering the message on the system panel, Zhao Ling understood that the summoned character from the parallel world could now meet him much earlier.
Last time, that damn system had clearly been retaliating against him. By now, he should have already met Qian Renxue, who had crossed over from the parallel world.
But the system deliberately reincarnated her into the womb of Qian Xunji's future wife. What a beast! It didn't act like a person at all!
Zhao Ling cursed the system harshly in his heart. But anger was one thing — he couldn't actually lose his temper with the system.
What if the system once again tossed a beautiful woman summoned with the character card ten thousand years into the future? That would be a huge loss.
Thinking this, Zhao Ling opened the character summon card and, after pondering for a moment, let out a wicked grin.
He wrote down the name Tang Wutong, set the age of her arrival to around 11 or 12 years old, and deleted all of her memories regarding Tang San.
In the original story, Tang Wutong had fled from the Divine Realm to the mortal world when she was around 11 or 12.
Zhao Ling deliberately set her arrival age to that period, hoping to align it perfectly with her original escape to the mortal world.
If it synced perfectly with that moment, it would be very interesting. As for what would happen to the Tang San and Xiao Wu of her parallel timeline after Tang Wutong crossed over, Zhao Ling couldn't care less.
After using the character summon card, Zhao Ling felt quite pleased at the thought that he would soon meet Tang Wutong in a few days.
Now he was curious about when he'd next receive a character summon card. If he could get another, he might try summoning Wang Qiu'er or Jiang Nannan.
However, he estimated that summoning Wang Qiu'er might not be possible, as she was actually the Emperor Auspicious Beast. Given the current timeline, the beast had already appeared in the Star Dou Great Forest.
But it was still only around a 5,000-year-old soul beast, so the character summon card probably wouldn't work on her.
Thinking of this, Zhao Ling felt a bit disappointed. If only he could summon the Wang Qiu'er from the parallel world—it would be perfect.
After Zhao Ling uploaded his diary, the three women and one rabbit in the courtyard all noticed that their personal copies of the Zhao Ling Diary had been updated.
All four were stunned. Knowing that their own diary copies couldn't be seen by others, Ah Yin and Liu Erlong immediately opened theirs without hesitation and began reading, their eyes gradually growing more focused.
Seeing how serious they looked, Xiao Rou was taken aback.
Could it be that she and her daughter weren't the only ones with a copy of the diary? Did these two beautiful women also have one?
But then, why couldn't she see their copies?
After some thought, she realized she had never seen her daughter's copy either, and her daughter likely couldn't see hers.
Suddenly it dawned on her: clearly, each person could only see their own exclusive copy, and it was impossible to read someone else's. Moreover, some mysterious force prevented them from sharing the diary's contents with each other.
As for the reason, Xiao Rou couldn't figure it out. But she didn't dwell on it and simply opened her own diary to read the latest update.
After reading it quickly, Xiao Rou felt her heart in turmoil.
In the original timeline, after her death, her daughter was not alone. The two women in front of her—one became her daughter's mother-in-law, and the other became her adoptive mother.
And it seemed like they treated her daughter very well, which made Xiao Rou feel deeply grateful toward them.
She had thought that after her death, her daughter would be all alone.
But now, even if things went as the diary said and she died early, her daughter wouldn't be left alone, which gave her great comfort.
Still, comfort aside, she no longer wanted others to raise her daughter.
Now that her husband was gone, her daughter was her only spiritual anchor. She wouldn't leave her again—nor would she let her daughter become an orphan.
Meanwhile, Ah Yin and Liu Erlong had finished reading their diary copies. After exchanging glances, their gestures as they petted Xiao Wu grew noticeably gentler.
Especially Liu Erlong—originally she thought these two newcomers would just be her future sisters-in-law.
But unexpectedly, this little rabbit called Xiao Wu was originally her goddaughter!
No wonder she had felt such a strong affection for the bunny earlier—it wasn't just a pet-like fondness. She had just wanted to hold her and shower her with love.
Ah Yin also hadn't expected that this little rabbit was supposed to be her future daughter-in-law. But now that she and Tang Hao were unlikely to cross paths again, that child named Tang San probably wouldn't appear either.
So the mother-in-law–daughter-in-law connection with Xiao Wu was essentially broken. Still, Ah Yin didn't mind. Since her husband liked this bunny so much, she might as well treat her as a younger sister from now on.
That said… why were all these relationships getting so tangled?
Sister Xi'er was supposed to be from the grandmother generation. This little rabbit was from the daughter-in-law generation. Was her husband planning to go after someone from the granddaughter generation next?
...No way, right? He might be a perv, but surely not a beast…
Then Ah Yin suddenly remembered something the diary had mentioned: the Silver Dragon King—apparently also Xiao Wu's daughter-in-law. And her husband seemed quite eager for her as well, though he couldn't find her.
If he ever did, he probably wouldn't care what generation she was from…
"Oh boy…" Ah Yin suddenly felt a headache coming on. Her husband really was a beast. That dream of gathering all the beautiful women in Douluo for a warm and loving family… wasn't just impulsive, after all…