After waiting for a while, Tiamat gave a long speech and then revealed her true intentions.

Lin Qingsu fell silent.

He really didn’t expect…

To be precise, he really didn’t expect that Tiamat actually wanted to date him. However, as he thought about it more deeply, his past memories surfaced and combined with Tiamat’s clues, he felt relieved.

“Yes, yes.”

A look of joy appeared in Tiamat’s eyes.

“When are we leaving the island?”

Tiamat’s expression suddenly changed and she kept shaking her head.

“No, no, no, you can’t leave here. Don’t leave here.”

Looking at Tiamat’s reaction, Lin Qingsu’s heart skipped a beat, and she suddenly had a bad feeling.

But when I think about it carefully, I really can’t figure out what’s wrong.

Tiamat dotes on him so much now, and he has long regarded Tiamat as his own relative. The two will not hurt each other. Lin Qingsu really couldn’t think of where his premonition came from, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

“If we don’t leave here, where are we going? This island can be walked around in a few minutes.”

Lin Qingsu originally wanted to say this, but looking at Tiamat’s pitiful appearance, she didn’t say anything, but nodded as if possessed.

That night, Tiamat rarely asked Lin Qingsu to tell her a story.

Originally, when Tiamat first heard Lin Qingsu’s story, she found it interesting and her first reaction was that as a “mother”, she should tell stories to Lin Qingsu instead of letting the child tell stories to her as a mother. However, storytelling is something that must be linked to experience and knowledge.

As the goddess of creation in Mesopotamian mythology, Tiamat is naturally quite powerful.

However, she lacks a lot of experience and knowledge.

Invincible since birth, she has not experienced the life that a normal person should have. It is really difficult to ask her to tell a magnificent and fascinating story.

So, after trying several times and ultimately finding it pointless even for Tiamat, Lin Qingsu successfully persuaded Tiamat to give up the idea of being an all-powerful mother by saying, “Children have their own responsibilities.”

Give up on the surface.

In fact, Tiamat was secretly practicing storytelling.

But Lin Qingsu could feel that she fell asleep very late.

The next morning, Tiamat got up early, but did not wake Lin Qingsu up. Instead, he waited patiently until the time came, prepared breakfast, and then woke Lin Qingsu up.

Tiamat didn’t talk about the date during the meal.

Apart from looking at Lin Qingsu more frequently, he was quieter than usual.

“Want to go fishing together later?”

“fishing?”

Tiamat looked puzzled. She certainly wasn’t worried that Lin Qingsu had forgotten that today was their “date,” but…

Hasn’t he been fishing for a long time?

What does this have to do with dating?

Lin Qingsu didn’t want to tell her directly at the beginning that a date was just for two people to have fun together, so she simply didn’t explain anything further.

“Since there’s no objection, let’s go fishing after dinner.”

Tiamat began to wonder if Lin Qingsu had forgotten the date he had promised her last night.

However, although she was a little unhappy, she didn’t want to spoil Lin Qingsu’s interest, so she agreed.

They fished together, cooked their catch at noon, had a perfect afternoon bath in the sea, and, after repeatedly promising Tiamat that they would never leave the island’s sight, cut down trees together to build a boat…

The day passed like this.

“how do you feel today?”

That night, Lin Qingsu and Tiamat sat around the campfire, and Lin Qingsu teased the campfire with a wooden stick.

“Mom is very happy~”

“Just be happy.”

Lin Qingsu watched Tiamat enjoying herself, completely devoid of the sadness she had on her face when she first went fishing that morning.

“Did you forget something?”

“Forgot something?”

Tiamat thought carefully for a while, then looked at Lin Qingsu with sudden realization and touched his head in dissatisfaction.

“What about a date?”

“That’s a date.”

“Is this a date?”

Tiamat tilted her head, looking as if to say, “I don’t understand, but don’t try to trick me.”

“‘Dating’ is two people who want to be together spending time together.”

“If you look closely, it specifically refers to the ‘companionship’ of a man and a woman who have feelings for each other.”

Tiamat seemed to understand: “Is that so?”

“Would I lie to you?” Lin Qingsu smiled and rubbed her horn: “Are you unhappy today?”

Tiamat nodded, then looked at him with sharp eyes.

In the past, although Lin Qingsu would accompany her every day, it was mostly only during meal times, bonfire time after dark, and story time before bed. She had never been with her since she woke up like today.

Lin Qingsu said, “We’ll go on a date every thirty days from now on.”

“Why once every thirty days?”

“Humans are different from gods. Doing the same thing every day will make you tired. You don’t want me to get tired of you, do you?”

Tiamat immediately became nervous, and after thinking about how thirty days was not much shorter than his already countless lifespan, he nodded.

“Once every thirty days, then so be it. Qingsu is a good child.”

“but…”

Tiamat first nodded and then shook her head, and then suddenly looked at Lin Qingsu.

Lin Qingsu asked curiously, “But?”

“Good boys don’t touch their mother’s head!”

……

Spring goes and winter comes, year after year.

Before I knew it, a hundred years had passed by like a flash.

Lin Qingsu also grew from a young boy to a white-haired old man.

However, because of his proper lifestyle and daily exercise, he now looks only about 50 years old, with no disasters or illnesses. Although he has experienced an aging that he has never experienced before, his daily life is still the same as usual.

Tiamat was not as relaxed as he was.

She still knows about human birth, aging, sickness and death.

She didn’t want Lin Qingsu, the best boy in the world who was willing to accompany her every day, to die early and leave her alone.

So ever since she discovered that Lin Qingsu had a white hair, she began looking for ways to extend Lin Qingsu’s lifespan.

Logically speaking, a god, even an ordinary lower-level god, can have as many methods as he wants to increase the lifespan of mortals, not to mention that Tiamat is the mother goddess of origin in Mesopotamian mythology.

To increase the lifespan of an ordinary person like Lin Qingsu, whose life span is less than a hundred years, is not as easy as pouring soup on snow, but it can be said to be as easy as pie.

But the strange thing is that no matter how hard Tiamat tried, she could not extend Lin Qingsu’s life.

Lin Qingsu knew this very well.

This is a “dream”, and “dreams” always end. He has only been in Tiamat’s dream for now, and for the sake of rationality, he naturally cannot have his life extended by Tiamat.

Even if Tiamat extended his life, he would still “die” due to various accidents when the time came.

It would be better to die of old age.

Tiamat became increasingly anxious as she watched Lin Qingsu’s life draw to a close. However, as a mother, she still maintained her basic decency in front of Lin Qingsu.

Although Lin Qingsu knew it, she pretended not to know. She just spent more time with Tiamat than when she was young, and hinted at her departure in her words and deeds, hoping to leave her with better memories before she left and less painful memories after she left.

Although he saw the sadness that Tiamat could not hide even in front of him.

But Lin Qingsu had no choice.

This is a dream after all. The reason he entered the dream is to get out of the dream. He cannot put the cart before the horse. And to be honest, it is still unknown whether Tiamat will recognize him after he wakes up.

He couldn’t possibly bet everything on Tiamat.

It was even more impossible for him to stay in this dream with Tiamat until she was awakened.

And it was in this atmosphere that Lin Qingsu welcomed the hundred years of his dream, and died on the bed in the wooden house on the island where he and Tiamat had lived together for a hundred years, under the sad gaze of Tiamat.

…….

The sunlight shines on the beach, making it golden.

The sound of waves, so familiar from countless mornings and nights, came to my ears.

Lin Qingsu opened her eyes.

Looking around, there is an endless forest behind me, a beach under my feet, and a vast ocean with no visible boundaries in front of me.

“are you awake?”

Lin Qingsu lowered his head and raised his hand. The lines on the young man’s palm confirmed Lin Qingsu’s thoughts.

However, Lin Qingsu still walked to the beach, looked at the reflection in the blue water, and only when she saw the young man with black hair and black eyes did she finally confirm that she had indeed escaped from the dream.

Looking at the beach that seemed to have not changed, Lin Qingsu was in a trance.

She stared at the sea for a long time, just like when she was in a dream, sitting by the wooden house and staring at the endless sea. After a while, Lin Qingsu came out of it, shook her head, and sorted out her thoughts which had become a little scattered because of time.

Tiamat had done what he wanted to do.

It even seemed that because Tiamat realized the falsity of the “dream”, she found his “reality” as soon as he entered the dream, making the result unexpectedly perfect.

“But we still have to see the effect after she wakes up.”

Dreams are dreams.

Lin Qingsu was not sure whether Tiamat would still recognize her child after she woke up.

In the dream, Tiamat avoids waking up and escaping the cruel reality, but will the reality after waking up make her lose her mind, or can he persuade her to give up letting the world return to chaos and let new life rule the new world.

are all unknowns.

“Let’s go back and take a look first.”

Just as Lin Qingsu was about to leave the beach.

The earth suddenly shook.

Lin Qingsu staggered unexpectedly, and after stabilizing herself, she turned to look in the direction of the earthquake source and was stunned.

The sea surface, which was calm just now, was now rolling like a volcanic eruption.

The ground beneath my feet kept shaking.

Countless fish rushed to the shore, and were unwilling to enter the sea even if they had to splash around on the beach, as if some horrible monster would emerge from the bottom of the sea at the next moment. In the blink of an eye, the boundary between the beach and the ocean was covered with dense fish.

“what happened?”

Isn’t the sea where Tiamat sleeps?

Lin Qingsu suddenly had a strong bad premonition.

Could it be that his own death stimulated Tiamat to break through Merlin’s illusion and wake up directly?

Once this thought came into her mind, she couldn’t stop it, and cold sweat gradually seeped out of Lin Qingsu’s forehead.

He dared to enter Tiamat’s dream because he had Meli’s protection. Even if Tiamat discovered something in the dream and wanted to kill him, he would be able to escape from the dream in time.

But, it’s different in reality.

This is the creator goddess in Mesopotamian mythology.