Gavin Carter said, "It's really not that difficult..."

Emily Brooks immediately said, "Anyway, I've already made up your story for you, so you don't need to think about it."

Gavin Carter: "..."

He could already guess that this person wouldn't make up anything good, but Gavin Carter didn't mind. An identity was just a convenience, it didn't matter even if it was as a beggar. He still cupped his hands and said, "Thank you for your trouble."

Emily Brooks said solemnly, "If anyone else asks about your background, remember to say you're my secretly raised pet... no, servant. You've been undergoing secret training all along, so there's no record of you. Oh, and remember not to slip up when addressing me—call me 'Miss', and be respectful."

Gavin Carter kept a straight face.

So you were waiting for this?

He asked calmly, "If you were a servant raised in your family since childhood, your father and mother should know. How would you hide it from them?"

Emily Brooks smiled, "They passed away a long time ago."

Gavin Carter could guess as much—most likely, just like Su Daji, she had switched identities, and these parents of the Yin family were not her real parents, and had probably been gone for a long time, which was why she could keep up the act.

"So..." Gavin Carter pondered for a moment, then slowly said, "Since you are now the head of the household, you shouldn't be called 'Miss'. Should I address you as 'Madam'?"

Emily Brooks's eyes widened.

Was this serious or a double entendre teasing her?

Aren't you supposed to be a straight-laced guy? Why does it feel like the more I interact with you, the more mischievous you seem?

And there's really a sense of "not being beneath others" about him. He seems indifferent to everything else, but the moment there's a question of status, he pushes back.

Gavin Carter said leisurely, "In such a technologically advanced society, I don't know why there's still this hierarchy of status. I have to say, it's a kind of regression... But it's fine, I'm quite used to it."

Emily Brooks glanced at him sideways, "How used to it? After being a very promising subordinate, did you serve the king in bed? No wonder you're so skilled at that little fist massage technique..."

The little fist disappeared with a "poof".

"Oh, still acting tsundere." Emily Brooks said with a half-smile, "All the cards you're tied to now are mine. That means you're being kept by me, you know? Big sister can freeze your credit limit anytime—let's see how long you can keep up that attitude!"

As if deliberately not giving the tsundere little demon a chance to retort, Emily Brooks hadn't even finished speaking when she suddenly snapped her fingers.

Gavin Carter watched as a large group of little robots swarmed over, their lights flashing: "What are your orders?"

Emily Brooks crossed her arms and said, "Tidy up the guest room next door, just put a bed in there, nothing else is needed."

"Yes, Master."

A group of robots rushed over, and Gavin Carter even forgot what he had wanted to argue about before...

Now he finally understood why Emily Brooks didn't need maids... Even a little fox demon with low cultivation like her could use such top-tier puppet techniques, and even had combat power... Wouldn't the godborn who spent thousands of years specializing in puppetry cry if they saw this?

Emily Brooks lazily walked toward the door, "Alright, it's already morning. I'm off to take care of business."

Gavin Carter stood up. No matter how much they bickered, he still had to thank her for this: "Thank you."

"Thank me after you get out!"

"...?"

Emily Brooks crossed her arms, "This is my room. How long do you plan to stay in here? Aren't men who are single-minded in their pursuit of the Dao supposed to be real men? Get your butt over to the guest room. Not making you sleep in the storage room is already proof that your big sister is beautiful and kind-hearted."

...

Sitting on the guest room bed playing with the watch, Gavin Carter also felt that his performance tonight had been a bit "wooden".

He really was out of touch, and couldn't adapt right away, so even his thinking was a bit sluggish.

Fortunately, his learning and adaptability were both strong, and he quickly figured out how to use this "watch".

With the development of artificial intelligence and virtual light screens, all the functions of watches, phones, personal computers, and so on had been integrated into this tiny watch. There was even a mode for subcutaneous embedded chips, so you didn't even need a watch anymore.

People nowadays could hardly live without this thing.

Combining the history of Canglong Star searched by "Xiaoji Classmate" with what he already knew, he could basically piece things together... It seemed that the ties between this world and himself were even deeper than he had imagined.

Gavin Carter was originally an Immortal Emperor of a world. Nearly five hundred years ago, feeling that his cultivation had reached a bottleneck, in order to break through to the supreme realm, Gavin Carter abandoned his throne, left the Immortal Realm, cut off all ties, and roamed the universe, hoping to gain new insights.

Later, he encountered some events... In short, he ran into his archenemy, and after a fierce battle where both sides were badly injured, he temporarily escaped into the core of a planet very similar in size and shape to Earth, to heal in seclusion.

Before going into seclusion, he had just managed to set up a spirit-gathering formation and a space-time array on the surface.

The effect of the space-time array was to alter the flow of time inside and outside, roughly at a ratio of one to a hundred—one hundred years on this planet would be only one year in universal time.

The main purpose of this change was, of course, to cheat at cultivation, but it also had an important significance: since the time axis of this planet was now different from the universe, it could be considered a completely isolated dimension, and outsiders simply couldn't find it.

This was equivalent to creating a whole new world. The power of an Immortal Emperor was far beyond what ordinary people could comprehend.