Chapter 25: Finally Got a Formal Name

After giving the medicine to the listless Da Mao, the Bai family members, exhausted from a day of chaos, gradually fell asleep. Perhaps it was because they had been busy for two consecutive days, experiencing rather peculiar events. Tonight, Juanjuan finally couldn’t hold on any longer. She fell into a deep sleep before she could even start eavesdropping on her family’s whispers. As a result, she was completely unaware of the grand plan her Eldest Brother was scheming in his mind!

Bai Yunqi carefully controlled the faint Spiritual Energy within him, laboriously forming a seal and sending it into his father’s body from a distance. Soon, his sleeping father’s brows furrowed, then gradually relaxed. Satisfied, Bai Yunqi turned over and went to sleep. It was a Spirit Dream Art, quite useless but capable of altering someone’s dreams. He hadn’t done much. Goudan was a childhood nickname he couldn’t change, a trace of the Original Host’s life in this world. But he wanted a Formal Name, like Bai Yunqi; there was nothing wrong with that, right? From a personal standpoint, he still wanted to use his original name. Besides, this family was surnamed Bai—it was fate!

However, naming was generally the responsibility of the elders. If he let Bai Tian name him, it would be like handing over control. Could he trust his parents to come up with a nice name when they named their children Goudan, Da Mao, and Er Mao? Bai Yunqi really doubted it. So now, he needed to employ some small tactics. If all went well, by tomorrow morning, he would have his original name.

The next morning, the family gathered around a shabby wooden table to eat wild vegetable pancakes. Oh, Da Mao, who had a fever, was still asleep in bed. Juanjuan quietly ate her wild vegetable pancake, already accustomed to the murmurs only she could hear. However, for some reason, Eldest Brother was particularly talkative today.

【I wonder how the Spirit Dream Art worked last night.】

【Logically, Dad should bring up the important matter of naming, right!】

【Hurry up, hurry up! Talk about the naming already.】

Juanjuan didn’t understand why Eldest Brother was so obsessed with naming. She thought their current names were just fine! Simple, easy to remember, and they rolled off the tongue—good names. The child had no idea what her Eldest Brother had gone through or how fragile and vulnerable his mental defenses were at the moment.

“Dad, hasn’t our family been a bit unlucky lately? Should we consult someone?” Bai Yunqi finally couldn’t hold back and started to steer the conversation towards the topic of renaming.

Bai Tian took a sip of porridge and looked at his family gathered around the wooden table. “I was just about to talk about this.”

Almost everyone’s eyes turned to Bai Tian, though with varying expressions.

“I had a dream last night. In the dream, an Old Immortal said our family’s recent misfortune was due to needing a change of fate!”

“Change fate? How?” Jiang Dai asked curiously. She initially wanted to say one should believe in science but then remembered she had transmigrated, so she decided to believe in the unexplainable mysticism.

Bai Tian said, “Changing fate is costly and difficult, but the Old Immortal said we could change our names! A homophonic change of fate.”

Jiang Dai squinted her eyes slightly. “I’m Jiang Dai, and I’m not changing my name. I remembered it with great difficulty!”

Bai Tian looked at his wife with surprise and delight. “Wife, you’re called Jiang Dai? You remembered your name?”

Jiang Dai nodded. “Yes, Jiang as in ginger, and Dai as in eyebrows, Jiang Dai.”

Bai Tian immediately beamed. “Then from now on, I’ll call you Jiang Dai, alright!”

【Great, I finally don’t have to awkwardly call her ‘wife’ anymore. No one knows how uncomfortable I’ve been these days calling her that.】

【The Original Host was married and had kids, but I’m not! Little Boss Bai, at 25, has only had one relationship, and I got dumped!】

【But speaking of which, these ancient people are impressive. The Original Host married at 17, had kids, and now has four children at 25. Amazing!】

Juanjuan blinked, curiously watching her father. Words like “married,” “dating,” and “dumped” were things she didn’t quite understand yet. But she seemed to grasp the general idea, which was: this father didn’t have children or a wife before. Juanjuan couldn’t help but look at her father with a bit of sympathy. Poor dad, at twenty-five, such an old age, yet he hadn’t married or had kids.

Bai Tian looked at his little daughter in confusion, not understanding why he seemed to see sympathy in her eyes.

Strange.

“Dad! So, how do we change the name?” Bai Yunqi urged, eager to move the process along. He really couldn’t wait any longer. Why was this dad so slow!

“Don’t rush,” Bai Tian reassured his eldest son before continuing, “The old Immortal bestowed a name upon our eldest, which means he gave our Goudan a name.”

Jiang Dai asked, “Is it that mystical? Can you even remember?”

【Most people, upon waking from a dream, feel they remember it clearly, but they soon forget it, retaining only a vague impression.】

Juanjuan listened to her mother’s words and instinctively tried to recall her own dreams. It seemed she couldn’t quite remember them either. The only thing she recalled was a dream where her father and mother treated her exceptionally well, though she couldn’t remember exactly how.

Bai Tian spoke up, “Of course I remember! It was the Immortal’s Dream Message! How could I forget?”

Under the curious gazes of everyone around, Bai Tian confidently declared, “The old Immortal named Goudan—Bai! Yun!”

Jiang Dai repeated, “Bai Yun?”

【That’s it?】

Bai Yunqi: ?

【Wait, Dad, did you eat the last character ‘Qi’?】

“Hold on,” Bai Tian said, “There’s another character. Let me think for a moment!”

Bai Tian urgently tried to recall what that last character was.