At first, he just gazed, struck speechless. Then he carefully reached out one greedy hand to caress a silken lock of hair. This life as truly worth living.

(page 18)

"Did I catch a cold? Why am I getting sick so easily lately?"
There was a curious pause before Shen Wei replied, "It's nothing. Your time within the Great Divine Tree took too much of your energy."
"Oh" After a long look, Zhao Yunlan continued, deliberately drawing out each word, "I thought maybe..." Shen Wei's spine stiffened, only for him to hear the dumbass conclude, with a bit of a lilting whine, "I was carrying your child."

(page 35)

"I hold all the world's famous mountains and rivers in my hand, but what of it? They're nothing but a bunch of rocks and wild waters. Of all that I am, the only part worth anything may be my heart. If you want it, it's yours."

(page 103)

Zhao Yunlan gave [Shen Wei] a long, hard look. "Nothing that comes from your lips, whatever it might be, could ever make me hate you."

(page 141)

"Some say that babies cry when they are born because they are one step closer to death."

(page 154)

"We are nothing but physical manifestations of Chaos - violence incarnate. From the lowest to the highest among us, from the cradle to the grave, all we can do is instinctively consume and plunder. The craving for the freshest flesh and blood drives us." For the first time Shen Wei realized that he felt a kind of pleasure in saying it aloud. It was the kind of enjoyment someone might feel when squeezing their own wound or cutting into their own flesh with a knife.

(page 159)

"But you - without the faintest regard for your own life, you had to come and provoke me. Do you know what you've lured in? Do you realize how dangerous this is?"

(page 160)

"How about I crop the photo and post a missing person bulletin online and in the paper?"
"That would give the kidnapper plenty of time to sell her to a wholesaler and for them to resell her at retail," Chu Shuzhi said. "My advice? Go look for her at Walmart. It'd be faster."

(page 175)

Fossil that he was, Shen Wei had never used a smartphone before.

(page 194)

Zhao Yunlan suddenly came up behind Shen Wei. Wrapping his arms around Shen Wei, he guided his hands through the steps, starting with putting the sketched outline into the scanner. That done, he deliberately blew into Shen Wei's ear under the noise of the machine. "You should've said something if you didn't know how to use it. Why didn't you ask your husband to teach you?"

(page 198)

"You're the squandering fool here, ready to cut off your arm or dig out your heart at the least provocation. Do you think you're a gecko?"

(page 221)

"Loving someone means wanting to see him get railed."

(page 329)

"If Shennong hadn't had mercy and let my divine spirit out just before the Four Pillars were established, what would've happened to me? I would've forgotten everything once I woke up, just like everyone else, right? And there I'd be, just wondering who had cleaned up my kitchen."

(page 331)

Despite the trace of jealousy in Zhu Hong's tone, she clearly savored the words as she said, "He got fucked so hard that he can't get out of bed, duh." 
Shock made Guo Changcheng tremble and miss his chair when he tried to sit. He nearly fell on his ass as it rolled away. 
Zhu Hong gave him a bombastic side-eye. "Our boss is that fucking gay. What's there to be shocked about?"

(page 337)

In the end, after careful consideration, he planted a garden full of vegetables, including bok choy, cherry tomatoes, pumpkin sprouts, pea shoots, xiangchun...a while array of vegetables all next to eachother. And in the center, like a bright moon shining among the stars, was one single slutty eggplant.

(page 346)