I think "I need time to think" is an incredibly fair medium between pushing her away entirely, and dropping a "your world exists only because I sat at a computer one day" on her😭
Remember Dew went through absolute misery because of the original story Xiao Yang wrote - it's really messy to have feelings that were based in guilty/protection warp into something like attraction! Especially since she has all the other "author transmigration" baggage like not knowing if she'll even be able to stick around. She's right that it's incredibly irresponsible to get together with Dew at the moment
And as for Dew...we all saw the same panel 😭 How do you communicate with someone who responds to that with "think about what? Our baby's name?" That girl is NOT hearing anything other than "lets dual cultivate" 😂😂😂
All true, but . . . that doesn't stop it being frustrating as hell to watch . . .
Also, the fact that neither of them know the other's backstory is making things
far harder than it needs to be - if Xiao Yang knew that Dew has been stuck in a reincarnation loop she'd be handling their whole relationship
very differently, probably looking for some way to break her out rather than trying to play along inside the story context (quite possibly through "let's dual cultivate!"). And knowing that Dew is actually kind of crazy OP, at least in
this world, would make Xiao Yang far less of a concerned parent, probably making it far easier for Dew to seduce her.
Not sure what Dew would think about "your world only exists because I sat at a computer one day" - that's not far off saying "I am the god of this world", which in Dew's slightly(?) insane way of thinking would probably translate to "I am your own personal goddess", and would make her even more enthusiastic about wanting to possess Xiao Yang in every way that she could . . .
I do think the best (for certain values of "best") option for both of them would be for Dew to go full yandere and lock Xiao Yang up in her
dungeonpleasure chamber - probably not quite the kind of "dual cultivation" that Xiao Yang would have picked, but an effective way to break through the walls they've both put up . . .