After checking on An Siyao’s bedroom and confirming that her body had fully recovered, Xia Yu proceeded to Zhu Mei, who was newly pregnant. Then he returned to his bedroom and retrieved ten light orbs.
These ten light orbs were fragments of stars he had collected from ten different people.
According to the description of the star fragments, collecting seven would cause something miraculous to happen, and he had already gathered ten.
Previously, because their second daughter was about to be born, he hadn’t used them urgently. Later, due to An Siyao’s condition taking up another month, now, finally, the time had come.
So the problem was, how were they supposed to be used?
Xia Yu placed the ten light orbs together, but nothing happened. Then he took out three, arranging the remaining seven into the shape of the Big Dipper constellation, but still nothing happened.
After a minute of calm analysis, Xia Yu opened the game panel, took one light orb, and pressed it onto the panel.
The orb melted into the panel.
So this was how it worked.
He inserted the remaining nine orbs one by one, watching in anticipation.
The semi-transparent panel grew brighter as the orbs were inserted. Once all ten orbs were used, the entire room was illuminated by the panel’s glow.
This light wasn’t blinding. Xia Yu stared directly at the panel, watching as a black dot appeared at its center.
The dot transformed into a small vortex, which rapidly expanded, swallowing everything around it.
Though this process seemed slow when described, in reality, it only took one second.
Unprepared, Xia Yu was sucked into the vortex.
After a dizzying sensation, Xia Yu felt himself land somewhere.
Opening his eyes, he saw a pure white expanse.
The ground was pure white, and so were the surroundings. There was no sun or light source, yet Xia Yu could clearly see everything around him.
What was going on?
Had collecting seven stars rewarded him with a private space?
Other people’s spaces at least had soil and water, even allowing for farming, so why was his space completely empty?
No one could answer Xia Yu. He stood up and carefully examined his surroundings.
In the direction to his left, he noticed a spot of black.
This black spot stood out starkly against the white space.
Taking steps forward, Xia Yu walked toward it.
As he drew closer, he discovered it was a person—a man wearing black clothes, lying face down.
Quickening his pace, Xia Yu reached the person’s side and turned him over, discovering it was a man.
He felt greatly disappointed.
He reached out to check the man’s breath.
There was no exhalation—this was a corpse, a well-preserved one.
Why was there a man’s corpse here?
Underneath the man’s body, Xia Yu found a mobile phone.
The familiar “HUAWEI” logo on the phone surprised Xia Yu even more.
It was the same brand of phone from Earth that he was familiar with.
In his previous life, he had used this exact model.
Realizing this, an idea struck Xia Yu. He looked at the corpse’s face—it was an ordinary face, familiar yet strange to Xia Yu.
It was his own face from his previous life.
This corpse was his former self.
He looked back at the phone.
Using the corpse’s fingerprint, Xia Yu successfully unlocked the phone.
The screen lit up, displaying a game interface—
“Body Switch Game.”
This was the game Xia Yu had downloaded in his previous life, but he hadn’t had the chance to play it before coming to this world.
The white space, the corpse from his past, and the phone with a system interface—his mind was in chaos, unable to piece together these elements.
At that moment, his game panel automatically appeared. Ten light orbs flew out from the panel and entered the phone.
The phone emitted a glow, gradually dissolving to reveal a silver-white key.
Xia Yu recognized this key as well—it was a cheap piece of artwork he had bought from Taobao before his past-life transmigration.
So, was this key the source of everything?
The glow slowly faded, and the silver-white key landed in Xia Yu’s palm.
The moment the key touched his hand, Xia Yu’s vision split into two parts. Each eye now saw a rotating planet.
Looking closely, the two planets were slightly different.
As Xia Yu focused his thoughts, the view rapidly zoomed in. He saw land and rivers on each planet.
The left eye’s view showed his previous world, while the right eye’s view displayed his current world.
Zooming in further, in the right eye’s view, Xia Yu saw An Siyao and Zhu Mei sitting together, exchanging experiences.
In the left eye’s view, he saw his parents and younger brother from his past life sitting on the sofa, looking at his photo.
Though he had returned once, he hadn’t directly interacted with his parents. This scene made his heart ache. Suddenly, the left eye’s view changed.
Raindrops rose into the sky, pedestrians walked backward—everything played in reverse.
After spring came winter, and after winter came summer—seasons also reversed.
Time was rewinding.
The playback speed accelerated, then suddenly stopped at a certain point.
…
Earth, Xia family residence.
Xia Yu’s father hurriedly entered the house and found his equally anxious wife.
“Did you find him?” Xia Yu’s father asked, unwilling to give up.
“No,” his mother replied.
“Where could this child have gone?” Xia Yu’s father anxiously pulled at his hair while sitting on the sofa. “What kind of nonsense is this—disappearing while attending college!”
“What’s the point of scolding him? If you hadn’t insisted he attend such a distant university, he wouldn’t have suddenly vanished!” his mother sharply reprimanded her husband.
Xia Yu’s father opened his mouth but turned all his words into a sigh.
The couple sat together, silently wiping their tears.
Knock knock knock—
A knocking sound rang out.
Xia Yu’s mother wiped the tears from her face and stood up to open the door.
Xia Yu’s father took out his phone, contacting his son’s classmates on WeChat to ask for any clues.
“Honey!” his mother’s voice came from the doorway.
“What?” Xia Yu’s father didn’t even look up, asking dejectedly.
“Your son is back!”
Xia Yu’s father immediately dropped his phone and stood up.
He indeed saw Xia Yu taking off his shoes at the entrance.
At first, joy filled his heart, then quickly turned into anger.
Approaching the door, he raised his hand toward Xia Yu’s head: “You little rascal still dare to come back!”
Before bringing his hand down, he suddenly noticed someone else outside.
Quickly reducing his force, he lightly patted Xia Yu’s clothes: “Where have you been? So much dust on your clothes.”
He gave himself an excuse, then looked up at the person outside.
It was a woman who appeared slightly older than his son, with an outstanding figure and beautiful face.
“Who is this?” Xia Yu’s father looked at Xia Yu.
“Your daughter-in-law,” Xia Yu answered.
Xia Yu’s father’s expression immediately turned from gloom to sunshine. He quickly fetched a pair of slippers for her: “Quickly come in, quickly come in.”
As he let An Siyao into the house, Xia Yu’s father noticed another woman approaching from behind.
“Who is this?” he looked at Xia Yu again.
“Your daughter-in-law,” Xia Yu answered.
“Oh, come in quickly…” Xia Yu’s father said halfway, then suddenly sensed something was off. He looked at Xia Yu in shock: “What did you say?”
“This is also your daughter-in-law,” Xia Yu repeated.
“Don’t joke with your old man!” Xia Yu’s father scolded Xia Yu.
“Dad, both An Siyao and Xu Youxiang are your daughters-in-law,” Xu Youxiang held An Siyao’s hand and said to Xia Yu’s father.
Xia Yu’s father felt completely confused, unable to understand the young generation’s behavior.
“Just come in first,” he waved his hand.
After Xu Youxiang entered and made space, the following Zhu Mei stepped forward to the doorway.
“Who is this?” Xia Yu’s father looked at Xia Yu.
“Your daughter-in-law,” Xia Yu introduced.
“Oh,” Xia Yu’s father had already become numb.
The subsequent appearances of Yan Wei, Liu Manman, Yu Ningmeng, Wen Ziying, and Tina didn’t stir the slightest emotion in Xia Yu’s father.
After Tina entered, You Xue arrived at the doorway.
“Is this also your wife?” Xia Yu’s father asked Xia Yu.
“This is my younger sister,” Xia Yu answered.
Xia Yu’s father nodded. Since there were already so many daughters-in-law, adding a younger sister wasn’t strange.
The slippers were all gone, so Xia Yu’s mother handed You Xue a shoe cover.
“How many more people are there?” Xia Yu’s father asked.
“One more,” Xia Yu answered.
Finally, Kong Hanyue appeared at the doorway.
After examining Kong Hanyue, Xia Yu’s father looked at Xia Yu: “Is this one your older sister?”
“This is Mom.”
“Huh?”
(The End)
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