More than a month later.
Xia Yu, inside An Siyao’s body, was eating a white jade dumpling while browsing novels on An Siyao’s bookshelf.
It was already January 24th. A long time had passed since the end of the final competition.
The blind girl beside the level 5 campfire successfully helped An Siyao achieve first place. Surprisingly, the second place wasn’t Liu Manman, Xia Yu’s senior apprentice sister whose skill was around level 4 mid to late stage, but himself.
He had underestimated the importance of the musical piece.
The music piece is the carrier of emotion, the medium for spreading emotion, the material basis. The piece “Ending E” itself was emotionally intense. Therefore, even though Xia Yu’s emotional investment wasn’t as deep as Liu Manman’s, he still defeated her.
Having an axe, even a child could defeat an adult.
Moreover, “Ending E” was an axe that required high dexterity to lift.
Unfortunately, this was already the highest difficulty piece. To progress further, learning new pieces would no longer be effective.
Xia Yu also didn’t plan to focus on music anymore. After using the skill level-up card, his music skill had reached level 5, which was already at the level of a famous master in one region.
The next level, level 6, would be world-class.
Originally, Xia Yu felt a bit regretful about using the skill level-up card, but the rewards it brought surprised him.
After the final competition, An Siyao’s bonus had risen from level 2 to level 3. According to Xia Yu’s guess, the bonus level represented the level of favorability or intimacy. Level 3 proved that An Siyao was more loyal to him, and she had also received a game reward.
Among the three options—empty slot, hosted AI, and skill level-up card—Xia Yu chose the empty slot.
The slot was the foundation. If he had an empty slot before, he wouldn’t have needed to delete An Siyao.
The hosted AI wasn’t worth changing; Xia Yu was very satisfied with the current hosting by Yu.
Skill levels could be gradually improved, especially since this card could only raise the skill to level 4.
Besides these three, a new feature was unlocked on An Siyao’s slot.
[“You have met the requirements. With An Siyao’s consent, your stay in her body will no longer be time-limited. However, you still need to use your daily login opportunity, and any time exceeding eight hours will not earn you game points.”]
In short, Xia Yu could now stay in An Siyao’s body as long as he wanted, provided he obtained An Siyao’s consent.
The girl’s agreement was naturally not a problem. From now on, as long as Xia Yu wished, he could always stay with An Siyao.
This solved the issue of being able to eat breakfast but not dinner, or being able to eat dinner but not breakfast if he had to rush in the morning.
Although the effect wasn’t particularly significant, it greatly facilitated Xia Yu’s life.
After finishing his reflection, Xia Yu extended his hand and slid it along the book spines.
Inside the room was just An Siyao’s small bookshelf, not many books on it, only two rows, about twenty books in total.
“Shake Guang Culinary Guide,” “White Jade Beauty: White Jade Dumplings,” “Piano Advancement Guide,” “How to Be a Good Teacher”…
All were somewhat peculiar books.
Reaching the last book on the first row, Xia Yu saw a familiar title: “You’ve read ‘White Bird’?”
“No, I just saw Wen Ziying’s new book and became interested, so I took it to flip through,” An Siyao honestly replied. If it were Yan Wei, she would definitely agree first and then stay up all night to finish reading it.
“A new book?” Xia Yu became interested. “What’s the new book about?”
It was already the end of the semester. Students in the literature club were busy planning their winter vacation and waiting for it, so there was no purchasing or giving of books.
What new book had that high-and-mighty sophomore, who knew eight languages, published this time?
“It’s on the second row, the first one,” An Siyao answered.
Pulling out the book An Siyao mentioned, Xia Yu looked at the title:
—”Possession.”
He felt a bit uneasy.
Sitting on the chair, he started reading its content.
This was a soft sci-fi story about a female high school student, Wen Zi, whose mind was suddenly invaded by another consciousness. This intruding consciousness occupied her body and forced Wen Zi to teach him how to write.
For unknown reasons, the intruder could only stay in her body for eight hours a day; the remaining time, Wen Zi could regain control.
This was the beginning. In the middle part, the intruder’s writings progressed from elementary school diaries to mature commercial products.
Interspersed throughout were many interactions between Wen Zi and the intruder. The intruder had some mischievous tendencies, liked the colors blue and white, and enjoyed feeling nature through physical contact.
Three-quarters into the book, the intruder successfully wrote a globally acclaimed bestseller. However, he wasn’t satisfied. What he truly wanted was to write a story capable of healing people’s hearts.
But no matter how much Wen Zi taught him, the intruder still couldn’t infuse emotion into his stories.
At this point, Wen Zi received a letter from her future self.
The letter told her that the intruder wasn’t human but a future bionic being. Bionics were originally created to make human life easier, but some bionics developed mutations. They gained their own consciousness and transmitted it to all bionics through the network.
After failing to obtain equal rights from humans, the bionics occupied their factories and waged war against humanity.
After military bionics defected, humans retreated, but the bionics didn’t continue their offensive.
This wasn’t mercy, but because the bionics’ consciousness wasn’t as mature as humans’. They felt having a place to live was enough.
This allowed humans to regroup.
However, some bionics awakened vague consciousness. They realized bionics still lacked important emotions, so they sent one bionic through an incomplete time machine to invade a human’s consciousness in the past to seek what they lacked.
The consciousness that invaded Wen Zi’s body was that bionic.
What followed was the process of Wen Zi and the bionic engaging in a battle of wits. Wen Zi deliberately tried to mislead the bionic. As the lifespan of the time machine gradually approached its limit, the bionic still couldn’t write a story that could heal people’s hearts.
But the bionic still obtained what he wanted because he had fallen in love with Wen Zi. In the final moments, Wen Zi also realized she had fallen in love with the bionic. Unable to bear separation, they made a bold decision.
Under the bionic’s guidance, Wen Zi modified her computer, allowing the bionic to enter and become a desktop assistant.
A wonderful story.
Putting down the book, Xia Yu sighed.
But moments later, he realized.
This was just a retelling of my possessing her body! The opening dialogue was almost identical!
I was only trying to learn a foreign language, but it turned into learning how to write novels!
Liking blue and white and enjoying physical contact with nature—what nonsense is that? That’s a false accusation!
“Actually, I also feel clothes are a bit inconvenient,” An Siyao said cautiously.
“No, I don’t like those things. That’s a false accusation!” Xia Yu defended himself.
“But the eight-hour limit and the way of speaking are exactly the same as yours.”
An Siyao murmured softly. Her intuition told her that the person was also someone whose body had been used by Xia Yu. The later parts might be artistic creation, but the beginning was highly credible.
After some effort, Xia Yu explained to An Siyao that he indeed didn’t like those two things.
Seeing An Siyao no longer dwelling on it, Xia Yu breathed a sigh of relief and held a grudge against Wen Ziying.
At this moment, An Siyao asked again: “Is Wen Ziying as pretty as in the photo?”
“…About the same as in the photo. I didn’t look carefully. I went there once before because I had something to do, but now I’ve deleted her.”
An Siyao became delighted.
She said, “I asked the pastry chef to make red jade dumplings. Want to try some?”
“Red Jade?” Xia Yu put down the book in his hand and walked toward the outer door.
At 3 p.m., before Xia Yu left, An Siyao told him, “The vacation starts the day after tomorrow. My mother and younger brother will come to live together then.”
Xia Yu recalled this matter. It was something An Tianfeng had mentioned to him when he was using An Siyao’s body before.
That stepmother Luo Yali and that unknown younger brother?
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