020 The Second Flower & School Uniform
Xu Yin fulfilled his promise.
He and Wen Congyan stayed together all their lives, until that day.
A warm breeze blew in from the window, silently.
The old man lay on the bed, eyes closed, sleeping peacefully. Next to his pillow was a small dried pink flower, vaguely resembling the one that fell from the tree into Xu Yin's palm decades ago.
Xu Yin sat on the bed and said, "Xiao 18, I want to quit the mission."
This was not the first time Xu Yin said this; he had mentioned it several times in the past few decades.
018 asked listlessly: "Are you sure? If you quit, it's all over. You can't go back to the original world..."
It is equivalent to ending your life directly in this mission world.
Xu Yin smiled and nodded.
In the past, he had no interest in life and the future, so he felt that it didn't matter whether he could be resurrected or not, and he didn't care even if the mission failed.
Later he changed. He began to look forward to the future, to love, and to every day spent with Wen Congyan.
Until now.
They have been together throughout their lives. For Xu Yin, his life has already had a perfect ending and nothing more is needed.
There seems to be no point in returning to the original world and living my life again; it won't be better than this life.
"Okay, then..." 018 popped the bubble reluctantly.
But at this moment something strange happened.
—Golden spots of light emanated from the old man lying on the bed.
Xu Yin was stunned for a moment, then immediately stepped forward and said, "Cong Yan? Cong Yan!"
However, the old man did not move, as if he had fallen into eternal sleep.
Xu Yin looked at the light spots in the room, frowned and asked, "Xiao 18, what's going on?"
018 seemed surprised as well: "This is a sign of soul transfer, a phenomenon that only occurs when the host transfers from one mission world to the next!"
Xu Yin was stunned: "Wen Congyan is also a tasker?"
018: "No, I never detected the system on him!"
Suddenly, 018 said, "This can't be related to the bug in my body, right? Wait a minute, I'll go ask Xiao A!"
Xiao A is the person in charge of the main system. It was he who discovered the residual bugs in 018.
Soon 018 came back and said, "Xiao A said that Wen Congyan's soul transfer was not a bug, but was within the contract. Since it was in our mission world, it must be related to the contract between you and me. But neither of us remembers it, and I can't find it, so it's probably because of that bug."
Xu Yin had decided to finish the mission after spending the rest of his life with Wen Congyan, so he didn't think about fixing the bug. After all, it was meaningless to him anymore, so it was better to keep the points in case of emergencies.
His total points now are more than 16,000 - 10,000 of which were earned after he officially completed the ultimate mission of "World Famous Designer" at the age of 49. After that, the system will give him 10 points every day, and all the points Xu Yin gets from completing other tasks can be saved.
Because Xu Yin had no intention of going to the next world, he was not very motivated to complete the mission. After several decades, he had only saved a total of more than 16,000 yuan.
Without further ado, he said, "I currently have 16,000 points. I remember you said that one repair would cost 5,000 points, right? I can perform three repairs now, so use them all."
018: "No, leave 6,000 points just in case. I'll use 10,000 points to repair it twice and see how the progress goes."
Afterwards, Xu Yin watched with his own eyes as 10,000 points were subtracted from the task panel, and 018 fell silent.
After a minute of waiting, 018 said, "After two repairs, the repair progress is only 5%."
Xu Yin frowned even more tightly: "Is there no data about Cong Yan at all?"
018: "No, it may need to be repaired to 100%."
Xu Yin still has 6,000 points, but judging from the current progress, it would be meaningless even if he repaired it again.
He thought for a moment and asked, "Has Cong Yan's soul been transferred? If I enter the next mission world, will he wait for me in that world?"
018: "Very likely."
Xu Yin took a deep breath.
He glanced at the old man on the bed, stroked his face, and finally made a decision.
"Okay, let's go to the next world then."
When Xu Yin came to his senses, he found himself in a... dormitory.
It was noon and the sun was shining brightly outside, shining directly through the window onto Xu Yin's feet.
He was sitting under the bed near the door, next to the desk, and something had just slid down his face and dripped onto the back of his hand.
Tears
Crying at the start again
Just as Xu Yin raised her hand, the sound of a key turning was heard, the door was opened, and a boy in a short-sleeved blue and white school uniform walked in: "Xu Yin, you..."
When he saw Xu Yin's red eyes, he froze and stammered, "Are you okay?"
Xu Yin wiped away her tears calmly, just like the last time she traveled through time, and smiled, "Yeah, it's okay."
At the same time, he was digesting the information quickly in his mind.
Just like the last time, the original owner was named Xu Yin and looked the same as him, but this time, the original owner was 18 years old and was about to be a senior in high school.
The original owner's parents had been having discord three years ago. The original owner accidentally found out that it was because his father had a mistress outside in his early years. He didn't know how many years they had been together, and it seemed that they even had a child, who was even the same age as him - that is to say, when his mother was pregnant, the mistress was also pregnant at the same time.
When this incident came out, the whole family was in chaos.
Other relatives advised the original owner's mother not to divorce for the sake of her children. The original owner's mother was heartbroken, but she listened to them and tried hard to maintain the marriage.
However, how could the shock of such an incident be so easily overcome? The original owner's mother became ill and died of cancer within a year.
The original owner suffered a severe blow.
In fact, after knowing that his father had cheated on him, he felt very complicated.
On the one hand, he resented his father, but on the other hand, he did not want to lose either of his father and mother. Therefore, after hesitating, he did not dissuade his mother from tolerating him. He still held some unfounded expectations in his heart, but he did not expect that this would lead to his mother's death - and the entry of his mistress and her son six months later.
The original owner had never felt so remorseful and once collapsed after his mother's death.
The mistress was named Wang Yuqi, and her son changed his surname to Xu Ling after he got married.
The original owner's father didn't care at all that his original wife had just passed away half a year ago, and didn't care at all about the original owner's feelings. After entering the house, he spoiled Wang Yuqi and Xu Ling to the sky.
From that day on, the original owner's life took a sharp turn for the worse.
He made a scene, he quarreled, he questioned his father whether he was worthy of his mother. But Xu's father only scolded him with a guilty look on his face, saying that children should not meddle in adult affairs, and he would understand when he grew up.
Understand what
Understand that men will definitely cheat?
The original owner hated his father and Wang Yuqi to the extreme and thought about running away from home, but eventually gave up the idea because he thought, why should he let Wang Yuqi stay in this home comfortably? No, he wanted to break up his father and Wang Yuqi, and he wanted to drive Wang Yuqi, the mistress, out of their home!
However, the original owner had a very subtle feeling towards Xu Ling.
Although he was young, he knew that children could not choose their parents. Wang Yuqi was a bad person, but Xu Ling was not necessarily so. Therefore, even if Xu's father directly put Xu Ling into his school and their class, the original owner did not make things difficult for Xu Ling at first. At most, he ignored him and kept a distance from each other.
Xu Ling remained silent and indifferent throughout and never raised any objections.
Until one day, the original owner came back from a classmate's house and was slapped in the face by Xu's father.
The original owner asked him in disbelief what was wrong with him, but Father Xu pointed at Xu Ling, who was standing aside with his fists clenched and his head turned away, and shouted, "You still come to ask me? Ask yourself how you treat your brother? Don't you understand why I put him in your class? Did I let you bully him?"
The original owner simply couldn't understand: "You said I bullied him?"
Father Xu yelled, "What else? Why do you think I slapped you like that?!"
The original owner suddenly understood. He looked at Xu Ling and asked, "Did you tell my dad that I bullied you at school?"
Xu Ling bit her lower lip and turned sideways, seemingly not wanting to answer.
This appearance made Father Xu even more furious, and he dragged the original owner over directly: "Xiao Ling didn't say anything, but you thought I was eating for free for so many years, how could I not see his behavior?!"
The original owner looked at Xu Ling's pretending to be aggrieved look and sneered.
He bullied Xu Ling
Okay, he can’t just get scolded for nothing. Since he is said to have bullied someone, then he should really bully someone.
Recalling this, Xu Yin rubbed his temples.
The original owner had many good brothers in Class 7. When Xu Ling first entered their class, they learned that Xu Ling was the child of Xu's mistress. The good brothers all shared the same hatred for the original owner.
Of course, they won't bully them, after all, they are all serious students and they don't engage in school bullying. But they will definitely dislike them. After all, if you put yourself in their own family, Xu Ling would also feel disgusted.
But from that day on, things went wrong.
—In fact, the original owner did nothing. He had been a good child since childhood. No matter how angry he was at that time, he basically just made sarcastic remarks to Xu Ling and that was it. There were a few times when he was almost forced to fight because Xu Ling deliberately spoke to the original owner in his ear to provoke him.
It just so happened that there were classmates nearby on those few occasions, and when they saw the original owner was about to take action, they hurriedly stopped him.
Where is Xu Ling
He turned around and left silently, sitting back in his original seat. He waited until everyone had returned to the subtle atmosphere before his eyes silently turned red.
The other people in the class saw it too much and began to feel sorry for it. They advised the original owner, "Xu Ling can't choose his parents. Don't be like this. It's actually quite miserable for him to have such a mother."
The original owner said angrily: "You all saw how I treated him in the beginning, right? I never bullied him! But he lied to my dad and said that I bullied him in school!"
Other students were puzzled: "No way, Xu Ling doesn't look like that kind of person... Is it because you are too hot-tempered that your father misunderstood you?"
No? Wait, you said Xu Ling deliberately said that to provoke you
No way... We have known each other for a while, and Xu Ling is really not that kind of person.
Xu Yin... Don't lie just because you hate Xu Ling, right
So - so we've known each other for such a long time, do you think I'm the kind of person who would lie
No one heard the original owner's question.
Gradually, the whole class's attitude towards him and Xu Ling began to change.
More and more people felt sorry for Xu Ling, and her good brothers gradually distanced themselves from the original owner, thinking that the original owner had changed and her personality had become extreme and strange.
Even Ye Xunran, the former best brother of the original owner, stood beside Xu Ling at some point and frowned, saying, "Xu Yin, you have really changed."
The original owner has changed.
He gradually became gloomy and spoke less.
He couldn't eat either. Sometimes he would vomit after a short while. He lost a lot of weight.
His grades dropped, and his ranking, which was originally in the middle of the science class, fell directly to the bottom of the grade.
As an adult, the head teacher probably saw something, but some things were not convenient to say directly to the child, so he called Xu's father to the school and explained the situation. Unexpectedly, Xu's father said coldly: "Change his class. I think if he stays in the class, it will affect the whole class. I remember that class 12 has the lowest average score among all the science classes in the grade, right? Then let him go to class 12. Anyway, his current grades are just like this."
The head teacher was dumbfounded. After persuading Xu's father for a long time, he still didn't change his mind and even went directly to see the principal.
After careful consideration, the original owner was transferred from Class 7, which had excellent grades, to Class 12, which had the worst grades, in the first semester of senior year.
And at this moment, it is the second day after school starts.
Just after the last class in the morning, the original owner met Xu Ling in the bathroom.
When Xu Ling passed by the original owner, she whispered, "Are you happy in Class 12?"
The moment the original owner turned around and raised his fist, his wrist was grabbed from behind.
Looking back, Ye Xunran said with a sullen face: "Xu Yin, that's enough!"
The original owner stared at Ye Xunran for a while, broke free, and without saying a word went back to his new dormitory—the new dormitory where he lived with his classmates from Class 12. He sat at his desk in a daze.
As I was in a daze, tears began to overflow.
…
After the recollection ended, Xu Yin sighed: "Why is it this kind of family again?"
018: "Emmmmm, after all, your family situation in reality is a bit bad. The construction of the mission world will refer to the host's real situation."
Is that so
That doesn't seem to be incomprehensible.
Xu Yin smiled bitterly.
His new roommate, Wang Feifei, the PE representative of Class 12, asked cautiously, "Are you really okay? Did you miss your meal?"
They only heard about the conflict between Xu Yin and Xu Ling in the toilet after they finished their meal.
After all, they were roommates now, and Wang Feifei and the other two felt it necessary to care about Xu Yin's situation, so he returned to the dormitory as a representative. Unexpectedly, when he opened the door, he saw Xu Yin crying, and Wang Feifei was stunned.
The entire grade knew what happened to Xu Yin in Class 7. When they met yesterday, Xu Yin left a very gloomy impression on them. She didn't seem like the type of person who would secretly shed tears by herself.
Wang Feifei was at a loss and said, "Should I ask for a leave for you this afternoon?"
"No, I'm fine." Xu Yin glanced at his phone. It was already half past twelve.
Lunch break starts at 12:45 and the first class starts at 1:15 pm.
He stood up and said gently, "Let's go to the classroom."
Wang Feifei was bewildered. She had just been crying with red eyes, and now she was fine
The dormitory was more than ten minutes away from the teaching building. Xu Yin was thinking as he walked.
018 said that Cong Yan's soul transfer was included in the contract between him and 018, but because 018 had a bug and lost the data, both of them had forgotten the relevant circumstances.
Xu Yin recalled it carefully, and it was then that he realized that whether it was the scene when he signed the contract with 018 or the scene of the car accident before his death, some of his memories were vague and he could not recall them no matter how hard he tried.
He frowned, thought for a long time, and then put the matter aside for the time being.
After all, it seems that unless the bug in 018 is completely fixed, this part of the memory cannot be recovered, so the top priority is to find Cong Yan in this world first.
As Xu Yin thought about it, he walked into the teaching building, climbed the stairs step by step, and reached the second floor.
The senior high school teaching building is independent, with two floors in total. Class 7 and Class 12 are located at the end of the same floor.
As soon as he stepped onto the second floor, Wang Feifei became nervous - fuck, he was so stupid, why did he forget to remind Xu Yin to go up the stairs to the other side!
—The side they came up from, led by Class 7.
Wang Feifei took two steps forward and tried to divert Xu Yin's attention: "Xu Yin..."
As soon as the words fell, two figures appeared at the door of Class 7.
Many people inside subconsciously raised their heads, and when they saw Xu Yin, they frowned, and some even showed a look of disgust.
A handsome boy was sitting in the middle, doing his homework quietly. He raised his head inadvertently, and when his eyes saw Xu Yin, he narrowed his eyes.
His deskmate was a taller boy with a handsome appearance. He noticed the movement of the boy next to him, raised his head and frowned.
The collective gazes in the classroom were too strong. Xu Yin was thinking about Wen Congyan and turned his head subconsciously.
Wang Feifei was extremely nervous and reached out to pull Xu Yin's sleeve.
The hostility in the eyes of those people in Class 7 almost became tangible. They were always ready for Xu Yin to cause trouble again, and they just went back together.
—However, Xu Yin glanced at him lightly, then retracted his gaze and continued to walk forward thoughtfully. His eyes were so indifferent... as if he had not seen anything in that glance just now.
Well, after all, Xu Yin was still thinking about Wen Congyan and had no time to pay attention to anything else.
The people in Class 7 were stunned... Just walked away like that
Wang Feifei was also confused. She took two steps forward and tilted her head to look at Xu Yin: "Are you okay?"
"Hmm?" Xu Yin looked like he had just come back to his senses and smiled, "I'm fine, really."
Although the boy was thin, he was very good-looking. His smile with curved eyebrows actually stunned Wang Feifei.
In Class 7, everyone looked strange.
"Xu Yin changed his gender?"
"What are you thinking? He's just pretending!"
"That's right. Don't forget that he wanted to beat Xu Ling at noon!"
There was a lot of discussion in the classroom. Xu Ling twirled his pen and remained silent.
A hand patted his back, and the boy next to him said, "Stop looking."
Xu Ling turned around.
Ye Xunran frowned and said, "I'm here."
Xu Ling lowered her eyes and said in a cold voice: "... Yeah."
…
Xu Yin was thinking all the way to Class 12, and didn't notice that Wang Feifei, who was walking beside him, had a dazed look on his face.
When he arrived at the entrance of Class 12, Xu Yin temporarily put aside the matter of Wen Congyan, raised his head, and looked at the seat of the original owner in his memory—
The next second, the pupils suddenly contracted.
In the last row by the window, a handsome boy sat there with his back straight, doing his homework with his head down.
Calm, cold eyebrows, high nose, and thin lips.
He has broad shoulders and long, powerful fingers.
… Everything was the look that Xu Yin was most familiar with.
Familiar look, familiar posture.
Even the look in his eyes when he looked up was the same as in my memory.
The only difference is that it has a hint of immaturity.
Xu Yin opened his mouth, and the word "Cong Yan" was about to escape from his lips, but he took it back in time.
No, in this world, Cong Yan has a new identity and a new name.
Xu Yin quickly retrieved all the information about this boy from her memory.
Yan Ningchuan, also 18 years old, is in Class 12, which has the lowest average score, but his own grades are the best in the grade.
He is the serious monitor of Class 12 and is recognized as the school's most handsome boy.
The corners of Xu Yin's mouth slowly curled up.
At the same time, he is also his current deskmate and roommate.
The author has something to say: All school-related settings are subject to what I wrote, don’t associate them with reality, it’s completely fictional~