How come you're also my ex-girlfriend?

Even when it's late at night and you're physically and mentally exhausted, try to reward yourself, ignoring the risks.

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"Alas, where exactly is the boundary of the universe?"

Does the universe really not care whether I'm reading Shakespeare or royal movies?

"I've fallen. Why did I go to such lengths for achievement points..."

"Achievement System, you've turned people into ghosts!"

Xu Yan lay on the bed, feeling drowsy.

Before consciousness completely succumbed to chaos, strange sounds seemed to flood my mind.

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Chapter 41 A Dream

I felt like my soul was floating in mid-air, unable to feel the existence of my physical body, and unable to adjust my perspective.

Everything around me was blurry and indistinct, a strange feeling like sleep paralysis.

Perhaps the strangest thing is that Xu Yan clearly knows he is dreaming.

Soon, he felt the surrounding mist dissipate, and he gradually gained some perspective.

It seemed to be a coffee shop, with some customers who were only silhouettes but had no faces, and you could vaguely smell the aroma of coffee.

Strange, why would I have such a perception in a dream?

Finally, his perspective drifted to a fixed location: the back view of a man with short hair.

Even though I couldn't see his face clearly, I inexplicably felt that this man had a somewhat weathered and lonely air about him.

He was a down-on-his-luck middle-aged man.

What are you doing?

Suddenly, the sound of wind chimes jingling came from the entrance of the coffee shop.

Before Xu Yan could even see who it was, the man suddenly stood up, his voice trembling slightly.

"You...have come?"

The figure that entered appeared to be a slender woman, wearing a large trench coat that almost completely obscured her figure. Xu Yan could only see her long, black hair, but could not see her face.

Her face looked as if it were covered in a fog, then distorted beyond recognition.

Her voice also sounded muffled, like a strange voice processed by AI.

"If I'm not coming back, when are you going to tell me?"

He seemed very angry.

"I...it's not really important, since I'm already married."

Marriage? What's with all those famous scenes of middle-aged men having affairs because they can't control their lust? What does that have to do with me...?

"Xu Yan!"

...Okay, now it's related.

"Did I give you permission to get married? How could you get married secretly!"

Holy crap, you can get married secretly? Unbelievable.

"Listen to me...we have already..."

“I don’t want to hear what you have to say. If you don’t want me to appear in front of your current wife, then come with me.”

"what?"

The woman, whose face was obscured, grabbed the man's hand, and they quickly left the coffee shop.

Xu Yan's perspective shifted rapidly.

We were moved to... a room that looked a lot like a hotel room.

The man said hesitantly, "Don't do this... I'm already married, this isn't fair to her..."

Did you think of me when you decided to get married? Is that fair to me?

"But... wouldn't it be dangerous if I didn't wear it?"

Holy crap. Is this some kind of shameless bastard?! Who on earth is using my name without my consent?!

"What are you afraid of? You can just abort it!"

...What the hell did I do here?

The scene abruptly ended as the two were rolling onto the bed.

Xu Yan awoke from his daze.

What happens next? Wait, can't I just buy a membership?!

Okay, that's irrelevant. The important thing is that people don't dream about things that haven't happened for no reason. This man named Xu Yan in the dream... could he really be my future self?

Bad news: I think I'll really be a scumbag from now on.

The good news is that this is something he has never experienced before, and he still has the potential to change the future.

Then the problem is coming.

Who is this woman who keeps pestering me even though she knows I'm already married? And who is this woman who's willing to marry someone who's accomplished nothing?

But even after all this, he hadn't been killed, and all he got was a car accident? Xu Yan wanted to become a staunch materialist, because retribution seemed to have disappeared.

An inexplicable anxiety and uncertainty about the future filled this morning.

How to resolve this situation? Xu Yan felt that the only solution was to make money.

Just as fear stems from insufficient firepower, inferiority stems from a lack of strength.

Xu Yan came out of the kitchen and looked at the Empress Dowager, who had just woken up and looked completely bewildered.

"Mom, call Lao Xu out for breakfast later, I've already made it."

Wang Hui: ?

"Why are you up making breakfast all of a sudden? Huh? Are you running away from home?!"

"...I just got up early today and was bored, and I happened to see there were still ingredients in the kitchen."

Wang Hui looked at Xu Yan suspiciously, "Are you really my son? I heard there's some kind of fake person circulating online lately..."

Whose mom has such fast internet speed?!

Xu Yan yawned helplessly, "Eat it while it's hot, I've already eaten, I'm going to go back to sleep."

On a weekend morning when other children are sleeping in or staying up all night, you prepare a hearty breakfast for your parents.

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Looking at the warm 6000 yuan in savings and 30 achievement points in my account, the cold anxiety was instantly dispelled.

Since things have come to this, I'll take a nap first, and then figure out a way to grind for achievement points.

Xu Yan, who didn't get up until almost noon, ate lunch. During lunch, his mother seemed a little hesitant to speak.

“Son, you don’t need to get up so early to make us breakfast anymore. Studying is so tiring, so you should sleep a little longer when you finally get a break.”

Xu Yan waved her hand, "My son and I shouldn't talk about these things. Just don't use alternate accounts to try and steal my inheritance."

"You silly child!" The couple laughed and scolded at the same time.

After finishing lunch, Xu Yan said goodbye and went out to see if there were any wild animals he could hunt.

Xu Yan also wanted to try to earn achievement points on Jiang Yiyao to see what achievements he could unlock, but it seemed that the girl was not at home today and did not tell Xu Yan where she went.

Xu Yan didn't ask, thinking it was probably related to her parents' phone call yesterday.

Your family of origin is indeed a troublesome thing. What's scary is that sometimes it has nothing to do with whether you want to understand it or not. You may understand everything, but you can't completely break free from it.

If you are weak, those things will be like battering rams, easily shattering the door to your heart.

If you take a hard line, those things will become a slow poison, gradually corroding you until you can no longer bear them.

When I got downstairs in the apartment complex, I saw a few kids playing basketball; they were probably only in elementary school. They weren't playing with any particular strategy; they were basically just chasing after the ball.

After thinking for a moment, Xu Yan came onto the court and easily intercepted the basketball as it flew into the air.

When the children turned their curious gazes toward him, the boy pointed at them without blushing at all.

"I'm giving you a chance to challenge me."

"...Brother, who are you?"

"You know the basketball king of this neighborhood? I've got this court under my wing. Come on, I'll take on all of you one-on-one and see if you can earn my approval."

"But brother, you're so tall..."

"Stop talking nonsense. When a man faces a strong enemy, what he fears is not becoming a loser, but cowardly running away. Come on, let's fight!"

"fighting!"

Thirty minutes later.

"Waaaaah, give me the ball, I want to go home!"

[A strong, almost-adult teenager challenges a group of elementary school students to a basketball game, shattering their basketball dreams with his own hands.]

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