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“Superpowers, or a system?”

Faced with the two fishes’ question, Ye Shuang’s expression remained unchanged. He knew that even if he continued to keep it hidden—by pretending not to hear them and refusing to respond—he still wouldn’t be able to fool An Shiyu and Anshi Yi.

“You actually found out. Sigh… A lot of things are really hard to hide from you two.” Ye Shuang helplessly shook his head. “I do have something similar to a system, although it’s not exactly reliable most of the time.”

Trying to lie to the two fishes was simply too difficult. At least, Ye Shuang knew he couldn’t do it, although he didn’t think he had ever really lied to them in the first place.

“But this system thing…” Ye Shuang looked at them and paused. “It’s actually pretty similar to the two of you.”

The two fishes were the type to become especially reliable whenever they found themselves in dire straits.

As for why they were always in dire straits…

Don’t ask.

After Ye Shuang admitted it, An Shiyu and Anshi Yi exchanged glances. They seemed to grow curious and asked, “What’s it like? Let us see it.”

“Let me take a look!”

“You probably can’t see it. It’s right here.” Ye Shuang pointed at the translucent window beside him. Only he could see the thing. It had been like that ever since he was little, resembling a virtual game window. Because of it, Ye Shuang had once wondered as a child whether he was actually living in a virtual world.

An Shiyu and Chao Yiyu looked in the direction Ye Shuang pointed, but they found nothing there.

“What functions does it have? Drawing prizes? Doing quests?” Chao Yiyu reached out and touched the spot, but still found nothing.

Not even a single strand of hair.

“Um… Actually, it doesn’t have any of those functions. It can only display information,” Ye Shuang explained. There was also a function that required him to pay a price, but that was different from simply viewing information. It was something Ye Shuang couldn’t control—a passive ability, so to speak.

He didn’t even know what triggered it. If it really had the ability to reverse an outcome, then why hadn’t it appeared when something happened to his parents?

That was one of Ye Shuang’s regrets as well.

Upon hearing that it could only display information, An Shiyu and Anshi Yi exchanged another glance.

That’s it?

Their faces even began to show a hint of disdain. Compared with the systems in novels, this one seemed far too underwhelming.

Wasn’t it supposed to let him fly through the sky, burrow into the earth, and do anything he wanted before ushering in a new era of ascension for all of humanity?

“If it can only display information… Well, it’s kind of weak,” Anshi Yi said. She seemed to want to test it out. “What color are the clothes I’m wearing today?”

“Huh?” Ye Shuang was stunned by Chao Yiyu’s question.

“Give it a try.”

Ye Shuang fell silent. “…”

Still, he tried summoning the window and checking Anshi Yi’s information.

[Subject: Anshi Yi

Not wearing any, right…]

“…”

Ye Shuang pinched the bridge of his nose.

“Why is it taking you so long just to check some information?” Anshi Yi asked strangely when Ye Shuang remained silent. “Did it freeze? Do you need to update it?”

“Are you wearing anything?” Ye Shuang asked in return.

“Of course I am.” As she spoke, Anshi Yi lifted the skirt of her nurse’s uniform and touched herself. A few seconds later, she let out an “Oh.” “I really wasn’t wearing anything. I forgot to put them on when I changed clothes just now.”

“It’s pretty accurate, though.”

“Guess this one.” Chao Yiyu seemed to be having fun. She took out a ball, placed it in one hand, and asked Ye Shuang to guess which hand it would eventually end up in.

“Could you not treat my system like a toy?” Ye Shuang said helplessly.

“Oh.”

An Shiyu looked at Ye Shuang, her eyes flickering slightly. “You used this to save us.”

“Yeah. I guess you could call it cheating.” Ye Shuang rubbed his nose and chuckled, although he had already forgotten how difficult the process had been.

“All right, get some more rest. And remember to read the novel.”

After fooling around for a while, An Shiyu and Anshi Yi decided to leave. They still had other things to do, but they didn’t forget to remind Ye Shuang about what he needed to accomplish.

Before leaving, however, Anshi Yi sent him a large number of videos.

“Videos?” Ye Shuang was stunned when he saw them. “What’s in them?”

“Oh, they’re for you to pass the time with,” Anshi Yi said. “You’ve been here for so many days, after all.”

Ye Shuang: “…”

“They’re videos of you and Chen Qin. We secretly filmed—cough, I mean, documented quite a bit. You can take a look,” An Shiyu said before taking Anshi Yi and leaving.

After hearing that, Ye Shuang looked at the various video links on his phone.

After thinking for a few seconds, he opened one.

The camera angles were incredibly sneaky.

Some had been filmed from inside a vase, some from the ceiling, and a few even looked as though they had been recorded through the gap in an air conditioner.

“You two… Secretly filming people is illegal!” Ye Shuang had just started to speak when he realized that An Shiyu and Anshi Yi had already run away, as if they had anticipated his reaction.

Ye Shuang: “…”

After realizing that the two fishes had fled, Ye Shuang calmed himself down. He set the videos aside for the moment and opened the novel first.

The novel itself wasn’t particularly long—only around seven or eight hundred chapters. Most of its content consisted of daily life and him begging readers for free gifts.

“Huh? I haven’t been asking for free gifts as often lately.”

Ye Shuang said this, but for the time being, he put aside the idea of rolling around and begging for free gifts in every possible way. Instead, he focused his attention on the parts of the story involving Chen Qin.

Ye Shuang felt something strange. Those events should have been things he had experienced personally, yet after reading about them, he felt like a bystander. He couldn’t immerse himself in them at all.

“So this is how I interacted with that girl?” Ye Shuang wondered. “Because I lost my memories of Zhao Mengyao, I treated Chen Qin as my girlfriend? Tsk… Ah…”

Ye Shuang suddenly felt a sharp, drilling pain in his head, making him cry out.

The pain came in waves. It took Ye Shuang quite a while to recover.

After the pain eased somewhat, Ye Shuang had no choice but to close the novel for the time being. He opened the video An Shiyu had sent him instead. The videos really did record his daily interactions with Chen Qin, including their intimate behavior—hugging, kissing, and the like.

Fortunately, there weren’t any videos of them doing it.

“Wait… That girl wouldn’t have videos of us doing it, would she?” Ye Shuang suddenly grew suspicious. He even felt that An Shiyu probably had some, but simply didn’t dare send them to him.

Of course, Ye Shuang had no memories, so he didn’t actually know whether they had done anything in those places.