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Chen Qin stared blankly at the tablet in front of her. The food on the table beside her had long since gone cold, and she had no appetite anyway. She was so distracted that she hadn’t even noticed the tablet was upside down.
Just then, her phone suddenly vibrated. Chen Qin glanced at it and realized that her mother was calling. Her expression instinctively grew flustered. She quickly put on her earphones and answered the call.
“Hi, Mommy?”
“Sweetie, are you resting? Why didn’t you answer the video call?”
“Ah, Mommy, I’m away on a business trip. It’s not convenient,” Chen Qin replied.
“Yi’an was just calling for you. Here, let him hear your voice.” There was a brief burst of noise on the other end, followed by a baby’s voice.
“Mm-eh!”
A smile unconsciously spread across Chen Qin’s face. “Yi’an, do you miss Mommy? You have to be a good boy and listen to your grandparents, okay?”
“Eh!”
Little Yi’an couldn’t speak yet, but after hearing Chen Qin’s voice, he let out several more little cries. He was absolutely adorable.
“By the way, is Shuangzai with you?”
At the mention of Ye Shuang, a trace of helplessness flashed across Chen Qin’s face. She reached out and touched her blanket.
“Ye… He’s been busy lately too. I’m fine traveling alone.”
“You two just got married. You should spend more time together.”
“Mm, I know… Mommy, I have to get back to work.”
“Okay, I won’t bother you, then.”
After hanging up, Chen Qin removed her earphones and let out a breath, as though she had finally relaxed.
The hospital room fell silent once more. Chen Qin gripped her phone, her gaze settling on the photograph of herself and Ye Shuang displayed on the lock screen. She gently stroked it, her face filled with worry.
“Why did this have to happen? I don’t want this…” Chen Qin lowered her head and covered her face. She looked like a lost child who had suddenly lost all sense of direction.
“Knock, knock.”
At that moment, someone knocked on the door.
Chen Qin instinctively looked up—and froze.
Ye Shuang was standing outside.
He had changed into his ordinary clothes and taken off his hospital gown. Aside from that, he looked no different from usual.
Under Chen Qin’s dazed gaze, Ye Shuang smiled and walked into the room. Then he asked softly, “Wife, are you feeling better?”
In an instant, tears shimmered in Chen Qin’s beautiful eyes. She sat completely still for a moment before raising a hand to cover her mouth, as if she were afraid she was only dreaming and couldn’t believe what was happening before her.
Seeing that familiar smile, her voice began to tremble.
“Husband, you… you remember?”
“Yeah. I remember. I’m sorry.” Ye Shuang apologized as well.
“Ahhh!” Chen Qin cried out excitedly, waving her hands and dancing with joy.
Her eyes reddened in an instant, and tears spilled down her cheeks.
Ye Shuang hadn’t expected the girl before him to become so excited over a single sentence that she would completely lose control of her emotions.
He sat down beside the bed, and Chen Qin immediately reached out and threw her arms around him.
“Husband! Husband, I was so scared! Hubby, waah…”
Her soft body pressed into his arms, and her sweet fragrance filled his senses. Ye Shuang’s hands trembled awkwardly before he slowly raised them.
His hand first brushed against Chen Qin’s waist, then settled around her in a gentle embrace.
“Husband, do you remember everything now?” Chen Qin lifted her head from his arms, her eyes sparkling brightly.
“I…”
Ye Shuang paused, then smiled.
“I remember a lot. Just give me a little more time.”
“Okay, that’s enough. It’s fine—I’ll wait for you no matter how long it takes.” Chen Qin rubbed her cheek against him. Then her face suddenly flushed. She wiped away her tears and sniffled.
“Was I… being too pathetic?”
“How could you be?” Ye Shuang shook his head.
“Um… h-honey.”
“Hmm?”
“I’m planning to leave the hospital today,” Ye Shuang said. “Since there doesn’t seem to be anything seriously wrong with my memory, there’s no need for me to stay in that ward. Besides… I can stay here and take care of you, right?”
“It’s fine. It’s just a little knife wound. I’m okay.” Chen Qin seemed to have returned to her lively old self. Now that she knew Ye Shuang’s memory had returned, she was especially cheerful.
“You should go home and pack up first, then get some proper rest. Oh, and bring me something to eat tomorrow, okay?”
“Sure. What do you want?”
“Just the usual,” Chen Qin said.
“The usual… All right.” Ye Shuang smiled. “As long as it’s what you like.”
“Mm!”
Ye Shuang stayed in the hospital room for another two hours before finally getting up. By then, the sky outside had already darkened. Chen Qin had lain down to rest. She had secretly cried twice while no one was around, and on top of that, worrying about Ye Shuang’s condition had drained a great deal of her energy.
After seeing that Chen Qin had fallen into a deep sleep, Ye Shuang walked to the door and slowly closed it.
He stood with his back against the door for a while. Then he turned around and glanced through the glass window at Chen Qin inside.
Ye Shuang let out a silent sigh and left the hospital.
It was already dark by the time he returned home.
It wasn’t summer, after all, so the days were shorter. As soon as he opened the door, he heard the thudding of hurried footsteps.
Tang Keke, Bai Yuyou, and Yezi came running over, all looking somewhat surprised.
“Dad!”
“Ye Shuang.”
“Big Brother?!”
When Yezi threw herself at him, Ye Shuang smiled and rubbed the top of her little head.
“Did you miss Dad?”
“Yes!”
“I’m home,” Ye Shuang said.
“Big Brother, weren’t you suffering from amnesia?” Tang Keke asked in surprise. “Didn’t the doctor say you needed to undergo more examinations?”
“After you all left, I started feeling much better.” Ye Shuang shook his head. “So I checked myself out early. But I still have to go to the hospital tomorrow, to see… Chen—Chen Qin.”
“I see.” Keke nodded.
That was wonderful. If Big Brother had regained his memories and Sister Chen Qin’s surgery had been successful, it would truly be a blessing in disguise.
However, Bai Yuyou was looking at Ye Shuang as though she had noticed something strange.
She walked up to him.
“Ye Shuang, are you hungry?”
“I’m not. Did you all eat, wi—Yu You?” Ye Shuang asked with a smile.
“We ate. I thought you weren’t coming back,” Bai Yuyou said.
“Well, I really should have told you all. I’m sorry.”
“It’s fine. Keke’s going to make you a huge feast today!” Tang Keke immediately rolled up her sleeves, looking ready to get to work.
“Then can I sit down and wait for dinner?”
“Hehe, leave it to Yu You and me. We guarantee you’ll be satisfied!”
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
end. Thus one must continue to cultivate, and become a saint or great emperor, in order to prolong one's life. Chen Xia, however, completely reversed this. Since his transmigration, he has gained immortality, and also a system that awards him with attribute points for every year he lives. Thus between the myriad worlds, the legend of an unparalleled senior appeared. "A gentleman takes revenge; it is never too late even after ten thousand years." "When you were at your peak I yielded, now in your old age I shall trample on you." - Chen Xia
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
