Return to the Old Haunt.

Damn, damn, damn!

This was far beyond the point where even an uncle and aunt could tolerate it!

His abdomen was taut with tension.

After yet another one of his hooks slipped because of someone, resulting in the hero being killed by the enemy hero, Lin Yu finally slammed his headphones onto the keyboard and viciously dragged the troublemaker out from beneath the computer desk.

His wife was being disobedient!

She absolutely needed some strict discipline with a good, old-fashioned spanking!!!

……

After the sun had climbed high. (Though this had nothing to do with the time of day.)

Lin Yu sat at the computer desk, looking rather disheveled as he wolfed down the breakfast Tang Manman had brought back.

It had been a brutal battle.

As the victorious side, Lin Yu was still feeling the effects of it, with a sore waist and aching back.

As for Tang Manman, the defeated side, she was in even worse shape.

She was still sprawled across the bed like she had no bones, breathing heavily with her eyelids drooping shut, caught somewhere between half-asleep and half-conscious in a thoroughly wretched state.

The defeated Tang Manman had also been forced by the victorious Lin Yu to agree to a whole host of unfair verbal terms.

For example, she was no longer allowed to disturb the victorious side while he was gaming!

While he was playing, she, as the defeated side, was responsible for bringing him tea and water.

From now on, all the housework was to be handled entirely by the defeated side.

Though, to be fair, Tang Manman had always been the one doing the housework.

Lin Yu only helped out whenever he happened to feel like it…

By causing her a little trouble…

……

The two-day weekend passed in the blink of an eye.

After two days of rumors spreading, Lin Yu had become a notorious scumbag at Y University.

There were no fewer than ten versions of the rumors circulating around campus.

Some said he was a playboy juggling countless girlfriends. Others said that a heavily pregnant girlfriend had come looking for him. One version had even managed to give him a son and a daughter.

The good news was that the rumors were cooling down at a visibly rapid pace.

The reason was Lin Yu’s roommates.

As the people on campus who were closest to the parties involved, they were constantly cornered by friends demanding answers.

Since they knew the truth, they naturally explained everything to everyone. There had been no pregnancy. It was merely a little trick pulled by a girl who was unhappy that her husband spent every day gaming with his roommates instead of keeping her company.

One friend told another, who told another friend.

And so, the rumors gradually began to die down.

The unluckiest person in the whole affair was Little Fatty, the student union member who had abused his authority to get Lin Yu into the dormitory.

Once the incident blew up, the university was shocked to discover that a commuting student had somehow ended up living in one of the school dorms.

Following the trail, they naturally tracked it back to that chubby kid and hauled him in.

His punishment was a major demerit, and he was stripped of his student union position.

It was only after Lin Yu treated him to several meals that the matter was more or less put behind them…

……

The weather in the south always carried a damp, clammy chill.

When it got hot, it felt like being steamed in a giant basket.

When it got cold, it was even more torturous.

The temperature had not even dropped below zero yet, but Lin Yu was already standing in the wind, so cold that he had to rub his face every now and then.

Lin Yu was not especially afraid of the cold. It was the dampness that was deadly—practically a weapon of mass destruction when combined with the cold.

Add in a howling wind, and the moist chill would pour straight down your collar. It was enough to make anyone feel like dying.

Standing in the southern winter, Lin Yu found himself missing the winters of the north more and more.

Northern winters were so straightforward.

They were simply cold.

Bone-chillingly cold.

They did not play tricks with dampness or humidity. If you did not put on enough layers, you froze to death!

Still, southern winters had their advantages too.

Lin Yu slowly rubbed his chilly cheeks and looked at the young ladies who, heedless of the freezing weather, were still willing to expose their long, pale legs.

Lin Yu offered them his highest respect.

He watched them with his eyes until they disappeared from view.

The door of the milk tea shop opened, and Tang Manman came out carrying two steaming cups of milk tea.

She stuffed one into Lin Yu’s hands. Seeing him shrinking his neck from the cold, she looked both annoyed and concerned with her clear, limpid eyes.

“I told you it was going to get colder today.”

“I told you to wear more, but you wouldn’t listen.”

As she spoke, Tang Manman unwound the scarf from around her neck. Without giving Lin Yu a chance to refuse, she wrapped it around him and tied it neatly.

“Damn, damn, damn!”

“I never thought zero degrees could feel this cold!”

Lin Yu regretted his decision, but deep down, he was still a little unconvinced.

As a man who had grown up in the north, temperatures of four or five degrees above zero were, in his eyes, no more threatening than bean sprouts were to Zhang Fei—in other words, utterly trivial.

Yet now that he was freezing like this, Lin Yu could not help questioning himself.

“That doesn’t make sense.”

“I never used to feel cold in weather like this.”

“Could it be because of you?”

Lin Yu’s mind turned, and he tried to pin the blame on Tang Manman.

“What does that have to do with me?” Tang Manman protested loudly.

“It definitely has something to do with you.”

“When I was single, my body was in great shape.”

“I even dared to jump into a lake and swim in winter!”

Tang Manman’s face flushed when she heard that. She knew exactly why Lin Yu was blaming her.

She glared at him reproachfully and muttered, “Big talk.”

She did not believe for a second that Lin Yu had dared to jump into a lake in winter.

He would have frozen to death!

But…

Tang Manman gently puffed out her cheeks, then moved closer to Lin Yu and slipped her arm through his.

“I’ll buy you something nutritious to eat and help you replenish your energy…”

Tang Manman said it in a small voice.

Lin Yu showed no signs whatsoever of losing his vigor.

But she had heard that men needed to start taking care of themselves early in that department, to avoid becoming incapable in the future.

Still, she was a little worried.

After all, Lin Yu was currently more than capable—so capable that even his heart was beginning to outpace his strength!

Would giving him supplements under these circumstances really be a good idea…?

……

The two of them had already eaten and drunk their fill before buying the milk tea. Each carrying a cup, they went to the supermarket’s luggage-storage area to retrieve their bags.

Once they had collected their luggage, they hailed a taxi and headed straight for N City Airport.

The university had started winter break a week earlier.

The two of them had spent that week dawdling in their rented apartment, but now it was finally time to go home.

They boarded a flight to H City.

Sitting by the window, Lin Yu watched as everything outside gradually shrank into miniature as the plane climbed into the sky. He could not help feeling a little sentimental.

When he had first crossed into this world, Lin Yu had thought he was completely alone, with no ties or attachments. He had imagined that he would wander wherever he pleased, making a home wherever he happened to be, and might never return to this city again.

But who would have thought?

He had not even made it past the first character of “the ends of the earth” before Tang Manman had brought him right back to this city.

There was nothing he could do.

Her home was here, after all.

And in the future…

Would his home be here too?

Lin Yu raised a hand and rubbed his chin, deciding that it was hard to say.

In any case, his mother-in-law’s home was definitely here.