Reality and Reality

Good, very good, what a dutiful daughter.

Ye Chuan took Kalisia and first made a trip to the Storm Duke's mansion.

The Storm Duke was in his study handling post-war affairs. Seeing Ye Chuan walk in with his daughter, he hastily stood up and bowed:

"Lord Xi Xi."

"Lord Duke, I came here this time to tell you something," Ye Chuan said, getting straight to the point.

"Kalisia wants to leave with me and live in my world."

The Storm Duke froze for a moment and looked at his daughter.

Kalisia immediately ran to his side, hugged his arm, and shook it playfully. "I want to go with Lord Xi Xi! I want to learn magic from him!"

The Storm Duke looked at the bright light in his daughter's eyes, then at Ye Chuan, and fell silent for a moment.

He knew that the man before him was a true legend, the legendary mage Xixi Chinayega. Being able to stay by his side was the greatest opportunity of Kalisia's life.

Ordinary people would never even see a high-tier mage in their entire lives.

Yet Kalisia had witnessed the absolute strongest.

The Hero—Xi Xi.

He sighed and patted Kalisia's head:

"Since you want to go, then go. Follow Lord Xi Xi, be obedient, don't cause trouble, and study magic hard, understand?"

"I understand!" Kalisia nodded vigorously, a beaming smile blooming on her face.

The Duke only felt a sharp ache in his heart.

His precious daughter didn't show a hint of sorrow about parting; she was just grinning from ear to ear.

He even felt as if his daughter were being abducted by some delinquent.

"Lord Xi Xi, I leave Kalisia in your care." The Storm Duke bowed deeply to Ye Chuan.

"If she is ever ignorant or unruly, please feel free to discipline her."

"Rest assured, I will take good care of her," Ye Chuan nodded.

Declining the invitation to a banquet, Ye Chuan and Kalisia bid farewell to the Storm Duke.

"Lord Xi Xi, are we setting off now?"

"Yes, we can go."

After tapping a Tenant Card on Kalisia, he took her and immediately logged off.

Aether Continent, log off!

A soft white light enveloped Kalisia as well.

A familiar wave of dizziness washed over them, and in the next second, the two were standing in the familiar living room of the Myriad Realms Apartment.

The warm yellow chandelier was on, several throw pillows were tossed on the sofa, half-eaten potato chips and cola sat on the coffee table, and the latest anime was playing on the TV.

Lan Xiaoke was nestled in the sofa with Angelina in her arms. The two of them were watching with great interest, munching on chips.

Perhaps from hanging around Lan Xiaoke, Angelina seemed to have become quite lazy.

Two white-haired girls huddled together.

One big, one small.

One large, one little.

Hearing the noise, Lan Xiaoke turned her head. "Oh? Ye Chuan, you're back?"

Angelina immediately looked at Ye Chuan, her eyes lighting up. "Ye Chuan! You're back!"

When they saw the two unfamiliar girls following behind Ye Chuan, both of them froze for a moment.

One little loli, and one mature woman.

Lan Xiaoke, entirely unfazed, looked Evelina and Kalisia up and down, then patted Angelina's shoulder and said calmly:

"See, I told you Ye Chuan would be bringing people back often. Just get used to it. We might not have much else in this house, but we definitely have plenty of empty rooms."

And it was another loli.

"Wow! Is this Lord Xi Xi's home?!"

Kalisia turned her little head this way and that, curiously examining everything around her.

Watching Kalisia chirp like a little sparrow, running around and touching everything, Lan Xiaoke couldn't help but laugh:

"Ye Chuan, how come the one you brought back this time is even more rambunctious than Angelina was when she first arrived?"

Ye Chuan smiled helplessly. "It's her first time here, she's just curious."

On the other hand, Evelina stood rooted to the spot, completely motionless.

She looked at the familiar living room before her and the brightly lit streets outside the window, her body trembling uncontrollably.

Tears welled up without warning and rolled down her cheeks.

She was back.

She was really back.

Back to the world she had yearned for day and night.

No demons, no war, no human pastures, no endless cycles of slaughter.

She raised her hands, looking at her pale, slender fingers—they were no longer hands stained with blood.

She took a deep breath. There was no stench of blood in the air, only the faint scent of laundry detergent and potato chips.

"I... I'm back..."

She muttered to herself, her voice choking with emotion. Then, she suddenly crouched down, buried her face in her hands, and burst into uncontrollable sobs.

She cried like a child, letting out all her pent-up emotions.

The living room instantly fell silent.

Seeing a girl crying the moment she arrived, Lan Xiaoke seemed to realize something. "Ye Chuan, no matter how much you like her, you shouldn't force a girl to come back with you, right?"

Lan Xiaoke thought Ye Chuan had fallen for a girl from another world and just kidnapped her back.

"Do I look like that kind of person?" Ye Chuan gave Lan Xiaoke a light smack.

Soft and bouncy.

"Yes."

"If I actually did that, she wouldn't even be able to cry."

Lan Xiaoke felt that made a lot of sense. "I guess so."

Ye Chuan shook his head. "She just hasn't been home in a very long time."

He didn't say much else, simply standing quietly to the side, waiting for her to finish crying.

After a long time, Evelina's cries gradually subsided.

She looked up, wiped the tears from her face, and smiled in embarrassment. "I'm sorry, I lost my composure."

With that, the Demon King Evelina took a deep breath and introduced herself.

"My name is... my name..."

Although her memory was blurry, she still earnestly spoke her real name.

"Chen Xueyao."

Ye Chuan handed her a tissue. "Welcome home."

The Demon King—no, Chen Xueyao didn't care about her status as a Demon King at all. She wanted to know what the current time was.

"Um, could I borrow your phone?"

Ye Chuan refused, as his system was still on his phone, and instead asked Lan Xiaoke to give Chen Xueyao her phone.

"No, no way, there's a lot of..." Lan Xiaoke immediately refused. "I'm not giving it!"

"I-I just want to check the time and see if I can make a phone call."

Seeing both Ye Chuan and Lan Xiaoke refuse her, Chen Xueyao was momentarily stunned.

"That's easy." Ye Chuan casually grabbed a new phone and SIM card, handing them to Chen Xueyao to activate.

After a while, with trembling hands, Chen Xueyao picked up the phone and dialed the number she had missed day and night.

[The number you have dialed does not exist. Please check the number and dial again.]

"Th-this... I shouldn't have remembered it wrong." Chen Xueyao froze, checking to see if she had typed her own phone number incorrectly.

Seeing that her father's number was correct, she immediately called her mother.

Does not exist. Still does not exist.

This...

How could this be?

"What time is it now?" She took out the phone to check the time, but suddenly realized a possibility.

She...

Had returned to reality, but it wasn't her own reality.