Summer nights are just as noisy as the days. People really can’t figure out why there are so many incredibly loud cicadas chirping even inside the city.
Xia Xi lay on the bed, staring at the countdown to the system punishment, feeling a heavy tightness in his chest.
If he had known Liu Jiaying was planning things that way, he should have just kept pestering her until she came back with him.
Now, not only had he gone through a bout of sadness for nothing and gotten an earful from Liu Yiyi, but he also had to face the system punishment.
Who knows what kind of random game this will be? It might mess with his memories just like the game Luo Xinyu designed last time.
Recalling the memories of being a “young lady” in that game space, Xia Xi couldn’t help but feel a headache coming on.
Even now, Luo Xinyu still teases him sometimes, calling him “Miss Weakling”…
…
[Game generation complete. Number of players: 4]
[Game name: Who Is the Real Me
Game rules: Each of the four players has their own game objective. Completing the objective will allow that player to exit the game.
For some unknown reason, everyone in the school has disappeared, leaving only the four of you and one sexually deranged person fabricate by the game space.
Special ability items are randomly scattered throughout the school. Please find these items and use them to complete your objectives.
During the game, your memories will be slightly altered.]
[Your objective: Make all participating players return to their true bodies.]
…
“Where… am I?”
Xia Xi groggily opened his eyes.
The first thing he saw was a light brown desk. Lifting his head, there was a teacher’s podium and a blackboard in front of him.
Yeah, a pretty ordinary classroom setup.
“Come to think of it… who am I again?”
Xia Xi felt a sharp pain in his head. A lot of things were hard to remember.
He looked down. In his arms was a leather bag, the kind often used by female students at Sakura Province High School.
Opening the bag, Xia Xi pulled out a student ID card.
[Name: Xia Xiaocha, Xia Xiaocha’s photo.jpg
Gender: Female
Class: Grade 11, Class 1]
Inside the bag, besides the student ID card, there were some everyday items girls usually carry—like a small mirror, a comb, and even half a leftover chocolate bar.
“My name is… Xia Xiaocha?”
Xia Xi felt like something was off, but the name felt strangely familiar, as if he had heard someone say it before.
Could this really be his name?
He looked at the photo on the student ID.
It showed a cute girl with long blue hair, wearing a blue-and-white school uniform, smiling sweetly.
Tucking the student ID into his pocket, Xia Xi stood up.
“If this really is me… then who am I right now?”
The girl in the student ID clearly had a petite figure, but from his own perspective, he was at least over 170 cm tall. Plus, the occasional strange sensation in his crotch made him acutely aware that his current body was male.
“Could it be that someone stole my body?”
He also saw his mission objective: “Make all players return to their correct bodies.”
Based on the information this mission revealed, there must be special items that allow body swapping. Maybe while he was unconscious, someone swapped his original female body with this male one.
And maybe the swap also came with some kind of memory-wiping function, which was why he couldn’t remember who he was.
Xia Xi shook his head and searched around the classroom, but he didn’t find any of the special items mentioned in the mission brief.
(PS: After entering the game, the only hints given are the mission objectives and a basic mission summary. There’s no detailed game introduction like the system provides.)
Walking out of the classroom, he looked through the hallway window. Outside, everything was pitch black.
According to his memory, the Grade 11 classrooms were on the first floor. That meant Xia Xi was currently on the first floor.
With that in mind, he walked toward the main entrance of the teaching building.
“!”
“Big brother! You’re here too! Yay!”
Not far from the entrance stood a girl with long, jet-black hair. Calling her a “girl” might not be entirely accurate—she was more somewhere between a girl and a loli.
“Big brother? Who are you?”
Xia Xi looked completely confused.
Why was this girl calling him “big brother” right off the bat? He was pretty sure he didn’t know her.
“?”
The girl tilted her head.
“I’m Bai Yue. Big brother, did you lose your memory?”
The girl who called herself Bai Yue walked up to Xia Xi and waved her hand in front of his face.
“Don’t tell me you even forgot that your name is Bai Xi?”
Xia Xi frowned at Bai Yue’s words.
It seemed like this girl was the sister of the body he currently had. But why would her brother choose to swap bodies with him? Could it be that he was some kind of perverted lolicon?
“Sorry, you’ve got the wrong person. I’m not your brother Bai Xi. My name is Xia Xiaocha. As for this body… I suspect your brother used a special item to swap with me.”
Seeing that Xia Xi didn’t seem to be joking, a look of disappointment appeared on Bai Yue’s face.
“How could this be…”
But she didn’t believe that her brother had willingly swapped bodies with this Xia Xiaocha. Her brother wasn’t some kind of pervert—there was no reason for him to go out of his way to steal a girl’s body.
“Well… are you an upperclassman or an underclassman? I’m in Grade 12, you know.”
Bai Yue adjusted her emotions quickly. In no time at all, she was already chatting casually with Xia Xi.
“I’m in Grade 11.”
“Then you’re my underclassman! Hey, have you seen that mission thing? My mission is to find my big brother, which is why I got so excited when I saw you just now.”
Xia Xi had initially thought the girl was just happy to see her brother because she’d have someone to rely on. But it turned out it was actually her mission objective.
Still, her mission had nothing to do with special items at all. That felt a bit strange.
But Xia Xi wasn’t sure whether all missions were necessarily tied to special items. He’d have to find a third person and ask about their mission to find out.
“My mission is to swap back to my original body.”
Looking at the lively girl in front of him, Xia Xi was cautious and didn’t reveal his true mission.
“That’s great! You need to swap back to your body, and I need to find my brother. We can work on our missions together! I heard there’s also some big pervert in the school. Let’s stick together. It’s not safe for two girls to walk around alone—but at least you’re in my brother’s body now, so you’re kind of half a guy.”
That did make some sense. Xia Xi had no reason to refuse her request to travel together.
So the two of them teamed up and spent over half an hour searching every classroom on the first floor, but they didn’t find anything. The only strange thing was a cardboard box in Grade 11, Class 2. It was glued to the floor—couldn’t be picked up, couldn’t be opened.
