With My Ability To Swap, I Will Never End Up In A Love Triangle Mess - Chapter 127

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, it was already the last day of the year.

Of course, unlike the Gregorian calendar’s New Year’s Day and New Year’s Eve, today was the day before the first day of the Lunar New Year. In other words, it was what everyone commonly calls Lunar New Year’s Eve. Once the clock strikes twelve, it will be the first day of the new year.

As for how Xia Xi and the others switched back their bodies before…

….

“Xia Yue! Look, we changed back!”

A certain silly blue-haired loli, wearing a pink nightgown that slipped off one shoulder, rushed over excitedly and pounced on Xia Yue.

Xia Yue wasn’t angry. She just held the little loli in her arms, rubbing her cheek against the loli’s face.

Waking up to a little loli throwing herself into your arms first thing in the morning – who would want to let go?

“So, how did you switch back?”

You must know, Xia Yue had taken Bai Xiaocha for foot massages, body massages, and saunas, letting her experience all sorts of relaxing things, yet none of it fulfilled her “wish.” How could they just switch back inexplicably after a single night’s sleep?

Hearing the question, Bai Xiaocha giggled twice, a bit embarrassed, and spoke up.

“Maybe… maybe it’s because I had a dream that felt really, really good…”

“Tell me about it?” Xia Yue was somewhat interested.

“Well… I dreamed that I was stepping on your face with my foot, tormenting you nonstop, and you kept begging for mercy, even calling me ‘Master’ over and over… hehe…”

So, this silly loli’s wish was to step on the esteemed Lady Xia Yue?

Xia Yue felt insulted.

“Was it really that good?” she asked, her voice taking on a sinister tone.

“Of course! It’s a shame that in the dream, you stubbornly refused to stick out your tongue…”

Bai Xiaocha, completely oblivious to the danger, closed her eyes as if still immersed in her wonderful dream.

“Oh? You wanted me to stick out my tongue? Hehehehe…”

In an instant, Xia Yue pushed Bai Xiaocha down, pinning her arms with both hands and trapping her legs with her own.

“What are you trying to do!”

Only then did Bai Xiaocha react. She had delivered herself right into the tiger’s mouth!

“I don’t want to do anything~ I just want to experience the kind of pleasure you were talking about, Xiaocha~”

….

Anyway, that’s how Xia Xi and the other two switched back – because of an intensely satisfying dream conjured up by Bai Xiaocha.

The temporary task he previously owed the system, which was to fulfill one of An Xiaoyu’s wishes, was also completed after he arranged Qin Zhizhi’s treatment.

….

“Xia Xi, what are you doing up here on the rooftop all by yourself?”

Lin Xining, wearing a scarf that matched Xia Xi’s – one she had knitted herself – walked over to his side. She held her hands behind her back and leaned forward slightly.

Perhaps because the weather was so cold, her face and small hands were flushed red.

“There are a few lunatics at home, I can’t stand it. It’s more comfortable up here catching some breeze.”

Xia Xi had many guests at his house today: the Liu sisters, Wang Gang and a few of his good buddies, Qin Zhizhi, Lin Xining… almost everyone he was even slightly familiar with had come.

As for Luo Xinyu and her family, he heard their father had returned home, so they were having their own family reunion and didn’t come.

Although Xia Xi had quit his job at the café after his novel started making money, Liu Jiaying still liked to video call him on Feixin every few days.

According to her, she’d have trouble sleeping if she didn’t see Xia Xi for a few days.

And that guy Wang Gang, bringing a bunch of brothers over under the guise of wishing him a Happy New Year, was actually just there to sneak a peek at his unpublished drafts.

Yes, Dragon Clan had been left with a rushed, unsatisfactory ending. The backlash from that ending even caused Xia Xi to be criticized by netizens for a long time. But there was nothing he could do about it; who asked the original author, Jiang Nan, to be a guy known for bad endings too?

The drafts Wang Gang and the others were sneaking a look at were for his new book, one of the Four Great Classical Novels, Journey to the West.

Speaking of which, netizens gave Xia Xi another round of scolding for this.

This time, it wasn’t about him writing tragic plots or bad endings, but because after the first day of release, where he published a whole bunch of chapters up until the point the Great Sage returns after learning his skills – letting everyone read to their heart’s content – he subsequently only published one chapter per day. And every single time, he ended the chapter at the most exciting part, earning him the title of a ‘cliffhanger addict’!

There’s an old saying that goes, “One day, when I hold a blade in my hand, I will slaughter every last cliffhanger addict under heaven.” It fits perfectly with how his readers felt about Xia Xi.

“It’s true, Liu Yiyi and Wang Gang really love the books you write.”

Lin Xining thought about the obsessed expressions those few had while reading Xia Xi’s drafts and couldn’t help but chuckle.

She had read Xia Xi’s books too; they were very good, but she wasn’t as infatuated with them as the others were.

When it came down to it, a young girl like her still preferred sweet romance stories a bit more. While tragic stories could be moving too, she just felt she couldn’t really grow to love them.

Liu Yiyi was the most obsessed one.

Ever since she found out that Xia Xi was the author ‘Summer Dawn’, she kept pestering him on Feixin for little side stories, but Xia Xi always brushed her off by saying he couldn’t think of any.

Xia Xi had also tried using his “millennium-old monster” Chenxi identity to prove to Liu Yiyi that they were two different people, but unfortunately, she refused to believe that a second person could have such wild and creative ideas.

Seriously, foundational establishment, qi refining, Taiyi, Daluo – these groundbreaking cultivation levels, along with concepts like the Thirty-Six Heavenly Transformations, Seventy-Two Earthly Transformations, Somersault Cloud, and the Dragon Palaces of the Four Seas – could an ordinary person come up with these? Aside from the “millennium-old monster,” Liu Yiyi couldn’t think of anyone else.

“I’m begging them not to like it that much.”

Xia Xi complained to Lin Xining.

After that, the two of them fell into silence.

Xia Xi enjoyed the breeze, looked at the sky, and thought to himself: What nonsense ‘warm winter sun’? The sun in winter clearly has no warmth at all; it’s freezing!

Lin Xining, meanwhile, rested her elbows on the railing, cupped her chin in her hands, and stared intently at Xia Xi’s profile, lost in thought.

A few birds occasionally flew across the sky, their chirping sounds strangely resembling angry curses, as if saying, “Damn this freezing weather! My feathers aren’t warm enough!”

“Xia Xi.”

Lin Xining called his name.

“What’s up?”

Xia Xi turned his head and met Lin Xining’s eyes.

Lin Xining was beautiful. Twenty years old was the prime of youth and vibrancy, arguably the most blossoming period for a girl.

It was safe to say that quite a few people at school had a crush on Lin Xining. Maybe some had secretly confessed to her, but it seemed they had all been rejected.

Xia Xi didn’t really understand these things much.

He had never pursued a girl, nor did he want to, even though he had money now.

“That… are you still playing with the Uma Musume doll?”

The Uma Musume doll?

“Oh, you mean that? Didn’t I tell you last time, my little sister took it to play with.”

Xia Xi pulled two lollipops out of his pocket.

“Here, Xia Yue and An Xiaoyu gave them to me yesterday. They said it was to bribe me in advance so I’d give them red envelopes today. Now I’m sharing one with you, so you have to help me give out red envelopes too, okay?”

Lin Xining was amused by him.

“I’m still a kid too, you know. Why don’t you give me a red envelope?”

As she said this, she still accepted the lollipop, unwrapped it, put it in her mouth. It was very sweet.