With My Ability To Swap, I Will Never End Up In A Love Triangle Mess - Chapter 129

Lunchtime.

“Hey, wait a second, where’s the meat that was in my bowl?”

Xia Xi blinked. The meat that had clearly been in his bowl just moments ago had vanished without a trace.

“Silly bro, you’re seeing things. There was never any meat in your bowl.”

Xia Yue took a big gulp of her ice-cold cola, then looked at Xia Xi as if he were an idiot.

To be fair, Xia Xi wasn’t mistaken. From his perspective, there really was meat in the bowl—but it was from the left-eye perspective belonging to Lin Xuening.

That delicious piece of meat had been picked up by Lin Xuening, placed into her bowl, and then eaten. Because the two perspectives got a bit mixed up, Xia Xi mistakenly thought he had put the meat in his own bowl.

“Bro, you’re slacking. This is clearly a sign you haven’t had enough to drink! Come on, let’s cheers a bottle!”

Wang Gang stood up, grabbed two bottles of beer, and slung an arm around Xia Xi’s neck.

Since they were at home, and everyone was pretty easy-going and open-minded, the meal was very relaxed.

It wasn’t like some families where you have to sit properly at the table and wait for the elders to eat first.

At Xia Xi’s place, the rule was just to have fun!

“Alright then. If I don’t drink you under the table today, my surname isn’t Xia!”

Xia Xi played along with Wang Gang’s banter. Of course, it was mostly just joking. They still had to prepare for the evening meal and set off fireworks later, so they couldn’t afford to actually get drunk.

Clink.

The sound of the beer bottles colliding was crisp and clear.

“Sis, I also want—”

“No! You know how you get when you drink. Don’t even think about it. As long as I’m here, you won’t touch a single drop.”

Liu Yiyi, seeing the guys drinking so enthusiastically, wanted to join in the fun, but her request was immediately shut down by Liu Jiaying.

There was no helping it. This girl, Liu Yiyi, would get a red face and start acting crazy after just a tiny bit of alcohol, even if it was just beer.

She could handle one or two cans of something like Piña Colada beer, which is more like a soft drink, but what’s the point? Who seriously toasts with Piña Colada beer?

“Just a little bit, please, Sis~”

Liu Yiyi resorted to a rare act of acting cute.

Her acting cute was nothing short of shocking, instantly drawing the gazes of Xia Xi, Wang Gang, and the others.

If memory served, this girl usually had the sharpest tongue, especially when reading novels. If she encountered even a slightly frustrating plot point, she would immediately start ranting.

Just imagine a usually blunt and brash “Greymon” suddenly transforming into a delicate, acting cute young lady. It was quite a sight.

Sure enough, being stared at by everyone made Liu Yiyi herself uncomfortable first.

“What are you all looking at! What are you looking at! Fine, I won’t drink!”

With that, she picked up her rice bowl and started eating vigorously, using the bowl and chopsticks to hide her brightly flushed face.

Lin Xuening watched the lively, harmonious scene and smiled happily, pursing her lips slightly.

While Xia Xi was drinking, she secretly closed her left eye, reached out with her chopsticks, picked up some shredded meat, and placed it into Xia Xi’s bowl.

Then, acting as if nothing had happened, she reopened her left eye, picked up her paper cup filled with soda, and pretended to have been drinking the whole time, taking a few gulps.

“Refreshing!”

Wang Gang finished a whole bottle and exclaimed with gusto.

Even though it was quite cold in the winter, it didn’t dampen this guy’s enthusiasm for ice-cold beer.

Nowadays, many people say beer is like “horse piss” and that baijiu is the real deal, but let’s be honest, when you’re eating barbecue or spicy dishes, nothing hits the spot quite like an ice-cold beer.

“Huh? Xia Yue, did you put food in my bowl?”

Xia Xi put down his beer bottle, planning to eat a few bites of food. Who would have thought that when he looked down, his bowl now had quite a bit of extra meat in it.

“Eww~ Who would want to put food in your bowl? Silly bro, are you running a fever?”

Xia Yue was too busy snatching food for herself to put any in anyone else’s bowl.

This girl had already polished off two large bowls of rice in just a few short minutes, completely focused on the task of eating.

Xia Xi glanced at her flat stomach, wondering where all the food she ate even went. When he had been using his sister’s body before, her appetite seemed so small. How come when it was Xia Yue herself in control, it was like she had an extra-dimensional stomach?

Seeing Xia Yue deny putting the food in his bowl, Xia Xi couldn’t be bothered to investigate further. Since the meat had landed in his bowl, it was his now. No matter who put it there, he’d just eat it.

After a few more bites, Xia Xi went back to drinking and chatting with Wang Gang and the others.

“Hey bro, when are you going to release more chapters? This ‘Journey to the West’ of yours, the part about acquiring the treasure from the Dragon Palace, causing havoc in the Underworld… it’s just so satisfying to read.”

Xia Xi’s stockpile of drafts had reached about the point of the Heavenly Peach Banquet, so Wang Gang and the others were itching to know what happened after the havoc in the Heavenly Palace.

But, being a qualified cliffhanger… ahem, a qualified author, he naturally had to release the plot slowly, keeping the readers in suspense.

“Want more updates? Unless you can drink me under the table! Let me see what you’ve got!”

Well, that was a pretty clear refusal to update. If he’s drunk under the table, how could he possibly write? By sleepwalking?

On the other side of the table…

After Qin Zhizhi had eaten her fill and left to watch TV, An Xiaoyu came and sat down next to Lin Xuening.

She was wearing a maid outfit, her hair in twin tails, the natural tsundere aura on her little face plain for all to see.

Truly, tsundere and twin tails are a perfect match!

“Sis Xuening, I saw everything.”

The girl’s voice reached Lin Xuening’s ears, making her whole body jolt.

Xia Xi, hearing through Lin Xuening’s left ear, also heard An Xiaoyu’s words and felt a little confused.

Saw? Saw what? Did Lin Xuening do something behind my back?

“D-Don’t say anything!”

Lin Xuening reacted instantly, covering her left ear with her left hand to reduce the volume Xia Xi could hear on his end.

“Heheh, I can keep quiet… but, oh dear, when I’m washing the dishes later, I tend to not be able to control what I say…”

“Stop! I’ll help you wash them!”

Even though Xia Yue had jokingly put An Xiaoyu in charge of washing the dishes, with so many people present, they wouldn’t just stand by and let one girl wash all the tableware by herself. Someone would definitely help.

But An Xiaoyu seemed to have taken Xia Yue’s joke seriously, thinking the chores of cleaning up and washing the dishes had genuinely fallen solely on her shoulders.

To be honest, after An Xiaoyu had been living in Xia Xi’s house for this long, Xia Xi genuinely saw her as a little sister too. It was just the more mischievous Xia Yue who liked to, under the guise of “keeping her company,” make her wear cosplay outfits or play role-playing games, “bullying” her a bit for fun.

“Then it’s settled.”

A satisfied smile appeared on An Xiaoyu’s face.

“By the way, it’s not because there are too many dishes and I’m afraid of the work that I asked you to help! Don’t get the wrong idea!”

“Don’t worry, don’t worry. I want to help you.”

Lin Xuening understood the other girl’s personality to some extent, so she played along.

“Speaking of which, I have another question.”

An Xiaoyu took a sip of fish soup.

“You, towards Brother Xia Xi…”