“You’re back?”
After Xia Xi returned to his original body, he thought that since it was so late, getting up to grab a bite to eat probably wouldn’t be noticed. He didn’t expect Luo Xinyu to be sitting in the living room with a smile, seemingly waiting just for him to appear.
“What do you mean? I don’t understand~”
Xia Xi rubbed the back of his head, feigning ignorance.
Honestly, he hadn’t expected this girl to still be awake so late.
“Hmph, stop pretending. When I saw you go to bed so early, I knew you must have gone off to ‘play’ in someone else again!”
The young miss pretended to be angry.
But the next second, her expression shifted from anger to contemplation. The speed of the change left Xia Xi in awe.
“By the way… Xia Xi, can your ability… take me along? I want to go with you~”
A hint of anticipation shone in Luo Xinyu’s eyes.
If it were possible, wouldn’t that mean she could go with Xia Xi into a… “love rival’s” body to play?
“Probably not. I’ll look into it another time.”
Xia Xi shook his head.
He didn’t think the system would allow Luo Xinyu, who was already an exchange target, to swap into someone else’s body with him.
Luo Xinyu knew about his body-swapping ability. Since she had already guessed he’d been out ‘partying’ tonight, there was no point hiding it. It wasn’t like the young miss would go around blabbing anyway.
“Alright, alright. If you figure it out, you have to take me along, okay~”
“Yeah, yeah.”
Xia Xi responded casually.
It wasn’t that he wanted to brush off Luo Xinyu, but the idea of entering someone else’s body together, something like two souls sharing one body… no matter how you put it, it sounded a bit too fantastical.
Besides, he didn’t want to reveal exactly whose bodies he could currently swap into.
Even though Luo Xinyu usually seemed unconcerned, what if… just what if this young miss got upset and triggered a harem catastrophe?
And, with the resources and influence of the young miss’s family, making a few people… no longer her competition, or arranging some minor ‘accidents’… that wouldn’t be too difficult, would it?
Luo Xinyu wasn’t disheartened. She had already been prepared for this request to be impossible. After all, who would want to share a body with someone else?
Wait…
It seems like both Liu Yiyi and I would be quite willing… And if the person was Xia Xi… Little Snow might be happy too…
Standing nearby, Xia Xi watched Luo Xinyu lost in thought. He waved his hand in front of her eyes.
“Earth to Xinyu~ What are you thinking about?”
“Ah? N-nothing, just some trivial stuff.”
Luo Xinyu wasn’t telling the truth.
After all, as a girl, how could she just blurt out something like, “I want you to enter my body,” right?
She looked at Xia Xi. That familiar feeling of wanting to possess something, to claim it as her own, surfaced again.
Actually, she had felt this way before, but it was never as intense as it was now. Especially after moving into Xia Xi’s home, this peculiar sense of possessiveness grew stronger by the day.
She used to be quite willing to share Xia Xi with others… but now…
“Xia Xi, do you think… my body is comfortable?”
“Huh?”
“Never mind, never mind! Forget I asked!”
Xia Xi, who had started rummaging in the fridge for food, was caught off guard by Luo Xinyu’s question. His brain short-circuited for a moment.
“By the way, Xi-Xi~”
“Yeah? What’s up?”
Xia Xi, munching on some fruit, looked at the young miss curiously. She had her chin propped in her hands and was staring straight at him.
“It’s… tonight, can we… play a game?”
Xia Xi was momentarily stunned. He naturally didn’t think of regular phone or computer games. Instead, he thought of his own Game Space.
So far, only Luo Xinyu knew of its existence.
As for Xia Yue and Bai Xiaocha, they only knew about a place created by a “Ghost Sir,” not that it was Xia Xi’s Game Space.
“Please~”
Seeing Xia Xi hesitate, this usually gentle and elegant young miss seemed to shed her reservations, perhaps because no one else was around, and started acting coquettish.
“Well, well, our young miss actually knows how to act cute. I wonder who it was that swore up and down last time, saying she’d absolutely never say such things~”
Xia Xi still remembered clearly the young miss’s words when he had acted cute in front of Luo Jingcheng using her body.
“!”
Luo Xinyu hadn’t expected Xia Xi to remember that incident from so long ago so vividly.
If she had known, she wouldn’t have tried to act cute. Great, she finally mustered the courage to try being a bit coquettish, only to be mercilessly teased!
One moment of extroversion, costs a lifetime of introversion~
Now, her persona as a gentle young miss was probably going to take a hit.
Seeing Luo Xinyu’s rare blush, Xia Xi grinned and poked her soft cheek.
“Alright, alright. Since our Xinyu wants to play, I’ll take you for a ‘duo session’ tonight~”
Perfect timing, Xia Xi also wanted to learn more about the Game Space’s functions.
Used well, this thing was practically a tool to fulfill any fantasy! Of course, it was just like dreaming—it couldn’t affect reality.
“Can I design the game?!”
Luo Xinyu was unusually lively tonight. Xia Xi wasn’t sure if it was because she felt down about him spending the whole day away from her, even having dinner with another woman (Liu Jiaying), and now wanted to vent.
“Okay, okay, you design it~”
Xia Xi munched on a pear, his cheek slightly bulging from the fruit, his face full of fond indulgence.
As soon as he finished speaking, Luo Xinyu pulled a piece of paper covered in writing from her pocket. It looked like she had planned this for a while and came prepared.
“You’re not allowed to peek at the rules.”
She handed the game-designated paper to Xia Xi.
“Don’t worry, I won’t.”
Since Luo Xinyu said so, Xia Xi definitely wouldn’t sneak a peek. After all, it was all within the system’s Game Space. Not only was he the master of that space, making it impossible for her to harm him, but with her high favorability, she had no reason to harm him anyway.
From his research, the Game Space only needed a game setting to generate a game, and this setting didn’t necessarily have to come from Xia Xi himself. It could be something written on a piece of paper.
So, having Luo Xinyu create it while Xia Xi remained unaware of the rules was entirely possible.
“Alright, Xinyu, you go back to your room and sleep first. I’ll pull you into the space in a bit.”
Casually tossing the finished fruit core into the trash, Xia Xi smiled at Luo Xinyu.
It was rare to see the young miss in such high spirits. He had to play along properly. Consider it… just cheering up a friend~
When he was full and satisfied, returning to his room and opening the Game Space, a system notification suddenly rang in his mind.
Xia Xi: “System Bro, System Dad, haven’t you been showing up a bit too frequently lately?!!”
[Story-based game created by an exchange target detected. Temporary quest initiated.]
