Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Lu Huan looked at the people on the long street. He didn’t understand why they all looked like dwarfs, with short arms and legs, peculiar appearances, and faces that looked like steamed buns.
Curtain: [Little one, would you like to spend money to switch to original quality? One coin can maintain the original quality for one hour.]
Lu Huan didn’t quite understand what “pay-to-win” and “original artwork” meant, so he touched the “yes” option on the screen. Soon, with a “snap,” after the fog cleared, all the pedestrians on the long street on the screen returned to their normal appearance, no longer the ugly, chubby-faced figures with short arms and legs.
He then roughly understood the meaning of the words that the curtain had just spoken.
However, because of the large number of people on the long street, a lot of silver was spent in a short time, and Lu Huan was short one silver note.
Adhering to the principle of thrift, Lu Huan restored the curtain to its previous state, where everyone had short arms and legs.
What he had witnessed today was already strange enough, unbelievable enough, and shocking enough to shake his worldview, so Lu Huan was not particularly surprised to see the silver notes disappear into thin air.
But the world inside the curtain seems so vast, where is he supposed to find her?
He temporarily switched the screen back to the room from the beginning— Lu Huan was figuring everything out by trial and error, but he was very clever and discovered that the screen could actually be touched, and the images on it would float when touched. So he quickly figured out how to switch between screens.
Just as he was thinking this, the door to the room suddenly opened.
Lu Huan held his breath, his throat went dry and stared intently at the iron gate. Was it her? He felt a kind of trepidation, like a young man about to see the lover he had been longing for day and night, his heart pounding.
Then, the door opened.
A cute little girl with short arms and legs and a round face walked in. She seemed to have just come back from running outside. There were glistening beads of sweat on her forehead, her eyelashes were thick and curled, and her fair cheeks were slightly red. She was very small, and her short legs moved quickly on the ground. She went into the bathroom, grabbed a towel, and wiped the sweat from her forehead.
She was small, with her hair tied up in a bun, a hairstyle that Lu Huan had never seen before.
—Is it her?
For some reason, Lu Huan had a vague premonition, but he was still unsure.
However, the next second, he saw the chubby-faced girl plop down on a rectangular soft couch in the main hall, cross her legs (Lu Huan: …), and then pull out a rectangular black brick from her pocket, as if she was going to do something with the brick.
“Are you her?” Lu Huan couldn’t help but ask, somewhat bewildered.
However, she seemed unable to hear his voice. She simply lay back on the soft couch, a bright smile on her face, and opened the brick in her hand.
The brick in her hand suddenly lit up, making Lu Huan’s eyelids twitch.
The next second, the image that appeared on the brick that lit up in her hand was— which Lu Huan could just clearly see from his angle— was actually the woodshed courtyard of the Ning Wang Mansion where he had lived?!
Lu Huan’s breathing suddenly became rapid.
He suddenly understood something.
—It’s her.
The two worlds mentioned by the wandering Taoist priest—
The brick in her hand should be no different from the semi-transparent screen in front of her. For so long, she had seen and come into contact with herself through that small screen in her hand.
She was not some kind of ghost or deity, but a woman from another world a thousand years in the future.
And now, perhaps because his obsession was too deep, a curtain has appeared on his side that allowed him to see her.
—It’s her!
Lu Huan’s eyes suddenly turned red. He stared at her and turned on the original image on the screen. Suddenly, the cartoon girl with a chubby face on the screen transformed into a beautiful young woman with snow-white skin, jet-black hair, and a few beads of sweat on her forehead. Her eyes were bright, her nose was straight, and her lips were slightly pursed as she stared intently at the brick in her hand.
It was a very strange feeling.
….
Although it was the first time Lu Huan had met her, she felt strangely familiar.
It was as if every single strand of her hair was exactly as he had imagined.
Across a thousand years, he stood in this room, letting the sun gradually set outside the wooden window, his eyes red as he gazed at her on the semi-transparent curtain. His heart pounded as if struck by lightning.
He never imagined that fate would truly smile upon him and allow him to meet her.
In that instant, he held his breath, feeling as if time had stood still.
….
Lu Huan still couldn’t figure out how she had managed to stay with him for a year through a curtain, traversing a thousand years of time. His mind was blank, filled with the joy of finally seeing the person he had been thinking of day and night, as well as a slight sense of trepidation and shyness.
However, she seemed unaware that he could finally see her and was still intently pressing on her brick.
….
Today was Saturday. After buying groceries for her mother, Su Xi went for a morning run. She was worried about how her son was feeling down last night, so she didn’t run for long and rushed home to go online.
The game always started on the initial screen, so Su Xi had to switch screens to find the baby.
It was sunset in the game, and she thought that the cub should be at the government office, but then she heard a dialog box pop up above the heads of the two officials, saying that the cub was sick and had taken leave today.
Su Xi was startled. Could it be that he caught a cold yesterday? She quickly switched the scene back to the official residence.
Then, there he was, standing in the center of the official residence, staring into the void, motionless. His two big, dark eyes were red, as if he were aggrieved, or as if he were surprised. In short, all sorts of expressions of ecstasy and astonishment were mixed on his face.
But he didn’t move, making Su Xi think the game had crashed.
So Su Xi switched to the courtyard, glanced outside, and saw some servants still cleaning up, but there was no card.
….
At this moment, Lu Huan, looking at her in another world, his expression froze for a fleeting instant on the image on the brick in his hand—
On her screen, the people walking around in the courtyard were all tiny figures, no different from the short-armed, short-legged little people she had seen in her world before, and each had a name above its head: Manager A, Manager B, Manager D…
And myself—
After her screen switched to the indoor setting, the one standing in the middle was clearly himself, and the one with short arms and legs, a huge round face, and a blank expression was clearly herself!
Lu Huan: …
Why do I look so stupid on her screen?!
And above his head were two huge characters:
Little one.
Lu Huan: ……………………
Lu Huan finally understood why the curtain called him “little one”.
If, like on my side, it required spending some silver to switch to a normal human scene, then she must be…
No, I didn’t spend any money.
Lu Huan, realizing this, was speechless.
….
After Su Xi confirmed that there was no card, she switched the scene back to the room. She saw that the cub was still not moving, standing there blankly, with a very interesting and indescribable expression on his chubby face.
What, what happened?
Su Xi was inexplicably taken aback by him.
She was about to tug at the baby to signal her arrival when she suddenly noticed that the number in the upper right corner had reached 102.
???!!!
Su Xi was suddenly startled. What happened?
She nearly jumped off the sofa: “Honey, what did you do last night? How did you suddenly get 102 points?!”
Could it be that he did hundreds of thousands of push-ups last night?!
After she shouted those words, the little one’s eyebrows twitched on the screen.
Then, he made a movement, seemingly stepping forward and pressing on the air in front of him.
Then, Su Xi was completely bewildered to find that after a “snap” of fog on her screen, the cartoon-faced boy suddenly turned into the original drawing, becoming that handsome sixteen-year-old boy, gazing into the air with his eyes faintly red.
She:….
What’s wrong with the game today? It suddenly froze and turned into the original artwork? She hadn’t even spent any money yet, and her little one has already turned into the original artwork? And it had been like this for a whole half minute, still in the form of a young boy.
Su Xi got used to calling him that, so she spent some money to change the cub’s name from “Lu Huan” to “little one”.
Just then, as she was completely baffled, the screen suddenly lit up with a “snap,” and the name above the child’s head changed to a new name—
“Lu Huan, who was already old enough to marry and have children in the Yan Kingdom at the age of sixteen.”
Su Xi: …????
This game was definitely bugged!
The author has something to say:
Su Xi: I’m not convinced! Why does it cost me 30 cents to spend money for one second, while you only spend 100 cents to spend money for an hour?
Lu Huan, who was already old enough to marry and have children in the Yan Kingdom at the age of sixteen: Don’t ask, the answer is inflation.
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