Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Tao Yuan went to the supermarket to buy groceries and returned to his apartment not far from the school to start cooking dinner.
Just as the food was almost ready, his younger brother, who was in elementary school, came home from school.
“Brother, I’m home,” Du Yi greeted Tao Yuan at the kitchen door.
“Okay, put your schoolbag down, wash your hands, and get ready to eat,” Tao Yuan replied without turning around, continuing to cook.
This apartment was rented by his father after the original owner was admitted to Dongjing University, with three years’ rent paid in full upfront. So no matter how much the original owner worried about money, at least for the next year or two, he and his half-brother wouldn’t be homeless.
Tao Yuan served the food, and the two ate dinner quietly. Du Yi offered to help wash the dishes, but Tao Yuan refused, telling him to go do his homework.
Du Yi was just a boy under ten years old, a pampered young master in the past. Having lived with the original owner for less than a year, he seemed to have matured instantly, becoming very sensible.
It wasn’t because the original owner treated him badly; the original owner’s personality was inherently cold to everyone. While he didn’t say much to his half-brother, he never gave him a hard time or scolded him.
After the original owner’s mother passed away, his father remarried, having Du Yi with the original owner’s stepmother. But this stepmother died in an accident a couple of years ago. The original owner’s father was somewhat superstitious, believing he was cursed to bring bad luck to his wives, and decided not to remarry. However, although he didn’t intend to remarry, he cursed himself to death. He went bankrupt due to business failure and was diagnosed with a terminal illness, leaving nothing for his two sons before passing away.
Before his death, the original owner’s father asked the original owner to take care of his brother. The original owner promised to personally care for him and not entrust him to anyone else’s care, only then did the original owner’s father pass away peacefully. The original owner felt that his father had raised him to adulthood and treated him very well; he hadn’t even had a chance to repay his father’s kindness before he died. Therefore, taking care of his half-brother in place of his father was his way of repaying his father’s kindness.
However, his younger brother, though seemingly a healthy child, actually suffered from a serious heart condition and required constant medication.
The original owner of this body had to manage tuition, daily living expenses, and his brother’s medication, putting him under immense pressure. Given Xu Shaoyan’s seemingly caring but actually provocative actions and words, the original owner’s ability to refrain from exposing him was already quite saintly. But Tao Yuan wasn’t like that; anyone who dared to make him suffer would be met with retribution. After washing the dishes and cleaning, Tao Yuan went into his room and closed the door. Lying down on the bed, he closed his eyes and opened the system, looking at the bare peach blossom branch with only a few newly sprouted buds. He sighed, wondering how long it would take for the branch to bloom. Before transmigrating, in his original world, Tao Yuan was an actor who had just graduated from film school, only two or three years older than the original owner.
He had just won the Best Newcomer Award, and after returning home from the awards ceremony, he suddenly woke up in the middle of the night. He got up to drink some water to calm his nerves, only to find that the peach tree in his backyard had burst into a spectacular display of blossoms overnight, even though it wasn’t peach season.
Puzzled, Tao Yuan walked into the yard, stood under the tree, and looked up to observe. He wondered if the tree, which had never flowered in all these years, had become sentient. Why else would it bloom so profusely overnight?
As he pondered this, a peach blossom suddenly fell and hit him on the forehead. His vision went black, and he passed out. Before completely losing consciousness, he was still thinking, “I was knocked unconscious by a peach blossom…”
When he awoke, he wasn’t in his bed or a hospital, but in a formless, ethereal space.
A voice told him that he had been struck by the Peach Blossom System and was now its master. If he could make that peach branch bloom profusely, he could permanently possess the Peach Blossom System and even achieve immortality and cultivate to become an immortal.
The way to make the peach blossom branch bloom with peach blossoms was to go to different worlds and develop a romance. As long as the romance was successful, a peach blossom would bloom.
Tao Yuan had no interest in immortality or cultivating to become an immortal; he thought those were dreams only ancient emperors had. As a modern person, doing what he wanted and living a peaceful life for a few decades was enough for him. What was so interesting about immortality?
But the Peach Blossom System told him that he had disappeared from his original world and could never go back. If he didn’t go to different worlds to complete missions, he would have to stay in the system space forever. However, in the system space, he would be immortal, and it was up to him to choose.
Tao Yuan didn’t know how long he had been in the system; it might be a short time, or it might be a long time. In short, he was so bored that he couldn’t stand it anymore and felt like he was about to mold. Besides the moving space in the system, there was only a bare peach blossom branch; there was nothing else.
The system told him that he could not activate any of its functions unless he went to different worlds.
Tao Yuan felt a pang of sadness looking at the bare peach branch after staring at it for a while. He figured staying in the system space would only lead to boredom and mold, so he might as well follow the system’s instructions, go to different worlds to complete tasks, and make the peach branch bloom again, allowing him to leave the system space.
He reasoned that since he was a professional actor, he could treat each world as a movie set, participating in the performance and honing his acting skills. With this in mind, Tao Yuan actually felt a sense of anticipation for going to different worlds to complete tasks. As darkness fell, Tao Yuan got out of bed, showered, changed, and told Du Yi that he could stay home and read or watch TV, but not go out alone; he was going to work.
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