“I’m oka– blerrgh–!” Yu Antong waved his hand, before he could finish speaking, he retched again.
Hearing the sound, Xing Lixuan came over, patted him on the back and asked, “You’re not feeling well? Do you want to go to the hospital?”
Yu Antong waited for the vomiting to pass, then shook his head and said, “Maybe it’s because I’ve been in the car for a long time and I feel a little uncomfortable. I’ll go back to the room and rest for a while.”
“You rest for a while, and if you still feel uncomfortable later, tell us that we will go to the hospital immediately,” Xing Lixuan continued, “If you get sick, you can’t delay the check-up.”
Yu Antong nodded, “Okay.”
He just wanted to lie down for a while, but unexpectedly fell asleep, and didn’t wake up until Xing Lixuan called him to get up for dinner.
Xing Lixuan asked, “Is it still uncomfortable?”
Yu Antong felt around his body for a while and said, “Mn, it’s not as uncomfortable as before. It’s all right now.”
Xing Lixuan felt relieved. “That’s good.”
Yu Antong went downstairs, and there, he saw Yu Annan. “Xiao Nan, why are you here?”
Yu Annan replied, “Auntie asked someone to pick me up.”
Seeing Yu Antong had come down, Mrs. Xing greeted him, “Today is the New Year, so I called Nannan here to come over and eat dumplings together.”
Mrs. Xing was very caring. Yu Antong actually thought that his sister might be lonely at home alone, so he originally planned a separate dinner with her later. He thought it wouldn’t be appropriate to call her into the Xing family’ house. He was surprised that it was the Xing family who reached to her first and invited her over.
Yu Antong felt warm in his heart, and felt a little guilty for Mrs. Xing’s thoughtfulness. After all, he and Xing Lixuan weren’t a real couple.
Yu Antong ate a big bowl of dumplings for dinner, and he didn’t feel sick anymore. It seemed that he was fine.
The next day, Xing Lixuan’s company held an end-of-year banquet, and there were still some trivial things to deal with. He and Mr. Xing both went to the company. Mrs. Xing was called out by her friends for some matters, so Yu Antong was at home alone.
When having lunch, there was a dish of steamed sea bass. The meat of sea bass was delicious, and it was Yu Antong’s favorite. But for some reason today, the moment he smelled a pungent fishy smell after putting it in his mouth, a wave of nausea hit him again.
He retched for a long time and could only vomit out his bitter-tasting stomach acid.
‘I might have been too tired yesterday… But why am I still like this after a full rest? Could I be suffering from gastroenteritis?’
Yu Antong poured a glass of water to rinse his mouth, and decided to go to the hospital.
There were relatively few people registering in the hospital in the afternoon. Yu Antong said to the doctor, “Since last night, I have occasionally retched when eating, but it will be fine after a while.”
The doctor checked his stomach with a stethoscope for a while, and asked a few more questions – if he had a previous problem, and any other symptoms. He also gave him an order to have a blood test and a gastroscopy.
The result of the blood test was normal, and the gastroscope examination did not reveal anything abnormal.
The doctor concluded, “There should be nothing wrong. It may be that the food you ate recently is too greasy or not fresh. I will prescribe you some tablets first.”
Yu Antong had expected something serious to happen with his digestive system, but it turned out that there’s nothing wrong. He actually felt a little uneasy.
Just after walking out of the hospital, Yu Antong suddenly remembered something, which made him turn pale as a sheet.
Yesterday was New Year’s Day, and he remembered that this point in time was the timeframe during the latest chapter of the novel “The Favorite of a Rich Family.”
On this day, the protagonist shou was called back to dinner by Yu Qingnian. On the surface, it was a family gathering; but in fact, Yu Qingnian’s investment project lost money, and he wanted the protagonist shou to coax the Xing family to give him money.
As a result, the original protagonist quarreled with Uncle Yu for a long time, and finally agreed to help him to ask Xing Lixuan to borrow money.
Yu Antong recalled that plot, but he felt that such a thing would be impossible to happen. He and Yu Qingnian already had a stiff relationship ever since he successfully gained his inheritance money back.
Two days ago, Yu Qingnian called to ask him to celebrate the new year together. Although he didn’t remember this passage in the original novel at the time, he felt that Yu Qingnian had no good intentions – just like a weasel greeting a chicken.
So at that time, he refused to attend, citing that he’s out skiing with Yu Annan, and he didn’t know when he would go back. So, there’s a chance he won’t be back for the New Year. After all, everyone knows how good their relationship is.
Yu Qingnian didn’t say anything more.
Thinking about it now, he probably wanted to help him ask for money at the time, but his decisive attitude made him realize that it was impossible, so he didn’t waste any more time.
What surprised Yu Antong was that it was the description of borrowing money in the original novel that exacerbated readers’ dissatisfaction with the protagonistsShou. Since they couldn’t stand such a door-mat attitude anymore, they suggested the author to change it.
But the author couldn’t change it anymore. They decisively said that in the next chapter, the protagonist will be axed.
In the past six months, Yu Antong lived happily and recklessly, and had already forgotten about the original novel.
Thinking back now, a chill swept over Yu Antong, making Yu Antong shiver all over.
So was his unexplained nausea and vomiting actually a sign of death? He still couldn’t escape the control of the original novel, and he will be axed according to what the author planned.
After transmigrating into this novel, the direction of many things was not the same as the original. For example, he owned Immortal’s Banquet, which wasn’t mentioned at all in the original novel. For example, He Bin was dismissed by the school;and Shen Yunqing never had any more contact with Xing Lixuan, to the point it’s impossible to assign him the “supporting male character” role to him.
Everything was changing so much that he thought that his life would not end soon.
Now it seems that the fate of the protagonist could be changed, but his life span seemed to be controlled by the original novel.
‘It’s okay… I lived happily for half a year. It’s worth it. It’s enough.’
Yu Antong didn’t go back to the Xing family’s house, but went to his own house to find his younger sister Yu Annan.
Yu Annan was on winter vacation and was thinking of going to cram school. Yu Antong felt that it was too cold to go out in winter, so he hired one-on-one home tutoring for her. Anyway, they were no longer poor, he could afford these expenses.
“Ge, why are you here?”
Yu Antong snarked back, “I’m not welcomed here?”
“Laoshi, let’s take a break first, my ge is here,” Yu Annan talked to the tutor, and then said to Yu Antong, “How can I not welcome you? It’s just that we just met yesterday.”
Yu Annan smiled and said, “Ge, you miss me so soon~”
Now Yu Annan’s temperament has also become more cheerful after learning from Yu Antong.
“Do you want me to help teach you?” Yu Antong offered as he looked at Yu Annan’s exercise book.
After reading Yu Annan’s material, he was speechless. He didn’t remember any of them. All his high school knowledge has been returned back to his teacher.
Yu Antong changed the subject in a nonchalant manner, “Xiao Nan, what kind of major are you interested in?”
“I haven’t thought about it much yet. I’m interested in photography, but I also want to apply to a medical university.”
Yu Antong rubbed his sister’s head and said, “The difference between the two is too big, what are you thinking?”
“But no matter what you choose, as long as you like it and are happy, gege will support you,” Yu Antong added, “So even if I’m not by your side, Xiao Nan can still have a good time.”
Yu Annan detected something was amiss. She anxiously asked, “Ge, what do you mean? What happened? Where are you going?”
Yu Antong suddenly thought of Yu Annan, who would soon face the college entrance examination. Although he doesn’t care about her grades, seeing Yu Annan studying so hard, he dare not affect Yu Annan because of himself.
“Hahaha,” He turned around with a smile and said, “Just what are you thinking? What I meant is that Xiao Nan is about to grow up and go to college, how can I always be by your side?”
Yu Annan complained with a sigh of relief, “Ge, you scared me to death.”
Yu Antong chatted with Yu Annan for a while before returning to the Xing family’s house.
When Yu Antong arrived home, only Mrs. Xing was around. Xing Lixuan should still be attending the end-of-year banquet.
“Where did Tongtong go, why did you come back so late?” Mrs. Xing asked, “I was just about to call you.”
Yu Antong forced a smile so as not to worry her. “I went home to visit my sister.”
Then, she continued, “The Auntie asked what do you want for dinner.”
Yu Antong waved at her, his stiff smile still on his face, “I ate with my sister outside. Mom, you can eat first, I’ll go back to my room to rest.”
Mrs. Xing was currently pulling the stool with her head facing down, so she failed to notice Yu Antong’s unnatural smile.
Now what’s left for Yu Antong to do before it’s too late was… to divorce Xing Lixuan when he came home.
After the death of Old Lady Xing, he could see that Xing Lixuan was an extremely emotional person. Fortunately, although the two of them had some affection for each other now, they didn’t have too deep feelings for one another. A divorce wouldn’t affect his emotional state too much.
If anything, it’s good to break it off as soon as possible, when it wouldn’t hurt much.
It’s just that he felt guilty for not living up the sincerity that Mr. and Mrs. Xing had given to him.
Yu Antong felt sleepy as he waited, sitting on the bed on the verge of falling asleep. At ten o’clock, he heard the door opening, and it was Xing Lixuan who came back.
He heard the sound of footsteps going upstairs, and he was about to reach the door. He didn’t know why it was so far away.
After a while, Xing Lixuan opened the door and came in. He drank a lot of wine at the banquet and was a little drunk. He held a crystal trophy in his hand and stuffed it into Yu Antong’s arms. “For you.”
It turned out that he wanted to show Yu Antong the trophy way back from skiing, so he went to the study to get the trophy.
Yu Antong took it over, stroked the name of Xing Lixuan engraved on it with his fingers, and put the trophy aside. He pulled the obviously-drunken Xing Lixuan to sit down, and was met with a strong smell of alcohol to his face. “Have you been drinking?”
“Yes,” Xing Lixuan honestly responded. “They said they wanted to toast to you. But since you’re not there, I must drink it in your stead.”
Yu Antong suddenly felt a little sad, seeing that Xing Lixuan was not very drunk, he said: “Xing Lixuan, let me ask you a question: are you okay?”
Xing Lixuan nodded. “I’m okay.”
Yu Antong continued to ask him, “Do you like me?”
Xing Lixuan smiled, not knowing where he was going, and suddenly said with a straight face, “It’s just as you think.”
He didn’t take the initiative to confess, he was going to let Yu Antong finish speaking first.
Hearing this, Yu Antong said with relief, “That’s good. Since Grandma has passed away, should the agreement between us come to an end?”
Xing Lixuan was stunned, as if he didn’t understand what he was talking about.
Yu Antong went straight to the point. “Let’s get a divorce.”
Xing Lixuan turned his back to him and took a sip from the water glass on the bedside table. The water in the glass was already cold. With a barely held-back ire, he said, “What nonsense are you talking about? “
This little fox, he must want to mess around again.
Yu Antong said in a serious manner, “I’m not joking. I’m serious. Let’s get a divorce.”
Xing Lixuan lost his drunkenness after being submerged in the cold water. He put the cup on the table vigorously, and his voice was colder than the icy water. “Why?”
Yu Antong pursed his lips, and said after thinking for a while, “Didn’t I say that our agreement expired…”
“Bang!”
There was a loud noise, startling Yu Antong. It was Xing Lixuan who slammed his fist to the bedside table, knocking the glass to the ground in the process. He pointed at Yu Antong, his fingers trembling with anger: “Yu Antong, don’t you have a heart?
The noise was enough to alert Xing Lixuan’s parents. They hurriedly went upstairs in worry. They asked, “Lixuan, Tongtong, what’s the matter? Did you quarrel?”
The door was unlocked, and Mr. Xing twisted open the door to see glass shards and water stains mixed together on the ground, making a mess.
Xing Lixuan stared at Yu Antong with red eyes, as if he had a deep hatred for him.
Mrs. Xing frowned and asked, “What’s wrong with you?”
Xing Lixuan stared at Yu Antong without speaking, as if he wanted to stare a hole into him before giving up.
Yu Antong didn’t want to explain at first. After all, even if there’s an explanation, he couldn’t verbalize it. How could he convince people about the whole transmigration business? Xing Lixuan would sooner believe he had lost his mind, right?
In the end, Yu Antong decided to be honest about his declining health. “I feel sick these days. When I smell a little bit of fishy smell, it triggers nausea and stomach pain. I might…”
Hearing him saying these words, the Xing parents had a realization. In unison, they exclaimed with joy, “Tongtong, are you pregnant?!”
There was only a little doubt in their tone. It was more affirmation of surprise and expectation.
Yu Antong’s interrupted sentence, “I might be dying”, was stuck in his throat before he could say it.
Yu Antong thought he was hallucinating. He felt like a robot, he turned his head stiffly to look at his parents-in-law. “Dad, Mom, what did you just… say?”
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