Chapter 25

Edward chatted with his mom for a while and then hung up.

Heading out of the apartment, he went to a Chinese restaurant nearby and ordered a few dishes for dinner.

"Not bad."

He nodded in satisfaction and thanked the daughter of the owner, who worked as a part-time waitress.

"Thanks and I'm Edward by the way."

"Honey Lee, it's nice meeting you."

"I just came here not long ago, I lived just a few blocks away, so I guess we'll be seeing each other often."

"That's... Nice?"

"Are you pure chinese or half?"

"I'm half, My mother is Filipina, and I was born here."

"Do you know what 'Wǒ ài nǐ' means?"

"No, I don't speak chinese."

"..."

"..."

"Are you studying?"

"Yes, I'm studying at the university nearby."

"Cool, I also studied there."

"That's nice..."

"How old are you?"

"18, how about you?"

"16, but age doesn't matter, don't you think?"

"... I, you.."

Edward smiled as he looked at her face, which blushed from his aggressiveness, and stopped teasing.

He doesn't know what kind of girl she is, but from how she reacted, it was as if it was the first time someone flirted with her.

Edward doesn't want to scare her, so he stopped his advances.

Anyway, his father was also on the counter and was looking at them.

After eating, he paid his bills and then came back to his apartment.

As he sat on the couch, he looked around and felt lonely.

Turning on the television, Edward watches some news.

Most of them are unfamiliar to him, and no major event happened, so he quickly lost his interest.

Turning off the TV, he laid his back on the couch and was silent for a few minutes.

"I felt homesick somehow."

Edward muttered as he stared at the ceiling.

In the previous time and space, after graduating college, he immediately moved out of his parents house to live independently.

At that time, he didn't feel anything at all.

He was just happy that he could finally live on his own and do whatever he wanted.

"Is this how my parents felt when I left them back then?"

Edward felt a little sad.

"I should visit them often."

He said this and closed his eyes.

"Perhaps I could also give them some grandkids so they won't feel lonely?"

The idea came out of nowhere, and he felt it was feasible.

However, how should he do that?

Marry someone and ask her to give him a child?

"But unfortunately, I don't want to get married until I'm forty."

But again, who says that you have to marry the one with whom you get pregnant?

In this country, where most people are in poverty, everything can be bought with money.

Let alone finding a women to bear a child for him, as long as he wants, there are countless out there in the underground.

Of course, he can't just pick anyone.

There are criteria that must be met.

For example, she must be beautiful, strong, healthy, and free of any hidden diseases.

In this way, his offspring could inherit good genes from her.

It doesn't matter if they couldn't inherit much of his genes, as he doubts he has them.

After all, in the previous time and space, he was not so handsome, he's not tall, and most importantly, he's not smart.

"Damn, why am I thinking of this kind of stuff?"

Edward muttered in amusement as his mind wandered to random things and slowly drifted away into sleep.

...

The next day.

August 2, Monday

Edward woke up early in the morning.

He washed his face and brushed his teeth, and then he made a simple breakfast: an egg sandwich and a cup of hot coffee.

After eating, he went to a nearby park and ran several laps around it for an hour.

After his morning run, he went back to his apartment to take a bath.

At 8:00 a.m.

Edward got dressed in his school uniform.

A button-up shirt with matching black pants and shiny black shoes

The slightly disheveled "wolf cut" hairstyle gives him a nonchalant vibe around him, and on his right arm, a mechanical wristwatch is adorned, adding a unique retro touch to his overall appearance.

Seeing his appearance in front of the mirror, Edward let out a satisfied smile.

Took his bag and headed out of the apartment.

At 8:07

After a few minutes of walk from his apartment, he arrived at the entrance gate of the university.

Having been in this place for years, he easily located the room he was assigned to.

Business Administration Department Building

On the third floor, second to the right.

Entering the classroom, as he expected, he was the first person to come.

The class will begin exactly at 9:00 in the morning and end at 2:00 in the afternoon.

Taking his seat on the back corner, beside the window. He took out his phone and played it for a while.

Unlike the second-generation iPhone that he used last time, this time it was the iPhone 4 that was recently released, shocking the whole world.

The new concept of a front-facing camera, along with a larger storage space, better sound quality, and various revolutionary functions, made the whole world crazy for it.

However, while people were crazy for its novel functions, Edward's was unfazed.

The main reason he bought it was to access the internet.

The internet was only 3G, but considering that the "data traffic" on the internet at this time is not as big as in the future, it was considerably fast.

Logging into his Facebook account, Edward browses his news feed for a while, then turns to recent messages.

At 8:30

Some students started to arrive one after another.

From time to time, there will be some girls who will steal a glance at him, and seeing this, Edward feels strange.

"Perhaps because I've been working out a lot lately?"

Edward thought and felt reasonable.

A while ago, he had also measured his height and compared it with his previous life.

After comparison, he found that he was indeed about three centimeters taller than he should be at this time.

Not only that, he was not skinny anymore, and even some abdominal muscles were growing on his belly.