Xia Yu: Following Behind

Having briefly organized the collected information, Xia Yu planned to ask Yu Ningmeng about it later. There was no search engine better than Yu Ningmeng. He didn't need to be so concerned, as with An Siyao following, the An and Yu families would definitely arrange everything properly, but Xia Yu was not at ease without taking control of the situation himself.

"Brother?" Yuxue pushed open the door of the room, "Let's go, Manman is urging us."

"Alright." Closing the laptop, Xia Yu and Yuxue walked out of the room together.

Today was the last weekend before the winter vacation, and it was said that Xia Yu and the others were going on a trip during the break. Liu Manman wanted to get together these two days. Xia Yu drove Yuxue from the garage to An Siyao's house.

The car was a gift from An Siyao during New Year's Day. An Siyao also wanted to give a company, this time from the subordinate company of the Yu family. Without Yu Ningmeng's instigation, Xia Yu successfully persuaded An Siyao.

The security guards at An Siyao's villa were familiar with Xia Yu's license plate, but they still stopped the car to check. Handing the car key to the security guard, Xia Yu and Yuxue entered the villa together.

In the living room on the second floor, Liu Manman, Ning Qiuer, Hu Lianglu, and An Siyao were watching a movie with a projector. Upon seeing Xia Yu coming up, An Siyao immediately stood up, came to his side, and hugged his arm.

Pinching An Siyao's face, Xia Yu and Yuxue also sat down on the sofa together, watching the movie. It was a zombie movie, with all the scenes taking place inside a building. The zombies were realistic, the screen was dark, and the music was gloomy, making it a good movie. Sitting on the sofa, Xia Yu enjoyed watching the film.

Although he didn't see the beginning, Xia Yu could still understand the plot through his understanding of the story. In short, it was about a zombie virus outbreak, where many people in the building began to mutate. The protagonist, a deliveryman, gets trapped on the top floor and joins the female lead in trying to escape downward.

After much struggle, the protagonist and his party finally reached the first floor, killed the mutated zombie boss, opened the fire exit, and saw the sunlight outside. At the same time, they also saw groups of zombies. The movie ended abruptly at this point, and it was clear that the director wanted to make a sequel.

After watching the movie, Xia Yu looked at the people beside him. Yuxue and Ning Qiuer were hugging pillows, Liu Manman was huddled up with her ears covered, Hu Lianglu was engrossed, and An Siyao had a calm expression. Xia Yu was not surprised by the reactions of Yuxue and the others, but he was surprised by An Siyao's calmness.

Liu Manman also noticed An Siyao's reaction. Before Xia Yu could ask, she pounced on An Siyao, hugged her, and asked, "Yao Yao, how come you're not scared at all?"

An Siyao tilted her head in thought for a moment and then answered, "The part where the male lead and female lead almost got separated was quite scary."

"Why was that part scary?!" Liu Manman could not understand An Siyao's thought process. She grabbed An Siyao's shoulder and shook it vigorously, "Zombies, they eat people, isn't that scary?"

Letting Liu Manman shake her, An Siyao weakly said, "Isn't it normal for zombies to eat people?"

Liu Manman stopped her hand upon hearing this and lowered her head in contemplation, "It seems quite normal for zombies to eat people."

"So, it's still a little scary to be separated," An Siyao peddled her own fearful view.

Before she could finish, the maid arrived with a snack in hand, and everyone's attention quickly shifted to the snack.

While eating the snack, Xia Yu thought back to An Siyao's words.

Was separation even more terrifying than zombies eating people?

As he was thinking, An Siyao handed him a white jade dumpling. She held it directly in her hand, and the semi-transparent dumpling looked even more appetizing against her fair palm.

An Siyao had originally intended for Xia Yu to pick it up from her hand, but instead, he held her hand and bit the dumpling directly.

She clearly felt Xia Yu's lips brush past her palm.

Her face flushed involuntarily, and she exchanged glances with Xia Yu.

At the peak of the atmosphere between the two, Liu Manman interrupted, "There are so many single people here, so don't flaunt your relationship!"

She then moved Xia Yu next to Yuxue and pulled An Siyao next to Ning Qiuer, forcibly separating the two.

"Alright, now let's play a game," Liu Manman took out a big paper box, inside which were a large map and various types of chess pieces. "Look at the new toy I found. I'll teach you how to play."

The chess set that Liu Manman pulled out was quite complex, but the entertainment value was excellent, and time passed quickly.

After dinner and playing chess for a while, Xia Yu suggested going to An Siyao's home theater to watch a movie.

It was an action film that Xia Yu had prepared in advance.

The plot of the movie was not important, but in the movie, there was a scene where the female lead and her friends shared a sleepover.

Sure enough, after watching the movie, Liu Manman immediately stretched out her hand and demanded, "I want a sleepover too! Find a big room and sleep on the floor. I want to set up a tent!"

Under Xia Yu's signal, both An Siyao and Yuxue raised their hands in agreement. Ning Qiuer, seeing their excitement, also raised her hand.

Only Hu Lianglu was left without raising her hand, and everyone turned their attention towards her.

The absent-minded Hu Lianglu finally reacted and raised her hand.

"So it's unanimous. We'll sleep together, and Xia Yu will be alone in an empty room!" Liu Manman looked triumphantly at Xia Yu.

Xia Yu remained expressionless, sneering inwardly at Liu Manman's disdain, unaware that she had been used.

Liu Manman then clamored to take a bath together, fortunately, the villa had a large bathtub that could accommodate all of them.

Afterward, they entered the prepared vacant room and slept on the floor, their excitement lasted until 11 o'clock before they all finally fell asleep.

At this point, Xia Yu logged into An Siyao's body, sat up, looked at the people sleeping beside him, and revealed a smug smile.

Reaching out, Xia Yu used a calming ability on all of them, including Yuxue, letting them fall into a deep sleep before logging out and returning to his own body.

He got out of bed, left the guest room, and went to the bedroom door where the girls were staying. As planned, An Siyao opened the door for him.

Today, his goal was to record Ning Qiu'er's body in the column. In order to perfect the plan, he had waited for half a month until the opportunity for Ning Qiu'er to come. He couldn't wait to enter the room.

It was already midnight, entering the second day, and the opportunity to exchange bodies had been refreshed. Looking at Ning Qiu'er, Xia Yu used free selection to enter Ning Qiu'er's body.

Just like when he was in Liu Manman's body, Xia Yu didn't make any extra movements, preparing to use appeasement to make this body sleep again. However, before going to sleep, he wanted to see what kind of buff Ning Qiu'er had, as it was his occupational disease.

After a minute, a prompt appeared. Buff generation completed. Buff acquired: Star realm sense lv0.

What kind of buff was this? Why was there only one? What was the star realm? Was there an lv0?

Xia Yu's mind was full of doubts, but he remained calm, knowing that if he didn't make this body sleep, Ning Qiu'er, who was awake but couldn't control her body, would panic and might kick him out.

Using appeasement on himself, Xia Yu successfully fell asleep. At the same time, An Siyao, following Xia Yu's instructions, brought the trusteer's body back to the room and closed the door.

This operation seemed flawless on the surface, but in fact, it was seen clearly by another pair of eyes. Yu Ningmeng, who didn't trust the situation, had installed a camera in the corridor and was staring at the surveillance screen with a frown.

She sorted out the information she had just seen from the surveillance. Xia Yu came out of the room and went to the door of the girls' room. Yao Yao opened the door for him, and he walked in with a lascivious smile.

Seeing this, Yu Ningmeng's heart was full of grief. She never thought that Yao Yao would fall into Xia Yu's hands, let alone play such an exciting game.

Damn it, fat water doesn't flow into other people's fields! As she hesitated whether to intervene or not, she saw Xia Yu coming out again.

From going in to coming out, it probably didn't take more than two minutes. It takes at least a minute to dress and undress!

Yu Ningmeng knew she must have been mistaken, and Xia Yu didn't go in for that kind of thing. It might have been a photo threat first.

But Xia Yu didn't have a camera on him, and he didn't have a mobile phone either. What were they exactly doing? Observing their sleeping posture?

Forget it, as long as it's not an outrageous act, just let them be. Yu Ningmeng pushed the notebook aside and continued organizing the files.

The next day, at eight in the morning, Xia Yu returned to his own body. He dressed and got up, brushing his teeth and thinking about Ning Qiu'er's buff.

What exactly was star realm sense? Xia Yu originally thought that Ning Qiu'er's buff was dream creation or something, but he didn't expect it to be such a mysterious thing.

Besides this world, is there another star realm? Is this about breaking the void and ascending?

Following this train of thought, Xia Yu reorganized the information and began to speculate on what star realm sense was from another angle.

If Ning Qiu'er didn't have any other secrets, the dream creation must be related to this star realm sense. That is, this star realm sense could allow Ning Qiu'er to obtain the Moonlight Sonata.

A flash of inspiration crossed Xia Yu's mind:

Could this Star Realm be Earth?

No, that can't explain why there are two melodies in Ning Qiuer's song that are written by him, and Earth doesn't have these two melodies either.

After thinking for a long time, Xia Yu still couldn't come up with a credible conclusion, but he thought of two more clues.

One was the reward of Star Shards for guiding Wen Ziying's life, and the other was the reward for the Star Shard clue he had saved before.

Although Xia Yu had a little clue about guiding Wen Ziying's life, he still needed to observe further, no knowing when he would get the Star Shard.

Without any other options, Xia Yu temporarily let go of this issue.

Letting go is the best choice, as there's no way to deal with something that constantly bothers you.

Spitting out the toothpaste foam, Xia Yu rinsed his mouth with water.

After washing his face, Xia Yu went to the dining room.

Only An Siyao and Hu Lianglu were at the table, while Xue and the others had just woken up and hadn't yet cleaned up.

Xia Yu waved at Hu Lianglu, and led her to the backyard.

"How's your learning progressing?" Xia Yu asked about Hu Lianglu's fighting progress on the surface, but actually, he was inviting her to practice with him.

Hu Lianglu understood Xia Yu's intention, and she took up a fighting pose, stepping lightly towards Xia Yu.

Xia Yu had already checked that Hu Lianglu had no talent in fighting. However, her personality made her learn quickly at the beginning of the fight.

The Yu family guards taught her some ruthless moves that could incapacitate an opponent with one strike.

For example, poking eyes, stabbing nostrils, and stealing peaches.

Xia Yu didn't attack, instead, he neutralized each of Hu Lianglu's moves one by one.

He nodded in satisfaction, as Hu Lianglu was now able to incapacitate a thug with a single kick should they ever encounter one again.

When Hu Lianglu started using repetitive moves, Xia Yu reached out to grab her arm and pushed her to the ground.

"Good, not bad," he let go of Hu Lianglu, ready to push her down again.

Hu Lianglu wouldn't admit defeat until she was pushed down two or three times.

However, this time Hu Lianglu didn't attack Xia Yu as usual after getting up. Instead, she patted the grass off her clothes and went back to the villa.

Surprised, Xia Yu rubbed his chin, recalling Hu Lianglu's daydreaming the day before and feeling there was something peculiar about the girl.

When Xia Yu entered the dining room, he became more certain of his judgment, as Hu Lianglu was asking An Siyao for leave, saying she had something to do at noon.

An Siyao looked at Xia Yu, and after seeing his nod, she agreed to Hu Lianglu's request.

The three of them had breakfast, and Xue and the others soon came down, too. After breakfast, Liu Manman began to plan their fun activities.

During this time, Xia Yu observed Hu Lianglu, who seemed to be in a daze.

At 10:30, Hu Lianglu left the villa.

Xia Yu thought for a moment and put down the game controller in his hand.

"I have something to do; I'll be back soon," Xia Yu said, preparing to follow Hu Lianglu.

After he left the house, Liu Manman found an excuse to run out as well.

She caught up with Xia Yu: "Take me with you!"

The two of them got into Xia Yu's car and followed Hu Lianglu, who had gotten into a chauffeured car.

Seeing Xia Yu following from the rearview mirror, the driver deliberately slowed down and made the turns obvious, trying his best to cooperate.

In this way, one leading and one following, they arrived at a Western restaurant.

Getting any closer would make it easy to be discovered, so Xia Yu stopped the car not far from the restaurant.

They watched Hu Lianglu enter the restaurant.

As Xia Yu was about to follow in, he was stopped by Liu Mantian.

Liu Mantian bought two hats and two coats at a high price on the street, and disguised herself and Xia Yu.

Afterward, the two blended into the restaurant and lurked at a spot two tables away from Hu Lianglu.

At this moment, Hu Lianglu was sitting opposite a man in a suit.