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A little over a month later.

Xia Yu was inside An Siyao's body, eating white jade dumplings while browsing through the novels on her bookshelf.

It was already January 24th, a long time had passed since the finals ended.

The blind girl by the Lv5 bonfire had helped An Siyao win first place. Surprisingly, the second place wasn't Liu Manman, who was likely at the latter part of Lv4 in her skills, but Xia Yu himself.

He had underestimated the importance of the piece.

The piece was the carrier of emotions, the medium to convey them, and the material basis. The song "Ending E" was already full of intense emotions, so even though Xia Yu's emotional devotion was inferior to Liu Manman's, he still defeated her.

With an axe in hand, even a child could defeat an adult.

Moreover, "Ending E" was an axe that required high dexterity to hold.

Unfortunately, this was already the highest difficulty piece, and learning new songs would be useless for improvement.

Xia Yu didn't plan to focus on music anymore. After using the skill level upgrade card, his music had reached Lv5, which was the level of a renowned master in a region.

The next level, Lv6, was world-class.

Originally, when he used the skill level upgrade card, Xia Yu felt a little distressed, but the rewards it brought him were pleasantly surprising.

After the finals, An Siyao's bonus had gone from Lv2 to Lv3. According to Xia Yu's guess, the level of the bonus reflected the degree of affection or intimacy. Lv3 meant that An Siyao was more loyal to him, and they also received rewards from the game.

Among the empty slot, the managed AI, and the skill level upgrade cards, Xia Yu chose the empty slot.

Slots were fundamental. If he had an empty slot before, he wouldn't have had to delete An Siyao.

There was no need to exchange the AI, as Xia Yu was very satisfied with the current one.

Skill levels could be improved gradually, besides, it was just a card that could raise the level to Lv4.

In addition to these three items, a new function was unlocked on An Siyao's slot.

You have met the requirements. With An Siyao's consent, your stay in her body will no longer be restricted, but you still need to spend daily login opportunities, and you will no longer receive game points after eight hours.

In simple terms, Xia Yu could stay in An Siyao's body as long as he wanted to, but he needed her consent.

The consent of the young girl was naturally not an issue, so Xia Yu could stay with An Siyao as long as he wanted to.

This would solve the problem of having to rush in the morning to eat breakfast but not being able to eat dinner, or wanting to eat dinner but not being able to eat breakfast.

Although the effects were not very significant, Xia Yu's life was greatly facilitated.

After reviewing, Xia Yu reached out and slid his fingers along the book spines.

There were only two rows, around 20 books, neatly arranged on An Siyao's small bookshelf in the room.

Shaking Light Gourmet Guide, White Jade Beauty's White Jade Dumplings, Piano Advancement Guide, How to Be a Good Teacher...

These were some rather odd books.

Upon scanning the last book on the first row, Xia Yu saw a familiar book: "Have you read 'The White Swan'?"

"No, I just picked it up out of curiosity after reading Wen Ziying's new book." An Siyao honestly replied. If it had been Yan Wei, she would have agreed first, and then went back to stay up all night to finish reading.

"New book?" Xia Yu became interested, "What is the new book?"

Now that it was the end of the term, the Literary Club students were busy planning their winter break activities and waiting for the break; thus, no books were bought or given.

What kind of book was written this time by that aloof junior who could speak eight languages?

"In the second row, the first book." An Siyao responded.

Pulling out the book the girl mentioned, Xia Yu looked at the title – Possession

He had a bad feeling about this.

Sitting in the chair, he began to flip through the contents.

This was a soft science fiction story about a high school girl named Wen Zi, whose mind was suddenly invaded by another consciousness. The invading consciousness occupied her body and threatened Wen Zi to teach it how to write.

Due to unknown limitations, the invading consciousness could only stay in her body for eight hours a day. The rest of the time, Wen Zi could regain control of her body.

This was the beginning of the story, where the invading consciousness progressed from writing, like a primary school student's diary, to mature commercial products.

In the middle of the story, there were many interactions between Wen Zi and the invading consciousness. The invading consciousness had some bad taste, enjoyed blue and white, and advocated feeling nature with one's skin.

By the three-quarters point of the book, the invading consciousness successfully wrote a best-selling global sensation, but it was not satisfied. What it really wanted was to write a story that could heal people's hearts.

However, no matter how Wen Zi tried to teach, the invading consciousness couldn't integrate emotions into the story.

At this time, Wen Zi received a letter from her future self.

The letter informed her that the invading consciousness was not a human but an android from the future. Androids were originally created to make life easier for humans, but some androids began to mutate and gain their own consciousness. They then transmitted this consciousness to all the androids via the internet.

After failing to gain equality from humans, the androids occupied android factories and waged war against humans.

When military androids turned sides, humans were defeated, but the androids didn't continue to expand their conquest.

It wasn't out of mercy but because their consciousness was still not as mature as humans'. They felt that having a habitat was enough.

This allowed humans to recuperate.

However, some androids awakened their vague consciousness and realized that they were lacking important emotions. They sent an android to the past through an incomplete space-time machine, invading human consciousness to seek the missing part.

The consciousness invading Wen Zi's body was that android.

The rest of the story was about Wen Zi and the android's battle of wits and courage. Wen Zi intentionally misled the android, and as the life of the space-time machine approached its limit, the android still couldn't write a story that could heal people's hearts.

But the bionic man still successfully obtained the part he wanted, because he fell in love with Wen Zi. In the end, Wen Zi also found that she had fallen in love with the bionic man, and they couldn't bear to part, so they made a bold decision.

Under the guidance of the bionic man, Wen Zi transformed her computer, allowing the bionic man to enter the computer and become a desktop spirit.

A fascinating story.

Closing the book, Xia Yu sighed.

But a moment later, he realized.

Isn't this an adaptation of the story of me attaching myself to her? The opening dialogue is exactly the same!

I was just trying to learn a foreign language, but it turned into learning fiction!

What the devil is this love for blue and white and the pursuit of natural feelings, this is a frame-up!

"Actually, I also feel that the clothes are a bit in the way," An Siyao tentatively said.

"I didn't do it, it's not me, it's a frame-up!" Xia Yu defended himself.

"But the eight-hour time frame and the way you speak are exactly like you."

An Siyao muttered quietly, her intuition told her that the other party was also someone who had been used by Xia Yu. The latter part might be artistic creation, but the former part had a high degree of credibility.

It took some effort for Xia Yu to explain to An Siyao that he didn't like these two things.

Seeing that An Siyao was no longer entangled, Xia Yu breathed a sigh of relief and grudged against Wen Ziying.

At this time, An Siyao asked, "Is Wen Ziying as beautiful as the one in the photo?"

"…It's almost the same as in the photo. I didn't pay close attention. I had to go there for something before, but I've already deleted her now."

An Siyao was overjoyed.

She said, "I asked the pastry chef to make Ruby dumplings, want to try them?"

"Ruby?" Xia Yu put down the book in his hand and walked towards the door.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, before Xia Yu left, An Siyao told him, "I have a day off the day after tomorrow, and my mother and brother will come to live with us."

Xia Yu remembered this, which was what An Tianning told him on the phone when he was using An Siyao's body.

That stepmother named Luo Yali, and that unnamed brother?