Upcoming plane transfer, coordinating coordinates.
As the mechanical voice echoed, the scene before Yunyu began to shatter frame by frame.
Initiating plane transfer.
Warning! Warning! Transfer lag! Please handle the anomaly in time!
A wave of dizziness washed over him, and when Yunyu opened his eyes again, he found himself in a pitch-black space.
Looking at the three mysterious objects emitting a glowing white light before him, Yunyu did not feel surprised; he only felt somewhat helpless.
“I should go to the next world. Wait patiently for me, okay?”
As soon as Yunyu finished speaking, the mysterious objects merged into a single mass, cautiously creeping closer. They extended an antenna in an attempt to touch him, but pulled back as if shy right before making contact.
Yunyu chuckled softly, taking the initiative to cup it in his palm. His gaze was gentle as he asked, “Can you fall in love with me at first sight again next time?”
The antenna tremblingly wrapped around Yunyu’s wrist, and he heard the response whispered in his ear.
“See you in the next world.”
The next moment, it completely dissipated before Yunyu’s eyes.
No anomalies detected, continuing plane transfer.
Transfer successful!
In the garden, a delicate figure sat on a bench under a flower trellis, reading a book. Servants passing by occasionally cast secretive glances, and even the gardener trimming excess branches could not look away.
The spring flowers were in full bloom, surrounded by clusters of blossoms, yet he alone overshadowed the beauty of the entire garden.
Suddenly, a man walked down a path from the other side. The servants instantly reined in their gazes, not daring to look further.
The man did not approach rashly; instead, he paused a short distance away for a long while before gathering the courage to disturb the other.
“Sister-in-law, why are you reading here?”
Xia Yunyu, which was Yunyu after transmigrating into this world, looked up upon hearing the voice. A pretty face was exposed to the man, easily stirring his heart.
Seeing who had come, Xia Yunyu smiled shyly, biting his lip. “Is there something you need?”
The person before him was his husband’s younger brother, his brother-in-law. He had been studying abroad previously and hadn’t even returned a year ago when his older brother got married, only returning to the country in the past two weeks.
Xu Shulan blinked unblinkingly, unwilling to miss even a fraction of Xia Yunyu’s expression. His attitude carried an obvious closeness. “Must there be a reason for me to look for my sister-in-law?”
Xia Yunyu’s eyelashes lowered slightly, not quite daring to look at the person beside him. He didn’t know why either; Xu Shulan had originally been looking for his older brother, but upon discovering that this garden villa had only him living in it, he had moved right in.
Knowing the timid and shy personality of his male sister-in-law, Xu Shulan wasn’t annoyed when Xia Yunyu didn’t pick up on his words. Instead, he took the initiative to start a topic.
“What is sister-in-law reading?”
“The Red and the Black.” Xia Yunyu touched the somewhat rough book cover unnaturally. “Just passing the time.”
Hearing the book title, Xu Shulan’s eyes flashed for a moment, and he tentatively tossed out a probe.
“I’ve read this book too. I actually think the relationship between Julien and Madame de Renal was a bit too full of regret.”
“After all, there was no love between her and her husband.” A trace of sadness flashed across Xia Yunyu’s eyes. It was only belatedly that he remembered he shouldn’t be saying such things to his husband’s younger brother.
He hurriedly stood up, clearly extremely flustered. “I suddenly remembered I have things to do, I will head back first.”
With that, without daring to look at Xu Shulan again, he hugged his book and hurried away.
Xu Shulan did not stop him, only allowing his gaze to linger until the graceful and alluring figure disappeared from his sight, before finally taking his time leaning back against the bench.
The warmth and soft scent of the other person seemed to still linger nearby, and even the images in his mind were entirely filled with the panic-stricken expression when the other realized he had said the wrong thing.
No love between him and his husband?
Returning to his room, Yunyu tossed the book aside and lazily lay down on the bed.
In this world, the cannon-fodder role he was playing was a cowardly omega-equivalent human wife forced into an open marriage. Why a wife? Because in this world, not only was same-sex marriage legal, but he was also a bisexual person capable of reproduction!
Initially, Yunyu found it hard to accept, engaging in quiet quitting for a whole month before finally resigning himself to fate.
Yunyu closed his eyes slightly, slowly sorting through the original owner’s memories.
Although the original owner, Xia Yunyu, came from a wealthy background, his experiences were completely opposite to Mo Yunyu’s from the previous world.
Xia Yunyu’s mother had married up, becoming the second wife of the head of the Xia family. In the first year, she gave birth to the original owner, only to find out he was a bisexual person.
In fact, this condition could have been slightly intervened with during infancy, but his mother hoped he would grow into a boy to consolidate her position as the mistress of the house, while his father worried he would affect the eldest son’s status and suggested raising him as a girl.
From then on, it laid the foundation for the original owner’s affluent yet utterly gloomy life.
He was indeed raised as a girl, but his mother constantly instilled in him the idea that he was a boy, even secretly throwing away his conditioning medication.
Raised halfway as neither boy nor girl until he was ten, his mother gave birth to a younger brother and subsequently completely ignored the physically deformed original owner. She even viewed him as a disgrace, locking him at home and only allowing private tutors to visit, stripping him of even the right to attend school.
His father turned a blind eye to this, and it was then that the original owner met his worst nightmare, a private tutor with the face of a man and the heart of a beast.
At first, it was just small, overstepping actions, but eventually realizing that Xia Yunyu received no attention in this house, the tutor attempted to force himself upon him.
Just at that moment, the child from the Xu family next door witnessed this unusual scene and called the police, rescuing him.
From then on, the original owner began frequently casting his gaze toward the savior next door. Even after the arrival of puberty with its budding emotions, he hopelessly and uncontrollably fell in love with him.
And that savior was his current husband, Xu Hao.
Upon first hearing that he was to enter a marriage alliance with the Xu family, and that the husband-to-be was Xu Hao, the original owner wept tears of joy, thinking his life was finally going to see the light.
But on the very first day of marriage, Xu Hao proposed an open marriage, explicitly stating that marrying him was just a temporary expedient. Because his grandfather threatened that if he didn’t find someone to marry and produce an heir, all his inheritance would go to his younger brother.
As for Xu Hao himself, he was purely gay and looked down entirely on the wife his grandfather specially found who met the criteria of being a boy yet capable of producing an heir.
Thus, the original owner escaped one cage only to enter another.
His ending would be a regretful exit after his husband found his true love, eventually passing away from depression.
Yunyu never liked overly tragic characters, but matters had come to this. Since he had replaced him, failing to do something for the original owner would mean letting him down.
The main plot of this world revolved around the life of his brother-in-law, Xu Shulan, akin to the stereotypical overpowered male protagonists in web novels, growing all the way until he became a universally revered business tycoon.
In contrast, Xia Yunyu was merely an insignificant person in the story.
The more he thought about it, the angrier Yunyu felt. How could anyone live so aggrievedly?
Fortunately, he had arrived. No matter what, he would make this dust-covered pearl belonging to Xia Yunyu shine.
609 detected the host’s anger. As the culprit who picked this mission, it didn’t dare to speak for a moment, instead retreating to write a plea for mercy to submit to the Main God, praying that the punishment after failing this world wouldn’t be too severe.
Yunyu rolled around on the bed a few times, picked up his phone, and routinely sent a text message to the contact saved as Husband. It was nothing more than what he had done today, asking when he would come home, and similar phrases. He had kept this up persistently since day one of their marriage until now; Yunyu truly admired the original owner’s perseverance.
After sending the message and watching some entertaining short videos, someone knocked on his door outside.
“Madam, dinner is ready.”
Yunyu acknowledged the call, slipped into slippers, and went downstairs. Xu Shulan was already seated at the dining table waiting.
Xia Yunyu softly greeted the other, took his seat, and ate obediently. For these past two weeks, this brother-in-law had been keeping him company at meals, scaring him so much that he didn’t even dare eat in his room.
Seeing the other pick up his chopsticks, Xu Shulan began to eat as well, though his gaze intentionally or unintentionally kept falling on his sister-in-law.
Xia Yunyu ate very obediently, carrying a nearly rigid etiquette, but he ate earnestly. Seemingly because of his presence, he appeared exceptionally constrained, not even daring to glance at the dishes further away.
“Sister-in-law, try this. It tastes alright.” Xu Shulan very naturally placed a piece of food into Xia Yunyu’s bowl, then withdrew his hand as if nothing had happened.
Xia Yunyu no longer felt the awkwardness of coughing from choking that he had experienced the first time the other served him food, but his face still couldn’t help blushing slightly. After thanking him, he ate the food.
Seeing the other obediently chew and swallow the food, Xu Shulan’s eyes unconsciously revealed a sense of satisfaction akin to claiming ownership.
If anyone witnessed this scene, they certainly wouldn’t categorize their relationship as brother-in-law and sister-in-law, but rather mistake them for newlyweds. Although there was some detachment between them, the atmosphere was packed with intimacy.
Just as the two were finishing their meal, the door suddenly opened and closed, and a man strode into the house.
Xia Yunyu turned his head, and upon seeing who it was, his eyes instantly piled up with surprise. He quickly wiped his mouth and went up to greet him.
“Why are you free to come back today?” Xia Yunyu familiarly took his husband’s removed coat and fetched slippers from the shoe cabinet, placing them at his feet.
Xu Shulan merely stood up, quietly watching the two people at the door.
The man was tall and handsome, and his gentle, considerate young wife stood beside him, tall and short together, they already radiated a strong sense of matching appropriateness.
Xu Hao didn’t know what his younger brother was thinking; he completely ignored Xia Yunyu and looked only at Xu Shulan. “Since you’re back, why didn’t you come find me instead of moving over here?”
Xu Shulan clearly saw the disappointment on Xia Yunyu’s face, which settled his heart a little more. “Sister-in-law is at home, and if he’s home, you’ll eventually come back one day.”
The two brothers were talking, and Xia Yunyu found it hard to chime in, so he walked into the kitchen to ask the servants to prepare some fresh food.
Seeing Xia Yunyu enter the kitchen, Xu Hao waved his hand and directly drew a line between their relationships. “If it weren’t for Grandpa, I wouldn’t have gotten married so soon. We’ll definitely divorce later on anyway.”
Hearing this, Xu Shulan took the initiative to pull back a chair for Xu Hao to sit next to him. “He’s so pretty, how can you bear it?”