Chapter 1: As you embrace me ( I )
Summer evening, the afterglow of the setting sun has not yet dissipated. The hot temperature accumulated by the day is sinking. The warm breeze blows, making the mood impatient. It blows the people’s mind faint. A row of old long-standing villas, an orange glow shines gently on a roof.
Lu Man pedaled a bicycle all the way to the old villa then parking it outside the villa. She opened the courtyard door familiarly, pushed the bicycle in and looked into the yard across from her.
She locked the bicycle but she didn’t enter the villa but carried her backpack into the next building. The courtyard door wasn’t locked. She went in and knocking on the (house) door for only a minute before someone came and opened the door. The person saw her and stood sideways to let her into the house.
This situation has been happening repeatedly ever since Lu Man moved into the old villa next door.
She entered this world two months ago with the system. The progress between her and Xie Boyu has been very slow but Lu Man wasn’t very anxious. Feelings also need to be cultivated. If you want to capture the heart, it’s important to find the right timing.
She currently bears the identity of Jiang Xi. When she was still a child, her parents got divorced and since then, she had been living with her mother, Jiang Mingzhu. Jiang Mingzhu puts most of her energy on her career and always treat her daughter with indulgence.
Jiang Xi entered the rebellious phase and became a problem child in the eyes of her teachers. She not only has poor grades but she also especially loves to make trouble. However, her family’s financial situation is not only excellent but they also funded the construction of school buildings such as the library. The school authorities decided to turn a blind eye on her situation.
Jiang Mingzhu has always known but takes care of it because she thinks that it was only child’s play and nothing more. Her daughter is not bad-mannered. But after the end of her second year in high school and at the beginning of summer vacation, Jiang Mingzhu began to care about Jiang Xi’s learning situation.
Over the years, Jiang Mingzhu’s career has been flourishing. Her company’s shares have also gone public in the past two years. In other words, even if Jiang Xi is a useless person, nothing will happen to her and she will even live a life better than others.
Because she is busy with her career, she didn’t take care of her daughter much. Jiang Mingzhu feels remorseful. Usually, she exercises a little control. Only one thing that she hopes for is that her daughter can take the college examination. Her requirements are not high, regardless of having two or three abilities is already good enough
Xie Boyu, he’s the person Jiang Mingzhu found to help Jiang Xi make-up class.
In Jiang Xi’s memory, there is indeed a person like Xie Boyu. She simply looked into it. Nevertheless, she was still in primary school. It has also been many years since now. The former youth has become a man, Naturally, it cannot be mentioned in the same breath.
Lu Man remembers how she felt when she saw Xue Boyu for the first time. On the living room sofa, there was one slim silhouette. He has a fair face that shows a firm and persistent appearance. His sideburns are shaved and he has a very short black hair. He wore gold-rimmed glasses, with a matching white shirt and black trousers. He’s refined to the pinnacle.
Apart from this, this man’s voice is very pleasant to hear. He speaks with very articulate pronunciation and it sounds like the neat tone of a cello. It’s rich, deep and low and it bears a little bit of cold feeling. Owing to the coldness, contrary to expectations, it sounds very sexy.
After that one meeting, she accepted the system mission that she needs to complete. Although a person’s charm doesn’t only take the appearance as a measure, to see that it is very pleasing to the eye had always been the most basic point, let alone the high-level Xie Boyu.
Putting aside his external circumstances, he obtained a doctoral degree at the age of twenty-five and smoothly joined the high school faculty to hold a teaching position. This is definitely not the height that ordinary people can achieve. If it weren’t for the capture target being outstanding, she would’ve strangled the system a hundred times.
Lu Man walked into Xie Boyu’s residence as usual and directly went into the study. She put her backpack on the sofa in the study and then she returned to the living room. She sat down on the sofa and watched Xie Boyu as he brings out two bowls of noodles out of the kitchen.
Jiang Mingzhu often didn’t take care of Jiang Xi and she doesn’t stay at home much. In the past, Jiang Xi either goes to grandmother’s house to eat or go outside to eat. Anyway, Jiang Mingzhu isn’t short of money.
The old villa was originally owned by Jiang Xi’s grandfather. Later, when he bought a house elsewhere, he left the house to his daughter. At the time of her divorce, Jiang Mingzhu transferred the house to Jiang Xi’s name.
The old villa is inside the big N campus. Jiang Xi is currently enrolled in N High School. The two places are very close to each other. She came to live here in the pretext of learning. Jiang Mingzhu didn’t have any objections and even asked for help from Xie Boyu who live next door.
The pavilion closest to the water enjoys moonlight first(idiom). Although it’s not entirely correct, by getting closer and getting in touch with each other, there’s a higher possibility that something may happen. After moving out and coming here, everything became more convenient.
Xie Boyu’s cooking skill is actually ordinary but Lu Man is not picky about this thing. She doesn’t have to do it herself so she is actually very happy to be taken care of. It’s a light and plain noodle dish with green onions and vegetables. There wasn’t even a standard fried egg.
She took the soup bowl in front of her and thanked him. After that, she went on to bury her head and eat. System S520 looked at Xie Boyu’s steady and unchanging favorability. It forbore a little but it still can’t hold back to whisper a reminder: “You really won’t make a move?”
Lu Man calmly sent the vegetables to her mouth and communicated with it(System) in her mind: “It’s my own business. I have my own discretion.”
S520 was silenced. It no longer dared to speak.
As a dedicated Love Supporting System, S520 felt that no one is more unfortunate than him. Its previous host didn’t listen to its advice and the wrong actions caused it to be ejected from the world.
As a matter of fact, that one actually even lost it! The tasked failed and the host is even lost. Even though it was successfully recycled, it is very likely that it will be destroyed once again. But it feels that it can still be saved again!
In that urgent situation, it had no choice but to be tied up with another unfortunate person— now it is forcefully bound to the host, Lu Man.
After the host from the last world was ejected, it entered the world where Lu Man was located in. Not only that but she also forcibly took her body and occupied her identity. As a result, she(Lu Man) became a wandering soul in the world.
So they both ganged up to finish the wicked…… No, it has reached an important foundation to have a cooperative relationship. Although they went through a torturous process, it still became the current situation—Lu Man helped it complete the established mission. After the mission is over, it will send her back to her world.
After carrying out the bind, S520 swept around Lu Man’s memory and measured her data. It completely worships her for her rich emotional experience.