Cry louder, I can't hear you.

Yun Qiao never expected that after spending more than five years in another world, only five months had passed since she returned to the real world.

She's 23 years old at heart, yet she has to sit in a classroom with a group of 17- or 18-year-old high school students!

After attending classes for more than a month, Yunqiao broke down.

Why can't we just let her go straight to the period after the college entrance exam?

She's forgotten everything she learned in high school; how is she going to take the college entrance exam?

If this continues, good universities will say goodbye to her.

When the end-of-month results came out again, Yunqiao had dropped from the top three to the lower middle ranks, which shocked the teachers so much that they called her in for a talk.

They asked her if she was bullied at school, and inquired whether she was secretly dating.

Even her parents, who were always busy with work in other places and rarely cared about her, took the initiative to make a video call to her.

Even her former close friends sometimes look at her with a strange expression.

"Qiaoqiao, I think you've changed a bit."

"You're so quiet now, you don't play with us anymore, and you don't smile much."

Yun Qiao had no way to express her bitterness. Could she say that she wasn't interested in any of the things they were talking about?

She didn't get the joke at all.

The time travel was so long that it definitely left an impact on her.

She found herself unable to adapt to real life...

I still prefer the you from before.

Yun Qiao felt a little conflicted and looked at her, asking, "Are you talking about me five months ago, or me in the last five months?"

My friend paused for a moment, somewhat puzzled: "What's the difference?"

But she paused, thought about it carefully, and then answered with a smile:

"My memory is a bit bad, I can't quite remember what we've been through in the past five months."

Yun Qiao frowned.

There was one question she had always forgotten to ask the system: who had been occupying her body during the five months she had been missing?

No, she was wearing...

Who is taking over her identity?

Or is it that everyone's memories of her have been altered?

Can the system's functions still affect the real world?

"By the way, have you finished reading the novel I recommended last time?"

A friend suddenly asked.

Yun Qiao snapped out of her daze. "Which one?"

"It's that book, 'The Domineering Young Master's Fierce Love, Where Can the Little Wife Escape To?' I was going to complain to you about it, but you didn't say a word."

Yun Qiao: ...

I almost forgot that the novel world she transmigrated to had such a ridiculous title.

"...I haven't finished reading it yet."

After returning, she never opened the novel again, for fear of time-traveling once more.

But remembering a question that had always intrigued her, she couldn't help but ask:

"How did the female protagonist's brother die in this novel?"

My friend thought for a moment and said, "It seems like it was suicide, but I'm not sure. The article only mentioned it briefly and didn't say why he committed suicide."

"suicide?"

Didn't the system say it died of illness?

Yun Qiao was a little anxious and asked again, "When did he die?"

"Oh, I don't know! This novel is a total scam!"

My friend was quite angry when she talked about it. "It was supposed to be a sweet, non-angsty story when it was first serialized. But recently the author went crazy and revised the whole thing. In the new version, there's a really annoying female supporting character! The author changed the second male lead, who originally liked the female lead, to like the female supporting character instead. I'm speechless..."

Yun Qiao frowned. A supporting female character?

Could it be the character she was wearing...?

She only read ten chapters of this novel, and hadn't even finished reading the entire premise. She hadn't read the initial version or the revised version—neither.

"So... what happened to that female supporting character later?"

"He's dead."

After a pause, my friend suddenly exclaimed, "Oh, I remember now, the female supporting character and the female lead's brother died on the same day, it seems."

Yun Qiao paused slightly in her breathing.

Was Shen Suwei's time of death the same as the time she disappeared?

Was it because she committed suicide?

Or is there some other physical reason?

The system had disappeared, and she had no way to ask any more questions.

"None of that matters. I want to talk to you about the male and female leads."

My friend got angry again when she brought this up, "In the latest version, the interaction between the male and female leads is even more complicated. The author added a career storyline for the female lead, probably because many people disliked her for being too humble, weak, and spoiled during the serialization, so the author had her dump the male lead! She even started working on her career, and they didn't get together until the finale."

"Is her career related to photography?"

"You didn't watch it, how do you know?"

Yun Qiao's brows furrowed even more.

Why does it feel like the inconsistency between the earlier and later versions is due to her appearance?

"I'm not saying anything more, the teacher's coming!"

As soon as my friend saw the teacher, he quickly went back to his seat.

Yun Qiao didn't move; she was feeling somewhat flustered.

She always thought she was following the original storyline as required by the system.

Why does it feel like the current plot has completely deviated from the original plot?

"I also want to ask—"

Yun Qiao was about to ask her friend Li Ruoyan about something, but before she could even speak, she suddenly realized that class had already started and everyone was very quiet...

The teacher on the podium is looking at her right now:

"What would you like to ask, Yunqiao?"

Yun Qiao: ...

……

After turning eighteen, I officially entered the intense and busy period of preparing for the college entrance examination.

Yunqiao had fallen behind in her studies, so in order to catch up with everyone, she studied and did exercises from dawn till dusk every day.

Never before had she felt so exhausted.

Sometimes, when she got tired of working, she would start to wonder if it was right for her to work so hard to get back home.

She even started dreaming repeatedly about the people in that world.

Dreaming of Shen Shiyu, Chi Zhou, and Li Ruoyan was alright, but it had to be Shen Suwei...

In her dream, Shen Suwei threw her onto the bed just like the night before he left her. To prevent her from escaping, he even chained her hands and feet to the bed...

What I didn't finish that day, I finished in my dream.

Yun Qiao was startled awake.

She sat up abruptly in bed, drenched in sweat and panting heavily.

This wasn't the first time Yun Qiao had dreamed of Shen Suwei. She wondered if it was because she was under too much pressure and too anxious lately that she was having these nightmares.

But she kept dreaming about Shen Suwei, which made her feel very uneasy.

As expected, Yun Qiao's unease was not without reason.

With only three months left until the college entrance examination.

The system reappeared:

【Host.】

Hearing that voice after so long, Yun Qiao was almost scared to death.

But she tried to remain calm, pretending not to hear it, ignoring it, and listening to the teacher's lecture as usual.

[Host, didn't you hear me?]

The system called out to her in her mind many times, but Yun Qiao did not respond.

She had always thought that she had to read that book to travel through time, but now it seems that even without reading the book, this broken system can still come looking for her.

The system kept bothering Yun Qiao for a whole week, but Yun Qiao didn't respond.

Finally, it couldn't hold back any longer and confessed:

[Host, please help me. If you don't, I will be punished. In severe cases, I might be formatted. You know that for artificial intelligence, formatting means death.]

We've known each other for over five years, how can you bear to see me get erased?

Yun Qiao felt a slight sarcasm in her heart.

Although I don't know what kind of busyness it is, or why I was punished.

But when it comes to being ruthless...

That's incredibly cruel of her.

She wished this damn system would die.

Unfortunately, she didn't have that ability before.

Yunqiao was overjoyed to see it being formatted.

She ignored it, no matter how much it pleaded, tried to please, or even began to reflect on and apologize for its past actions.

Yun Qiao pretended not to hear.

Although it keeps bothering her every day and greatly affects her studies.

Fortunately, it can't always contact her; it can only call out to her for one minute a day.

Each time it appeared again, Yunqiao could feel that its voice was becoming more and more halting and disjointed.

Is there a problem with the program code?

[I know you can hear me, host, are you doing this on purpose?]

Upon logging in again, the system, instead of trying to curry favor this time, directly stated:

Even if the host doesn't want to help me, shouldn't they at least consider Shen Shiyu and Li Ruoyan?

Yun Qiao paused slightly.

What happened between Shen Shiyu and Li Ruoyan?