I transmigrated into the villain's white moonlight, but the protagonist is my brother.

Chapter 148 New World

The city center is filled with skyscrapers, and as the most prosperous metropolis in the country, one of the buildings in the commercial district is still extremely eye-catching.

This is the headquarters of a Fortune 500 company. The company was founded twenty years ago and operates as an online bank and payment provider, with over a billion users.

Of course, these websites that are tied to funding are subjected to hundreds of millions of hacker attacks every day, and Xie Yan's department is responsible for maintaining network security.

Xie Yan works in a large factory and earns tens of thousands of yuan a month. She bought a house and a car outright years ago. With her fair skin and beautiful appearance, she is the object of many men's fantasies in the company.

She has outstanding work ability and is about to be promoted to team leader at a young age. Her annual salary is about to reach a million, but recently she has been making frequent mistakes for some reason.

Wearing work clothes, Yang Jiaqi held a water cup and looked at the woman making coffee in the break room with some concern. "Xie Yan, are you really okay? Did something happen to you?"

The person in front of me was wearing an ordinary shirt and jacket, with his hair tied up with a hair clip. He was slender, with fair skin and delicate features. Even the thin lenses on his nose reflected a cold light.

Even the most casual outfit, paired with this face and this aura, can effortlessly dominate the scene.

The glasses, which weren't too strong, covered some of the dark circles under her eyes. Xie Yan lowered her eyelids and said, "It's nothing, I'm just under a lot of pressure."

As she spoke, she poured three packets of instant espresso into her cup, seemingly unafraid of caffeine poisoning.

Yang Jiaqi frowned. She had noticed that Xie Yan had been drinking coffee like water and treating the company like home lately. Even workaholics weren't as driven as her. This was too exaggerated. If this continued, she might die young.

"Actually, I think you have a very good chance of winning this job competition. Just don't overwork yourself."

"Well, thank you."

Xie Yan thanked her, but that didn't stop her from tilting her head back and gulping down the bitter, sour coffee before returning to her office to work like crazy.

She truly treated the company like home; she had to constantly fill her mind with work, otherwise she might think she was going crazy.

Xie Qingyu disappeared.

Or rather, Xie Qingyu doesn't exist in this world at all.

No one except her had ever seen Xie Qingyu. He wasn't at school, he wasn't in any old group photos, and he wasn't even on the household registration book.

The house I bought with a loan originally had more than 20 years left to pay off, but now it's fully paid off, and the balance in my bank account is several times larger than before.

It was as if all the tuition fees she had paid for Xie Qingyu over the years, and all the money she had spent, had returned to her card intact.

Xie Yan couldn't help but recall what the system had said, that it would let her live a life without any burdens.

So, Xie Qingyu is that burden?

Perhaps she did have such thoughts during the days when she borrowed money to pay for her high school education and had to tutor him, resulting in her parents being called in and her being scolded by the teacher. But she gritted her teeth and got through it back then, and he is no longer like that now.

The company cafeteria serves three meals a day, and also has a gym and swimming pool. However, employees are usually too busy to use them, so only the cafeteria, which has decent food, is used more often.

Xie Yan sat alone in a corner of the restaurant, quickly shoveling rice into her mouth, rushing back to her office to modify a new piece of program code.

However, things didn't go as planned, as the group of people eating nearby still noticed her.

Xie Yan has a slender frame. When she sits there, her shoulders and back are straight and relaxed. Her neck is fair and long. Watching her eat with a cold and expressionless face is a very beautiful experience.

"Hey Lao Yuan, do you think you're confident about your performance review this time? I think Xie Yan has gone crazy lately, working late into the night without even going home. Is she putting on an act for the boss?"

The man called Lao Yuan was actually only in his thirties. He had a few more years of work experience than Xie Yan, but their achievements were about the same, and he was even slightly overshadowed. Naturally, he wanted to seize this rare opportunity for promotion.

only……

Yuan Jie glanced at Xie Yan's cold and beautiful eyes again, then took a big gulp of cold water. "To be honest, I want to pursue her. If I can win her over, I'd be happy to give her this opportunity."

Xie Yan is just too perfect.

She is beautiful, capable, and has a high income. She is an orphan with no family ties, and most importantly, she doesn't have a materialistic mother-in-law who demands exorbitant dowries.

She's practically every man's dream girl.

Although she was a bit aloof, isn't it more interesting to conquer a woman like that?

Yuan Jie couldn't even imagine how warm and happy he would feel if he finally got home after a long day at get off work and saw Xie Yan with their adorable child, having prepared a table full of dishes for him.

Even if Xie Yan becomes the group leader, it won't matter, because it's all for their family after all.

He had even thought of names for their child, preferably a boy, and named him Yuan Aoxuan.

The person opposite was initially startled, but then realized it wasn't entirely incomprehensible.

As the company's most sought-after woman, which man hasn't harbored fantasies about Xie Yan?

However, if a woman is too outstanding, it can deter men, so there aren't many people who actually dare to pursue her.

So he watched excitedly as Yuan Jie bought a cup of milk tea and walked towards Xie Yan. Many people around them sensed the gossip and turned to look.

However, just two minutes later, the slightly hot milk tea was completely splashed onto Yuan Jie's face.

Light brown liquid dripped down his hair and face, soaking him. Yuan Jie immediately stood up, his face flushed and furious, "Are you crazy?! You're doing me a favor by pursuing me, don't be so ungrateful!!"

Xie Yan slowly raised her hand to adjust the glasses on her nose, her light-colored lips curving into a mocking arc. Her beauty was calm and restrained, and her voice, though not loud, was very penetrating.

"That's still better than some people trying to touch my hand with just a cup of milk tea, openly acting like a hooligan at the company, and even asking me to sell my house and partner with you to take out a loan to buy a house. Do you think I can't see through your little schemes? Can you stop looking down on everyone with your 250 IQ?"

Xie Yan looked at the square-shaped bald man in front of her, who was 1.7 meters tall and weighed 170 pounds, and felt extremely disgusted.

"Xie Yan! Don't go too far! You believe me or not, if you dare to insult me ​​like that, you'll be in big trouble!!"

Xie Yan picked up her half-eaten plate and stood up. "Then you can eat some of the bad fruit. And please don't yell at me, okay? I've been scared by dogs before."

"you!!!"

The two were arguing fiercely by the wall, and Yuan Jie's disheveled appearance, covered in milk tea, was quite obvious, so people unknowingly approached and gathered around.

As more people gathered, Yuan Jie became increasingly embarrassed. Caught in a bind, he could only grit his teeth and lash out, as if the louder he shouted, the more justified he was, and even resorted to physical violence.

The result was that Xie Yan threw a bowl at him, sending him straight to the emergency room.

Her swift and decisive actions were almost frightening, and many of her male compatriots couldn't help but feel sorry for her.

However, the nature of this incident was quite serious, and the company's final decision was to disqualify both individuals from the competition, while Xie Yan, as the perpetrator, was suspended from her job for a full two months.

Then she did something that shocked everyone.

Xie Yan resigned.

She didn't pack much when she left; a backpack was enough, just like she always did after get off work, leaving casually.

Returning to her empty home, Xie Yan looked at the cold and messy house and suddenly felt lost.

Now she has no mortgage pressure, no pressure to support her family, and enough savings for her to live comfortably, but she doesn't know what to do with herself.

Then Xie Yan bought a plane ticket, transferred to a high-speed train, took a bus, and traveled a long distance back to her hometown to sweep her grandmother's grave.

My grandmother lived here her whole life and was always reluctant to leave, even though the village was already desolate and unrecognizable. She wanted to rest in peace on this land.

Xie Yan stood in front of the small mound on the back hill, looking at the tall stone tablet, and suddenly felt very powerless.

She sat cross-legged in front of the monument, pressing her forehead against it, just like when she was a child and would play with her grandmother, touching heads together, which always made her very happy.

It was hot then, but it's cold now.

It was cold and hard.

"grandmother……"

On the desolate back mountain, a calm and strong woman lowered her head, her expression unreadable, but on the ground beneath her, drops of water splashed, creating small puddles.

"Grandma, I miss you so much, Grandma, when will you come to visit me in my dreams..."

"I really miss you..."

When she finished speaking, her voice was already choked with emotion.

In the days that followed, Xie Yan made various attempts, but still couldn't muster any interest in anything.

She doesn't have to work now, and she's so bored that she's constantly overthinking things. She probably sensed that something was wrong with her, so she went to see a psychologist.

The doctor asked her to talk about everything that made her anxious or sad, so Xie Yan did.

"...You mean, you and your brother were transported into a novel, and now your brother hasn't returned, so you're very sad?"

The kind-faced middle-aged doctor summarized Xie Yan's words with some difficulty.

Xie Yan nodded calmly, her expression composed and composed. "Yes, and there are many people in the book that I can't bear to part with, including my mother, my friends, classmates, teachers, and I even have a boyfriend there."

The doctor looked at the beautiful but pale woman in front of him, his expression hardened, and he lowered his head to write a few words on the form.

Paranoid tendencies.

He frowned, feeling it wasn't detailed enough, and added a few more words.

The patient exhibits severe paranoia and requires hospitalization for observation and treatment.

After a conversation, Xie Yan refused to be hospitalized and went home with the medicine prescribed by the doctor.

From the doctor's tactful words, Xie Yan could roughly guess that the doctor might be mistaking her for a mentally ill person who was talking nonsense.

But she wasn't lying.

Xie Qingyu must be a real person, not just someone's fantasy.

The time she spent with Shen Yan must have been real, after all, she still remembers many details about Shen Yan over the past ten years.

But the question is, how does the system have the ability to erase the traces of a living person from the real world?

Is this really reasonable?

A two-dimensional world defeating a three-dimensional world?

Xie Yan was completely baffled.

She couldn't sleep at home all day, racking her brains over this problem, and now she even needs to take medication to fall asleep.

Finally, one day, Xie Yan had an epiphany.

If the system cannot manipulate the real world, then that world is fake.

The system wove a beautiful dream for her, one that she believed was free from burdens and worries about food and clothing.

But as a high-tech product, it still doesn't understand the complex emotions of humans.

When reality contradicts memory, and everyone denies your memories, a person can go insane.

Even though Xie Yan had made a firm judgment, she still couldn't help but marvel at the realism of this world.

A gentle breeze caresses the skin, morning dewdrops on leaves, the rising sun, and neon lights at night.

Xie Yan went up to the rooftop one night.

The fastest way to wake up from a dream is to fall.

The moment I took that step, the world seemed to hang upside down, the fierce wind howled past my ears, and the feeling of weightlessness was disorienting.

A familiar voice rang out, sounding somewhat helpless, "Sigh, I'm really fed up. What exactly do you want...?"

Before Xie Yan could even catch her breath, she had already fallen to the ground. However, like a fish falling into water, she landed smoothly on the flat street and returned to the familiar white expanse.

At this moment, most of her courage seemed to have vanished. Cold sweat dripped down Xie Yan's forehead, and she simply sat down on the ground without any regard for her image, her legs feeling weak.

Ten months.

She lived alone in that fictional perfect world for ten months.

It took her nearly a year to finally understand the true meaning of the world and to make up her mind to break through and wake up.

A fluffy ball of light landed in front of Xie Yan, seemingly agitated. [Are you crazy? I don't know whether to call you brave or insane!!]

Xie Yan was finally certain that it was the system playing tricks instead of her own delusions. Enraged, she grabbed the ball of light and squeezed it hard, gritting her teeth.

"What are you doing, you little bastard?! Why did you give me a fake one?!"

The system yelled, "I've been promoted to a main god! I'll create a world to practice! It's all the same, isn't it?!"

Besides Xie Yan, the disappointing host, the system actually has many other excellent hosts who have worked with it and achieved outstanding results.

Just then, it received news of its promotion, so it stopped being concerned about points and analyzed and enhanced Xie Yan's original world data, generating a complete world for her. It also thoughtfully freed her from burdens and loans, and gave her a generous amount of savings.

It thought it was an absolutely amazing system, but Xie Yan was so ungrateful! She even refused to live in that wonderful world!

Humans are so complex!!

Xie Yan was both angry and helpless, so she squeezed the system like a toy for a long time before reluctantly letting go.

"You've lied to me about something so big, so tell me what to do now? Is it too late for me to go home now? I mean, my real home."

The system had barely escaped Xie Yan's clutches when it immediately flew two meters away. [To tell you the truth, as long as neither Xie Qingyu nor you complete the task, time in your world will stand still. Anyway, passersby won't notice. I didn't tell you before because I wanted to earn points faster.]

Xie Yan pursed her lips, "So no matter how long it took Xie Qingyu to complete the mission, time will only pass normally once we all return?"

"Yes, so why don't you continue coming here? I have extensive privileges now and can use your original data to create an identity for you. However, we will no longer be in a host-system relationship. I'll be very busy afterward, managing about twenty worlds, so I won't be here with you as often."

The ball of light drifted over again, and Xie Yan unconsciously reached out and pinched it.

"Okay, so be it."

As soon as he finished speaking, the white space gradually dissipated.

The system's voice sounded again.

Oh, by the way, there's one more thing I need to remind you of.

Now, it's ten years from now.