A Journey to Another World: The System's Origins

[This chapter ties up loose ends. Paying readers had better skip it.]

"A graceful youth passed slowly by, leaving the floating world to wait upon the white clouds.

I raised my eyes and saw only scattered strangers; remembering another world, I saw the moon shining upon you."

Another world.

Ning Rongrong opened her eyes sleepily, only to find herself in unfamiliar surroundings.

The room was built differently, the decorations were different, and even the protrusion in front of her was different.

Her chest hadn't developed yet, but surely it hadn't been this small?

She reached out and felt it. Flat as a board.

Good grief.

She'd woken up, and her breasts were gone???

Yet it felt as though there was something extra between her legs...

Why would anyone stuff a fire-stoking stick inside their pants?

She slowly got up and walked over to a particularly bright-looking "bronze mirror," both astonished and afraid.

Every frown and movement was reflected in the mirror.

But it wasn't her original face.

Instead, it was the face of a graceful young man.

He was handsome beyond anything she had ever seen or heard of, so beautiful it seemed unreal.

Thick eyebrows framed sparkling eyes above a hawkish nose and thin lips. His casually styled short hair was a little tousled, revealing a bright, fair forehead.

When she pursed her lips slightly, the cheeky attempt to look cute seemed utterly adorable on this body.

This was exactly what the man of her dreams looked like—no, he was even more handsome than the one in her dreams.

Her heart couldn't help fluttering for a few seconds.

But what on earth had happened?

How had she ended up like this?

After a brief panic, Ning Rongrong discovered to her astonishment that she had become someone else.

The slap she gave herself across the face also left no doubt that she wasn't dreaming.

She really had changed, becoming a member of the opposite sex who looked about her age.

And that person was her ideal type.

But wasn't this change a little too far-fetched?

An unfamiliar world, unfamiliar people, and the handsome guy who made her heart flutter turned out to be herself. What was the point?

And what about her original world and her original self?

She'd seen the handsome guy now, so hurry up and swap their bodies back! She wanted to go find him!

Ning Rongrong tried hard to return to her original world, but nothing worked.

Suddenly, unfamiliar music rang out, and a small rectangular object on the bed began to vibrate.

There were also faint traces of water around the little object.

Ning Rongrong couldn't help blushing.

No wonder she'd slept so comfortably last night.

She carefully picked up the little object and wiped the water off it. A light flashed, and a message suddenly popped up on its screen: "Ding~"

"Congratulations on arriving on Blue Star. Your body is currently under someone else's control, and the body you currently control belongs to Qian Ran. You may use this phone to observe the person controlling your body and exercise your authority to change him."

"1. Use your authority to erase your otherworldly self, whereupon you will return to your original world.

2. Use your authority to help your otherworldly self, whereupon your otherworldly self will sweep away all opposition."

Two choices.

The brief message summed up everything Ning Rongrong wanted to know.

Then the image on the phone screen changed, showing a scene from Douluo Continent.

It was the scene of Ning Rongrong traveling to Shrek Academy alone.

As the old man at the entrance questioned her, a choice appeared:

"Would you like to assign your otherworldly self a mission?"

"Upon completing the mission, your otherworldly self will receive a generous reward."

"Your authority: decide whether to let the person from another world bind your identity."

"If binding fails, you will return to Douluo Continent, and the person from another world-Qian Ran-will die immediately."

"Oh? So the person using my body on Douluo Continent is named Qian Ran?" Ning Rongrong understood now. His name didn't really matter, because if she chose to exercise her authority, he would die immediately, and she could go back too.

But did the price really have to be his immediate death?

Ning Rongrong had grown up pampered, exceptionally proud and hot-tempered, but faced with a stranger who had never hurt her, how could she bear to erase him just like that?

But...

But if she didn't erase him, she would never be able to return to Douluo Continent.

What a difficult choice.

"Do I have many opportunities to use my authority to erase him?"

After agonizing over it for a long time, Ning Rongrong cautiously asked the system.

She gave it some thought. Erasing the person named Qian Ran outright would be too cruel.

And if she still had opportunities to erase him later, she could wait until she grew sick of him or became dissatisfied with him. There was no need to rush.

"Yes. You may exercise your authority until the person from another world breaks free of the system's restraints."

The phone notified her.

"Sigh! Fine, I guess. Who told you to be so handsome?" Ning Rongrong seemed to have decided what to do. "I'll let him live a couple more episodes, then. Let him bind my identity."

Standing in front of the mirror and continuing to examine her current appearance, Ning Rongrong ultimately chose to go easy on him.

After all, if she returned to Douluo Continent too soon, she would never get to see such a handsome young man again.

And so, her self on Douluo Continent—that Qian Ran-successfully bound her identity and entered Shrek Academy with ease.

As if to celebrate, or perhaps...

Ning Rongrong on Douluo Continent happily rubbed her body, eager to rub every part of it.

This left the real Ning Rongrong furious.

"Can I erase him now??"

"Can I?"

"You filthy pervert!"

"No, you can't." The system notified her.

Damn it!!!

But there would be plenty of chances later.

Just you wait, Qian... handsome boy.

Still angry, Ning Rongrong watched every stir on Douluo Continent through the phone.

There was Zhao Wuji's test, Ma Hongjun's lustfulness, Flender's obstruction, Dai Mubai's provocation, and so on...

Over the next few days.

Apart from eating, sleeping, and looking in the mirror, she spent all her time watching the handsome boy.

To her surprise, she had even greater authority to influence her self in the original world.

For example, she could set hidden missions, and if her otherworldly self completed them, she could issue rewards in the system's place.

As for the rewards, she always maxed them out within the limits set by the system.

For instance, she could award between 1,000 and 50,000 Identity Points.

Then it would definitely be 50,000 Identity Points.

That way, the handsome boy could do as he pleased on Douluo Continent while using her body.

But Ning Rongrong seemed to have forgotten one thing.

The stronger her self on Douluo Continent became, the more likely it was that her current self would be unable to return there.

But what of it?

Qian Ran's handsome face alone, and the way he looked out for her at every turn on Douluo Continent, seemed to make it worth doing.

"He actually understands me and that world so well."

Over those few days, her heart fluttered more and more.

Though there were also many times when Ning Rongrong felt the urge to erase Qian Ran immediately.

Of course, most of those times were because Qian Ran couldn't keep his hands to himself.

On the phone screen.

At that moment, Qian Ran had nearly killed the frail Yu Xiaogang with a single strike of his sword.

Ning Rongrong couldn't help exclaiming to herself in surprise, "Good! That's what a rotten man like him deserves, acting so arrogant and looking down on everyone.

He's even worse than me!

To reward you, I'll give you something!"

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