I Really Did Transmigrate...

The uproar over the "School Beauty's sudden death" gradually died down.

But Li Yao was still in a terrible mood.

The School Beauty had been his closest friend. They had grown up together and gotten along wonderfully. Though her looks had earned her the title of "School Beauty" from their classmates, she was actually as carefree and rough-and-ready as any guy—a tomboy who could tie up her hair and hit the basketball court. And she was pretty good at it, too! Her grades were excellent, and the way she treated people always made them feel at ease.

She should have spent all four years of college shining brightly, then stepped into society and embraced a beautiful, fulfilling life.

But all of that had come to an abrupt end before death.

Death...

Li Yao clutched his head. For the first time, he felt the agony of watching a vibrant life vanish before his eyes. The brutal feeling of something beautiful being silently shattered by reality made his chest ache.

This was probably what tragedy meant.

Suddenly, his phone vibrated, and a message appeared on the screen.

Lin Xiaowei: "Is this Li Yao? Are you there? Come out, quick!"

Li Yao's already awful mood instantly exploded.

He picked up his phone and replied with a dark expression, "This is my deceased friend's account. Isn't it inappropriate for you to steal it...? Take my advice..."

Lin Xiaowei: "I really am dead..."

Why didn't she just say she'd ascended and become an immortal?

He stared with dead fish eyes and replied, "Keep this up and I'm calling the police."

Though he had no idea whether the police would handle something like this.

Lin Xiaowei: "The police probably won't handle this, right?"

Oh, so she had some nerve!

He was already preparing to ask an upperclassman from the computer science department to dig up the other party's IP address, track her down, and pay her a **** kind of visit.

Then the other party said, "You're Li Yao, I'm Lin Xiaowei. We've known each other since childhood. We live in Jinyang Residential Area. You're in Building 8, Room 301, and I'm in Building 6, Room 202. I have a younger sister. Want me to recite my old ID number and phone number for you too?"

Li Yao was instantly stunned.

Were scammers this capable nowadays?

Had she investigated his background so thoroughly? Or had that idiot Lin Xiaowei saved all this information in her QQ Account? So he replied, "Then recite them."

Lin Xiaowei: "..."

Negative emotions from Lin Xiaowei +666...

Lin Xiaowei: "Two years ago, the big vase in your house was broken by me. It wasn't A Hua."

Li Yao: "That idiot Lin Xiaowei even saved that in her QQ Account?"

Then hadn't he taken that beating for nothing? A Hua was their family's white Persian Garfield cat. When it broke something, his parents couldn't bear to take it out on the cat, so they gave Li Yao a thorough beating instead. Their reasoning was: Who told you not to keep an eye on A Hua? You unfilial brat!

Back then, Li Yao had been full of question marks. What the hell did that have to do with him? But it turned out the real culprit had been Lin Xiaowei all along!

His already terrible mood became even more complicated after this.

Li Yao was lost in his tangled emotions, but the other party was displeased. "Who are you calling an idiot? I'll kill you!"

She even copied the catchphrase pretty well.

Li Yao: "My friend, you're really deep in character, huh."

Lin Xiaowei: "Why the hell won't you believe me? This is driving me crazy!"

Like hell he would believe her!

She was dead, and then a QQ Account that had been inactive for half a month suddenly popped up to tell him, "I'm Lin Xiaowei, I transmigrated..." What came next? That she had found treasure in another world but was short two hundred yuan for travel expenses, so he should wire it to her?

Could you even use RMB in another world? But just then, the other party sent him a short video.

In the video, a girl who looked exactly like Lin Xiaowei said angrily, "I really am Lin Xiaowei, you bastard! Do you believe me now?! Sending short videos takes a ton of energy, okay? Damn it!"

Li Yao froze.

Surely no one would go so far as to make a special-effects video just to scam someone, right? And finding a twin to fool him... that would cost way too much. Besides, what would be the point?

It wasn't like his family owned a mine!

Li Yao watched the video over and over. The Lin Xiaowei in it... seemed even prettier now. Her originally black hair had turned dark gold, setting off her fair, radiant skin and making her look even more dazzling. Her clothes were strange too: a linen robe trimmed in silver, with strange vine patterns embroidered around the collar and cuffs.

Li Yao was a little dazed.

The worldview he had built over so many years came crashing down before that tiny video, shattering into pieces.

She had really transmigrated...

And she was even contacting him through QQ Account.

Li Yao lay on his back and stared at the ceiling, feeling that everything was absurdly surreal. After a long while, he finally asked, "Doggo, did you really transmigrate?"

Lin Xiaowei: "Really."

Li Yao: "How the hell did you transmigrate?"

Lin Xiaowei: "How the hell would I know..."

Li Yao: "Can you still come back?"

Lin Xiaowei: "...How would I come back? You said I was deceased. Should I come back as a corpse and scare everyone? Though that's not really the problem. Once I advance to Legendary and can travel across countless worlds, maybe I can find my way back."

Li Yao: "How long would that take?"

Lin Xiaowei: "Conservatively, around two hundred years."

Li Yao: "Trash. You transmigrated, so shouldn't you at least have a protagonist template? And it'll still take two hundred years?" He quickly slipped into the usual mode of casually chatting in a group.

Lin Xiaowei: "Go die, you bastard! Two hundred years is already incredible, okay?!"

Li Yao: "Forget it, let's not talk about that. Haven't you contacted your family? Or are you afraid of scaring them?"

Li Yao and Lin Xiaowei were very close, but she also had several close girlfriends. Hadn't she contacted them? Or was it that... women's friendships were unreliable? Thinking of that, Li Yao felt a little smug. Lin Xiaowei: "I was afraid of scaring them too, but I still couldn't resist contacting them. None of them replied after I sent the messages. You were the only one who answered."

Li Yao: "..."

That stung a little, bro.

It felt like a beautiful girl had sent him a love letter asking to meet on the sports field, but when he got there, he found the entire field packed with classmates... Oh, no, it was more like the girl telling him after he arrived, "Oh my god, I sent love letters to so many people, but you were the only one who came."

That hurt even more.

Li Yao rubbed his face and finally remembered the important matter. This was a cross-world chat, for fuck's sake. Why were they just sitting here talking nonsense?

So he hurriedly asked, "You crossed servers to find me. Is something really important going on?"

A new seedling has sprouted. Please take good care of it, everyone. Thanks~