[If this book fails, this is goodbye forever.]
[May the world be free of illness and disaster.]
[May the motherland prosper and flourish.]
[May everyone live an easy life.]
"Liu, you actually dared to give my bonus to your little lover? I quit."
Liu smirked.
"You quit? Plenty of people will take your place. If there's one thing our Dragon Nation doesn't lack, it's college livestock. Go back to work like a good boy, and I can let bygones be bygones."
"Don't forget, I'm the director."
"You'll regret this!" Ye Xuan slammed the door behind him with a bang.
"Regret it? Who do you think you are? You're just a lead technician making twenty thousand a month, and you signed a non-compete. You've got nowhere to run."
Back at his workstation, Ye Xuan finally smiled. Keeping up that act had been exhausting.
Without hesitation, he deleted all the data on his work computer, restored it to factory settings, and left the company.
The project had reached the final handover, which was why Liu had dared to pluck the ripe peach. But it didn't matter.
Now everything was gone. Even if the data was recovered, they wouldn't make the handover deadline. The one who took the money could figure out the breach-of-contract penalty; he was leaving first.
As for Ye Xuan breaking the law, they'd have to find him first.
If they couldn't find him, wouldn't the company have to deal with it themselves?
Ye Xuan had no car, no house, and lived paycheck to paycheck. His parents had given their house to his older brother and their savings to his younger brother. After that, Ye Xuan had cut off contact with them, and they were too ashamed to contact him themselves.
If compensation was needed, they could sell his Genshin Impact account. Maybe it would fetch a little money.
"Doubao, automatically play my favorite song."
"'I heard you say (hey, what are you saying?), watch Top Esports play overseas (ah, Top Esports again?), by the roadside~ a pile of crap, Zeus slaps them spinning like tops...'"
"Shut up! My favorite song is one I've listened to since childhood. How could it be this one? Doubao, you'd better watch out for a lawyer's letter."
"Esteemed VIP user, you listened to this song 730 times in one year, while you've only listened to the other song three times this year."
"You're slandering me! Slandering me! I meant that song, and you deliberately played this one even though you knew. Again!"
"'Before the world ended, I seized the last bolt of lightning, my soul trembled, another cycle of a hundred thousand years...'"
"Good, good! Laughing to the heavens, I stride out the door. How could one of my kind be a common weed? I, Ye Xuan, am off!"
"Running away is justified, and transmigration is no crime."
"Holy crap, where the hell did I end up? Is this still Earth?"
"Fifth Descender, could you get off me?"
A clear, cold female voice interrupted Ye Xuan's thoughts. Her tone carried anger and a trace of grievance.
Only then did he realize that beneath him was a voluptuous beauty with white hair and golden eyes.
He recognized her.
"Ronava! My Chovy, how did I end up in a whole different dimension?"
Earth's consciousness gave him the answer.
It turned out that, back when he had traveled into the past, on the nights of his older and younger brothers' weddings,
he had turned them both into true princes among fake eunuchs, then stepped up without hesitation to handle the remaining physical labor himself.
As a result, Earth's consciousness had judged him capable of changing the course of history.
So it had expelled him.
What an injustice! Ye Xuan was such a good person.
Although his older and younger brothers could no longer have children, hadn't he given them a child?
His parents had said it themselves: they were all family.
What was his belonged to his older and younger brothers, and what belonged to his older and younger brothers was his.
So his brothers' wives were his, and his children belonged to his brothers. Wasn't that just what they'd said?
He had to admit, his brothers had excellent taste.
It was just a pity that he could no longer send food and knowledge into the past. Ye Xuan had spent most of his salary on that.
But even without Ye Xuan's help, they could still carve out a road to the heavens...
Every time it expelled a mischievous child, it was like splitting up the family. Just because Ye Xuan's parents hadn't given him anything didn't mean Earth's consciousness wouldn't. It treated every child equally.
It had given Ye Xuan an All-Heavens Chat Group, containing the coordinates of many worlds.
Teyvat wasn't a good place either. If Ye Xuan couldn't get by, he could simply find safe coordinates and use his own ability to run away.
It had also given him a system that collected wish power to exchange for random abilities, making up for his weakness of having no offensive abilities.
"Fifth Descender, you know me, so why don't you get off me already?!"
Having his thoughts interrupted by Ronava again, Ye Xuan was irritated. He had a certain sense of the greater good, instilled in him since childhood, but that didn't mean he had private morals.
"Did I say you could speak?!"
Ye Xuan slapped Ronava's butt with a smack.
Ronava's eyes widened, and she stared at him blankly.
"How dare you! I am Celestia's Ruler of Death! Even if you are a Descender, how can you do such outrageous things to me?!"
Ye Xuan laughed disdainfully. "Some Ruler of Death you are. Junior Va, where's your authority, then? Has it already been taken back? You're just an ordinary person now, and a severely injured one at that. One more word and I'll breed you."
Junior Va clearly wasn't a good name.
"Fifth Descender!"
Ye Xuan's gaze turned cold.
"Ronava, I already warned you not to disturb me. It seems I need to teach you a lesson. But I'm not a dictator. I'll give you two choices: one, acknowledge me as your master; two, I'll give you a little Ronava right now."
"Acknowledge you as my master? What kind of joke is that? My master is the Heavenly Principles."
"Phanes is an amateur. What does he know about governing Teyvat? You worked hard for thousands of years, and what did you get? Your authority was taken away, wasn't it?"
Seeing that Ronava was still glaring at him fiercely, Ye Xuan couldn't be bothered to say more.
As the saying went:
Spring's beauty was an ocean, passion thick as mud; while the weather was warm and mild... they savored every pleasure of love.
...It left one as if drunk. However many times... how could wind and rain come so easily?
After a night of passion, Ronava no longer resisted Ye Xuan as strongly as she had at first, but even at the end, she refused to yield.
Ye Xuan did intend to help Ronava recover her authority, but as long as she didn't acknowledge him as her master, she might take revenge on him once she recovered her strength.
"Ronava, you wouldn't be the first of the Four Shades to acknowledge someone else as your master. Didn't Asmoday take someone else as her new master too?"
"I can help you recover your strength, and in the future, I can also help you remove the restrictions the Heavenly Principles placed on your use of your authority."
"You've worked diligently for thousands of years. You're tired, and it's time to rest. You should live freely for yourself for once."
For the first time in thousands of years, someone cared whether she was tired. Ronava couldn't help softening a little, but she still said stubbornly:
"I'll supervise everything you do in Teyvat."
That settled it.
Delighted, Ye Xuan stroked Ronava's fair, tender cheek.
"We've come this far. Can't you be a little more honest?"
For the first time, a conflicted expression appeared on Ronava's face. Reluctantly, she called him, "Master."
"Mm. Your master will help you recover your strength right now."
Ye Xuan held Ronava in his arms and shouted, "Running away is justified, and transmigration is no crime!"
Time began to flow backward, and the story returned to the moment when it had all begun.