As Xiaoyun stood outside Leyan's bedroom, he gently knocked on the door.
"Babe, can I come in?"
"Go away."
Seeing the door remained shut, Xiaoyun knocked on the door again.
"Please, I just want to talk."
After waiting for a bit, Leyan finally opened the door. But she stood right by the doorway, not letting Xiaoyun enter inside.
"What do you want from me?" Leyan asked coldly.
"Leyan, I just want to talk——"
"We can talk right here."
Seeing Leyan adamant about her choice, Xiaoyun didn't ask again. Instead, he decided to say what was in his heart the whole time.
"I love you, Leyan... I had loved you ever since the day we met——"
"And? If you love me, are you willing to give up Yuqi?"
"I..."
Seeing Xiaoyun hesitating for a second, Leyan immediately knew what Xiaoyun's answer was.
"I'm just an old hag that no one wants. Just leave me be and go be with Yuqi——"
Just as Leyan was about to close the door, Xiaoyun stopped it with his foot, preventing it from being shut.
"Babe, I don't care if you are old. I love you because you're Leyan. Please, give me a chance."
"A chance? My body is already in its forties, and you're still as young as when we were married. I don't have a second chance like you. Just go away."
Leyan slammed the door closed despite his foot still blocking it. But Xiaoyun wasn't done as he knew Leyan was listening.
"Leyan, I told you. I don't care if your body is old or young. If you think that just because you are getting old, you are absolutely wrong.
If you want proof, remember the first night I got here? I was so turned on by your body that I couldn't even stop cumming inside——"
Leyan finally opened the door again, dragged Xiaoyun inside, and slammed the door closed.
"What do you want from me? Why can't you just leave me alone?" Leyan asked angrily as she grabbed Xiaoyun by the collar.
"I want to say I still love you. You're still just as attractive as the day I met you——"
"Songming, you don't understand. It doesn't matter if you don't care that I'm old. I don't get the choice to live with you anymore——"
"Who said that?"
As Xiaoyun interrupted Leyan from talking, she finally let go of his collar, sitting down on the bed as her eyes stared towards the floor.
"Just because my body is attractive now to you, it will change... And you're still always as young as you always are."
"Leyan, our love is beyond just looks. Even if you're full of wrinkles and sagging, I still love you."
A short silence fell into the room as neither side wanted to speak up until Leyan broke it with a plea.
"You can accept me... But I can't accept myself. Please, just be with Yuqi. I'm past my prime——"
Watching Leyan returning to arguing about her look, an idea popped into Xiaoyun's head.
An ambitious idea that he never really tested on besides himself. Something so great that it could end up disastrous.
However, his mind couldn't imagine the thought of losing Leyan. The love of his life falls into someone else hands.
Without wasting any time, he suddenly lunges forward, pinning her down to the bed and grabbing her arms.
"What are you——"
Before Leyan could ask what he was trying to do, a sudden flashbang prevented her from seeing anything.
---
By the time she could see again, she could suddenly feel her body slowly changing. The small wrinkles throughout her skin started to disappear.
Looking down, she could see the skin on her arms and legs becoming rejuvenated back to its youthful, silk-like texture.
Her hair began to grow fuller and longer, gradually returning to its former lushness. It was almost as if her body was being time-traveled back.
Every part of the body was being filled up with energy. From her toes all the way up to her head.
Even her internal organs, like her heart, felt more energetic than before. Everything was now completely different.
At least compared to what she looked like just a few seconds ago.
---
"What... How did I change so much?"
Leyan's eyes were in absolute shock as the full-body mirror by the closet revealed a strange young woman she had never seen before.
But she quickly realized it wasn't a strange young woman. It was simply her younger self after she recovered from giving birth to Nami.
"Songming, you——"
Just as Leyan turns around to check on Xiaoyun, he suddenly drops forward onto the floor and lets go of her hand.
"Honey?"
Leyan immediately rushed down to the floor. Her face didn't seem too worried, as her mind initially thought he was playing some sort of prank.
However, the lack of response from his body at all started to make her a little nervous. More so than when she confessed the truth earlier.
"Honey, this isn't funny. Come on, get up."
As Leyan put her finger on Xiaoyun's neck, there were zero pulses. There was no sign of breathing from his body at all.
"Honey, wake up. Please don't scare me like this. I-I won't get mad anymore. Please, I won't complain anymore."
Tears began falling from Leyan's face as regrets began to set in. All of this could have been avoided if she just never complained at all.
"Honey, please! Don't leave me again... I love you, honey! Please wake up. I'm begging you. Come back, please!
I don't care if I look young anymore. I-I'm fine with looking old. Please, just come back. I don't want to be alone again."
As Leyan's crying voice grew louder and louder, the suit was now soaking wet from the sheer amount of tears dropping down.
"You bastard! Why did you leave me again? What's the point of making me young if you're just going to die like this?
I'd rather stay old forever, please. I don't want to grow old alone. I swear I'll never complain again.
Please, just come back to me. I'm begging you——"
Seeing Xiaoyun with no sign of waking up, a surge of guilt started creeping inside her head.
Thoughts of her being the husband's killer flashed into her mind. The same conspiracy that was rapidly rumored in public in the past.
She had killed her husband, not for wealth as the conspiracy people thought, but for her looks.
"I killed Songming. I killed Xiaoyun... I killed my husband... I killed my son——"
Just as Leyan was contemplating in her head what to do next, the door suddenly slammed open.
"Babe? Mom? Why is Xiaoyun on the floor?"
Yuqi immediately rushed over to his body and checked the pulse, only to find out all of his life vitals were gone.
"I-I don't know... He was holding my hand, and I suddenly got younger. And then he just collapsed, and his pulse... is gone."
Leyan looked more and more depressed as her hands began shaking, disgusted by what she had caused to her husband.
Meanwhile, Yuqi's mind suddenly came to ease. She didn't seem to be stressed at all as she gently lifted Xiaoyun to the bed.
"Mom, Xiaoyun isn't dead... When he was bitten, he lost his pulse as well. He's just asleep for a bit."
Hearing Yuqi's response, the sobbing stopped as Leyan immediately went towards her with hope.
"Wait, really? You aren't just lying to me?"
"Why would I lie about that? I think he is just exhausted from... Making you look so young?"
Yuqi suggested an uncertainty in her voice. Her eyes filled with curiosity as she examined Leyan's look.
"Anyway, I'm sure he just reached his limit. He'll probably be back up around a day later. Let's leave some space for him...
Trust me, Mom, he's absolutely fine. I experienced the same worry as you when he first fell dead like this."
As Yuqi tried to push Leyan out into the hallway with her, she quickly noticed the worried look on Leyan's face.
"Are you sure? I can——"
"Oh my gosh, Mom, you look so beautiful. I never knew you looked this hot when you were young." Yuqi complimented as she tried to distract her.
"Thanks..."
---
A few seconds later...
As Leyan and Yuqi stood in the hallway, an awkward silence appeared between the two of them as neither of them wanted to speak up.
"Mom... I want to talk to you about something." Yuqi quietly whispered, breaking the silence between them.
"What is it, Qiqi?"
"Do you want to... share Xiaoyun?"
Leyan's face blushed a little as they both looked over to the side, their eyes both avoiding eye contact at the same time.
"What? No. I'm your mom, Yuqi... I can't share the same husband as you. That is such a ridiculous idea. And he's your dad, too."
Leyan instantly rejected the offer as her mind still couldn't get over the fact that her daughter had fallen in love with her husband.
"So? Xiaoyun is your son, and I don't see you keeping your distance away from him——"
"It's a different situation. Yuqi, you are too young to understand——"
"How is it different? All I see is we both love him, and he loves both of us... He's clearly in pain because he cannot pick one of us."
Yuqi paused for a second, then continued.
"He might just leave us again if we force him to pick one of us."
"What do you mean again? What leaving?" Leyan curiously asked, her mind unable to understand the reasoning behind it.
"Nami told me earlier today how Xiaoyun tried to leave because he felt too guilty after lying to us...
I'm afraid he might do the same thing and try leaving again if he feels like picking one of us will hurt our feelings."
Hearing Nami's name gave Leyan a little bit of trust in Yuqi's words, but she was still a little hesitant.
"How does she know that?"
"She got a bunch of goodbye letters that he wrote that night. If you don't trust me, you can ask Mimi later."
After a short consideration, Leyan took Yuqi's word as truth.
"I trust you... But can you give me a second to think?"
As the two stood still in silence, Yuqi waited patiently for her answer, not letting her leave without giving one out.
"I... Fine. I guess we share him, then. This is so stupid, the worst idea ever..."
Leyan murmured the last part to herself, her face blushing red from embarrassment as she still couldn't accept the thought of sharing a husband with her daughter.
"Then we're sisters now... Anyway, Mom, you are so young and beautiful now! I bet if we both stand in the street, people will think you are just my older sister."
Yuqi excitedly grabbed Leyan by the hand, making her feel a little uncomfortable as she still hadn't moved past all the grudges between them.
"Really? Do I really look that young?"
Leyan asked curiously, letting Yuqi move closer as she could tell her daughter was giving her a staircase to save faces.
"Yeah, really. Here, let's have a closer look in the restroom."
The two walked straight to the mirror, which revealed two young women with very similar-looking faces.
"Wow, I really do look so much younger..."
Leyan moved closer to carefully examine her face, which was silk smooth as she gently rubbed her hand over it.
"Hey, Mom, you said you had sex with... both Dad and Xiaoyun, right?" Yuqi suddenly asked.
"Um... I guess, yes?"
Leyan replied as her face blushed a little from thinking about the two different styles of sex she had experienced despite being the same person.
"Was Dad better in bed or Xiaoyun?" Yuqi curiously asked.
"W-Why are you asking that?"
Leyan looked to the side, blushing again as she felt a little embarrassed to talk about this kind of stuff with her daughter.
"I'm just curious... So who's better?" Yuqi asked again.
After staying silent for a few seconds, Leyan finally couldn't endure Yuqi staring at her for an answer.
"Songming is better... But I only did it once with Xiaoyun, and it was his first time. He still has a lot of room to grow."
Leyan quickly added the last part as she didn't want to insult Xiaoyun, but she quickly realized she might have revealed a little too much.
"What... I thought I was at least Xiaoyun's first time... That's so unfair! You got both of his first time."
Yuqi complained, her face filled with jealousy as she looked down at Leyan's chest, which somehow had gotten even bigger than before.
"I never intended to take his first time. I was——"
"Wait a moment... Mom, when did you do it with Xiaoyun? Hasn't he only been here for like two days?"
Leyan's face started to flush as she began to realize she had revealed way too much information.
"Ahem, I, um... I was drunk when Yueyue brought her here... Then I mistook him for your dad when I went into his room..."
Leyan didn't continue any further, but it was enough for Yuqi to connect all the pieces inside her head.
"Damn. Mom, I thought I was crazy enough to have sex with someone I just met... But it seems like yours is even crazy."
"Shut up."
Leyan quickly covered her face in embarrassment as the two walked out of the bathroom and back into the hallway.
"Hey, Mom... if Xiaoyun is Songming, that means he gets all the experience and knows what to do, right?"
Leyan nodded her head a little, her hand still covering her face as she was still too embarrassed to show it.
"That means he's even better than before... Thank god I'm going to share him with you, sis."
Yuqi suddenly patted Leyan on the shoulder as they walked down the stairs to the living room.
"Wait, what? What are you talking about? And don't call me sis. I'm way older than you."
"Well, I can't handle Xiaoyun in bed when I did it once with him. I definitely can't handle him if he got so much more experience.
But now I got you to handle him with me. It's going to be so much easier now." Yuqi smirked as the two of them walked down the stairs.
"What? No. We aren't doing that together."
Leyan instantly rejected Yuqi's idea; her mind looked completely puzzled by the thought of it as they sat down together on the sofa.
"Come on, mom. Don't be shy. We both already did it with him. It's not like we haven't seen each other's body before."
Despite Yuqi saying it calmly, her face was blushing a little.
"But we are mother and daughter——"
"You already said that. Come on, mom. We both love him so much. I bet you can't handle him in bed either."
After a short silence, Leyan nodded in agreement as she thought back on her experience from Songming to Xiaoyun.
"So let's make him surrender to us. Don't you want to see him beat at his own game?"
Leyan nodded in agreement again as the two both suddenly found a common goal to unite against.
"You're right. We need to get him under control if we want to keep him to ourselves..."
---
The next day...
When Leyan and Yuqi finally woke up in the morning, both of them immediately went over to her room to check on Xiaoyun.
His pulse and breathing were back to normal. Everything was now stabilized other than his face looking a little pale.
As they headed back downstairs and towards the kitchen together, they were like a loving mother and daughter or a pair of best friends.
It confused and shocked both Yueyue and Nami when they arrived downstairs for breakfast, watching Yuqi standing behind Leyan to learn how to cook.
In their mind, Yuqi had never cooked. Not even once, other than that one time for some basic noodles at night.
---
A few hours later...
When Xiaoyun finally woke up, his head was still a little dizzy as he tried to think of what happened to him.
"Why am I sleeping in Leyan's room... What happened to me?"
After lying on the bed for a bit, memories of what happened last night started flooding into his brain.
"I really did turn her younger... Leyan is just like when she was still in my memory." Xiaoyun murmured as he sat back up.
Slowly, he got off the bed before heading towards the bathroom. The moment he stepped inside, the reflection in the mirror made him freeze.
"I'm Xiaoyun... Or am I Songming?" Xiaoyun murmured as his body reflected a much older version of him.
Yet, almost all of his memories were of the actual younger Xiaoyun. At least all of the fresh, core memories inside his head.
After a long consideration, he finally figured out the answer: the main personality and the person in control.
"Songming is Xiaoyun... I'm Xiaoyun. The alternate timeline himself addresses himself as Xiaoyun... He never called himself Songming either."
Without wasting any time, Xiaoyun immediately started reverting his looks to his original, younger look.
However, he left the small stubble beard as it felt a little weird having an empty one.
---
"Good morning... I mean afternoon."
Xiaoyun quickly changed his answer after noticing the clock was already one as he stepped inside the kitchen.
"Hey honey/babe, you awake!" Yuqi and Leyan responded at the same time, their eyes still on the stove before them.
"When did you two get so close?"
Xiaoyun curiously asked as the two were neck and neck, with Yuqi standing right behind Leyan by the stove.
"Well, we had a little chat together in private... And we decided to share you."
The answer instantly stunned him a little, but Yuqi continued as they both turned around at the same time.
"You don't have a choice, okay? You will have to treat us equally!"
"Thank you... I love you all!"
Xiaoyun excitedly ran up and hugged the two at the same time. The smile on his face instantly made both of their worries vanish.
"Okay, okay... Honey, I'm still cooking. Yuqi, you too. We need to get back to cooking before the food gets ruined."
Leyan immediately turned her attention back to the food as she shoved Xiaoyun back, with Yuqi doing the same.
"Anyway, babe, do you feel any different?" Yuqi curiously asked as she grabbed an empty bowl from the side.
"Me? I feel completely fine... I'm starving, though."
Xiaoyun rubbed his empty stomach as he headed back over to the table, taking a seat as Leyan removed the pan lid.
"Yeah, yeah, here's lunch that you have been waiting for. Yuqi spent a lot of time cooking this with me."
As Leyan carried the pan to the kitchen table, Yuqi quickly went over as well to put down the empty bowl at each of the empty seats.
"Really? Then I really need to try it now."
Xiaoyun excitedly picked up his chopstick as Leyan poured an entire bowl of fried rice into his first before moving on to the others.
"Yuqi, go call Yueyue and Nami, okay?"
"Okay!"
As Yuqi headed over to the living room, Xiaoyun immediately noticed the nervousness on Leyan's face as she put the pan down.
"Um, do you want me to call you Xiaoyun or Songming?"
"You can call me whatever you want... But calling me honey would be preferred." Xiaoyun jokingly replied with his mouth full of food.
"I'm just going to call you Xiaoyun... I just wanted to thank you for making me feel younger again." Leyan quietly whispered.
"No problem, babe... I love you."
Just as Xiaoyun finished speaking, he had already finished gobbling all the fried rice down into his stomach.
"Is there a second?"
Xiaoyun shlyly scratched his head as he just noticed he had eaten an entire bowl in under a minute on the clock.
"Don't worry, there's more."
Leyan grabbed the pan and filled up Xiaoyun's bowl again, putting in such a large portion that it formed a dome right at the very top of the bowl.
"Thanks, babe."
Xiaoyun ate it much slower this time as Leyan watched him in silence. Her eyes filled with love as she couldn't look away from his face.
---
As Yuqi and Yueyue came back from the gym, Yuqi went upstairs to Nami's room.
"Hey, Nami and Lily, lunch is ready," Yuqi yelled as she knocked on the door.
"Yes, I'm coming."
As the two walks of the room, Yuqi noticed Lily was wearing Nami's clothes, with her face blushing red.
"Lily, you look very nice." Yuqi complimented.
"T-Thank you." Lily quietly replied.
"Okay, let's go to lunch."
Nami grabbed Lily's hand and walked downstairs together to the kitchen.
"What are they doing the whole day in this room?" Yuqi wondered as she stayed behind in the hallway.
After a short struggle, her curiosity got the best of her. She decided to walk inside Nami's room and take a small peek.
"Hm, everything looked normal," Yuqi murmured as she examined around the room, with nothing out of the ordinary.
Yuqi immediately noticed Nami's computer wasn't closed, so she walked closer to see what it was.
"I probably shouldn't do this... but mom would never check what she is doing online. As her sister, I should be responsible for safeguarding her online use. Yeah."
With the convenient excuse made inside her head, she moved her hand to the mouse and then clicked several times in a row.
"Classes, gaming forums, some anime sites... Okay, they seem pretty normal."
Yuqi moved on to the history tabs, which oddly turned out to be all cleared except for a few normal website histories that dated no more than a week.
"Hmm, all cleared... how suspicious."
Yuqi minimized the browser and began checking the files one by one. After a while, she noticed a folder that was much bigger than usual.
"What a rookie... doesn't even bother hiding it."
Opening the folder, her face instantly couldn't help but let out a chuckle as she couldn't believe what was on the computer.
"What to eat to grow taller.mp4... How to make your breast bigger101.pdf... What_exercise_to_do_to_make_your_chest_bigger.img..."
The list goes on and on, and despite the weird name, most of it was general advice that was not dangerous.
"Hm, Nami is really embarrassed about her size, huh? I guess she is getting older now."
Yuqi looked down at her chest for a second, then laughed as she thought back to Nami's airstrip size.
"She is not even half Mom's size... How did she not even inherit a single thing from her?" Yuqi thought to herself as she scrolled down the folder.
After scrolling for a bit, Yuqi noticed a folder called 'important' at the end. So she immediately opened it.
Not surprisingly, they were adult games. However, Yuqi was still caught off guard as she noticed the genre of the games.
"Why the hell are all these H-games? Why are the majority of them Yuri... I need to correct her thinking. She can't do this."
Yuqi quickly closes the folders and puts the browser back on the front page, leaving zero traces of her walking inside the room.
As she headed downstairs, her mind was running with ideas.
"Should I go tell mom? No, that will ruin their relationship. Maybe I should just tell her to stop?
But then that would expose me to having checked her computer without permission. Would she even listen to me?"
Yuqi's brain began having conflicting thoughts, unable to decide on a single solution.
"But I can't let her go down the wrong path like this. I need to think of something. Maybe she will listen to Xiaoyun, or maybe I can ask Xiaoyun to correct her.
I mean, Nami is already old enough, but she's so tiny... No, no, what am I thinking? She is not yet fully an adult.
She is just going through puberty and fantasizing about that kind of stuff, right? There were still some normal H-games in there anyway."
Yuqi finally returned to the kitchen and sat down, her mind still preoccupied. She ignored Xiaoyun and Leyan, who waved at her.
"Perhaps I am just too backward and traditional? Perhaps I should adapt to the times and accept it...
But I need to separate Lily and Nami. Lily is way too young. She doesn't know any better if Nami takes advantage of her."
Her brain began to connect the dots as she thought back to Lily's face flustering face earlier, soon going completely off track as fantasy began to set in.
"Qiqi, what took you so long?" Leyan curiously asked.
"Oh, I was just in the restroom," Yuqi replied as she grabbed a bowl of fried rice and chopsticks.