My System Forces Me to Live off Women-Chapter 41 - 39: In the End, Zhou Zhuang Dreamt of the Butterfly
Li Peifeng’s "guest invitation" seemed to have sunk into the sea without a response, though the system page could still be opened, everything had turned gray, including the prize wheel.
Li Peifeng had planned to do a three-in-a-row draw, but now he could only sleep.
But recalling the friendly reminder from the system just now, Li Peifeng couldn’t fall asleep at all.
Curiosity, excitement, and the desire for knowledge filled his entire heart.
"I wonder if Old Zhao is asleep. She smelled the perfume for so long today; she should be dreaming and crossing over like Wu Wenyue, right?"
"What if I drink the perfume? Would I cross over to Abbas’s Otherworld too? Maybe with Old Zhao..."
In fact, Li Peifeng had speculated on this before. As the user, he couldn’t smell the scent of the Nether Sea’s breath himself, and perhaps it had to be consumed orally to understand its mysteries, but since this action carried great risk, he had never tried it.
Now that the system gave a prompt, dispelling the concerns in his heart, Li Peifeng couldn’t resist his longing for the Otherworld. He hesitated for a moment and then made his decision.
Drink!
He poured a peanut-sized amount of the perfume into the bottle cap and then tilted his head back and drank it all.
As it entered his mouth, it was a bit salty and a bit sweet.
Then came a mouthful and nostril-full of fragrance, nothing but fragrance, so intense it rushed straight to his head.
It was simply mesmerizing—fragrance that made his brain tingle.
"Damn! Is this perfume 52 degrees or what?"
Within seconds, Li Peifeng seemed heavily intoxicated, his gaze blurred, and his body fell weakly onto the bed, numerous unseen scenes flashing through his mind, dreamlike and illusory.
"So this is the taste of the Nether Sea’s breath? No wonder."
"The flames flicker with nine reflections, the fragrance engulfs in harmony... Narnia Continent, I’ve seen you!"
Almost simultaneously, in the Saint Elephant International District, the newly asleep Zhao Qingge furrowed her brows, her eyeballs moved twice under her eyelids, then turned left and right, as if trying to see clearly the world in her dream.
Useless trivia: when a person is dreaming, their eyeballs will move. If they don’t move, then they’re not dreaming.
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"Go check on him, how is he still asleep at this time?!"
At 7:30 in the morning, Wu Wenyue and Xu Manning had already prepared a hearty breakfast—actually just reheating yesterday’s leftovers, boiling some porridge, and frying a few eggs.
"Li Peifeng, come out for breakfast!"
Xu Manning shouted loudly, but there was no response.
"Pound on the door, call him!"
In the kitchen, without turning her head, Wu Wenyue said while serving porridge, "It’s almost time, if he doesn’t go to class, doesn’t go to the library to read, doesn’t join study group discussions, but instead sleeps in at home? How is he going to enter a doctoral program?!"
In Wu Wenyue’s view, Li Peifeng suddenly didn’t read for his doctorate mostly because of laziness. The idea of a subtle change in the relationship with the mentor was just an excuse!
The scoundrel tricked me onto the boat, and he just wants to stay a master’s student and write full-time at home?
I, Wu Wenyue, absolutely do not allow it. I will supervise you to study hard, and then we can pursue doctoral degrees together, both 24/7!
"Li Peifeng, wake up, eat breakfast!"
Miss Xu didn’t think too much; she simply couldn’t stand seeing others have it easier.
The landlord got up so early, and you, a tenant, still want to sleep in? Dream on!
"Click~ Eh, the door isn’t locked?"
Seeing the figure-shaped bundle under the quilt on the bed, Xu Manning strode over, pulled open the curtains, and patted twice: "Wake up!"
Li Peifeng’s eyes moved quickly under his eyelids but still showed no signs of waking.
"Sleeping quite soundly."
"Then if I do something to you, charge rent in advance, you have no objections, right?"
"Not saying anything is as good as agreeing!"
Xu Manning stole a glance at the door, seeing that the kitchen couldn’t see this side, and bent down to give a peck on this national troublemaking handsome face.
"Sorry, Yueyue, I just can’t help but look at him, I want to kiss his cheeks, lips, and more..."
Xu Manning looked towards the kitchen with a guilty expression, then raised her voice: "What are you sleeping for? Quickly get up and eat! Yueyue made a whole table of food for you."
"..."
Li Peifeng didn’t move at all. Xu Manning took another peek at the door, bent down, and gave another stealthy peck.
"How can you still sleep? At your age, how can you sleep? If you don’t study for your doctorate and strive for the future, what will you do? Work for me?"
"Qingge, you better manage our daughter, how could she use Ampliarsa Spell to mess with her father..."
Li Peifeng slept surprisingly deeply, only turning over despite such noisy interference.
As for his muddled dream talk about the vague excitement and guilty conscience of Xu Manning, she didn’t hear clearly, fearing that the other party would discover her recent ’mischief.’ Holding her breath and observing cautiously for a while, seeing that Li Peifeng showed no sign of waking up, the third peck went down...
"Mumbling about what? Snap out of it, wake up!!"
"Return? Of course there will be a day of return, but it won’t affect our feelings..."
This sentence was the only one Xu Manning heard clearly, dismissing it as dream talk with no logic, she rolled her eyes and rubbed his face twice: "What return? Get up and get dressed!!"
"Hmm~ An Ames assassin? Honey, be careful!"
Li Peifeng finally opened his eyes, his body tense, he sat up with a start...
"You startled me!"
Xu Manning spoke in a puzzled tone: "Who is your wife?!"
Seeing the soft sunlight in the room, the familiar yet strange setting, and the woman in front of him, all these made Li Peifeng at a loss.
He stared blankly for a while, then sighed: "Is the dream a lifetime? Or is life but a dream?"
Xu Manning snorted: "Sorry to disturb your sweet dream." As she spoke, she reached into the covers, stirred around, and was disappointed: "Wearing pajamas? I remembered you used to sleep nude, didn’t you?"
"That’s to guard against you, a female pervert."
"Enough nonsense, get up and eat breakfast." 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚
Li Peifeng hadn’t fully emerged from his slumber, rubbing his temples, he muddled through getting up, washed up, and had breakfast, occasionally conversing perfunctorily with the two girls.
As he gradually became awake, the memories of living for decades in the Narnia Continent in the dream slowly surfaced in his mind...
This dream can be summed up in one sentence: "About the duo teacher-student crossing to Otherworld, journeying together to Clarence Magic Academy to study magic, developing feelings, becoming a couple, having children, and finally both became Great Magic Masters stirring up the winds and waves and became legendary in Narnia!"
Li Peifeng still remembered how he and Old Zhao transformed from a teacher-student relationship to becoming a couple, and how they married with a child.
Both had memories of the past and were traversers, the entire Otherworld was unfamiliar to them, their way of thinking and habits vastly different from the local residents. In this environment, they had no choice but to stick together to survive, leaving no room for their previous teacher-student relationship.
And after they both enrolled in the Magic Academy and became classmates, developing into a couple and eventually getting married wasn’t surprising...
Very problematic! But don’t panic!
"After all, it was just a dream, maybe Zhao Qingge will forget when she wakes up, maybe Zhao Qingge never had this dream."
Li Peifeng wanted to comfort himself, but the sweet scenes of the two remained vividly etched in his mind, refusing to fade as he forced himself back to reality, looked at Wu Wenyue and Xu Manning, only to fall into reminiscence once again.
Hmm, if he slept a little longer, their daughter with Qingge would have grown as old as those two...
"Hey! I asked you a question! Why the dazed look and no reaction?"
Wu Wenyue waved her hand in front of his eyes: "Manning said you had a dream? Was it a wet dream or a nightmare that left you so lost."
"Just a normal dream, I forgot."
Li Peifeng hesitated with his reply, then immediately asked with tension in his voice: "Do you still remember the dream you had before?"
"The one about crossing over?"
Wu Wenyue blurted out, then recollected, and smiled: "Of course I remember! That dream was so interesting, I might never forget it in my lifetime."
"...Maybe you should just forget it!"
