Shanghai Disneyland.
"I want to go bungee jumping."
She grabbed Karl's hand and pulled him inside.
"…There's no bungee jumping here. You came to the wrong place."
Di Wan dragged Karl along anyway.
"There… there isn't?"
She turned around and stared at Karl intensely.
Karl was momentarily speechless. This was Disneyland—everything here was rides and attractions. He scanned the surroundings several times.
"Based on my understanding of your previous profession, you should know all of this. Why don't you?"
"I used to be busy too…"
"Didn't you study in Shanghai before?"
"I was always at school, and I didn't have a boyfriend…"
"I should probably learn more about these things."
"Why are you doing several jobs at once? If you don't want to play, then just let me play by myself."
He said he wasn't playing, but by then he had already followed Karl to the roller coaster area, and he didn't notice that Di Wan had stopped and turned around.
Seeing Di Wu standing still, Karl asked,
"Then… should we go back?"
She rolled her eyes and brushed her hair aside.
"In the end, you'll just be alone."
"But I won't grow old…"
"And besides, if I really left, why are you acting like this now?! Before, whenever I said something you listened carefully. Even when I joked, you never made me angry. Do you understand?!"
Karl was stunned by Di Wu's words. He closed his mouth and said nothing more.
Ever since the last time he heard her talk about wanting a child, something inside him had changed. Memories he had long sealed away began resurfacing, causing subtle shifts in his personality.
"Let's ride the roller coaster."
Di Wan quickly recovered her mood and excitedly pulled Karl toward the queue area.
"Di Wan?"
"Hm?"
Hearing someone call her name, Di Wan looked around.
Sure enough, someone was calling her.
It was a young man who looked to be in his early twenties. He had good looks, was about 1.8 meters tall, and had a well-proportioned figure.
"You know me?"
Hearing someone call her by name in another world—especially a complete stranger—was quite surprising.
When the young man saw Di Wan turn around, he muttered in disbelief, his face full of shock.
"Really?! You… why are you here?"
Then he looked at Karl.
Karl was wearing a black eye mask and casual clothes bought by Di Wan, looking relaxed and energetic.
"Are you Di Wan? The one who played Gao Wen and Xiao Di Ji?"
The young man asked again, still unable to believe it, even finding his own reaction strange.
Di Wan was surprised. She glanced at Karl.
Karl was staring at the man with a frown, silently observing him.
"…Yes. How do you know?"
Suddenly something occurred to Di Wan.
"You crossed over too?"
"Yes! Yes! You too? I got struck by lightning. I never thought I'd run into you here. Do you know that when I first arrived I almost fainted? I had no relatives here and nowhere to stay. If it weren't…"
The boy paused.
"If I hadn't met you, I think I would've died here."
For Di Wu, this was a very new experience. She hadn't expected to meet someone from the same world—and someone who even recognized her.
"You don't have a place to stay right now?"
"No. I only arrived two days ago. I snuck in here hoping this place might give me somewhere to stay… and there's lots of free food."
"Even though it's my first time here, I don't think there's any free food."
Hearing Karl's words, the boy stopped and looked at Di Wu in confusion.
"There are plenty of places here to try food. Who is he?"
Di Wu didn't bother discussing the food issue and simply introduced him.
"This is my boyfriend, Karl El. He crossed over too. What about you?"
"Yue Tingfeng. Yue as in mountain, Tingfeng like 'listening to the wind,' like Nicholas Tse."
Yue Tingfeng looked at Karl and extended his right hand.
"Hello. I didn't expect my goddess to actually have a boyfriend. That's really…"
He didn't finish the sentence.
Karl didn't quite understand what he meant, but he shook Yue Tingfeng's hand anyway and simply stared at him.
"Where are you staying?" Yue Tingfeng asked Di Wan. "It wasn't easy meeting someone I know. You have to help me. I don't want to embarrass myself among other transmigrators."
"Are there many?" Di Wan asked. "Are others coming too?"
"No. Haven't you read those novels? Everyone arrives with some golden cheat ability and rises in that world with an overpowered start."
Di Wu smiled awkwardly.
"I haven't seen any."
At that moment Karl spoke.
"There are no extra rooms in the Celestial Palace. But I can take you to Washington. I have a place there."
Yue Tingfeng, who had been excited, froze.
"Washington? I… I don't understand English…"
Karl smiled.
"The environment determines a person's language ability. You'll learn quickly."
"Don't cause trouble," Di Wan said. "How old is he? He looks barely in his twenties. Sending someone with little social experience to a completely unfamiliar place is no different from abandoning him somewhere he doesn't know."
She turned to Yue Tingfeng.
"It's okay. There's still a sofa in the living room. We won't stay here for long anyway. I've already paid a year's rent. During that year you can slowly adapt and find a job. The environment here is familiar enough—you'll get used to it quickly."
Yue Tingfeng asked curiously,
"You won't stay long? How long have you been here?"
Di Wan brushed her hair back and smiled.
"Three years already. This time we're planning to travel. If we find a place we like, we'll stay there for a while."
She still kept some guard up. Di Wan wasn't foolish.
Even among people from the same world, you couldn't be completely defenseless.
Helping someone was fine, but she wasn't going to take care of him like parents would. She had her own life—and Karl had his.
They stopped playing and brought Yue Tingfeng home.
Along the way, Yue Tingfeng kept glancing at Karl, then at Di Wu.
Karl El…
The name sounded strangely familiar.
But in their previous world there had never been rumors that Di Wan's boyfriend was a foreigner. Most rumors said he was a male celebrity from the Celestial Empire.
Karl secretly glanced at Yue Tingfeng a few times when he wasn't looking, then continued walking as if nothing had happened.
On the way, they stopped by a mall to buy Yue Tingfeng some clothes and daily necessities.
Money wasn't an issue, so helping a little wasn't a problem.
They wandered around until evening, not eating anything, and finally returned home around eight o'clock.
They took the elevator up, opened the door, entered, and closed it behind them.
The apartment was about 100 square meters but had only one bedroom.
The living room alone was forty square meters. The bedroom was nearly sixty square meters and included a bathroom and a small glass-walled study.
"Wow… it's huge. You must have made a lot of money these past few years."
The apartment felt spacious. The decoration style was simple yet atmospheric.
The first impression upon entering was the open space.
The kitchen and living room were separated only by a bar counter, on which various drinks were placed.
This was exactly what Di Wan had wanted.
She believed that in such an environment, drinking a glass of red wine while reading a book was pure enjoyment.
"You can stay here for now."
Di Wan pointed to the large black sofa in the middle of the living room.
It was huge and comfortable—big enough for two people to sleep on.
"Thank you… um… do you have anything to eat? I'm starving. I haven't eaten for almost two days."
Standing in the living room, Yue Tingfeng looked a little restrained.
Hearing this, Karl walked into the kitchen and took out a pile of snacks from the cabinet.
Di Wan had bought them earlier—she liked to have something to munch on at home.
Yue Tingfeng took them.
They were all puffed snacks.
"Thank you!"
He eagerly tore them open to eat.
Di Wan then walked to the refrigerator, took out a bottle of water, and placed it on the coffee table.
"Eat slowly. After you're full, go take a shower. There's security here."
"Mmm… yeah…"
With his mouth stuffed full of food, he could only nod repeatedly.
"Alright, Karl and I will go rest in our room. Go to bed early."
The two returned to their bedroom.
Di Wan prepared to take a shower while Karl sat on the bed, watching Yue Tingfeng through the wall.
In the living room, Yue Tingfeng—who had been devouring food like a starving ghost—suddenly stopped.
He walked around the living room twice, staring at the bedroom door for quite a while.
Then he returned to the sofa.
Closing his eyes, he sat upright on the sofa.
The snacks remained untouched.
He just sat there silently.
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