Chapter 918: Chen Kaixin’s Comeback

Twenty months ago…
Chen Kaixin’s confession failed, and he ended up drunk on the streets; Happy was betrayed by his girlfriend and brother, raped countless times, forced to delete his account from “Jianghu,” and left the world in despair, getting drunk under the thunderous night sky.
Some mysterious force created an alternate parallel world.
Happy entered the body of another Chen Kaixin from three years ago!
The original owner, Chen Kaixin, was in a daze and unaware that someone else was controlling his body. As time passed, his behavior became increasingly strange and mysterious, accompanied by fragmented memories of events he was part of—until he gradually understood what was happening to him.
Something amazing happened.
The original owner chose to observe.
He watched as another version of himself rose to prominence in the academy, met his dream girl “Xu Xin,” witnessed the rise of the Lonely Three Wolves, the downfall of the Colorful Robes Sect, and the rise of the Mu Family.
But…
Just a few minutes earlier, by chance, when Chen Kaixin tried to stop Happy, he regained consciousness…
and took back control of his own body.
…
While Chen Kaixin regained control, Happy, who had thought he had been reborn, found himself transported back in time and space, like being haunted, to his small rental apartment where he had lived for over two years—a place filled with the scent of medicine and alcohol.
The air still carried Xu Yao’s presence…
Chen Kaixin lay weakly on the bed, with a small bowl of boiled medicine beside him, still steaming.
Next to the bed were Xu Yao’s clothes and a bedsheet.
On the coffee table, the clock and calendar served as a harsh reminder to Happy: this was no longer the base outside the school, but his familiar rental apartment—one he longed to forget day and night.
“Are you awake?”
A trembling voice came from the balcony.
Hearing this voice, Chen Kaixin mechanically turned his head…
Xu Yao, much thinner now, put down a pile of clothes, rushed through the floor-to-ceiling window into the open bedroom, her face covered in tears.
“What’s going on…?”
Happy screamed inwardly.
Time…
Place!
And the person in front of him—everything seemed to be shaking his already strained nerves.
A dream?
Was it all just a dream?
Half-sitting up, Happy wore a bitter, self-mocking smile.
“Great, you’re finally awake!”

“Lie down quickly! Do you know how long you’ve been lying there? Over a year… Your body is very weak. The doctor said your confusion is caused by getting wet and catching a chill after drinking. You can’t get cold anymore.”
Drunk?
Happy’s mind conjured up the image of himself, drunk and lost, wandering the streets in the storm and lightning, making his heart even more bitter.
So he had indeed returned.
The dream was over.
“Why didn’t you leave with Xueyi?”
Happy’s voice was very calm.
Whether it was because he believed in Xu Yao’s experiences in the dream or because he had spent over a year in that dream, the knots in his heart had long since loosened.
Before he could finish speaking, his gaze suddenly followed Xu Yao’s and fell on a clear black-and-white photo frame on the nearby table. Seeing the face of a middle-aged woman who resembled Xu Yao somewhat, his eyes froze instantly! He stared at Xu Yao in disbelief.
“She passed away on the day you challenged the top 16 in the world.”
Noticing Happy’s shocked expression, Xu Yao turned her head, understood, and said calmly, “I stayed because I owe you. Once you recover, I’ll leave.”
Xu Yao’s words struck Happy hard.
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“Haven’t I told you?”
Xu Yao sat on the other end of the bed:
“But it doesn’t matter now. Over a year has passed. The thing you cared most about was destroyed by me, and what I cared most about was destroyed by fate… Now that you’re awake, once your health improves, we’ll have nothing to do with each other.”
Hearing Xu Yao’s cold and stiff words, Happy suddenly began to understand. His gaze on the black-and-white photo was filled with deep guilt:
“Great destruction.”
“…”
“Did you voluntarily help Xueyi destroy my place in the Global Swordsmanship Competition?”
“It’s meaningless to talk about this now.”
Xu Yao stood up:
“Get well quickly and find another job. ‘Jianghu’ is no longer suitable for you…”
“Did you throw away my helmet too?”
Happy looked around but couldn’t find his helmet.
“…”
Xu Yao didn’t answer.
At that moment, everything went dark before Happy’s eyes, and a powerful force pulled him into a vortex;
Vaguely, he seemed to hear Xu Yao’s heartbroken cries!
…
Whoosh!
Light returned to his eyes.
Strength flowed back into his body.
Happy couldn’t instantly adapt to the change from weakness to strength. The medicinal smell in the room vanished, replaced by the sweet fragrance of Xu Xin and a bright, clean bedroom…
“What’s going on?”

Kai Xin’s body stiffened as he glanced around.
This is…
Had he fallen unconscious again?
No, he’d never heard of dreams allowing one to reload or return to the moment they ended.
“…”
But after repeated transitions, Kai Xin’s nerves had become incredibly resilient.
To figure out what was happening to him as soon as possible, he quickly sent Xu Xin out of the bedroom once Xu Yao’s voice was heard.
…
As soon as she left, something strange happened!
“It was me who pulled you back.”
A voice seemed to echo in his mind—a voice Kai Xin was all too familiar with:
“My name is Chen Kaixin.”
…”
“What a coincidence. I’m also named Chen Kaixin,” Kai Xin replied sarcastically after a few seconds of hesitation.
…”
“I am the original owner of this body. From the memory fragments you’ve given me, you must be me three years from now. For some reason, you appeared in my body and took control of it.”
The voice in his mind spoke calmly, as if discussing someone else’s clothes that had been worn for over a year.
“…”
Kai Xin slowly processed the shocking information conveyed by that voice.
“You mean… you’re awake now?”
“No, I’ve been awake for a long time.”
“Then you…”
“At that time, my mental state was fragile, probably due to a broken heart. And back then, you seemed to have a strong desire for revenge. So even though I wanted to regain control of my body, I didn’t know how.”
Chen Kaixin in his mind continued, “Now that your desire for revenge has been fulfilled, your obsession is fading, and only then did I discover how to take back control of the body.”
Hearing his own voice in his mind, Kai Xin felt a heavy weight in his heart.
A sudden sense of unease arose…
It seemed that everything around him—everything he had—was about to slip away from him.
Xu Xin. Friends… Silver Fox… Everything in the game. And everything outside the game. Everything was no longer related to him.
He… was about to return to that world filled with the scent of medicine?
Damn it. Why didn’t you throw me out earlier!
An inexplicable anger surged within Kai Xin.
He had been lying in that world for over a year.
Chen Kaixin in his mind seemed to sense Kai Xin’s thoughts and anger. After hesitating for a long time, he spoke again:
“Everything belonged to me in the first place. You entered my body and took away the life and everything that belonged to me…”

“I know this damned world isn’t mine, so please send me back right away! Hurry!!!”
Kai Xin couldn’t help but worry about what Xu Yao would do in that world.
Over the past year or so, he had taken care of a comatose person, and after finally seeing her recover, he was met with Chen Kaixin’s intermittent displays of arrogance.
“I’m not showing off. I just don’t know how to deal with all this…”
The voice in his mind hesitantly explained, “When Xu Xin hugged me, my mind went blank. I had no idea how to comfort her. She seemed to know I wasn’t you.”
“Nonsense!”
“To comfort her, of course I had to bring you out.”
“That’s it? So simple?”
Kai Xin grew angry again. “You made me cross time and space just to help you comfort your dream girl?” Gradually taking on the role, Kai Xin continued, “So now that you’ve used me, can you please send me back? I don’t want to see you for a single moment.”
“…”
The voice in his mind fell silent.
“What now!!”
“I’m just thinking. I can’t communicate with many people, and in front of Yin Hu, Dao Zi, and the others, I’ll definitely expose myself…”
“…” Kai Xin snapped, “Do you still want to keep me trapped inside you and continue like this? Or do you plan to give up your life and world?”
“No, I mean, could you please spare some time to help me in the future? Let me adjust slowly. After all, you’ve turned my life into chaos.”
“Please be clearer. Do you mean by ‘chaos’ that I made you a globally famous person and a billionaire? Or that I made your dream girl live in your den to serve you? Or that I helped your friends reach their current status? If you want to keep complaining, I’m happy to continue…”
“…”
Chen Kaixin in his mind was speechless once again.
It was normal to face a version of himself with years more experience suddenly appearing. It was always the past self that complained, never the present self complaining about the future self.
“Alright, put it another way. Aren’t you afraid that the world you’ve painstakingly built will be ruined by me?”
“…”
Kai Xin was left speechless. “You must have learned something over these past year or so, right?”
“I’ve seen a lot, but without practical experience. Just like today—though I knew what to do, I was still at a loss once I gained control of my body…”
The voice in his mind replied weakly.

Hearing this, Kai Xin gasped in shock.
With this brand-new Chen Kaixin entering “Jianghu,” there was a risk that he might waste his accumulated “Fire Qilin Blood” and “Life and Death Dream Pills” on utterly weak enemies like wild wolves; or he might not be able to hold his head high in front of the Silver Fox; or even worse, he might let Yipin Tang make a comeback and destroy the Mu family…
Although Kai Xin was eager to return to his own world, the thought of all this filled him with dread.