Time Travel Begins the Moment I Divorce My Wife - Chapter 6

During naptime, Hua Jiangyu, who usually fell asleep quickly, tossed and turned restlessly, her eyes wide open like brass bells, without a trace of drowsiness.

“Tap, tap, tap.”

Hearing the teacher’s footsteps, Hua Jiangyu quickly closed her eyes, her thick, curly eyelashes fluttering incessantly.

Fortunately, the teacher was just making routine rounds and didn’t inspect each child’s sleep closely.

Above her head came the sound of steady breathing.

Hua Jiangyu knew this meant Chichi was already asleep.

She quietly opened her eyes and saw the teacher sitting back down, head bowed as she played with her phone.

Hua Jiangyu gently turned over, settling into a prone position, her chin resting on the small pillow. This way, she could clearly see Chichi’s sleeping face.

So pretty.

Unable to resist, Hua Jiangyu reached out and lightly poked her hair.

Chichi knew so much, how did she know everything?

But I’m the older sister here.

Today, she had wanted to kiss Chichi and have Chichi kiss her back, but she was refused.

Why?

She remembered her mother saying that outside, she shouldn’t kiss anyone except her parents, and immediately, she thought of Chichi.

“What about Chichi?”

“Chichi?”

Hua Jiangyu gestured, “The sister you made me apologize to.”

“Chichi is fine. Little Hua can do those things with girls she’s close to, but absolutely not with boys.”

“Yay! I don’t even want to play with them anyway!”

Her mother said she couldn’t kiss boys, but with girls, it was okay. She had taken this to heart.

But Chichi said no.

Hua Jiangyu sighed like a little adult, a hint of unhappiness in her eyes.

She didn’t want to kiss me does that mean she wants to do those things with Juejue instead?

But Chichi and I are best friends!

Hua Jiangyu stared at Ji Xunchi’s sleeping face, her fingers, which had been playing with her hair, now stealthily brushing against her soft cheek like a thief.

After secretly poking for a while, she glanced back, the teacher was still engrossed in her phone.

Under her touch, Ji Xunchi’s delicate brows furrowed slightly, her lips pouting as she waved a hand, as if shooing away a fly disturbing her dreams.

Hua Jiangyu, blissfully unaware of any guilt for disturbing someone’s sleep, instinctively held her breath and carefully inched closer.

“Smack.”

Soft. Sweet.

Hua Jiangyu secretly grinned, eyes crinkling in satisfaction, before retreating back under the covers.

“Divorce? Don’t even think about it!”

Ji Xunchi blinked.

Ji Xunchi blinked again.

Ji Xunchi blinked once more.

For nearly two seconds, she blinked repeatedly before fully grasping where she was.

Her eyes were filled with utter confusion.

She was back?

So her previous experience wasn’t a rebirth in a parallel world?

What on earth was going on?

Before her, Hua Jiangyu, furious, stood up, her face dark, eyes burning with a deep, swirling intensity like turbulent waves before revealing a trace of heartbreaking sorrow.

But before Ji Xunchi could fully see it, shredded paper fluttered to the ground as those long legs strode out, stepping over the torn fragments.

After two steps, Hua Jiangyu paused, forcing herself not to look back at those bewildered, pitiful eyes. Coldly, she said, “Don’t think pretending to be pitiful will make me agree to a divorce.”

With that, she slammed the door shut behind her, her hurried exit as if she feared someone might stop her and force her to do something against her will.

As if reliving the scene, Ji Xunchi instinctively reached out to stop her.

“Wait a second!”

She raised her voice, trying to block Hua Jiangyu once more.

But the moment she stood up, her vision suddenly darkened, and a wave of dizziness overtook her.

That familiar sensation returned her body felt unnaturally light, and then everything went completely black.

“Are you insane?!”

Ji Xunchi clutched her head as she sat in front of the computer screen, cursing angrily.

Time travel happened in an instant, but the impact of landing headfirst was excruciating!

With a loud thud!

It really, really hurt!

Her skull wasn’t some indestructible iron helmet she could endure it once, but why did it have to happen a second time?!

Rubbing her head furiously, Ji Xunchi still felt the lingering duang-duang and buzz-buzz reverberations.

After a while, once the psychological shock subsided, she finally had the chance to process what had just happened.

First, she had proposed divorce to Hua Jiangyu, only to be rejected. Then, without warning, she had started feeling dizzy before collapsing and time-traveling.

She had ended up as a three-year-old child about to start kindergarten.

Ji Xunchi was certain that the three-year-old was herself.

But then she had also encountered a three-year-old Hua Jiangyu.

Combined with the home address, she had initially thought she had been reborn in a parallel universe just about to take a break and make big plans only to be transported back shortly after.

The worst part was that Ji Xunchi didn’t even know how she had returned. She only remembered lying obediently in her little bed as usual, succumbing to sleepiness before drifting off. The next thing she knew, she was staring straight into Hua Jiangyu’s stunningly cold face completely out of nowhere, utterly terrifying.

She was back at the divorce scene.

And once again, she witnessed Hua Jiangyu’s familiar routine harsh refusal, slamming the door, storming out.

Instinctively, she had tried to stop Hua Jiangyu again, only to collapse and time-travel once more.

At this point, having pieced things together, Ji Xunchi hurriedly grabbed the small mirror on the desk and held it up to her face.

The reflection showed a very familiar face though it looked much younger.

She let out a sigh of relief.

It seemed that this time, she was still herself.

With her mind at ease, Ji Xunchi finally took the time to survey her surroundings.

She appeared to be in a cramped bedroom, its white-painted walls peeling in places, revealing darker patches underneath.

The curtains were a garish pink, exuding an inescapable tackiness, and behind them was an old, open window letting in fresh air.

Aside from the modest bed and a standing wardrobe, the most valuable item in the room seemed to be the computer in front of her.

Even the computer looked old, as if it had been scavenged secondhand.

The room radiated an overwhelming sense of poverty, the unfamiliarity taking Ji Xunchi a while to process.

Had her family become this poor?

Rubbing her head, Ji Xunchi instinctively glanced at the still-lit computer screen.

[Girlfriend: Are you off work yet?]

Girlfriend?

Huh? Wait girlfriend?!

“I have a girlfriend?!”

Ji Xunchi rubbed her eyes, blinked, and confirmed that the three bold characters on the screen remained glaringly, unmistakably present. She quickly leaned in, scrolling the mouse up and down to read more.

A long moment passed.

Ji Xunchi let go of the mouse and leaned back in her chair.

Damn!

After wallowing in frustration for two seconds, faced with all these bizarre and peculiar events, Ji Xunchi began trying to recall the memories of this body.

The original owner was also named Ji Xunchi, but unlike her who came from a happy and intact family, the original owner’s parents had died in a car accident when she was young. From then on, her grandmother took over her care, and the two lived together, relying on each other for survival.

Recalling this, Ji Xunchi whose parents were still alive and whose grandmother had long passed away thought, “?”

But remembering the painful images from those memories, Ji Xunchi felt a pang in her heart as if she had experienced it herself.

After calming down for a few seconds and telling herself this might not be reality, she continued recalling.

With government assistance and occasional work from her grandmother, the original owner grew up safely and healthily until the age of seventeen. She was currently attending a high school two kilometers from home and was a senior set to take the college entrance exam next year.

Ji Xunchi, who had graduated from university years ago: “?”

Wait, the college entrance exam next year?

Ji Xunchi’s expression changed, and her hand, which had been massaging her head, trembled slightly.

At this moment, she couldn’t even focus on recalling memories anymore. All she could think about was how long she would be stuck here. Would it be like the last time she transmigrated into a three-year-old child, staying for a month or two before returning? Or was this transmigration permanent, with no way back?

After all, this transmigration seemed entirely different from the last one, everything had changed.

What about the college entrance exam then?

Forcing someone who had already graduated from university and worked for years to return to high school and take the exam was downright cruel.

The next second, memories flashed of the original owner consistently ranking at the bottom of her class.

Ji Xunchi: “.”

I overestimated you, Ji Xunchi!

Her tension eased slightly.

If she was already an academic slacker, then performing poorly on the exam wouldn’t be a big deal, right?

Ji Xunchi immediately perked up and began recalling more recent memories.

At first, things seemed normal just a girl addicted to the internet skipping school, typical slacker behavior, understandable. But then Ji Xunchi saw that the original owner had started pretending to be someone else in a lesbian chat group she’d stumbled into, showing off and playing the field. Ji Xunchi couldn’t take it anymore.

You actually lied to people?

Not only did you lie, but you, a straight girl, pretended to be a lesbian?!

Not only did you lie and pretend to be a lesbian, but you also played the field?!?!

Disgusting!!!

Furious, Ji Xunchi quickly touched her current face, seething with anger.

And another thing, if your photo-editing skills are terrible, just don’t edit! The photos you posted completely wasted this face!

Ji Xunchi felt her blood pressure spike instantly, dizzy with rage.

The original owner’s current girlfriend wasn’t even someone she’d gotten through normal means. She had swindled her way into the relationship by boasting and deceiving in that lesbian chat group. The girlfriend was a wealthy heiress, while the original owner, who was strapped for cash, had gotten a bit too confident after being flattered by some naive girls in the group. Once she found out the heiress had money, she slyly started hitting on her.

Somehow, against all odds, the young heiress actually fell for it.

After dating for a week, the original owner received an expensive necklace from the heiress, only to immediately resell it on a secondhand platform. She used the money to buy a semi-new secondhand computer for her home and squandered the rest on food and drinks.

What a scumbag!

But now, that scumbag was her.

On the computer, unread messages from the girlfriend were still hanging there. Ji Xunchi felt a twinge of guilt just looking at them.

What kind of mess is this?!

But what left her even more speechless was yet to come.

Because Ji Xunchi discovered that the original owner had crafted a persona for herself that was completely beyond her current means.

She, Ji Xunchi: a mature woman with a mesmerizing voice, a sexy figure complete with abs, and a thriving career.

Ji Xunchi: “…”

Seriously, how ridiculous can you get?

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