Chapter 2: Modern Times
Chapter 2: Modern Times
I’m alive!
These past few days, he hadn’t eaten his fill even once at the Zhao estate.
Zheng Fa felt a bit ashamed. After experiencing various delicious foods in this world, going back to eating pigweed was hard to stomach… Luxury spoils the palate.
As for things like cured meat, which tasted better, he always left them for his sister and mother. Indulging in lavish food here while competing for scarce morsels in the other world would just feel wrong.
Five years ago, after his father’s death, he cried all night until he fell into an exhausted sleep, only to wake up in a strange, wondrous place.
Since then, every seven days, he would visit this world in his dreams, then return to the original one after seven days—an experience akin to the "transmigration" told in this world's tales, only he was a foreigner in a so-called "body traversal."
From that point, he spent seven days feasting in this world, before returning to the Xuanyi Realm—what people from that world called it—where he would endure near-starvation for seven days. Now, he had become used to it.
Zheng Fa rubbed his slightly full stomach and stepped out of his home.