The Chosen System: Counterattack with Husband

"Hey, Big Orange! Big Orange!"

When Xu Cheng woke up in a daze, a very familiar face enlarged in front of her blurred vision, and the face was shouting something.

The moment he saw his facial features clearly, Xu Cheng sat up abruptly and instinctively stepped back about ten centimeters.

"Big Orange, you're finally awake. Don't sleep any more. Let's go out and play together!"

On that familiar face, the mouth opened and closed, uttering words that seemed extremely far away to her.

She is not...

Xu Cheng was halfway through his thought when he suddenly became dazed.

What place was she thinking about just now?

"Hey, Big Orange, you didn't sleep so hard, did you? Why are you so dazed?"

The little boy with a buzz cut sniffed, scratched his head, looked at the dazed Xu Cheng with some confusion, and asked loudly.

"It's because——"

Xu Cheng stopped talking abruptly when he was halfway through his sentence.

The words were on the tip of her tongue, but now she had forgotten what she was going to say.

Subconsciously turning his head to look out the window at the bright sunlight, and hearing the cicadas chirping outside the house like a melody, Xu Cheng finally realized.

Didn't she go back to her hometown for the summer vacation? The little friends in the village have been looking for her to play every day these two days, how come she is so sleepy!

Xu Cheng swiftly lifted the thin blanket draped over his stomach, straightened his wrinkled clothes, and quickly rolled off the bed.

"Come on, let's see who can catch the most turtle eggs. Then we can bring them back to my grandma to be the referee!"

"Go ahead, I won't lose to you!"

When Xu Cheng ran out of his room with his playmate Sandan who came to call him from next door, he was in a daze for a moment and stopped at the door.

Reaching out for the upper door frame which was completely out of reach, Xu Cheng looked at his hand in confusion.

Has she...always been this tall?

But she clearly remembered——

No, what did she remember?

Seeing Xu Cheng stunned again, Sandan looked at her in bewilderment and asked in confusion.

"Come on, Big Orange, you didn't really sleep like I said, did you?"

Xu Cheng retorted almost subconsciously.

"You are the one who fell asleep! You big fool!"

Seeing Xu Cheng go back on his words so quickly, Sandan gave a silly smile and raised his hand to point outside the door.

"Then hurry out. Your grandma is in the yard. We'll go out after we say hello to her. The others are waiting for us at the entrance of the small store near your house."

Xu Cheng rolled his eyes, thinking that what Sandan said made sense, and no longer worried about the door frame and height, and followed him into the yard.

When they arrived at the yard where cicadas were chirping, Xu Cheng saw from a distance the grandmother who was looking at her and Sandan with a smile.

"Grandma, Sandan, I and a few other people are going out to play. We will be back soon."

"Okay, Ni'er, go ahead. Just be back before dinner."

An old man with a head full of silver hair sat under the shade of a tree with spots of sunlight filtering through, slowly waving a large palm-leaf fan in his hand, with a loving smile on his wrinkled face.

Xu Cheng didn't know what was wrong with him and found the smile a little dazzling.

She shook her head, instantly putting aside the sudden illusion in her mind, and ran out of the yard with Sandan.

After meeting up with several other members of the summer team at the store, Xu Cheng took the small bamboo baskets from each of them and ran towards the grove at the entrance of the village together.

The strong sunlight made the ridges underfoot hard, and in some places there were even cracks that were winding like dragons. Xu Cheng followed the team along the ridges, but he didn't feel the glare of the sunlight above his head at all.

On the way to the village entrance, the summer team passed by a small wild pond. Xu Cheng's hands holding the bamboo basket froze for a moment, and he subconsciously walked away from the pond.

The summer team did not have any fixed formation, so Xu Cheng's actions did not attract much attention from her playmates. Only Sandan, who was walking behind her, looked at her with some confusion.

"Big Orange, why are you walking so far away from the water? Don't you love playing in the water?"

Sandan's question also stunned Xu Cheng himself. He turned his head to look at the dark green wild pond, but subconsciously took two steps back in the opposite direction.

It's strange. She obviously likes playing in the water. She even had a water fight with her friends using the water gun her mother bought for her. Why did she stay so far away from the pond?

She tentatively walked a little closer to the wild pond, but her heart was still palpitating unnaturally.

Xu Cheng almost instinctively looked at Sandan who was standing not far behind her, but when her eyes fixed on Sandan, she herself became confused.

Just now, for a moment, she was really afraid that Sandan would push her into the pond.

But...why did she have such an idea?

As a member of the summer team, she and Sandan are obviously best friends!

During her brief moment of daze, Sandan raised his hand towards her, as if he wanted to pat her shoulder.

Xu Cheng instinctively avoided Sandan's hand again, as if it was something extremely terrifying.

After she avoided the hand, Sandan's hands stiffened, and she couldn't help but tilt her head and look at Xu Cheng with an extremely confused expression.

"Big Orange, you're really weird today."

Although he was talking, Sandan still lowered his voice so that the other members of the Summer Team would not hear his doubts.

"Really? Maybe he fainted from the heat."

Xu Cheng frowned and thought about it, but couldn't figure out anything after a long time. He simply attributed his discomfort today to being dizzy due to the heat.

Sandan did not pursue her statement. He just spread his hands and took a few steps forward with Xu Cheng, catching up with the team that was a little behind the end of the team.

Under the golden sunlight, the chirping of cicadas was like the surrounding heat waves, spreading to every corner of the village, making Xu Cheng inexplicably anxious.

Xu Cheng, who had jumped out of the door at first, for some reason began to slow down his pace a little when he saw the grove at the entrance of the village where they often went to catch cicadas.

The grove was clearly still the same as it was yesterday, but Xu Cheng felt inexplicably uneasy just by looking at it.

The forest was not very large, and as soon as the summer team arrived, they dispersed in groups of two or three, found the tree they liked, dropped their bamboo baskets under the tree, and began to climb up by grasping the trunk skillfully.

Xu Cheng walked under a tree and looked up. The sunlight shone through the gaps between the leaves onto her face, making her feel a little blinded from time to time.

It was something she was used to doing, and it was something that would make her happy all day long. Why did she feel a sense of disobedience for some unknown reason?

It was as if she was a drop of oil in a glass of clear water. She seemed to be closely integrated with the water, but in fact she was just floating on the water.

After a moment of silence, Xu Cheng threw the small bamboo basket on his arm under the tree, and like his friends, he skillfully climbed up the solid and thick trunk and climbed to the top of the tree lightly and nimbly.

What else does she want to do if she can't figure it out?

Random thoughts can easily ruin play time, and she doesn't want to lose sight of the big picture because of a small thought of hers.