"Is this... the original world..."

He realized that he was sitting on a park bench shrouded in darkness, took out his smartphone from his hidden pocket and checked the screen. After a short wait, the screen showed the network time, and a hint of doubt flashed across his face, but he seemed to say that it was useless to linger, so he stood up.

He walked step by step, making sure of it, until he came to an independent house. When he saw the house number, a relieved smile appeared on his face.

He reached for the doorknob, but changed his mind and reached out to press the doorbell. A familiar voice came from the other side of the door: "Hi."

As the door opened, a woman popped her head out and asked, "Who is it?" He responded, "I'm back, Mom."

"Ye Kai!... Is it Ye Kai!? You are Ye Kai..."

Mother Zhong Yu suddenly burst into tears. Ye Kai felt a sense of guilt almost overwhelm him, but he suppressed it, smiled and put his hand on his mother's shoulder.

"I'm sorry, I'm back." He repeated again to comfort her.

“You! You! Ye Kai is back!” Zhong Yu took Ye Kai’s hand, trotted into the living room, and pushed him in front of his father. Ye Kai’s father, Ye Xiu, glanced at Ye Kai’s face and said quietly, “Stupid…Are you okay?”

"Yeah, I'm fine. I know I probably gave you guys a lot of trouble."

“Explain it.”

"..."

"..."

The silence was heavy, but Ye Kai knew that Ye Xiu was not the type to get angry. He answered as if he was being interrogated: "I can't remember. However, I don't think it was an incident or accident, because I wasn't injured and I didn't lose anything."

“Well, first kneel down and apologize to your mother. She is the one who is suffering the most.”

Ye Kai was slightly aware of his lie, but Ye Xiu accepted it, and Ye Kai decided to take advantage of this idea.

Afterwards, although her eyes were still red, Zhong Yu prepared dinner with a smile on her face, and Ye Kai reached out. After tasting the taste of his mother, Ye Kai couldn't help but moisten his eyes.

Ye Kai is seventeen years old and a high school student.

He confirmed from the display on his mobile phone that he had been missing for about seven months. The season had changed from spring to autumn. A search request for his suddenly disappeared son had of course been submitted, but the police had not found him at all.

As time went by, his parents began to give up, and it was time for him to return. Although Ye Xiu, as a father, did not show it on his face, he was also very happy.

However, he had to go to the police station with his mother to withdraw the search request. No matter what, he had to be mentally prepared, because if he didn't do this, he couldn't explain to the society and had to endure it.

Zhong Yu was a full-time housewife, and Ye Kai thought it was strange that Ye Xiu had time to be at home when he was a child. Most of his classmates' parents were not at home, not only their fathers, but also their mothers.

It was not until he started elementary school that he solved the mystery. He learned that his father's job was to sell matsutake mushrooms collected from the distant mountains.

So in the fall, my father would leave home and go to the places he knew about matsutake mushrooms to collect and sell them, making a living.

Even if it was just this, if one did not seek extravagance, one could still get by. But in addition to this, he also rented land to farmers who grew mushrooms such as shiitake mushrooms, and provided a place for potters to build kilns, thus earning so-called unearned income. Therefore, when Ye Kai was growing up, his family was not rich, but they did not lack anything.

Yet Ye Kai's disappearance could expose his parents to unwanted attention and damage their reputations, a tendency that is particularly strong in a city like this.

He thought he had to think about this problem. When he was thinking about these things, Ye Kai heard someone rudely push the door open. He stood up to find out what happened, but was hit in the abdomen by a strong impact. It was his sister Ye Li.

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