Xia Lin suddenly felt a pang of uneasiness. "Yes, please go ahead."
"I'm terribly sorry. Your parents were unfortunately caught in a shooting incident abroad and passed away. We couldn't reach you before, so we had to use another phone number to contact you. Your parents' bodies have been shipped back to the country. They are currently... You can come to claim them tomorrow."
Xia Lin's mind went blank. It seemed as if he couldn't hear anything anymore.
"Hello, hello, Mr. Xia Lin. We understand how you feel, but we hope you won't drown too much in your grief..." The voice suddenly stopped as Xia Lin hung up the phone.
He buried his head in the quilt, his heart aching with sharp pangs. To be honest, having only spent a week with his parents, he didn't have extremely deep feelings for them. The intense pain in his heart should come from the original owner of this body. After all, they were his biological parents.
But it was also untrue to say that he had no feelings for the couple at all. Their care for him had made him experience the love of parents. Unfortunately, why? Why did such an accident happen?
[Host, please don't be overly sad. This is necessary. The development of this world should be for the host to have the opportunity to get closer to the target character, because...]
"Shut up! Just shut up!" For the first time, Xia Lin scolded the system in a very impolite tone. He was a bit angry, angry that the system regarded the death of the couple as a stepping - stone to push him and Xiao Jinyu together.
But after scolding the system, Xia Lin felt a sense of irony. After all, it wasn't the system that caused this accident. As a system, it was just a string of data. How could it understand emotions? He was actually taking his anger out on it, Xia Lin realized. What he felt more was guilt towards the couple. If he hadn't become the owner of this body, perhaps their family of three would have been very happy. But he came, the soul of their son was nowhere to be found, and they died.
How pathetic, Xia Lin thought. "System, when I complete the task and go to the next world, can I return this body to its original owner?"
[Ye... Yes. The system got a reward for completing the task in the last world. So when you go to the next world this time, the system can let the original owner of your current body come back.]
That was good. Xia Lin's sorrow was finally a little relieved. The next day, he went to the place the man had mentioned last night and claimed his parents' bodies. Then came the cremation. The funeral was very simple. Only a few of his parents' friends in the country came. Since his grandparents and grandparents - in - law had all passed away, Xia Lin was now truly a "lonely person". His parents' colleagues comforted him sympathetically, and some kind - hearted ones even wanted to offer some financial help, but Xia Lin refused. His parents had received a large compensation for the accidental death, and he didn't lack money.
Soon, Xiao Jinyu also learned about the tragic event that had befallen Xia Lin. In the evening, Xia Lin answered the call from Xiao Jinyu.
"Xia Lin."
This was the first time Xiao Jinyu had called Xia Lin by his name. Before, he either didn't mention the name or just said "hello". "Yes, good evening. What can I do for you, Mr. Xiao?"
Xiao Jinyu was silent for a while and then said, "Why don't you come and live with me?"
"Huh? Mr. Xiao, are you kidding?"
"No, I'm serious. Would you like to come and live with me? I'll take good care of you!"