After Waking Up I Inherited the Earth [Interstellar] – CH1

Chapter 1

Stretching out his long limbs, Xie Xingchen lay in the massage bathtub with a dazzling smile. Warm water at just the right temperature kept rinsing over his skin, sending wave after wave of tingling pleasure through him.

He closed his eyes to savor the exquisite enjoyment. Only when his skin began to wrinkle did he reluctantly get up from the tub, then put on a bathrobe in high spirits.

Happily, he grabbed the neatly arranged, freshly washed, sweet-smelling towel on the rack and roughly rubbed his hair a few times. When it was half-dry, he casually tossed the towel aside, took a lighthearted running leap, and threw himself onto the soft big bed!

Grinning from ear to ear, he bobbed his head around and basked in it for a good while before finally turning on his light-brain and starting today’s entertainment-slash-learning—scrolling StarNet!

If you want to understand a world, there’s no better way than watching what news everyone is paying attention to! Since that was the case, StarNet—this world’s counterpart to that short-video app and microblog from his last life—was the best place for him to study!

However—

When Xie Xingchen opened StarNet and saw that the top three trending topics were still occupied by those few names that were so familiar they made you speechless, he fell silent again.

Xie Xingchen had transmigrated into this book half a month ago.

He still clearly remembered the sense of relief he’d felt back then, thinking he’d been saved—only to pass out again in less than a minute.

When he opened his eyes again, three days had already gone by.

The moment he woke up, he’d been overjoyed, thinking he’d landed in the body of some rich person from the future. But in less than ten minutes, he was forced to receive the original owner’s memories.

After the memory transfer ended, Xie Xingchen’s feelings were complicated, because he realized it wasn’t time travel—he’d transmigrated into a novel. And not just any novel, either: it was one he’d read before, featuring a vicious male supporting character who shared his exact name, but had an absurd way of thinking.

This love-brained, vicious male supporting character lived in one of the five major civilizations of the Interstellar Civilization Alliance: Human Civilization. He was the heir of the Xie family, a planting clan with a bit of fame within the Star Alliance.

From childhood, he’d liked the Fu family’s eldest son, Fu Yunzhou. When he turned eighteen, the Xie and Fu families decided on an alliance marriage. His wish came true, and he became engaged to Fu Yunzhou.

But only half a year after the engagement, Human Civilization faced an invasion of alien beasts, and many of the Xie family’s planting planets suffered severe damage.

After the invasion ended, Xie’s parents, frantic and overwhelmed, hurried to the planting planets to inspect the situation. On the way back, they were killed by star pirates.

After the family head met with disaster, the Xie family fell into chaos. At the time, the original owner lacked both the ability and the maturity to take over the family. After several rounds of struggle, he was eventually brought to live with the Fu family, while the Xie family was temporarily taken over by his fiancé, Fu Yunzhou.

After losing his parents, the original owner became insecure. Once he was brought into the Fu household, his love for Fu Yunzhou gradually turned obsessive, and he began indiscriminately targeting and attacking anyone who tried to get close to Fu Yunzhou.

At first, no one held it against him because everyone knew he was suffering after losing his parents. But as time went on—whether it was Fu Yunzhou or the other members of the Fu family—everyone started to think the original owner was crazy.

As if by fate, when the Fu family felt utterly helpless about the original owner, Yu Cheng appeared. This heaven-sent Planter conquered most of the Fu family with his ability and charm. Only the original owner didn’t—Yu Cheng’s presence drove him even more into hysterics.

The original owner was afraid Fu Yunzhou would be taken from him, so the moment he turned twenty, he demanded that Fu Yunzhou marry him.

But life after marriage was not only nothing like the sweetness he’d imagined—it pushed him and Fu Yunzhou farther and farther apart, until now, when Fu Yunzhou wanted to divorce him.

In the original plot, the original owner refused to divorce, dragging it out for three years with all kinds of excuses. But three years later, the court’s ruling still came down.

And then, right after the two divorced, the original owner—out of jealousy—slandered and framed the male lead, and got blacklisted by the entire internet.

A year later, the original owner, suffering from severe depression, walked into the deep sea in despair. Tragically, news of his death didn’t earn a shred of pity—instead, it drew countless haters who mocked and sneered.

Thinking of this, the smile fell from Xie Xingchen’s face, and his eyes and heart were full of confusion.

To be honest, he couldn’t understand at all why the original owner would fall for Fu Yunzhou!

Having seen the original owner’s memories, Xie Xingchen could say with certainty: among the people around the original owner, Fu Yunzhou’s “conditions” weren’t the best.

Yet it was this man—who had never treated the original owner particularly well as a child, and who grew up to keep a cold face toward him—who somehow had the original owner chasing after him?

And that wasn’t even the most unbelievable part. What shocked Xie Xingchen most was that after the original owner married Fu Yunzhou, Fu Yunzhou still didn’t sleep with him.

And with that, the original owner still thought Fu Yunzhou loved him?

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If he were the original owner, what romance would he be chasing?!

Wouldn’t it be better to lie on top of the mountains of gold and silver his parents earned and enjoy life?

Is StarNet not fragrant, or is surfing not fun? Why give up being a rich kid to become a licking dog? Licking dog, licking dog—lick to the end and you have nothing.

Xie Xingchen muttered in exasperation, but as he went on, he couldn’t help grinning again.

No matter—if the original owner didn’t love money, he did!

That little thing called money? He loved it to death!

Because of money, Xie Xingchen was extremely satisfied with the identity he’d transmigrated into!

Transmigrated into a vicious cannon-fodder who was good for nothing except money!

Key point: good for nothing except money!
Xie Xingchen: This must be the reward for all the good deeds he’s done!
Having been scared of poverty for too long, Xie Xingchen nodded firmly. His mood improved so much that even those annoying trending topics started to look cute.

He tapped open the #1 trend.

Very good—another highlight moment where the male lead slapped someone’s face.

After reading it carefully, the smile on Xie Xingchen’s face deepened. ?
Thank goodness the male lead was the “I won’t mess with you unless you mess with me” type!

He had to know: right now, “he” still hadn’t made a move against the male lead. So as long as he kept his mouth in check (didn’t curse the male lead) and moved his legs (left the central planet), he would definitely be able to live beautifully.

The more Xie Xingchen thought about it, the happier he got, until even his smile turned silly. Yet even so, he still looked lively.

After rolling around on the bed a few times, Xie Xingchen devoutly bowed to the empty air: “Thank you, great transmigration-into-a-book god. I definitely won’t let down your expectations—I’ll enjoy life properly here!”

Xie Xingchen didn’t know why he’d transmigrated into a book, but he didn’t want to dig into it. He only wanted to live well—to live a good life.

From childhood to adulthood, he’d never lived a good life. Not only did he grow up with no parents, but he also had a grandmother with an extremely strange personality who was hard to serve. When other people’s children were being cared for by elders, he’d already been standing on a stool at five years old, cooking in his home’s cramped, gloomy kitchen. Even his nine years of compulsory education only happened because people from the neighborhood committee came to his house countless times, and in the end threatened his grandmother that if she didn’t send him to school it would be illegal and she’d go to jail—only then did he get to attend.

Fortunately, Xie Xingchen was capable. From a young age, he knew the importance of both studying well and making money. So starting from first grade, he studied desperately. He slogged through more than ten bitter years of learning and finally got into a top-ten university back home.

Oh, right—worth mentioning: Xie Xingchen’s tuition, travel fare, and his first month’s living expenses for university all came from money he’d saved by picking up bottles since he was little. It wasn’t much, but at least it let him breathe.

After entering university, he started working part-time while studying. He pushed through and finished college on part-time jobs, scholarships, and student loans.

Because the school was good—and his abilities weren’t bad—right after graduation he was hired by a big corporation, and his after-tax salary easily hit five figures.

But then, just like that—dramatically—when Xie Xingchen had paid off his student loans and thought he was finally about to welcome a beautiful life, his grandmother died. On his way home for the funeral, he encountered a drowning child. One jump, one rescue… and he ended up paying with his own life.

He’d thought he was definitely dead this time. But who knew—after waking up, he didn’t have to struggle anymore.

Thinking of the money in his account, and that divorce agreement with the attached post-divorce asset list, Xie Xingchen wiped away the tears that had slipped from the corner of his mouth with a bright smile, and said again, moved: “Original owner, don’t worry! I’ll live happily for you too—I’ll live your share as well!”

When he was poor, he’d never once thought about dying. Now that he was this rich—even if he’d transmigrated into a vicious cannon-fodder, so what? It was just a different world and a different way of living. He still wanted to live!
Exiting StarNet, Xie Xingchen stood up and stretched lazily, then strode with high spirits into the study connected to the bedroom.

From a hidden compartment, he took out a sheet of paper filled with plot details. He carefully scribbled revisions on it, then cautiously put it back into the compartment.

It wasn’t that Xie Xingchen didn’t want to use his light-brain for notes—he was just afraid that the high technology here could read his information, so he could only record things in the most primitive way.

Besides, he didn’t remember much of the plot—only the main line and a few “face-slapping” scenes. Everything else was vague, and he could only cross things out and add things in whenever he recalled them.

Time was like sand, slipping through his fingers without effort.

Without realizing it, a month had passed since Xie Xingchen arrived.

A full month, and the original owner’s bargain husband finally had time.

Not a minute off the agreed time, Fu Yunzhou arrived at the study right on the dot.

Fu Yunzhou’s arrival made Xie Xingchen’s eyes light up, but to avoid stirring up trouble, he decisively lowered his head and pretended to be sad.

Expressionless, Fu Yunzhou sat down across from Xie Xingchen without saying a word. Seeing Xie Xingchen with his head down in silence as if he were crying soundlessly, Fu Yunzhou’s fingers twitched slightly.

He pressed his lips together. After several minutes, Fu Yunzhou finally spoke his first sentence since arriving: “Xingchen, you’re not young anymore. You no longer have the right to be willful.”

Fu Yunzhou’s voice was pleasant, but the words he spoke sounded like a cold, emotionless machine.

Xie Xingchen’s smile froze, and suddenly he felt the original owner wasn’t worth it.

But his sudden silence was taken by Fu Yunzhou as yet another attempt to stir trouble, and impatience rose again from the bottom of Fu Yunzhou’s heart.

Fu Yunzhou looked at Xie Xingchen with indifferent eyes and said, “Sign.”

Xie Xingchen??

Since you’re like this, don’t blame me for helping the original owner squeeze out a bit more. I’d rather donate it than let any of you Fu family people have it.

Having made up his mind, Xie Xingchen viciously pinched his own thigh, then slowly raised his head, tears streaming from the pain: “Fu Yunzhou, have you fallen for that cheap bastard Yu Cheng?”

He dared to do this because he knew that cold-looking Fu Yunzhou was actually the softest-hearted person in the Fu family. So if he acted deeply in love and wounded, he could squeeze out a little more.

And bringing up Yu Cheng, of course, wasn’t because he truly wanted to salvage this marriage—it was simply because he wanted to grab more money.

Hearing the name “Yu Cheng” from Xie Xingchen again, the exhausted Fu Yunzhou let out a quiet sigh without showing it, then said nothing more.

Seeing that Fu Yunzhou wouldn’t speak, the lawyer standing behind him thoughtfully stepped forward. With a polite smile, he said in a businesslike tone, “Mr. Xie, please be careful with your words. My client, Mr. Fu, and Mr. Yu are only in a cooperative relationship.”

After speaking, the lawyer’s tone shifted. Without giving Xie Xingchen a chance to respond, he quickly added, “It’s understood that you were dissatisfied with the previous property division. Adjustments have now been made. This is the list—please take a look.”

As he spoke, the lawyer pulled out one document from the pile in his hands and handed it to Xie Xingchen.