Chapter 1: The Sleepy Otaku

  "Sizzle... Sizzle..." Along with this sound, the aroma of food wafted through the entire house.

  A woman in her thirties stirred the cabbage in the pot while loudly shouting, "Xiao Yu, get up quickly and eat!"

  Half response...

  Inside the house, apart from the sound of stir-frying, there was still no other sound.

  "It's like this again..." A middle-aged woman with a resigned expression shook her head and called out, "Xiaoyu, dinner is ready, stop sleeping."

  However, after half a day, there was still no movement in the house.

  "Oh dear... This is always the case, why can't I get enough sleep?!" Seeing this situation, the middle-aged woman "slammed" the fire shut, turned around and left the kitchen, wearing slippers to a door.

  Pushing open the door, the first impression is "bright".

  In the room of about ten square meters, the walls were painted white and clean, with large floor-to-ceiling windows that were now tightly covered by sky-blue curtains. On the bed in the middle of the house, a big quilt could be seen, and someone was wrapped inside.

  A middle-aged woman walked to the bedside, lifted up the quilt and exposed a young man's figure. The middle-aged woman with a face full of anger shouted at the young man: "Guo Xiaoyu, get up for me! You've been sleeping all afternoon, are you still sleeping? You're already twenty years old, why do you sleep every day? Why can't you get enough sleep? You sleep from dawn till dusk!"

  "Hmm..." The young man turned over, rubbing his messy hair, and slowly opened his eyes to look at the middle-aged woman in front of him. "Mom, what's going on? I want to sleep." He said, then covered himself with the quilt again.

  "Get up." The middle-aged woman lifted the quilt again and said loudly, "Get up, it's already past five o'clock. Your father will be back with Xiaoyi soon."

  "Is Dad going to pick her up? What's gotten into him today? He actually has time to go pick up my sister after school?" The young man was curious about his father's behavior, but eventually sleep overcame his curiosity. He turned over and said to the middle-aged woman, "Dad will be back soon, didn't he say he hasn't come back yet?" After finishing speaking, he covered himself with the quilt again.

  "Not getting up yet? Alright!" Seeing this, the middle-aged woman nodded slightly, calmly turned around, picked up the clothes on the bedside cabinet, lifted the quilt, and directly threw the clothes over the young man's head. She shouted loudly: "Guo Xiaoyu, I order you, now! Immediately! Right away! Get dressed and get out of bed, we'll eat when your father and sister come back." After finishing speaking, the middle-aged woman turned around and left the room.

  "Alas... it's always like this." Guo Xiaoyu pulled up the clothes on her face, got out of bed with a helpless expression and put on her clothes.

  A messy head of hair, eyes that always look like they haven't woken up, simple clothes, and a pair of big round glasses - this is the typical appearance of an otaku.

  "Otaku" as a new species that emerged in the 21st century, Guo Xiaoyu absolutely does not acknowledge. In his words, "Where is there such a handsome otaku?" Of course! This is what he thinks himself.

  Staring at the calendar hanging on the wall, displaying May 5th, 2013, Guo Xiaoyu's mind was dazed for a moment. Although he had been in this world for twenty years, every time he saw a calendar, Guo Xiaoyu felt a little uncomfortable, as if everything had happened just yesterday.

  That's right! Guo Xiaoyu, this otaku, wasn't originally from this world.

  In his past life, Guo Xiaoyu was an assistant director. The title sounded good, but in reality, he just helped the director with menial tasks such as serving tea and water, recording some notes, and was generally in charge of a bunch of miscellaneous chores.

  Guo Xiaoyu, who had just graduated from university in his previous life, joined a film crew and became a scene recorder. After mixing for several years, he talked about a girlfriend. Under her urging, Guo Xiaoyu worked hard to become an assistant director after several years of effort. However, his lazy nature was too much for his girlfriend to bear, and she eventually left him. As a result, he went back to his old ways of muddling along and waiting for death.

  Just as the assistant director had mixed into middle age, Guo Xiaoyu finally got a chance to direct a short film alone. After confirming this news, Guo Xiaoyu and his buddies drank heavily, with the result that he passed out. When Guo Xiaoyu woke up, he found himself transformed into an infant, which scared him badly.

  In this way, Guo Xiaoyu slowly adapted to her life in shock, gradually came to understand the people around her, and gradually came to understand this world.

  Guo Xiaoyu's father in this life is a director of a TV station, which is the Mango TV that was once very popular. Guo's dad has directed several variety shows, but none of them are particularly well-known. In fact, his father does have some ability, according to Guo Xiaoyu, it's just that he lacks luck and hasn't encountered a show with potential, which is why he ended up with such mediocre results.

  His mother, on the other hand, works with his father at a TV station, where she is a makeup artist. Compared to his father, his mother's reputation is much higher, as she does the makeup for several top anchors at the TV station, so most people at the TV station have great respect for her. However, in Guo Xiaoyu's opinion, this respect is not genuine, but rather obligatory, because if someone were to offend the makeup artist, they would suffer the consequences.

  Guo Xiaoyu also has a five-year-old younger sister, Guo Xiaoyi. Since childhood, she has been clever and mischievous, as Guo Xiaoyu puts it, "monkey-like". When she grows up, she will definitely be the kind of person who can swindle others and still get them to count their money for her. She is currently attending kindergarten and her father goes to pick her up and drop her off every day.

  Finally, it's our Xiao Yu Guo. As a traverser, he doesn't have the demeanor of a traverser at all. He neither has the aura of a tiger shaking the earth and dominating the world; nor does he have the presence of being above everyone else. Moreover, he doesn't have wealth that can rival a nation or power that can control a country. Xiao Yu Guo's twenty years can be described in four words - muddle along until death.

  From primary school to now, his performance has always been mediocre in all aspects, whether it's grades, sports, or anything else. If I had to say the only time he showed a glimmer of excellence was during middle school, when he scored third place in the entire grade level just so his parents would buy him a computer. After that, he went back to being his usual self. Guo Xiaoyu isn't incapable of doing better, it's just that he doesn't want to. A tall tree will be toppled by strong winds - Guo Xiaoyu is someone who has no ambitions to begin with. If not for the pressure from his girlfriend in his past life, he wouldn't have even become an assistant director.

  Nowadays, Guo Xiaoyu lives a carefree life, completely unlike his previous life which was full of worries. All the troubles he had in his past life can now be easily solved, so Guo Xiaoyu has developed a special hobby - sleeping at home. Whenever he has time, he sleeps, as if he can never get enough sleep. Therefore, the scene where Guo Xiaoyu clashed with his mother earlier is almost a daily occurrence.

  Over the years, Guo Xiaoyu also came to understand this world a little better. He found that the place he was in was still the Celestial Empire, and some things that were originally happening were still happening, but some things that should have happened had completely disappeared.

  For example:

  "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" won the Best Foreign Language Film at the 73rd Academy Awards, and is to date the only Chinese-language film to have done so.

  The voices of the Four Heavenly Kings still echoed throughout Asia, becoming an object of worship for millions of people.

  A certain popular movie star encountered N consecutive scandals in one year, from the initial ink-gate, angle-changing gate, soup-sealing gate, fake donation gate, to the later room-opening gate, recombination gate, breakup gate. This movie star was like having a nightmare throughout the year, causing her to fall from heaven to earth all at once.

  A generation of beauty, our beautiful and elegant "Xiang Fei" has forever left us in a car accident.

  The relatives and friends of Empress Dowager Mei Yanfang are still quarreling over her legacy.

  The King of Pop Michael will forever exist in our memories.

  Teacher Chen's camera has once again stirred up a storm that shocked the entire entertainment circle.

  。。。。。。

  Of course, there were many things that originally happened but are now completely different.

  Diaoyu Island still belongs to China, a certain island country has completely given up its idea of making trouble.

  There are also many box office hits and award-winning films that have yet to emerge.

  Those popular songs have also disappeared without a trace.

  The movie that set a box office record in the Chinese film industry in its previous life didn't even have a trailer.

  。。。。。。

  In these same or different things, Guo Xiaoyu spent his twenty years.

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