The situations for both of them were not great.

In the year since Xu Qing returned to M country, he had been fighting tooth and nail with his younger brother for the position of heir. Both sides suffered losses and there was no clear winner yet. However, He Yan felt that Xu Qing's chances of ultimately winning were not high.

Xu Qing had already left a bad impression in Old Master Xu's mind due to ruining the cooperation between the Xu and Mo families. Not to mention, Xu Feng's mother had become the second mistress of the Xu family and even gave birth to a son in Old Master Xu's old age, stealing away most of Old Master Xu's favor.

Perhaps it was because the older one gets, the more they yearn for warmth from family, and the more easily swayed they become. Ever since Xu Feng's mother became pregnant, Old Master Xu had doted on the mother and son. After his first love gave birth, he was also very loving towards that child and would often personally take care of him.

Xu Feng was also talented, hardworking and ambitious, and extremely good at pleasing and being filial to him. Plus, his first love also had some tricks up her sleeve. So as the year went by, Old Master Xu's heart had imperceptibly started favoring Xu Feng.

If this continued, sooner or later, the lone battling Xu Qing would be reduced to the position of a loser.

As for Mo Lanyu, after spending half a year listlessly in the villa Xu Qing bought for her, she finally pulled herself together and went out to find a job.

However, because the gossip about her, that foreign company heir ex-boyfriend, and Xu Qing had already spread in the industry, many companies were worried about incurring grudges. Even though Mo Lanyu had indeed performed well in her previous company position, they were all unwilling to take her in. After facing many obstacles, she finally found a job at a small company that had only been open for a couple years, with a salary that was more than 50% lower than her previous one.

This time, it seemed Mo Lanyu's edge had been completely worn down. She didn't achieve much at the new company and became just another ordinary white-collar worker among countless others in the city.

Very good. These two people surely wouldn't have the time to run in front of him and disturb his dating life anymore.

After reading through the information and feeling a moment of inner gratification, He Yan nonchalantly tossed these two people to the back of his mind. He clicked open his message box and continued harassing his partner: "My precious baby."

Mo Family Head: "Hm?"

He Yan: "When are you coming back? It's so boring at home, I miss you. [sends a cute pouting sticker]"

Mo Family Head: "In two hours. I miss you too. [sends kiss stickers]"

Therefore, that afternoon, the assistant who was forced to complete half a day's workload in two hours could only raise a torch in his heart while holding back tears.

*

The instant he saw his own palm, He Yan realized this was not the real world. His palm was transparent, the edges of his body emitting a faint white glow. His body also seemed weightless, floating in the air.

This was a vast, pitch-black space, with occasional objects carrying streaks of flowing light flashing by in the distance. Surrounding him was an ocean composed of countless fragments glimmering with starlight, appearing tranquil and beautiful in the dark space.

That was his spiritual sea.

Do people still see their spiritual sea after death?

He Yan pondered uncertainly.

In his second life, he died of natural causes. He and Mo Yitao lived out their lives together peacefully and stably like most couples in this world. Midway, they adopted a child with a similar background as him from a side branch of the Mo family to inherit the family.

Entering their senior years, the age gap between Mo Yitao and him led to his lover inevitably passing away a few years before him. In the end, after drifting alone in the world for a few years, he also peacefully ended his life due to the laws of nature.

Everything from the past flashed through his mind like a kaleidoscope, washed away by the torrent of time into a distant era he could no longer touch. He Yan reached out in a daze, and when his illusory fingertips touched a fragment of his spiritual sea, that piece suddenly flashed with a gentle ripple of light that instantly spread out, enveloping the surrounding few fragments.

He Yan withdrew his hand and saw with surprise that after the light dissipated, the original few fragments seemed to have melted, turning into a ribbon of smoke glimmering with tiny specks of starlight.

This was the original form of his spiritual sea before it shattered.

His spiritual sea, crushed into pieces by someone before his death, was actually slowly recovering. Although the restored part was minuscule, it still gave him hope.

He reached out to touch the other spiritual sea fragments, but this time nothing happened.

After pondering for a bit, He Yan formed a guess in his heart. The recovery of the spiritual sea should be the effect of absorbing some kind of spiritual energy, an energy he must have just obtained.

Naturally, He Yan thought of the life he had just experienced. A bold conjecture flashed through his mind - could it be...

Just then, his thoughts suddenly became hazy. A strong gravitational force assailed him, pulling him into the shattered spiritual sea. His transparent body also gradually blurred and dissipated into a handful of nothingness in the faint light, like sand slipping through fingertips.

Only the spiritual sea glimmering with starlight remained, floating silently.

*

As if waking from a long and hazy dream, He Yan groggily opened his eyes.

A grating electronic voice screamed by his ear, "Detecting your spiritual power is unstable, forcibly disconnecting from the light network!"

Upon hearing "spiritual power", He Yan thought for a moment that he had returned to the real world. However, the large amount of information flooding his mind the next second shattered that notion.

It seemed he had once again arrived in a completely unfamiliar world.

He Yan's mind stirred as he sensed his spiritual sea. Sure enough, he discovered that a small part of it had already been restored to its pre-shattered state, exactly the same as what he saw in that mysterious space.

If his guess was correct, after his spiritual sea was destroyed, his spiritual body likely entered a special cycle. With each cycle's end, a portion of his destroyed spiritual power would recover.

He was struck and had his spiritual sea shattered in the asteroid belt.

The asteroid belt was filled with a large number of high-density celestial fragments and the remains of dead celestial bodies. The asteroids on the periphery usually orbited at high speeds. The vast majority of spaceships and starships that ventured in could not escape the fate of being blasted to bits, thus it was also known as the "moving holy land of death". Once a starship entered here, if one was not careful, they could easily be smashed to dust by the haphazardly flying meteors.

Under the enemy's pursuit, He Yan went all-in, pushing his spiritual power to the limit. He managed to control the massive starship, narrowly avoiding countless densely packed meteors. When the energy was down to 6%, the starship finally came to a safe stop.

With 6% energy remaining, by shutting down all functions and only maintaining a single-person nutrition pod, it could sustain him for over 72 hours. Once his teammates returned to base, they would immediately locate the battleship's position. There was still hope for his survival.

Unfortunately, among the pursuing enemies, there was someone with an uncannily strong spiritual power. Despite the thousands of meters of distance and the magnetic field of the meteor belt weakening spiritual power, they still managed to crush He Yan's spiritual sea.

He Yan himself had 3S-level spiritual power, but it's no exaggeration to say that the person who crushed his spiritual sea that day had at least ten times stronger spiritual power than him!

Only those deities appearing in online mythological novels could possess such terrifying power.

Unable to figure out the outcome, He Yan sighed and put aside the doubts in his heart, starting to focus on his current predicament.

Familiar with the process, He Yan resignedly browsed the information in his mind and immediately frowned involuntarily.

This time, it was a very peculiar world. Human genders were no longer divided into male and female, but into three types based on pheromones: alpha, beta, and omega.

Among them, alphas accounted for 15% of the total population, betas over 75%, and omegas less than 10%.

Alphas were the most formidable existence in this world, possessing excellent physical fitness and spiritual power. They were strong, aggressive, and domineering, a group of people standing at the top of the pyramid in this world.

Betas were much weaker than alphas in all aspects, with mostly average physical fitness and spiritual power. However, since they were the most numerous, they constituted the main component of this society.

Finally, there were the omegas, the rarest group and also very fragile creatures. Their physical fitness was far inferior to even betas, though their spiritual power was slightly higher than betas. They mostly had beautiful appearances, gentle personalities, and sensitive spirits. They enjoyed special care from the government and society. After coming of age, most of them would pair with an alpha and be kept at home, rarely coming out to work.

The reason this fragile group hadn't been eliminated but was instead sought after and protected was that in the current era of generally low birth rates, omegas had extremely strong fertility. The children they bore had a high probability of being alphas or omegas. In comparison, although betas also had reproductive ability, their conception rate wasn't high, and the vast majority of children they bore were also mediocre betas.

Moreover, after coming of age, both alphas and omegas had fixed estrus periods. They needed each other both physiologically and psychologically. Omegas would also develop a subservience to the alpha who marked them.

It could be said that alphas were natural predators, and omegas were the prey they toyed with in their palms.

And this time, the body He Yan transmigrated into was that of an omega, a fragile omega about to enter estrus.

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