Chase Jennings hadn’t yet come back to his senses from Scarlett Jennings’ ridiculous proposal when he felt the world spinning around him.
Then, he turned into a robotic vacuum cleaner.
Chase couldn’t believe it, but he couldn’t let out a roar anymore.
Scarlett took him back to the Jennings Family as promised. When the butler saw that she brought home a robotic vacuum cleaner, he praised her,
"Miss is really thoughtful. I’ve always felt that four robotic vacuum cleaners on the first floor aren’t enough, adding one more is just perfect."
That day, Chase was assigned a "work area" by the butler.
As a robotic vacuum cleaner, Chase felt like he had returned to the days trapped inside a doll, crying to the heavens and the earth every day without an answer, repeating the uncontrollable routine of cleaning life.
On the first day as a robotic vacuum cleaner, the butler specially praised how clean he swept, saying the vacuum cleaner chosen by Miss was indeed good, then asked him to continue cleaning.
On the tenth day as a robotic vacuum cleaner, he was treated as a mount for that system tortoise. Every time he set out to clean, the little fox would carry the tortoise in its mouth, drop it on him, and let him roam regularly around the house with the tortoise.
Occasionally, he’d get lucky and bump into the family members.
But what he could see were only their toe tips, and the machine’s running rules automatically changed his approach route as soon as he sensed them near.
On the thirtieth day as a robotic vacuum cleaner,
Chase wanted to die.
He forcefully altered the vacuum cleaner’s path, ramming himself into the walls repeatedly.
The family maid heard the noise and came over to stop him, muttering,
"Why is this vacuum cleaner broken? Should it be replaced?"
The butler also came over, but upon hearing the maid’s words, he said,
"This was bought by Miss Scarlett, why replace it? Let’s send it for repairs first, maybe it can still be used."
Chase: ...
Unprecedented despair surged toward him like tidal waves,
Chase cried again.
He was wrong.
He thought, if life could restart...
He just wanted to properly be Chase Jennings again.
"Wuuu wuuu wuuu wuuu..."
He let himself cry loudly, allowing the tides of despair to drown him bit by bit until...
Lucas Jennings’ voice faintly came to his ears,
"Sis, why is my brother crying?"
And then came Scarlett’s somewhat cool voice,
"Maybe he was moved to tears by his dedicated work."
Lucas seemingly clicked his tongue in amazement,
"In my brother’s dreams, he understands dedicated work?"
Their voices went from indistinct at first to gradually clear. Following the direction of the voices, Chase struggled, struggled, until he suddenly opened his eyes.
Before him was a room so familiar it seemed strange.
Chase stared blankly at it for several seconds, his mind buzzing, as if still stuck at the boundary between reality and dream.
After a long while, he raised his hand and touched his cheek.
There it was damp with tears.
He dabbed a bit and licked it.
Salty,
and somewhat cold.
Beside him, Lucas looked at his actions incredulously, not daring to make a sound, just turning to look at Scarlett, his eyes carrying a hint of fear and unease.
Oh no, oh no, could his brother have turned stupid from the dream?
Only then did Scarlett rise slowly from the small sofa at the far end of the room, walk to the bedside, and quietly regard Chase on the bed.
Only then did Chase see the two people in the room, a sense of unreal shock in his heart. He stared straight at Scarlett before him for a long while, his lips dryly parted, his voice hoarse as he asked her,
"Am I... back?"
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