The maid that looked like his mother was troubled with his question. But she did not open her mouth to answer him. She merely glanced at the maid beside her, the younger maid said.
"I-I'm sorry for Hu Xia's insolent behavior Young Master Xianli, she didn't mean to do anything!" a word of apology out of nowhere.
'Even her name sounds similar.'
Dian Xianli frowned from the unexpected answer uttered by the younger maid. But he still locked his gaze on the frail-looking maid. It was too much of a coincidence with her being like this. The same face, exuding the same presence, and same gaze.
The only thing that differs from her compared to his mother back on Earth was that this one didn't look that angry every time. As the only child of a not so wealthy household, his mother was always strict with him since childhood. She always put a stern front and used physical punishment to him if he misbehaved.
His mother was a Peranakan who married an indigenous Javanese man that was his father. And she also had Chinese-name beside her Indonesian name. Her mother's name was Djie Hoe Sia. Strange romanization from Chinese character and standardized by the obsolete Van Ophuijsen spelling, if using modernized Hanyu-Pinyin then it would be Jie Húxiá. Though, her Indonesian name was Julia Wibisana.
This was too much of a coincidence for him.
"Why she stays silent when I asked her, is she mute or something?" Dian Xianli asked with a frown.
"Actually, yes, Young Master Xianli. She lost her ability to speak since around fifteen years ago." the younger maid answered with a weird expression and a wry smile.
"That's ..." Dian Xianli widened his eyes surprised with that, he then bowed to her, "I'm sorry for my rude words, I don't know about it."
Hu Xia shook her head and waved hands flustered with her Young Master who suddenly bowed his head in apology.
In the end, her panicked state made a slight smile upon Xianli's face.
She was a stark contrast compared to his mother on Earth. She looked like a clumsy housewife while his mother was a strong and strict lady of the house.
'Perhaps ..., I'm overthinking about this matter too much. I've read a lot of novels with the MC who reincarnated into another world with the same parents and will be given the same name. However, my case is different, I was reincarnated into a different body, with different parents. This could also happen, it seems.'
While thinking up to this, he stopped himself from thinking too much about her. Perhaps she was a body with the same name as his mother, like her doppelganger but in another world.
'It's feasible, although it's not something that could be explained with reason and logic. But, she has the same everything that my mother of the past life has. Only minus vocal chord.'
"What is her position as a maid?" he asked the younger maid beside Hu Xia.
Dian Xianli needed to ask about her condition in the manor. She was very similar to his mother of the past life in terms of appearance, this made him curious about her.
"Hu Xia is tasked to be a sweeper in the training field." the young maid answered without change of expression.
The training field was a clearing inside a row of trees surrounding it. To maintain its cleanliness, a group of servants was assigned to sweep the dry leaves that fell from the tree.
'It's a heavy task for her, with that frail body if she exposed by the sunlight every day, won't she dried up to death?' Xianli wondered, while worried for her health.
"Who is responsible for that task?" Dian Xianli asked.
"I ..., I'm the one who bears the responsibilities, Young Master." A middle-aged manservant raised his hand.
"Change her place with someone else! From now on, you will be attending me in my courtyard."
Though his word was too domineering to the maid, Xianli's plan was to make her not working at all. It perhaps a guilty feeling from him, or maybe he just take pity with her frail body that looked like she had a nutritional deficiency. But he really felt a strange unspeakable closeness with this Hu Xia.
The mute maid widened her eyes staring at Dian Xianli. She gapped her mouth and tried to convey objection through sign language.
The younger maid waited for a few more phrases before she comes to understand her to sign word.
"D ..., A, U, G, H .. T E R, daughter? A S K ... ask, P E R M I S ..., You want to ask for your daughter permission first?" the younger maid asked after guessing what she would like to convey.
Hu Xia heavily nodded her head.
'A daughter?'
Xianli widened his eyes with this revelation. So this means that Hu Xia already gave birth but it was not a son, but a daughter. Now he became more curious about the identity of this daughter of her alternate world's mother. Would she had something that similar to him in the past or share the same name or something?
"Then bring your daughter with you!" said Dian Xianli with a frown.
Hu Xia frantically moved her hands and showed various hand signs rapidly, but even this time the younger maid didn't dare to translate her sign language for Xianli. With the Young Master being this forceful, how dare she made another objection.
Hu Xia then sighed because Xianli could not understand her and there was no one who was willing to translate her sign language. In the end, she lowered her gaze with a sigh and just let the Young Master do as he please. Resigned with her fate, she just needs to explain this thing to her daughter.
"I take that as you don't object with this arrangement. You there, help her to move her belongings to my courtyard. I want to see her in my place tonight."
It was a sentence that was easy to misunderstand. But Dian Xianli said that without batting his eyes. Dian Xianli then entered the bathroom for men.
After some time, the soldiers and servants come back to their senses. The male soldier murmured while the servants started gossiping.
"..., such a heavy taste." said a soldier while drinking their booze.
"But, isn't she a beauty? In a wide aspect, she has the looks and exuded this peculiar mature air around her. If only she had more meat on her." commented the other.
"I like bony woman, my fetish is the collarbone." some random comment.
"Dude, nobody asked!"
"I heard she's a widow. Who was her husband again?"
"Isn't she that Xiong's wife?"
"Xiong ..., you mean that Old Xiong? That Xiong Sun?"
"Yes, yes ..., Xiong Sun, that dude's name is Xiong Sun."
"Who is her daughter, again?"
"Ohhh ..., I know her, she is the weirdo who always skipped her duty and always trying to read books in the library. A maidservant yet trying to be literate, how daring is she!" a servant commented after hearing the soldiers' discussion.
"Hey, that little girl is Lady Liu's chambermaid now, don't you dare spout some nonsense there!"
On the other side, the young and healthy maid was gossiping about her Young Master peculiar taste.
"Why would Young Master fancy old hag like her?"
"Young Master couldn't get out from the mansion, I thought he will definitely take a good look at us and not those whore from the shady establishment at last."
"But to think that he will invite a mute hag. Isn't his taste a bit too extreme?"
"Does he like a quiet woman?"
"I'm prettier, my breast are bigger, I have a slender waist, and my bum is perfect for bearing a child. Why won't he notice me!?"
They totally went out of the topic. Although the Young Master was notorious as a lecher and hated by some of the maids. Some of the maids also wanted easy money by giving birth to his child.
After all, Dian family would recognize the child as part of them and finally, made the woman as his concubine. This was a temptation for the desperate woman young and old that need fast and easy money.
With the topic of their colleagues was all on her, Hu Xia looked down with a faint blush on her cheek. It was not her first time she felt a rather peculiar something when she saw Young Master Xianli. She secretly takes a look at the young man who at the same age as her daughter from time to time, and a rather strange feeling born from her too-much-too-count stalking habit.
Hu Xia adored him, the young man who was a miser, a good-for-nothing, and a lecher that shunned his family. She had the feeling to nag at him and give him a harsh word for his behavior. If only she could speak a word just like in the past, probably she couldn't help but shout at him to retrieve him from the wrong path.
But, no matter what kind of evil deed this Young Master has done, she had the feeling that she couldn't make herself to hate him. This feeling was something that always bothering her these few years. She didn't know why she would think like that, but she couldn't stop it.
After this, she would live under the same roof with that Young Master of hers. Perhaps her question would be answered if she had the time and opportunity to watch him and his life closely.
It probably her own misunderstanding, but she secretly anticipated it.
Dian Xianli felt his mood lightened after he met someone who has the same exact look as his mother of the past life. Though, in this life apparently she gave birth to a daughter and not a son. Regardless, whether she was someone unrelated to him in this life or not, he would cherish her and tried to make her life not difficult.
He soaked in the hot bath enjoying the warm fragrant bath water. Because in the men's bathroom it was only him who occupied this huge place, he could hear clearly the snu-snu stuff that was ongoing on the other side of the wooden wall.
Yes, of course, the bathtub would be connected. Who would design two pools when they could just build one and placed a wall to separate them.
Xianli brought a bottle of refreshment to his bath, cold soybean milk. When he drunk the milk, he began hearing some misleading words from the other side of the wall.
"Ohhh! This is amazing! So long, so amazing! I haven't seen anything like this before." a chirpy bird-like voice sounded in a high-pitch.
"Hey, hey ..., can I touch it? Can I? Can I?" A rather energetic voice sounded.
"Second Sis! That's too rude! Stop it! But uhmmm ..., I also want to touch it!" This time a calm voice of a girl ended with low volume muttering.
"Ah, it's twitching ..., how cute. Oh, it went stiff for a moment there."
Xianli spurted out the soybean milk he just drank.
'What's with the long thing? Twitching?! And stiff?! Something that they have never seen before? What the hell happened on that side?'
Of course, his rather experienced mind related that with a male special part. The extra leg of men. That peculiar limb could elongate, could twitch, and had the ability to stiff itself. And above all, there was no way for his sister to have seen anything like that before.
Yes, Xianli already knows who they were based on their voice alone. The first who spoke was the fifth daughter Linxue. The second who pester endlessly was second daughter Ruyen. While the one who rebuked her, in the end, was fourth daughter Zhiqiao. As for the one who commented at the end, he remembered her crispy voice belonged to sixth daughter Shixi.
'Is there really a male person in there? Then why they don't chase him out?!? Ahh ..., so infuriating!'
Dian Xianli not knowing what happened at the other side of the wall only leads to his jealousy. He just stared at the wooden wall which was the only thing separated him from the Shangri La.
[Hey, Host ..., wanna gain some easy Crystals?]
At that time, Catherine popped out with a notification. Her tone was like a hooker on the small alleyway trying to land a hit on a potential customer.
'Don't talk, I'm not in the mood.'
[Ehh, come on ..., I have a quest with Crystals reward available now. Don't you desperately need that?]
'Even if you have it, I don't want to end my bath session early. Tell me about that later.'
[It's a time-limited quest. And Host must finish it as soon as possible as it began. This quest only available when you're inside this bathhouse. If Host goes outside, then the quest will be failed.]
'Huh ...? Are you being serious? Then, show me!'
[Okii]
[New Quest Available: Operation: Shina's Wall I]
[Operation: Shina's Wall I:
Quest Objective: Peek the women's bathhouse. (0/1).
Quest Reward: Box of Crystal (x1)]
'Why I feel like, you purposely made this quest up just now?'
[fyu ... fyu ... fsyhu ...,]
Catherine purposely didn't answer the question with a crappy made up whistle. That didn't sound nice to hear at all.
'Oy ....?'
[This is legit Quest approved by the Main Central System. Don't look down on it. Look, there's a number beside it. It's a part of a Chained Quest.]
'Heihh ...,'
Xianli stood up from the bathtub and covered the lower part of his body with a towel.
'This is for the sake of defending my beautiful sisters!'
He tried to find the reason for his action. He feared that there was a man who tricked his sisters and then shoved his dick into their pure untainted body. Now, that would be infuriating and pricked one angst. Though, that reasoning was a bit forced.
He walked and trying to find a small slit on the wooden wall.
It didn't take too long for him to found an opening made by lecherous soldiers and servants. After all, all of them were male. Dian Xianli, as a male himself already understood what kind of thought they would have.
He brought his eyes close to the pinhole slit and the first thing he saw was the figure of the blonde-haired priestess who soaked herself in a tub with her eyes closed, sometimes let out a slight moan in relief. Her lascivious body that usually covered in religious garments now became a free field to roam.
She tied her golden hair in a high bun, showing her beautiful clean nape that enticing any man. Just like he thought, she also has some breast beneath her usual priestess attire. Arianne has some assets too on her bust, but Therese also did not lose to her at all. In fact, her two peaks were perky and beautiful. With her two unblemished pink nipples, it was a real feast to the eyes.
'Damn her! What a sinful body she has for a person who covered her body with robe all day.' Xianli thought when he eyed the naked Therese soaking in the bath.
He also catches a glimpse of his older sisters looking at Rebecca as if seeing a rare animal in the zoo. The beamy-eyed Linxue while playing her emerald hair from behind, Ruyen who touched her long ear, Zhiqiao who tried to land her hand on her twitching ears but withdrew her hand on the last second. In the end, she asked.
"Miss Rebecca, this ear, I mean your ear ..., can I touch it?"
The elf Rebecca with her inhumanely beautiful body looked at Zhiqiao and then nodded her head as an answer. His sister then caressed elf's long-ear with a face that almost melting. Shixi looked nonchalant with their overly enthusiastic attitude and lukewarmly watched them. Sometimes saying some random comment to her three older sisters.
'So it was her ears that long, twitching and went stiff? Huhh ..., thank goodness that it wasn't something like what I had in my mind at all.'
He thought there was a man trespassing the woman bath and his sister went curious with their gender counterpart. Thinking about that would only make him want to kill someone for some reason.
He decided to continue surveying the Forbidden Heavenly Ground. On the distant corner, there was Xinyue and Juewang. Xinyue was sitting on a stool, while Juewang kneeled behind her and rubbed her back with a cloth.
The sight of his third sister sat on a small stool was really outrageous. Although, the other sisters in the pool also naked, from the chest downward it was blurred by the steamy fog and the bathwater. On the other hand, Xinyue was stark naked without any visual interference. And from this position, he could see the side profile of her curvaceous body.
A fire of lust ignited from this feast. His national treasure raised the flag pole rather quickly. It was a different feeling when he feasted the naked body of the other woman. When some rare and tender meat available, added with some spice would make it more delicious.
The thought about having an incestuous relationship really made his heart skipped a beat. Just like adding exotic spice to the rare meat.
He then came back to sanity and thinking in a logical manner. Telling himself that the one who he was lusting for was his own sister. He retreated from the small slit and sat down on the stone pavement while leaning his back on the wooden wall.
'What a sinful thought! Calm down me! Calm down ..., she's your sister! Begone ... Thoughts!'
Xianli shoved the dirty thought aside and noticed that there was a notification of a successful quest.
[Quest Completed]
[Operation: Shina's Wall I:
Quest Objective: Peek the women's bathhouse. (1/1).
Quest Reward: Box of Crystal (x1)]
[You get a Box of Crystal (x1) as the Quest Reward.]
[New Quest Available: Operation: Shina's Wall II]
[Operation: Shina's Wall II:
Quest Objective: Fap while peeking at women's in the bathhouse. (0/1).
Quest Reward: Box of Crystal (x5)]
He frowned with this quest. Was the system made a joke with him? He bellowed with anger to Catherine.
'Are purposely trying to humiliate me? The f*ck with fapping! I've made up my mind and done with the solo work!'
His angry protest was answered with a small chuckle.
[Huhu ..., won't Host rethink about this one more time? Look at the reward? Huhu ..., isn't that just too generous? It's true that I propose this quest to the Main Central System, but you see, I actually wanted to help Host a little bit. In my perception, this rather easy quest could not be considered as a real quest at all.]
'But this is just too much ... why would I, who is not a virgin do the same pitiful activity that only virgin male does? That's plain dirty and shameful. I'm not going to do it!'
Catherine sighed after hearing his reasoning.
[Heihh ..., look Host, it's not an easy thing for you to gain colored crystals at the moment. Even if you use Land Card you will have to wait for sometime before it started generating a crystal. This is a perfect chance to gain colored crystals! Are you just trying to shove off this opportunity aside? I have finished reading all your memories, Host has relieved your pent up desire by doing this kind of activity starting from Host 13 until 25 years old. That's a whole 11 years added with a few months before you get a hold of a real-life woman! And when Host's hormonal activity was on peak, Host would at least did it eight times in a day!! What is Host hesitating about? Before Host becomes that licentious person, you're the king of fapping!]
'You ...'
Dian Xianli was speechless with this. He just frowned hearing her, but more so when she mentioned the dark past memories of Aditya Herlambang. He put the face of an enraged person.
His past life youth was not that great.
At high school, he managed to get a girlfriend. But he only managed to hold her hand until they broke up.
When he was in college, he was a studious guy with few friends. To alleviate his parent burden, he tried to get a good grade and then applied for a scholarship. In the end, his application was approved but still, he went to find a part-time job to get more pocket money.
Later on, he joined BEM, but it was because of the overly charismatic Andre who dragged him to become his slave/worker for free.
With such a compact schedule on the college, his time was precious. He had no time to spare on a girl and relationship. And even if he had some interest with someone, his chance of getting her was nil with how average looking he was in the past.
In the end, he relieved his pent up desire as a male by enjoying JAV, hentai, doujin, and other imported adult entertainment he accessed via VPN and downloaded it with torrent.
This habit even continued after he graduated from college and sponging his parent. After graduating as an S.T1 on Mechanical Engineering, he felt really tired with all of this life and just doze off in his parent house.
He didn't try to find a job and just sponging his parents' income. His daily routine was to eat, sleep, sh*t, and surfing on the net. Basically, he became a NEET.
But ..., it was until her mother caught him doing the deed.
In the middle of the day, he played an Eroge on his PC. He became aroused with the 2D show with some Japanese chick moaning on his ear, thus his right-hand proceeds to rub his divine spear.
At the same time, his mother called him to lunch but there was no answer from him. He was preoccupied with the game that he didn't hear about what happens outside or make any shit of his mother's call.
Surely he remembered that the door to his room was closed. But never he thought that his mother already entered the room and went berserk!
She slammed the monitor and kicked his custom-made CPU that got a high-spec on its time. And then she tore the headset off from him. Ended with a slap on his face as a final attack. He who was still shocked by the turn of the event could only receive the beating!
At the barrage of slap and physical contact with a woman, although it was his own mother, he couldn't stop his dick to reacting and violently erupted all of his pent-up filthy liquid! Smearing his mother's dress and hand.
His mother then gave him another harsh beating, slapping his face repeatedly while crying anxiously. Cursing that he was useless, good-for-nothing, jobless, and other words that inappropriate to the neighbors to hear.
That night, Aditya ran away from home because of shame and guilt for his mother. He lived as a homeless for a few months before he met Andrean Supraja. He was the person who attends the same uni as him and the one who dragged him to become a member of BEM.
That man then helped him funding his business and encourage him to paved the roadway to success. After only two years, he managed to build a middle-top software company from scratch and paid back the debt he owed to Andre.
Still, that matter of his past life was not very important at the moment. But he clearly remembered.
After he left his home, he never even once relieve himself with his hand anymore. It was like he condemned his past-self from doing it.
He spent two years on his parent house, doing nothing but fapping around like a pathetic dude with no future and no life. It left him bad taste when he thought that his last face-to-face conversation with his mother was when he received a harsh beating when he caught off doing such stuff.
He hated doing it, he hated fapping to the bone even though he was a veteran who went into solo war for a decade.