"What a beautiful girl."
"How come we never noticed her before?"
"Mother, I think I'm in love..."
Under the gaze of the crowd, Aina walked up to Delyan.
Delyan’s expression shifted slightly, as if stunned by Aina’s beauty.
"Ahem... Miss, may I ask what your purpose for enrolling is...?" Delyan felt she had been coughing a bit too often today.
Aina chuckled softly. "I’m here to accompany my beloved, most important husband. He wanted to experience life at a magic academy, and I could never bear to be apart from him."
She deliberately emphasized the affectionate terms, as if making a point to someone in particular.
The white owl perched on Delyan’s shoulder remained motionless.
The hearts of the young men present quietly shattered.
"You’re accepted, Miss Aina," Delyan nodded. "Your husband must be the luckiest man in the world."
"No, being by his side makes me the luckiest," Aina replied with a soft laugh, shaking her head.
The owl still showed no reaction.
The already shattered hearts of the young men were ground into dust.
In truth, most people’s reasons for enrolling were quite simple—or selfish.
To gain power, to attain authority, to amass wealth... Most motivations passed the test without issue.
After all, Olifindor Academy only screened out those with malicious intent toward the school or ulterior motives... Other desires were simply fuel for learning magic.
Even the boy who had earlier declared he wanted to find a partner was merely teased by Delyan, not actually disqualified.
"Alright, next... Xia Lun," Delyan called out his name.
"What is your purpose for enrolling?"
Xia Lun answered frankly, "Because I wanted to experience life at a magic academy. I’ve always held a bit of longing and admiration for such a place."
As soon as he finished speaking, Xia Lun felt countless scorching gazes burning into his back.
Naturally, it was all because of Aina and what she had just said...
Xia Lun’s eyes met those of the owl on Delyan’s shoulder.
He had noticed earlier that the owl’s method of lie detection involved staring into a student’s eyes.
The owl’s eyes gleamed like dazzling diamonds, but instead of reflecting his own image, they shimmered with countless silver lights.
This was the true form of the owl—the Eye of Truth. The white jade sculpture was merely a vessel.
But this time... something unexpected happened.
The owl stared fixedly at Xia Lun, then its white body began trembling violently, its words turning nonsensical.
"No lies, no lies, I’m a little duck... quack quack... I’m a chicken, cluck cluck... la-dee-da..."
Delyan stared blankly as her owl began to lose its mind—this was something she had never encountered before.
The owl swayed unsteadily, unable to keep its balance, then toppled off Delyan’s shoulder.
Thud.
The owl stiffened on the ground like a corpse, reverting back to a jade carving.
Delyan suddenly grew alert, raising her staff and pointing it at Xia Lun.
"Who are you? Did you do something to the Eye of Truth?"
The tip of her staff was embedded with a precious Fire Dragon Crystal, radiating scorching heat as flames gathered, ready to erupt at the slightest provocation.
The smile on Aina’s face faded, her gaze turning calm.
Xia Lun remained still, not rushing to explain himself.
Yet, his confusion was no less than Delyan’s.
Logically, he had done nothing.
Now, the situation had become awkward.
Fortunately, before Xia Lun had to explain himself, someone stepped in to defuse the tension.
"Delyan, calm down." Wolund gently lowered her staff.
In this world, very few had the right to point a weapon at him.
"He is my student... I hope you’ll forgive her rudeness." Privately, Wolund was already sweating bullets as he transmitted his message to Xia Lun and Aina.
"She’s a good kid," Xia Lun reassured with a smile, signaling there was no need for concern.
Of course, Wolund knew Xia Lun wouldn’t hold Delyan’s offense against her—after all, he was the legendary hero... What truly worried Wolund was the other one.
She loved her husband far too much, and Wolund could no longer predict her actions... especially when it involved Xia Lun.
"Teacher! You’re here!" Delyan gasped, quickly lowering her staff.
"Mr. Xia Lun is... a friend of mine. He wishes to experience life at the academy as an ordinary student." To avoid raising suspicions among the other students, Wolund added in a private transmission, "Why is he taking the entrance test? Didn’t he show you the enrollment letter I personally wrote for him?"
"Teacher, I... I thought it was fake... so I burned it..." Delyan looked on the verge of tears.
Wolund: "..."
But he couldn’t blame her—he hadn’t warned her in advance.
Nor had he expected Xia Lun to arrive on the very day of the entrance exams.
Had it been any other day, the first person Xia Lun would have met was the elderly giant who worked as both janitor and gatekeeper... a man who had outlived several headmasters during his tenure.
But in the end, through a series of mishaps, things had unfolded this way.
"Ah... Mr. Xia Lun, you’ve also passed..." Delyan announced after collecting herself.
She glanced at the motionless owl on the ground, then turned to Wolund for help.
A flicker of light sparked at Wolund’s fingertip, and the owl jolted back to life, flapping and scrambling its way back onto Delyan’s shoulder.
With the issue resolved, Wolund quietly departed.
"Was that Headmaster Wolund?"
"What just happened?"
The new students, unable to hear the headmaster’s private messages, remained utterly confused.
Delyan cut through their murmurs. "Ahem... A minor malfunction occurred with the Eye of Truth, but Headmaster Wolund has already fixed it. Let’s continue the test. Next up... Mian."
Xia Lun returned to Aina’s side.
"Was it because of my eyes?" he transmitted silently.
He hadn’t forgotten—Aina had altered his body. His current eyes were the Eyes of Insight, taken from an entity known as Fictitious Truth.
Aina gave a slight nod. "The Eye of Truth saw Fictitious Truth through your eyes. It is an existence that cannot be directly perceived... If it weren’t severely weakened, the Eye of Truth would have exploded."
Xia Lun asked curiously, "What exactly is... Fictitious Truth?"
Aina gently wrapped her arm around his, refraining from anything more intimate due to the crowd around them.
"Nothing much. Just an eldritch god from beyond this world."
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
lanned to earn money steadily and take life at a slower pace. But he never expected... his father's remarriage, and the stepmother bringing along a dependent, would completely disrupt his life's plans...
y came from. The chests contained supplies, currency, class-change scrolls, skills, talents… and even godhood! The laws of the world were completely rewritten. This became a world where everyone gambled with their fate! Some people, despite having nothing, opened a divine artifact and rose to the top, eventually ruling the world. Others went bankrupt, opened nothing but worthless junk, and leaped from skyscrapers in despair. Lin Ye arrived in this world from another reality, utterly bewildered. “What is going on? Why is everyone a gambling addict?!” “Opening chests? No way. I refuse to gamble. I’ll start with myself!” Until— On his first chest, he obtained a Mythic Talent: Void Incarnation! He could become completely intangible, pass through all things, and reduce everything to nothingness! … On his fiftieth chest, he obtained a Mythic Weapon: Blade of Karma! With a single slash, karma shattered, twisting the universe and overturning the myriad phenomena of creation! … On his ninety-ninth chest, he obtained a Mythic Divine Treasure: Primordial Purple Energy! It could split open the heavens and earth, create all things, and evolve countless worlds with a single thought! Lin Ye: “Now that I think about it… shouldn’t someone have told me that every chest is guaranteed to contain something Mythic?!”
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
