Era of Chaos, Year 1818.
The scorching sun hung high in the sky. The carriage creaked along the bumpy dirt road, kicking up a small cloud of dry dust. Half the carriage was piled with straw, giving off that peculiar, warm scent of dried grass mixed with sunlight.
"Um..." Marie licked her somewhat dry lips and asked weakly, "Could I have a sip of water?"
Liyana thought for a moment, then slowly opened her mouth: "Ah—"
Marie: ...
Just as Marie felt her pitiful sliver of hope melting away under the sun, Musen reached out and handed a leather waterskin to her.
Marie breathed a sigh of relief; there was actually a normal person in this group after all. "Thank you, Mr. Priest."
Musen rubbed his large bald head. His thick eyebrows twitched above his large eyes in surprise. "You can tell I'm a priest?"
"Uh... that thing on your chest, it's a cross, right?" Marie pointed carefully. "And I see you've been holding a scripture all this time, and what you're wearing is... well, a very standard priest's robe..."
Marie tried her best to sound sincere. After all, the priest's robe was stretched so tight by his muscles that it looked ready to burst, drawing everyone's attention entirely to his robust physique and making it very easy to overlook the clothes themselves.
"Ho haha, that's right, Miss Marie... You guessed it, I am indeed a priest." Musen suddenly let out a booming laugh, then asked eagerly, "Do you need healing? Don't be shy, tell me if you're injured."
Marie instinctively shrank back a little. "No... I don't need it for now."
"What a shame." Musen shook his head and sighed softly.
Marie: ...
The thought that there was a normal person in this group was instantly dispelled.
Xia Lun sat at the front, driving the carriage. His right hand skillfully managed the reins, while his left hand naturally held Aina's. The two sat side by side, their thighs pressed together. Aina occasionally whispered something to Xia Lun, and beneath her hood, the corners of her mouth perhaps carried a faint smile.
Moke leaned against the wooden boards, fiddling with his pile of lockpicking gadgets.
Liyana lay in the straw with a grass stem dangling from her mouth and her legs crossed, gazing up at the sky. She seemed to be looking at the white clouds, fantasizing about the tender bodies of young maidens.
Musen sat cross-legged, solemnly flipping through the scripture on his lap.
A gentle breeze swept by, bringing the fresh scent of vegetation. The jolting of the carriage almost felt like a lullaby; all was peaceful and quiet.
"Um..."
Marie suddenly spoke up again, pointing at the ice bars exuding a chilling frost right in front of her. "Could you let me out of here? I won't run away this time."
The rear half of the carriage held an ice cage created by Aina's magic, and Marie was currently locked inside it.
Everyone ignored her request.
Earlier, during her escort, Marie had taken advantage of the guards' inattention to break free of her restraints and slip away.
But she was quickly caught again... There were still traces of Aina's magic lingering inside her body, allowing Aina to find her with ease.
Thus, Xia Lun and the others personally took on the task of escorting Marie back to the Elven Forest.
"Isn't it nice in there? The sun is so hot, it's actually cool inside that cage." Liyana narrowed her eyes and leaned closer to the cage.
"But if we run into other merchant caravans on the road and they see me locked up in here, it feels really embarrassing," Marie said weakly.
"Hah, climbing onto a little girl's windowsill wasn't embarrassing for you?" Liyana angrily spat out the grass stem. "I look down on your kind of behavior the most!"
Moke couldn't hold it in and burst out laughing.
Of course, what surprised Moke was that Liyana didn't come over cursing to passionately trade insults with him.
"Urgh... urgh..."
Moke tilted his head suspiciously and looked at Liyana. She was pressed against the ice cage, making a series of weird noises.
"What's wrong with you?" Moke gave Liyana an odd look.
"Nn-urgh... nn-nn-urgh!" Liyana couldn't articulate a single complete syllable, only babbling incoherently and looking extremely anxious.
Moke leaned in for a closer look and saw that the pink tip of Liyana's tongue was stuck fast to the freezing ice bars.
Moke was stunned for a moment, then clutched his stomach and erupted into a fit of roaring laughter.
"Hahaha! Liyana... your tongue is actually stuck to the cage... hahaha, this is absolutely the stupidest thing I've ever seen in my life! Help, I'm dying of laughter..."
"Nn-urgh... wu-wu-urgh-urgh!"
"Hahaha... sorry, I have no idea what you're saying..." Moke laughed so hard he slapped the floor of the carriage.
"Wu-urgh-urgh-urgh! (Save me, quick!)" Liyana propped herself up with both hands on the floor, maintaining a rather comical posture.
"Look at you... you look like a turtle... haha, I can't take it..." Moke continued to gloat.
Noticing the commotion behind them, Aina, sitting beside Xia Lun, raised her staff. The sturdy ice cage instantly disintegrated, turning into a small puddle of clear water that quickly seeped into the dry straw.
Liyana finally freed her pitiful tongue. Covering her mouth and gasping in a breath of cold air, she lunged at Moke, who was rolling on the floor laughing, and the two tangled into a brawl.
"Stop laughing! You bastard!"
"Hahaha... Liyana... I'm going to turn this into a ballad and sing it for generations... Only you would do something like this..." Moke kept provoking Liyana. Watching the idiot elf get so flustered was indeed a very joyful thing.
"I've even thought of a nickname for you: The Frozen Kiss. What do you think?" Moke agilely dodged Liyana's attacks. His nimble movements came in handy at this moment; Liyana felt like she was trying to catch a slippery loach.
"Ah! Moke, shut up!" Liyana shrieked in humiliation and fury. "I'm going to tear that foul mouth of yours to pieces!"
"Liyana, is it frostbitten? Do you need healing?" Musen closed his scripture and asked quite enthusiastically, a ball of white light already glowing in his hand. "A frostbitten tongue would be bad if it affects your eating and speaking."
"No need! Hiss... it hurts, it hurts, never mind, just heal me." Liyana stuck out her tongue without any hesitation.
Marie stared dumbfounded at the group messing around in front of her, a trace of envy involuntarily rising in her heart.
Even though the cage had disappeared, she didn't think about running away again this time.
She truly didn't dare.
When Aina caught her the second time, she had seen the icy killing intent in Aina's eyes... Someone like her must absolutely despise troublesome things, and Marie had already caused her trouble twice.
Marie really wasn't confident she could survive a third time at Aina's hands.
The human race was too dangerous. She had better just obediently go back to the Elven Forest.
ng to die together with you." Lin Xuan is dead, his body thrown into the river by his scumbag lover and her accomplice. She, the president of the Su Group, is decisive, ruthless, and ice-cold. For three days and three nights, she had his body fished out of the river, and without hesitation, she kissed the bloated corpse of Lin Xuan. She laid down beside him in a cold coffin, their fingers intertwined, a smile lingering on her lips as she closed her eyes. The noble and cold-hearted woman, only bending for one man—Lin Xuan. Lin Xuan, with his golden finger, is reborn and returns to the day of his wedding to the treacherous woman. Su Qiang comes to steal the bride. Lin Xuan's eyes light up, eager to pledge his loyalty on the spot, but instead, her kiss transfers a glass of drugged wine into his mouth, causing him to pass out... 【Male Protagonist with Single Female Lead】【Yandere Tycoon】【Action-Packed】【True vs. Fake Heir】
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
