"What do you think, Aise?"
Xia Lun and his wife sat opposite their son, presenting Aina's proposal to him.
"I have no objections, of course." Aise rested his hands on his knees, sitting with perfect posture, and revealed a bright smile. "Father, I've actually been considering this for a while. I am no longer a child. It is time for me to leave your sight and forge my own achievements."
"Is that so? That's good... but are you sure you will be alright living out there alone?" Xia Lun couldn't help but feel a bit worried. After all, Aise had never left their side since he was a child.
Aise was very strong; Xia Lun wasn't actually worried about his safety.
It was mainly Aise's... condition... that concerned Xia Lun greatly.
"Is Young Master Aise going to live on his own?"
An old, one-armed maid pushed a dining cart past them. Hearing Xia Lun and the others discussing the matter, her eyes immediately lit up. "Why not let Eni go with him? That girl gets along well with Young Master Aise and can help take care of him... If Young Master Aise leaves, she will definitely be heartbroken."
Xia Lun frowned. "They are both coming of age. It seems inappropriate for a young man and woman to live alone together."
"What's inappropriate about it? Master Xia Lun, Aise and Eni grew up playing together." The old maid blinked at Aise. "Isn't that right, Young Master Aise? That girl Eni loves clinging to you..."
Aise originally wanted to refuse, but for some reason, the memory of Eni helping him tend to his wounds last night surfaced in his mind.
"I think this matter should be left for Eni to decide herself," Aise said calmly.
"You see, Master Xia Lun? Young Master Aise sees things much more clearly than you do," the old maid chuckled softly.
"Alright, since you've said so... Aise, be mindful of boundaries." Xia Lun patted Aise's shoulder, choosing to trust that his son wouldn't do anything out of line.
"That's wonderful. I will go tell Eni. I'm sure she will be thrilled." Overjoyed, the old maid pushed her cart and quickly left.
"Then I shall go prepare as well. Father, Mother." Aise rose from the sofa and excused himself.
"Mm. If you encounter any trouble outside, come back immediately," Xia Lun said gently.
Aina took a sip of the black tea the maid had brought. It had gone a bit cold, so she gently placed it back on the table.
"How careless," Aina scoffed coldly. "You treat her too well, Xia Lun."
"We've been together for ten years, after all. It's only human nature." Xia Lun also shook his head and sighed.
"And she has ulterior motives," Aina pointed out bluntly. "Xia Lun, what do you plan to do?"
"She is getting old. Let's give her a pension and dismiss her at the end of the month." Xia Lun picked up the cup of tea Aina had left half-finished and drained it in one gulp.
"I am asking about your son, Xia Lun. Don't tell me you are completely oblivious."
Looking at the empty teacup in Xia Lun's hand, Aina's lips involuntarily curled up into a faint smile for some reason.
"Well... didn't nothing happen between Liyana and me either?"
"Not everyone is like you. Besides, that Liyana likes women," Aina corrected him.
"Fair enough..." Xia Lun, of course, knew this as well.
Aina continued to ask, "So, what are you going to do?"
"Let them be. It's not good for us to interfere too much." Xia Lun gently wrapped his arm around Aina's waist. "Think about it. If someone had interfered with our relationship back then, what would you have done?"
"Kill them," Aina said coldly, releasing such a thick murderous intent that even Xia Lun stiffened in fright.
"Exactly. That boy Aise is actually quite like you. Although he has always been obedient, if we meddle too much in his affairs, perhaps something much worse would happen."
After pondering for a moment, Aina said, "Is this... what you humans call a rebellious phase?"
Xia Lun smiled. "You could understand it that way, I suppose."
...
"Mother, what did you say? You want me to move out and live alone with Young Master Aise?" Eni's eyes were filled with disbelief.
"That's right! This is the perfect opportunity! I can tell that boy definitely has feelings for you. You should take this chance to win him over!" The old maid reached out with her only remaining hand and happily patted her daughter's shoulder.
"No... I don't want to, Mother..." Eni bit her lower lip, then shook her head in resistance.
"What are you dissatisfied with? If Master Xia Lun hadn't saved us back then, who knows what would have become of us by now!"
Seeing her daughter actually refuse, the old maid instantly flew into a rage. "Young Master Aise is handsome, and his family is so well-off... I've told you since you were little, you must swallow your pride, cling to him, and please him! Even if he tells you to lick his toes, you must obediently do as he says!"
"But I'm truly afraid... Mother, Young Master Aise..." A hint of fear seeped into Eni's eyes. "He is a monster!"
Having spent so much time with Aise, Eni naturally knew what was wrong with him.
He had a morbid thirst for slaughter... He would even sneak out in the middle of the night to satisfy his murderous desires.
"If Young Master Aise has an episode... he will definitely kill me!" Recalling the look in Aise's eyes back then, Eni couldn't help but tremble.
Seeing her daughter like this, the old maid's expression softened again.
"How could Young Master Aise ever harm you? Silly girl, he likes you... Just rest assured. As long as you obediently listen to him, nothing will go wrong... Think about it, this is a chance to soar to the heavens! Look at how majestic Lady Aina is here. No one dares to disobey her. Didn't you always tell me how beautiful and powerful Lady Aina is? If you become Mrs. Aise in the future, you will have the same status as her..."
The old maid gently hugged her daughter.
"Mother is doing all this for your own good... With your status, under normal circumstances, you wouldn't even be fit to be Young Master Aise's mistress... But Master Xia Lun is different from other nobles. He is a great man and won't tear you two apart... Go and serve Young Master Aise well, understand?"
"Yes..." Eni finally nodded.
...
Outside the door, Aise's hand paused in mid-air. He slowly lowered it without knocking.
His face was calm, but his eyes were wide open, seemingly harboring an uncontrollable rage.
Faint streaks of black aura flashed within his crimson pupils.
Aise turned his body somewhat stiffly, walking away with erratic steps like a rusting puppet.
Before he had taken many steps, Aise tightly clutched his chest and bent over, his face becoming increasingly contorted in a hysterical manner.
By the time he straightened his back again, his face had rapidly recovered, once more wearing the elegant and gentle smile his father praised so highly, and his footsteps had become light and smooth again.
"Heh, how boring."
] This is a dark fantasy-themed dating simulation game. The main gameplay involves containing various monster girls and investigating the truth of a world shrouded in mist alongside your companions. However, due to his love for the dark and bizarre atmosphere, Luo Wei ended up turning a dating game into a detective mystery game. Women? Women only slow down his quickdraw! To Luo Wei, the female leads in the game are more like tools to perfectly clear levels and squeeze out rewards. For Luo Wei, flirting with every girl he meets and then discarding them is standard procedure. Worried about characters losing affection points? No need. With his maxed-out charm stat, Luo Wei is practically a "human incubus." A little psychological manipulation and those points come right back. It's a bit scummy, but the paper cutout heroines in the game won't actually come at him with real cleavers. However... Luo Wei has transmigrated. He's accidentally entered the second playthrough of this game. His past actions have caused all the girls to transform into terrifying yanderes. Due to the game's setting, most of the heroines he once contained are "troubled girls." Obsessive, twisted, mentally unstable, all aggressive yanderes... The type who will kill you if they can't have you... Luo Wei wants to cry but has no tears left. "I really just want to survive..." In short, this is a story of battling wits and engaging in a love-hate relationship with yanderes.
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
