The morning sunlight filtered through the thin mist and the barrier Aina had set up, draping the estate in a layer of soft golden gauze.
"Morning, Mian."
"Morning, Mr. Xia Lun!" Mian responded loudly, full of energy. The youth's face radiated vitality, his eyes as bright as morning stars.
Xia Lun raised a finger to his lips, making a shushing gesture. "Don't be too loud. That one Liyana is probably still sleeping. If you wake her up, she'll complain again... and we won't have any peace all morning."
"Oh, oh!" Mian quickly covered his mouth.
Ever since Aina set up the barrier, allowing Mian to step out of his room and into the yard, every morning training session had gained an extra companion.
In the past, Xia Lun always arrived earlier than Mian, but today he was a bit later... Mian keenly noticed this but wisely didn't ask.
Mian had already started training, doing the warm-up exercises Musen had taught him.
Xia Lun, as usual, walked to his usual sword-practicing spot and pulled that pitch-black giant sword out of thin air. The blade was thick and heavy, dull and lusterless, looking hardly better than a chunk of raw iron.
Mian watched the hunk of metal in Xia Lun's hands and secretly muttered to himself that sword looked incredibly heavy, yet in Xia Lun's hands, it seemed as light as a feather.
Little did Mian know, that sword weighed enough to crush a dragon.
The way Xia Lun swung his sword hadn't always been like this... In the beginning, every slash came with a piercing shriek that tore through the air, and the wind from the blade bent the flowerbeds and lawns in front of him. Liyana used to complain incessantly, telling him to go farther away so he wouldn't disturb her sleep.
But now, when Xia Lun swung this heavy sword, no aura showed at all. It even looked a bit limp, as if it lacked any power. The edge of the blade passed without even disturbing a single blade of grass.
But if Aina hadn't already reinforced the space within the estate, the surrounding space would have been shattered to pieces.
A butterfly fluttered over, flying right past Xia Lun, unexpectedly drifting into the path of his sword.
Xia Lun didn't stop his movement, seemingly oblivious to the tiny life that had crossed his way.
The giant sword fell without hesitation, following its original trajectory, slicing toward the butterfly.
Mian froze for a moment. The butterfly fell to the ground, struck without a doubt.
But a moment later, the butterfly wobbled and flew back up again, as if it had only encountered a trivial current of air. It lightly skimmed past Xia Lun's shoulder and disappeared into the depths of the flower bushes, completely unharmed.
Xia Lun's control over his power had reached the point of perfection.
No force overflowed or leaked outside the blade itself.
This meant that anything Xia Lun's enemies had to endure was the full force he unleashed... It was unimaginable just how terrifying that would become.
Somewhere within the space, Yisi hugged her little head, squatting and shivering.
She didn't understand... How had Xia Lun's strength grown to such a frightening level in just a few years?
The Xia Lun of now, compared to the one she had crossed swords with before, seemed like a completely different species...
She had once thought Xia Lun might not be a match for Aise, because she herself couldn't beat Aise, and back then, Xia Lun's power seemed about the same as hers.
But in the end, Aise got hung up and beaten by his father.
From now on... I really need to be obedient, Yisi thought silently.
...
Aina came out of her room, just as she happened to run into Xia Lun on his way back.
"Back?" Xia Lun asked casually.
"I'm back."
Aina answered instinctively, only to realize Xia Lun had set her up.
From his perspective, she was supposed to have been in her room all along.
Aina puffed out her cheeks in annoyance, like an inflated little pufferfish.
Only when facing Xia Lun did she ever let her guard down.
Xia Lun knew her too well. The illusion she had left behind was seen through at a glance.
He knew she had gone beyond the world to carry out the work of a goddess as her proxy.
"You didn't get hurt, did you?" Xia Lun reached out, brushing a lock of hair from Aina's face, his tone full of concern.
"Do you want to check?" Aina spread her arms wide in front of him, openly displaying her whole body, a hint of challenge flickering in her eyes, as if she looked forward to what might happen next.
"Tonight, then," Xia Lun said softly, clearing his throat. But he didn't let the opportunity pass. His hands brushed over Aina's front, getting a quick, discreet feel.
Aina cast a mildly reproachful glance at Xia Lun.
Still, he didn't press her for details about her business, which Aina found quite satisfying.
Even for a couple like them, there should be some distance and space between each other.
Mm... but sure enough, she still didn't want Xia Lun to have any secrets from her. She would always furtively spy on him at all hours...
Although it was a bit unfair, as long as Xia Lun never found out, it was fine.
Though Xia Lun could probably guess she'd been peeping at him in the bath all this time... Of course, most of the time, the two bathed together.
Xia Lun waved his hand in front of Aina's face, pulling her thoughts back to reality, and wiped a bit of drool from the corner of her mouth.
"What's up with you?" Xia Lun asked with a knowing smile, finding her dazed look amusing.
Oh no... I was thinking about his body and accidentally drooled.
Aina immediately put on a straight face, pretending to be calm, acting as if nothing had happened.
Xia Lun watched her suddenly force a serious expression, couldn't help but pinch her soft cheek, and her forced poise instantly crumbled, giving way to a string of silvery laughter.
"Stop it!" Aina's reply was playful and sweet.
"What's going on?" Xia Lun asked with a light laugh. He couldn't read minds and had no idea what nonsense his wife was thinking about.
Aina had long been suspected of being infected by the Liyana virus...
"Nothing." Aina turned her head away.
"Come on, tell me what you were thinking," Xia Lun said, putting on a fierce face and wiggling his ten fingers as if to tickle her, threatening that there'd be trouble if she didn't come clean.
"I was thinking about you in the shower..." Aina bit her lip, finally spilling the truth.
"And that's all?" Xia Lun's gaze grew strange, then became playful. "If you want, we can shower together tonight..."
"And... the songs you sing in the shower really aren't good at all," she interrupted, her eyes curving into crescent moons.
Xia Lun's expression stiffened. He only hummed a few tunes when bathing alone.
"You've been peeping the whole time?" Xia Lun said, half-embarrassed, half-annoyed, reaching out to grab the little tease.
He had thought Aina only occasionally peeked at him in the bath once or twice... Clearly, that wasn't the case.
"So what," Aina said, her skirt swaying as she spun, tracing a graceful arc in the air. "I want to look, so I look. I'm your wife, after all."
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】
] 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.
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?!
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!
