Everything happened so suddenly.
So abruptly that Xu Mo didn’t even have time to react.
Back when they were filming,
Xu Mo already knew Queen Lin was a rookie in this area.
Quite inexperienced.
Having gone through it once before,
this time was slightly better than the last.
But that wasn’t the point.
The point was that Xu Mo was completely stunned now.
And Queen Lin herself seized the moment—strike while the iron is hot!
After what felt like an eternity,
she finally let go of Xu Mo, though reluctantly.
Xu Mo also personally experienced a four-word phrase:
"Lingering fragrance on the lips."
Turns out it wasn’t just something used to describe food.
There were other things too...
The atmosphere instantly fell into silence.
Fortunately, it didn’t last long.
Lin An'an, with a playful expression, pouted and said, "Hmph, you bad guy! This is the price for making me cry."
Xu Mo was baffled.
Wait… what?
Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?
You cried.
And now you’re blaming me for it?
By that logic, he could just as well say: "You’re arresting Xu Mo, but what does that have to do with me?"
Xu Mo chuckled awkwardly. "It’s getting late. I should head back."
"You’re driving after drinking?" Queen Lin’s heart skipped a beat, her phoenix-like eyes narrowing.
Xu Mo shrugged it off with a smile. "Just a little. Doesn’t matter."
"You call a whole bottle ‘a little’?" Queen Lin was stunned.
From her perspective,
she definitely didn’t want Xu Mo to leave just like that!
Xu Mo laughed. "Do I look drunk to you?"
His words were clear and coherent.
Queen Lin glanced around but didn’t notice anything unusual. "No…"
"Then it’s settled." Xu Mo shrugged.
Queen Lin opened another bottle of champagne and poured him a glass.
Under Xu Mo’s puzzled gaze,
she handed him the drink.
"Call a driver."
Xu Mo blinked. Sure, he could call a driver, but what did that have to do with whether he kept drinking or not?
"What, you won’t drink? Or do you want to drink together?"
Lin An'an batted her lashes, her cheeks flushed as she teased him.
Seeing this,
Xu Mo downed it without hesitation.
Thump, thump.
Queen Lin’s heart raced as she stared intently at Xu Mo, her breath sweet like orchids. "Xu Mo, do you know what it means to regret not meeting sooner?"
Xu Mo thought for a moment. "It means wishing you’d met earlier. Like when two people click instantly, feeling like kindred spirits?"
The remaining half-bottle of champagne—
Queen Lin didn’t bother with a glass this time. She drank straight from the bottle.
One gulp.
By now, she was slightly tipsy.
"Mm. What I feel for you is—
‘You were born before me, I was born after you grew old.
I regret not being born at the same time, so we could be together every day.’
Even though there’s not much of an age gap between us, I only met you later!"
Click-clack, click-clack.
Lin An'an walked over in her high heels, stopping right in front of Xu Mo.
They stood close.
At this moment…
Lin An'an’s eyes were filled with nothing but Xu Mo’s reflection.
"You know what? If I’d known it’d be like this, I wouldn’t have come back. I can’t accept this!!!"
Her scent was intoxicating.
Mixed with the aroma of champagne,
it was utterly captivating.
Xu Mo, having weathered many storms,
only faltered for a brief second
before regaining his composure.
"Saying that to me won’t change anything."
Queen Lin pressed her lips together and changed the subject.
"I want to invite you to join my company. Not to appear in public, just as my personal music consultant."
As she spoke,
Lin An'an was dead serious.
Her beautiful eyes locked onto Xu Mo for a long moment.
This was no joke.
Xu Mo paused, then smiled. "Music is just something I dabble in. Wouldn’t I be embarrassing myself in front of you?"
"No! You’re not!"
Lin An'an suddenly insisted,
her tone urgent and earnest.
Then, under Xu Mo’s gaze,
she reached out and gently touched his face, her expression tender yet solemn.
"Your talent is the best I’ve ever seen—even stronger than mine at my peak."
"I know if you ever decided to step into the spotlight and show the world your other side, with your fame and skill, you’d outshine all of us professionals."
Lin An'an wasn’t exaggerating in the slightest.
In this world,
just based on the songs Xu Mo had written,
he already had what it took.
Often,
it wasn’t about can or can’t.
It was about want or don’t want.
The former meant lacking the ability or means to do it.
The latter meant having everything needed to excel—
but simply choosing not to.
Their current situation was… delicate.
Or rather, somewhat ambiguous.
Xu Mo, feeling uneasy, gently took her hand off his face and held it, agreeing with a smile.
"We can talk about music, but let’s not get handsy, okay?"
Come on.
He wasn’t some saint.
This was just human nature.
Accidental touches here and there—
they could easily spark something more.
Cornered,
Xu Mo had no choice but to restrain her delicate hands.
Only then did Lin An'an snap out of it.
She’d been so focused on searching for something
that she’d completely forgotten
how close they were.
Their breaths mingled,
warm against each other’s faces.
Eyes locked,
Xu Mo realized another problem.
In his line of sight,
Queen Lin’s face grew larger.
Turning into a "big-face girl."
Not that she was performing some face-changing trick,
nor was her face that big.
(⊙o⊙)…
She was leaning in again.
Xu Mo opened his mouth to interrupt,
but that only gave Lin An'an an opening.
This time,
Queen Lin wasn’t letting him go.
If she couldn’t find traces of what was left behind,
then she’d just create something new.
Ahem…
But back to the point.
Back in the day,
Lin An'an had put in a lot of effort to learn the violin.
And that was with her exceptional talent.
Those violin masters?
They’d worked even harder—
it was their livelihood, after all.
Lin An'an was just proficient.
But she was skilled.
Yet when Xu Mo played earlier,
there wasn’t a single mistake.
His level was on par with hers, if not better.
Even if he hadn’t touched it in years,
even if he’d only learned it as a child,
there should’ve been some traces left, right?
But there were none.
That could only mean one thing:
Xu Mo was a freakishly talented musical genius.
His skill surpassed even many renowned maestros.
Once Queen Lin realized this,
how could she not be tempted?
Just like how guys love beautiful women,
girls love handsome men too.
Especially the multi-talented ones.
Xu Mo fit every criterion in Queen Lin’s heart.
So much so that she even considered snatching him from her—that female demon.
Xu Mo tried to peel her off,
but the more he struggled,
the tighter she clung,
like stubborn adhesive.
In the end,
Xu Mo gave up.
Not because he wasn’t strong enough,
but because he was afraid she might fall.
As the saying goes:
If life gives you lemons…
Might as well make the best of it.
Xu Mo relaxed.
At this moment, he chose to go with the flow.
---------------------------------------------------

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.

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【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)

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.”