"Come take a look, don't miss out, fresh chicken leg rice wraps here!"
"Volcanic stone grilled sausages, 2 yuan each."
"Takoyaki, classmate, come check it out!"
"Senior's original-flavor stockings, tasty and eye-catching—"
"Spicy skewers, spicy skewers~ only 1 yuan per stick~"
Various stalls lined the school pathway, transforming the entire walkway into a bustling food street. With the constant flow of visitors, it almost felt like a tourist attraction.
"Every year around this time, it gets so crowded… Yuyou… Yuyou?" Tang Keke turned her head, only to find Bai Yuyou already standing in front of a barbecue stall. In no time, the girl was holding a massive grilled squid skewer, bigger than her own palm.
Tang Keke watched as Bai Yuyou nibbled on the squid in small bites and couldn’t help but ask, "Yuyou, didn’t we just have breakfast not too long ago?"
Bai Yuyou’s cheeks puffed up as she chewed expressionlessly, mumbling incoherently, "Mmm… mmm…"
"Finish eating first before talking."
"Stomach… hungry."
"Alright, let’s buy some snacks then." Tang Keke was already used to Bai Yuyou’s appetite, though she couldn’t help but envy the girl’s figure—unlike her own, which the boys in class often teased as being "childbearing-ready."
At that moment, Bai Yuyou suddenly noticed an elderly woman selling candied hawthorns in a corner. The woman, dressed in floral-patterned clothes, sat on a small stool, her half-lidded, cloudy eyes watching the passing students.
"What’s wrong?" Tang Keke noticed Bai Yuyou staring at the corner.
"Elderly… no stall."
"Oh, that kind? Actually, our school doesn’t allow unlicensed vendors to set up stalls here," Tang Keke explained. "But these elderly folks don’t know the rules—they just go where the crowds are. The school usually turns a blind eye since they’re so old."
Bai Yuyou nodded softly and walked over to the old woman.
Seeing a customer at last, the woman’s eyes crinkled with a smile as she pointed to the candied hawthorns beside her. "Young lady, want some? 3 yuan per stick. I made them fresh today… very tasty. Try one."
"Mm." Bai Yuyou nodded and pulled out her phone to scan the payment code.
The old woman suddenly looked flustered, rubbing her calloused hands together. "Do you have cash? This old granny doesn’t know how to use phones…"
She then pulled out her own phone—an ancient button model from over a decade ago, its edges yellowed and held together with yellowed tape.
Bai Yuyou watched silently. Ye Shuang had once told her that many elderly people, left behind by technology, could only survive in their own ways, slowly fading from society’s currents.
"……" Bai Yuyou patted her pockets and finally pulled out a Pikachu wallet.
She took out a red bill and handed it over. "I’ll… take them all."
"All of them?" The old woman was stunned, wondering if she’d misheard.
"Mm."
But the woman hesitated. "Young lady, can you finish all of them?"
Bai Yuyou nodded. "Can…"
"Alright… just give me fifty, no need for a hundred." The woman had over twenty sticks, totaling more than sixty yuan, but she insisted on giving Bai Yuyou fifty in change.
After packing the candied hawthorns for the girl, the old woman hunched over and happily walked away. With this money, she could make more in the afternoon and finally buy her grandson the toy he’d been wanting.
"Yuyou, you’re really kind. I never understood why anyone would ever bully you," Tang Keke sighed.
"Ye Shuang said… helping others is good, even if it’s just a small thing…" Bai Yuyou didn’t elaborate, holding the bag of candied hawthorns as if planning to devour them all herself.
Tang Keke blinked. "You’re not seriously planning to eat all of them alone, are you?"
The girl thought for a moment, then opened the bag toward Tang Keke. "Keke… want some?"
"I still want to save room for other snacks, and who eats candied hawthorns by the handful?" Tang Keke wasn’t hungry after Ye Shuang’s pan-fried dumplings earlier. Then, as if struck by inspiration, she suddenly said, "Yuyou, come with me."
She pulled Bai Yuyou toward the less crowded end of the food street.
They stopped in front of a lemon tea stall.
"Senior Zhixia!" Tang Keke called out.
A voice soon answered from inside the stall. "You guys came!"
Zhixia and Linlin, both wearing aprons, had rented a stall to sell hand-shaken lemon tea—a great way to raise club funds before their performance later.
"Wow, so many candied hawthorns! Are you setting up a stall?" Zhixia noticed the bag in Bai Yuyou’s hands.
Tang Keke explained what had happened earlier. Linlin suggested, "In that case, why not sell them here? There’s no way you can finish all of them."
"Exactly what I was thinking!" Tang Keke grinned. "How about giving a free candied hawthorn with every lemon tea?"
"Here, Yuyou."
Bai Yuyou seemed reluctant to part with her treats, her eyes fixed on the bag as it was taken away—until Tang Keke noticed and handed her three sticks back. Only then did the girl brighten up.
"Such a foodie," Tang Keke teased. "If I hadn’t brought you here, would you really have polished off all of them?"
Bai Yuyou nodded.
"Uh…"
Meanwhile, Zhixia arranged the remaining candied hawthorns neatly and wrote "Free candied hawthorn with purchase" on a small blackboard. She then asked, "By the way, where’s Teacher Ye?"
"Brother’s at home writing novels for his side job."
"That’s tough. Is he short on money?" Zhixia was surprised Ye Shuang had a side gig.
Tang Keke thought for a moment. "Dunno. He doesn’t seem that poor—he drives a sports car, after all."
Bai Yuyou added, "Ye Shuang’s car… was a gift from Sister Chen Qin."
"Oh right, that big sister gave it to him…" Tang Keke suddenly remembered.
"Should we ask Teacher Ye to come help? We could share the stall’s profits with him."
"Wouldn’t that be awkward? I heard men have pride about these things."
"Then how do we help him?"
The three girls huddled together, deep in thought, while Bai Yuyou stood to the side, tilting her head in confusion.
Crunch. She bit into a candied hawthorn, savoring the crispy sugar coating in small, deliberate bites.
u Chenyuan transmigrated into a female-oriented novel about a real and fake heiress, becoming the CEO elder brother of both. Unfortunately, the entire Lu family—including himself, the CEO—were mere cannon fodder in the story. Determined to save himself, Lu Chenyuan took action. The spoiled, attention-seeking fake heiress? Thrown into the harsh realities of the working class to learn humility. The love-struck real heiress? Pushed toward academic excellence, so lofty goals would blind her to trivial romances. As for the betrayed, vengeful arranged marriage wife… the plot hadn’t even begun yet. There was still time—if he couldn’t handle her, he could at least avoid her. "CEO Lu, are you avoiding me?" Mo Qingli fixed her gaze on Lu Chenyuan. For the first time, the shrewd and calculating Lu Chenyuan felt a flicker of unease.
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!
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】
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.
