"Quite a rare sight, such an outdated model... Even scrap collectors wouldn’t want this, would they?" The phone shop owner, a cigarette dangling from his lips, squinted his meaty face as he examined the antique device in his hand.
Ye Shuang replied, "Price isn’t an issue. If you replace the battery, can it still turn on?"
"If it’s just the battery, then it’s manageable. Even though the model’s old, it sold well back in the day, so the batteries are rare but not impossible to find." The owner handed the phone back to Ye Shuang. "There’s important data inside, right? I can order a battery for you—leave me your number."
Ye Shuang left his contact details, paid a deposit, and walked out of the shop with the phone in hand.
Standing at the entrance, he patted his pockets and popped a candy into his mouth. "Really feels like a good time for a smoke right now."
Even so, he kept chewing the candy, letting the sweetness spread before finding a step to sit on and sorting through the tangled thoughts in his head.
"Whose number is this? If it’s someone from the Zhou family... logically, they’d use traditional characters more in texts, but I can’t rule that out either."
"Regardless, Yuyou’s kidnapping wasn’t an accident. For now, it’s better not to tell her." Ye Shuang didn’t want to hurt Bai Yuyou any further. Her life was finally improving day by day—it was best to let this brief peace last a little longer.
Shaking off his thoughts, Ye Shuang brushed nonexistent dust off his pants. For now, all he could do was wait for the flip phone to be repaired and see if there was anything else as valuable as that message inside.
After driving back to school, Ye Shuang returned to the Light Music Club’s stall, where Bai Yuyou and the others were gathered.
"Good morning, Mr. Ye!" Zhixia greeted him sweetly. "I heard you were busy with something earlier."
"Yeah, just had a few things to take care of." As he spoke, Ye Shuang noticed a certain girl standing stiffly behind the stall.
Bai Yuyou was wearing a light beige short-sleeved jacket over a white T-shirt and a plain pleated skirt—all picked out by Ye Shuang that morning. Since the school festival had no dress code, and the girl had a habit of randomly wearing his clothes, Ye Shuang often ended up styling her outfits himself.
Right now, she stood there, her face tense to the point where it almost looked like she was glaring.
"What’s this about...?"
"Yuyou said she wanted to try selling lemon tea, so she’s like this now," Tang Keke explained with a giggle.
"I see." Ye Shuang glanced over and smiled. "How many cups has she sold?"
"Eheh, none yet."
"Ah..."
Just then, two young guys approached the lemon tea stand, but after catching sight of Bai Yuyou, they exchanged a look and walked away.
"Huh? Why’d they leave?" Tang Keke craned her neck in confusion.
Soon, another customer came up. "Hi, I’d like a lemon tea, please."
Bai Yuyou gave a slight nod. "Eight..."
"How much?" The customer didn’t seem to hear her. Bai Yuyou’s lips moved again before she finally held up eight fingers.
Unsure if the message got across, she grabbed a pen and scribbled "8" on a scrap of paper.
"Never mind, forget it." The customer, unnerved by her icy demeanor, turned and left.
Bai Yuyou stood still, watching them go before quietly returning to her spot.
"It’s been like this since we started. For some reason, Yuyou’s lemon tea is unusually hard to sell," Tang Keke remarked.
"Hmm..." Ye Shuang stroked his chin.
After a moment’s thought, he walked over to Bai Yuyou, who looked a little dejected, her usual antenna-like strand of hair drooping.
"Ye Shuang... can’t sell," she murmured.
"Don’t know what to do." Her fingers fidgeted nervously, clearly at a loss.
Ye Shuang pinched her cheek lightly. "You’re trying too hard. You can’t stare at people like that."
"Too hard...?"
"Yeah." Suddenly remembering something, he dug into his pocket and pulled out a pair of plain glasses he used for his school nurse disguise.
After slipping them onto Bai Yuyou’s face, she blinked, touching the frames curiously.
"That should do it." Ye Shuang grinned. "Go on, try again."
"Oh?"
Bai Yuyou resumed selling, and this time, a few scattered customers approached. Eventually, she managed to sell her first cup.
"Success." She turned to look at him.
"Bro, why did putting on glasses suddenly work?" Tang Keke was baffled. She’d almost started wondering if Bai Yuyou had somehow offended the god of wealth in a past life.
Zhixia, however, seemed to catch on. "Mr. Ye, I think I get it. Is it because Yuyou’s too pretty?"
"Probably. Some shy guys wouldn’t dare talk to her otherwise." Ye Shuang chuckled. That was exactly what he’d thought—Bai Yuyou’s striking beauty and naturally distant aura, combined with her "icy" expression, made customers hesitate to approach.
Even those who did speak up would feel uneasy under her intense gaze and quickly leave.
"Wow, you’re amazing, bro. That makes total sense," Tang Keke said, impressed by his analysis.
Soon, Bai Yuyou relaxed completely and settled into her role as the stand’s poster girl.
Two hours later, after selling out all their stock of fragrant lemons, Bai Yuyou turned to Ye Shuang. "Ye Shuang... did it!"
"Come take a break." Ye Shuang, wearing an apron as he prepared the last cup of lemon tea, smiled warmly.
"Ye Shuang... want to walk around together." Bai Yuyou tugged at his sleeve. "Hungry."
"Alright, let’s get you something to eat." He glanced at Tang Keke and Zhixia. "You two coming?"
"Not me!"
"Same, you guys go ahead."
With that, Ye Shuang took only Bai Yuyou with him.
Since the entire street was lined with food stalls, it didn’t take long for Bai Yuyou to end up with an armful of snacks.
Watching her nibble daintily on a skewer, Ye Shuang suddenly felt that telling her the truth would be unbearably cruel.
"Made a mess again, huh?"
He pulled out a tissue, and Bai Yuyou obediently tilted her head up, eyes closed, letting him wipe her mouth.
"Ye Shuang, want some?"
"I’m not hungry."
"Oh."
After finishing the skewer, Bai Yuyou asked, "Ye Shuang, what did you do this morning?"
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."
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
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?"
] 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.
