"You guys are so slow. Do you have any concept of time?" At the sports center, a guy with dyed orange spiky hair couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and say. He was skinny and wore a T-shirt with a giant skull on it.
"We aren't late, alright? It's obviously you who arrived too early," Chen Qin said with dissatisfaction, crossing her arms.
Ye Shuang's gaze also fell on Blondie. In the next second, he recognized that this was Fugui when he had just started middle school. Back then, he had been beaten by his parents for dyeing his hair like this.
Although he spoke like a delinquent, in reality, he just watched too many TV dramas and felt that acting this way would keep him from being bullied.
"Where's Fuyao?"
"Oh, her. She went to buy water for everyone," Fugui said. After a while, a girl wearing a long dress walked over from not far away.
She had shoulder-length brown short hair and was about the same height as Fugui. She was so slender that it seemed a gust of wind could blow her away, and her slightly pale face featured squinting eyes that radiated gentleness.
"Xiaoye, I bought water for you guys." Li Fuyao's voice was soft and delicate. Upon seeing Ye Shuang and the others, she handed over the drinks in her hands.
"Here, the cola you like to drink."
However, Ye Shuang just stared at the living, breathing Li Fuyao in front of him. Unconsciously, he watched her for several seconds until the young girl's cheeks flushed red, and she spoke softly,
"What's wrong? Do I look weird today?"
"Ye, why are you staring at Fuyao?" Chen Qin, standing to the side, started to sound a bit sour as she reached out and tugged at Ye Shuang.
Ye Shuang snapped back to reality and smiled faintly. "Nothing, I just feel like I haven't seen you in a long time."
"Didn't we just meet yesterday?" Li Fuyao said, seeming a bit puzzled.
But she still smiled gently. "Did you miss me?"
"..." Ye Shuang didn't say anything more and instead asked,
"Let's go, let's find a place to play badminton."
"What about Chen Hai?"
"Chen Hai will come over later."
The group walked into the gymnasium. Renting a court required a fee, about 5 yuan per person. Since it was the weekend, the place was crowded. While waiting in line, Ye Shuang accidentally locked eyes with a child in another queue nearby.
It was a toddler being held by a woman in her twenties. The child looked to be only a few years old and was currently looking over with big, round eyes.
The moment their eyes met, Ye Shuang couldn't help but feel that the child looked somewhat familiar.
"Oh my, what are you doing?" the child said in a milky voice. "Haven't you ever seen a great beauty before?"
Ye Shuang instantly found it amusing.
"Don't be like that, it's impolite," the woman holding the child said softly, petting her short hair.
"Oh."
Ye Shuang smiled as well, then turned his head away and stopped paying attention to them.
At this time, Yuyou was probably about the same age as this child. That little girl was likely still living the life of a little princess right now.
If... he could stay in this timeline all the way until high school, would he have the chance to immediately prevent all those tragedies from happening?
Although Ye Shuang thought this, he felt it was unlikely he would remain in this world forever.
This broken system, couldn't it at least give a hint?
Just as Ye Shuang was sighing with emotion, it was their turn to buy tickets and enter.
With exactly four people, they could play doubles. Ye Shuang paired up with Chen Qin, while Fugui and his sister formed a team. After a few rounds, everyone took a short break.
"Ye, you can't keep going?" Seeing Ye Shuang wanting to rest, Chen Qin asked.
"Doesn't Fuyao need to rest? It's the perfect time for me to sit with her," Ye Shuang said, not realizing there was anything wrong with what he just said.
Hearing this, Chen Qin pouted her lips.
"Sit with her... fine then."
At this moment, Fugui hit the birdie over. In the next second, accompanied by the crisp sound of a racket striking, the birdie whizzed past his ear!
"Huh?" Fugui was stunned for a moment. Seeing Chen Qin who had just performed a smash, he exclaimed in surprise,
"Whoa, when did you learn to smash?"
"Eh? Without even realizing it..." Chen Qin looked at the racket in her hand and scratched her head.
Ye Shuang, however, wasn't paying attention to Chen Qin's side. Instead, he sat down next to Fuyao.
Fuyao then took a towel out of the bag beside her and handed it over.
"Here, wipe your sweat. The towel is new, no one has used it."
Ye Shuang took the towel but didn't say anything.
It was actually Fuyao's first time seeing Ye Shuang approach her so proactively. A slight blush crept up her ears, and her voice was a bit hesitant. "Xiaoye, what's wrong? You're a bit weird today. Is there something you want to tell me?"
Ye Shuang couldn't help but look at her for a few more seconds. She still had this gentle and soft temperament, not changing one bit.
He hesitated for a few seconds. Thinking about how Fuyao would get into an accident after school on a certain day in the future, he spoke up, "Be with me."
Fuyao's face instantly turned red. She gently covered her mouth, looking at Ye Shuang in disbelief.
"From now on, when we go home after school, go back together with us." Ye Shuang felt he had conveyed the wrong meaning and quickly clarified.
As the saying goes about the butterfly effect, Ye Shuang believed that even a tiny change could alter the course of the future.
"Go home together?" Fuyao finally realized what he meant. She seemed a bit surprised that Ye Shuang would invite her like this. After all, in Fuyao's impression, he actually didn't really like getting too close to girls.
It was basically boys playing with boys, and girls playing with girls.
"Sure," Fuyao said with a smile, not refusing.
"Mm, then it's settled." Ye Shuang nodded and smiled.
"Mm..."
After returning to Chen Qin's side, just as Ye Shuang was wondering if his actions would help Fuyao, a faint, gloomy voice came from beside him.
"Ye—"
"Hm?" Ye Shuang turned his head, only to find Chen Qin standing beside him, staring at him.
"What were you chatting about with Fuyao? Why were you being so sneaky?" Chen Qin's tone sounded like she had knocked over a bottle of vinegar, though she still made sure to emphasize,
"Of course, I don't particularly care about this at all. I'm just curious, just curious."
"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to."
Seeing Chen Qin acting like this, Ye Shuang actually found it a bit funny. She really had an exceptional amount of possessiveness, though it seemed she wouldn't be like this after growing up.
Sure enough, people change when they grow up.
"I just asked Fuyao if she could walk home from school with us."
"W-Why?" Chen Qin immediately became nervous, but then she put on a teasing look and nudged Ye Shuang with her elbow.
"Hey, hey, hey, do you like Fuyao? As your good friend, I will help you out."
Ye Shuang had a playful look on his face. This girl, clearly she liked him to death, yet she still pretended to not care at all.
But everyone is pretty much the same when they are young, not daring to reveal their true thoughts.
"Well, I do have someone I like." As soon as Ye Shuang spoke, he noticed Chen Qin's beautiful eyes widen significantly.
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
