The late-night alleyway was filled with the smell of dust mixed with garbage. Slightly messy footsteps echoed faintly as a figure staggered forward.
Turning another corner, her figure disappeared, replaced by a white van.
The van pulled into the lane, adding a red taillight to the city's nightscape.
...
"She is just my younger sister, my sister says purple is very charming..."
"She is just my younger sister, you don't care about this explanation..."
The premium audio system inside the van blared, and the LED strips flashed in sync with the beat of the music. Yet, the van had the most unassuming exterior; no one could tell what was going on inside.
The short-haired girl sitting in the driver's seat glanced at the girl in black clothes beside her.
"How pathetic. Not only did you fail to infiltrate, but you also got beaten up," Chao Yiyu said.
"There was nothing wrong with my method. That bodyguard's intuition is just too sharp, or perhaps his sixth sense..." An Shiyu said calmly. A few seconds later, she added,
"His body is like a block of iron. You try it if you think you're so capable. My foot hurts from kicking him."
Chao Yiyu shrugged. "I never intended to do something like that anyway. You're helping Uncle in secret like this, and he doesn't even know."
An Shiyu didn't speak.
Chao Yiyu glanced at An Shiyu. "Hey, are you okay?"
"I'm fine..."
An Shiyu hung her head, clearly looking a bit upset. But the next second, her face stiffened because she noticed her bare wrist—An Shiyu immediately sat up straight and began feeling around the car seat.
"What's wrong?"
An Shiyu frowned and even reached her hand into Chao Yiyu's skirt.
"Oi?!"
"No... was it back then?" An Shiyu's expression darkened, as if she suddenly remembered the scene of being grabbed and thrown. Could her bracelet have broken then?
"Turn around and go back!"
"You're crazy. That bodyguard definitely called the police. Why are you going back? Are you throwing yourself into the net, Iron-head Yu?"
Chao Yiyu said, then also noticed that the bracelet on An Shiyu's wrist was missing. "Oh, no wonder you want to go back. So you lost something very important."
"Who told you it was important?" An Shiyu looked away.
"Oh?"
As if accepting her fate, An Shiyu gripped her clothes tightly, her voice full of disappointment. "What should I do?"
"Even if you ask me..." Chao Yiyu said, then thought for a moment. "The thing is probably in Bobo's hands anyway. Let's just come clean and get it back."
"No."
"Ehhh—" Chao Yiyu dragged out her voice. "How about I make one for you? It looks pretty simple anyway."
"It's not the same."
"Tsk, girls in love are such a hassle," Chao Yiyu complained, then checked the rearview mirror, shifted gears, and made a U-turn.
"Let's go. I'll go with you to get it back."
"Really?"
"Probably. Let's assess the situation first. That bodyguard is like a boss character, hard to deal with. We aren't going to just feed him double kills, are we?"
...
...
Daybreak.
Home.
"..."
"Cancelled?"
As soon as Ye Shuang woke up in the morning, he saw the message Alice sent him. The general idea was that some unexpected circumstances came up, so their scheduled time was temporarily cancelled.
Alice: Hmph, this lady encountered an assassin last night, so I need to find a safe place.
"Assassin? What kind of nonsense is this kid spouting now?" Ye Shuang wasn't fully awake yet. He rubbed his eyes and decided to get up and wash up first.
"Hmm..."
However, Ye Shuang thought about it. If things like ninjas could appear, having an assassin wasn't too strange, though it was highly likely fake.
After a simple wash, Ye Shuang looked at himself in the mirror and touched his chin.
"Should I shave my beard?" Feeling the prickliness on his chin, he couldn't help but mutter.
After shaving his beard clean, he noticed a system window pop up next to his reflection in the mirror.
[Character: Ye Shuang
A simple shave makes the man even more handsome]
[Stamina has slightly increased]
Seeing the unfamiliar window, Ye Shuang was stunned for a few seconds. When he snapped back to reality, he looked at the window again with some surprise. What did it mean by his stamina had slightly increased?
Ye Shuang jumped in place but didn't feel anything strange.
Instead, hopping around in front of the mirror like this made him look a bit silly.
"Forget it, just the system acting up as usual."
Leaving the bathroom, Ye Shuang noticed that Bai Yuyou's door was still half-open. He wasn't sure if she was awake yet. Because of Keke's waist injury, she had been staying here recently.
Seeing the door open, Ye Shuang walked in.
No one was inside. It was clean and no different from usual, except there were two extra controllers next to the console, seemingly left there after Keke and Yuyou played games together.
"Knowing how to play games is a good thing." Ye Shuang was happy to see Yuyou learning more things. Playing games with friends was also a rare experience.
After all, these two kids had started off playing Fireboy and Watergirl.
"Hmm..." Considering he shouldn't linger and stare in a girl's room, Ye Shuang planned to leave. However, as he turned around, he noticed the desk nearby. Some drawing papers had blown onto the floor.
"She actually drew this much?" Ye Shuang looked at the stacks of drawing papers and couldn't help but admire Yuyou's diligence.
Walking over to the papers, Ye Shuang picked them up from the floor. But when his eyes accidentally caught a glimpse of the contents, his face stiffened slightly.
Generally speaking—
He knew very well that studying art required practicing anatomy. After all, you needed to understand human body structure to get the perspective right and avoid uncoordinated limbs and wrong proportions.
But this slime sandwich...
Ye Shuang was quite familiar with it, having done it often with Chen Qin. But seeing it on Bai Yuyou's drawing paper, he froze for a few seconds, then flipped back and forth through the pages.
This is...
He walked over to the desk and noticed the things on it.
Ye Shuang: "..."
Downstairs, Bai Yuyou and Tang Keke had already prepared breakfast and were sitting on the living room sofa watching a TV drama, waiting for Ye Shuang to wake up.
"Thump, thump thump."
Footsteps came from the stairs. The two girls turned their heads and noticed Ye Shuang coming down.
"Good morning, Brother. Hiss... ow, ow, ow." Tang Keke turned to greet him but let out a cry of pain.
"Ye Shuang, eat breakfast."
Bai Yuyou also spoke up, but the next moment, the two girls noticed Ye Shuang's expression was a bit strange. To be precise, it was very peculiar, as if he hesitated to speak.
"Oh?" At this time, Tang Keke and Bai Yuyou also noticed the drawing papers in Ye Shuang's hand.
"Ah..."
"I have something I want to talk to you guys about," Ye Shuang said at this moment.
transmigrates into the role of a villainous rich second-generation kid in an urban fantasy novel, and gets bound to a god-tier choice system. Right at the start, he catches the female lead stealing exam papers! This triggers the villain's choice options! [Choice 1: Pretend you didn't see anything] [Choice 2: Loudly call her out, drawing everyone's attention] [Choice 3: ...] And thus, a twisted villain is born. To avoid getting killed by the protagonist, he has no choice but to take down all the protagonists first. Jiang Che: Nobody understands being twisted better than me!
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.”
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…
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
