A few days later.
"Beep." In the evening, Ye Shuang returned home early. He placed his finger on the fingerprint lock and opened the door.
It had been over a month since he said those things to Bai Yuyou.
A month or so wasn't exactly long, but it wasn't short either.
A sudden sense of unease crept into Ye Shuang's heart. He hadn't spoken to Bai Yuyou in over a month either—the girl who used to cling to him constantly had now been separated from him for over a month, without even exchanging a single word...
Just as Chen Qin had said, his behavior might be a bit cruel.
"..." Ye Shuang let out a long sigh.
Meanwhile, on his phone, there were messages sent by Tang Keke.
Tang Keke: Brother, I thought about it for a long time and still decided to tell you.
Tang Keke: Yuyou's condition hasn't been right lately. She often talks to herself... and it seems like she hasn't been sleeping well either.
Tang Keke: It seems she might be having auditory hallucinations too... though maybe it's just my imagination...
Tang Keke: Can you please help her?
Tang Keke: I'll never give random advice again. I just want Yuyou to go back to normal.
Actually, Ye Shuang had returned from the company right after seeing these messages. He rubbed his hands together and then rubbed his face, silently waiting for the two girls to come back. In truth, there was no misunderstanding between him and Bai Yuyou.
Perhaps because of this very reason, Ye Shuang didn't know how to initiate fixing their relationship. Because once they went back to how they used to be, it would seem like nothing had changed. How was he supposed to face the place that child held in his heart?
Continue to play dumb to stall for time?
Ye Shuang didn't know, but Tang Keke's messages made it clear to him: doing anything right now was better than doing nothing. He couldn't keep running away like this.
The scenery outside the window gradually darkened as Ye Shuang continued to wait.
His eyes were downcast.
...
...
"Yuyou, what are you doing here?" Tang Keke looked at the girl beside her and couldn't help but ask out of curiosity. The two of them were currently in a plush toy store, and Bai Yuyou had been staring at the dolphin plushie in front of her for a solid ten minutes.
"I don't know..." Bai Yuyou looked at the plushie and suddenly said softly, "It feels like it's talking to me."
"How is that possible? Yuyou, please don't be like this, I'm a little scared," Tang Keke said. She simply couldn't imagine that Bai Yuyou's dependence on Ye Shuang had reached such an extreme level.
Perhaps without you, I wouldn't be able to live either.
Tang Keke used to think this phrase was an exaggeration, but ever since she met Bai Yuyou, she felt that it could actually happen.
No wonder people in this world actually died for love.
"Why be scared?" Bai Yuyou noticed Tang Keke's expression and asked.
"I... I feel like you've been acting weird lately," Tang Keke couldn't help but say. She was truly terrified, afraid of what might happen if Bai Yuyou continued down this path.
"I'm fine," Bai Yuyou said, shaking her head. Then, pointing at the dolphin plushie, she added,
"It's just that this is very cute."
"Are you really okay?" Hearing Bai Yuyou's usual tone, Tang Keke's expression remained doubtful. She was genuinely worried that Bai Yuyou would back herself into a corner and do something drastic. After all, this girl was incredibly naive—or rather, single-minded. Sometimes, once she walked into a dead end, she couldn't find her way out.
"I'm really fine, Keke," Bai Yuyou said softly, reaching out to hold Keke's hand. "I'm sorry for making you worry. I've already figured a lot of things out."
"Wuu wuu wuu, as long as you're okay. You scared me to death." Seeing Bai Yuyou's calm face, Tang Keke immediately hugged her, whining tearfully.
Bai Yuyou reached out and gently patted her head.
"Do you like that dolphin plushie? I'll buy it for you." Tang Keke pointed at the little dolphin.
"Mm, I like it."
"Let's go, let's go. Buy, buy, buy. It'll make you feel better." Tang Keke generously took out her small wallet. Her wallet was one of those brightly colored ita-bags, but upon opening it, she found there wasn't even a single red banknote inside.
"Um... it's fine, I still have money on my card." Tang Keke pulled Bai Yuyou into the store and directly grabbed the little dolphin plushie.
"Boss, how much is this?"
"Two hundred and forty," the boss glanced at it and said with a smile.
"Alright." Although Tang Keke felt it was quite expensive, she put her wallet away and took out her phone to pay.
However, Bai Yuyou grabbed Tang Keke's wrist and said to the boss, "One hundred and fifty."
"Pretty girl, I won't even make my money back at that price."
"One hundred and forty," Bai Yuyou said expressionlessly.
"Alright, alright. Seeing as you two are students, I'll let you have it for one hundred and forty." Faced with Bai Yuyou's ruthless bargaining, the boss thought for a moment and readily agreed.
To be frank, it was just a matter of earning a little more or a little less. After all, the wholesale price for this little dolphin plushie was only 66.
Bai Yuyou hugged the dolphin plushie and walked out of the store with Tang Keke. Seeing that the girl beside her seemed to be in much better spirits, Tang Keke also relaxed. It seemed her brother was at home right now too. If their relationship improved, Yuyou probably wouldn't keep wearing herself out like this anymore, right?
"Yuyou, Yuyou, let's hurry home, okay?" Tang Keke said.
"Why?" Bai Yuyou looked over, seemingly not understanding why they needed to go back early.
Obviously, there was nothing there.
"No reason really. Just so we can eat earlier. Plus, my brother is at home, isn't it good to go back early?" Tang Keke asked.
"Okay." Hearing that Ye Shuang was home, Bai Yuyou nodded gently, hugging the dolphin plushie in her arms a little tighter.
...
Passing through the commercial street and crossing one more road, they would arrive at their residential complex. At this moment, Tang Keke and Bai Yuyou jogged across the crosswalk during the last few seconds of the green light. Tang Keke pressed against her chest,
"Ow, ow, ow, bouncing like this hurts a bit. I really wish I could chop them off."
"Couldn't this green light last a little longer?" Just as the girl was complaining, she noticed that Bai Yuyou had stopped in her tracks.
"What's wrong?" Keke saw Bai Yuyou staring blankly, as if lost in thought.
Bai Yuyou turned her head to look back, seemingly having noticed something.
She said softly, "Over there..."
At that moment, across the road, through a seemingly hazy line of sight, Ye Shuang was standing on the opposite side smiling and waving, as if calling her over.
"Ye Shuang, he's calling me over."
Bai Yuyou murmured, dropping the plushie in her hands and walking briskly toward the road.
"Where is my brother on the opposite side?!" Hearing Bai Yuyou's words, Tang Keke immediately realized something was wrong and reached out to grab her.
"It's a red light, Yuyou, don't go!!!!!!"
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
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.”
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
pression Bureau] Transported to a fantasy world overrun by demons and monsters, Gu Qingfeng becomes a jailer in the Demon Suppression Prison of the Great Yan Dynasty's Demon Suppression Bureau. From this point on, bizarre cases frequently occur in the Demon Suppression Prison, once known as hell on earth and infamous for its gloomy, terrifying atmosphere! Why do the demons and monsters in the prison wail miserably every night? Why has the corpse demon, capable of transforming into various beauties, donned black stockings and switched careers to become a foot massage therapist? Why has the eye demon, expert in soul-snatching and illusions, turned into a VR headset? Why is the fox spirit performing otaku dances? Are all these occurrences a twisted expression of demonic nature, or a descent into moral depravity? After peeling away layer upon layer of mystery, all clues ultimately point to a jailer named Gu Qingfeng. Gu Qingfeng: "Hehehe... My dear demons and monsters, whose card shall we flip today?"
