After the surroundings quieted down, Taozi slowly let out a breath. She glanced at a burly man beside her. "What about you? Aren't you going to take the brothers out for some tea?"
"How about I escort you back?" The burly man flashed a set of snow-white teeth, not forgetting to roll up the sleeves of his security uniform to show off his muscles.
"No need."
"It's no trouble. Also, little... Manager Tao, you're dressed rather cutely today." The burly man looked at Taozi's maid outfit and chuckled.
"Don't force me to slap you." Taozi kicked his calf and stared at him silently.
"I'm out." Being stared down, the burly man immediately ducked into the car.
After the last car left, Taozi turned to look at Tang Keke and Bai Yuyou, then asked, "Did that scare you?"
"What did?" Tang Keke asked curiously.
"Just now... that, I..."
"It's fine, it's fine. Although I really was scared to death just now." Tang Keke grinned. Even though she was never very brave, she had seen her fair share of storms, so she recovered quite quickly.
"Taozi is just Taozi," Bai Yuyou chimed in.
"Taozi is just Taozi..." Hearing this, Taozi seemed to freeze for a few seconds before revealing a faint smile.
"Yeah, I am just me."
"Alright, let's go home."
"Okay..."
"By the way, Yuyou, Keke."
"What is it?"
"About joining the club, I'd like to join now. Is that okay?"
"Hehe, what are you talking about? You put on our Light Music Club's uniform, so you're already a member, Taozi."
"..."
"Are you shy?"
"No, can I have my clothes back first? I don't want to go home wearing a maid outfit."
"Oh my, it's so cute, just wear it for a bit longer."
"Fine..."
...
...
It was getting late into the night. Taozi drove up to the front of a company building. As she stepped through the company doors, the receptionist immediately spoke up, "Good evening, Manager Tao."
"Mhm, where are the colleagues who just came back?" Taozi asked casually, now dressed in simple work attire.
"They're in the activity room at the very back."
"Got it."
Taozi took the elevator up to one of the teen floors. Voices quickly rang out from inside, "Good evening, Manager Tao!"
"Where are those guests?" Taozi asked as she saw a few burly men walking over.
"They're being well entertained. They're playing video games in the room, everyone's quite happy."
As he spoke, the sound of electric arcs could be heard from the inner room, along with the shrill screams of the guests who were clearly overly excited.
"That's good. Keep playing games with the guests. Where is the one named Zheng He?" Taozi nodded slightly, then asked.
"Him? He just got tired from playing and fell asleep. Should I go wake him up?"
"Yes, I'll talk to him personally."
Taozi walked to the innermost room. At this moment, Zheng He looked as if a basin of water had just been splashed on him. He was huddled in the corner with a vacant stare. When Taozi walked in, he suddenly grabbed his head, revealing deep terror.
"What's going on? Didn't I say to entertain the guest properly? The air conditioning is so cold, couldn't you give him a piece of clothing?" Taozi asked the burly man beside her.
"Oh man, my mistake, my mistake. He was just watching a horror movie and got scared," the burly man immediately grabbed a towel to wrap Zheng He up a bit, then smiled and said, "Come on, guest, take a seat. I'll brew you a cup of tea."
Zheng He's body trembled, while Taozi simply smiled and said, "Have a seat, classmate Zheng He. Let's have a nice chat."
"I, I was wrong. Please, let me go back."
"What are you talking about? It's not like we're some sort of... I just saw you had a problem with my friends, so I invited you over for some tea, that's all." Taozi smiled as the burly man beside her brought over a cup of tea.
Large clumps of hair floated in the boiling hot tea. The burly man then said,
"Drink this cup of tea, and you can go back."
"I, I'll drink it." Zheng He immediately started gulping it down, completely ignoring the scalding temperature.
In the next second, Zheng He's facial features scrunched up tightly.
"I, I..." Zheng He was so burned he couldn't speak; even his mouth had gone numb.
"What's wrong?"
"Go... go back?" Zheng He stuttered, unable to even string together a coherent sentence.
"You drank it in such a hurry, it seems you were truly thirsty. Go pour the guest another cup," Taozi said to the burly man beside her. "Hurry up."
"I was wrong, I was really wrong. I shouldn't have had any ideas about Bai Yuyou. I'm sorry, I'm truly sorry."
Seeing another cup of hot tea being brought over, Zheng He, whose mouth was already swollen from the burns, cried out,
"I really was wrong!"
"You don't know you were wrong," Taozi said calmly. "You just know you're going to die."
Zheng He grabbed his own hair, unable to even squeeze out a tear.
Taozi said calmly, "To think you actually threatened to have us spend the night with you, and you weren't even afraid of the police. You guys really are a bunch of criminals, knowingly breaking the law."
Zheng He's eyes widened.
No way.
Talk about a reversal of roles?!
"Why are you looking at us? I'm much more law-abiding than you are," Taozi said lightly. "At the very least, we never do things like forcing women, we pay our taxes on time, and we even help old ladies cross the street."
Saying that, she shot a glance at the burly man beside her.
"It looks like this guest can't drink anymore. Make him drink some more tea, don't let him go thirsty."
"You got it, Manager."
The burly man punched Zheng He in the stomach. The latter instantly let out a wail, vomiting water in large mouthfuls.
"Alright, drink up again. What if you get thirsty?" The tea was forcefully poured down his throat once more.
At this point, Taozi didn't say much else. She simply stood up. "Alright, our chat is over, and the guest has finished his tea. Send him back."
"Will do."
Taozi walked out of the room, and just then, her phone rang.
She took a look; it was a call from her mother.
"Hello, Mother."
"Are you alright, sweetie? I heard you ran into some bad guys on your way home?" On the other end of the phone, Aunt Li's voice rang out.
"Did you get hurt at all?"
"I'm fine. We had a good talk with them, and we've already reconciled," Taozi said.
"As long as you're fine. Remember to find the police if you have any problems. There really are more and more of these bad guys lately."
"Okay." Taozi smiled, then paused for a moment.
"Um, Mother."
"What is it?"
"I joined the Light Music Club... together with Yuyou and the others."
"Isn't that wonderful?"
Hearing this, Taozi froze for a moment, then said, "Yeah, it's wonderful."
"Enjoy your youth to the fullest. After all, your student days will never come back once they're gone. Oh my, back in my day, I really didn't know how to cherish the time at all."
"Okay."
After hanging up the phone, Taozi looked at her phone's wallpaper featuring Yuyou and the others, and smiled faintly.
Right, I should watch some beginner instrument videos when I get home.
Shaking her head, Taozi left the company.
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
lan, the Luo family, tracked him down - along with the babies in their arms. Mo Xuan stared pensively at the paternity test results from over a dozen top institutions, both domestic and international, showing a 99.99% match between himself and the two baby girls. At 23, Mo Xuan, a doctoral student, had become the father of two three-year-old children. The kicker? The mothers weren't even the same person! He gradually realized he was being lured step by step into an elaborate trap designed by these two yandere sisters. "Be good, little Xuan. Sister's life belongs to you entirely." "Brother, if you try to run away, I'll have no choice but to tie you up." Mo Xuan: "Do whatever you want, ladies. I give up."
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.”
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
