"A bit more exhausting than I imagined."
After finishing the inspection of all the students in the Business School, Ye Shuang finally could take a short break—he stood in front of the vending machine and bought himself a bottle of mineral water.
He wondered if it was because he was getting older, but he no longer liked those overly sweet and heavily flavored drinks.
At this moment, there was a slight movement beside him. Ye Shuang glanced over and found a long-haired girl standing next to him.
"Yuyou? Why are you here?" Seeing Bai Yuyou, Ye Shuang was slightly stunned. Shouldn't she be with Tang Keke?
"Keke went to the club room, so I came to find Ye Shuang," Bai Yuyou said, reaching out to hug Ye Shuang's waist.
A warm sensation pressed against him, and the young girl rubbed her cheek against his chest.
"Is that so? Are you tired today?"
"Not tired."
Ye Shuang gently held the girl, while Bai Yuyou practically melted her body into his embrace.
"What's wrong?" Seeing Bai Yuyou so clingy today, Ye Shuang smiled and asked if something had happened.
Bai Yuyou whispered, "I've gotten fat."
"Hahahaha..." Hearing this, Ye Shuang laughed as if amused. He reached out and pinched Bai Yuyou's cheek. "Where are you fat?"
"Here." Bai Yuyou pointed to her slimes. "Look, Ye Shuang."
Saying that, she grabbed Ye Shuang's hand and placed it there.
"Uh..." Ye Shuang withdrew his hand, then looked earnestly at her face for a moment before smiling again. "Not fat at all."
"Before going to the club room, do you want to take a walk on the track?"
"Okay." Bai Yuyou nodded.
...
It was just after school. Aside from some students exercising, members of the track and field club were practicing running on the track. Ye Shuang and Bai Yuyou chose an outer lane to walk on, just to avoid disturbing the other students.
The afternoon sun was neither too hot nor too dry. With a cute girl walking beside him, his mood seemed to improve significantly.
"Ye Shuang, have I grown up?" Bai Yuyou asked as she walked beside Ye Shuang, reaching out to hold his hand.
"Yes, both physically and mentally." Ye Shuang nodded.
Bai Yuyou no longer spoke as slowly and stutteringly as she used to. She was no longer the ignorant girl she once was.
She could take care of herself now. Perhaps she was still a bit dependent on him, but that wasn't a problem at all.
"In the future, I want to take care of Ye Shuang and protect Ye Shuang." Hearing what Ye Shuang said, Bai Yuyou looked ahead.
Ye Shuang was momentarily stunned, then smiled.
"Sure."
"That day will come," he added.
"When?"
"Hmm... When the day comes that I can no longer walk, I might need your help taking care of me," Ye Shuang said. "After all, you're younger than me, so I'll definitely grow old first."
"That'll take a long time." Bai Yuyou tilted her head and thought about it. The gentle breeze brushed through the girl's hair, mixed with dappled sunlight, making her face look incredibly dazzling.
"A long time..." Ye Shuang said, as if sighing with emotion.
"Isn't it better if it takes a long time?"
Bai Yuyou seemed to understand something. She withdrew her gaze and leaned closer. "I want to be with Ye Shuang forever."
"..."
Ye Shuang squeezed Bai Yuyou's hand tightly. It felt like he hadn't said anything, yet had said everything.
Some words were buried in the wind.
...
...
Evening, Light Music Club.
"Where did you guys go? Why are you so late?" Tang Keke asked curiously when Ye Shuang and Bai Yuyou returned to the club room.
"I chatted with Yuyou for a bit," Ye Shuang replied.
"Oh?"
At this time, only Keke and Zhixia were in the club room. It was quite rare to see so few people.
"Why are there so few people today?" Ye Shuang asked.
"Xiaoyi was here just now, but it seemed she got bored after a while and left," Zhixia said with a smile. "As for Linlin, she had some family matters today and went home early."
"As for Taozi and Ducky, they seemed to have found some super rare bottle and ran out together."
"I see." Ye Shuang nodded, but he noticed a flyer on the table.
[Bar Music Festival]
"What's that?" Ye Shuang picked up the flyer and found it was registration information for a music festival.
"Xiaoyi brought it over. She said since we're free anyway, we could go participate in this competition." As soon as Zhixia finished speaking, Tang Keke and Bai Yuyou leaned in to look at the flyer in Ye Shuang's hand.
"Are we going to perform then?" Tang Keke asked curiously.
"Well, let's wait until everyone is here to have a meeting and discuss it," Zhixia said with a smile. Although she was the president, she wouldn't make such decisions on her own.
"Hmm..." Ye Shuang glanced at the address on the flyer.
The next second, he froze.
"This address..." Ye Shuang took out his phone and directly dialed a number.
After a while, a sweet voice sounded from the other end of the phone. "What's up, Little Shuangshuang? Calling to have a heart-to-heart with your big sister?"
"Since when did you become my big sister?" Ye Shuang's mouth twitched.
"You're so mean~~~~~"
Listening to the wealthy-sounding voice on the other end, Ye Shuang looked at the flyer in his hand and asked, "I remember... the bars over in the East City, are they your properties?"
"Not all of them, only four or five belong to us."
"This one called Violet, is it yours?" Ye Shuang continued to ask.
"Oh? I think so. Doesn't the name sound nice?"
"It sounds nice," Ye Shuang said.
"So perfunctory. Tell me, what's the matter? Hmph."
"I saw a flyer saying there's a music festival being held. Is the environment there suitable for students to perform?" Ye Shuang asked.
"Oh? Is it Little Yuyou?"
"And Taozi."
"Of course I know, my precious daughter is there too," Aunt Li continued. "It's just an ordinary bar over there, but the space is large enough, and the stage is big enough for band performances. Plus, whatever environment you want, I can create it for you."
"I just don't want it to be too chaotic."
"Oh, having the audience sitting prim and proper isn't very rock and roll, you know."
"True..."
"My daughter is there too, what are you worried about?" Aunt Li said.
Ye Shuang: "..."
That seemed to make some sense.
"Little Shuangshuang, it's not that I want to lecture you," Aunt Li's voice continued.
"Actually, it's okay to let go a little sometimes. Yuyou and the others aren't as fragile as you imagine~"
Hearing this, Ye Shuang smiled. At this moment, Bai Yuyou was standing aside looking curiously, seemingly unaware of who Ye Shuang was talking to on the phone.
He reached out and rubbed Bai Yuyou's head, and the young girl comfortably narrowed her eyes.
"Perhaps you're right."
for mindless slaughter, this isn't for you.] My name is Ye Shu, and I'm a transmigrator. It seems I'm supposed to be the protagonist, but that feels pretty unlikely. This world has been invaded by a system. The antagonists on the other side have suddenly become pure, flawless saints. The female leads have been force-fed the so-called "original plot," making them think they've been reborn. Now, everyone thinks I'm scum. Including the old lady in my ring. And here I am, in the Monster Beast Mountain Range, braising pork. To put my situation in perspective— It's as if, the moment Xiao Yan stepped into the Monster Beast Mountain Range, the Soul Emperor already knew he would become the Flame Emperor, and Yao Lao had been turned to the enemy's side. I have nothing right now. Oh wait, that's not true. I do have a white-haired loli child-bride who's the Heavenly Dao, and her only skill is acting cute. So, tell me guys... what are my chances of making it to the end?
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!"
【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.)
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.”
