"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."
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…
e vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
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.”
