Monday.
"Yu You, it's midterm exams today. Did you study properly yesterday?"
On the way to school, Tang Keke couldn't help but ask Bai Yuyou beside her—she had spent most of yesterday reviewing, just to score well on this midterm. Though Tang Keke's foundation was weak, thanks to Ye Shuang's tutoring, her confidence had soared.
At this, Bai Yuyou slowly snapped out of her daze and handed over her notebook.
【(。-ω-) There’s an exam today?】
Tang Keke: "..."
She gave Bai Yuyou a strange look. Did this girl not review at all yesterday?
"What were you doing yesterday?" Tang Keke asked curiously.
Bai Yuyou rummaged through her crossbody bag for a moment before pulling out a photo album of sticker pictures.
"Wow, did you go to the aquarium with Brother yesterday?" Tang Keke flipped through the album, marveling as she turned the pages. But after seven or eight pages, she suddenly realized something was off.
Huh?
Why are there so many?
Just how many did you take? Tang Keke remembered that sticker photos at the aquarium cost 30 yuan for five shots, and this album had at least fifty.
"Yu You, even though you took a lot, sticker photos aren’t supposed to be like this," Tang Keke said.
Bai Yuyou tilted her head.
"See, you don’t get it." Tang Keke adopted a know-it-all tone. "Sticker photos are supposed to be intimate! You have to sneak a kiss on Brother at the perfect moment—that’s how you get the sweetest shots!"
Waving her hand dramatically like a self-proclaimed love strategist, Tang Keke declared,
"Just follow my lead, and that measly Brother of yours will be conquered in no time!"
"Applaud if you understand!"
Expressionless, Bai Yuyou clapped her hands lightly.
……
"Achoo!"
Meanwhile, Ye Shuang, who was cleaning the house, sneezed. He rubbed his nose, then sneezed again.
"Who’s talking about me behind my back?" After finishing mopping the floor, Ye Shuang nodded in satisfaction at the spotless room.
He walked to the kitchen and rinsed the rag in the sink.
On the fridge beside him, several photo magnets were stuck—three or four of them, all featuring him and Bai Yuyou. The poses were few, and their expressions barely changed.
But last night, Bai Yuyou had fiddled with them endlessly, even making frequent trips to the kitchen just to look at the magnets.
After finishing his chores, Ye Shuang grabbed a soda from the fridge. Taking a sip, his gaze lingered on the magnets.
A faint smile crossed his lips as he shook his head and left the kitchen.
The moment he sat on the sofa, Yi Wan—the cat—scurried over, climbing onto the couch and stretching its limbs to peer at Ye Shuang. "Meow!"
"You want some too?" Ye Shuang placed the cold soda can on Yi Wan’s head, prompting the cat to yowl and clutch its head before flopping over.
Too… too cold!
"Pfft—hahaha!" Ye Shuang burst out laughing.
After a few more sips, he settled in to update his novel—though to him, it felt more like writing a diary, filled with snippets of his daily life with Bai Yuyou.
"Fewer reader comments today." Ye Shuang skimmed through them, sighing. It’d be nice if some kind readers could recommend his book in their reading lists.
After finishing two chapters, he set aside the keyboard and decided to visit Bai Yuyou’s school.
"They’re taking exams today. I wonder if they absorbed what I taught them." Changing his outfit, he headed downstairs to his car.
Driving smoothly to the school, parking effortlessly in the underground garage, Ye Shuang strolled through the halls of Yinshan Academy with practiced ease.
Perhaps because of the midterms, the campus was unusually quiet—exams had clearly already begun.
Hands behind his back, he walked casually, even nodding at a patrolling teacher without a hint of unease.
The teacher, recognizing his vaguely familiar face, smiled and nodded back.
Ye Shuang soon arrived outside Class 3-A, spotting Bai Yuyou and Tang Keke bent over their papers, focused. Their serious expressions pleased him.
At least they looked like they were taking it seriously.
Just then, the proctor for Class A noticed Ye Shuang outside and stood up, stepping out to whisper, "Mr. Bai."
It was a male teacher—Ye Shuang had chatted with him online before but didn’t expect him to approach now.
"What’s up?"
"My stomach’s acting up. Could you watch the class for a bit while I run to the infirmary?" the teacher asked quietly.
"Uh…" Ye Shuang’s expression said, "Here we go again."
But he agreed anyway.
Grateful, the teacher hurried off, leaving Ye Shuang to take his seat at the front.
Somehow, this fake teacher was more convincing than the real ones.
At that moment, Bai Yuyou—as if sensing something—slowly raised her head, her antenna-like ahoge perking up like a radar locking onto a target.
She blinked, staring blankly for a few seconds at the familiar face on the podium.
This girl… focus on your exam!
Noticing her gaze, Ye Shuang cleared his throat and said sternly,
"No looking around during exams!"
Hearing his voice, Bai Yuyou finally confirmed—it really was Ye Shuang!
Tang Keke, too, froze. The proctor’s voice had changed. When she looked up, her eyes nearly popped out—
Why is Brother here?!
Wait, are you actually a teacher at Yinshan Academy?!
Neither of them knew that Ye Shuang had played the teacher role so often, he might as well be one.
Under Ye Shuang’s pointed look, both quickly lowered their heads and resumed their exams.
Picking up a spare exam paper, Ye Shuang skimmed the questions—it was math, with straightforward problems: functions, multiple-choice. Many were topics he’d covered, and the formats were familiar.
Thinking, "They should be able to handle this, right?" he stood and paced the aisles, hands behind his back, eventually stopping beside Bai Yuyou and Tang Keke.
A glance at Tang Keke’s paper showed she’d used the right formula… but gotten the answer wrong.
Tang Keke looked up, eyes pleading: "Did I do it right?"
Ye Shuang stayed silent, shifting his gaze to Bai Yuyou’s paper—
In the answer section was a carefully drawn dolphin.
Ye Shuang: "..."
…What?
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.
end. Thus one must continue to cultivate, and become a saint or great emperor, in order to prolong one's life. Chen Xia, however, completely reversed this. Since his transmigration, he has gained immortality, and also a system that awards him with attribute points for every year he lives. Thus between the myriad worlds, the legend of an unparalleled senior appeared. "A gentleman takes revenge; it is never too late even after ten thousand years." "When you were at your peak I yielded, now in your old age I shall trample on you." - Chen Xia
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…
