“Hey, these are the snacks I got for you. They might not be worth much, but since they're from yours truly, they're priceless.”
“Got it?”
Bai Yuyou was sitting on the hospital bed, and by her bedside was Alice, who had just been speaking.
Bobo, meanwhile, was placing the gifts and a fruit basket on a nearby table. Everything there was basically what Bai Yuyou loved to eat—generally speaking, as long as something was edible, Bai Yuyou wouldn't refuse it. After all, this kid had spent a fairly long stretch of her life eating leftovers.
Being able to eat until full is itself a blessing—that's what Bai Yuyou had always believed.
“Thank you, Alice,” Bai Yuyou said. Even though Ye Shuang had already prepared plenty of snacks so she wouldn't run out, she still softly expressed her gratitude upon seeing what Alice had brought. “And you too, Bobo.”
“Please, don't be so formal, Miss Bai Yuyou,” Bobo said, but he still asked with concern, “Is there anything serious with your health?”
“No problem at all—it's just that Ye Shuang is worried,” Bai Yuyou said. She had already been in this ward for several days now. Even Taozi had been discharged and gone back to work, while she was still staying for a few more days of observation.
“Oh, come on, big brother is just worried about you, that's all,” Tang Keke said with a smile from the other hospital bed, the one originally meant for Taozi. She practically came over to help look after Yuyou whenever she had free time. That was, of course, something Ye Shuang had asked of her, but it was also something Keke wanted to do herself.
It definitely wasn't because Ye Shuang had promised to buy her a full set of merchandise.
“It's better to be checked more thoroughly. After all, you almost lost your life this time,” Alice said, speaking with great maturity. “Life is extremely fragile.”
“You're still just a little kid,” Keke said.
“Hmph, my psychological age is way more mature than yours—you, whose breast capacity is bigger than your brain capacity,” Alice snorted.
“As if your head is any bigger than they are,” Tang Keke pursed her lips, looking even a bit disgusted.
“You! Hmph... I won't bicker with you.” Alice turned around. “I'm leaving!”
“Alice, won't you stay a little longer?” Bai Yuyou asked.
“No.”
“After all, Mr. Ye Shuang isn't here either,” Bobo added from the side.
“Shut up, Bobo. Let's go!”
“Very well, Lady Alice.”
Under Bai Yuyou and Keke's watch, Alice left the ward with Bobo in tow.
However, right before going out the door, Bobo glanced back at Bai Yuyou, then turned and followed Alice out.
...
“Hmph, that Tang Keke. One of these days, I'll pop her,” Alice muttered as she walked ahead, then subconsciously touched herself. As if a thought crossed her mind, she let out a smug little hum. “With my genes, it'll be easy to grow bigger.”
“Right, Bobo?”
“Bobo?”
Alice turned around, only to find Bobo walking quietly without a word. When she stopped in her tracks, Bobo lowered his eyes and looked at her. “My apologies, Lady Alice. I was just thinking about dinner and got a little distracted.”
“How can you do that?” Alice puffed up her adorable little cheeks.
“What did you just say?”
“Never mind—you didn't hear it anyway.”
“Is that so?”
Just then, an anxious voice rang out from nearby: “Excuse me, please make way!!!”
Alice and Bobo looked over and saw a hospital bed being rushed forward, with several nurses and doctors running alongside—on the bed, someone was covered in blood, apparently seriously injured.
“Whoa... that looks bad,” Alice said as she watched the group hurry off. She rubbed her own arm with her palm, looking a little scared.
Then a thought struck her. “If I'd been in the lead singer's position back then, when that screen fell down, I probably would've ended up like that too, huh?”
Based on how things were originally arranged, the person standing beside her wouldn't have been Taozi—it would've been Bai Yuyou.
And with Bai Yuyou's snail-paced reaction speed, no one would've been saved.
“...” Alice seemed reluctant to think any further down that path.
“Well, guess I was just lucky,” Alice muttered to herself, then left the hospital with Bobo.
...
Time blurred by until it was already afternoon. At the entrance of the Chen Group building, inside a Rolls-Royce, the driver sitting in the driver's seat said, “President Ye, we've arrived.”
“Mm...” Ye Shuang, sitting in the back, rubbed his brow and responded.
He reached out and pulled the handle, and the car door opened automatically. Stepping out, Ye Shuang looked a bit tired. Kou Kou, who immediately came up beside him, asked, “President Ye, would you like to rest for a bit?”
“I'm fine. What's next on the schedule?” Ye Shuang asked. The ride today had been a bit long.
“One more meeting, and then there's nothing else on the agenda for today.”
“Alright.”
Ye Shuang walked into the elevator with Kou Kou. Quite a few employees passed by and greeted him, but Ye Shuang merely nodded lightly and took the elevator up.
“President Ye has been kind of aloof lately.”
“Shh, say less. Now that Chief Chen has given all the power to President Ye, of course he doesn't need to smile at us little employees all day.”
“True, he's pretty much the top guy now. And didn't he only just join the company not too long ago?”
“Alright, enough you lot. President Ye actually chatted with us just today—he's no different than usual. He's probably just tired right now.”
A few employees whispered among themselves, but they didn't feel comfortable gossiping about leadership for too long. After exchanging a couple of words, they each returned to their posts. And just as some employees had said, Ye Shuang really was exhausted—so tired that all he wanted was to get to his office and sit for a moment.
“Rest for a bit, then pick up the kid and head over to Yuyou's place,” Ye Shuang thought as he arrived at his office door. After all, Ye Zi also went to see Bai Yuyou after school every day, so he could just bring her along.
But just as he was about to open the door, he sensed that someone was inside his office.
He felt a little puzzled, but he still reached out and pushed it open—
Inside the office, two figures were sitting at the desk, typing away furiously. Perhaps hearing the sound of the door opening, one of them—a short-haired young woman—looked up.
“Yo.”
“Yo~”
After seeing An Shiyu and Anshi Yi in his office, Ye Shuang paused for a few seconds, then quietly closed the door.
A few seconds later, he opened it again.
“Not a hallucination, huh.” Seeing An Shiyu and Anshi Yi again, Ye Shuang was genuinely surprised.
“It's been so long since you've seen us, and you have nothing to say?” Anshi Yi asked.
“...” Ye Shuang looked at them for a few more seconds, then said,
“Your skin's gotten darker.”
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
lities. One day, Qi Yuan was buying groceries when he unfortunately came face-to-face with a monster. Just when he thought he was going to die on the spot, he suddenly heard the monster's thoughts... "This aura, he's definitely not an ordinary master!" "So terrifying, so terrifying." "A fight with my back against the wall, I can't take it anymore." Qi Yuan: Ah, no one told me that my awakened ability isn't telepathy, but rather the stronger my enemies imagine me to be, the stronger I truly become. PS: Zhou Hai in the first chapter is not the protagonist.
ts me of treason?" "Correct. The host must return to the capital and gradually build up influence." "Wait—I have half a million soldiers, and you want me to go back to the capital to 'build influence'?" "Host, you are currently the Northern Garrison General, loyal to the Great Xia Dynasty." "Of course I am loyal to Great Xia! Absolutely loyal!" "But you keep referring to yourself as 'We'..." "Never mind the details! Summon all the regional commanders and military officers! We suspect treacherous officials are manipulating the court! They shall march with Us to the capital and purge the corrupt!" "......"
