……
……
The white haze gradually faded, and Ye Shuang’s vision slowly cleared. At the same time, a sound reached his ears—
Crunch, crunch, crunch.
Crunch, crunch.
Crunch.
It was the sound of someone eating potato chips.
“……”
Ye Shuang glanced at the two fishes sitting in front of him and suddenly began taking deep, heavy breaths. Cold sweat even started to bead on his forehead.
An Shiyu, who was eating potato chips for breakfast, looked surprised when she saw this.
“Hey, are you all right?”
“What happened?” Anshi Yi also looked at him in confusion. Ye Shuang had been sitting there perfectly fine just moments ago, but now his face had turned deathly pale, as if he had seen something terrifying.
“I think it’s because he saw your underwear.” An Shiyu pointed at the pair of briefs lying nearby.
“Oh? Is that what happened?” Anshi Yi blinked.
“Should I stop wearing underwear, then?”
The two fishes chattered away, but Ye Shuang had already recalled the bloody scene. He got to his feet and hurried toward the bushes. His stomach was churning violently, and the instinctive nausea made him feel as if he were about to vomit out his very soul.
“Oh no, he threw up after seeing your underwear.”
“Ugh.”
The two fishes quickly followed to check on Ye Shuang. By the time his brain had finished processing the information, his expression had finally begun to improve.
Someone supported him, and Ye Shuang realized that An Shiyu was holding onto his arm. The sensation was completely different from what he was used to, but he had no energy to care about that now. Instead, he began sorting through the chaotic thoughts in his mind.
“Are you okay, Uncle?” An Shiyu asked.
“I’m fine. Sorry…” Ye Shuang fell silent for a moment before saying, “I’d like to sit down for a while.”
“Oh.”
After sitting down, Ye Shuang spent more than ten minutes calming himself. The sound of seawater lapping against the shore reached his ears, and it seemed to soothe his tense nerves.
He wasn’t sure whether it was because he had entered the timeline too many times or because he had been shot this time, but he felt worse than he had after any previous return.
“I’m fine now.” Ye Shuang looked around before speaking.
“That’s good.” An Shiyu didn’t ask any further. It was still early in the morning, and everyone else was asleep. Ye Shuang’s gaze settled on the two fishes. Perhaps noticing his strange stare, An Shiyu crossed her arms and asked,
“What is it?”
“Hmm…” Ye Shuang had originally wanted to ask about the experimental base, but considering the surroundings and the number of people around, he decided against it. “It’s nothing.”
“Oh?” Although An Shiyu found this strange, she didn’t pry any further.
Before long, the others in the tent began waking up one after another. Perhaps because the sleeping conditions hadn’t been very comfortable, everyone looked rather listless.
“What happened to you? You look like you’re suffering from kidney deficiency. Did you sneak into someone else’s tent last night?” Chen Hai noticed Ye Shuang’s haggard complexion and immediately began teasing him.
“You’re pretty damn impressive if you pulled something like that.”
“Get lost.” Ye Shuang rolled his eyes and kicked him. “I was off saving the world and defeating the bad guys.”
“Yeah, right.”
As Chen Hai was talking, Bai Yuyou walked over. The girl quickly noticed Ye Shuang’s pale face. She looked puzzled for a moment, then asked,
“Ye Shuang, are you all right?”
“I’m fine. I probably just didn’t sleep well. I had a little to drink last night.” Ye Shuang came up with an excuse.
“Heh heh, so your alcohol tolerance is that bad?” Chen Hai immediately burst out laughing, earning another kick from Ye Shuang.
……
Nothing happened over the next two days. Ye Shuang and the others took a yacht home, taking plenty of pictures along the way. At the very least, they had all had a great time. The only downside was that everyone’s skin had probably darkened by a few shades.
Even Bai Yuyou, whose skin was as radiant as snow, wasn’t exempt. Her originally snow-white complexion had turned a light wheat color. Ye Shuang wasn’t surprised, though. She had gotten tanned the last time as well, only to return to her original fair complexion not long afterward. She really was blessed with the kind of pale skin that practically turned white on its own.
After returning home—
The side effects of traveling through the timeline had almost completely disappeared. However, Ye Shuang remained in his room, thinking about Jin Sha.
That woman had not only kidnapped Yuyou in the past, but was also Alice’s biological mother—and she had even schemed against the Chen family.
Now, the deaths of An Shiyu’s parents were connected to her as well.
Ye Shuang realized that nearly every misfortune surrounding him seemed to be linked to that woman.
Whether it was her towering, two-meter frame or the ruthless decisiveness with which she acted, she had left an incredibly deep impression on him. He didn’t want such a ticking time bomb hiding in the darkness.
“Since she’s overseas, how am I supposed to gather information on her?”
After recalling those horrible scenes, Ye Shuang slowly exhaled. Soon, however, his thoughts became clear.
If this involved An Shiyu’s family—
Anshi Yilang.
And if it concerned Grandpa An Shi, perhaps he could find something out. When he had researched An Shiyu’s illness, Grandpa An Shi had invested money in the project. There was a chance he might be able to trace some clues about Jin Sha through him. After all, Anshiyangqi had worked with Jin Sha before.
The timeline might have been slightly different, but considering the accidental deaths of An Shiyu’s parents, Ye Shuang believed that this part had remained the same. After all, aside from giving Little Yu the key, he hadn’t changed very much.
The girl had already stolen Anshi Yi away in the original timeline.
After thinking it through, Ye Shuang decided to pay Grandpa An Shi a visit. However, it was currently summer vacation, so he had no idea whether the old man would even be at the academy.
“I’d better call and ask.”
Ye Shuang took out his phone and directly placed a voice call to Grandpa An Shi.
“Little Yu, Little Yu, I love you, just like a mouse loves rice~”
“Sweet as honey~ My granddaughter is sweet as honey~”
The old man’s personalized ringtone featured him singing the lyrics himself. It left Ye Shuang stunned for several seconds, but thinking of his granddaughter-obsessed personality, Ye Shuang could only continue listening with an expression of resignation.
It was a little unpleasant.
No, it was extremely unpleasant!
“Hello? What’s up, kid?” The old man finally answered after the song had played several times.
“Are you busy, Grandpa An Shi?” Ye Shuang asked when he heard his voice.
“Not at all. I’ve been playing games and scrolling through Douyin.”
“Uh… then why did you take so long to answer?” Ye Shuang asked, bewildered. The ringtone had been playing for quite a while.
“Heh heh, I wanted you to enjoy my latest song.” The old man immediately began laughing.
“……”
You shameless old man.
Ye Shuang had imagined countless possibilities, but he never expected that the old man had deliberately let the phone ring.
Suppressing the urge to complain, Ye Shuang spoke in a serious tone. “Grandpa, there’s something I’d like to discuss with you in person. It concerns Little Yu and her parents.”
Perhaps it was the mention of Little Yu’s parents. The old man on the other end of the line fell silent, and the joking tone vanished from his voice.
“What do you mean?”
“It’s a long story. Could we meet and talk about it in person?” Ye Shuang continued.
“Tomorrow, then. Come to my office.”
“Your office? All right.”
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
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!
