But Alice ended up leading Ye Shuang straight to the drop tower ride, then pointed at it with her finger and said, "This one won't trigger your roller coaster syndrome, right? Aren't I just super smart?"
"AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH——"
Ye Shuang stared blankly at the drop tower as it plummeted suddenly, listening to the sharp, piercing screams of the other riders. For a moment, he surprisingly felt a little less guilty about tricking her earlier.
He almost thought about making up a "drop tower syndrome" too, but then figured Alice couldn't possibly be dumb enough to fall for that. After all, she'd been out in the real world working for ages, there was no way she lacked that much common sense.
Just as Ye Shuang was lost in that thought, Alice noticed him standing completely still, staring at the ride, exactly the same way he'd stared at the roller coaster earlier. Her eyes widened a little in surprise. "Huh, Ye Shuang, don't tell me you..."
Ye Shuang froze. Had this little girl figured out that he was too cowardly to ride intense thrill rides?
That would ruin his whole image! He was supposed to be the reliable, fearless grown-up in front of her, how could he ever show a weak, cowardly side to a kid?
"Have drop tower syndrome?" Alice's next line pulled Ye Shuang right back from his wandering thoughts. After a few seconds of dead silence, his whole tone shifted, his voice turning soft and sugary. "Ah~ yes yes yes, that's exactly right. I actually have drop tower syndrome too. You're so sharp, Miss Alice."
"Hmph, I knew I was right. Don't ever underestimate how good I am at reading people!" Alice planted her hands on her hips and puffed out her chest proudly, looking utterly smug.
Ye Shuang even had the silly thought that he could probably coax her into handing him money right now. Was it because Bobo wasn't around? Alice was showing the innocent, natural side that came with her age, and under that proud exterior, this little girl was no different from any regular girl her age.
Ye Shuang glanced around, looking for a suitable attraction. Other than the super intense, high-thrill rides, none of the other options really did much for him. Maybe it was because he'd ridden the roller coaster so many times with the girls before that he'd developed a bit of a stress response to them.
"Alice, how about we go check out that 5D movie over there?" Ye Shuang pointed at the cinema not far away. The so-called 5D movie just added some extra sensory effects. Unlike a regular film where you just sit and watch, the theater in the amusement park had custom seats that could blast air, vibrate, and even tilt and shake, to pull visitors fully into the experience.
"A movie? That sounds okay." Alice didn't have any rides she was dying to go on at the moment, so she nodded in agreement.
Since it wasn't the weekend, there weren't that many people at the park. Ye Shuang and Alice didn't even have to wait in line, and they walked all the way to the seats at the very back of the theater.
It was pretty dark inside, and the staff handed out 3D glasses as they came in. Alice took the pair the worker offered her, then wrinkled her nose a little in distaste. "These are so old, how many people have used them before?"
The girl pulled a brand new pair of 3D glasses out of her little purse. Ye Shuang had no idea Alice would carry something like that with her, but he didn't say anything about it. He just casually slipped the pair the staff gave him onto the top of his head like a pair of sunglasses, since the movie hadn't started yet.
Soon, a staff member who looked like a host stepped out to introduce the movie's theme. The story was pretty simple: you had to save the fairy tale kingdom.
It felt a little too childish for little kids, but just about right for college-aged viewers.
The host's introduction was so cheesy, he was even talking like he was cooing at babies, saying things like "Alright, little ones, let's get ready to go on our adventure!" Ye Shuang was worried Alice would get bored, but when he turned to look at her, he was stunned.
Alice was already tilting her chin up, staring at the screen, her eyes practically sparkling like stars.
She noticed Ye Shuang staring at her and snapped back to reality. "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Ye Shuang smiled. "Nothing, I just thought you looked like you were really enjoying this."
"I'm not, not at all! This kind of movie is for little kids, and I am not a little kid." Alice huffed, but her eyes still drifted right back to the movie screen on their own.
Before long, Ye Shuang and the rest of the audience sat down in their seats and buckled their seatbelts as instructed.
Alice was clearly having trouble with hers. She kept jamming the seatbelt buckle's key part into the slot, but it wouldn't click no matter how many times she tried.
"Can't get it to work?" Ye Shuang asked.
"Yeah, it's too dark, I can't see the slot."
Ye Shuang took the buckle part from her and reached out to feel around for the slot. But before he could find it, Alice let out a little surprised yelp. "Eek?!"
"What's wrong?"
"Your leg— my leg!"
Leg?
Ye Shuang realized then that his pinky finger had accidentally brushed against Alice's leg. He never expected her to react that strongly. Just then, he found the seatbelt buckle's slot, slotted the key part in, and said, "Sorry, I didn't do that on purpose."
He remembered Alice had plopped herself right down on his lap plenty of times before, why was she being so sensitive all of a sudden?
Wait, did she have a cut or a bruise there?
Ye Shuang glanced over, but it was too dim in the theater to see anything wrong with her legs.
Alice knew she'd overreacted a little just now, but the unexpected touch had caught her completely off guard. After a few seconds of quiet, she turned her attention back to the movie, then suddenly remembered something and warned him, "Don't go getting scared later, okay?"
"Scared?" Ye Shuang looked at the cartoon-style movie playing in front of him. He had no idea what Alice thought could possibly scare him here.
The movie officially started soon after. With the 3D glasses on, all sorts of monsters lunged right at the screen during the adventure. Combined with the shaking seats, it felt like the monsters were actually bursting out of the screen to gobble you up whole!
Ye Shuang stayed pretty calm. It was just a silly cartoon after all, there was no way a cartoon character was actually going to climb out of the screen and stab you.
But Alice right next to him was already spooked silly by the monster's huge, gaping jaws, clinging onto Ye Shuang's arm and letting out little yelps.
She was the one who'd just teased him not to get scared, and here she was, the skittish one. Ye Shuang chuckled to himself, then reached out to pat Alice's head gently to soothe her.
But the very next second, Alice wrapped both her arms tight around his outstretched hand, and wouldn't let go for anything.
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…
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.”
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!
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.”
