What does "willing to cooperate with the investigation" even mean?
Could he have been hiding in his room all this time doing something illegal?
Liu Yuan studied Su Qi carefully.
At the same time, Su Qi was also sizing her up.
Only then did he realize that the person standing at the door was Liu Yuan, not the law enforcement officers he had imagined.
Awkwardly lowering his hand, the two stared at each other for a long moment before he finally spoke up: "What's up?"
No one visits without a reason.
Unless… was this some kind of night raid scenario?
Nah, that was just the delusion of someone who’d keeled over from playing too many galgames.
"Su Qi, I'm going to sleep."
Su Qi: ???
What’s going on?
Did she take the wrong meds?
Too much stress, lost her mind?
If she wants to sleep, just sleep—why’s she reporting it to him?
Su Qi reached out and touched Liu Yuan’s forehead: "Normal temperature. Doesn’t feel like a fever."
Liu Yuan: (╬◣д◢)
No, no, can’t lose my temper.
To be fair, she was the one who knocked on his door late at night for no good reason.
But this [Daily Adventure] quest was just… beyond words.
Aside from that older brother she knew online, Su Qi was the only other guy she had any positive feelings toward, so it wasn’t entirely unexpected that the quest would land on him.
"What are you even doing in your room?"
Though baffled, Su Qi answered anyway: "I was guiding someone…"
As soon as the words left his mouth, he realized how ambiguous they sounded and quickly corrected himself: "Wait, no—I was persuading someone to turn away from evil."
But to Liu Yuan, it just sounded like a weak excuse.
Liu Yuan: ???
Now that she thought about it, she’d heard some guys liked to… inspect their "weapons" late at night, maybe fire off a few rounds to prevent rust from disuse.
Was Su Qi really one of those guys?
Kind of pitiful, honestly—twenty-four years old and still no girlfriend.
"Then keep it down. I’m trying to sleep."
"I have school tomorrow."
With that, she closed the door for him, leaving Su Qi utterly confused.
What noise could he possibly be making?
The sound of typing?
Huh?
Was the soundproofing in this old place really that bad?
Fine, then.
He could just lie in bed and chat on his phone instead.
[Phoenix: So what are you trying to say? That I should just give up on revenge?]
Su Qi sighed and started typing rapidly.
Just his luck to get tangled up in this mess.
[I Want Sleep: Violence won’t solve anything—it’ll only make things worse. Have you considered resolving this through the Great Xia Law?]
[Phoenix: Great Xia Law? Pfft. You really think the law cares about this kind of thing?]
Su Qi frowned, feeling a pang of helplessness.
She wasn’t entirely wrong.
Family disputes like this were notoriously hard to settle legally.
Not to disparage the Great Xia Law, but the saying "even an honest official can’t judge domestic cases" had existed since ancient times for a reason.
[I Want Sleep: If you resort to extreme measures, the only one who’ll get hurt is you.]
[Phoenix: I don’t care.]
Su Qi felt a wave of frustration.
This kind of stubborn mindset wouldn’t change overnight, no matter how much he reasoned with her.
[I Want Sleep: Even if you don’t care about yourself, what about the people who care about you? Your friends, other family members, even your future self—they’ll all be affected by your decision.]
[Phoenix: No one cares about me.]
That left Su Qi truly speechless.
He wasn’t some professional therapist for troubled girls.
At best, he could "appeal to reason and move with emotion."
But if neither worked, he was out of ideas for now.
[I Want Sleep: How about we meet in person? Some things are hard to explain over text.]
[Phoenix: Hah… the woman who gave birth to me forbids me from meeting strangers.]
Seriously?
That was suffocatingly strict.
No wonder this girl, "Phoenix," was entertaining such a rebellious thought as matricide.
Before Su Qi could organize his next response, he noticed the username had changed.
[This account has been deactivated.]
Clicking into the profile, he was met with an unnatural blankness—not a joke name change, but an actual account deletion.
Su Qi exhaled deeply.
Well, fine. They weren’t close anyway, and he’d already tried his best.
Even if she really did kill "the woman who gave birth to her" someday, it wouldn’t have anything to do with him.
The chat logs were proof enough.
——
Back in her own room, Liu Yuan admired her equipment stats with satisfaction.
[Attributes]
[Strength +9]
[Agility +9]
[Magic +8]
The feeling of growing stronger every day was intoxicating.
The only downside was that [Daily Adventure] seemed to demand actual "adventures."
Thankfully, she’d managed to twist those embarrassing lines into normal conversation—otherwise, she’d have missed out on that sweet +1 to all stats.
As they say, good things come in pairs.
Right then, the older brother she’d been waiting for finally finished whatever he was doing.
[I Want Sleep: Goodnight, Little Iris. Sweet dreams.]
Liu Yuan lay in bed, staring at the "Goodnight" on her screen.
She set her phone aside, closed her eyes, and smiled faintly.
Time to sleep!
Now, even while sleeping, she’d automatically cultivate…
In three months, she’d be terrifyingly strong. And then—
And then—
She was definitely going to beat Su Qi up!
Aaaaah!!!!
[Promotion Adventure: Ensure the target character does not look at this equipment for more than five seconds at a time for seven consecutive days. (Failed)]
[Reason for failure: Target character stared at equipment for 16.12 seconds.]
[Please wait patiently for the next Promotion Adventure.]
When did that happen?!
After she knocked on his door?
How did he even manage that?
Why hadn’t she noticed at all?!
Dammit!!!
Her first… adventure failure.
All because of Su Qi!!!
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.
d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
