Su Qi's breathing had completely lost its rhythm.
Ding-ling~
Ding-ling~
One chime after another.
He felt his blood rushing faster with each sound, eroding what little rationality he had left.
His gaze remained fixed on the cake still smeared with cream and chocolate sauce.
Liu Yuan's voice, laced with amusement, brushed against his eardrums like a feather—light yet maddening.
An indescribable tension filled the air, one that made his heartbeat erratic.
Seeing Su Qi frozen in place, his expression shifting between conflict and hesitation, Liu Yuan tilted her head.
"Gege?"
She drew out the word, her voice soft and slightly nasal—a blend of coquetry and playful insistence.
"Really won’t eat it?"
She pushed the cake closer, nearly touching his lips.
The sweetness of chocolate and cream grew more intoxicating.
Su Qi could almost taste its velvety texture.
He knew.
From the earlier "accidental" fall to this calculated feeding, every step was part of Liu Yuan’s scheme.
But...
His eyes met hers—bright, clear pools reflecting his own flustered state.
There was innocence there, yet also mischief, like a fox wagging its tail after a successful prank.
The words of refusal lingered on his tongue.
Phrases like "Wipe it off now" flashed through his mind for all of 0.01 seconds.
But faced with her expectant, slightly smug expression, they dissolved before he could speak.
The mood was set.
Wouldn’t outright rejection seem needlessly cold?
Besides... it might only make her pout more.
He could justify the first incident as her being playful and himself needing to stay composed.
But this?
Honestly, his resolve was crumbling.
His silence seemed to embolden her.
Her smile deepened, radiating a "I knew gege would indulge me" glow.
"Carry me to the sofa, gege. Dinner should be eaten sitting down."
"Otherwise... how can I feed you properly?"
Su Qi: "..."
What was this?
Some kind of... feeding ritual?
Absurd.
Utterly absurd!
Yet, amid the chimes of the bell and her honeyed voice, his body moved almost involuntarily.
Before he knew it—
They were on the sofa.
The scene mirrored ten minutes prior, save for the reduced distance between them.
Liu Yuan’s eyes curved into satisfied crescents.
Su Qi’s mind short-circuited.
Rationality screamed "Stop this!"
His body, however, obeyed a different script.
The cake hovered centimeters from his lips.
Chocolate and cream swirled together, their rich aroma overwhelming.
Time stretched.
The room held only their shallow breaths and the faint jingle of the bell.
Finally, Su Qi shut his eyes.
Eating cake at night wasn’t that unusual...
Right?
He parted his lips slightly.
Then—
Warmth. Softness. The cool sweetness of cream against his mouth.
The cake melted instantly.
Chocolate and cream flooded his senses, decadent and smooth.
It was... undeniably good.
The bell at his ankle chimed again with his movement.
Ding-ling, ding-ling.
Su Qi opened his eyes, slowly savoring the bite.
The sweetness lingered on his tongue.
He looked at Liu Yuan.
The girl who’d been all confidence moments ago now stared at her lap, ears burning crimson.
After three heartbeats, she peeked up, voice small:
"...Was it okay?"
"A bit... too sweet."
Su Qi stood and walked to the sofa’s edge.
Under Liu Yuan’s wide-eyed gaze, he grabbed a tissue from the side table.
Then knelt.
Reached out.
Liu Yuan stiffened.
The bell trembled.
Ding-ling~
He dabbed at the remaining cream and chocolate with meticulous care.
Her pulse raced; her cheeks scalded.
The bell, sensing its owner’s turmoil, shivered in response.
Ding-ling... ding-ling...
The last traces vanished, though a faint sugary scent remained.
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
iaobai: "Councilor Dad, front me some funds. I want to hire ten thousand professional miners for a project!" [Five-Star Mission Issued: Capture the leader of the Blood Heaven Pirate Gang, who is on the run in the Radiant Star Sector. It is said the gang has over a hundred members. Proceed with caution.] Lu Xiaobai: "Councilor Dad, lend me the family's hundred-thousand-strong Lu Army!" [Seven-Star Mission Issued: Subdue a juvenile Void Dragon Beast.] Lu Xiaobai: "Councilor Dad, I'm taking your tamed Void Dragon Beast King out for a family reunion!" I said, System, don't you have any slightly more challenging missions? You're just not up to par! [Nine-Star Mission Issued: Become the Human Councilor.] Lu Xiaobai: "Dad, there's a small matter I'd like to discuss with you..."
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?!
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!
