Lin Mo didn't care much about anything around him. He simply leaned against the windowsill, quietly looking outside.
In northern universities, most teaching building corridors are enclosed structures, with solid walls separating the inside and outside into two different worlds.
If you wanted to catch a glimpse of the sky outside, you could only do so through these windows.
But that was fine—at least winter wouldn't be so cold.
Beneath his feet was the land of Huaqing University, the dream destination of countless students. But Lin Mo's heart was as calm as a lake without a single ripple.
He most likely wouldn't be studying here, so everything around him was merely a fleeting sight on his journey.
Even so, he casually took a few photos, picked a couple with decent lighting, and sent them to the girls.
Just as his fingers were tapping lightly on the screen, a crisp, slightly sweet voice rang out behind him.
"Excuse me, are you Lin Mo?"
That voice... was interesting.
Lin Mo didn't even need to turn around to detect, from that unique timbre, a carefully crafted tone that was both innocent and alluring.
He turned around.
A tall girl stood not far behind him.
She wore an oversized long shirt paired with a pure black trench coat, the hem just barely covering her shorts. Her legs were long and straight, glowing pale under the dim corridor light.
Her smile was sweet—the kind of standard girl-next-door smile. But her gaze and posture tried hard to maintain an upperclassman's authority.
This deliberately constructed contrast was certainly a weapon against most guys.
Lin Mo simply nodded calmly.
"I'm Lin Mo. Is there something you need?"
"Teacher Bai asked me to show you around campus," the pretty upperclassman said, her lashes fluttering as if she had rehearsed the motion countless times.
Lin Mo let out an "Oh," his tone flat. "That's fine, no need to trouble you. If you're busy, go ahead."
"Huh?"
The sweet smile on the upperclassman's face froze instantly, as if she hadn't expected such a direct refusal.
She quickly stepped closer, clasping her hands together and putting on a pitiful expression. "Come on, junior, don't be like that! Teacher Bai said if I show you around, I get extra credit!"
She looked at him with her big, watery eyes as she spoke, softening her voice.
"How about this? I'll buy you a drink. Just walk around with me for a bit, help me out, get this over with. Pretty please?"
This was practically a textbook approach.
But it wasn't annoying.
For a guy with weak willpower, it might even feel sweet.
One weak moment, and he'd just follow along.
The upperclassman in front of him did have delicate features, the kind that fell into the cute category.
But her beauty came with makeup and practiced techniques.
Comparing her natural base to someone like Chu Miaomiao—with her pure, unfiltered radiance—she still fell short.
More importantly, the fragile look on her that made people want to protect her?
It was an act.
Lin Mo ignored her expression and walked straight to the exam room nearby, peeking inside.
Teacher Bai was indeed lurking by the door. The moment he met Lin Mo's gaze, the old professor became as excited as if injected with adrenaline, nodding frantically like a woodpecker.
Then, this senior professor launched into a performance worthy of a modern art piece.
First, he gave a thumbs-up, then pumped his fists as if cheering, and finally clumsily mimed two little figures walking with his hands.
The whole sequence was seamless, clearly conveying the message: "Go with her, now!"
This Teacher Bai... to get Lin Mo to stay at Huaqing, he really was going all out.
It was a kind of stubbornness that was almost endearing.
Lin Mo turned his gaze back to the upperclassman, who was still maintaining her pleading pose.
"Alright, let's take a quick walk."
With that, Lin Mo headed outside.
This time, the upperclassman was the one lagging behind.
But as soon as they reached the ground floor, she hurried to catch up.
"Lin Mo, you walk too fast."
Panting slightly, she rested her hand on his shoulder.
"You're a bit out of shape. You need to take better care of yourself," Lin Mo said bluntly.
His unsparing remark left her completely at a loss for words.
No guy had ever been this cold to her before.
"Fine, I was just pretending. You're too distant—it's not easy for a guy like you to find a girl who likes you."
"I have plenty of girls who like me. You worry too much."
Lin Mo's boast left her gritting her teeth.
"Sure, believe whatever you want. I'm Su Mei, also from Yue Dong. You should know that in Cantonese, my name sounds almost like 'soulmate' when directly translated."
This time, Lin Mo turned his head to look at Su Mei.
"Looks like a lot of senior guys want to be your soulmate."
Seeming to realize that Lin Mo was a tough nut to crack, Su Mei decided it was better to just drop the act and speak freely.
"Of course! Teacher Bai originally hoped I could win you over, but looks like that's not happening."
"If it doesn't work out, do I still get the credit?"
After Su Mei revealed her true nature, she became somewhat unbridled.
She curled her lips.
"I've never seen many students admitted to Huaqing who couldn't earn enough credits to graduate."
To be honest, Su Mei's more straightforward demeanor made someone like Lin Mo like her a bit more.
After all, the Su Mei from just now gave off a slightly coquettish vibe.
"Then why are you so insistent on showing me around?"
"Because I'm in the process of applying for graduate school without exams. If I get this done, I'll secure my spot."
That made sense.
Lin Mo shook his head.
"I'm not going to study at Huaqing. It's not that Huaqing isn't good—it's just that if I stayed in Tianjing, it would make a lot of people uncomfortable."
With that, Lin Mo started walking away into the distance.
Su Mei hadn't even figured out what Lin Mo meant by that, so she could only quickly follow him.
"Hey, hey, hey, don't look down on me just because I'm from Guangdong. I've been a Huaqing native for a year and a half now, so let me be your guide."
Lin Mo glanced at her. "I thought you were a native with two and a half years of training."
The era hadn't yet produced the "brother" meme, so Lin Mo's comment didn't resonate with Su Mei; she just thought he was a bit strange.
Still, she had to give it a shot. If she tried her best, Teacher Bai might grant her a graduate admission based on her effort if not merit.
With that thought, she hurried after Lin Mo again.
"Hey! Lin Mo, how about this: let me show you around. Maybe you'll change your mind."
Lin Mo didn't care either way; he just shrugged his shoulders.
And so, Su Mei walked ahead of Lin Mo.
As she walked, she started introducing the situation at Huaqing University.
But Lin Mo wasn't really interested; he just treated it as having an extra tour guide.
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.
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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!
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?!
