"What did you just say? I didn't catch that. Say it again? And what was that nickname you gave me?" Pan Ning's tone was calm.
But to Meng Wenzhou, it sounded like a deadly triple interrogation.
His eyes blinked rapidly as he turned to look at Su Yang and Ji Bo, his facial muscles twitching involuntarily.
"Uh... well, I just remembered I left my air conditioner on at home. What a waste of electricity! I should go turn it off. Gotta run!"
With that, he sprang up from his seat and bolted out of the rooftop garden.
"Meng Wenzhou!! Stop right there!!" Pan Ning shouted angrily, sprinting after him.
The commotion instantly drew everyone's attention, and heads turned toward the scene.
Liu Bo stopped dancing, releasing Xiao Liang, who looked utterly miserable, and rushed over. "Yang, what's going on?"
Su Yang was bent over, clutching his stomach, tears streaming from his laughter.
Ji Bo was even worse—he had laughed so hard he rolled off his chair onto the floor.
"What's so funny? Share the joke!" Liu Bo demanded impatiently.
By then, the others had gathered around too.
Zhang Ziming stared blankly at Su Yang and Ji Bo, who were practically wheezing with laughter.
"What's up with you guys? Is it really that funny? Let us in on it!"
"You... hahahaha." Su Yang could barely speak between laughs. He raised a hand. "Just... give me a second."
Meng Qianyu walked up to Su Yang and peered down at him. "What happened? Why did my brother run off?"
"No idea!"
After a few seconds, Su Yang finally regained his composure.
He wiped the tears from his face and stood up.
Liu Bo pressed closer. "Come on, Yang, spill it! What happened?"
"Your Brother Meng was badmouthing Sister Pan... and she heard him."
"WHAT?? Brother Meng has the guts to talk smack about Sister Pan?" Liu Bo exclaimed in disbelief.
Meng Qianyu covered her mouth, giggling. "Then my brother's done for... he's gonna be black and blue for sure."
"Ahh!!"
"Ow!!"
"I was wrong, I was wrong!!"
No sooner had she spoken than Meng Wenzhou's intermittent screams echoed from a distant corner.
"Looks like he didn’t get away," Zhang Ziming remarked, grinning smugly as he glanced in that direction.
Liu Bo sidled up to Su Yang and whispered, "Yang, what exactly did Brother Meng say? Tell me."
Su Yang froze, then took two steps back, eyeing Liu Bo warily. "You trying to get me killed?"
"I swear I won’t tell!"
"No way. If you're curious, ask Brother Meng yourself. I'm not risking it—way too dangerous!"
Meng Qianyu chuckled and turned to leave.
But after two steps, she spun back around and warned the group, "You guys should probably scatter before my sister comes back..."
"Oh, right, right! Drinks, drinks!" Zhang Ziming grabbed Shen Yixue’s hand and hurried away.
The others, though still confused, dispersed as well, returning to their drinks and songs.
"Yang, I gotta hand it to you—I really admire how you managed to win over Sister Pan," Liu Bo muttered under his breath.
Su Yang rolled his eyes and coughed into his hand. "Go back to dancing."
......
Two minutes later, Pan Ning strode back in first.
She looked completely unruffled, heading straight for Zhang Ziming and the others at the drinks table.
"Where’s Brother Meng?" Liu Bo craned his neck toward the distance.
"Wanna go check on him?"
"Sure." Liu Bo was about to head over when Meng Wenzhou limped back into view.
The group immediately clenched their jaws, struggling not to laugh.
Meng Wenzhou acted as if nothing had happened. He smoothed his slightly disheveled hair and grinned at Su Yang and the others. "What’s with the stares?"
"Uh... you okay?" Su Yang asked, barely suppressing a smirk.
"What do you mean? I’m fine! Totally fine!" He spread his arms confidently.
"Then what was all that screaming about earlier?"
"Huh? Me? I didn’t scream."
"Must’ve been my imagination," Su Yang teased.
"Definitely your imagination."
"Oh, okay then. Anyway, let’s drink!"
......
Over two hours later, the party wound down.
Everyone had been drinking, so driving was out of the question. Meng Wenzhou had planned to book rooms for everyone at the hotel, but no one wanted to stay, so they dropped the idea.
Soon, they took the elevator down to the hotel’s outdoor parking lot.
Su Yang glanced at Lu Yun and Tang Ziyun, who were arm in arm. "You two aren’t too drunk, are you?"
"Pfft, please. This is nothing," Tang Ziyun slurred, her gaze unfocused.
Su Yang sighed. "You’re definitely drunk."
"Hehe, no I’m not~"
Shaking his head, Su Yang turned to Lu Yun.
"No need to come to the restaurant tomorrow. I’ll let Old Gao know."
Lu Yun nodded with a smile.
"Did you call a driver?" Su Yang asked.
"Yep~ Little Tang’s staying at my place tonight. We’re going shopping for gear tomorrow."
Su Yang raised an eyebrow. "You two got close fast."
"Hehe, Lu and I just click~ It’s like we were sisters in a past life," Tang Ziyun chimed in.
"Now you’re really talking nonsense," Su Yang chuckled. "Alright then. I can’t drive you since I’ve been drinking, but text me when you get home."
"Got it~"
A few minutes later, a driver in a blue vest arrived. After saying their goodbyes, Lu Yun and Tang Ziyun got into the car and left.
The others’ drivers showed up one after another.
Pan Ning walked over to Su Yang. "Did you call a driver?"
"Not yet."
"What are you waiting for?"
"Well..."
It suddenly dawned on Su Yang—thanks to his "Alcohol Immunity" skill, all the alcohol he’d consumed had already metabolized.
Aside from the smell, he was completely sober. There wasn’t a drop of alcohol left in his system, so he didn’t actually need a driver.
"Did you call one?" he asked instead.
"I don’t need to," Pan Ning replied flatly.
"No? So we’re taking a cab?"
"Who said we’re leaving together? My dad’s driver is picking me up. I need to go home and pack, and Qianyu’s coming with me."
"Oh, right. Got it."
Just then, two cars pulled into the hotel driveway.
Two men stepped out—one in his twenties, the other in his thirties.
The younger one looked familiar to Su Yang—he was the guy who’d driven Meng Wenzhou at the airport before.
The older man was Pan Ning’s father’s chauffeur.
After quick greetings, everyone got into their respective cars and drove off.
Pan Ning and Meng Qianyu climbed into the back of the Urus. Su Yang raised a hand, miming a phone call.
Pan Ning nodded. "We’re heading out. See you tomorrow."
"Goodbye, Su Yang." Meng Qianyu tilted her head and gave him a soft smile.
"Take care on your way home. See you tomorrow."
...
. 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!"
Heart] Chen Yi traversed the cultivation world for eight hundred years, charging his way to the Tribulation Transcendence stage. Just as he was outwitting his 81st Heavenly Tribulation to ascend to immortality, he was suddenly pulled into a chat group called the "Multiverse Transmigrators Support Group." To his surprise, the group was filled with nothing but fresh-faced newbies who had just transmigrated. [Help! I transmigrated into a disgraced concubine in the cold palace, and the tyrant emperor is about to execute me!] [I ended up as a cannon-fodder villain, and the protagonist is still chasing me—WTF!] [I woke up as the protagonist’s father, but I’m about to be sacrificed in a ritual! What do I do? Urgent!!!] Chen Yi stared at the chaotic flood of desperate pleas in the group and fell into deep thought. "Seriously? You drag me into a newbie transmigrator chat group… only after I’m one step away from becoming an immortal?"
reezy rom-com) Good news: Jiang Liu is quite the ladies' man. Bad news: He’s lost his memory. Lying in a hospital bed, Jiang Liu listens to a parade of goddesses spouting "absurd claims," feeling like the world is one giant game of Werewolf. "Jiang Liu, I’m your first love." "Jiang Liu, you’re my boyfriend—she’s your ex." "Jiang Liu, we’re close friends who’ve shared a bed, remember?" "Jiang Liu, I want to have your baby." The now-lucid Jiang Liu is convinced this must be some elaborate scam... until someone drops the bombshell: "The day before you lost your memory, you confessed your feelings—and got into a relationship." Jiang Liu is utterly baffled. So... who the hell is his actual girlfriend?! ... Before recovering his memories, Jiang Liu must navigate this minefield of lies and sincerity, fighting to protect himself from these women’s schemes. But things spiral even further out of control as more people show up at his doorstep—each with increasingly unhinged antics. On the bright side, the memories he lost due to overwhelming trauma seem to be resurfacing. Great news, right? So why are they all panicking now?
shall grant"] ["Inscribing the glory of our race upon tombstones"] ["All that is threatened, I shall protect"] How his younger sister sees her brother: A brother who only makes eye contact once a day, mostly fading into the background as he tinkers with who-knows-what in his room all day. Their life paths should have remained largely separate. Until one day. Su Qi created an equipment card for his never-met "online girlfriend." His sister fell into silent contemplation upon receiving the "white stockings." [Card can be upgraded] [Upgrade by fulfilling any of the following conditions] [Condition ①: Consume one hundred higher-tier cards] [Condition ②: Complete one 'Heart-Pounding Adventure'] What constitutes a Heart-Pounding Adventure? [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Beginner Level): Equip the card and invite 'Su Qi' to admire it.] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Easy Level): Equip the card, invite 'Su Qi' to touch it, and analyze the equipment's texture.] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Entry Level): Equip the card and invite 'Su Qi' to...] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Challenge Level): Freely combine the words 'Brother' 'Out' 'Brother' 'Me' 'Please' into a complete sentence...] "Please help me analyze both teams' mistakes in this match, brother..." His sister exhaled in relief—surely... surely there couldn't be anything more difficult? [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Suicide Mission Level): Sneak a peek at the names of the galgames in 'Su Qi's' hidden E-drive folder]
