Su Yang parked the car in the hotel's parking lot.
Then, accompanied by four stunning women, he strolled leisurely into the hotel lobby. A waiter in a vest and shirt quickly approached them with a slight bow.
"Welcome to Kaibin Hotel. Good afternoon to all five of you."
Su Yang, leading the group, nodded at the waiter with a smile. "Hello, I'd like to check in."
"Of course, sir. Please follow me."
Hearing this, Tang Ziyun stepped forward and stopped Su Yang. "Su Yang, let me handle the check-in for everyone."
"No need, I'll do it."
"Come on, last time we went out, we agreed that when there's a chance, I'd contribute too!"
Su Yang chuckled and shook his head. "There'll be plenty of opportunities later. No rush for now."
"No, let me do it!" Tang Ziyun insisted, pulling Su Yang behind her before quickly following the waiter to the front desk to complete the check-in.
Watching this exchange, Su Yang and Pan Ning exchanged glances, with Pan Ning giving a slight nod.
"Alright, fine."
Soon, Tang Ziyun returned with ten room keys, smiling as she walked toward the group waiting in the lounge area, her hands clasped behind her back.
"Here, everyone pick a key."
She spread her hands, revealing ten cards.
Seeing so many keys, Su Qingci blinked in surprise. "One room for each of us?"
"Of course! I thought everyone might not be comfortable sharing, so I booked ten rooms."
"Isn't that a bit wasteful?" Su Qingci scratched her nose hesitantly.
"It's not wasteful at all. Everyone needs a place to stay. Go ahead and take one."
Meng Qianyu leaned in and picked a key for Room 5003 on the 50th floor. "I want a higher floor so I can enjoy the night view later. Hehe."
Tang Ziyun grinned. "They're all about the same. I checked—most of our rooms are on the 49th and 50th floors."
Su Yang shrugged. "You all pick first. I'll take whatever's left."
Soon, the four women had each chosen a key, and Tang Ziyun turned to Su Yang.
He casually picked one from her hand and glanced at it. "5008. Nice."
"I'm in 5007!" Su Qingci held up her key and smiled at Su Yang.
Noticing this, Meng Qianyu rolled her big, sparkling eyes and sidled up to Su Qingci. "Qingci, wanna swap with me?"
"Huh? Why?"
"Uh... I didn’t notice there was a room with the number 7 earlier. Seven’s my lucky number, so... could we switch?" Meng Qianyu tugged at Su Qingci’s sleeve, pouting.
Hearing this, Su Qingci wasn’t keen on swapping but found it hard to refuse. Just as she was about to agree, Tang Ziyun raised her own key.
"Qianyu, how about I swap with you? My room number also has a seven."
"Oh? What’s yours?"
"5017."
"Uh..." Meng Qianyu froze, momentarily speechless.
Pan Ning, fully aware of Meng Qianyu’s little scheme, shot her a look. "Enough with the swapping. Stick with what you’ve picked."
"Fine... I’ll just keep mine then."
Su Qingci tilted her head. "So you don’t want to switch anymore, Qianyu?"
"Nope, never mind!"
"Great!"
Su Yang, sitting off to the side, shook his head in amusement before turning to Pan Ning. "What’s your room?"
Pan Ning took a seat beside him. "5009."
"Oh, that works—you're right next to me too~"
Meng Qianyu, smiling brightly, plopped down beside Pan Ning, tugging at her sleeve. "Sis, wanna switch seats with me~?"
"No!"
Meng Qianyu: "......"
Su Yang chuckled, pulling out his phone and opening the group chat to @ the others: "Where are you guys at?"
Zhang Ziming: "We’re almost at the Lincheng toll gate."
Ji Bo: "We’re close too~"
Su Yang: "Alright, we’ll wait for you at the hotel. Here’s the address."
After sending the message, he shared the hotel’s location in the group.
Zhang Ziming: "Got it~"
Ji Bo: "Copy that!"
Chu Qiunan: "Damn, Su Yang, you’re really fast."
Su Yang: "Fast when I need to be, slow when I should be~"
Chu Qiunan: "[wicked grin]"
Su Yang: "Hurry up, you lot!"
......
After sending the last message, Su Yang turned off his phone.
The five of them headed upstairs to their rooms to drop off their light luggage.
About ten minutes later, they returned to the hotel lobby’s lounge area to continue waiting.
A server approached with five cups of tea, setting them on the table. "Here you go, folks~"
"Thanks! Hey, man, quick question—aside from sour beef hotpot, what other good eats does Lincheng have?" Su Yang grinned up at the server, who was still holding the tray.
The server pondered for a moment. "Oh, there’s plenty. Just hotpot alone, we’ve got dozens of varieties—aside from sour beef, there’s fermented black bean hotpot, bean-and-pork hotpot, spicy chicken hotpot, and so on."
Pausing to think, he added, "Then there’s all the street food: silk dolls, potato cakes, plain rice noodles, intestine-and-blood noodles, beef rice noodles, lamb rice noodles, ‘love tofu’... and more~"
"Oh? Sounds interesting. What’s ‘love tofu’?"
"It’s grilled tofu blocks sliced open and stuffed with cilantro and fishwort mixed with chili paste. Though, fair warning, a lot of out-of-towners can’t stand fishwort, so they miss out on this one~"
Su Yang laughed. "I love fishwort. Any places nearby that sell it?"
"Yep! Head right out the hotel gate, down the bridge, and you’ll hit a street full of food stalls. You can check it out later."
"Sweet, thanks, man~"
"No problem~" The server smiled and walked off.
Meng Qianyu tilted her head at Su Yang. "Su Yang, I wanna try the love tofu~"
"You sure you can handle fishwort?"
"Probably? Never had it before, but I’m down to try~"
"Alright, we’ll go explore once the others get here."
"Deal!"
They chatted in the lobby for another half hour before the group chat buzzed.
Su Yang checked his phone.
Zhang Ziming: "We’re at the hotel entrance~"
Su Yang glanced out the window. "They’re here. I’ll go check."
He stood and headed outside, where Meng Wenzhou’s white Range Rover was pulling into a parking spot.
Su Yang walked over, watching Meng Wenzhou reverse. "You guys are slow."
Meng Wenzhou adjusted the steering wheel, eyes on the rearview mirror. "You’re just ridiculously fast. I’m driving at a normal pace—if anything, I sped up."
"What about the others?"
"Probably just left the toll gate. They’re even slower."
"Go drop your bags in your rooms first, then we’ll head out to explore."
"Roger that!"
Soon after, Meng Wenzhou and the other two finished unpacking upstairs and came down. Ji Bo had just texted that they were on their way to the city center.
Su Yang gathered everyone and said, "Let’s head out and explore the area first. We’ll go for dinner once they arrive."
"Did you already pick a place?" Meng Wenzhou asked.
Su Yang nodded. "Yeah, it’s nearby—a spot called Big Beard Sour Soup Beef. We can just walk over later."
"Alright, let’s check out the streets around here first."
...
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
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…
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
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.”
