After chatting for a while, Zhong Qing got acquainted with everyone.
Meng Wenzhou then took out ten room cards and placed them on the table, smiling. "Before heading to our rooms, let's play a little game."
"What game?"
"These are the cards for ten rooms. When I booked them, I originally intended to get all the same room type. However, Brother Lao Ma's place is too popular, and there weren't many of the suites I wanted left."
Hearing this, Lao Ma refilled Meng Wenzhou's teacup. "Sorry about that, it's still peak season, so we have quite a few guests."
Meng Wenzhou waved his hand with a smile. "No problem."
He then looked at the others and continued. "Now, there are only three deluxe suites available. The next tier down, the superior king rooms, there are five of those. The last two are standard twin rooms."
"So what?" Pan Ning turned her head.
"So, we'll draw cards. Whatever room type you draw is what you get, no swapping. Pure luck. That's perfectly fair, right?"
"Mhm, very fair," Chu Qiunan nodded.
Ji Bo thought for a moment and asked, "But how do we draw?"
"Simple. Since we have a new friend here who flew all the way from Haicheng specifically for this, let her decide the drawing order. How about that?"
"Sounds good~"
"No problem! I refuse to believe I can't compare to Old Su in pure luck, even if my luck with romance isn't as good!!" Chu Qiunan looked at Su Yang and said, deliberately gritting his teeth.
Su Yang grinned. "You just have to compete in everything, huh?"
"Exactly! I consider myself quite handsome too, right guys?" He said, turning to look at the others.
The others turned their heads away without replying. Only Zhong Qing smiled sweetly and nodded. "Brother Nan is definitely handsome, extremely handsome~"
"Hehe, see? It takes our new little sister Qing to truly understand me."
"No more digressions. Let's begin then," Meng Wenzhou said, looking at Zhong Qing with a smile. "Xiao Qing, you decide. Who draws first?"
"Is there even a question? Xiao Qing will definitely let Brother Yang draw first~" Liu Bo said on purpose.
Zhong Qing rolled her eyes. "Let me see."
She glanced around at everyone, her gaze finally settling on Meng Qianyu beside her.
"This beauty, Qianyu, can go first~"
"Yes! You made a great choice, Xiao Qing~ Hehe, you can just call me Qianyu."
"Okay, Qianyu~"
Seeing this, Meng Wenzhou picked up the room cards, shuffled them, and placed them face down on the table. "Then you draw. Whatever you get, you have to accept it. No backing out."
"Am I that kind of person?" Meng Qianyu said, standing up and walking over to Meng Wenzhou to look at the ten cards on the table.
The backs of the room cards were all identical, offering no clues. The fronts wouldn't help either, only showing the room numbers. Without having stayed there before, naturally no one knew which number corresponded to which room type, but Meng Wenzhou habitually treated the cards like playing cards.
Meng Qianyu stared at the cards for thirty seconds. Meng Wenzhou said impatiently, "My dear lady, are you going to draw or not?"
"Draw, draw, draw." Meng Qianyu reached out and picked up the third card from the left.
Seeing this, Su Qingci asked, "Huh? Sister Qianyu, didn't you say your lucky number was 7? Why didn't you take the seventh card?"
"Ah?" Meng Qianyu was taken aback, then laughed it off. "Um... that was before. My lucky number today is three."
"It can change like that?"
"Of course~" Meng Qianyu said with a smile, holding the card as she returned to her seat.
Meng Wenzhou then said, "Qianyu, don't look at it yet. Let's wait until everyone has chosen, then show them to Brother Lao Ma. He'll tell each person what their room type is."
"Sure~"
Lao Ma nodded. "No problem. You friends from the big city sure know how to have fun, haha."
"Just killing time~"
Meng Wenzhou continued, "Alright, Xiao Qing, keep going~"
Zhong Qing pointed at Pan Ning. "Sister Pan will be second~"
"Alrighty~ Pan Pan, your turn."
"Just toss one over to me." Pan Ning couldn't even be bothered to get up.
Meng Wenzhou smiled. "Should I choose for you? Or...?"
"Su Yang can choose for me."
"Alrighty~"
"Here you go, Old Su~" Meng Wenzhou pushed the cards in front of Su Yang.
Su Yang glanced at the cards and randomly picked one.
Meng Wenzhou took the card out and pushed it in front of Pan Ning, then said, "Xiao Qing, continue."
Zhong Qing looked at Su Qingci. "I'll just say the whole order now. Next is Su Su, Sister Ziyun, Brother Meng, Brother Ziming, Brother Fatty, Brother Bo, Brother Nan, and finally Su Yang."
"You're putting Brother Yang last?" Liu Bo looked at Zhong Qing, puzzled.
The corners of Zhong Qing's mouth lifted, revealing a row of neat, white teeth in a sweet smile. "Since it's all pure luck anyway, who goes first or last doesn't really make a difference."
"I suppose that's true."
Meng Wenzhou interrupted the two and looked at Su Qingci. "Xiao Su, choose a card."
"Okay."
The next few people quickly selected a room card each.
Now, each person held a room card with a room number written on it, and they all looked at Lao Ma sitting across the tea table.
Meng Wenzhou smiled. "Show them to Brother Lao Ma in the order we just decided."
Meng Qianyu was the first to flip her card over and read it. "My room number is Lan-31."
Lao Ma knew every room type in his inn like the back of his hand. Upon hearing the number, he smiled. "This young lady has pretty good luck. In your terms, this room is the middle-tier type."
"Ah? Only middle-tier? I thought I got a deluxe suite~"
"Hehe, Qianyu, no changing once chosen, remember? We agreed," Meng Wenzhou reminded Meng Qianyu, just in case she tried to back out.
Meng Qianyu leaned back in her chair and said proudly, "Who said I wanted to change? At least it's not the worst one."
"Pan Pan, what's your room number?"
"Zhu-38."
"Well now!! This young lady has even better luck. Yours is a deluxe suite~"
Pan Ning gave a slight nod.
The others showed expressions of envy upon hearing this.
"Damn, a card Brother Yang randomly picked is a deluxe suite. So now there are only two suites left," Ji Bo said enviously.
"Mhm, pure luck. Next."
The others announced their room numbers in turn.
The final results were as follows.
Tang Ziyun, Meng Qianyu, Meng Wenzhou, Chu Qiunan, and Liu Bo—five people—got the mid-tier rooms.
Su Yang, Pan Ning, and Su Qingci—three people—had the best luck and got the deluxe suites.
Ji Bo and Zhang Ziming—two people—were the unluckiest and got the standard twin rooms.
Even so, rooms within the same tier weren't necessarily next to each other. They were almost all spaced a few rooms apart, or on different floors and in different directions.
The ten of them were now essentially scattered across the four courtyards at the back of the inn.
Actually, this was Meng Wenzhou's intention. While he hadn't lied about the limited number of room types available, rooms within the same tier could have been booked to be adjacent. He deliberately scattered everyone to make it more convenient for his own plans.
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…
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.”
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
] This is a dark fantasy-themed dating simulation game. The main gameplay involves containing various monster girls and investigating the truth of a world shrouded in mist alongside your companions. However, due to his love for the dark and bizarre atmosphere, Luo Wei ended up turning a dating game into a detective mystery game. Women? Women only slow down his quickdraw! To Luo Wei, the female leads in the game are more like tools to perfectly clear levels and squeeze out rewards. For Luo Wei, flirting with every girl he meets and then discarding them is standard procedure. Worried about characters losing affection points? No need. With his maxed-out charm stat, Luo Wei is practically a "human incubus." A little psychological manipulation and those points come right back. It's a bit scummy, but the paper cutout heroines in the game won't actually come at him with real cleavers. However... Luo Wei has transmigrated. He's accidentally entered the second playthrough of this game. His past actions have caused all the girls to transform into terrifying yanderes. Due to the game's setting, most of the heroines he once contained are "troubled girls." Obsessive, twisted, mentally unstable, all aggressive yanderes... The type who will kill you if they can't have you... Luo Wei wants to cry but has no tears left. "I really just want to survive..." In short, this is a story of battling wits and engaging in a love-hate relationship with yanderes.
