Chen Yuxi opened the door and walked into the bedroom, while Su Yang passed through a small corridor beside it and made his way to the bathroom.
It was a bathroom with separate wet and dry zones—the outer area held the sink and toilet, while an inner section was partitioned off with glass as a shower stall.
Su Yang had originally wanted to take a quick shower, but on second thought, he decided against it—it just wouldn't be convenient.
He picked up the toothbrush on the counter, squeezed some toothpaste on it, and started brushing.
A few minutes later, after washing up and using the toilet, he walked over to the door of another bedroom not far from Lin Chuxia's.
Su Yang opened the door and took a look. The room was modest—around fifteen square meters—with a one-and-a-half-meter-wide bed, a wardrobe, and a dressing table. The layout was simple, clean, and tidy.
He turned around, switched off the living room light, then walked into the bedroom, took off his shoes by the bed, and lay down.
Without looking around any further, he turned off the light and went to sleep.
He had a habit of sleeping on his side, with one hand tucked under the pillow for support.
But the moment his hand slid under the pillow, he touched something that felt oddly familiar.
"Huh?" Su Yang sat up, turned on the light, and lifted one side of the pillow to look. A pink lace-trimmed bra came into view.
"Damn... this..." Su Yang scratched his brow and gave a helpless smile. "How do you just shove anything under the pillow? Judging by the size, this must be Yuxi's."
"Forget it, I won't think about it." He picked it up, set it on a single chair by the bed, and turned off the light to sleep again.
This time, he rolled over and slipped his other hand under the pillow.
The moment it went in, he touched something even smaller and softer.
"Damn!" This time, he knew exactly what it was without even turning on the light.
Su Yang was speechless. "I swear... It's one thing to put that under the pillow, but this too?"
He pulled his hand out and rested it on top of the pillow, trying to sleep.
But the more he tried to sleep, the more uneasy he felt. Just knowing there was an intimate item beneath his head made it impossible to rest.
"Damn it, fine—I have to get rid of it, or I won't be able to sleep."
He sat up, flipped the pillow over, picked the item up with his index finger and thumb, and placed it on the chair. Then he pushed the chair a little further away.
After that, he turned on the light and lifted the entire pillow to check, making sure he wouldn't touch anything else he shouldn't.
This time, at least, there was nothing.
He set the pillow back down, turned off the light, and lay down once more, settling his thoughts before finally drifting off to sleep.
Because he'd been drinking, he slept deeply. At some point, he rolled over.
Half-asleep, he felt like he was touching something familiar again.
His hand moved upward unconsciously. The soft texture suddenly became uneven, like he was touching someone's face.
Still lost in sleep, his subconscious told him this wasn't a dream.
A second later, he shot upright and slapped the wall switch.
The room lit up instantly, and there was Chen Yuxi lying beside him in a black nightgown, sleeping soundly.
"???" Su Yang's eyes widened, thinking he was still dreaming.
"What the hell is going on?"
"Wasn't she sleeping in the next room? How did she end up here? And I didn't even hear her come in."
"Damn!"
The light stirred Chen Yuxi. She rubbed her eyes and rolled over, turning her back to Su Yang.
Staring at that temptingly alluring figure, Su Yang swallowed hard.
'Holy crap! How am I supposed to sleep now? Man, I shouldn't have listened to her in the first place.'
Just as he was thinking this, Chen Yuxi let out a soft hum and rolled back over to face him.
The moment she turned, she raised a hand to scratch her cheek. Su Yang was still stunned, not knowing whether to go back to sleep or do something about it.
He grabbed his phone from the nightstand and checked. It was already 5:15 in the morning.
They'd gone to bed around four, so he'd only slept a little over an hour.
'Ah, screw it. It's too late for me to leave now. I might as well keep sleeping!'
The instant he made that decision, Chen Yuxi's eyes opened without any warning—just as Su Yang happened to be staring at her.
They locked eyes, neither of them saying a word, just gazing at each other.
Three seconds later, without a sound, Chen Yuxi reached over and turned off the bedroom light.
Su Yang was a bit puzzled. Was that the right reaction?
He decided not to overthink it and lay back down.
Before a minute had passed, Chen Yuxi reached over and placed her hand flat on his chest.
He was already burning with tension, and that touch ignited everything at once.
Su Yang turned and pulled her close. Chen Yuxi didn't hold back either, leaning in toward him.
At this point, we skip twelve thousand three hundred words.
......
Some time later, still half-asleep, Su Yang opened his eyes again.
Outside the window, daylight was already flooding in, and birds were chirping noisily.
A hand was still resting on his chest. Su Yang lifted his head and saw Chen Yuxi lying quietly beside him.
He gently moved her hand away, then rolled over to check the time: 8:35 in the morning.
Putting the phone down, Su Yang lay flat on his back, staring at the ceiling.
Chen Yuxi smacked her lips and once again draped her hand across Su Yang's chest, hugging him.
Su Yang turned to look at her face. A few seconds later, Chen Yuxi's eyes opened again without any warning.
They stared at each other a second time. Her eyes flew wide, she pulled back, and was about to scream.
Su Yang quickly clamped a hand over her mouth. "What are you doing? Are your reactions delayed or what?"
"Su... Brother Su Yang, how... how are you in my bed?" she mumbled through his hand.
Su Yang widened his eyes. "Why'd you come here? Do you not remember what happened last night? You told me to sleep in your room and you'd share with Chuxia. Later, when I woke up in the middle of the night, you were already lying next to me."
"What???" Chen Yuxi was completely bewildered.
"Wait... I... I thought seeing you last night was just a dream..."
"What?"
As they were talking, Su Yang suddenly heard a door close outside the bedroom.
Pat, pat, pat—footsteps followed.
The sound came closer, stopping just outside their bedroom door within a few steps.
Click. The door opened.
"Yuxi, I'm so hungry." Lin Chuxia's voice rang out.
Bang!
The moment she spoke, she slammed the door shut again.
"Oh no!!" Chen Yuxi realized what had happened and shot up in a panic. She threw on her shoes and shouted, "Chuxia, let me explain!"
Yelling as she ran, she chased after Lin Chuxia out to the balcony.
By then, Lin Chuxia's face was red all the way down to her neck.
"Chuxia, let me explain!"
"No need, I get it~" Lin Chuxia winked at Chen Yuxi.
"No, it's not like that! Last night we were all drunk, Brother Su Yang drove us home, and then I told him to sleep in my room while I'd stay with you. Later, half-asleep, I got up to use the bathroom, and after I was done, I must have gone back to the wrong room—I walked back into mine and slept there, so..."
"I know, I know. It's fine, totally normal."
"We didn't do any—" Chen Yuxi started, but then suddenly remembered what happened last night and stopped mid-sentence.
She was half-asleep when she opened her eyes, saw Su Yang, and thought she was still dreaming, and then...
Lin Chuxia stared at her with a frown and said, "Judging by the look of you, something must have happened, right..."
The memories came flooding back, and Chen Yuxi's face visibly turned red. She lowered her head, crouched down, and buried her face between her knees: "Ahhh! What have I done!"
Lin Chuxia smiled and crouched down beside her: "It's okay, Yuxi. What era are we in now? Having a few drinks is totally normal. I only reacted that way because I didn't expect you two to sleep together. Geez, but this is making me feel a little..."
Chen Yuxi suddenly lifted her head: "A little what?"
"Uh... nothing, nothing."
"Promise me you won't tell anyone about this, okay?! Not a single person!"
"Don't worry, I get it."
Click. Just as the two were talking, the bedroom door opened, and Su Yang stepped out.
......
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?!
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
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!
