“This place is so beautiful it doesn’t even feel real!” Lu Yun raised her head and smiled, spreading her arms wide.
The others were captivated by the scenery as well and began wandering off in different directions.
Su Yang, Meng Wenzhou, and Liu Bo quietly unloaded the suitcases from the trunk.
“Old Su, this place really is beautiful. And it’s not just beautiful—I feel an indescribable sense of peace standing here. I feel so relaxed and comfortable.”
“Exactly. It’s the perfect place for people who’ve grown tired of living in the big city.”
As he pulled out another suitcase, Liu Bo grinned. “Brother Lao Yang, you really know how to find places. You secretly ran off to this secluded paradise all by yourself to enjoy life.”
“You brat. By the way, have you and Xiao Jin made things official?” Su Yang asked with a smile.
Liu Bo broke into a wide grin. “Hehe, yeah. I followed the method you told me about, and it didn’t take long before she fell deeply in love with me.”
Hearing this, Su Yang and Meng Wenzhou both shot him a sideways glance.
Just then, the commotion outside attracted Li Yuanying and Qingxia from inside the house.
The two women stepped out of the courtyard wearing aprons, their hair tied up in buns and their faces full of confusion.
Seeing them, Su Yang waved and called out, “Yuanying, Qingxia, why did you come out?”
“Huh? You’re back?”
“We just arrived.”
As Liu Bo watched Su Yang greet the two beautiful women, he immediately moved closer and asked in a low voice, “Brother Yang, are these my European sisters-in-law?”
Su Yang rolled his eyes at him. “What nonsense are you talking about? They’re my friends.”
“Friends? Hehe, Brother Meng, do you believe him?”
Meng Wenzhou smiled and shook his head. “No.”
Su Yang scratched his eyebrow and walked toward the two women. “Where’s Yoshie?”
“Sis Yoshie is making breakfast.”
“Oh, right. Qingxia, go call her out. I’ll introduce my friends to all of you.”
“Okay!” Qingxia answered and hurried back inside.
Several dozen seconds later, Yoshie and Qingxia walked out of the house together. By then, the luggage had all been unloaded, and the three cars had already turned around and driven away.
At Su Yang’s invitation, everyone gathered around as he smiled and introduced them one by one.
Meng Qianyu stared at Li Yuanying the entire time. After studying her for a while, she suddenly spoke up.
“Wait!”
“What is it?” Su Yang turned to her in the middle of his introduction.
“Why does this beautiful lady look so familiar?” Meng Qianyu walked up to Li Yuanying and said.
“Hello, I’m Li Yuanying.”
“Oh, right, right, that’s the name! I know you. You’re a celebrity from Korea, aren’t you?”
Li Yuanying smiled faintly. “I wouldn’t really call myself a celebrity. I’m just a singer.”
“You’re very famous in our country. Wait… why do I feel like you look so much like Suyan?”
Li Yuanying looked at Meng Qianyu and asked with a smile, “Who’s Suyan?”
Meng Qianyu turned around, grabbed Han So-yeon from where she stood at the back of the group, and pulled her forward. “Her! Wow, you really do look alike. Everyone, take a look.”
The others shifted their gazes between the two women. Their brows gradually furrowed in astonishment, and even the two women themselves looked surprised.
At that moment, Zhuang Mengli took Han So-yeon by the hand and led her over to Li Yuanying. Apart from their difference in height, everything else—from their figures to the shape of their faces—was nearly identical, as if they had been carved from the same mold.
Han So-yeon said shyly, “Oh, stop staring at us like that. You’re making me embarrassed.”
Su Yang laughed. “Haha, I noticed a long time ago that the two of them looked alike. All right, let’s continue with the introductions.”
...
Two minutes later, everyone had been introduced, and Li Yuanying, Yoshie, and Qingxia had gotten to know Su Yang’s entire group of friends.
“Come on, let’s go inside first.”
“Please come in, everyone. I made breakfast for you all,” Yoshie said with a smile.
“Oh, really? Sis Mie, you’re so kind!” Meng Qianyu said in fluent English as she stepped forward and linked arms with Yoshie, following her inside.
All the women had already gone in, leaving only the three men standing amid the suitcases with helpless smiles.
“Time to get to work. What can you do when there are only three men among us?” Meng Wenzhou shook his head with a smile, picked up two suitcases in one hand, and carried them toward the entrance.
Su Yang and Liu Bo did the same. After several trips back and forth, the three of them finally carried every suitcase into the house.
The living room, which had seemed reasonably spacious before, suddenly felt much smaller.
With so many people around, the atmosphere quickly became lively. It felt like everyone had gathered at a relative’s home for the New Year.
Yoshie brought breakfast out of the kitchen with Li Yuanying and Qingxia, while Lu Yun and Su Qingci followed them inside to help.
“It’s been a long time since things were this lively.” Meng Wenzhou watched the people moving back and forth across the living room with a smile.
“Exactly. That’s why everyone needs to get together to bring a place to life. I suggest that, once we’re back home, all of us just buy a house and live together!” Liu Bo said as he reached into his trouser pocket for a cigarette.
Su Yang smiled. “I think that’s a great idea.”
“Right? We could be like those people in Love Apartment, with a whole bunch of good friends living under one roof. Just thinking about it gets me excited.”
Meng Wenzhou turned to him. “We’d be happy to, but the girls might not feel the same way. We can talk about it after we return home.”
“Fine, fine. Here, have one. It’s been several days since the three of us smoked together.” Liu Bo grinned as he pulled out two cigarettes and handed them to Su Yang and Meng Wenzhou.
The three men tactfully went out onto the balcony to smoke. There were simply too many people in the living room.
They had just lit their cigarettes when Yoshie tilted her head and asked, “Huh? Where are Su-san and the others?”
“Don’t worry about them. Those three are heavy smokers. They’re out on the balcony,” Meng Qianyu said as she picked up a bowl of miso soup and took the first sip.
“Mmm, it’s delicious! Everyone, try Sis Mie’s cooking.”
The women sat around the dining table and ate the breakfast Yoshie had prepared, while the three men smoked and chatted on the balcony.
A few minutes later, the men finished their cigarettes, returned to the living room, and joined the others for a little breakfast.
After eating, everyone moved to the sofas and sat down to chat.
Su Yang then looked at Meng Wenzhou and the others. “You’ve been flying for more than ten hours, so you must be a little tired. Get some rest first, and then I’ll take you to the house next door.”
Hearing this, Liu Bo said, “I’m not tired. We slept pretty well on the plane.”
Zhuang Mengli rolled her eyes thoughtfully and asked, “How many rooms are there in this house?”
“Five,” Su Yang replied.
“Five? So the four of you each have your own room?”
“What else would we do?”
“Hehe, then I’ll take the extra room. None of you are allowed to fight me for it! I asked first!” Zhuang Mengli said, looking around at the others.
Several people shook their heads with amused smiles.
“No one’s going to fight you for it. So you want to stay in this house with Old Su and the others?” Meng Wenzhou asked.
“Mm-hmm.” Zhuang Mengli nodded with a smile.
Yoshie spoke up. “There are five rooms here, but they can actually sleep ten people. You don’t all have to go to the house next door.”
“Exactly! I think so too. The beds in these rooms are all double beds, and they’re quite large. Two people can sleep in one without any problem,” Qingxia added, raising her hand.
Su Yang looked at the others. “Since that’s the case, who else wants to stay here?”
Lu Yun, Meng Qianyu, Ren Lingxi, Su Qingci, Han So-yeon, and Jiang Xiaotang all raised their hands.
“There are so many of us. There are five rooms here, so you can decide among yourselves who you want to share with. The rest can stay next door, where there are more rooms—seven in total.”
“How many rooms are there over there?” Zhuang Mengli asked.
“Seven. Three on the first floor, and two each on the second and third floors.”
“Wait, why don’t we all stay next door? Think about it—we have fifteen people in total. Ten would stay here, leaving only five to go next door. That would leave so many rooms unused, and I doubt the remaining five would even want to stay over there. So why don’t we all just move there instead?”
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.”
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.
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…
ts me of treason?" "Correct. The host must return to the capital and gradually build up influence." "Wait—I have half a million soldiers, and you want me to go back to the capital to 'build influence'?" "Host, you are currently the Northern Garrison General, loyal to the Great Xia Dynasty." "Of course I am loyal to Great Xia! Absolutely loyal!" "But you keep referring to yourself as 'We'..." "Never mind the details! Summon all the regional commanders and military officers! We suspect treacherous officials are manipulating the court! They shall march with Us to the capital and purge the corrupt!" "......"
