With a mix of wry amusement and pity in his heart, Lin Yu let out a light sigh, preparing to step in.
He couldn’t just stand by and let Tang Manman be bullied like this. Given the temper of those delinquent girls, who knew what kind of despicable things they might do?
If they took compromising photos of her, Tang Manman’s life would be ruined.
Just as Lin Yu was about to intervene and put an end to the bullying, his peripheral vision caught a familiar face in the crowd.
It was the delicate-looking boy who had been helping out at Tang Manman’s mother’s food stall the day before.
Tang Manman’s childhood friend.
And—the male lead of this erotic manga! (Though the kind who gets cuckolded.)
Recognizing him, Lin Yu relaxed slightly.
Good. Now he wouldn’t have to get involved himself. It was better to minimize interactions with Tang Manman, especially something as cliché as a heroic rescue that would skyrocket her affection for him.
But as he waited for the boy to step in, something felt off. A nagging suspicion crept into Lin Yu’s mind.
Wait a minute—
Lin Yu suddenly realized.
The boy was standing even closer to the scene than he was, meaning he must have arrived earlier.
So he must have seen Tang Manman being bullied long before Lin Yu did.
Then why hadn’t he done anything to help her yet?
Unless…
Lin Yu’s eyes locked onto the boy’s timid, fearful gaze. Shock and frustration surged through him.
You’re the male lead! The childhood friend, the official love interest in this erotic manga!
And you’re just going to stand there and watch the girl who’s practically your girlfriend get humiliated like this?
Are you even a man?!
Angry as he was, Lin Yu held back from acting rashly.
Maybe there was a reason the boy hadn’t stepped in yet?
Perhaps he’d only just arrived?
Or maybe he had some unspeakable circumstances…
Damn it.
No excuses.
If you can’t even stand up for your almost-girlfriend when she’s being bullied like this, you’re just a spineless coward!
While Lin Yu was mentally cursing the boy, the purple-haired delinquent girl tormenting Tang Manman made her next move.
Annoyed by the growing crowd, she barked a few curses before grabbing Tang Manman by the collar of her school uniform and dragging her toward the girls’ restroom.
The circle of delinquent girls parted, and now everyone in the hallway could see Tang Manman being bullied.
With the obstruction gone, Tang Manman’s eyes swept over the crowd—and landed on her childhood friend.
A flicker of hope lit up her tear-filled, terrified gaze. She reached out toward him, silently pleading for him to save her from this nightmare.
At last, the boy stopped playing the role of a coward.
With newfound determination, he took a step forward.
But that was all.
After just one step, a short delinquent boy with hair dyed red, yellow, and green blocked his path.
“What the hell do you think you’re doing?!” the multicolored gremlin snarled.
The delicate boy wasn’t short—in fact, he was quite tall, towering over the gremlin by at least a head.
Yet despite his physical advantage, he froze under the gremlin’s glare, too scared to even argue back.
Like a cat terrified of a mouse.
The brief flash of courage in his eyes dissolved back into fear and weakness. A complete and utter coward.
Sensing his timidity, the gremlin pressed his advantage. He jumped up and slapped the boy across the face, shouting,
“Get lost!”
The boy took the hit without resistance. After the gremlin’s roar, he cast one last fearful glance past him—toward Tang Manman, now being dragged into the restroom by the delinquent girls.
Then, shamefaced, he lowered his head and retreated into the crowd without a word.
The gremlin smirked, shaking out his stinging hand as he jeered at the boy’s retreating back,
“Who the hell do you think you are, trying to play the hero?”
Tang Manman’s eyes dimmed, all hope extinguished. The light in them shattered like dull, broken glass.
Leaning against the wall, hidden in the crowd, Lin Yu was speechless.
This guy really is the definition of spineless.
No wonder he gets cuckolded!
Watching Tang Manman being hauled into the restroom, Lin Yu knew he couldn’t stay hidden any longer. It was time to act.
Pushing through the crowd, he strode purposefully toward the girls’ restroom, its door now firmly shut.
On his way, the multicolored gremlin—still basking in his earlier triumph—spotted Lin Yu approaching and instinctively raised an arm to block him, trying to repeat his earlier intimidation.
But Lin Yu had no intention of stopping.
Instead, as he closed the distance, one foot lifted—and the gremlin’s widening eyes were filled with the sight of a dirty shoe sole rushing toward him.
Before he could even react, that foot slammed into his chest with brutal force, sending him flying several meters through the air.
. 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!"
lanned to earn money steadily and take life at a slower pace. But he never expected... his father's remarriage, and the stepmother bringing along a dependent, would completely disrupt his life's plans...
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
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.”
