"..."
"Um..."
"I..."
Lin Yu was momentarily stumped by Xia Yueshan's question and didn’t know how to respond.
When it came to Xia Muzhu, Lin Yu didn’t want to get too involved with her.
There were many reasons for this.
The most critical ones boiled down to three points.
First, Lin Yu felt that he and Xia Muzhu weren’t really compatible—mainly due to two issues: their age difference and their life plans for the near future.
If it were just about finding a girlfriend for fun, casually dating, then it wouldn’t matter.
But if it were about finding someone to spend the rest of his life with, the five-year age gap between him and Xia Muzhu was indeed a minor but not insignificant problem.
Though, to be fair, five years wasn’t completely unacceptable.
The bigger issue was the next four years.
Lin Yu was definitely going to college soon.
There was no way Xia Muzhu would leave behind Xia Yueshan’s schooling here, their home, or their social connections just to follow him to whatever city his university was in, right?
And that would lead to the next problem: a long-distance relationship.
Lin Yu really didn’t want to deal with that.
It was too unstable.
Long-distance relationships were both a grueling test and a form of torture for both parties.
If two people were already in love, they could tough it out.
But if nothing had even started between them yet?
There was no reason to willingly subject themselves to that misery.
Second point.
When they last parted ways, Lin Yu wasn’t blind—he could tell how Xia Muzhu felt about him.
So unless he was serious about dating her, marrying her, and starting a family, it was better to cut ties cleanly and stop bothering her.
As for the third point...
Lin Yu exhaled softly, watching his breath turn into a wisp of white mist before dissolving into the cold air. His mood grew heavier.
When it came to Xia Muzhu...
He was genuinely afraid.
The sheer devastation he’d felt after learning the truth last time still haunted him, leaving an indelible shadow in his heart.
Even now, just hearing Xia Muzhu’s name made his chest tighten with an oppressive weight.
With all three of these obstacles in the way, Lin Yu felt that whatever fondness he had for Xia Muzhu just wasn’t enough to outweigh them.
Turning to Xia Yueshan beside him, Lin Yu patted his shoulder and said helplessly,
"Yueshan, it’s better if I keep my distance from your sister."
"It’s the best choice for both of us."
"Why?"
Xia Yueshan furrowed his thick, faint brows in confusion.
"Didn’t the danger you predicted already pass?"
"Why are you still avoiding her?"
"I—"
Before Lin Yu could even come up with an excuse, Xia Yueshan cut him off.
"Don’t tell me you’re gonna claim that seeing my sister will put her in danger again."
"Give me a break."
"Your predictions aren’t even accurate."
"Instead of making up nonsense, why not just visit her more often and make her happy?"
???
Lin Yu’s mind went blank for a second.
Had he just trapped himself with his own excuse?
Did that mean he couldn’t use this all-purpose justification anymore?
Ignoring Lin Yu’s bewildered expression, Xia Yueshan sighed dramatically, shaking his head in mock regret.
"You’re really lucky, you know. This kind of ‘first dibs’ opportunity—most guys would kill for it."
Then, leaning closer, he nudged Lin Yu and said with a suggestive smirk,
"Here’s a little secret: my sister has never been in a relationship, as far back as I can remember."
"You know what that means, right?"
"That prized cabbage of hers has never been nibbled by any pig!"
"Don’t let this chance slip away!"
and couldn't return to the real world. Finally, I gave up and decided to go with the flow, only to discover that writing a diary could make me stronger. Since no one could read it, Su Luo wrote freely, daring to pen anything and everything. Female Lead #1: "Not bad. This diary helped me steal all the protagonist's opportunities. I just want to get stronger." Female Lead #2: "I don’t care about reaching the peak of the cultivation world. Right now, I just want to enjoy the chaos." Female Lead #3: "What? Everyone around me is a spy? I’m the Joker Demon Lord?" ... It’s so strange. Why is the plot completely off track, yet the ending remains the same? Are you all just messing with me?!
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?!
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!
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.
