Meeting Qing Mo made Lin Yu feel even more uneasy than encountering Xia Muzhu.
At least with Xia Muzhu, nothing had happened yet.
But with Qing Mo...
Well.
At least he hadn’t done anything wrong himself.
Qing Mo?
Qing Mo seemed quite satisfied with how things were.
Seeing Qing Mo ahead, who had clearly already noticed him, Lin Yu genuinely didn’t want to approach her.
That cold expression of hers—anyone who didn’t know better would think he owed her money...
...
Well, he kinda did.
And not just a little!
But would turning around and leaving be too obvious?
Behind Qing Mo was the escalator leading downstairs. If he turned around now with Tang Manman to look for another elevator or staircase, even a fool could tell something was off.
After some thought,
Between the risk of Qing Mo picking a fight and making a move that would 100% raise Tang Manman’s suspicions,
Lin Yu chose the latter.
When faced with two evils, pick the lesser one!
If Tang Manman got suspicious, he could still explain it away.
But if he actually walked over and Qing Mo decided to cause trouble? That wouldn’t be so easy to handle.
Tang Manman still didn’t know the money he’d used to treat her sister’s illness was earned through... semi-selling himself.
If she found out, he wondered what kind of expression she’d make.
Would she look like the pitiful husband in an NTR film?
Kinda curious...
Ugh!
As the moderator of the Pure Love forum, he absolutely couldn’t let such a corrupt scenario unfold.
Having made up his mind, Lin Yu turned to lead Tang Manman toward another exit.
But the moment he turned, he realized the obedient girl who’d been following him was gone.
???
Where’s Tang Manman?
Lost?!
Dazed, he spun in a full circle, and when his gaze returned to Qing Mo’s direction, he finally spotted Tang Manman.
She must have seen something fascinating, because she’d walked ahead without even a word.
After a few steps, she seemed to get a clear look at whatever had caught her eye and turned back, waving excitedly at Lin Yu with a bright smile, urging him to hurry over.
Lin Yu felt like the sky was falling.
Seriously?
After being so obedient all day, you choose now to rebel and stab me in the back?!
Watching Tang Manman step closer and closer to the unpredictable Qing Mo, Lin Yu gritted his teeth and followed.
Now, all he could do was pray Qing Mo was in a good mood today and wouldn’t stir up trouble!
When he reached Tang Manman, her clear eyes sparkled with joy as she pointed toward the bustling mall atrium below.
"Look!"
"Lion dance!"
Lin Yu glanced down. In the center of the crowd, two lions—one gold, one red—leaped and twirled with practiced precision, their movements sharp and mesmerizing.
Clearly, this wasn’t just any amateur performance.
"Let’s go down and watch!"
For some reason, Tang Manman suddenly grew bold. She grabbed Lin Yu’s hand and tried to pull him toward the escalator.
The soft warmth of her grip left him momentarily stunned. Seeing how her ears flushed red even in the mall’s cozy heat, Lin Yu couldn’t bring himself to pull away.
Instinctively, he looked back at Qing Mo—her icy glare and the faint bloodshot tinge in her phoenix eyes made him gulp nervously.
Helpless, he shot her a fierce behave look, praying she’d actually listen.
As he followed Tang Manman, Lin Yu kept chanting in his head: Don’t let anything happen, don’t let anything happen.
That damn Murphy’s Law better not screw him over today.
But fate had other plans.
Just as Tang Manman was about to pass Qing Mo, the latter stepped forward smoothly, blocking her path with unshakable resolve.
Oh no.
Game over.
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!
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
with countless casualties. As a top-tier gamer, Liu Xuan volunteered to join the fight, intending to dominate with his skills, but instead he obtained the hidden class: [Pacifist]. Unable to attack. Unable to use active skills. Fortunately, with each level gained, he acquired a new passive skill. And so, armed with a body full of passives, Liu Xuan slaughtered his way through the battlefield of ten thousand races! [You attacked Liu Xuan] [You gained the debuffs: 'Poison', 'Fear', 'Burning', 'Bleeding', 'Freeze', 'Silence', etc.] [Your attack speed has been reduced by 99%] [Your armor and magic resistance have been reduced by 99%] Warriors of the Ten Thousand Races: How the hell am I supposed to fight this?!
