"Just forget about it?"
Lin Yu's eyebrows knitted together tightly upon hearing those words.
How could anyone possibly forget something like this?
Moreover...
Lin Yu lowered his gaze, staring blankly at the warm yellow quilt. His eyes seemed to pierce through the thin fabric, seeing the glaring crimson stain beneath.
He had taken Xia Muzhu's first time—how could he just walk away like nothing happened?
Wouldn't that make him no better than an animal?
Raising his head to look at Xia Yueshan, Lin Yu vaguely sensed something, but his sluggish mind couldn't grasp the fleeting clue.
His thoughts were a complete blank, yet his instincts screamed at him not to leave like this.
For no apparent reason, the words he had once said to Gu Yue suddenly echoed in his ears:
"People must take responsibility for their actions..."
...
After staring at the quilt for a long while, Lin Yu suddenly looked up at Xia Yueshan and asked:
"Where’s your sister now?"
"Is she still in my room?"
Lin Yu’s question brought a glimmer of light to Xia Yueshan’s tear-reddened eyes.
He knew Lin Yu wouldn’t leave now. If he wanted to run away, he wouldn’t have asked—he could’ve just slunk off like a coward with his tail between his legs!
"She’s still in my room!"
Xia Yueshan’s eyes shone with hope, his voice trembling with excitement.
Lin Yu nodded and headed out to find Xia Muzhu.
Xia Yueshan followed closely behind, like a child who had messed up but found a way to make amends. Relief mixed with the emotions he’d been suppressing, and tears streamed down his face. Wiping them away with his sleeve, he sniffled and choked out:
"Lin Yu, I swear it’s like I’ve been cursed."
"I threw that aphrodisiac I got straight into the trash."
"I have no idea how you two ended up taking it."
"It’s like some kind of evil spell."
Lin Yu abruptly stopped walking. Xia Yueshan, still wiping his tears, didn’t see it coming and bumped straight into his back.
"What did you just say?"
Lin Yu turned around, his brows furrowed so deeply they nearly merged, his voice filled with disbelief.
Xia Yueshan tensed up and quickly defended himself:
"I didn’t drug you."
"I knew it was wrong."
"The aphrodisiac I got from a classmate—I threw it away."
"After that, I went out to play basketball."
"I don’t know how things ended up like this!"
Lin Yu stood frozen, his breathing growing heavier. Finally, he understood why he’d ended up in this state.
So it was you, you little brat?
Lin Yu took a moment to steady himself. The shock had sobered him up slightly, and his sluggish thoughts finally began moving again.
Seeing Lin Yu’s stunned expression, Xia Yueshan worried he might misunderstand his sister and hastily added:
"Don’t get the wrong idea."
"My sister had no clue about any of this."
"She didn’t even know I brought the stuff home."
"As for how you ended up taking it... this..."
"This..."
He stammered, unable to find any excuse to justify this absurd situation. But he knew his sister would never do something like this. In desperation, he blurted out:
"It must’ve been a misunderstanding."
"Just a terrible coincidence!"
Coincidence?
Hearing that word, Lin Yu’s eyes widened in fury. For a moment, he felt the urge to kill.
Coincidence? Coincidence? Coincidence!
Why the hell is it always a coincidence?
Where do all these damn coincidences come from?
Why does every single one have to screw me over!?
Gritting his teeth, he glared at Xia Yueshan and growled:
"Tell me everything you know!"
Xia Yueshan recounted the whole story. By the time he finished, Lin Yu felt both drained and deeply confused.
According to Xia Yueshan, he had thrown the drug away—so how had Lin Yu ended up taking it?
Lin Yu instinctively turned his gaze toward Xia Yueshan’s tightly shut bedroom door.
He knew the remaining answers lay with Xia Muzhu inside.
Lin Yu believed she was innocent in all this. Someone as gentle as her would never resort to such methods.
The real question was—what should he do now?
A surge of anger made his head spin. Instead of heading toward Xia Yueshan’s room, he changed direction and sat down on a nearby chair, trying to figure out his next move.
What if...
No!
Xia Muzhu couldn’t have known. She was a victim too.
This couldn’t have been what she wanted.
But...
Had he wanted any of this?
Now that things had come to this...
Lin Yu glanced back at Xia Yueshan’s door.
Was there even another way?
His head slowly drooped as he stared at the empty floor. In his mind’s eye, a girl appeared—her smile always shy, yet her eyes burning with hidden intensity.
For some reason, Lin Yu felt too ashamed to face her. He blinked, and the scene shifted into something both familiar and strange.
It felt like a memory, but the roles were reversed.
He saw Gu Yue looking down at him, her tone stern and unwavering:
"People must take responsibility for their actions!"
...
...
Dazed, Lin Yu stood up. When his eyes fell on Xia Yueshan’s conflicted expression, his confusion suddenly cleared.
Furious, he stormed over, grabbed Xia Yueshan by the ear, and dragged him to the door.
After yanking it open, he kicked him out and snapped:
"Get lost!"
"Don’t come back until tonight!"
"Just looking at you pisses me off!"
With the awkward third wheel gone, Lin Yu shut the door behind him.
The room fell silent. Steeling himself, he took a deep breath and walked toward the closed bedroom door.
It wasn’t locked. He pushed it open easily.
Xia Muzhu sat on the edge of the bed. When she saw it was Lin Yu, she turned her face away, leaving him with nothing but the sight of her long, silky hair—a silent refusal to meet his eyes.
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
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.”
ose... to cooperate with the protagonist! Shen Yuan: I have a system! Protagonist: What? System: Holy crap, you're just spilling it out like that? Shen Yuan: Let's team up, we'll split the system rewards! Protagonist: Fifty-fifty split? Shen Yuan: No way! Protagonist: What!? I'm the one getting beaten up, and I don't get half? Shen Yuan: Forty-sixty split, I get forty, you get sixty! Protagonist: Deal! Big brother, come on, hit me! As long as it doesn't kill me, beat me like you mean it! Shen Yuan: Don't worry... I will definitely protect all of you! No one but me can lay a finger on you! Guard our Heaven's Chosen Ones! I'm the only one allowed to bully them!
