"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.
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!
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!
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
