Lin Yu stopped in his tracks and turned to face Tao Yaoyao.
In a fleeting moment, the image of Tao Yaoyao before him overlapped with his memories of Tang Manman, startling him with the sudden familiarity.
When he rubbed his eyes and looked again, Tao Yaoyao was just Tao Yaoyao once more.
Confident, gentle, with a faint and poised smile—she seemed approachable, yet when you tried to get closer, she felt distant, as if beyond reach.
Tao Yaoyao came to a stop about a meter away from Lin Yu and asked softly,
"Is something the matter?"
"Lin Yu?"
"I..."
Lin Yu had been about to thank her but suddenly fell silent, realizing something odd.
"You know my name?"
A hint of suspicion rose in him. Tao Yaoyao was a third-year student, while he had just started university.
They had no prior interactions—so how did she know his name?
Coupled with the strange sense of familiarity when he first saw her,
Lin Yu’s guard instantly went up.
Tao Yaoyao blinked, her gaze carrying a touch of innocence as she looked at him.
"Of course I do."
At this, the corners of her lips curled up slightly, though she tried to suppress it.
"After all, Lin Yu, you’re somewhat of a minor celebrity at school."
Her words, along with that barely restrained smile, quickly made Lin Yu understand.
It was probably that incident at the school gate during orientation.
Xia Yueshan, you again!
Making me look like a fool!
Next time I see you, I’ll beat your ass into eight pieces!
"Oh, I see."
Lin Yu forced a dry chuckle, pushing down his embarrassment before speaking earnestly,
"Anyway, thank you for today."
"Who knows what kind of trouble I’d have been in otherwise."
He meant it.
Asking Qing Mo or Su Yuyao for help wouldn’t have been difficult,
but then they might’ve come after him for explanations later!
So if he could handle it himself, it was best not to involve them.
"No need to thank me."
Tao Yaoyao replied politely, saying nothing more. Unlike those other inexplicable girls who clung to Lin Yu,
she didn’t linger.
In fact, the situation now seemed more like Lin Yu was the one bothering her.
Lin Yu noticed this too.
After weighing his options, he decided to grit his teeth and ask the burning question.
"Did you just happen to be at the security office?"
"Or was there another reason?"
Seeing the confusion in Tao Yaoyao’s eyes, he awkwardly clarified,
"I just feel like a minor student scuffle shouldn’t require someone like you to step in personally."
The vice president of the student council.
Someone like her might not be swamped with work, but she certainly wouldn’t have time to intervene in every random campus fight.
Otherwise, how would she get anything else done?
Tao Yaoyao let out a light laugh and gave an answer Lin Yu didn’t expect.
"It wasn’t a coincidence."
"I went there specifically to find you."
"Huh?"
"Why?"
Lin Yu was too stunned by her bluntness to process it properly.
S University held too many secrets.
Familiar yet unplaceable faces, inexplicable advances from girls, a storyline that had veered completely off-course from his high school days—
all of it left him utterly baffled.
Now that he had a chance to uncover the truth beneath the surface, his breathing grew rapid with excitement.
"Because someone told me about the situation and asked me to help you."
Tao Yaoyao smiled faintly, her tone carrying a teasing lilt.
"Who?"
Lin Yu frowned in confusion.
"Ye You."
Tao Yaoyao watched him closely, her bright eyes brimming with curiosity and gossip, as if eager for his reaction.
???
Lin Yu’s mind filled with question marks again.
Who the hell is Ye You?
The name sounded vaguely familiar...
His brows furrowed deeper, his expression completely blank.
"You don’t remember her?"
Tao Yaoyao covered her lips with her hand, feigning shock.
"It sounds familiar, but I really can’t recall who she is."
Lin Yu wasn’t lying, nodding sheepishly.
Tao Yaoyao paused, then gave him a reproachful look.
"You should remember her."
"She approached you once and even sent you gifts through your roommate."
"Uh..."
Lin Yu scratched his head. He wanted to say too many girls had given him gifts to keep track,
but to avoid sounding like a narcissist, he settled on the latter half of his thought.
"Sorry, I really don’t remember."
Hearing this, Tao Yaoyao’s gaze grew even more pitiful. She shook her head slowly and sighed.
"Ah~"
"My poor junior..."
"Finally takes an interest in a guy,"
"only for him to not even remember who she is."
"How tragic."
Lin Yu rubbed his neck, his expression a mix of discomfort and bewilderment. After a moment of hesitation, he asked,
"She can’t possibly have that bad taste, right?"
Tao Yaoyao stared at Lin Yu’s dark complexion, opening and closing her mouth before finally sighing.
"Who can really explain attraction?"
Lin Yu clicked his tongue, feeling let down.
And here he thought he’d get some useful clues...
With his questions answered, he exchanged a few polite farewells with Tao Yaoyao before changing direction, heading straight back to his dorm.
After all this hassle, by the time he got to class, it’d probably be over anyway!
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!
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?!
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.
't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
