"Let's go change first, we'll meet at the entrance of the swimming pool later."
Ye You smiled sweetly, her whole demeanor becoming much more animated whenever Lin Yu was mentioned.
Lang Hua nodded with a complicated expression. He turned and walked away, cursing Lin Yu over and over in his heart.
Damn it!
Why is he so popular with girls?
Can a guy with dyed hair really be this overpowered in this version?
Truly terrifying.
Maybe I should go dye my hair sometime too?
Lang Hua changed his clothes, walked out of the swimming pool, and waited outside for a bit. Ye You and Wang Yanyan soon appeared.
Both girls were fresh-faced after swimming, yet their skin looked even more fair and dewy than before.
Youth is a girl's best makeup.
That saying really holds true!
After the three met up, led by Lang Hua, they walked to a secluded spot. After steeling himself with great difficulty, Lang Hua took a deep breath, preparing to embarrass himself.
"So, here's the thing."
"I heard you both have some interest in Lin Yu, right?"
"I have some information about his preferences and such."
"Are you two interested?"
Ye You raised a slender eyebrow, looking very intrigued, and nodded saying:
"Yes, tell us about it."
"Well, if you want to hear it..."
Lang Hua raised his hand, rubbing his thumb against his index and middle fingers held together, hinting almost explicitly:
"I can't just tell you for free, right?"
"You can rest assured, I'm Lin Yu's best buddy. I know him inside out, almost like the worm in his stomach."
"The other two guys in the dorm are just surface-level friends with him; they definitely don't know him like I do."
Ye You and Wang Yanyan exchanged a glance.
Lang Hua had expected them to sneer at him disdainfully and dismiss Lin Yu as nobody special. But to his surprise, after a brief hesitation, they actually seemed agreeable and had the idea of paying for Lin Yu's information.
"Okay."
"But your information has to be useful. If it's just some common, worthless info, we won't pay for it."
Ye You reminded him.
"Don't worry about that."
Lang Hua nodded. After hesitating for a moment, he quoted the prices Lin Yu had set:
"One unique hobby or interest: 500."
"One special travel itinerary: 5000."
As Lang Hua said this, he himself felt a bit ashamed.
Honestly, you could grab any random celebrity from the entertainment industry, and their travel info and hobbies probably wouldn't be priced this high.
Lin Yu, you really dare to ask!
The two girls weren't fools either. Hearing this outrageous price, they furrowed their delicate brows. Ye You said discontentedly:
"That price is way too high!"
"Dividing it by 10 would be more like it."
"No, not a single cent less."
Lang Hua shook his head, his attitude firm, executing Lin Yu's plan word for word.
"One unique hobby for 500?"
"One special travel itinerary for 5000?"
Wang Yanyan wasn't as focused on the price. She murmured, repeating Lang Hua's previous conditions, and asked puzzledly:
"What do you mean by 'unique' about the hobbies?"
"And what makes the travel information 'special'?"
Seeing that they seemed genuinely inclined to buy the information, Lang Hua suddenly felt like the world had gone mad.
Pulling himself together, Lang Hua continued according to Lin Yu's script:
"A 'unique hobby or interest' refers to something Lin Yu really likes, loves, is super into, but is too embarrassed to talk about—a special quirk that only I know."
“It’s definitely not something like his favorite food or that he likes busty beauties—those are common knowledge, widely known preferences.”
" 'Special travel information' means where he plans to go during the holiday, how long he'll stay, what he plans to do."
"I can even help create opportunities for you to meet him alone, guaranteed exclusive intel, great value for money!"
Hearing this, the two fell silent. Just as Lang Hua thought they were still normal people and were about to reject this utterly ridiculous proposal, Ye You suddenly nodded and said:
"Deal."
These two words hit Lang Hua like a sledgehammer to the back of his head, the impact nearly making him stumble.
No way.
Are you two crazy?
You agree to such absurd terms?
What?
Is Lin Yu some kind of Tang Monk?
Will dating him grant you immortality?
Or elevate you to the ranks of celestial beings?
Lang Hua was almost at his breaking point.
"Alright then. I'll go back and organize the information, contact you later."
"Let's exchange contact info."
Lin Yu hadn't instructed what to do next. The nearly broken waves planned to just get their contact info and leave quickly.
After swapping contact info with Ye You, Lang Hua returned to the dorm with mixed feelings. Seeing Lin Yu completely absorbed in his computer game, Lang Hua pulled over a chair and sat beside him, staring intently at his profile, trying to find the reason why he was so popular with girls.
Coach!
I want to learn this.
Lin Yu felt a chill down his spine from his stare. After a few misclicks in the game, he glared at him irritably and said:
"What are you looking at?"
"Spit it out if you have something to say!"
Failing to see anything special about Lin Yu, Lang Hua helplessly put away his thoughts and said:
"The conditions you mentioned, they both agreed."
"What do we do next?"
Hearing this, Lin Yu raised an eyebrow, even stopped playing the game, turned to look at Lang Hua and asked seriously:
"They both agreed?"
"One hobby for 500, one travel info for 5000?"
"They agreed to such outrageous terms?"
Lang Hua nodded. For some reason, he looked weary, as if he had suffered a great blow.
Lin Yu ignored his state, raised his hand and stroked his chin. Since those two could agree to such terms, it meant he held considerable importance in their minds.
Important enough for them to spend that much money.
But here comes the question again.
I'm not worth that much money myself!
If I had to say what valuable thing I possess, it's probably my connections with Qing Mo and Zhao She.
These strange approaches couldn't possibly be related to Zhao She, leaving only this one possibility.
Thinking it over, afraid of misunderstanding her, Lin Yu decided to do one final test.
He took Lang Hua's phone, found Ye You in the contact list, and sent a message.
A Spray of Waves: Are you there?
It's Youzi~: Yes.
A Spray of Waves: So, I've been thinking. Selling out my brother really isn't a good thing. Even though Lin Yu and I have only known each other for a few months, our relationship is already as close as brothers, like family.
A Spray of Waves: So if you want to continue the previous deal, the price has to double.
It's Youzi~: ???
It's Youzi~: Do you have any integrity at all?
It's Youzi~: Raising the price just like that?
A Spray of Waves: Just say if you're willing or not.
A Spray of Waves: And right now, I have a very good opportunity, guaranteed to give you and Lin Yu a date all to yourselves.
A Spray of Waves: Price: 50,000. Opportunity knocks but once. If interested, please place your order immediately.
It's Yuzuya~: ...
Silence fell on the other end. This request was undeniably excessive; fifty thousand yuan was not a sum most people in this world could casually toss out without a second thought.
Lin Yu hadn't expected a particularly swift reply either and was about to hand the phone back to Lang Hua, planning to be notified when there was news.
Just as Lin Yu, having dimmed the phone's screen, raised his hand to pass it to Lang Hua—and just before Lang Hua's outstretched fingers could touch it—a faint vibration sounded.
The darkened screen lit up on its own, and a transfer notification prominently appeared on the still-locked display.
From: It's Yuzuya~
Transfer Amount: 50,000.
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.”
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.
world slacker. But a genius female disciple just had to get clingy, insisting that he take her as a disciple. Not only that, she was always making advances on him, thoroughly disrupting his peaceful slacker life...
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!
