Lin Yu narrowed his eyes slightly. The light reflected off the snowy ground was a bit dazzling. Just as he was about to draw the curtains and lie down on the bed for a rest, his phone suddenly rang in his pocket.
Lin Yu took out his phone. When he saw the caller ID, a flicker of surprise passed through his eyes.
SugarZhongzhong.
Why was she calling him?
SugarZhongzhong was Tang Qinqin's online ID. He had added her as a friend last winter.
After adding her, they had barely exchanged any messages.
For her to call suddenly...
Lin Yu had a faint suspicion. Could it be because of Tang Manman?
Recalling the near-miss encounter with her at the hospital entrance, Lin Yu felt a headache coming on. He didn't know if she had seen him then.
But even if she had, it wasn't a big problem. He could use the timing discrepancy, saying he went south only after leaving the hospital. That would still hold up.
Thinking this, Lin Yu relaxed and calmly answered the call.
Before he could even speak, Tang Qinqin's urgent, tearful voice came through the phone.
She was sobbing, crying so hard she could barely catch her breath.
"Brother Lin Yu, come quickly! My, my sister... something's happened to her!"
"What?!"
Lin Yu's eyes widened in shock, and he nearly stood up from his wheelchair in his agitation...
...
Ten minutes earlier.
Tang Qinqin wandered idly into the kitchen, looked around for a bit, and after annoying her mom for a while, she secretly grabbed a handful of candies saved for the New Year, stuffed them into her pocket, and tiptoed out.
Leaving the house, Tang Qinqin sat down on a small stool outside the courtyard wall.
She took out the candies she had just pilfered from her pocket, made a quick selection, picked up a piece of corn-flavored soft candy, and put the rest back in her pocket.
Tearing open the wrapper, Tang Qinqin happily ate the candy.
When she went shopping with her sister this afternoon, she definitely had to buy more of this corn soft candy. It was super delicious!
Wait a minute...
Tang Qinqin suddenly sensed something was off.
Although her sister had said she'd be back later to take her shopping...
She had gone to find Lin Yu. Would she really come back this afternoon to drag her little sister, the third wheel, along for shopping?
Chewing the sweet, soft candy in her mouth, Tang Qinqin thought it was unlikely. Probably, the shopping trip would be postponed.
Just as she was thinking her sister probably wouldn't return, a pair of legs walked past her.
She glanced over and noticed the person's beige pants and shoes looked familiar. It seemed like the outfit her sister was wearing when she came back, the same set of clothes Lin Yu had given her.
Her sister had just returned home at noon today, absentmindedly ate a meal, and then ran off to find Lin Yu in the afternoon without even changing her clothes.
Mom had sighed at the time, feeling her precious daughter was probably going to be completely taken by that guy with dyed hair.
Thinking of this, Tang Qinqin felt a bit puzzled.
Logically, since her sister went to find Lin Yu, the two of them should be sweetly sticking together right now, maybe even doing some not-for-children things. There was no reason for her to come back so soon, right?
Could it be that the person in front of her just happened to be wearing the same outfit as her sister?
Curious, Tang Qinqin looked up and quickly saw her utterly dejected sister.
How dejected was she?
Judging by her dazed, wooden expression, she probably hadn't even noticed her sitting here!
"Sis!"
Tang Qinqin called out.
Tang Manman was visibly startled, only now noticing her sister sitting outside the gate.
"Why are you back?"
Tang Qinqin asked curiously. As she spoke, she turned to look at the empty intersection to the left and asked again:
"Where's Lin Yu?"
"He didn't come back."
Tang Manman said in a despondent tone.
"Didn't come back?"
Tang Qinqin's voice rose noticeably.
"No way, I just saw him not too long ago."
As she said this, Tang Qinqin recalled the person's features, then nodded firmly.
"Yeah, it should have been him."
"You saw him?"
"When did you see her?"
"Where did you see him?"
Hearing this, Tang Manman's eyes widened. She quickly crouched down facing Tang Qinqin and fired off a string of questions in disbelief, her urgent manner startling Tang Qinqin.
"At the hospital."
"A week ago, when Mom took me for a follow-up checkup at the hospital, I saw him get into a car with my own eyes."
Tang Qinqin described the situation truthfully.
"How could that be..."
The light seemed to drain from Tang Manman's beautiful eyes as she murmured:
"He clearly told me he's in the south now, that he hasn't come back."
Hearing her sister say this, Tang Qinqin also became unsure. She furrowed her delicate brows and thought of a possibility:
"Then maybe he went south after leaving the hospital?"
Tang Qinqin's words made Tang Manman pause. She thought for a moment, her exquisite features drooping, and shook her head like a dejected puppy:
"I don't know."
"I see..."
"Then I'll test him and find out!"
Tang Qinqin's clever little head instantly came up with a plan.
She took out her phone, found Lin Yu's chat window, and before initiating the voice call, she deliberately coughed twice to clear her throat and sniffled. Once prepared, she tapped the voice call button.
The call was quickly answered. The moment the screen lit up showing the call duration, Tang Qinqin instantly burst into tears. Her voice choked with sobs, her tone frantic, she cried out as if the sky had fallen:
"Brother Lin Yu, come quickly! My, my sister... something's happened to her!"
"What!"
Lin Yu's anxious voice came from the other end of the phone.
"What's wrong with your sister?"
"Where is she now?"
"What happened?"
Tang Qinqin cried and sniffled pitifully, but not a single tear fell, leaving Tang Manman beside her utterly dumbfounded.
"My sister was harassed. We're on Jiangbei's pedestrian street right now. Can you come help my sister?"
"I..."
"I, I'm not in H City right now!"
"What happened to your sister?"
"Wait a moment, I'll send someone to help you right away!"
Lin Yu's urgent tone came through the phone's speaker, clear as day to both of them.
Confirming that Lin Yu really wasn't in H City, Tang Qinqin, like April weather, changed her expression in an instant. She immediately dropped the pitiful, tearful act, her voice becoming calm and indifferent as she said:
"Is that so."
"Forget it then. Since you're not here, we'll handle it ourselves."
This sudden shift in Tang Qinqin's tone caught Lin Yu off guard. His voice was still urgent, but now tinged with confusion.
"What do you mean handle it yourselves?"
"What exactly happened to your sister?"
"Nothing."
Tang Qinqin said flatly:
"Just now some brat slapped my sister's butt. I'll go give him a couple of slaps later and that'll be that."
With that, and without waiting for Lin Yu to respond, Tang Qinqin quickly hung up the phone. She then turned to Tang Manman and said:
"It seems he really isn't in H City. He probably went south after leaving the hospital."
After listening to her sister's entire conversation with Lin Yu and confirming she hadn't been deceived, Tang Manman first breathed a sigh of relief. Then, she shot a somewhat reproachful look at her sister, as if blaming her for handling the matter in a rather underhanded way.
Nevertheless, she felt very happy.
She had heard the concern in Lin Yu's words, sensed his anxiety over worrying about her safety.
To her, this was undoubtedly music to her ears; she was delighted.
"Let's go, we're going shopping."
She stood up, her smile bright and sunny.
Tang Qinqin didn't understand why her sister had suddenly become so cheerful, but going out shopping was a wonderful prospect.
Let's go!
Time to buy some delicious treats!
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?!
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
end. Thus one must continue to cultivate, and become a saint or great emperor, in order to prolong one's life. Chen Xia, however, completely reversed this. Since his transmigration, he has gained immortality, and also a system that awards him with attribute points for every year he lives. Thus between the myriad worlds, the legend of an unparalleled senior appeared. "A gentleman takes revenge; it is never too late even after ten thousand years." "When you were at your peak I yielded, now in your old age I shall trample on you." - Chen Xia
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!
