The street photographer, holding his 'big lens', took a series of photos. Gu Yue carefully selected the best-looking ones and happily paid to get the prints.
The photo session was finally over. The two turned and headed towards H City's most famous snack street.
It was called a snack street, but it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it a snack city. The alleys inside were intricate and dauntingly large. However, the repetition rate of snacks was quite high. Many extremely famous local specialties were repeated every few steps, which was genuinely a bit hard to take.
After wandering around for a good while, the repetitive food options made both Lin Yu and Gu Yue lose interest.
They exited from the nearest small alley opening, came to the roadside, hailed a taxi, and planned to leave.
Sitting in the taxi, Lin Yu leaned back against the comfortable seat, thinking that they had eaten, played, and taken photos tonight. Surely Gu Yue would be willing to go back to the hotel and sleep obediently now?
Just as he was thinking this, Gu Yue, sitting in the back seat, suddenly scooted forward. She leaned half her head out near Lin Yu's ear in the passenger seat, her eyes sparkling with excitement as she suggested:
"Let's go to a bar!"
???
Lin Yu's head was full of question marks. He asked, puzzled:
"What for?"
"You can find those anywhere!"
"..."
After a moment of silence, Lin Yu looked at Gu Yue, his tone carrying a hint of warning as he said seriously:
"Don't tell me you've never been to a bar!"
Given how Gu Yue used to be, Lin Yu would believe it if someone said she was a permanent resident of bars!
"Aiya~"
"I just want to see what's different about bars in different places~"
Gu Yue pouted, grabbed Lin Yu's shoulders with both hands, and shook him persistently, whining and cooing as she acted spoiled:
"Come with me to check it out~"
"Come with me~"
"Let's go, let's go~"
Lin Yu was getting a headache from her pestering, but he was indeed feeling a bit tired, so he proposed:
"How about tomorrow night?"
"I'm really a bit tired today."
"No!"
Gu Yue refused without a second thought. Then, she suddenly changed her expression. Her moist eyes narrowed, her brows furrowed with disdain, and her gaze swept over Lin Yu from head to toe as she asked with a look of contempt:
"Brother Long, how come you get tired so easily?"
"Are you... weak??"
??????????
The question marks on Lin Yu's head multiplied as if they could reproduce on their own, almost overflowing in no time.
Lin Yu turned his body to face forward, leaning against the backrest, and stopped looking at Gu Yue. He pointed forward and said coldly:
"Let's go."
"We're spending the whole night at the bar. Whoever says they're tired is a grandson!"
"Yay ヽ(✿ﾟ▽ﾟ)ノ"
Gu Yue raised both hands in cheer, not forgetting to tell the driver:
"Driver, destination: the biggest, most famous bar around here. Let's go!"
"Alright!"
The driver, who had been enjoying the show from the sidelines, responded with a wide smile. He hadn't encountered such interesting passengers in a long time.
Look at this young couple, one lively and fun, the other able to take a joke—they're just a perfect match!
The taxi started and merged into the river of lights.
Lin Yu sat in the passenger seat, arms crossed over his chest, face cold. Although he vaguely felt like he had fallen for some trick...
Lin Yu didn't care!
This concerned a man's dignity. Even if it were a mountain of swords or a sea of flames ahead, Lin Yu would wade through without changing his expression!
...
The car slowly stopped. Lin Yu and Gu Yue paid and got out.
Right in front of them was S City's largest bar. As the winter break for most students hadn't ended yet, the bar was very lively, with a queue already formed at the entrance.
Lin Yu and Gu Yue obediently lined up. When it was Lin Yu's turn, the security guard at the door just glanced at him, then lifted his chin, signaling for Lin Yu to go right in.
Lin Yu walked in. When Gu Yue behind him tried to enter the bar, she was stopped by the security guard at the door.
Curious, Lin Yu stopped to watch her, wondering why she was being stopped.
Gu Yue's behavior at this moment was a bit odd. Her hands hung naturally at her sides, two plain, clean little hands nervously fidgeting together in front of her. She kept her head slightly lowered, and the lively, cheerful aura on her face was gone, replaced by a quiet demeanor tinged with a hint of nervousness.
She looked like a model student who had never had any contact with the real world.
To put it plainly, she was putting on an act.
The kind of act where you pretend to be innocent.
The next second, the security guard reached out his hand in front of her and said:
"Let me see your ID."
Lin Yu saw very clearly that after the security guard said this, the corners of Gu Yue's mouth suddenly tightened, twitched upward, then were pressed down again.
Trying to hold back a laugh, she took her ID card out of her bag and handed it to the guard. The guard looked at it, handed it back, and let Gu Yue in.
The moment she entered the bar, Gu Yue instantly reverted to her true self, both happy and smug.
Lin Yu gave her a speechless look. What's there to be so pleased about?
He took two steps forward, gritting his teeth.
Damn.
If only he had pretended a bit earlier too!
If he had tried to act young...
...
Well... it's probably better that he didn't...
...
Lin Yu had thought Gu Yue was just giving in to curiosity, planning to take a look, walk around a bit, and then call it a night.
But he didn't expect her to actually get into the mood. She chose a booth, clearly not planning to leave anytime soon.
Lin Yu wanted to leave, but remembering his bold declaration in the car, he was too embarrassed to go.
If Gu Yue caught him and started calling him "Sister Long" from then on, the embarrassment would reach epic proportions.
Helpless, Lin Yu could only sit down with Gu Yue, gradually letting his eardrums adjust to the bar's deafeningly loud music.
The booths in the bar had a minimum spend requirement. Gu Yue wasn't completely foolish; she didn't order a bunch of cheap fake liquor. Instead, she ordered two bottles of severely overpriced but decent red wine, a few freshly mixed cocktails, and some snacks.
She knew more than Lin Yu had expected.
Lin Yu took out his phone to scan the QR code on the table for ordering drinks. He didn't want to drink alcohol and planned to order a sweet beverage.
After scanning, he saw: canned cola 20, glass of cola 50. Lin Yu immediately wanted to call the police.
Sorry, boss.
I'll never act tough again by asking people if they've seen gangsters when I'm fighting.
Who could be more gangster than you guys?
Putting down his phone, Lin Yu looked at Gu Yue sitting across the table, his gaze resentful.
You've got money now, huh, kid?
You just ordered all this stuff without a second thought. At this bar's prices, it probably cost several thousand!
The thought that his former little follower now had so much money, while he himself had all these connections but hardly any cash, and still had to rely on Sister Zhuzi back home... it made Lin Yu furious.
He could only channel his frustration into his appetite, devouring the grilled chicken wings on the table.
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
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.”
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
lanned to earn money steadily and take life at a slower pace. But he never expected... his father's remarriage, and the stepmother bringing along a dependent, would completely disrupt his life's plans...
