Day by day, Lin Yu's injuries were healing at an extremely optimistic rate.
After just a few days back at school, Lin Yu stopped taking painkillers.
More than half a month later, apart from some faint purple bruises left by the heavier whip marks on his body, the rest of Lin Yu's injuries had almost completely recovered.
He could walk and jump.
During a water conservation class, Lin Yu and his two buddies sat together in the back row, huddled over playing the currently popular mobile auto-battler game.
TFT! (Teamfight Tactics)
Buried in his game, Lin Yu's expression was somewhat gloomy.
He glanced at Lv Pengju's phone screen beside him and immediately felt a surge of anger.
That bastard!
Hoarding eight of my five-cost cards, what a piece of work!
Lv Pengju had no room for error left in his health pool. He was practically mashing the reroll button hard enough to create sparks, but he still couldn't find that last Jinx.
Just as he was getting frustrated, he caught a glimpse out of the corner of his eye and saw that one Jinx on Lin Yu's bench. He almost yelled out right there in class.
"Sell it!"
Lin Yu gave him a sidelong glance and said nothing.
A furious vein throbbed on Lv Pengju's forehead. He took two deep breaths, glaring viciously at Lin Yu.
Suddenly, his expression turned ingratiating, his face breaking into a wrinkled smile as he said pleadingly,
"Dad, sell the Jinx, please."
"Good son, I'll sell it for you right away."
Lin Yu beamed with a bright smile, swiped his finger, and sold the Jinx.
Lv Pengju went back to frantically rerolling, muttering about how once he finally found his Jinx, he'd teach these three unfilial sons a lesson and other such treasonous talk.
Lin Yu also started rerolling, wanting to find another Jinx before Lv Pengju did.
This time, he wouldn't buy it; he'd just let it sit in the shop, making Lv Pengju think until the very end that it was just his own bad luck!
After a few rerolls, a message notification suddenly popped up at the top of his phone screen.
Lin Yu glanced at it, his eyebrows raising in surprise.
Sugar Cube?
Hadn't he set her messages to mute?
Why was her message still popping up?
Looking closer, Lin Yu understood why.
Because it wasn't a message; it was a transfer record.
The amount transferred was a full fifty thousand.
After a moment's thought, Lin Yu lightly tapped the notification on his screen, and Sugar Cube's chat interface quickly popped up.
Looking at that fifty-thousand-yuan transfer record, Lin Yu knew this was Tang Manman trying to repay him for the surgery and hospitalization fees he had advanced for her sister.
Lin Yu felt conflicted, unsure whether he should accept the money.
If he didn't accept it, letting it drag on wasn't good either. But if he did accept it...
...
Would she think he was really eager for her to repay this money?
Would that put too much pressure on her?
He heard from Gu Yue that she often tutors high school girls to save money. Wouldn't that be too hard on her?
Back in high school, because of her family situation, she had always lived very plainly, never spending money on herself.
Now in university, she should learn to use money to treat herself well.
How many years of youth does a person really have?
After wrestling with it for a little while, Lin Yu sent back a question mark, wanting to first see what Tang Manman was thinking before deciding whether to accept the money.
Dragon Proud Sky: ?
Sugar Cube: This is the money I've saved up over this period, thinking of repaying you some first.
Sugar Cube: I originally wanted to ask you out in H City and give you this money in person.
Sugar Cube: But you never responded to me, so I could only transfer the money to you like this.
Lin Yu bit his upper lip, his brow furrowing tightly.
Sure enough, this money was earned and saved by Tang Manman bit by bit.
To have saved up this much money in just half a year, even with her prestigious university background allowing her to charge higher rates for tutoring high school students, being able to scrape together such a large sum must mean she's been incredibly strict with herself, right?
After thinking for a moment, Lin Yu lightly tapped the keyboard, typing out a line and sending it.
Dragon Proud Sky: I'm not in a hurry.
Dragon Proud Sky: You keep the money for now. You can repay me later, after you graduate and start working, when you can earn good money.
Dragon Proud Sky: ...
His message sent up to this point, Lin Yu's fingers hovered over the on-screen keyboard. He pursed his lips, conflicted.
After a brief pause, the light in his eyes dimmed, as if he had made some kind of decision, and he continued tapping lightly on the screen.
Dragon Proud Sky: Be good to yourself usually.
Dragon Proud Sky: If you make close friends, you can go out and have fun with them.
Dragon Proud Sky: You're in university now. Don't neglect your studies, but you should have some fun too.
Sugar Cube: Mhm, mhm.
Sugar Cube: I understand.
Sugar Cube: (smiling emoji)
Sugar Cube: When did your school start the semester?
Sugar Cube: Where did you go during the New Year holiday?
Sugar Cube: Do you have a lot of classes?
Sugar Cube: You...
Sugar Cube: ...
Tang Manman's messages came one after another. At this point, Lin Yu couldn't pretend to be invisible and offline anymore.
Besides, Lin Yu also wanted to know a bit about Tang Manman's daily life, to see if this natural-born bullying magnet had been bullied over the past six months...
...
...
Dragon Proud Sky: Alright, I have to get back to class.
Dragon Proud Sky: Let's chat another time when we're free.
Tang Manman: (sad emoji)
Tang Manman gently pressed her phone against her chest, her eyes sparkling with excitement and happiness.
Sure enough, using this as a reason, Lin Yu would pay attention to her...
...
But soon, before her happiness could last long, the joy on Tang Manman's face began to crumble rapidly.
She pursed her lips, blinking hard a couple of times. The happiness and excitement in her eyes flickered and quickly turned into bitterness and grievance.
She tightened the corners of her mouth, trying hard not to cry, but hot tears still spilled uncontrollably from her reddening eyes, tracing wet lines down her cold cheeks.
Lin Yu really could see her messages after all.
He... he just didn't want to talk to her, didn't he...
...
Tang Manman sniffled. She raised her hand to wipe the tears from her face, not wanting anyone to see them.
In a corner of the cafeteria, a few handsome young men were eating together, chatting and laughing.
One of them, with a gentle and handsome appearance, wasn't focused on his friends or the conversation at the table.
He was looking at the table a couple over, watching that pure and beautiful young girl lower her head and cry, his brows furrowing with concern.
A friend beside him noticed his distraction, looked at him, then followed his gaze to the girl in the distance who was wiping her tears.
He immediately understood what was going on and nudged him with an elbow, teasing with a smile,
"Hey!"
"Your eyes are about to fall out!"
The nudged man started slightly. He turned back and shot his friend a slightly annoyed look as a warning, then turned his gaze back to the girl.
Seeing this, his friend rolled his eyes and remarked,
"What good does looking do?"
"They say she already has a boyfriend. She doesn't pay attention to anyone."
Shaking his head, his friend added with a tone mixed with envy and jealousy,
"Who knows what kind of insane luck that guy must have had in his past lives to find such a loyal and beautiful girlfriend!"
The man furrowed his brow. Ignoring his friend's teasing, he stood up and walked toward the girl.
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.”
] This is a dark fantasy-themed dating simulation game. The main gameplay involves containing various monster girls and investigating the truth of a world shrouded in mist alongside your companions. However, due to his love for the dark and bizarre atmosphere, Luo Wei ended up turning a dating game into a detective mystery game. Women? Women only slow down his quickdraw! To Luo Wei, the female leads in the game are more like tools to perfectly clear levels and squeeze out rewards. For Luo Wei, flirting with every girl he meets and then discarding them is standard procedure. Worried about characters losing affection points? No need. With his maxed-out charm stat, Luo Wei is practically a "human incubus." A little psychological manipulation and those points come right back. It's a bit scummy, but the paper cutout heroines in the game won't actually come at him with real cleavers. However... Luo Wei has transmigrated. He's accidentally entered the second playthrough of this game. His past actions have caused all the girls to transform into terrifying yanderes. Due to the game's setting, most of the heroines he once contained are "troubled girls." Obsessive, twisted, mentally unstable, all aggressive yanderes... The type who will kill you if they can't have you... Luo Wei wants to cry but has no tears left. "I really just want to survive..." In short, this is a story of battling wits and engaging in a love-hate relationship with yanderes.
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...
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.
