"This won't do."
"You've already helped me so much—how can I take something from you too?"
Xia Muzhu repeatedly refused, yet she made no move to return the stun gun to her bag. After tonight’s incident, she felt she truly needed this self-defense weapon.
"No need to pay. This product is still in its promotional phase anyway. How about this—you can be one of our trial users. Let’s add each other on WeChat, and you can give me feedback on how it works. Consider that your payment for the stun gun."
As he spoke, Lin Yu pulled out his phone and switched to the QR code interface for adding friends.
"Oh, sure."
Xia Muzhu nodded and promptly took out her phone to add Lin Yu. After putting her phone away, she recalled his attire the first time they met and asked curiously,
"Promotions?"
"Last time at the bar, you were wearing a school uniform. How did you end up doing sales now?"
Lin Yu pocketed his phone and gave a bitter smile.
"No choice. My parents passed away early. I have to find ways to support myself while studying."
"Ah?"
Xia Muzhu let out a soft gasp of surprise, then quickly covered her mouth, her expression apologetic.
"I’m sorry."
"It’s fine."
Lin Yu smiled carefreely.
"Supporting myself with my own hands feels pretty good, actually."
Hearing this, Xia Muzhu regarded him with newfound respect, though her heart ached even more.
How tragic—still in school yet already bearing the full weight of life alone. She couldn’t imagine how hard his daily struggles must be.
"Where do you live? Do you need me to walk you home?"
Lin Yu offered kindly.
Xia Muzhu pressed her lips together. She didn’t want to trouble this unfortunate boy further, but the empty streets and the thought of the white-haired man possibly still lurking nearby stripped her of the courage to venture into the darkness alone.
After a moment’s hesitation, she nodded and gave Lin Yu an apologetic smile.
"Then I’ll trouble you."
"No trouble at all."
Lin Yu waved his hand, his smile warm and bright...
...
"Hey, how old are you?"
"Twenty-four. And you?"
"I’m eighteen. By this time next year, I should be in university."
"Is that so? How are your grades now?"
"Not great yet, but I’ll work hard. I believe I can get into a decent university—maybe even a first or second-tier one."
"That’s wonderful. Once you get into university and find a job, everything will start looking up."
"Yeah, that’s what I think too!"
Lin Yu nodded in agreement.
"By the way, about the stun gun—it’s best not to brandish it openly like I did. You’re a girl, and often, even if you have a weapon, it’s hard to intimidate a man. It’s better used as a hidden weapon. Wait until they’re close, then zap them!"
"Of course, that’s an exaggeration. This stun gun packs a punch, but it won’t cause real harm. At worst, it’ll leave them numb and unable to move."
After explaining, Lin Yu concluded firmly,
"Don’t worry—just use it. Nothing bad will happen."
Xia Muzhu nodded solemnly, then looked at Lin Yu and smiled.
"You’re so thoughtful. Whoever becomes your girlfriend will be very lucky."
"Uh..."
Lin Yu scratched the part of his face not covered by his blond hair, looking slightly embarrassed.
"That’s still far off. I plan to start dating at sixty. By then, we’ll all be old—just two seniors living together, skipping the messy parts of romance and marriage, straight to a happy life. Sounds perfect, right?"
"Pfft."
Xia Muzhu burst into laughter at his absurd words, covering her mouth as she giggled. After a while, she lowered her hand, her sea-blue eyes sparkling with amusement.
"You’re hilarious."
...
Under the moonlight, the two walked and chatted until they reached Xia Muzhu’s neighborhood.
Standing at the entrance, Lin Yu frowned at the wide-open gate.
"Hey, why is your neighborhood’s gate left open like this? Aren’t you worried about intruders?"
At this question, Xia Muzhu’s smile faded. She sighed, her tone resigned.
"The original property management ran off with everyone’s money at the start of the year."
"After that, a resident connected us with a new management company—but it turned out the resident was a scammer. The 'new management' was just a few people in security uniforms pretending for a few days."
"Once they collected all the fees, they vanished too."
"After being cheated twice, some residents refused to pay any more fees. The neighborhood’s been without management ever since."
"What scumbags."
Lin Yu couldn’t help but curse, then asked worriedly,
"With no management, aren’t you afraid something might happen?"
"Of course we are. Families with kids have been trying to convince the holdouts to pay, but they’re too traumatized. It’s been dragging on like this—no one knows when it’ll end."
Xia Muzhu shrugged.
After walking Xia Muzhu to her building and memorizing the location, Lin Yu turned to leave—only for her to call out to him.
"What’s up?"
Lin Yu looked back curiously.
"Wait here. I’ll be right down."
Xia Muzhu hurried upstairs without another word.
Seizing the moment, Lin Yu quickly scanned the surroundings, noting the layout and nearby buildings to avoid confusion in an emergency.
While observing, he realized the building’s access door was broken.
This unsettled him deeply.
An unguarded neighborhood was bad enough, but a broken door too? That was downright dangerous.
No way.
Lin Yu rubbed his chin.
He’d have to find someone to fix that door soon.
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...
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
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.
