"What?"
"He's gone?"
"How could you lose sight of him?"
The head nurse's voice cracked with anger. That was someone a VIP had specifically requested special care for. If anything happened to him, no one could bear the responsibility, let alone the fact that his emotional state was highly unstable!
The young nurse, having been yelled at, didn't dare make a sound.
Who knew what had happened?
The man had clearly been acting perfectly normal, but in the blink of an eye, he suddenly disappeared...
...
Amidst the light snow, Lin Yu wandered aimlessly down the street.
He didn't know where he should go.
His mind right now was both a chaotic mess and a complete blank.
It was like a room piled high with garbage. When it gets messy to a certain extent, so messy that you have no idea where to start, so messy that you don't know how to organize it.
Your brain simply gives up on these unmanageable things and instead sinks into a chaotic void.
Lin Yu was exactly like this right now. He didn't know how to handle the crushing weight of the things in his mind.
He just felt the hospital was suffocating and wanted to come out for some fresh air.
Even though Lin Yu's mind was a mess and he didn't even know where he was going.
Subconsciously, however, a certain extreme thought had already quietly extended a hand, secretly pushing him along, pushing him toward that shortcut that could solve everything.
Pushing him toward his favorite place to relax.
Lin Yu had actually long sensed that extreme thought sneaking out its little hand, but he didn't care.
It didn't matter to him.
The hospital in H City wasn't far from the river. Lin Yu simply figured out a general direction and slowly walked over.
Arriving at the water's edge, the freezing wind was tinged with moisture, like needles hidden in the snow, making the cold piercing to the bone.
The biting wind brought a bit of clarity back to Lin Yu's brain.
The thoughts in his head were still numerous, chaotic, and jumbled, like countless tangled earphone cords.
Twisted and knotted together, so messy it could drive a person to a breakdown.
Simply put, Lin Yu just shoved them all aside.
Pure love?
It didn't matter.
Harem?
Whatever.
With things having reached this point, absolutely nothing mattered anymore.
Everything was meaningless.
Among the many problems, Lin Yu saw the most glaring one, which was also the most crucial one.
If.
If all of this was unavoidable.
If the events depicted in the erotic manga were all going to happen.
Then, did that mean that he and Mother Tang were also destined to...
...
This thought was like a terrifying poison, injected from his thoughts into his soul, and then transferred from his soul into his bloodstream.
In an instant, Lin Yu felt the blood in his body run cold, its flow turning sluggish, like water at zero degrees just before it freezes, viscous and freezing.
Oh God...
Oh God.
The ice-flecked blood stung his veins, making Lin Yu tremble uncontrollably.
If something like that happened, she would definitely go crazy, right?
She would definitely go crazy...
She had already become somewhat extreme because of him. If something like this happened again...
She... she wouldn't be able to bear it.
That sneaky little hand instantly found its leverage, pushing Lin Yu forcefully, making him walk toward that most convenient shortcut.
By the time Lin Yu snapped back to reality, he had already walked to the very bottom of the steps.
Beneath his feet, a layer of clear water lapped against the silver-gray stone steps.
The river in H City had always been turbulent. The successive heavy snows and freezing temperatures of the past few days had failed to make it submit to the extreme winter.
It still surged with undercurrents, roaring unwillingly within its banks.
The cold wind wrinkled the river's surface. Amidst the sparkling ripples, the river looked like a door leading to another world, a door to go home, and also like a good medicine.
A good medicine that could solve all your troubles.
Lin Yu stood on the steps. He looked at his own reflection in the water, almost standing on the river's surface, and stared blankly.
Suddenly, a gust of cold wind blew by.
The river's surface rippled even more violently.
In a daze, Lin Yu could no longer see himself on the river's surface.
Instead, Tang Manman's figure appeared on the river.
Like him just moments ago, she stood by the river with a pale face and vacant eyes, as if she had lost her soul.
She seemed to have suffered some unbearable, massive blow. Her slender figure swayed, looking as though a slightly stronger gust of wind could blow her into the river's embrace.
Ending her poignant and beautiful life.
A surge of anxiety suddenly welled up in Lin Yu's heart. He didn't want to see her do something stupid; he wanted to save her.
But in the blink of an eye, the poignant Tang Manman disappeared. On the river's surface, it was still his own figure, finely distorted by the ripples.
Right.
Lin Yu suddenly understood.
How could he save her?
Continuing to live would only be harming her.
That was it, wasn't it?
As long as he died, dying as cleanly as that homeless man taken care of by Zhao She in prison, none of this would happen, right?
That must be it...
Makka Pakka, Akka, Wakka, Mikka, Makka, Moo!
Makka Pakka, Appa, Yakka, Ikka, Akka, Oo!
Moo, Dam, Akka, Pong.
Ee-ya-yo~
The somewhat idiotic yet slightly cute music rang out, abruptly stopping Lin Yu's foot just as he was about to lift it.
After hesitating for a moment, he really couldn't stand this stupid ringtone anymore. The thought of this damn music becoming his funeral dirge made him mad with anger.
He took his phone out of his pocket. Just as he was about to hang up, he saw the caller ID, and he couldn't press his finger down.
After thinking about it, he chose to answer, pressing the phone to his ear.
"Lin Yu."
The girl's soft voice sounded by his ear, just like back in high school, soft and tinged with timidity.
"I think I'm pregnant."
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!
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.
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?!
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
