Tang Manman pointed at the bandage on Lin Yu's head and asked cautiously, "Does it hurt?"
"No," Lin Yu replied with his usual impatience.
"Then... is it from an old injury that hasn't healed yet?"
Remembering her mother's earlier speculation, Tang Manman felt a mix of guilt and anxiety.
"What's it to you?"
"Stay away from me!"
"If you keep sticking around, don’t blame me for what happens next!"
Lin Yu raised his hands to shoulder height, palms facing Tang Manman, his fingers curling and uncurling in a universally recognized vulgar gesture.
Tang Manman flinched at first, instinctively covering her chest with her hands. But then, recalling the humiliation she’d endured under the willow tree and in Lin Yu’s room, her expression hardened with resolve. Straightening her back like a gambler going all-in, she defiantly lifted her chin.
"Stop trying to scare me."
"You’re not that kind of person!"
Her sudden defiance caught Lin Yu off guard. His fierce expression faltered for a split second before turning even more aggressive, as if to mask some fragile emotion beneath.
"I am that kind of person!"
"If I didn’t have other things to deal with today—"
"You... you..."
"You’d be on tomorrow’s crime news!"
With a final glare, Lin Yu turned and stormed off, his hurried footsteps almost as if he were fleeing some monstrous beast.
Tang Manman watched his retreating figure, a sour ache of grievance swelling in her chest.
Why did he always treat her so harshly?
She had never done anything to provoke him.
Returning to the bus stop in a daze, Tang Manman stood silently by the sign, replaying every interaction to figure out what she might have done to deserve this.
Lost in thought, she didn’t notice Yu Kai beside her, his face darkening to an almost purple shade of fury.
"Manman, stay away from people like him. He’s clearly no good!"
After holding back for so long, he finally snapped, his voice thick with barely contained anger.
Tang Manman frowned and turned to him, her tone firm.
"Yu Kai, Lin Yu is a good person. You can’t judge someone just by their appearance."
"Don’t you remember?"
"He helped me before!"
Hearing her defend that troublemaker only fueled Yu Kai’s rage. In his anger, he began slinging baseless accusations.
"Helped you? Ha!"
"I wouldn’t be surprised if he staged the whole thing—hired people to bully you just so he could swoop in and play the hero."
"Otherwise, how could he show up twice exactly when you were in trouble?"
"Can’t you see how suspicious that is?"
Yu Kai put on a knowing look, speaking as if he’d uncovered some grand conspiracy.
Tang Manman was too stunned to even feel angry at first. The idea was absurd.
Lin Yu hiring people to bully her?
For what?
So he could beat them up and get them expelled?
Or just so he could snap at her occasionally and use her as an emotional punching bag?
There was no logic to it!
She glared at Yu Kai, baffled by how easily he could smear someone he didn’t even know.
Taking a deep breath to steady herself, she was about to defend Lin Yu when something in Yu Kai’s words caught her attention.
"Twice?"
"What do you mean, twice?"
"Besides that morning in the hallway when I was bullied, when else did you know about?"
"Were you just hiding in the shadows again, watching like last time?"
Her eyes reddened as she confronted him, suddenly realizing how cowardly and unfamiliar this person beside her had become.
Not only had he done nothing while his friend was bullied, but now he was slandering the one who’d actually stepped in to help.
When had he turned into someone so despicable?
d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
] 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.
Heart] Chen Yi traversed the cultivation world for eight hundred years, charging his way to the Tribulation Transcendence stage. Just as he was outwitting his 81st Heavenly Tribulation to ascend to immortality, he was suddenly pulled into a chat group called the "Multiverse Transmigrators Support Group." To his surprise, the group was filled with nothing but fresh-faced newbies who had just transmigrated. [Help! I transmigrated into a disgraced concubine in the cold palace, and the tyrant emperor is about to execute me!] [I ended up as a cannon-fodder villain, and the protagonist is still chasing me—WTF!] [I woke up as the protagonist’s father, but I’m about to be sacrificed in a ritual! What do I do? Urgent!!!] Chen Yi stared at the chaotic flood of desperate pleas in the group and fell into deep thought. "Seriously? You drag me into a newbie transmigrator chat group… only after I’m one step away from becoming an immortal?"
