Washed by the passage of time, many things and people change beyond recognition.
It makes one sigh at the ruthlessness and mercilessness of time.
But somewhere, in some places, there are always things that retain their original appearance, making people feel a deep sense of familiarity at first sight.
Take, for example, the boss and his wife of this booming instant-boiled mutton restaurant.
This middle-aged couple was exceptionally kind, showing a warm, friend-like smile to all the customers who visited their shop.
At this moment, facing the woman who often came to the hot pot restaurant for a good meal, the couple showed their usual warmth.
"Xiao Xia is here?"
"Please come in."
"Where is your boyfriend?"
"Hasn't he gotten his holidays yet?"
The landlady's enthusiastic questions left Xia Muzhu a bit unsure of how to answer.
After all, she was currently holding the arm of her boyfriend's girlfriend.
She was so embarrassed that her hands and feet uncontrollably tensed up.
"Isn't he right here?"
Behind the two women, Lin Yu entered the shop with a grinning face.
Seeing Lin Yu, the boss immediately stepped forward and warmly patted his shoulder. After briefly looking him up and down, he grinned and said:
"You've gotten more handsome!"
"Of course."
Lin Yu, thick-skinned as ever, accepted the boss's praise without any modesty.
After their polite exchanges, the boss lowered his voice, looked at the two women in front who were acting intimately, and asked Lin Yu:
"Is this your girlfriend's best friend?"
Lin Yu thought for a moment and corrected him:
"They are sisters."
As soon as these words came out, the two women in front could hardly stand still. Xia Muzhu even turned her head and glared at Lin Yu, half-angry and half-blaming.
However, thinking that this seemed to actually be the case, the two could only suppress the slight resentment and shyness in their hearts.
The boss was a bit puzzled. He looked at the two of them and said curiously:
"Sisters?"
"They don't look alike."
"The kind of sisters without blood relation."
Lin Yu waved his hand and said.
Seeing this guy Lin Yu carelessly revealing the truth bit by bit, the two women became increasingly restless.
Especially Tang Manman. Whenever she thought about how there were waiters in this shop who knew her mother, she directly interrupted their conversation and said:
"I, I'm a bit hungry."
"Let's go eat quickly."
The boss was stunned upon hearing this and immediately realized his lack of hospitality.
He swallowed those questions back into his stomach and hurriedly ushered the three of them to their seats.
Following the boss's guidance, the three sat down at a spacious six-person table.
Lin Yu, adhering to the spirit of being completely shameless, originally wanted to sit between the two of them. But he was pushed out by both of them together.
Seeing the two of them sharing a somewhat united front of indignant shyness, Lin Yu was extremely satisfied in his heart.
This was exactly the effect he wanted.
With him as a common enemy, the relationship between the two would subtly grow closer.
And since both of them had gentle and kind personalities, their subsequent interactions should become even more harmonious.
Just as Lin Yu expected.
After the two united to drive away this bad guy, the awkward atmosphere between them noticeably lessened, and the hostility was almost invisible.
However, due to shyness and saving face, the communication between the two was still very limited.
Lin Yu was not in a hurry. After all, one cannot get fat from one bite; he had to take it slowly.
Once the two had established a basic friendship, he could start the next step...
...
There were a lot of people in the instant-boiled mutton shop.
It was exactly mealtime, and the seats in the restaurant were almost completely filled.
However, even under these circumstances, the dishes ordered by Lin Yu's table were all served within just a few minutes.
This was all thanks to the boss's special care.
After Lin Yu, Tang Manman, and Xia Muzhu each mixed their own sesame sauce, they returned to their seats.
The two picked up their chopsticks and started eating. Lin Yu picked up his chopsticks and started to discipline... (delete the entire line)
Lin Yu picked up his chopsticks and likewise started eating.
For instant-boiled mutton, the main ingredient is, of course, mutton, but this shop's menu was quite comprehensive.
Beef, beef tripe, omasum, and other hot pot items were all available.
Lin Yu first picked up a large chopstick-full of lamb and put it into the pot, then picked up a few thin slices of beef tripe.
Strictly following the "seven up, eight down" boiling sequence, after cooking the tripe, Lin Yu placed it onto the plate in front of Xia Muzhu and said softly:
"Here, have some tripe."
"I remember this is your favorite."
After serving the tripe to Xia Muzhu, without waiting for Tang Manman to feel dissatisfied, Lin Yu immediately turned to her and said softly:
"Don't rush."
"The lamb you like is cut quite thick here, so it needs to boil for a few more seconds."
Yes.
This was Lin Yu's strategy.
A person cannot serve food to two people at the same time, unless he can use chopsticks with both his left and right hands.
Therefore, Lin Yu planned to use a time difference.
It just so happened that Xia Muzhu's favorite tripe cooked very quickly, while Tang Manman's favorite lamb cooked relatively slowly.
This gave Lin Yu plenty of time to operate.
He could first put the lamb into the pot, then unhurriedly cook the tripe that Xia Muzhu liked, and then attend to Tang Manman's preferences.
While he was speaking, the lamb that Tang Manman liked was also cooked in the boiling hot water.
Lin Yu immediately used his chopsticks to fish out several slices of lamb from the copper pot, put them onto the plate in front of Tang Manman, and said softly:
"It's cooked, eat it quickly while it's hot."
Just like that, an extremely tricky problem of who to serve first was perfectly solved by Lin Yu.
Xia Muzhu was very satisfied because Lin Yu cooked the tripe for her first.
Tang Manman was equally free of any dissatisfaction; Lin Yu remembered her preferences and even put the lamb into the copper pot first.
It was just that the lamb cooked slower, which was why he took the time to take care of that woman.
Mmm!
Lin Yu indeed didn't lie, his favorite is me! (They said in unison in their hearts)
During the rest of the meal, Lin Yu similarly used the time difference to serve different foods to Tang Manman and Xia Muzhu.
He took great care of both of them.
A meal was thus spent in a joyous and harmonious time...
...
"Delicious."
"Really delicious."
Xu San ate the mutton in large mouthfuls. The unique aroma of the mutton paired with his exclusively mixed salty and savory sesame sauce tasted absolutely wonderful!
As he ate, his gaze was suddenly attracted by the figure of a beautiful woman.
Wow.
What a beautiful woman!
Xu San looked at the beauty with stunning looks and a fantastic figure, so amazed for a moment that he forgot to chew the mutton in his mouth.
After a brief moment of stunned distraction, Xu San realized his loss of composure.
He hurriedly lowered his head, but unconsciously, his eyes couldn't help but secretly peek at that beauty with the amazing figure.
There was no helping it.
It was simply male nature.
Watching the beauty walk down the aisle all the way into the restroom until she was out of sight, Xu San withdrew his gaze and focused his attention back on the food in front of him.
However, the beauty's gentle, stunning face and incredible figure still lingered in his mind.
So, while scarfing down his food, he would look up from time to time, hoping to catch another glimpse of her.
It was just like seeing a beautiful upperclassman with long legs and a short skirt taking a stroll around the track field on campus.
No matter what you were doing, even if you were in the middle of a video game, you couldn't help but look up, sneaking a peek whenever you had a spare second.
Finally.
After his tireless fourth attempt at looking up.
Xu San saw that gorgeous woman with the amazing body again, except...
...
What the hell!
Why was she locked in a tight embrace with a guy, aggressively making out with him?
No, seriously!
Xu San was truly speechless.
Do you couples really have to be in such a rush to show off your PDA?
Couldn't you wait until you got back to your seats to do that?
Making out right at the bathroom entrance?
Are you guys really that thirsty!!!
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.
g Yu was preparing for retirement when her organization decided to eliminate her. She transmigrated to a zombie apocalypse world. However, a tiny unexpected situation occurred: She somehow transformed into an adorable little girl?!
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?!
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!
