Lin Yu and Xia Muzhu hadn't been strolling in the cold winter night for very long.
They were soon taught a harsh lesson by General Winter.
Unable to bear the cold, the two quickly ducked into a taxi, letting four wheels replace their own legs for the rest of the journey.
The taxi pulled up smoothly in front of the music bar.
They paid and got out.
Upon entering the music bar, Xia Muzhu was immediately drawn to the atmosphere.
The music here was soft and soothing, and the warm yellow lighting was cozy.
A dozen or so tables were kept neat and tidy. The people sitting there were quietly drinking, listening to the music, or perhaps chatting in low voices with their friends.
In the very center of the music bar was a circular mixing counter.
Right in front of the mixing counter, against the wall, was a small stage for the resident singer, about a meter high.
A beautiful woman holding a guitar sat there. She had a lovely face and a great figure.
The most eye-catching thing about her was her long legs, exposed beneath her shorts—smooth and firm, clearly the athletic type at a glance.
Less than three meters from the stage was a semi-circular open seating area with its ends against the wall.
Many guests were sitting around it.
It was hard to tell if they were there to listen closely to the girl's beautiful singing, or for some other reason...
The girl's unique style also made Lin Yu cast frequent sideways glances.
Lin Yu didn't care whether her singing was good or not, nor did he care about her long, white, and shapely legs.
He only had one question in his mind.
Was this person really not afraid of the cold?
After carefully feeling the temperature inside the music bar.
Lin Yu's doubts faded.
The heating inside the music bar was very strong, not to mention the girl was deep inside the bar right against the wall. It probably wasn't cold for her at all.
Lin Yu and Xia Muzhu sat down in a six-person booth.
Their line of sight perfectly allowed them to see the long-legged beautiful singer on the stage.
Lin Yu ordered two fruity cocktails, a fruit platter, and some snacks. He and Xia Muzhu slowly ate and drank.
Xia Muzhu was clearly very satisfied with the environment here.
Looking at the somewhat heroic-looking girl sitting on the stage, a look of yearning appeared in her eyes.
Lin Yu keenly caught the emotion in her eyes. After stuffing a piece of cantaloupe into his mouth, he chewed and asked indistinctly,
What's up?
Do you want to go up there and sing too?
Eh?
Speaking of which, Sister Zhuzi, I've never heard you sing before.
How is your singing?
Is it good?
Lin Yu blinked and asked curiously.
Xia Muzhu shook her head pitifully and said in a depressed tone,
I'm the most tone-deaf one in my family.
Even Little Shan sings better than me.
Seeing that Xia Muzhu was unhappy, Lin Yu didn't care about anything else and immediately pulled her into his arms, softly comforting her,
It's okay, it's okay.
Who said you're the worst singer?
My singing is definitely worse than yours, rest assured.
Hearing Lin Yu's comfort, Xia Muzhu didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
She was clearly being held and comforted by the person she liked, so why couldn't she feel happy?
Buzz~
The vibration of the phone reached his skin through his thick pants. Lin Yu covertly took out his phone and secretly turned his head to take a look.
Oh ho~
Female lead number two has arrived!
Sister Zhuzi, I'm going to the restroom.
Lin Yu stood up, using his usual handy old trick to get away.
Xia Muzhu nodded without the slightest suspicion.
Lin Yu turned around and walked towards the bar's restroom.
Once he reached a blind spot out of Xia Muzhu's line of sight, Lin Yu immediately changed direction and hurried towards the bar's main entrance.
Right at the entrance, Lin Yu happened to run into Tang Manman, who had just pushed the door open to enter.
Without a word of explanation, Lin Yu grabbed her hand and led her outside the bar.
What's wrong?
Tang Manman, who was pulled out of the bar and dragged to a corner by Lin Yu, looked completely puzzled.
What was this about?
Didn't you message me this afternoon telling me to meet here at eight tonight?
Why aren't we going in now?
Lin Yu looked embarrassed. He scratched his nose and raised his hand to rub his forehead.
After a long while, he finally spoke with difficulty,
Manman.
I might not be able to accompany you tonight.
You came too late.
I just ran into Sister Zhuzi inside.
So...
...
I can't get away right now.
Lin Yu's voice grew quieter and quieter under Tang Manman's angry glare. The word guilty might as well have been written across his face.
No way!
You promised to spend tonight with me!
Tang Manman reached out and grabbed Lin Yu's wrist, speaking stubbornly.
I did say that.
But didn't an unexpected situation come up?
Lin Yu explained, feeling a bit wronged himself,
While I was waiting for you inside, I was spotted by Xia Muzhu, who also came here for a drink.
I saw her, and I couldn't just hide or run away.
She's already feeling down because of her brother's situation. If I avoided her on top of that, she would overthink things!
Tang Manman knitted her delicate brows. She felt that Lin Yu made a valid point, but she was also unwilling to just hand over her date time.
After thinking for a moment, her eyes lit up and she came up with an idea, saying,
Then you go in and tell her that you have an urgent matter to deal with and can't stay with her.
Then hurry back out.
We can go somewhere else!
Lin Yu still looked completely torn, shaking his head as he said,
I can't.
She's in a bad mood today. Because I was here with her, she felt at ease and drank quite a bit.
If I leave, she'll be here all alone and tipsy. I'd be worried sick.
Lin Yu's words actually made a lot of sense to Tang Manman.
After all, leaving a tipsy woman alone outside was truly unsafe and highly irresponsible!
On this point, Tang Manman even admired Lin Yu a little.
As expected of the man I like!
But Tang Manman was still unwilling to give up Lin Yu for the night.
It had already been a while since she last spent time with him...
In truth, Tang Manman wasn't desperate for just this one day. If Lin Yu really had an emergency, postponing tonight's date to tomorrow night, or even next week, would have been fine.
But the reason Lin Yu couldn't be with her tonight was actually because he had to accompany her!
Stealing him from me again?
Absolutely not!
Tang Manman puffed her cheeks in anger, refusing to just leave no matter what.
Time gradually slipped away in their silence.
In the end, it was Lin Yu who broke the silence first.
Carefully, with a probing tone, he voiced the sentence he had already repeated countless times in his heart.
How about we all hang out together?
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!
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
ose... to cooperate with the protagonist! Shen Yuan: I have a system! Protagonist: What? System: Holy crap, you're just spilling it out like that? Shen Yuan: Let's team up, we'll split the system rewards! Protagonist: Fifty-fifty split? Shen Yuan: No way! Protagonist: What!? I'm the one getting beaten up, and I don't get half? Shen Yuan: Forty-sixty split, I get forty, you get sixty! Protagonist: Deal! Big brother, come on, hit me! As long as it doesn't kill me, beat me like you mean it! Shen Yuan: Don't worry... I will definitely protect all of you! No one but me can lay a finger on you! Guard our Heaven's Chosen Ones! I'm the only one allowed to bully them!
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?!
