And there was one more thing that even someone with Qing Mo's personality found somewhat difficult to say.
That was...
...
Actually, this kind of thrilling feeling is pretty nice...
...
Hearing that Qing Mo didn't mind this kind of thing, Lin Yu breathed a sigh of relief.
The burden on his heart was lifted.
Lin Yu was in a great mood.
He suddenly felt like he could eat a ton of food.
It didn't take long for the chefs to finish preparing the fresh seafood, and plate after plate of delicious, aromatic, and beautifully presented dishes were brought to the table.
Lin Yu picked up his chopsticks and started to dig in.
Qing Mo, just as she had said, wasn't hungry.
However, whenever Lin Yu found something delicious and recommended it to her, she never refused and politely gave it a taste.
As Lin Yu ate, he suddenly remembered Qing Mo's earlier absence.
While chewing the food in his mouth, Lin Yu looked at Qing Mo and asked,
"Do you have any plans for this afternoon?"
"If you're free, come with me to meet Tang Manman and Xia Muzhu."
"You guys should get to know each other."
Qing Mo didn't refuse. She nodded, and then, as if suddenly remembering something, her pale, jade-like cheeks flushed slightly as she asked,
"Have you already... with the two of them?"
Lin Yu nodded and said without any hesitation,
"You're the only one left!"
Qing Mo's face turned even redder. She shyly lowered her gaze, biting her lower lip in anticipation.
Lin Yu completely failed to realize that what he was talking about and what Qing Mo understood were no longer on the same wavelength...
...
Well, actually, it couldn't be completely considered as not being on the same wavelength.
It was only a matter of time.
But for this afternoon, Lin Yu genuinely just wanted to take Qing Mo out to have a meal with the two of them and do a simple introduction.
So, Lin Yu was a bit puzzled by Qing Mo's sudden shyness and silence.
Looking at Qing Mo's slightly reserved, bashful appearance, a plan formed in Lin Yu's mind, and a mischievous thought arose.
He picked up a piece of fish from the spicy boiled fish dish and placed it on his own plate behind the pot, using the tall pot to block Qing Mo's line of sight.
Then, he raised his chopsticks again, picked out eight or nine peppercorns from the pot, and placed them on top of the fish.
He flipped one side of the fish over and squeezed it together, creating a simple hidden weapon.
"Here."
"Say ah~"
Lin Yu smiled brightly as he picked up the piece of fish, offering to feed it to Qing Mo.
Without suspecting a thing, Qing Mo happily took a small bite.
!
Seeing Qing Mo's cool eyebrows shoot up, her expression changing from a somewhat cute aloofness to shock, and then contorting, Lin Yu laughed so hard he couldn't close his mouth.
Spitting the hidden weapon out of her mouth, Qing Mo glared at Lin Yu indignantly.
However, this angry emotion didn't last long before it quickly dissipated.
People can never really stay mad at someone they like.
Not to mention that even when Qing Mo was angry, Lin Yu wasn't afraid in the slightest.
Looking at Qing Mo's puffed-up appearance, which had lost its coldness and become even more adorable.
Lin Yu reached out his hand and, like a hooligan teasing a little girl, a lecher teasing a decent woman, or a delinquent harassing a beauty, he used his finger to flick Qing Mo's chin.
He laughed even more happily.
Qing Mo wanted to pretend to be angry to regain the face she had lost after being repeatedly teased by Lin Yu.
But just being with Lin Yu made her so happy.
How could she possibly get angry?
Looking at Lin Yu's sly yet cute smile.
Qing Mo held back.
She held back some more.
Eventually, she couldn't hold it in anymore and burst into laughter along with him.
The iceberg melted, and Qing Mo's smile bloomed like a flower.
Lin Yu stared at her, slightly dazed.
Qing Mo rarely smiled.
But when she did, she was truly beautiful.
A super, incredibly, exceptionally gorgeous beauty like Qing Mo.
It would be abnormal if she didn't draw stares wherever she went.
Just a moment ago in the restaurant, she had only walked around with Lin Yu to grab some food.
Yet countless eyes had already followed her.
Seeing this iceberg beauty being teased by the blonde delinquent sitting across from her, the crowd felt quite indignant.
But when they saw the iceberg beauty smiling instead of getting angry, their hearts first tightened, and then completely died.
After finishing the meal with Qing Mo, Lin Yu immediately took out his phone, ready to summon contestants number two and three into the arena.
Long Aotian: Coming to New World Plaza?
Long Aotian: We're going shopping.
Tang Manman: Okaay!
Tang Manman: I'll be right there!
Switching chat windows...
Long Aotian: Coming to New World Plaza?
Long Aotian: We're going shopping.
Xia Muzhu: Okay.
Xia Muzhu: I'll be there in a bit.
Seeing that both of them had agreed, Lin Yu took Qing Mo and left the third floor of the mall, heading down to the ground floor to wait for them.
The first of the two to arrive was Tang Manman.
Looking around like a little sparrow, her tranquil face carried a look of joy and anticipation.
When she spotted Lin Yu, her pretty face lit up, but before her smile could fully blossom, she saw Qing Mo standing beside him.
The half-formed smile on her face froze.
Her joy was instantly masked by surprise and awkwardness.
Her footsteps halted in place. After a moment of hesitation, she slowly walked over, though she looked somewhat nervous and constrained.
Lin Yu glanced sideways at Qing Mo and gave her a look.
Qing Mo understood implicitly. She broke the silence first, reaching out her hand to Tang Manman and saying:
"Hello."
"I am Qing Mo."
Tang Manman had seen her a long time ago.
That was back in high school, when she would block the school gates every day, loudly declaring her intention to be Lin Yu's sugar mommy.
At that time, Tang Manman felt like the sky was falling.
Tang Manman was actually quite confident in her own looks.
After all, it wasn't like she didn't have mirrors at home.
But every time she saw the incredibly beautiful and insanely wealthy Qing Mo, she couldn't help but feel a bit insecure.
It was like that when she visited Lin Yu's school.
And it was like that this time too.
Even though her life was no longer as financially strained as before.
But every time she saw her, that familiar sense of inferiority came rushing back without the slightest reduction.
"H-hello."
Tang Manman reached out her hand and gently shook Qing Mo's extended hand.
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?!
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
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!
