Although N City was nominally a northern city, its actual geographical location leaned more towards the central region, barely touching the edge of the northern territories.
Due to its location, the temperature here was generally higher year-round, and it rarely snowed.
However, during this year's heavy snow season, N City also welcomed a few hearty blizzards.
But by now, there was hardly any snow left to be seen.
Unlike H City, where snow still blanketed everything.
Because he had to handle the troublesome procedures of transferring schools, Lin Yu arrived quite early just to be prepared.
Once he finished everything that needed to be done, Lin Yu looked back and realized there were still five or six days until the semester started.
What should he do during this time?
Lying on the bed with his hands behind his head, Lin Yu was momentarily at a loss for how to spend these next few days.
He couldn't just stay in the hotel twenty-four hours a day, right?
That would be terrible for his health.
Just as he was thinking this, the hotel room door opened.
Lin Yu turned his head and saw that Tang Manman had returned from buying snacks.
Tang Manman didn't stand on ceremony; she tossed the snacks onto the table and then threw herself onto the bed.
She buried her cold, soft little face right into Lin Yu's neck.
She rubbed against him affectionately like a spoiled little puppy.
Not only that.
After nuzzling him for a while, she seemed to have put herself in a great mood.
She quickly slipped out of her coat, lifted the blanket, and dove right in, lying softly on top of Lin Yu.
Lin Yu reached out and pinched this clingy girl's cheek, then pressed his warm palms against her face to help chase away the cold. At the same time, he voiced his question.
"What should we do during these days before school starts?"
Hearing this, Tang Manman lifted her face. It seemed she had already thought about this question. Her dark eyes sparkled as she looked at Lin Yu and suggested:
"Let's go rent an apartment!"
"Then we can live together from now on!"
Lin Yu thought about it and felt it was a pretty good idea.
Living conditions in a rented apartment off-campus would be much more comfortable than staying in the school dorms.
Just as Lin Yu was about to nod in agreement, Tang Manman seemed to have opened Pandora's box, chattering away without stopping:
"We can also go climb Phoenix Mountain in N City."
"I've wanted to go for so long. I saw some videos before; when the weather is right, the clouds are right beneath your feet. Standing on the peak feels like standing in the sky."
"We can also go to the aquarium!"
"N City's aquarium is super famous."
"They have all kinds of animals inside."
"My roommate and her boyfriend went once, and they took a lot of pictures."
"The polar bear in the pictures didn't look very big."
"But my roommate said that when that polar bear stands up, it's twice as tall as her!"
"I've only ever seen brown bears in the free parks."
"They were already huge, but my roommate said brown bears can't even compare to polar bears."
"I want to go see it."
"And also, also."
"We can go play on the beach!"
"Maybe we can even catch crabs!"
"..."
"But this season isn't quite right for that. We can wait until summer or spring to go."
"We can also go to the neighboring city to eat at the buffet."
"That buffet is really famous!"
"They have lobster and king crab."
"But it's a bit expensive, so I couldn't bear to spend that much eating there alone."
"Now that you're here, we can go eat there together!"
"And also, also..."
"We..."
"..."
As she kept talking, Tang Manman seemed to get a little tired. She lowered her head and pressed her cheek against Lin Yu's chest. After murmuring for a little while longer, she stopped.
After a brief few seconds, she spoke again, but this time her soft voice carried a hint of a choke:
"When you weren't here, there were so many places I wanted to go with you."
Tang Manman's sudden vulnerability softened Lin Yu's heart. He reached out and gently stroked her smooth, long hair, saying softly:
"I won't be away from now on."
"I will accompany you for every single thing you want to do."
"We are going to be together for a very, very long time."
Tang Manman listened quietly, then nodded heavily in deep agreement. Her tone was gentle, yet it carried an indescribable firmness:
"Yeah."
"We are going to be together for a very, very long time."
"..."
...
Tang Manman took the matter of renting an apartment very seriously.
After Lin Yu repeatedly assured her that money was not an issue.
She dragged Lin Yu around to check out various residential communities.
Finally, she chose a fully furnished, 120-square-meter apartment with three bedrooms and one living room.
It had all the necessary appliances and furniture, the master bedroom faced the sun, and the environment was excellent.
Tang Manman was very satisfied with this place.
And then.
Lin Yu just bought the apartment outright.
Actually, when buying the apartment, Lin Yu did feel a tiny sliver of guilt.
After all, using Qing Mo's money to buy a house for Tang Manman gave him the shameful feeling of a kept man finding a mistress and spending money on her.
But it was fine.
Lin Yu had thick skin; he could just grit his teeth and get over it.
What's yours and what's mine?
What belongs to my wife belongs to me!
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.
end. Thus one must continue to cultivate, and become a saint or great emperor, in order to prolong one's life. Chen Xia, however, completely reversed this. Since his transmigration, he has gained immortality, and also a system that awards him with attribute points for every year he lives. Thus between the myriad worlds, the legend of an unparalleled senior appeared. "A gentleman takes revenge; it is never too late even after ten thousand years." "When you were at your peak I yielded, now in your old age I shall trample on you." - Chen Xia
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?!
