The last self-study class ended early after Lin Yu finished all his homework ahead of time. He glanced at the clock and realized there were still twenty minutes left before school was out.
After packing his bag, Lin Yu took out his planner to summarize recent events.
First up was the number one female lead, Tang Manman.
...
...
Never mind, better think about someone else first.
Rubbing his temples, Lin Yu couldn’t come up with a solution for her at the moment. For now, he decided to maintain the status quo—ignoring her, since she rarely sought him out anyway.
The top priority now was the second female lead, Xia Muzhu.
Thinking of Xia Muzhu—her striking blue eyes and the mature charm she carried despite being only in her twenties—Lin Yu’s mood grew heavy.
Her situation was the hardest to handle.
Even now, he had no idea when the second intimate incident would occur, who would be involved, or whether it would happen indoors or outdoors.
Frankly, he had no way to prevent it. His only hope was that Xia Muzhu herself would stay vigilant.
But could such a flimsy precaution really defy fate’s unseen hand?
Unlikely.
Extremely unlikely.
After a moment’s thought, Lin Yu made a decision.
If he wanted to stop the second incident, he needed to spend more time with Xia Muzhu in the coming days. He had to figure out who was around her, identify any potential threats, and prepare countermeasures.
He needed a way to get closer to her.
Lin Yu stroked his chin, and an idea quickly formed in his mind.
It was a bit underhanded.
But given the urgency, he couldn’t afford to be picky.
Once he’d settled on a plan for Xia Muzhu, Lin Yu turned his attention to the third female lead, whom he’d only met once.
Searching his memories of the adult manga, he was surprised to find nothing about the third female lead.
That couldn’t be right.
Lin Yu scratched his bandaged head, puzzled.
How could he have no recollection of her at all?
He even remembered the fourth female lead perfectly—an incredibly cute and beautiful little loli.
Was it because the third female lead didn’t match his preferences, making her forgettable?
At that thought, Lin Yu’s face flushed.
No, no.
Definitely not the reason.
Absolutely not!
Annoyed, Lin Yu clenched his teeth.
If he couldn’t remember her because she didn’t fit his tastes, but recalled the loli so clearly…
Didn’t that make him a…?
Lin Yu covered his face, unwilling to finish the thought.
Hmph.
It had to be the work of that twisted fate—erasing his memories of the third female lead.
That had to be it!
Whatever.
He’d just wait and see.
Lin Yu lowered his hands and exhaled softly. The most pressing matter was still Xia Muzhu’s second incident.
He had to do everything possible to prevent that tragedy.
On another note, one thing was finally clear.
Tang’s mother was definitely not one of the four female leads in the manga.
After all, he’d already met three of them, and the remaining one was confirmed to be a loli—nothing like Tang’s mother, who was over thirty.
So, the familiarity he felt toward her must really just be because she resembled Tang Manman.
Ding-dong-ding!
The school bell rang, and Lin Yu smoothly packed up and left.
On his way back to his rented apartment, that feeling of being watched returned. Frowning, Lin Yu glanced back at the crowded streets before turning into a secluded alley.
If someone followed him now, he’d catch them.
This was ridiculous.
Why was someone always watching him?
Irritated, Lin Yu heard light, hurried footsteps the moment he rounded the corner.
Someone was actually tailing him?
Who could it be?
Curious, Lin Yu pressed himself against the wall, muscles tensed, ready to grab the person the moment they appeared and demand an explanation.
A slender figure soon appeared at the alley’s entrance. Lin Yu moved to act but froze mid-motion.
Tang Manman stood there, cheeks flushed from running. Lin Yu sighed in exasperation.
Why is it always you?
Talk about bad timing.
Just earlier, I said you rarely seek me out!
Mentally grumbling, Lin Yu suddenly recalled the feeling of being watched during lunch. He looked at Tang Manman and asked bluntly,
"Were you the one following me at noon today?"
Tang Manman hesitated, her gaze drifting to the ground, the tips of her ears turning pink. After a moment, she gave a tiny nod.
"Why?" Lin Yu asked, his tone as impatient as usual.
"I…"
Tang Manman finally looked up at him, only to quickly avert her eyes again, murmuring,
"I heard your class started submitting homework today."
"I thought…"
"If you needed help…"
"I could."
Lin Yu rolled his eyes and spread his arms.
"Look."
He spun in a circle in front of her.
"See anything?"
Tang Manman blinked in confusion, shaking her head.
"Idiot!"
"Can’t you see I’m not even carrying a bag?"
"Do I look like I need you to do my homework?"
Lin Yu snapped.
"But… I heard if you don’t turn it in, the school will punish you," Tang Manman said, her clear eyes filled with worry, her voice tinged with urgency.
Lin Yu sighed, rubbing his forehead.
"Did it ever occur to you that I might’ve already finished it?"
"Huh?"
Tang Manman’s lips parted slightly, caught off guard by the unexpected answer.
Lin Yu sighed again, not wanting to drag this out, and turned to leave.
"Wait, Lin Yu!"
Tang Manman’s soft voice called from behind.
"Spit it out."
Lin Yu stopped and turned back, his expression cold. He bit back the harsher words he wanted to add.
Lately, he’d noticed something troubling—ever since that near life-saving rescue, he found it harder and harder to be outright cruel to Tang Manman.
What a terrible development.
"I… I noticed your injuries haven’t healed, so I bought you some medicine."
Tang Manman rummaged through her bag and pulled out a small pouch of medication.
She handed the small bag of medicine to Lin Yu, her peach-blossom eyes glimmering in the sunset's glow, filled with both hope and a timid fear of being scolded by him.
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.
【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.)
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!
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?!
