By the time he returned to Su Yuyao's cozy little apartment, it was already evening.
On the way back, Lin Yu had specifically bought a gorgeous little fruit-and-cream cake for Su Yuyao.
He had learned this trick online.
It was used to farm affection points with girls.
Word on the street was that this was exactly how everyone played it in those dating sim Galgames!
Stepping out of the elevator, he paused outside the door.
Lin Yu patted his body.
He quickly located the pocket where he'd hidden his keys.
He took out the keys.
And reached out to unlock the door.
Cake in hand, the moment Lin Yu pulled the door open, he saw Su Yuyao sitting on the sofa, her gaze already turning toward him.
Seeing her looking his way.
Lin Yu smoothly raised his left hand, lifting the transparent cake box, and said in an exaggeratedly pleasant tone:
"Ta-da!"
"A little cake!"
"Want some?"
A blossoming joy appeared between Su Yuyao's delicate and slightly youthful brows. Her willow brows arched in surprise, and she nodded eagerly like a little chick pecking at rice.
Seeing that Su Yuyao was about to stand up to welcome him, Lin Yu hastily told her to stay seated. He changed into his slippers and brought the cake over to her side.
Placing the cake on the coffee table, Lin Yu opened the box and handed Su Yuyao the fork that came with the packaging.
Su Yuyao took the fork and immediately scooped up a spoonful of cream and fruit from the cake.
However, instead of rushing to put it in her own mouth, she obediently offered it to Lin Yu's lips.
Looking at the spoon at his lips, Lin Yu froze for a brief moment, slightly reluctant to eat it.
It wasn't that Lin Yu found Su Yuyao gross.
Rather, he was a bit worried.
He worried that, given Su Yuyao's current special condition of being pregnant, an unhygienic act like sharing a spoon with someone else might not be good for her.
In truth, Lin Yu knew he was overthinking it.
Pregnant women were fragile, but definitely not to that extent.
So, to avoid rejecting her and causing her to overthink things, Lin Yu decisively ate the cake offered to him in one bite.
He then gave a thumbs-up and praised:
"Delicious!"
Su Yuyao looked at Lin Yu, her eyes curving into happy crescents.
She then scooped another spoonful of cream from the cake and fed him a second bite.
Only after that did she scoop up a piece of the yellow sponge cake and cream for herself.
Lin Yu watched her, his eyes fixed on the black plastic spoon full of cake as it got closer and closer to Su Yuyao's thin pink lips, before she ate it in one bite without minding at all.
Su Yuyao even kept the spoon in her mouth for a brief moment, seemingly savoring the taste of the cake.
Unable to maintain his composure, Lin Yu's face flushed red.
At the same time, he felt something wasn't quite right.
Strange.
I bought the cake.
Wasn't I supposed to be the one capturing her heart and farming her affection?
Why does it feel like I'm the one being captured?
Is this how it always goes in those Galgames?
He didn't know.
He hadn't played them.
He couldn't comprehend it.
Sniffing slightly to cover up the emotional ripples in his heart, Lin Yu turned his head to look around and quickly noticed the ultra-thin TV mounted on the wall, which was playing a variety show.
Lin Yu rarely watched variety shows and didn't know much about the people in them, so he subconsciously asked:
"Have you been watching variety shows all afternoon?"
Still holding the complimentary stiff black plastic spoon in her mouth, Su Yuyao gently shook her head and said in a soft voice:
"No."
"I was waiting for you."
After Lin Yu left, Su Yuyao had come to the living room and stayed there the entire time.
Like a little kitten lying by the door waiting for its owner to come home, whenever she heard footsteps outside, she would cast a hopeful gaze at the tightly shut door.
Hoping her owner would return.
Only when the footsteps faded away would she disappointedly withdraw her gaze.
Quietly waiting for the next set of doorbell-like footsteps.
As for the variety show on the TV, she hadn't really watched it.
The only reason she turned on the TV was to have some background noise in the room.
To make it feel a bit livelier.
So she wouldn't be alone...
No.
So the two of them wouldn't be too lonely.
She didn't like being lonely.
Su Yuyao's voice, as soft and gentle as her petite frame, drifted into Lin Yu's ears, making him freeze for a moment. He didn't even fully process what she had just said right away.
Snapping back to reality, Lin Yu blinked twice.
A warm, slightly aching current spread through his heart, but Lin Yu wasn't in the mood to dwell on it; instead, he silently confirmed one thing.
Su Yuyao was definitely a master at those Galgames.
No doubt about it!
Barely a few lines of dialogue had popped up, and he had already been captured!
If she wasn't a master, she was using a cheat code!
From the moment he saw Su Yuyao yesterday until now, Lin Yu hadn't had any intimate contact with her.
At most, they had held hands or linked arms.
On one hand, Lin Yu was too embarrassed to push things further.
On the other hand, Lin Yu knew he needed some time to accept Su Yuyao and this massive responsibility that had suddenly fallen into his lap.
But now, Lin Yu felt it was time.
Looking at Su Yuyao sitting beside him, taking tiny bites of the cake while constantly stealing glances his way.
Lin Yu took a deep breath and skillfully thickened the metaphorical armor on his face.
He nodded and said with feigned nonchalance:
"Oh."
"I see."
Seeing Lin Yu's reaction, before Su Yuyao even had time to feel disappointed, she noticed that the guy staring so seriously at the TV variety show seemed to have suddenly gotten a bit closer to her.
Before she could figure out what was going on, she realized he had gotten even closer.
Just like that, Lin Yu stealthily shifted his butt, inching over little by little like slicing a sausage, until he was sitting right next to Su Yuyao, their bodies practically pressed together.
"Whoops."
Figuring he was close enough, Lin Yu sniffled, suddenly let out an unprompted exclamation, and then leaned all the way back.
He leaned against the sofa, spreading his arms and resting them on the top of the backrest.
Very naturally, he raised his hand and draped it over Su Yuyao's delicate shoulder.
Then, with a gentle pull backward, he smoothly pulled Su Yuyao right into his arms.
Lying in Lin Yu's embrace, Su Yuyao didn't quite process the situation for a moment. She innocently tilted her face up, looking at Lin Yu with a pair of beautiful, sparkling eyes.
Lin Yu had been pretending to watch the completely uninteresting, trashy variety show on TV.
But being stared at by Su Yuyao like that, he couldn't keep up the act.
He could only shamelessly look down at Su Yuyao in his arms and, as if to amuse her, playfully raised an eyebrow.
Su Yuyao's eyes grew even brighter.
She gently pursed her thin pink lips, the corners of her mouth curving into a subtle yet joyful smile.
She shifted her body, settling into a more comfortable position, and rested her entire weight against Lin Yu's chest.
Quietly keeping him company, they watched the super boring variety show on TV 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!
world slacker. But a genius female disciple just had to get clingy, insisting that he take her as a disciple. Not only that, she was always making advances on him, thoroughly disrupting his peaceful slacker life...
with countless casualties. As a top-tier gamer, Liu Xuan volunteered to join the fight, intending to dominate with his skills, but instead he obtained the hidden class: [Pacifist]. Unable to attack. Unable to use active skills. Fortunately, with each level gained, he acquired a new passive skill. And so, armed with a body full of passives, Liu Xuan slaughtered his way through the battlefield of ten thousand races! [You attacked Liu Xuan] [You gained the debuffs: 'Poison', 'Fear', 'Burning', 'Bleeding', 'Freeze', 'Silence', etc.] [Your attack speed has been reduced by 99%] [Your armor and magic resistance have been reduced by 99%] Warriors of the Ten Thousand Races: How the hell am I supposed to fight this?!
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?!
