Gu Yue lowered her head, a fresh scent of perfume wafting from her as she nuzzled into Lin Yu like a little fragrant pig, acting coquettishly.
Lin Yu looked disgusted, pushing her head away with one hand while saying repeatedly,
“Alright, alright.”
“Cut it out.”
“Let’s go eat.”
“I’m starving.”
Hearing this, Gu Yue stopped messing around. After discussing it for a bit, they finally decided to go eat lamb hotpot.
There was nothing better than lamb hotpot on a cold winter day!
They arrived at a local hotpot restaurant with a good reputation. Under the waitress’s guidance, Lin Yu and Gu Yue sat across from each other at an empty table.
Taking off their bulky winter coats, they chatted casually while waiting for the food to be served.
One great thing about copper-pot lamb hotpot was that the food came out super fast.
They had barely sat down, hung up their coats, and exchanged a few words before most of the dishes arrived.
Under the high heat of the charcoal, the copper pot—made of thin material—quickly heated the water inside until it boiled.
Watching the growing steam in front of him, Lin Yu glanced sideways at the window, which was just as pale but chilled to the bone. For a moment, he felt a tingling numbness all over his skin.
A unique sense of winter stillness felt so vivid in this otherwise noisy hotpot restaurant.
“Long Ge,”
“Do you have time during the break?”
Gu Yue sat across from him, holding chopsticks in one hand and a small bowl in the other as she stirred the dipping sauce. She looked up at Lin Yu and asked.
Lin Yu snapped back to reality and looked at Gu Yue.
For some reason, this little one always seemed to have an endless supply of energy.
Her dark, perfectly even eyes always held a glimmer of lively brightness, and it was oddly infectious.
“Yeah, I do,”
Lin Yu said honestly.
This exam was already the midterm for the year.
Next came a month-long break.
During this vacation, he pretty much had nothing to do.
Tang Manman and Xia Muzhu were already taken care of.
The only one left was Qing Mo, and she was easy enough to handle.
All in all, besides studying and occasionally dealing with Qing Mo, he didn’t have much on his plate this holiday.
“Then, Long Ge, do you want to go out and have fun with me?”
As Gu Yue spoke, she leaned forward excitedly, the lively gleam in her black eyes growing brighter.
“Mom saw how hard I’ve been studying lately,”
“so she promised I could go on a trip after the break.”
“This time, the two of us can go together, and my mom will pay for it!”
“You really are a dutiful daughter, huh,”
Lin Yu teased while dumping half a plate of freshly sliced lamb into the boiling copper pot.
“Not really,”
Gu Yue caught the sarcasm in Lin Yu’s words and explained,
“I already talked to Mom about it. She agreed to let me bring you along.”
“Besides, she’s planning to give you a big red envelope this New Year.”
“As a thank-you for helping me study.”
Gu Yue said this with a satisfied smile, using her chopsticks to stir the lamb pieces in the pot.
Lin Yu looked at Gu Yue through the rising steam from the copper pot and felt a moment of hesitation.
Earlier, Gu Yue’s mom had wanted to pay him a “tutoring fee,”
but he had refused.
This time, she was trying to slip him money in the form of a red envelope, and it seemed harder to decline.
After thinking it over, Lin Yu set the matter aside for now and looked at Gu Yue, asking,
“I do have the time,”
“but isn’t it the middle of winter?”
“Where would we even go?”
“Let’s go mountain climbing!”
Gu Yue said excitedly, as if she had already picked the destination.
“I know a snowy mountain with amazing views up top!”
“If we’re lucky on a winter day,”
“we can see frozen clouds at the summit.”
“There are hiking trails to go up, plus cable cars and buses for tourists.”
“If you don’t want to hike, or if you get tired halfway up, we can just take a ride.”
“Oh, and there are hot springs on the mountaintop!”
“All natural~”
When Gu Yue first suggested mountain climbing, Lin Yu nearly rolled his eyes into the back of his head.
Who climbs a mountain in winter? Was she crazy?
But after hearing the rest of her description, it actually didn’t sound like a bad getaway.
Natural hot springs? He’d never tried those before.
“Alright then,”
“Let’s do it.”
Lin Yu nodded.
In the short time they’d been talking, the water in the copper pot had boiled again.
He scooped up a chopstickful of lamb, dipped it in sesame sauce, and happily stuffed it into his mouth.
“So it’s settled?”
Gu Yue’s eyes seemed to hold stars.
“Yeah,”
Lin Yu, busy chewing the salty, fragrant lamb, just nodded and grunted in response.
“Then when are we going?”
Gu Yue pressed further.
“Next Wednesday,”
Lin Yu said wearily after swallowing the lamb.
“The break just started. I want to rest for a couple of days first.”
“Okay, okay!”
Gu Yue flashed an OK sign.
After Lin Yu agreed to go out and play, Gu Yue became even more excited.
She was like a lively little bird, chirping endlessly with a stream of chatter.
From that towering snowy mountain and the warm hot springs, to some tales about the mountain—true or false, no one really knew.
Then on to the little troubles that had been bothering her lately, and some amusing stories among friends.
Lin Yu sat across from her, focused on his meal.
As for Gu Yue, who was as cheerful as a oriole, Lin Yu didn't find her annoying at all.
In fact, her chatter made his meal more enjoyable.
Listening to her prattle on while eating,
Lin Yu felt it was far more entertaining than scrolling through short videos during a meal...
...
Vacation flew by just like that.
In the blink of an eye, a whole week had passed.
On Wednesday, as agreed, Lin Yu arrived at the high-speed rail station to meet up with Gu Yue.
That's right.
That snowy mountain was in a province a bit farther north than H City.
If they took a bus, it would take an entire day.
By high-speed rail, it would still take three to four hours.
When choosing between the bus and the train,
Lin Yu and Gu Yue both opted for the slightly more expensive but far more comfortable high-speed rail option.
Anyway, neither of them had to pay for it!
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!
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!
nce】【Lighthearted Comedy】【Ultimate Gentleman's Novel】【Viewer Discretion Advised for Under 16】 The mightiest human hero, Sharen Morian, is resurrected after a thousand years by his wife—the Demon King. This is not your typical hero-vs-demon-king tale.
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
