Lin Yu glanced briefly at the messages Gu Yue had sent.
There wasn’t anything urgent inside.
Mostly, Gu Yue was asking what he’d been up to these past few days, wondering why there was no word from him at all.
Occasionally, she’d thrown in a few emoji, slyly cursing him out.
Stuff like, “If you don’t reply, you’ll shrink an inch.”
Looking at the mountain of messages Gu Yue had sent over the past few days,
Lin Yu did the math and figured it wasn’t really a big deal.
What?
She wasn’t talking about height?
Still no big deal!
Lin Yu’s fingers quickly tapped the screen.
He summed up the events of the past few days as a simple, unlucky car accident.
He left out all the messy stuff—Qing Mo, wolves, and whatever else.
No need to stir up trouble and have to explain things back and forth.
But what Lin Yu didn’t expect was that Gu Yue seemed even more worried. After firing off three question marks in a row, she straight-up called him with a video.
Holding his phone in one hand, Lin Yu looked at the video call notification on the screen and clicked his tongue a couple of times.
Thinking about it now, it made sense.
Who wouldn’t get anxious hearing about a friend getting in a car accident?
He rejected Gu Yue’s video call.
Then he reassured her over and over that he only had a minor leg injury—no fractures, no disability. He was fine!
The only thing now was that walking hurt a bit, and because of the pain, he limped slightly, but there was no other discomfort.
While chatting with Gu Yue, Lin Yu kept an eye on the road.
Spotting a taxi with its “Available” sign lit up, he raised his hand and hailed it.
He got in the car.
Told the driver his destination.
In that short amount of time, Lin Yu noticed Gu Yue had sent more messages.
Three-Good-Student: So your leg is hurt now.
Three-Good-Student: Is it still convenient for you to live alone?
Long-Aotian: ???
Long-Aotian: Why wouldn’t it be?
Long-Aotian: Just one leg’s a bit injured, and I’m careful not to put too much weight on it—not like I’m crippled!
Three-Good-Student: Oh
Looking at that dry, bare “Oh” Gu Yue had sent on the screen,
he had no idea why,
but Lin Yu somehow sensed a hint of disappointment in that “Oh”!
Three-Good-Student: Brother Long.
Three-Good-Student: Can you still come to my place to tutor me while you’re recovering?
Three-Good-Student: (crying emoji)
Lin Yu raised a hand and rubbed his stiff shoulders from lying down so much over the past few days, then replied one-handed.
Long-Aotian: Forget it.
Long-Aotian: It’s the New Year; I’ll take a few days off. I’ll go again once I’m a bit better.
Three-Good-Student: Oh, okay.
Three-Good-Student: Alright.
Finishing his chat with Gu Yue, Lin Yu took the taxi all the way back to his little rented room.
He hadn’t even been inside for half an hour before he couldn’t stand it anymore.
The New Year plus a quiet, empty home was the worst combination in the world.
Especially when the place was all cleaned up.
There wasn’t a trace of life—it felt like his soul could barely breathe.
He threw on some clothes and headed back downstairs.
Lin Yu didn’t really know where he wanted to go.
But anyway, he didn’t want to stay in that cold, cramped little room anymore.
Standing outside his apartment building, Lin Yu thought about where to kill time.
It was the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, and the whole city was still asleep. Very few entertainment spots were open.
Still, he wasn’t too bothered.
He had one place where he could waste time all 365 days of the year, no matter the season, no matter day or night.
That’s right—the internet café!
Let’s go!
Time to play a few rounds!
He trotted off to a nearby internet café and dove right in.
He played from daylight to dark, then from dark late into the night—he’d lost count of how long he’d been at it.
He only remembered the oath he’d sworn at nine in the evening:
Win one round, then go home and sleep!
At 3 a.m., after dominating with his best hero and barely dragging four teammates who only knew how to blunder through to victory,
Lin Yu leaned back into the sofa-like chair in relief.
He looked completely drained.
Staring at the big “Victory” word on the screen,
he couldn’t help his eyes from getting a bit teary.
I…
Finally…
Made it!
Letting out a deep breath, Lin Yu opened his eyes—faintly bloodshot—and clicked to log off with trembling fingers. He pushed himself up from the desk and left the café in relief.
To celebrate that last, thrillingly satisfying victory,
Lin Yu treated himself to a luxury midnight snack…
Wait.
At this hour, it should be breakfast.
But does 3 a.m. breakfast even exist in this world?
A question mark slowly popped up over Lin Yu’s head.
Anyway.
He got himself a serving of fried rice, paired it with over thirty yuan’s worth of grilled skewers, and a bottle of iced sugary carbonated drink.
This spread—it totally deserved the word “luxury”!
Carrying his fried rice and skewers home, Lin Yu, who could barely keep his eyes open from exhaustion, didn’t linger.
He found some random video to watch while eating on his phone, wolfed down the late-night meal, and couldn’t be bothered to clean up the desk that doubled as his dining table.
He just left the leftovers carelessly on top.
Then, he crawled straight back into bed.
Closed his eyes and went to sleep…
…
Ten in the morning.
Lin Yu slowly opened his eyes to a knocking sound—not loud, but stubbornly persistent.
First thing in the morning.
Who the hell is this?
Can’t they let a person sleep?
Listening to the nonstop knocking from outside his door, Lin Yu furrowed his brows, annoyed and groggy from having his sleep interrupted.
But there wasn’t much he could do about it.
Hearing that relentless knocking that seemed like it would go on forever unless he answered, Lin Yu could only force himself to crawl out of his warm blanket and go open the door.
Since he was only wearing a pair of boxers,
Lin Yu was considerate enough to peek through the peephole before opening the door—just in case the person outside was a woman, to avoid being rude.
Looking through the peephole,
he saw that the person outside was indeed a woman.
And then…
…
Lin Yu twisted the handle and pulled the door wide open.
“What’s up?”
He asked with a grumpy tone, looking at Gu Yue, who was momentarily stunned on the other side.
“You—why aren’t you wearing any clothes!”
Instead of answering his question, Gu Yue, seeing Lin Yu’s tall, lean, solid build, snapped back to reality and quickly raised her hand to cover her eyes—
but sneakily parted her middle and ring fingers, leaving a sizeable gap.
Faced with Gu Yue acting all shy and girly like that,
Lin Yu rolled his eyes dismissively and said:
“What’s there to wear?”
“It’s not like you haven’t seen it before.”
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?!
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!
iemie, male, Race: Moon. Hobby: Collecting anomalies. At first, he thought he possessed two systems: the Crimson Rainbow Moon and the Clear Cold Frost Moon. One day, he discovered that he himself could also become a system for others, holding the chessboard of fate. The Eighth Epoch, also known as the Eternal Moon Epoch. Humans, witches, elves, bloodline descendants, specters, demons, and spirits together compose a new history. Walking the path on behalf of the moon, before he knew it, Chen Miemie's footsteps were followed by all manner of strange and wondrous anomalies. As time passed, many titles circulated about him—The King in Yellow, Lord of Anomalies, Heart of the Eternal Moon, and more. "Me? I'm just a traveler who enjoys collecting interesting creatures," Chen Miemie said.
ine. During your journey, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her elder brother】 【You rely on each other, becoming each other's support】 【At the end of the simulation, you shield the now-grown girl with your life, sacrificing yourself to block numerous demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in the girl's eyes fades】 …… 【Second Simulation: You are transported to a world where steam and magic coexist】 【You immerse yourself in the study of magic, obsessed with its research. One day, while out, you encounter a half-blooded demon girl wandering the streets. You take her in as your student】 【You teach the demoness what it means to be human, show her the beauty of the world, and nurture her into a miracle that surpasses even the gods】 【At the end of the simulation, you die of old age in front of the nearly immortal demoness due to your mortal lifespan】 …… One simulation after another, one encounter after another. Xu Xi suddenly felt something was off: "Wait, you said you're coming to the real world to find me?"
