In the hotpot restaurant.
The air conditioner was blowing cold air relentlessly from the vents.
Amid the bone-chilling cold that made one's skin crawl, steam rose in curling wisps from the bubbling pot, blurring the face of the person across the table.
Lin Yu lazily fished for meat with his chopsticks.
His mind wandered: falling for Gu Yue was really a pain in the ass.
If it were any ordinary girl or something,
Lin Yu would have long since shamelessly sidled up to her,
crack a few fitting jokes, and while making the girl cover her mouth with a giggle,
he'd also test the waters—maybe hold her hand, steal a kiss, that sort of thing.
But when it came to Gu Yue,
Lin Yu just couldn't bring himself to save face,
let alone say those cringey lines that made your skin crawl.
It felt like when you're with your closest friend, but you have to put on a straight-laced act,
spouting gentlemanly politeness the whole time.
Honestly, it was unbearable.
They say the eyes are the window to the soul.
Lin Yu figured there was some truth to that.
He was thinking about Gu Yue.
Lost in thought,
his gaze drifted up, through the rising steam, toward the person across the table.
What the...?
How could you fall asleep while eating?
Weren't you afraid of falling into the pot?
Lin Yu noticed that Gu Yue had somehow slumped onto the table.
Her cheeks were flushed crimson.
Her eyes were half-open, listless, as if she might drift off at any moment.
Watching her unnaturally reddish cheeks,
Lin Yu suddenly realized something.
He reached out and grabbed the empty glass bottle by her hand.
Reading the label that showed the alcohol content as 18 percent,
Lin Yu's mind went completely blank.
But soon,
he had no time to freeze, nor even to get angry.
He shot up and rushed to Gu Yue's side,
and began rifling through the medicine she had bought from the hospital earlier.
Mixing some drugs with alcohol could be lethal!
Fortunately,
after searching through it all,
Lin Yu found no medications that strictly forbade alcohol consumption.
He flopped back onto the sofa.
Only then did he feel the dampness on his forehead.
Thank goodness, it was just a false alarm.
He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead hastily,
then instinctually turned to look at Gu Yue next to him. That's when he saw she had already been watching him for who knows how long.
Her eyes, already dazed from the alcohol, shimmered with a smile, looking a bit goofy.
The anger he hadn't mustered earlier now surged up in one burst.
Seeing Gu Yue staring at him with that cute expression,
he had no pity at all and snapped at her harshly:
"Are you stupid or what?"
"Don't you know you've got a broken bone?"
"And you still dare to drink?"
"You don't want your leg to get better, do you?"
Lin Yu's outburst didn't have much logic to it.
A broken bone and drinking were somewhat related, but not by much.
At worst, the injury would heal a bit slower.
No big deal.
What really made Lin Yu mad was the scare he had just gone through.
He had been terribly worried about her.
But being angry over worry felt too intimate,
almost like he was being a little whiny.
So he seized on a different excuse to yell at her instead.
Scolded thoroughly by Lin Yu, Gu Yue pouted in dismay.
Her dazed eyes squinted sadly, drunk and whimpering as she tottered her way toward him.
Lin Yu was caught off guard.
Gu Yue threw her arms around him and hugged him tightly.
"Mmm..."
"Don't be mad at me, okay..."
"Don't be mad."
"I like you."
"Don't be mad..."
"
The softness of her cheek pressed against Lin Yu's face.
He could clearly feel that tender touch, and her cheeks flushed hot from the alcohol.
Her breath brushed against him, carrying the scent of booze mixed with her faint sweetness.
It smelled nice.
But at that moment, Lin Yu had no mind left to enjoy the smell of this tipsy woman.
"His head was full of the words she just muttered in her drunken rambling."
Instinctively, he pressed her:
"What did you just say?"
"
"...Don't be mad at me."
Gu Yue's arms tightened around his neck, her face buried on his shoulder, her words slurring.
Lin Yu didn't know why, but he felt a little uneasy. He lowered his voice to prompt her:
"Not that part."
"
"...I'm sweet on you."
Gu Yue slurred a repetition of what she'd said before.
With those four words,
Lin Yu's lips twitched upward like he had been hooked by a fishing line.
He couldn't force it down.
He bit his lips, trying to temper his grin so he wouldn't look like a complete fool.
He actually kind of wanted Gu Yue to say those four words again.
Funny, wasn't it?
A slur and garbled confession like this,
how could it feel so sweet in his heart?
But Lin Yu hesitated again.
Asking her to say that confession a second time—
wouldn't that make him look a bit too eager?
If Gu Yue drank herself into a blackout tonight, that would be fine.
She would wake up tomorrow with no memory of anything.
But what if she wasn’t drunk?
And when she woke up the next day, she could still use being drunk as an excuse?
Then Lin Yu would be completely exposed...
...Wait!
Not drunk?
Lin Yu jolted awake.
But soon,
After sifting through his memories of Gu Yue’s alcohol tolerance,
Lin Yu relaxed again.
In Lin Yu’s memory, he rarely drank with Gu Yue.
And in the few times they had gathered for drinks,
Gu Yue was pretty much the type who would be tipsy after just one glass.
Glancing at the empty bottle of fruit wine on the table, Lin Yu felt fully at ease.
That amount was definitely enough to keep her drunk all night!
Now that he was certain Gu Yue was genuinely drunk,
Lin Yu started struggling again with the issue from before.
He still felt too embarrassed to ask.
While Lin Yu was wresting with this dilemma,
Gu Yue, who was pressed against him, stirred.
In her daze, she rubbed her cheek against Lin Yu’s face and neck like a kitten trying to find a cozier spot to sleep.
“Mm…”
“I like you.”
“Don’t be harsh with me.”
“I like you…”
“Like…”
Her soft, warm whispers, along with her moist, heated breath, brushed against his ear.
Lin Yu’s body stiffened uncontrollably.
He gently patted Gu Yue on the shoulder,
Speaking softly:
“Alright, alright.”
“I won’t be harsh with you.”
“I won’t be harsh with you…”
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.
transmigrates into the role of a villainous rich second-generation kid in an urban fantasy novel, and gets bound to a god-tier choice system. Right at the start, he catches the female lead stealing exam papers! This triggers the villain's choice options! [Choice 1: Pretend you didn't see anything] [Choice 2: Loudly call her out, drawing everyone's attention] [Choice 3: ...] And thus, a twisted villain is born. To avoid getting killed by the protagonist, he has no choice but to take down all the protagonists first. Jiang Che: Nobody understands being twisted better than me!
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.
