The journey through the sky felt rather long.
Once the initial novelty had worn off,
Tang Manman could no longer feel happy.
She realized that she might have underestimated the distance of more than a thousand kilometers.
Trapped inside this comfortable metal behemoth,
Tang Manman became aware that she was moving away from Lin Yu at a terrifying speed of several hundred meters per second.
One second.
The time it took to blink once.
In that instant, this enormous machine could carry her across the length of a high school athletic field.
The moment she realized this, her heart suddenly felt unsteady.
It was as though she had stepped into empty space in a dream and begun to plummet.
Instinctively, she wanted to grab hold of something—anything—to give the heart suspended inside her chest a sense of security.
But then she suddenly realized
that the person who could make her feel completely safe
seemed to be very, very far away from her...
Throughout the journey, Tang Manman sat quietly in her seat,
her eyes lowered.
It was not until the plane landed, when the passengers began picking up their backpacks and small suitcases to leave, that the commotion around her finally caught her attention. In a daze, she rose to her feet and followed the crowd off the plane, then took a shuttle bus to collect her luggage.
After retrieving her own suitcase,
Tang Manman picked up her phone.
Several unread messages lay quietly on the screen.
There were messages from her mother and younger sister.
There were messages from her aunt and her family.
And then...
???
Lin Yu had replied?
Tang Manman opened the chat window and saw the message Lin Yu had sent.
Long Aotian: Have you gotten off the plane?
Long Aotian: I’ve already prepared a surprise for you.
Staring at the messages, Tang Manman finally remembered the “surprise” Lin Yu had promised her a few days earlier, back when she had been so anxious about their impending separation that she could not stop crying and he had looked utterly overwhelmed.
She had assumed he was only trying to make her feel better.
But now,
it seemed that might not have been the case.
Sugar Cube: I just got off the plane.
After replying to Lin Yu, Tang Manman waited for a while.
When he did not respond,
she picked up the suitcase beside her and turned toward the airport’s arrivals hall.
Like a stone tossed into a tranquil lake,
the surprise Lin Yu had mentioned stirred the dejected thoughts in Tang Manman’s heart back to life.
A surprise?
What could it be?
Tang Manman could not imagine.
Lin Yu was still in H City.
It was more than a thousand kilometers away.
What kind of surprise could he possibly give her?
Curiosity took hold of Tang Manman, and she found herself walking faster as she dragged her suitcase behind her.
She walked out through the arrivals gate.
The first thing that came into view was a dense crowd of people.
They stood scattered in groups, craning their necks and eagerly watching the passengers emerging from the gate.
Like great birds waiting for their chicks to return to the nest.
Tang Manman spotted the bird waiting for her.
Three faces she had seen only in childhood and in photographs stood at the very front of the crowd.
The husband and wife stood in the textbook pose of a family of three, with their still-young daughter between them.
They were Tang Manman’s maternal uncle, aunt, and younger cousin.
The family of three had already been waiting there for nearly an hour.
All three of them welcomed Tang Manman’s arrival from the bottom of their hearts.
Now that she was here, she was not only a long-lost relative reunited with the family, but also a dependable older sister who could keep the Little Monster in line—and, even more importantly, a rare family tutor.
She could help the children improve their grades.
Relatives like that were always welcome.
Looking at the beautiful girl who looked just as lovely as she did in the photographs, the family members waved enthusiastically, signaling that this was where she belonged in N City.
But for some reason, the girl named Tang Manman seemed to have been nailed to the spot. She stood perfectly still.
Her gaze, at once bewildered and startlingly bright, passed over their heads and fixed on something behind them.
Before they could figure out what she was looking at, the seemingly gentle and composed girl suddenly dropped both her phone and suitcase where she stood.
Then, as if she had gone mad, she lowered her head and charged recklessly past them.
Her observant aunt hurriedly dragged Tang Manman's abandoned suitcase and phone over to her side to keep them from being lost.
She frowned slightly.
She had no idea why the daughter of this distant relative had suddenly become so careless.
She glanced to the side.
The girl had already thrown herself into the arms of a young man.
Clinging to him, she burst into tears.
Seeing this, her uncle and aunt both frowned.
The corners of their mouths twitched involuntarily.
To be honest, judging by the young man's bearing, the two of them felt that the scene would have made far more sense if he had been the one forcefully embracing the beautiful girl, while Tang Manman cried her heart out.
That way, they would have had every reason to call the police.
They could report that some lecherous thug was molesting a young girl!!!
“How is it?”
“Surprised?”
“Didn’t see this coming?”
Lin Yu asked smugly. He held a large bouquet of deep pink roses in one hand, while the other gently encircled Tang Manman’s waist.
Even now, his breathing was still somewhat uneven.
It wasn’t because of the headbutt Tang Manman had just given him.
Rather, it was because, during the half hour after he had landed ahead of Tang Manman, he had run all over half the airport after getting lost.
This blasted airport was ridiculously huge.
Trying to find the parking lot where he was supposed to pick up the flowers had made him so dizzy he could barely think!
Tang Manman ignored Lin Yu’s smug questions.
She simply buried her face deep in his chest.
Her arms wrapped tightly around him.
So tightly, it was as if she feared he might disappear at any moment.
Held in Tang Manman’s crushing embrace, Lin Yu grimaced in discomfort.
People often had a misconception.
They said that girls were soft, made of water, and had no strength.
That being hit by them didn’t hurt.
Ha.
Let a girl punch you twice and you’d find out whether it hurt or not!
No matter how delicate a girl might seem, she still weighed over a hundred pounds.
Sometimes, even a ten-pound cat leaping into your arms could leave you seeing stars for quite a while.
And this was a person putting all her strength into it!
Besides, that silly girl Tang Manman had spent plenty of time helping his mother with the housework.
Over the past six months, they had fed her well.
Her figure had not changed much, but the strength in her body had certainly increased!
That fierce hug nearly squeezed the breath right out of Lin Yu.
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
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.
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, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
