"Why?"
Xia Yueshan pouted, asking in confusion:
"If fate's run out, why do you have to leave my sister?"
"Why cut ties with her?"
"No one's dragging or pulling you—let's be real, you just want to leave!"
"..."
Damn!
Never thought I'd be left speechless like this one day!
Faced with Xia Yueshan's accusations, Lin Yu truly had nothing to say.
The kid wasn’t wrong.
At the end of the day, it was just Lin Yu’s own fear—the fear of that twisted ending from the hentai manga playing out in reality—that made him decide to sever ties with Xia Muzhu.
But when he really thought about it, was there any reason to avoid Xia Muzhu at all?
She had no husband, no boyfriend, not even a childhood sweetheart like Tang Manman who’d grown up alongside her.
Was there really any need to push her away?
Besides.
For all he knew, she might just see him as a little brother.
What made him so sure she’d even come after him?
And even if—just hypothetically—she did, what was wrong with dating her? Or even marrying her and having kids?
He wasn’t cuckolding anyone.
There was nothing stopping him from pursuing this relationship.
And choosing her didn’t necessarily mean the manga’s horrific ending would play out in this world.
As the moderator of the Pure Love forum, he had standards.
He could hold his ground and reject the other three heroines.
So what if he just had a normal girlfriend? Where was the harm in that?
And if—hypothetically—he took in a few more heroines…
Say, both Xia Muzhu and Tang Manman.
That’d still only be two out of the four heroines. Two left untouched.
The manga’s bad ending still wouldn’t happen here.
And even if—just stretching it further—he took all four heroines, as long as he didn’t let them wear that lewd wedding dress while pregnant, wouldn’t that solve everything?
The manga’s ending could still be avoided.
And if—pushing it to the absolute extreme—he took all four, and they insisted on wearing that dress while pregnant… what if he just added a few more girls to the mix?
With five or six of them posing together, wouldn’t that still prevent the manga’s ending?
And if—
…
Enough.
No more stretching.
His brain was about to short-circuit.
Lin Yu rubbed his temples in frustration.
If possible, he’d rather not entertain any thoughts about these four heroines.
That was the safest way to avoid the manga’s ending.
And with Xia Muzhu… choosing her would probably bring the same issues as choosing Tang Manman.
He had less than a year left in high school.
What then?
If he went to college, they’d be in a long-distance relationship.
He was nineteen; she was twenty-four—five years older.
Four years of college, plus the remaining year of high school… by the time he graduated and could be with her, she’d be twenty-nine, and he’d only be twenty-four.
Hmm.
A bit of a gap.
But not a dealbreaker.
Honestly, five years wasn’t that big a difference.
The real problem was the four years of separation in college.
And even after graduation, he might not return.
Could she really wait for him that long?
Would her family set her up on blind dates?
Would she meet someone else she liked more?
The cuckolder becomes the cuckolded?
Now that’d be some dark humor…
Wait—
Was he thinking too far ahead?
He was practically planning their kids’ names at this point!
Lin Yu shook off the thoughts and looked at Xia Yueshan, who was still glaring defiantly. His mind was a mess, but he ultimately decided to stick to the original plan.
Stay away from all four heroines!
…
Wait, no.
Now it was five.
"Xia Yueshan, you don’t understand. This is fate. The bond between your sister and me has run its course. We should go our separate ways."
Lin Yu fell back on the classic adult excuse—"You’re too young to get it"—to brush off Xia Yueshan.
"I don’t buy it!"
Xia Yueshan shot back loudly:
"I don’t see any 'fate.' I only see people making choices."
"If you didn’t cut ties with my sister, your 'fate' wouldn’t have ended!"
"You have no idea."
"My sister’s heartbroken."
"This morning, when she saw me off, she hesitantly asked if I still had your contact info—if you’d blocked me too."
"When she found out you hadn’t blocked me, she started crying and begged me to reach out to you."
"Do you know what she said?"
"She actually used the word 'please' with me!"
"She said she has something to tell you. She wants to meet you."
"And what’s all this about fate and destiny?"
"Haven’t we beaten it once already?"
"Beating it again would be a piece of cake!"
Xia Yueshan pointed skyward, brimming with confidence.
Watching him, Lin Yu couldn’t help but smile bitterly. For once, he genuinely wanted to say, "You’re too young to understand."
Win?
Those who try to defy fate only end up as its puppets. What kind of victory was that?
At least the outcome wasn’t the worst-case scenario.
Remembering the close call from two days ago, Lin Yu suddenly thought of that disheveled man and asked:
"What happened to that lunatic?"
"Is he in the hospital or locked up?"
"Did the police say how long he’ll get?"
"He’s already locked up."
"The cops said it’s attempted rape and assault—aggravated circumstances. Minimum ten years."
"Oh, and—"
"His mom’s dead."
"Wait, no, I’m not cursing."
"His mom actually died."
Xia Yueshan clarified:
"She’d been seriously ill and passed two weeks ago. After her funeral, he started plotting against my sister."
"Yesterday, the day before, and…"
He counted on his fingers before landing on the right day and brightened.
"The day before yesterday!"
"That’s it—the day before yesterday!"
"He hired someone to steal my sister’s wallet, then used it to trick her into opening the door!"
"That’s what the police told us!"
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!
end. Thus one must continue to cultivate, and become a saint or great emperor, in order to prolong one's life. Chen Xia, however, completely reversed this. Since his transmigration, he has gained immortality, and also a system that awards him with attribute points for every year he lives. Thus between the myriad worlds, the legend of an unparalleled senior appeared. "A gentleman takes revenge; it is never too late even after ten thousand years." "When you were at your peak I yielded, now in your old age I shall trample on you." - Chen Xia
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