"Young Master, although Li Qingzhe didn't touch me, he controlled my soul for three years."
"That feeling of being treated like a marionette... it was too disgusting."
"As soon as I close my eyes, I can feel those cold threads cutting into my flesh, severing my will, and manipulating my bones..."
She suddenly leaned forward, pressing most of her weight onto Gu Yang's arm, which was burning with golden fire.
"I want you, Young Master, to use your fire to burn all these traces clean!"
"I want to use the Young Master's brand to completely overwrite those disgusting memories, inside and out!" She tilted her head back, revealing the fragile and elegant lines of her neck, like a swan offering its neck to the slaughter, yet still carrying a hint of wildness.
"This is not repaying a debt of gratitude; this is a baptism. I want you to ruthlessly 'use' me, Young Master!"
"Let me know that this body now belongs to me!"
Inside the ruined temple, the howling wind whimpered.
A lone man and a lone woman, raging fire and deadly poison—the ambiguity and danger in the air almost condensed into something tangible.
However, Gu Yang just sat there quietly.
In those deep black eyes, there was no desire, no pity, not even the slightest ripple of emotion.
He just quietly watched Lan Caidie's tearful and alluring performance.
As if he were looking at a beautifully painted skeleton.
Because, just half an incense stick of time ago, midnight had passed. On his retinas, the faint blue light screen that only he could see had just finished refreshing.
[Ding! Today's intelligence has been refreshed.]
[Green Intelligence: What is inside the body of the Eastern Gu Sect's Holy Maiden, Lan Caidie, is not the innate 'Myriad Poison Heart-Devouring Physique', but the 'Myriad Poison Source Gu' forcibly planted by the Nascent Soul Patriarch of the Eastern Gu Sect before his secluded cultivation. Li Qingzhe was merely a Gu raiser acting as a proxy for the Patriarch, responsible for looking after this 'Gu Vessel'.]
[Blue Intelligence: The host possesses the Great Sun True Fire and the Nine Nether Soul-Locking Flame. If you seize this Gu Vessel and the Source Gu, and smelt them with the Great Sun True Fire, you can significantly increase your own poison resistance.]
[White Intelligence: The 'Myriad Poison Source Gu' within this Gu Vessel has completely matured. If it is not suppressed in time by being harvested through a high-level pure Yang cultivation method, in three days, Lan Caidie will explode and die, her soul will be utterly destroyed, and a radius of a hundred miles will be turned into a poisonous swamp.]
Looking at the cold text on the light screen, a very faint mocking smile tugged at the corners of Gu Yang's mouth.
He slightly turned his wrist. With a muffled bang.
The Great Sun True Fire suddenly erupted with a gentle yet irresistible pushing force, directly knocking the closely clinging Lan Caidie half a step back.
Lan Caidie swayed and stood firm, her face full of astonishment.
"Young... Young Master?" She looked at Gu Yang in confusion, a trace of panic even flashing deep in her eyes. Was she not beautiful enough? Or was her value not great enough?
Gu Yang slowly stood up, looking down at her from a commanding height.
"Myriad Poison Heart-Devouring Physique?" Gu Yang's thin lips parted, his voice three times more piercing than the cold rain outside the door.
"Do you really think that a rat in the gutter like Li Qingzhe could hold back from touching you for three years because he was afraid of your poison?"
Lan Caidie looked as if she had been struck by lightning, the blood draining completely from her face in an instant.
"What... what do you mean..."
Gu Yang took a step forward, his highly oppressive figure completely enveloping her in shadow. "He didn't dare to touch you, not because he was afraid of being poisoned to death. It's because you don't have some genius physique at all."
Gu Yang extended two fingers, pinching her sharp chin, forcing her to raise her head and look directly into his cold eyes.
"You are just a vessel."
"A human flesh Gu Vessel... planted with the 'Myriad Poison Source Gu' by the Eastern Gu Sect Patriarch himself, in order to break through his realm."
Boom!
These words were like a heavy hammer, smashing ruthlessly onto Lan Caidie's soul. "Impossible... this is impossible..."
Her pupils trembled violently, and she desperately shook her head, resisting this cruel truth. "The Patriarch... back then, he personally carried me back to the sect, he bestowed upon me the position of Holy Maiden..."
"Li Qingzhe is just a watchdog." Gu Yang mercilessly tore apart her last illusion, his tone as cruel as a butcher dissecting a corpse.
"The string that truly controls you has always been in the hands of your Nascent Soul Patriarch."
"Calculating the time, the Source Gu in your body has completely matured." Gu Yang released his hand, letting Lan Caidie stumble and fall to the ground.
"If nothing unexpected happens, three days." Gu Yang held up three fingers, his tone as plain as if he were broadcasting the weather.
"At most three days, even without Li Qingzhe, the Source Gu in your body will completely erupt. At that time, you will explode and die, your soul will be obliterated, and you will turn into the most nourishing blood medicine for the Patriarch when he comes out of seclusion."
A deathly silence. There was only the continuous sound of rain outside the door.
Lan Caidie slumped weakly onto the cold green bricks.
She thought she had killed the evil spirit that manipulated her, regained her freedom, and even delusionally hoped to use this dirty yet seductive body in exchange for the protection of a strong man.
But in the end, she was just a moth thinking itself clever.
Her so-called pride, her so-called desperate counterattack, in the face of absolute calculation and strength, were just a pathetic joke.
Even the "poisonous wine" she was so proud of was merely the dregs brewed by someone else.
That layer of false, aggressively morbid disguise was stripped away and crushed inch by inch under Gu Yang's cold gaze.
Cold. A bone-piercing cold spread from deep within her marrow, freezing her meridians.
She tremblingly lowered her head, looked at the body she had been so proud of, and suddenly felt a churning nausea in her stomach.
Her pride was completely shattered. All that remained was the most primal fear of death and being used.
"Thump."
Lan Caidie turned over, her knees heavily kneeling on the ground covered in mud and dust.
She no longer tried to show off her proud curves, nor did she use that seductive gaze. She merely pressed her forehead tightly against the tip of Gu Yang's shoe.
The silver tassels were stained with mud, and that proud spine bent into the most humble curve.
"Young Master..."
Her voice was so hoarse it almost shattered, carrying the deepest despair and pleading.
"Save me..."
"Save you?"
Gu Yang's voice didn't have a single fluctuation.
"Give me a reason. Or rather, what substantial benefits can you bring me?"
Lan Caidie's body suddenly stiffened. She raised her head, that breathtakingly bewitching face now covered in mud and cold sweat.
There was no room for bargaining.
In the face of life and death, her pride had been crushed into mud.
She crawled forward half a step on her knees, prostrating herself extremely humbly at Gu Yang's feet.
"The secret arts of the Eastern Gu Sect, the intelligence of the Southern Borders, all my savings..." Her voice revealed a suffocating despair, like the final wail of a trapped beast. "As long as the Young Master can help me extract this fatal Source Gu, Caidie... Caidie is willing to do anything."
She tilted up that stunningly beautiful face, complete submission igniting in the depths of her eyes: "I am willing to be the Young Master's slave, to be the most vicious blade in the Young Master's hand, to be... to be the Young Master's dog!"
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
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!"
