Xia Hanmo's tears finally fell.
Crystal clear teardrops slid down her exquisite face. She was heartbroken, yet silent.
Ye Shu didn't say a word, just quietly listened to her vent her emotions, even though he had already guessed what Xia Hanmo was going to say next.
But he still listened, kept listening.
Like a mute stone.
After a long time, Xia Hanmo sniffled, wiped away her tears, and returned to her previous calm, unrippled state. She recounted softly:
"I thought about suicide, I really did."
"But you wouldn't allow it. You told me that these were necessary sacrifices, that the path to the summit is always littered with corpses. You promised me that when you finally reached the apex one day, you would use your supreme magic to resurrect those innocent people."
"So I foolishly kept working for you."
"Poisoning one person after another who opposed you."
"Until the day you ascended to immortality."
"You didn't resurrect anyone. You didn't even say a single word. You just quietly ascended all by yourself."
"I fell into despair, so I drew my sword and slit my throat."
"And then I woke up."
"Sitting in the small courtyard in Yuanyang Town, my right hand still resting on a patient's arm. Everything I just said hadn't happened."
"It was like... a dream."
"It's so absurd, you know?"
"The patients in the yard were still smiling at me, smiling and saying I was Xia Hanmo, saying that without me, they would have died long ago."
Xia Hanmo gave a tragic smile.
"I smiled back then, just like I am now."
"If they knew that the person who would later kill them was the very Xia Hanmo they were thanking at that moment, could they still smile?"
"I don't know."
"After treating the last patient, I closed the shop and sat alone in the courtyard for a long, long time. I thought I might have been reborn."
"At that time, I thought about a lot of things."
"Maybe I should have killed you beforehand. Maybe I shouldn't have saved you in the Demonic Beast Mountain Range. You are a great demon, a huge bastard, the worst person in this world."
"But no matter how much I thought about it... those people all died because of me."
"I am the sole root of disaster in this world."
"All of this started because of me, so it would be better if I simply didn't exist from the very beginning."
"I can't control the Plague Poison Body."
"But I can control my own life."
"So the next day, I went to the river alone and jumped."
"And then... I was fished out by you."
After hearing this, Danxia and Xiaobai remained silent for a long time.
They would never have imagined that the reborn memories of the girl before them would be so tragic, yet she didn't blame anyone, nor did she use her reborn memories to do anything.
In fact.
In the plot Xiaobai had originally designed, Xia Hanmo did cause the deaths of many innocent people due to the outbreak of her Plague Poison Body, leading her to be spurned by countless people and branded a demonic woman by the world.
Then Ye Shu saved her in a critical moment.
When the world utterly despised her, only Ye Shu never abandoned her, showing no disgust at all, and even scoured ancient tomes to find a way to control the Plague Poison Body.
There was absolutely no mention of him using her.
This was her first time hearing someone completely recount their reborn memories.
It also made her realize the sinister nature of the system.
With just slight modifications to the original story, it painted a completely different picture.
The originally affectionate and righteous Ye Shu.
With a shake of its body, the system turned him into a cold-blooded, ruthless executioner.
How could this system be so evil?
Xiaobai frowned, then slowly relaxed. But it was fine now. Although affected by the system, Xia Hanmo was still the same Xia Hanmo, kind and generous. She had spoken out about her reborn memories herself, so as long as one wasn't an idiot, a little comfort would untie the knot in her heart.
With Ye Shu's emotional intelligence, it should be a breeze, right?
Ye Shu's performance indeed did not disappoint her.
He was seen stroking his chin, tilting his head in thought for a moment, then suddenly staring at Xia Hanmo's face and speaking with utter sincerity.
"Since you're going to die anyway."
"Can you let me have some fun with you before you die?"
Xiaobai: "?"
Danxia: "?"
Are there still human beings in this world?
Xia Hanmo's eyes widened instantly. Her previously calm and even slightly deathly pale face broke its composure in an instant, replaced by disbelief and deep shame and anger.
She had thought of many possibilities.
That this guy would comfort her.
That he would trick her.
That he would make empty promises to keep her from dying.
She just never thought of this possibility.
Her face was a bit red, and she was very angry.
Why didn't she notice in her past life that this guy was a shameless scoundrel? Feeling ashamed and annoyed, Xia Hanmo still squeezed two words through her teeth:
"No way."
"Oh..."
Hearing this, Ye Shu nodded in slight disappointment.
What the heck are you disappointed about?!
Xiaobai on the side finally couldn't hold it in anymore. She jumped onto Ye Shu's shoulder, grabbing his neck and shaking him back and forth. "You guy with a head full of dirty thoughts! Go to hell!"
"Ugh... bleh bleh bleh..."
Ye Shu was choked until he was dizzy.
It took him quite a while to recover.
He patted his throat, then sat up straight and said slowly, "Actually, there's a reason I said that."
"What reason?" Xiaobai was taken aback.
Could it be... to snap Xia Hanmo out of that lifeless state?
Even Xia Hanmo stared at him with some curiosity.
Ye Shu straightened his back and spoke with a straight face: "Look, you're going to die anyway, right? So you might as well make some contribution before you die. It's your first time, and it's my first time. It would be a shame to just die like this."
"Besides, I saved your life."
"You guy..." Xiaobai gritted her teeth and leaned into his ear, "How is it your first time?"
"It's my first time with her."
Ye Shu said this without blushing or skipping a heartbeat.
Meanwhile.
Xia Hanmo lowered her head and stopped talking. She seemed to really be thinking, and then she nodded.
"I think I should change my mind."
"See."
Ye Shu raised his eyebrows triumphantly at Xiaobai.
However, before he could take off his clothes.
Xia Hanmo suddenly raised her head, grabbed a rock she had just found on the ground, leaped up, and smashed it toward Ye Shu.
"I shouldn't commit suicide."
"I should beat a menace like you to death, and then jump into the river, restoring peace and clarity to this world!"
"Holy crap!"
Ye Shu jumped up in fright and hurriedly ran in circles around a tree stump, shouting as he ran:
"Murder!"
"Murder!"
Danxia floated in the air, looking at the two of them, and couldn't help but shake her head.
"What a pair of star-crossed lovers."
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
