The little shrine maiden was lightly hopping when suddenly she was embraced from behind. Su Ze's voice was gentle with a hint of hoarseness, "You should be this happy every day from now on."
'Don't cry because you can't see me.' He kept these words pressed inside, unspoken.
Su Ze's reluctance to part with Uesugi Akizuki wasn't like that between lovers, but more like saying goodbye to a sister who had grown up with him for over a decade.
Although Su Ze often joked with Shen Qingsheng about her being his wife, that wasn't his true intention.
It's not that he hadn't considered it.
But he knew his profession meant he was unlikely to meet a peaceful end.
The average life expectancy of Pioneers announced in the first half of the year was thirty-six.
Unless Su Ze wanted his little innocent one to become a widow.
The little shrine maiden looked up puzzled, her amber eyes, seemingly sparkling with starlight, met the boy's complex and profound pupils.
The silver bangs that slightly covered her eyes were gently lifted by the breeze, and her momentarily stunned face broke into a gentle, delicate smile.
At that moment, even the wildflowers blooming across the mountains couldn't compare to this wine-red-haired little shrine maiden's upward glance and smile in Su Ze's eyes.
"You must be happy from now on, be happy when you think of me, and no crying, okay?" Su Ze said somewhat domineeringly.
The confused little shrine maiden nodded, not understanding why Su Ze said that.
How could I not be happy seeing you? Whether I see you or think of you, I'm always happy, so why would I cry?
Unable to figure it out, she stopped thinking about it.
Su Ze released the little witch and continued walking while holding her hand.
Suddenly, the little witch threw herself into his arms, hugging his waist, her starlight-sparkling eyes gazing at Su Ze enchantingly.
Unusually for the little shrine maiden who typically found speaking tiresome, she spoke up, her voice carrying a hint of playfulness, like clear stream water, flowing melodiously, "You need to be happy too."
"Alright." Su Ze patted her head.
They continued walking hand in hand.
Walking along the bustling street, weaving through the mundane world.
"Here, have a bite."
Meng Xingyao stood at a comfortable distance from Uesugi Chigenki, holding a bowl of meat porridge, trying to extend a spoonful towards her.
Her footsteps moved back and forth, maintaining a careful distance.
Uesugi Chigenki, who had been leaning against the window, turned her head and stared at Meng Xingyao's somewhat fawning eyes for a while, then snorted, her eyes becoming vigilant, "Why are you being so nice to me? Are you going to bully me again?"
"How could I? I just... want to take responsibility for you."
"I..." Uesugi Chigenki choked for a moment, suddenly becoming angry, "We're perfectly innocent, who needs you to take responsibility!"
Meng Xingyao shyly put the spoon back in the bowl, scratching her head embarrassedly:
"If you want... we can change that innocent status now."
"I... I..." Uesugi Chigenki felt a tightness in her chest, "Who wants that!"
"You... want to?" Meng Xingyao hesitated, put the bowl on the table, swept her black waterfall-like, slightly curled hair behind her, closed her eyes, pursed her lips, and opened her arms, appearing ready to submit to whatever might happen.
Seeing this scene, Uesugi Chigenki's easily stirred emotions immediately caused her chest to tighten with anxiety.
I meant to say, who wants to stay innocent! What does she mean by that? She's misinterpreting my words again... This is so confusing!
Uesugi Chigenki's CPU couldn't process Meng Xingyao's inhuman shenanigans and directly overloaded, smoking.
When Meng Xingyao opened her eyes after nothing happened for a while, she saw the girl pursing her lips with large tears dropping down one after another.
She had successfully made her cry again.
Uesugi Chigenki couldn't understand how such a tall, beautiful, and cool girl like Meng Xingyao could house such a mischievous soul.
This time, Meng Xingyao didn't approach to tease her again, but turned and left for the kitchen to get some beef jerky, then lay on the bed playing with her phone while chewing on it.
Because she knew she had no chance anymore, she simply gave up.
The Executor had set out to pick up the two sisters when Su Ze agreed to bring Uesugi Akizuki.
Watching Meng Xingyao make her cry and then lie on the bed chewing beef jerky like nothing happened, Uesugi Chigenki felt extremely frustrated.
If this wasn't Huaxia and she didn't need her help, she would have beaten her brains out.
Meng Xingyao received a phone call from Su Ze and put it on speaker, holding it in the air.
"We're here," Su Ze's voice came through.
Uesugi Chigenki, who had been sobbing, paused briefly before running downstairs.
Meng Xingyao continued playing with her phone nonchalantly when a thud sound came from the stairs.
That silly girl, did she fall?
She got up and followed, indeed finding a little shrine maiden sitting on the ground, tears in her eyes, rubbing her head.
"How careless are you?" Meng Xingyao said, trying to suppress her amusement as she went to help up the sobbing, tear-wiping little shrine maiden.
"Thank you," the little shrine maiden thanked Meng Xingyao for her kindness, completely forgetting about being bullied.
She limped along, supported by Meng Xingyao.
Suddenly she came to her senses and glared at Meng Xingyao with pursed lips and a somewhat fierce look.
The latter was so scared she held her breath.
Never mind, although she's been somewhat mischievous, she has taken good care of me these days. Since I'm about to leave, there's no need to stay angry with her.
Although that's what she thought, Uesugi Chigenki didn't plan to show her any kindness, turning her head away as she continued walking.
Su Ze and the innocent one sat downstairs waiting for a short while before Meng Xingyao and Uesugi Chigenki came to open the door.
When the innocent one saw her sister, her eyes filled with joy. She let go of Su Ze's hand and ran over at full speed.
"Akizuki!"
The moment she saw her sister, Uesugi Chigenki could no longer hold back, pulling her innocent sister into an embrace and sobbing silently.
Seeing her crying sister, the innocent one gently stroked her sister's back.
Su Ze gave Uesugi Chigenki a few glances, having no desire to participate in this emotional release, and turned to chat with Meng Xingyao instead.
Meng Xingyao curiously looked at Su Ze's beautiful white hair, "Did you dye your hair?"
"Would you believe me if I said it's natural?"
"Do you think I would?"
"Do you think I believe that you would... ahem."
"Sister Xingyao, what did you gain from your return from the Land of the Living Dead? Want to share with your brother?" Su Ze changed the subject with a playful smile.
About ten days ago, Meng Xingyao had gone to the Land of the Living Dead, and after returning, she had spent four or five days in the hospital. Su Ze had met Uesugi Akizuki on his way home after visiting Meng Xingyao that night.
Meng Xingyao's eyes curved in a smile, "What's my little gain worth mentioning? If you want some too, sister can take you there."
Su Ze raised an eyebrow, "Really, sis!"
"Really, really!" Meng Xingyao nodded with a smile.
Su Ze suspected Meng Xingyao was joking with his fake smile, but he had no proof.
Su Ze indeed had thoughts of going to the Land of the Living Dead again, mainly because being stuck at the peak of the Candle Realm was too frustrating.
To advance from his current realm to the next, conventional methods like taking pills and diligent cultivation were insufficient.
His purpose for this journey was to stimulate his potential between life and death, to break through and be reborn in desperate circumstances.
Of course, if he couldn't break through even in desperate circumstances, he would be finished.
If Meng Xingyao joined, both the gains and survival rate would surely increase significantly.
"Then let's set out next Monday." Regardless, even if Meng Xingyao was joking, Su Ze decided to drag her in.
"Alright, sister will look after you then." In fact, Meng Xingyao wasn't joking.
Looks like she wasn't lying to me.
Su Ze nodded, "Thanks, sis."
Su Ze turned to look at Uesugi Chigenki, who was carefully and thoroughly checking if her sister had any injuries, "Where are they planning to go?"
"They said they're going to look for their mother in Huaxia."
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?!
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?"
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
pression Bureau] Transported to a fantasy world overrun by demons and monsters, Gu Qingfeng becomes a jailer in the Demon Suppression Prison of the Great Yan Dynasty's Demon Suppression Bureau. From this point on, bizarre cases frequently occur in the Demon Suppression Prison, once known as hell on earth and infamous for its gloomy, terrifying atmosphere! Why do the demons and monsters in the prison wail miserably every night? Why has the corpse demon, capable of transforming into various beauties, donned black stockings and switched careers to become a foot massage therapist? Why has the eye demon, expert in soul-snatching and illusions, turned into a VR headset? Why is the fox spirit performing otaku dances? Are all these occurrences a twisted expression of demonic nature, or a descent into moral depravity? After peeling away layer upon layer of mystery, all clues ultimately point to a jailer named Gu Qingfeng. Gu Qingfeng: "Hehehe... My dear demons and monsters, whose card shall we flip today?"
