Su Ze sat down beside Uesugi Akizuki and handed her the freshly delivered milk tea, already inserted with a straw.
Cang Yu sat across from the two, slightly surprised. "And this is…?"
Su Ze thought for a moment. "…My sister, Uesugi Akizuki. She's not much of a talker."
Cang Yu was a bit puzzled. "Your sister… with the last name Uesugi? She does seem to have some… Japanese features… Are you pulling my leg?"
You guessed right, Su Ze thought to himself. Straight men really are simple-minded. No wonder Cang Yu gets teased by Zhi Xu.
Su Ze smiled. "Oh, we're siblings by bond, not by blood."
"…Oh." Cang Yu pondered for a moment, then suddenly realized, looking utterly confused. "Siblings by bond, not by blood… but still siblings?"
His slow thinking amused Su Ze, who couldn't help but cover his mouth to stifle his laughter.
Seeing this, Cang Yu finally caught on. "You were definitely messing with me!"
Su Ze turned his head away, his white hair and body shaking with suppressed laughter.
Cang Yu didn't get angry; instead, he started laughing along, finding the situation a bit funny himself.
A phone rang. Su Ze pulled out his phone, seeing an unfamiliar number. He took a deep breath and stepped outside to answer.
"Su Ze." The voice on the other end was cold.
Su Ze's hair stood on end! He responded somewhat unnaturally, "Are you… the leader of the Uesugi Group, Uesugi Akizuki?"
"You're quick to react and think." Uesugi Akizuki praised. "How is my daughter, Akizuki?"
Su Ze gradually calmed down. "She's great, in every way."
"What do you mean, 'in every way'?" Uesugi Akizuki felt something was off. "Have you overstepped my warning?"
"Uh… You're misinterpreting me. What I mean is, she's very happy in her daily life. You don't need to worry about her being here with me."
"…Do you find her annoying?" Uesugi Akizuki began probing.
"How could I find her annoying? She's so cute and obedient. I treat her like a little sister to spoil." Su Ze smiled, and this was true.
"Just as a sister?" Uesugi Akizuki frowned. "Never thought about… taking it to another level?"
"No! Absolutely not! I recite the Diamond Sutra every day. My mind is already empty of worldly desires!" Su Ze quickly clarified, trying to save his own skin.
Uesugi Akizuki's expression grew more serious. Did he really not like Akizuki? Last time he sent her back so decisively. If he didn't like her… then why was she staying in his house without any formal arrangement?
Should he bring Akizuki back and cut off her thoughts early, to prevent her from falling deeper the longer she stayed with Su Ze?
And Su Ze, reciting the Diamond Sutra… was he about to become a monk?
If he became a monk, Akizuki would have even less of a chance.
…Forget it, let’s wait a while longer.
He had to go to Japan soon and wasn't sure when he'd return to Huaxia. If Su Ze still showed no emotional progress with Akizuki, he'd bring her back then, take her to Japan, and cut off her thoughts.
After a moment of silence, Uesugi Akizuki said, "My other daughter, Uesugi Chigenki, you know her. She's coming to Huaxia University to study. She'll be at the school gate soon. Go pick her up, and take care of her living arrangements and everything else."
Su Ze was about to say something when the call ended with a dial tone.
Su Ze was dumbfounded. Uesugi Chigenki was also coming to study? Huaxia University's backdoor must be worn out!
He had worked so hard to pass multiple courses, self-taught eight languages, yet it wasn't as effective as a single phone call!
Was this the power of capital?
Su Ze returned dejectedly to the milk tea shop and told the little cutie who was sipping her milk tea, "Let's go, your sister is also coming to study here. We need to go pick her up now."
Hearing this, the little cutie's eyes lit up and she nearly jumped out of her seat, grabbing Su Ze's hand and pulling him to leave.
"Good boy," Su Ze teased, patting Cang Yu's shoulder. "Come along, too."
"What… good boy?" Cang Yu's mouth twitched, but he followed Su Ze and the two.
As they walked, Su Ze pondered and made a phone call.
"What's up?" Meng Xingyao's lazy voice came through, as if she was stretching.
"A new student has arrived at our school, a pretty junior. I thought you might be interested." Su Ze's words carried a hidden meaning.
"No thanks~"
Meng Xingyao's voice remained lazy. "I've realized that I can't keep messing with other girls. They have their own lives and will have boys they like. I can't do such a despicable thing."
"Such resentment. Seems like she came to see you yesterday."
“Yeah.” Meng Xingyao was feeling depressed.
"Well, since you're not interested, I'll arrange for Uesugi Chigenki's dorm to be close to ours, so it's easier to take care of her."
Meng Xingyao frowned. "Put her in my dorm. I'll take care of her! Where are you now?"
"Weren't you saying you won't mess with the girl?" Su Ze chuckled.
Meng Xingyao's brow furrowed, and she said seriously, "For the sake of the country, I must nurture talent!"
"That's quite a leap in perspective." Su Ze marveled.
Meng Xingyao, along with Gu Qingqing and others, soon caught up with Su Ze and the others who were on their way.
"Hey! Little darling!"
Cang Yu was chatting with Su Ze when suddenly a pair of hands hugged him from behind. He was startled and turned to see his girlfriend peeking out, grinning.
"Gotcha! Carry me now."
Zhi Xu cupped his cheeks and pinched them.
Cang Yu had long gotten used to his girlfriend's playful antics. He turned and lifted her onto his back. As he subconsciously looked around, he noticed that Su Ze had moved quite far away.
"Darling, darling." Zhi Xu's arms wrapped around his shoulders, poking his chest with her fingers.
"What is it?" Cang Yu asked.
"Do you know what makes a good boyfriend?" Zhi Xu asked mysteriously.
"What?"
"Not leaving me, silly." Zhi Xu laughed, pinching his earlobe. "Do you love me?"
"I do." Cang Yu dutifully answered his girlfriend's question, day after day.
"Here's your reward." A lollipop was handed to his mouth.
Cang Yu instinctively took it, then paused: "You've already eaten this, haven't you?"
"Yes!" Zhi Xu held the stick, not letting him spit it out.
In the conference room, Li Zhenlong, a high-ranking leader of the country, looked at the documents from the Huaxia Central Research Institute in his hand, his brow deeply furrowed. His gaze swept across the four commanders of the Huaxia organization seated at the conference table.
Li Zhenlong said, "The Central Research Institute has come to a conclusion. There's a high probability of a long night occurring within ten days."
"This is the enemy's usual invasion method."
"They believe the long night is caused by a spatial gate named the 'Realm of the Qiongnu,' which opened five days ago on the moon. The ruling species inside, the Qiongnu, are responsible."
"According to the data, they can cause the long night, but how they do it is unknown."
"But it's certain that their goal is to invade Huaxia."
"Gentlemen, any thoughts or suggestions?"
u Chenyuan transmigrated into a female-oriented novel about a real and fake heiress, becoming the CEO elder brother of both. Unfortunately, the entire Lu family—including himself, the CEO—were mere cannon fodder in the story. Determined to save himself, Lu Chenyuan took action. The spoiled, attention-seeking fake heiress? Thrown into the harsh realities of the working class to learn humility. The love-struck real heiress? Pushed toward academic excellence, so lofty goals would blind her to trivial romances. As for the betrayed, vengeful arranged marriage wife… the plot hadn’t even begun yet. There was still time—if he couldn’t handle her, he could at least avoid her. "CEO Lu, are you avoiding me?" Mo Qingli fixed her gaze on Lu Chenyuan. For the first time, the shrewd and calculating Lu Chenyuan felt a flicker of unease.
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!
lanned to earn money steadily and take life at a slower pace. But he never expected... his father's remarriage, and the stepmother bringing along a dependent, would completely disrupt his life's plans...
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.
