With Bai Qianshuang and Lan Xiaoke in tow, the trio spent most of their time hopping between snack stalls and restaurants, completely forgetting their original purpose for heading out.
Lan Xiaoke seemed determined to make up for decades of missed meals, and if Ye Chuan hadn’t held her back, she might have genuinely eaten herself sick.
“So full,” Lan Xiaoke groaned, rubbing her stomach. Fortunately, she could now use spiritual energy to digest food, so she wasn’t completely immobilized by the feast.
“Xiaoke, you ate way too much,” Bai Qianshuang remarked.
“But Qianshuang, you ate even more than me, didn’t you?” Lan Xiaoke shot back. Though she had ordered a lot, Bai Qianshuang had been right there with her, matching her bite for bite.
Bai Qianshuang’s gaze drifted away. “It’s different.”
“Alright, let’s focus on clothes now,” Ye Chuan interjected, steering them back on track. The original plan had been to buy Lan Xiaoke some new outfits, not just eat nonstop.
“I wanna check this out!” Lan Xiaoke spotted a clothing store and immediately dashed inside.
Ye Chuan and Bai Qianshuang followed, watching as Lan Xiaoke browsed the racks before pulling out a pretty light-blue dress.
“This one looks nice!”
A sales assistant, noticing potential customers, approached with a smile. “For our brand’s 10th anniversary, everything is 90% off! This dress is only 200 yuan.”
“90% off! Ye Chuan, it’s 90% off!” Lan Xiaoke whirled toward him excitedly. “Just one-tenth of the original price!”
Ye Chuan: “…”
Was there a chance the store had just inflated the original price tenfold before slapping on a fake discount?
“Just try it on and see if you like it,” Ye Chuan said, indifferent to the pricing tricks.
Lan Xiaoke happily skipped off to the fitting room.
A moment later, she peeked out from behind the curtain. “Uh…”
“What’s wrong?” Ye Chuan glanced at her.
“Ran into a tiny issue,” Lan Xiaoke whispered. Her eyes darted around, landing on Bai Qianshuang, who was still browsing, before she beckoned Ye Chuan closer. “Ye Chuan, come in here for a sec.”
“Huh?” Ye Chuan stepped inside and quickly understood the problem.
Lan Xiaoke had already changed into the dress, but something was clearly off…
“Hmm?” Ye Chuan’s gaze dropped to her chest—the side of the dress was completely gaping, barely containing her. It looked like the fabric had been forcibly stretched to its limits.
Now he got why she looked so awkward.
“This dress really doesn’t suit you,” Ye Chuan said, pressing lightly on the fabric to test its elasticity. It snapped right back.
“Heh.” Lan Xiaoke fiddled with her fingers before scratching her head sheepishly. “I’ve always had trouble finding clothes that fit.”
“At your size, most off-the-rack stuff won’t work,” Ye Chuan admitted after a brief struggle, then stepped out of the fitting room.
He called over the sales assistant, explained the situation, and bought the dress anyway.
“This young lady is indeed a tricky fit—her figure’s just too good,” the assistant remarked, eyeing Lan Xiaoke as she emerged. She then suggested, “How about something with stretch fabric? It’s flexible and breathable.”
“But I wanna wear a dress,” Lan Xiaoke pouted, clearly uninterested in the alternative.
“No need. We’ll take this one,” Ye Chuan said, pulling Lan Xiaoke out of the store.
Bai Qianshuang, who had been silently observing, finally spoke up. “Custom tailoring might be the better option.”
“But that takes time. Who knows how long a handmade piece would take?” Ye Chuan mused.
“True,” Bai Qianshuang agreed.
“So… I’m stuck with no clothes?” Lan Xiaoke blinked.
“You’ve got options,” Ye Chuan reassured her. His backpack still held her specialized gear—the [Succubus Set]—and in a pinch, she could wear something more… revealing, though it’d be a bit risqué.
“What about plus-size clothes?” Ye Chuan suggested.
“No way!” Lan Xiaoke crossed her arms defiantly. “I’ve got a great figure. I’m not wearing oversized stuff.”
To prove her point, she sucked in her stomach and struck a pose, chest proudly forward.
Ye Chuan poked her belly, making her deflate with a giggle. “Pfft—hahaha!”
“Fine, we’ll grab some temporary oversized clothes, then get you a custom piece,” Ye Chuan conceded. There were plenty of tailors in the urban village—maybe even the same elderly woman who’d made Luo's father’s suit.
“Okay,” Lan Xiaoke relented, then suddenly brightened. “Wait, I can just wear your T-shirts!”
“Mine?” Ye Chuan raised an eyebrow.
“Yeah!”
“Well… if you’re fine with it.” Since she’d suggested it, he saw no reason to drag her to more stores. “Let’s grab some boba tea and head back.”
“Me!”
Armed with drinks, the trio returned home.
“Try this.” Ye Chuan pulled a T-shirt from his closet and handed it to Lan Xiaoke.
“I’ll try it!” She took it but hesitated, staring at him.
“What?”
Lan Xiaoke, standing in Ye Chuan’s room, glanced around before asking, “Should I change here?”
“Up to you. Why?”
Her face instantly flushed. “If you wanna watch, I can change here. Heh.”
“Then go ahead.”
“Mmm… maybe not.” Despite her earlier boldness, under Ye Chuan’s gaze, she suddenly clutched the shirt and bolted from the room.
“It’s not like I haven’t seen it all before. Why’s she so flip-floppy?” Ye Chuan shook his head.
A while later, Lan Xiaoke reappeared in the T-shirt.
On her, it looked more like a mini-dress, ending mid-thigh—technically covering everything, yet somehow leaving little to the imagination.
“This’ll work for now,” Ye Chuan said.
Sniff sniff. Lan Xiaoke suddenly smelled the fabric.
“What?”
“It smells… nice,” she giggled, then abruptly blushed. “I’m gonna go play games!”
“That’s it?” Ye Chuan smirked.
“Eh?” Lan Xiaoke paused, considering his expression. “…Want me to keep you company tonight?”
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
Heart] Chen Yi traversed the cultivation world for eight hundred years, charging his way to the Tribulation Transcendence stage. Just as he was outwitting his 81st Heavenly Tribulation to ascend to immortality, he was suddenly pulled into a chat group called the "Multiverse Transmigrators Support Group." To his surprise, the group was filled with nothing but fresh-faced newbies who had just transmigrated. [Help! I transmigrated into a disgraced concubine in the cold palace, and the tyrant emperor is about to execute me!] [I ended up as a cannon-fodder villain, and the protagonist is still chasing me—WTF!] [I woke up as the protagonist’s father, but I’m about to be sacrificed in a ritual! What do I do? Urgent!!!] Chen Yi stared at the chaotic flood of desperate pleas in the group and fell into deep thought. "Seriously? You drag me into a newbie transmigrator chat group… only after I’m one step away from becoming an immortal?"
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
