"Gurgle."
The kettle was boiling, and in this rare quiet morning, Ye Chuan sat at the dining table, enjoying a breakfast he hadn’t had in days.
Though it had been some time for Ye Chuan and Bai Qianshuang, for Lan Xiaoke and the others, it had only been a single night.
Bai Qianshuang stared blankly at her breakfast, perhaps still adjusting after returning from the Tianxuan Continent. She simply held her bread, lost in thought.
"What’s wrong, Qianshuang? Not hungry?" Luo Xi noticed Bai Qianshuang’s dazed expression and asked, "Should I make you some noodles instead?"
Bai Qianshuang slowly snapped out of it. She instinctively glanced at Ye Chuan before shaking her head lightly and starting to eat the bread.
"Ye Chuan…" she began.
"Hmm?"
"Is this… how you live every day?"
Ye Chuan paused, but he understood the underlying question—whether he traveled between worlds daily.
"Pretty much," he replied with a smile.
"Doesn’t it… tire you out?"
The question caught him off guard.
Tired?
He had never really considered whether constantly moving between worlds was exhausting. But he understood why Bai Qianshuang asked. The stark contrast between the Tianxuan Continent and this world must have left her feeling disjointed.
For Ye Chuan, the adventure worlds were more like a game.
Log in, play.
Log out, sleep.
"It’s fine. I’m used to this pace," he answered.
Bai Qianshuang quietly continued eating.
To the others, however, their cryptic conversation carried a completely different meaning.
Especially Lan Xiaoke, whose ears perked up—
[Ye Chuan, is this how you live every day?] (Ye Chuan, do you do it every night?)
[Pretty much.] (Yeah, every night—either with you, Xiaoke, or Luo Xi.)
[Doesn’t it… tire you out?] (Isn’t doing it every day exhausting?)
[It’s fine. I’m used to this pace.] (No problem. I can handle it daily.)
Lan Xiaoke gently patted Bai Qianshuang’s shoulder.
"Don’t worry, Qianshuang. You’ll get used to it."
Bai Qianshuang: "…"
"Xiaoke, have you… been there too?" Bai Qianshuang was taken aback. Had her junior sister also visited the Tianxuan Continent?
"Been there?" Lan Xiaoke blinked, then grinned mischievously. "Oh, heh… yeah, I’ve been there a few times. Mostly ‘cause Ye Chuan’s really good at it."
Bai Qianshuang thought of how Ye Chuan had saved her and nodded in agreement. "Yes, Ye Chuan is very strong."
"Right? Super strong!" Lan Xiaoke nodded vigorously.
Ye Chuan: "…"
Wait, why does it feel like you two are on completely different wavelengths?
But he didn’t bother correcting them.
"Chuan, we have school after breakfast," Luo Xi reminded him.
"Ah, right." Ye Chuan checked his phone. "I have to go out this afternoon."
"Where to?" Luo Xi asked curiously.
"Work stuff."
Now that his pharmaceutical company and the Superhuman Alliance were steadily progressing, he, as the behind-the-scenes boss, had to check in occasionally.
Superhumans often hunted monsters near dimensional rifts, and injuries were inevitable—most couldn’t even make it to a hospital in time. That’s where his potions came in.
Even the most basic healing potion, just enough to keep a superhuman alive, was worth a fortune.
In other words, Ye Chuan no longer had to worry about money in this world.
If not for the system requiring spirit stones, magic crystals, and other rare materials to unlock higher levels, he could have maxed everything out with his wealth alone.
Well, except for that one item needed to ascend to the Heavenly Emperor realm.
"Work, huh? Alright." Luo Xi wanted to spend more time with him, but knowing it was business, she didn’t push further.
She knew she couldn’t help much, so she focused on not being a burden and being the best support she could be.
That’s why she woke up early every day to buy ingredients and cook for everyone. With her storage ring, she even found joy in preparing meals for her loved ones.
Breakfast ended, and Lan Xiaoke tugged at Bai Qianshuang’s sleeve.
"Qianshuang, wanna play games? Or are you gonna cultivate?"
"I need to cultivate," Bai Qianshuang said.
Though the Soul Transformation realm made her nearly invincible on the Tianxuan Continent, facing the Qingyun Sect’s elders—also at the same realm—had made her feel vulnerable.
She wasn’t just seeking revenge for the Jade Void Sect. She refused to be a burden to Ye Chuan.
She couldn’t afford to die.
"Alright, I’ll just—" Lan Xiaoke’s words were cut short as Bai Qianshuang grabbed her collar.
"OvO?" Lan Xiaoke turned her head.
"Xiaoke, cultivate with me. You’ve been slacking," Bai Qianshuang said softly.
"I’m a pet."
"You’re human," Bai Qianshuang insisted. "You’re my junior sister of the Jade Void Sect."
Lan Xiaoke: "…"
"Meow." She blinked innocently.
"Resorting to meowing to avoid cultivation?" Bai Qianshuang’s voice turned icy. "Come. Inside. Now."
"Nooo!" Lan Xiaoke wailed as Bai Qianshuang dragged her into the room. Before the door closed, she could still be heard struggling pitifully.
"Ah—!"
"…"
Once the door shut, faint sounds of Bai Qianshuang lecturing Lan Xiaoke drifted out—like an elder sister disciplining her wayward junior.
Ye Chuan understood Bai Qianshuang’s insistence. With the Jade Void Sect’s revival at stake, strength was the only way forward.
"Hopefully, Xiaoke can improve enough to help me unlock more items from the system’s shop," he mused aloud.
"Chuan, let’s go," Luo Xi said, wrapping her arms around his.
Ye Yue clung to his other arm. "Brother, let’s go~"
Trapped between two pairs of soft, differently-sized "slimes," Ye Chuan coughed lightly. "Yeah, let’s go. But… how do we walk like this?"
"Luo Xi, you should let go first. Brother can’t move like this," Ye Yue teased, her crimson eyes glinting beneath her ash-white hair.
"Fine." Luo Xi reluctantly released him, seeing his discomfort.
"Ahem, it’s fine. You can both hold on."
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...
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.”
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
e school belle recognized by the whole school, a genius girl from the kendo club. She also has a hidden identity, the youngest legendary demon hunter. Chen Shuo just transmigrated and found himself turned into a weak, helpless little vampire. He was caught by Su Xiyen and taken home at the very beginning. Since then, Chen Shuo's life creed only had two items. "First, classmate Su Xiyen is always right." "Second, if classmate Su Xiyen is wrong, please refer back to item one." Many years later, Chen Shuo, who had turned back into a human, led a pair of twins to appear in front of all the vampires to share the secret of how he turned back into a human. "It's simple, I tricked a female demon hunter into becoming my wife!"
