At this moment, Luo Xi was like an ostrich burying its head in the sand, not saying a word, while her other hand tugged at Ye Chuan's clothes.
Ye Chuan, on the other hand, just looked at her with a smile.
"Xi Xi is actually feeling shy, what is there to be shy about?" Seeing Luo Xi's rarely seen embarrassed appearance, even Luo's father found it a bit amusing.
Luo Xi peeked out half of her face from the edge of the table, her snow-white, pretty face already covered in a deep blush. "Bringing this up out of nowhere, I wasn't mentally prepared at all, and talking about getting engaged..."
She muttered the rest, making it hard to hear clearly.
Luo's mother continued to chat with Ye Chuan about the engagement. In fact, the two of them could have just gotten married and registered for their marriage certificate right after graduation. The reason they were considering an engagement first was that they were afraid they were too young, so this would give them a buffer period.
"I don't have any objections, what about you?" Ye Chuan turned his head to look at Luo Xi.
Luo Xi was completely unlike her usual self at this moment, simply covering her face with her palms. "Ah, I don't know."
Even her neck was red, making her look like she had been thoroughly roasted.
"Then we'll do as we discussed?"
"Mhm," Luo Xi let out a tiny sound, as faint as a mosquito.
Luo's mother and Luo's father watched the way Ye Chuan and Luo Xi interacted, unable to hold back their smiles.
...
After a simple dinner, Ye Chuan and Luo Xi said their goodbyes and headed back together.
On the way back to the rental apartment, Luo Xi stayed close to Ye Chuan, holding onto his arm with one hand.
The usually chatty Luo Xi was uncharacteristically quiet today. She just looked up from time to time, seemingly lost in a daze.
"What's wrong?"
"Time flies so fast. I just feel like so much has happened recently. Chuan Chuan suddenly became a rich man, and even became Ultraman."
"Isn't the description of Ultraman a bit inaccurate?"
"Humph~" Luo Xi opened her palm, and an ice crystal flower spun in the center of it. In truth, Luo Xi herself had never imagined that she would become an immortal cultivator.
"Chuan Chuan, let me ask you something."
"What is it?"
"Are you happy about getting engaged to me?" Luo Xi's question made Ye Chuan look a bit puzzled, but he still asked,
"Why do you ask that?"
"I mean... um..." Luo Xi hugged Ye Chuan a little tighter. "There are so many girls out there. If you get engaged to me... wouldn't the others lose their chance?"
"I'm not as pretty as Qian Shuang, and my figure isn't as good as Xiao Ke's. I'm bound to be a bit lacking, right?" Luo Xi's voice revealed her lack of confidence.
"Besides, we've known each other for so many years, there shouldn't be any sense of novelty left, right?"
Hearing this, Ye Chuan suddenly couldn't help but laugh.
"What, what are you laughing at?" Luo Xi swatted Ye Chuan.
"In my heart, you are the most important one, bar none." Ye Chuan's words made Luo Xi's face blush all over again.
"You only know how to say sweet things... You must have said this to plenty of girls."
"Hard to say," Ye Chuan chuckled.
"Hah, I knew it!" Luo Xi pretended to be angry, stretching out her little pincer-like fingers to pinch Ye Chuan's flesh, but was caught off guard when Ye Chuan suddenly lowered his head and kissed her.
Luo Xi instinctively pounded Ye Chuan a few times, but soon she held him tightly.
After a while, Ye Chuan looked at the almost dizzy Luo Xi and gave a soft chuckle, "What's wrong?"
"I-I don't know." Luo Xi averted her gaze. "Since you're engaged now, you're not allowed to back out!"
"There's no regret medicine!"
"When we actually register our marriage, I won't ever go get a divorce with you!" Luo Xi flicked her ponytail.
"Okay," Ye Chuan said. "Not even in death."
Hearing this, the corners of Luo Xi's mouth curled up, but she still said, "Don't say things like that, you won't die."
Ye Chuan pinched Luo Xi's soft cheek.
They embraced and kissed again.
...
After returning home, Lan Xiao Ke was on the sofa watching TV with Bai Qian Shuang. Turning around and seeing Ye Chuan and Luo Xi come back, Xiao Ke spoke up,
"Welcome baaack, was dinner good?"
"It was pretty good. After all, Uncle used to run a barbecue stall, so it was definitely delicious."
Ye Chuan didn't forget to ask Lan Xiao Ke, "What about you guys? What did you have for dinner?"
"McD's." Lan Xiao Ke pointed to the paper bags not far away, and Bai Qian Shuang also nodded gently, "Burgers."
Ye Chuan saw the paper bags piled up in the corner; there were a good dozen of them.
Obviously, they were all devoured by Bai Qian Shuang.
"The delivery guy earlier thought we were having a party," Lan Xiao Ke said. "Oh my~"
"As long as you're full. Did you feed Ke Ning and the others?"
"Yeah, that little robot took it in just now."
"Alright."
After checking in on the tenants, Ye Chuan sat down on the sofa with Luo Xi.
Bai Qian Shuang seemed to have noticed something and asked, "What's up with you two?"
"What do you mean?"
"I see that Luo Xi's lips are swollen."
"Ah?" Luo Xi hastily took out her phone and opened the selfie camera, finding that they were indeed red.
Lan Xiao Ke poked her head over. "I was wondering why you came back so late. Were you guys doing it in the wild?"
"No." Ye Chuan knocked Lan Xiao Ke on the head.
Why did this girl only have these kinds of things in her head?
However, Xiao Ke was definitely the one who liked it the most. Among all the special CGs, Lan Xiao Ke's were the most abundant and varied, and she enjoyed playing around the most.
"Then you ate something spicy?"
"No~" Luo Xi was a bit too embarrassed to talk about what happened tonight. As if trying to change the subject, she said, "U-Um, why don't we all chat for a bit before going to bed tonight?"
"Agreed!" Lan Xiao Ke immediately raised her hand enthusiastically. Hearing that they could get together and play San Guo Sha, she showed immense eagerness.
"Mhm." Bai Qian Shuang tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, having no objections.
Ye Chuan subconsciously supported his lower back. Hearing this, he just said, "Chatting and playing cards is fine too, uh..."
"Let's take a shower first then, and go to bed early tonight."
"Hehe, Luo Xi, I'll shower with you." Lan Xiao Ke immediately leaned over.
"Alright... Qian Shuang, do you want to join us?"
"I... I want to go with Ye Chuan."
"Then go ahead."
...
The night passed without words, XXXX.
The next day, when Ye Chuan woke up, he had no idea what time it was.
They had stayed up very late last night. After all, his luck had been pretty good, constantly drawing Barbarian Invasion for group attacks, completely wiping clean everyone's health bars. But later on, he didn't fare much better himself.
Pulling an all-nighter playing cards was actually quite exhausting.
"Hah... should I just skip going to Aether today?" Ye Chuan yawned. It seemed there was no need to visit the Succubus Brothel recently, but he still had to complete the Valoran quests.
"Forget it, taking a day off today won't hurt." Ye Chuan yawned again, then patted Lan Xiao Ke, who was pressing down on him. "Move over a bit."
"Smack... oh... woo... sleepy..."
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...
ver to a world of cultivation and returned invincible. Modern medicine is child's play compared to elixirs; technological might crumbles before true cultivation. My name is Qin Ning, Earth's sole cultivator!
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!
. 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!"
