"Heh... hehehe..."
A chilling laugh echoed from a bedroom in the dead of night. Xie Yuyan stared at the bed she had once treasured, now reduced to someone else's plaything. Her desolate eyes seemed on the verge of shedding tears of blood.
Her crimson bangs obscured her forehead as the temperature in the room seemed to drop several degrees. At that moment, Xie Yuyan pulled a dagger from her pocket and began stabbing the blanket repeatedly—
"Hahaha... hahahaha..."
"Why... why can she have it but not me? Why?! Why?!"
White cotton stuffing scattered everywhere as the blade tore through the fabric, but Xie Yuyan didn’t stop. She kept slashing and piercing the unfamiliar blanket with relentless fury.
"Why... Ye Feng... why you..."
......
"Drip... drip..."
Water droplets fell from Ye Feng’s hair as he stood before the fogged-up mirror, lost in thought.
Before him was the system’s interface.
He remembered hearing the system’s alarm earlier while carrying food back to his room, but at the time, he hadn’t bothered to check. Now, with a moment of quiet, he finally had the chance to investigate what had gone wrong.
"No special missions... no emergency tasks... So why did the alarm go off for no reason? It happened before too, but then it stopped."
After skimming through, Ye Feng found no clues. But as he flipped through the records, he suddenly noticed a drastic change in Xie Yuyan’s progress bar.
"How did Xie Yuyan’s progress suddenly jump to 99%? Does this mean my mission is almost complete?"
A surge of excitement ran through him. After so long with no breakthroughs, today had brought unexpected progress. The progress bars for the others had also shifted—
Li Mucheng was at 50%, Su Yuxin at 30%, while Shen Mengli lagged far behind at less than 10%.
"That doesn’t make sense. I’ve spent so much time with Mengli—why is her progress so low? Meanwhile, Xie Yuyan, whom I haven’t seen in ages, is almost maxed out. I thought this was based on time spent together, but apparently not..."
"I wonder if Xie Yuyan is even still in Shu City... She left without a word and hasn’t contacted me since. If I ever see her again, I’ll make sure she learns her lesson."
"Huh?"
As Ye Feng idly browsed the exploration tab, he noticed the first entry had a faint trace of progress. After scrutinizing the system’s cryptic hint, his brows furrowed in confusion.
[Shadow Figure]
[Exploration: 1%]
[Evasion Count: 0]
[Reward: Increase exploration to unlock more rewards, or raise evasion count for additional benefits.]
......
"What the...? What is this? 'Shadow Figure'... 'Evasion Count'?"
Ye Feng was utterly baffled by these terms that seemed unrelated to anything he knew. His mind struggled to process the flood of unfamiliar information.
"Is the system telling me to track down this 'Shadow Figure'? But what does 'evasion' have to do with it?"
A cold draft seeped through the door, snapping him out of his thoughts. For now, he’d set this mystery aside until he got home.
After drying off, Ye Feng stepped out of the bathroom. Noticing Shen Mengli’s blanket shifting slightly, he quietly returned to his own bed. Lying down, his mind wandered through memories—from his past to the present, the moments he’d shared with Shen Mengli.
Truthfully, he had no idea when she’d developed these feelings for him.
He’d already tried talking her out of it twice, but she refused to give up. It wasn’t like he could control her thoughts or force her to stop. That just wasn’t realistic.
At least her foot was healing bit by bit. Once she fully recovered, it would likely be time for them to part ways. Just like how he’d bought Xie Yuyan a house—his way of making amends...
After all, their situations were partly his fault. Once he felt he’d compensated enough, maybe his guilt would finally fade.
"Shadow Figure"... It sounded dangerous. But why explore it? Was the system guiding him toward something? Well, he’d take it one step at a time. Maybe answers would come soon. At least the system was finally showing signs of life.
Ye Feng turned his attention to the window. From the sound outside, the heavy rain had weakened. By morning, it might stop completely, making it easier for him and Shen Mengli to return home.
As he closed his eyes, an image of Xie Yuyan flashed in his mind.
When would that woman come back? He’d already prepared gifts and a house for her—she’d be thrilled, right? Then again, she was always so unpredictable. When she returned, he’d make sure she remembered never to disappear like that again.
......
"Hah... hah... hah..."
Meanwhile, in another bedroom far away, Xie Yuyan clutched one of Ye Feng’s personal garments, inhaling deeply as if it could soothe her seething rage.
"Ye Feng... Are you running away because you’re scared of me? Well, I’d love to meet the woman you’ve allowed into your bed. She must be special, huh? Don’t worry—no matter where you hide, I’ll find you... And then, let’s see just how far you can run~"
With that, she plunged her dagger into Shen Mengli’s blanket. A rustling sound followed as she slipped beneath Ye Feng’s covers......
Finally... home... So why did she feel nothing but emptiness?
Xie Yuyan lay still, her delicate brows furrowed in silent agony.
"I’ll find you... I will..."
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?"
end. Thus one must continue to cultivate, and become a saint or great emperor, in order to prolong one's life. Chen Xia, however, completely reversed this. Since his transmigration, he has gained immortality, and also a system that awards him with attribute points for every year he lives. Thus between the myriad worlds, the legend of an unparalleled senior appeared. "A gentleman takes revenge; it is never too late even after ten thousand years." "When you were at your peak I yielded, now in your old age I shall trample on you." - Chen Xia
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!
ts me of treason?" "Correct. The host must return to the capital and gradually build up influence." "Wait—I have half a million soldiers, and you want me to go back to the capital to 'build influence'?" "Host, you are currently the Northern Garrison General, loyal to the Great Xia Dynasty." "Of course I am loyal to Great Xia! Absolutely loyal!" "But you keep referring to yourself as 'We'..." "Never mind the details! Summon all the regional commanders and military officers! We suspect treacherous officials are manipulating the court! They shall march with Us to the capital and purge the corrupt!" "......"
