"No... there's no turning back now."
Li Mucheng shook her head slightly. She knew everything was over the moment she took this step. But she had no choice—as long as she could have Ye Feng, she was willing to pay any price.
"No... don't..."
Ye Feng reached out to stroke Li Mucheng's head, but his hand hovered mid-air before finally dropping.
"......"
Li Mucheng glanced at Ye Feng, now completely unconscious, and without hesitation, spoke to the driver in the front seat.
"Drive."
"Yes..."
......
"Teacher... could something have happened to him?"
Su Yuxin dialed Ye Feng's phone several times, but each call ended in a busy tone. Her heart leaped into her throat, and the cold milk tea in her hand remained untouched.
"I can't take this anymore! I need to see if Brother Ye Feng is home!"
Unable to bear the torment of waiting, Su Yuxin tossed aside her milk tea and dashed toward the roadside, her twin ponytails swaying behind her.
......
"Ye Feng... Ye Feng... I just can’t get enough of his scent, no matter what~"
After breakfast, Xie Yuyan had inexplicably returned to bed, inhaling the lingering traces of Ye Feng in the sheets. Her gaze grew increasingly unfocused.
"I want... I want to pick up where we left off last night. Maybe when Ye Feng comes home tonight, we can try breaking our record?"
Lost in her fantasies, Xie Yuyan was abruptly pulled back to reality by a frantic knocking at the bedroom door.
!!!!
The flush on her cheeks instantly faded as she snapped back to alertness.
"Could it be Ye Feng? Did he finish class already? No... he said he was going to mediate between those two students today. Maybe they reconciled because of him, so he came back early?"
With that thought, Xie Yuyan threw off the covers and hurried barefoot toward the door, her legs still trembling slightly.
Bang bang
When no response came from inside, the knocking resumed.
"Honestly, darling, you’re so impatient. Was waiting a few seconds really that unbearable?"
Without suspicion, Xie Yuyan swung the door open, ready to welcome Ye Feng home—only to find a petite, adorable girl standing outside instead.
"Ye Feng..."
"Brother Ye Feng..."
Su Yuxin’s words died in her throat the moment she saw Xie Yuyan.
Their eyes locked, and the air between them crackled with tension.
"Who are you?!"
Su Yuxin was the first to speak, her voice laced with hostility as she glared at the alluring woman before her. Instinctively, she sensed this woman was a formidable rival.
"Little girl, trespassing is very rude, you know."
Xie Yuyan narrowed her eyes, her tone dripping with disdain. She was also puzzled—how did this girl know where she and Ye Feng lived?
"Where’s Brother Ye Feng?!"
Unfazed by Xie Yuyan’s height, Su Yuxin straightened her back and lifted her chin defiantly.
"It seems you didn’t understand me the first time. I won’t warn you again."
"Move!"
Su Yuxin bristled like an angry kitten, refusing to back down. All she cared about was finding Ye Feng and demanding answers.
"This is your third warning."
Xie Yuyan blocked Su Yuxin’s path, her expression icy. Her patience had worn thin—this girl was not only disrupting her peaceful life with Ye Feng but also stirring a dark urge within her. Still, she knew acting on it would shatter any hope of normalcy.
"I don’t care how many warnings you give! Brother Ye Feng is mine! You’re the outsider who should leave!"
"Oh? I’m the outsider?"
Xie Yuyan couldn’t help but laugh, her eyes mocking.
"Sweetheart, isn’t it more likely that you’re the intruder? Ye Feng and I have been living together for a long time—you just didn’t know."
She shrugged dismissively, as if Su Yuxin were nothing more than a naive child.
"I don’t believe it! Impossible! Brother Ye Feng would never be with someone like you!"
Though reality stared her in the face, Su Yuxin clung stubbornly to her last shred of hope.
"Let me in! You must have trapped Brother Ye Feng! You witch!"
"Tch."
Xie Yuyan had no interest in arguing further. The truth was plain—she just needed to protect Ye Feng.
Stepping aside, she watched as Su Yuxin stormed toward Ye Feng’s room. The moment the girl stepped inside, her final hope shattered.
There, on the bed, were unmistakable signs of two people sharing a life. The sight broke her completely, leaving her hollow, like a doll stripped of its soul.
"Brother... Ye Feng..."
"Alright, you’ve seen enough. Now get out of my house. And don’t ever interfere in my life with Ye Feng again."
Xie Yuyan leaned against the doorframe, arms crossed, her tone dripping with contempt. Yet, a flicker of unease pricked at her as she took in Su Yuxin’s devastated expression.
Thank goodness I got back in time. Any later, and our roles might’ve been reversed.
Just as Xie Yuyan prepared to shoo Su Yuxin out, a chilling realization struck her.
Ye Feng had gone to mediate between these two. So why was Su Yuxin here? That meant... she never saw Ye Feng at all.
Oh no. Ye Feng’s in trouble.
Xie Yuyan’s smug expression darkened in an instant.
If it wasn’t Su Yuxin... then the culprit had to be that woman—Li Mucheng.
What a devious trick.
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!" "......"
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
ine. During your journey, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her elder brother】 【You rely on each other, becoming each other's support】 【At the end of the simulation, you shield the now-grown girl with your life, sacrificing yourself to block numerous demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in the girl's eyes fades】 …… 【Second Simulation: You are transported to a world where steam and magic coexist】 【You immerse yourself in the study of magic, obsessed with its research. One day, while out, you encounter a half-blooded demon girl wandering the streets. You take her in as your student】 【You teach the demoness what it means to be human, show her the beauty of the world, and nurture her into a miracle that surpasses even the gods】 【At the end of the simulation, you die of old age in front of the nearly immortal demoness due to your mortal lifespan】 …… One simulation after another, one encounter after another. Xu Xi suddenly felt something was off: "Wait, you said you're coming to the real world to find me?"
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!
