"Xuexue, let me tell you, when I say one, that stinky Gu Luo wouldn't dare say two."
Gu Ximan affectionately hooked her arm around Lu Xuexue's, pressing the elevator button with confidence. "Stick with me, and we can easily play in stinky Gu Luo's room till twelve... no, eleven."
At the last moment, she remembered they had school the next day and quickly corrected herself.
Well... eleven was plenty of fun anyway.
Since the two had already formed a budding romantic alliance, Gu Ximan generously invited Lu Xuexue to stay over at her place.
Of course, she didn’t forget to inform her family first.
But since Gu Luo hadn’t replied to her message, she had to ask Sister Ling instead.
Luo Shuling, ever the most easygoing, agreed without hesitation.
"Manman, you really are the little sister Gu Luo loves and spoils the most," Lu Xuexue said, her sparkling eyes crinkling into crescents, her heart brimming with uncontainable joy.
She never expected happiness to come so suddenly.
Just the thought of chatting and playing games with Brother Gu on the same bed at night made her heart feel drenched in honey—sweet and giddy.
Truly, as long as Manman agreed, everything would fall perfectly into place.
Lu Xuexue was now convinced that Gu Luo harbored the same feelings for Gu Ximan.
Otherwise, how else could those red marks on his chest be explained?
It was worth mentioning that she had also been diligently taking some "supplements" lately—not aiming for Gu Ximan’s stunning figure, but at least a third of it.
Otherwise, what if Brother Gu found her lacking?
At this thought, Lu Xuexue sighed inwardly, recalling a classic line from the card game Fight the Landlord—"Pair of Aces? Can't take that."
And so, chatting and laughing, the two soon arrived at the apartment.
"Stinky Gu Luo! Didn’t you see my message?!" Gu Ximan yelled inside while bending down to change her shoes, her voice laced with playful annoyance.
Yet, the apartment remained silent, with no response.
"Strange, where is he?"
Muttering to herself, she rummaged through the shoe cabinet and handed Lu Xuexue a fresh pair of slippers.
Once Lu Xuexue had changed, the two stepped into the living room—only to find Luo Shuning curled up on the sofa, eyes shut, phone pressed tightly to her forehead, clearly anxiously waiting for a reply.
"Sister Ning... what’s wrong?"
Seeing this, Gu Ximan hurried over and gently patted her shoulder.
"Ah—"
Luo Shuning snapped out of her daze, relaxing slightly when she saw who it was, forcing a weak smile. "It’s nothing..."
Then, quickly shifting the topic, she greeted Lu Xuexue behind Gu Ximan. "Xuexue, welcome to our home."
"Good evening, Senior Shuning," Lu Xuexue replied timidly, waving her small hand with a shy smile.
She knew full well that Luo Shuning and Gu Luo shared a special bond.
She still remembered that sweet photo of the two taken at Ruixue Xingcheng.
But times had changed—as long as she stuck with Manman, she wouldn’t lose.
"Sister Ning, where’s my brother? He didn’t reply to my message either."
Distracted by the exchange, Gu Ximan didn’t press about Luo Shuning’s odd behavior earlier and instead asked another question.
Hearing this, Luo Shuning opened her mouth but couldn’t bring herself to answer.
If she told the truth, this brother-obsessed little sister would surely shed tears.
After a pause, she forced a calm smile. "Big Brother went out to eat with Uncle. Maybe he had a few drinks, so he didn’t check his phone."
"What?! They went out to eat—without me?! How dare they hog all the good food?!" Gu Ximan puffed up her cheeks in outrage, then cursed indignantly:
"Stinky Gu Luo, I hope you get so drunk some bad woman has to carry you home!"
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't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
iaobai: "Councilor Dad, front me some funds. I want to hire ten thousand professional miners for a project!" [Five-Star Mission Issued: Capture the leader of the Blood Heaven Pirate Gang, who is on the run in the Radiant Star Sector. It is said the gang has over a hundred members. Proceed with caution.] Lu Xiaobai: "Councilor Dad, lend me the family's hundred-thousand-strong Lu Army!" [Seven-Star Mission Issued: Subdue a juvenile Void Dragon Beast.] Lu Xiaobai: "Councilor Dad, I'm taking your tamed Void Dragon Beast King out for a family reunion!" I said, System, don't you have any slightly more challenging missions? You're just not up to par! [Nine-Star Mission Issued: Become the Human Councilor.] Lu Xiaobai: "Dad, there's a small matter I'd like to discuss with you..."
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
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!
