Fang Zhiyi scratched his head. “It’s been a long time since I’ve carried out a mission step by step. What time is it?”
Little Hei replied, “Gu Yuan... has already met his online friend in person.”
Fang Zhiyi rolled his eyes. “Seriously?”
He strode out the door, just in time to run into the governor hurrying toward him.
“Governor, where are you going?”
“To open a sta—” Fang Zhiyi caught himself. “I heard something went wrong. I’m going to take a look in person.”
“Huh? There’s no need for that, Governor. Is this little matter really worth your personal attention?”
Fang Zhiyi shot him a glance. “If I remember correctly... that planet is under your jurisdiction too, isn’t it?”
The governor awkwardly scratched his head. “Yes. That’s precisely why I came. There’s something even more troublesome than a war.”
“Oh?”
“Young Master Gu secretly went to the front lines!” the governor said in a mysterious tone.
“Oh.”
“Wait, Governor, aren’t you worried?” The governor was practically frantic. “That’s the heir of a great noble family—the Gu family! If anything happens to him here, we’ll be in serious trouble!”
Fang Zhiyi merely stared at him thoughtfully.
Seeing Fang Zhiyi deep in thought, the governor hurriedly continued, “My suggestion is that we have the Star Region Army halt its attack for now. Ensuring Young Master Gu’s safety should be our top priority!”
Fang Zhiyi nodded. “Go on.”
Seeing his attitude, the governor instantly relaxed. “It’s only one planet. If we can win the Gu family’s favor in exchange, then, Governor, pardon my frankness, but that would be worth more than decades of hard work.”
Fang Zhiyi slowly nodded.
“In that case, come with me.”
“We have to go there ourselves?” the governor asked reluctantly.
“If we don’t, who’ll know that you did anything?” Fang Zhiyi countered.
The governor immediately understood. “Exactly, exactly! As expected of the Governor!”
As he watched Fang Zhiyi board the warship, the governor felt a surge of excitement. He had already sent a message to the Gu family in the imperial capital, making his position clear. Becoming a lackey of the Gu family had far better prospects than remaining the administrator of a single planet.
“Governor, are you planning to pilot it yourself?”
“Obviously.”
“It’s rare to see the Governor in such a hurry. Huh? Governor, why are you pressing the alarm?”
“Governor, that’s the seat adjustment.”
“Governor, that’s the main cannon...”
“Governor, you don’t actually know how to fly this thing, do you—wait!”
The warship rocketed forward, accompanied by the administrator’s screams and Fang Zhiyi’s wild laughter.
On the planet where the war was raging, Hu Lie, the stubble-faced commander of the Ninth Legion’s vanguard battalion, stared grimly at the reconnaissance images transmitted by the drones.
“Strange! Those bastards’ camps are all deserted after just one night! Send word to the air force and have them search the area thoroughly! If that doesn’t work, mark every suspicious target as hostile! Carpet-bomb the whole area!”
The adjutant’s face paled. “That won’t do. What about... what about Gu Yuan...”
Hu Lie took the cigarette from his lips and exhaled a cloud of smoke. “So what if it’s Gu Yuan? As a member of the reconnaissance team, he stole a stealth mech and entered enemy territory without authorization. That’s no different from treason!”
“But, sir, he’s...”
“I don’t care who he is. All I know is that those alien scum have killed a lot of our people.” Hu Lie glared at his adjutant, intimidating him into silence. Even so, the adjutant still forced himself to speak.
“Sir, the legion commander has already issued the order. All units are to withdraw. Our first priority is to ensure Gu Yuan’s safety.”
“Hmph! The entire Thirty-Second Star Region is full of cowards and idiots! The Star Region Governor is nothing but a useless bootlicker!” Hu Lie clenched his fist and slammed it onto the console in front of him. Thinking of the positions his soldiers had fought and died to secure, only to hand them back to those alien bastards, Hu Lie burned with anger.
Before he could finish, a commotion suddenly erupted outside.
“What’s going on?” Hu Lie knitted his brows.
A moment later, someone came running in. “This is bad! A warship is heading straight for us! It looks like... it looks like it’s going to crash!”
“What?” Hu Lie was startled. He rose and hurried outside. The moment he stepped out, he saw a massive warship fly almost directly over their base. It showed no sign of knowing how to land and slammed straight into the mountain range in the distance.
A colossal cloud of black smoke billowed into the sky.
For a moment, everyone in the surrounding Star Region Army stood stunned.
“Sir! We’ve received a message from that warship!” a communications officer hurried over.
“What does it say?”
“It says...” The officer swallowed hard.
Hu Lie’s eyes widened. “What?”
“The blue-skins hijacked the Star Region Governor’s warship and killed the administrator. The Governor is currently surrounded!”
Hu Lie’s heart shook violently. If the aliens had merely slaughtered civilians before, it might not have been enough to make the Empire take notice. But now they had killed a planet’s administrator—and the governor was trapped in enemy territory!
“Report this immediately! Then give the order: the mech units are to advance! We must rescue the Governor!”
A fanatical gleam flashed in Hu Lie’s eyes. This governor had appeared at precisely the right moment and was playing precisely the right role.
No one could refuse such an order.
Even though they wanted desperately to curry favor with the noble Gu family, no one could afford to bear responsibility for the death of a Star Region Governor.
The Star Region Army, which had been withdrawing in stages, began advancing again—this time toward the crashed warship.
The rank-and-file soldiers moved forward with determined expressions. They hated the blue-skins more than anyone. Along the way, they had seen nothing but the corpses of humans hanging from posts and burned-out settlements. Many of their comrades had died at the hands of these creatures as well. Yet when their superiors ordered them to withdraw, they had no choice but to obey.
Now, however, the Governor trapped in the enemy’s midst had given them a reason to advance once more.
At the hatch of the massive warship, Fang Zhiyi sat cross-legged on the floor. He reached into the administrator’s arms and pulled out an exquisite lighter, then fished a cigarette from the man’s breast pocket. He lit it himself, took a drag, and looked down at the blue-skins staring him over.
“This thing isn’t easy to fly. I almost missed the crash site,” Fang Zhiyi muttered.
Little Hei mocked him. “They told you to wait for the captain to come over. But no, you had to start fiddling with it yourself.”
The blue-skins studied him suspiciously. From Fang Zhiyi’s standard-issue coat, they could tell that he held a fairly high rank.
One of the blue-skins suddenly spoke in halting Blue Star language. “You... who?”
Fang Zhiyi glanced at it. “Your daddy.”
The blue-skin clearly didn’t understand and asked again, “You... who?”
“Me? I’m a Star Region Governor trapped in the middle of an encirclement.” Fang Zhiyi finally gave a serious answer.
The blue-skin stared at him in shock. After thinking for a moment, it pointed one long, slender finger at the corpse beside Fang Zhiyi.
“You... why kill him? He not your kind?”
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?"
] This is a dark fantasy-themed dating simulation game. The main gameplay involves containing various monster girls and investigating the truth of a world shrouded in mist alongside your companions. However, due to his love for the dark and bizarre atmosphere, Luo Wei ended up turning a dating game into a detective mystery game. Women? Women only slow down his quickdraw! To Luo Wei, the female leads in the game are more like tools to perfectly clear levels and squeeze out rewards. For Luo Wei, flirting with every girl he meets and then discarding them is standard procedure. Worried about characters losing affection points? No need. With his maxed-out charm stat, Luo Wei is practically a "human incubus." A little psychological manipulation and those points come right back. It's a bit scummy, but the paper cutout heroines in the game won't actually come at him with real cleavers. However... Luo Wei has transmigrated. He's accidentally entered the second playthrough of this game. His past actions have caused all the girls to transform into terrifying yanderes. Due to the game's setting, most of the heroines he once contained are "troubled girls." Obsessive, twisted, mentally unstable, all aggressive yanderes... The type who will kill you if they can't have you... Luo Wei wants to cry but has no tears left. "I really just want to survive..." In short, this is a story of battling wits and engaging in a love-hate relationship with yanderes.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
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."
