Fang Zhiyi quickly grabbed her: "Did you forget about the male lead?"
Xue Wanning suddenly realized and sat back down.
Fang Zhiyi hadn’t expected that, as the villainess, she’d actually have a moment of standing up for justice.
Sure enough, as soon as Liu Yue raised her hand, her wrist was seized.
"If you dare hit her, I’ll make sure you regret it."
"If you dare hit her, I’ll make sure you regret it."
Fang Zhiyi spoke the exact same words as Gu Mingyu, and Xue Wanning looked at him in surprise.
Fang Zhiyi shrugged: "Same old cliché. Haven’t you read novels before?"
Xue Wanning shook her head: "Books put me to sleep."
The two of them watched as the girl got slapped and then stormed off angrily.
"They’re holding hands again, look, look! They’re holding hands again!" Xue Wanning kept nudging Fang Zhiyi with her elbow. Rubbing his sore shoulder, Fang Zhiyi chuckled helplessly: "I see, I see."
Who would’ve thought Xue Wanning was such a gossip fiend?
"Wow, it’s like a soap opera," Xue Wanning said, her face full of intrigue.
The two whispered back and forth, with Xue Wanning occasionally giggling softly, completely unaware that Gu Mingyu had already noticed them.
Just as Fang Zhiyi and Xue Wanning finished their hushed conversation, they looked up to find someone standing in front of them.
"Can you two keep it down? This is a library!" Gu Mingyu’s expression was stern.
Fang Zhiyi sighed inwardly. Barely escaped the cafeteria drama, and now this?
Xue Wanning shot to her feet, and Fang Zhiyi quickly stood up too, ready to hold her back if needed.
"Excuse me, you two were way louder than us just now," Xue Wanning retorted, locking eyes with Gu Mingyu. Huh, this guy was pretty handsome—more mature than the one from the cafeteria.
Fang Zhiyi’s heart skipped a beat. His gaze drifted past Gu Mingyu to Qin Xiaocao, who was buried in a book at the back. He clicked his tongue: "Seriously, your girlfriend doesn’t even care, so why are you making a fuss?"
Gu Mingyu froze. Girlfriend? His heart pounded, and a grin slowly spread across his face. "Just keep it down," he muttered before turning to leave. As he walked away, he caught sight of the melon seed shells on the table and frowned. No manners—who eats melon seeds in a library? But he didn’t say anything, just hurried back to Qin Xiaocao.
Xue Wanning stared after him until Fang Zhiyi nudged her: "Still staring, Miss Xue?"
Snapping out of it, Xue Wanning sighed. "What a shame. How does that Qin Xiaocao have so much charm?"
Fang Zhiyi shrugged. "No idea. Maybe it’s just fate."
Xue Wanning walked off, sighing dramatically, with Fang Zhiyi trailing behind, cursing inwardly. The heavens must be insane, forcing the villain role onto them just to spice up the protagonists’ story!
Luckily, Xue Wanning quickly returned to her usual self, dragging him out for dinner and some shopping. Before parting, she even shoved a bag of pastries into his hands.
"Take these back for your sister."
Watching Xue Wanning get into her car, Fang Zhiyi felt a pang of gratitude. Say what you will, but the villainess treated him well.
Back in his rented apartment—he could’ve stayed in the dorms, but he had to take care of his sister—he asked her a few casual questions about her day before starting dinner.
Still, he couldn’t shake the unease. After today, would Xue Wanning still get dragged into the main couple’s drama?
The next day at school, he immediately spotted a fuming Xue Wanning.
"What’s wrong, Miss Xue?" Fang Zhiyi had a bad feeling.
"You’re just in time! I’m so mad!" She stomped her foot.
She’d arrived early, waiting for Fang Zhiyi at the gate, when Qin Xiaocao suddenly came running—as if fleeing someone—without looking where she was going, crashing straight into Xue Wanning and knocking her to the ground.
But Qin Xiaocao didn’t even apologize before bolting. Just as Xue Wanning stood up to yell, someone else grabbed her, asking if she’d seen a short girl. Xue Wanning recognized him—it was that simp from the cafeteria yesterday.
In a foul mood, she snapped at him, and Fu Jingxuan recognized her too. They exchanged a few heated words before he ran off, leaving her fuming.
"That Qin Xiaocao is seriously messed up!" Xue Wanning grumbled.
Fang Zhiyi tried to calm her: "Let it go, Miss Xue. Think about how she acted yesterday."
Xue Wanning thought for a moment. "Just as rude!"
"No, don’t you think there’s something… off about her?" Fang Zhiyi tapped his temple.
After a pause, Xue Wanning gasped. "You’re right! I didn’t notice before. Is she… not all there?"
Hesitating, she added, "Do you think Fu Jingxuan knows?" Her expression turned strange.
Fang Zhiyi rolled his eyes. Seriously?
"More importantly, Miss Xue, aren’t you curious why one’s running and the other’s chasing?"
Xue Wanning blinked. "Oh, right?" Instantly, her face lit up with gossipy excitement.
"Let’s go!" Fang Zhiyi motioned for her to follow.
He didn’t have to get involved, but after thinking it over, abandoning her felt wrong. Might as well bring her along.
After some twists and turns, they actually found the pair. Qin Xiaocao stood with her head down, nervously wringing her hands.
"Xiaocao, why? You promised to watch the fireworks with me last night!"
"Jingxuan, I—I was studying with Mingyu, and by the time I remembered, it was too late…"
"Gu Mingyu? Again?" Fu Jingxuan’s voice rose, making Qin Xiaocao flinch. He immediately softened. "Xiaocao, why do you always spend time with him? Am I not good enough?"
"No, no! It’s not like that! We’re just… just friends…"
Unbeknownst to them, two people crouched in the bushes nearby, wide-eyed.
"Holy crap, it is a soap opera!" Xue Wanning whispered.
Fang Zhiyi nodded vigorously.
"Miss Xue, I’ve figured it out—if we follow Qin Xiaocao, we’ll never run out of drama."
Xue Wanning was thrilled. As a rich heiress, her usual hobbies were shopping and spending money, but this kind of real-life drama? Priceless!
"Zhiyi, starting tomorrow—no, today—keep an eye on Qin Xiaocao. Update me whenever there’s gossip."
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."
nto another world, I bought a slave for the first time, never expecting the silver wolf girl to be so cute... Lin Feng: I know it's cold, but you don't have to sneak into my bed! Yuna: Just sharing body warmth, if you dare do anything naughty, I'll definitely...
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.
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
