"What are you doing? Not sleeping in the middle of the night, trying to act all deep and brooding?"
Ruan Wenkang, who had been sitting on the steps staring blankly at the night sky, was startled by the voice behind him. He immediately stood up and saw Fang Zhiyi's face.
"Hello, Principal." After a semester, Ruan Wenkang had veered away from his original suicidal trajectory. Instead, he was studying subjects he actually liked under a teacher's guidance, and his personality had become much more cheerful.
"I'm off the clock, so stop calling me Principal. Call me Brother Fang." Fang Zhiyi plopped down on the steps.
Ruan Wenkang was a little taken aback. "Um... that doesn't seem appropriate."
"What's inappropriate about it?"
"If I call you Brother Fang, you'd be of the same generation as Big Brother Chenghan."
Fang Zhiyi choked on his words a bit; he really hadn't thought about that.
He immediately changed the subject. "I heard from your teacher that when you went to work part-time and had to come back for school, your boss was quite reluctant to let you go?"
Ruan Wenkang chuckled. "That was all because of the teacher's connections, not me."
"Haven't thought about going home for a visit?"
At the mention of home, Ruan Wenkang stared off into the distance. "No, my parents had another baby brother. They probably don't want to see me anyway."
"I've read your file. When your dad dropped you off, he said you were quite extreme and often smashed things at home." Fang Zhiyi looked up at the sky. "No matter what, smashing things at home is wrong."
Ruan Wenkang nodded. "It was wrong of me to smash things, but it was mainly because my dad wanted to throw away all of my mom's belongings."
"Your mom?"
"My mom passed away, and my dad found me a stepmom. She treated me well on the surface, but in private, she would call me a jinx, a sullen freak, and things like that."
"Oh... you didn't tell your dad?"
"Principal, you don't know my dad. He believes my stepmom, not me. If I told him, the most I'd get is a beating." Ruan Wenkang spoke very calmly. "Before you came, I thought I was going to die here. But I figured, maybe it would be better if I died. At least my dad wouldn't have to agonize over how to get rid of me."
Fang Zhiyi sighed. "And now?"
"Now? Now I want to learn a bit more. Our teacher said that to live, a person must have goals and dreams."
Fang Zhiyi looked at the student. He seemed to have grown quite a bit taller than before. "Yeah... so live well and grow into an adult." He stood up. "Children can have dreams, but adults can make those dreams come true." Fang Zhiyi winked at him.
"Go to bed early. School starts tomorrow."
Watching Fang Zhiyi walk away, Ruan Wenkang suddenly stood up. "Principal, you haven't asked what my dream is!"
Fang Zhiyi didn't turn around, simply raising his hand and waving. "Dreams are the kind of thing that stop working once you say them out loud!"
"He was talking about wishes, right?" Ruan Wenkang was startled by a voice behind him. He turned around to see two other classmates and couldn't help but smile bitterly. "Are there really this many night owls?"
"You're allowed to stay up, but we aren't allowed to come out for a stroll?" came another voice from the left.
"Alright, alright. If this were the old days, we'd all be standing on the athletic field together until dawn."
One month later.
"Happy Life School? What kind of school is this?" A passerby looked at the list of award winners, feeling somewhat bewildered.
"I heard it's a special school. All those annoying, troublesome students are sent there by their parents," someone said.
"Never heard of it. Students from this kind of private school can actually win a design award? You've got to be kidding me."
"Recently, someone leaked that some private schools physically punish and abuse their students."
"Then it's not surprising. If you asked me to study voluntarily, I wouldn't be able to absorb a thing. But if you held a knife to my throat and forced me to study, I might just win an award too."
A reporter standing to the side pricked up her ears to listen to their discussion, her eyes filled with a thirst for gossip.
After she left, one of the people who had just been participating in the discussion suddenly turned to look at the van she got into, his eyes full of calculation.
That very night, she and her cameraman drove to the main gate of the Happy Life School. Looking at the barbed wire on the surrounding walls, she immediately made up her mind about the nature of this school.
"Are we really going in?" The cameraman was a bit scared.
"Nothing ventured, nothing gained!" the female reporter said firmly.
Just as she was pondering how to sneak in, the cameraman nudged her. Following the direction of his pointing finger, she was thrilled to discover that the security guard had actually fallen asleep, and the main gate was left slightly ajar.
"Hurry!" She immediately led the cameraman through the crack in the gate and into the school.
Right after the two of them passed through, the security guard lifted his head and took a glance. "Aren't they idiots? What is the Principal thinking?"
Hu Die was the city's biggest gossip reporter, famous for her audacity and her knack for twisting the truth. At the very least, many people loved reading the explosive scoops she broke.
This time, she had originally just gone to do a casual interview about the youth design competition. Just as she was feeling bored, she caught wind of a piece of gossip from the bystanders, and she was instantly thrilled.
And now, walking through the school at night, Hu Die was so excited that her heart was about to leap out of her chest.
Soon, she discovered a problem. It was late at night, yet several students were still standing blankly on the athletic field. She immediately approached them.
"Students, what are you doing here?"
One student cast a sidelong glance at her. "I, I, I..."
Behind Hu Die's back, where she couldn't see, another student pinched him and took over the conversation. "We didn't pay attention in class, so we are being punished by having to stand here."
Hu Die let out an "Oh" and then nodded. It seemed these students were all quite afraid of this school.
"Isn't it normal to be punished by standing if you don't pay attention in class?"
"We have to stand here until tomorrow morning. The principal said it only ends when we pass out!"
Hu Die's eyes brimmed with excitement. "Good, good, good."
She signaled for the cameraman behind her to follow, then turned and walked away.
Next was a girl kneeling on the floor, scrubbing it. Facing Hu Die's interview, she timidly said that because she accidentally bumped into a teacher, she was being punished by having to scrub the floor.
Hu Die felt that today's trip was not in vain. Everywhere she went, she encountered students being subjected to corporal punishment. There were even students pathetically begging her for food. Hu Die agreed verbally, but then turned her back and walked away.
"Let me go! Let me go! I'll play a heinous, unforgivable teacher!" A teacher hiding in a nearby warehouse watched secretly, while another teacher pulled him back. "Forget it, your acting is way too over-the-top!"
"Why aren't they leaving yet? I want to go back to sleep."
"Wait a little longer."
"Are you saying that if you're disobedient, the teachers will get physical and beat you?" Hu Die's face was full of excitement, without the slightest hint of pity.
The person she was interviewing nodded. "They hit us really hard, even kicking us. Like here, and here..." She gestured on her body, making Hu Die nod repeatedly. Suddenly, there was a noise behind them. Just as Hu Die was about to turn her head, someone suddenly shouted, "Who's there!"
Hu Die immediately grabbed the cameraman and ran. It would be huge trouble if they were cornered by these people!
agon king storylines. At the start, I obtained the "Ultimate Lackey System" - the more I act as a lackey, the stronger I become. What else could I do? I chose to become the personal henchman of the ultimate villain, Su Muwan. I provoke all sorts of chosen ones, snatch away their opportunities, and commit every evil deed imaginable. You ask who's behind me? Hmph! You're not worthy of knowing my lady's name! ...... ....... I am Su Muwan, the eldest daughter of the Su family. Since childhood, I've possessed extraordinary talent in martial arts, which led to my arrogant and domineering personality in my past life. I was even foolish enough to repeatedly challenge those favored by heaven, ultimately resulting in a tragic death. In this life, I must behave and absolutely cannot walk the same path again!! However... SLAP!! "So you're the Dragon King, huh?!" When I saw my little lackey swagger over and viciously slap the Dragon King who was hiding his identity, I felt my heart sink. Su Muwan's suspended heart finally died as she watched Qin Luo, her utterly loyal lackey, standing before her. She fainted on the spot from shock. Heaven is determined to destroy me!! (Pure love 1v1, light-hearted, no angst, single female lead, villain, reincarnation, lackey)
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."
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?"
