Fang Qi raised his hand and hailed a taxi.
No way...
He didn't dare take the subway again!
He didn't want his legs broken!
...
After getting out of the car, it was the same old shopping mall.
Unlike the pathetic state of being drenched by the torrential rain last night, the sky was clear and bright now, and the neon signs on the mall's exterior wall looked a bit worn out.
Fang Qi took the elevator up to the third floor and arrived at this...
familiar yet unfamiliar old cinema.
In another timeline, this cinema had long been taken over by the awakened AIs of Twilight, transformed into that ghost cinema he still couldn't forget to this day.
But in this timeline...
The cinema was still operating normally.
It was a weekday morning, so there weren't many people in the cinema. Only a few couples were cuddled up in the lounge area.
The movie listings weren't numerous either—the electronic screen scrolled through just a handful of film titles.
And Fang Qi...
He strolled around the lobby with his hands behind his back, like some old cadre!
One by one, he scanned the movie posters.
What kind of movie would his wife like to watch?
A romance? Sci-fi? Animated?
Too bad Liguang couldn't speak, couldn't tell him what she wanted to see.
So...
He'd just have to pick what he liked!
Heh heh!
Just as he was mulling over whether to pick some sci-fi action flick...
His gaze suddenly froze!
...Huh?!
He saw...
A familiar movie title!
A title that made his heart race!
—"The Last Heartbeat."
Fang Qi was instantly stunned for a moment!
Huh?!
Wait...!
Why is this still...?!
A chill ran down his spine!
No way, right?!
Did this world also have...!
...Hmm?
He blinked, looking at the poster.
...Oh.
No, it wasn't that.
...The poster was completely different!
It was completely different from that other "The Last Heartbeat"!
That previous one was an autobiographical film about the awakened AI Xiaoyue.
—[Based on true history, telling the story of a forbidden love across species during the Second Machine Crisis.]
But on this poster in front of him...
Fang Qi squinted slightly, examining it.
Ruins, fire trucks, stretchers, survivors helping each other...
And in the smoke, a pair of lovers embracing tightly?
The subtitle read—
"The Last Love in an Earthquake."
He overheard a young couple nearby talking.
"Hey hey, should we watch this one?"
"'The Last Heartbeat'? Isn't this an old movie? Why is it being shown again?"
"Because it's related to earthquakes, right? Natural disasters are breaking out everywhere else right now—earthquakes, tsunamis, all that. Speaking of which, we've been pretty lucky around here..."
"Dude, what's this theater thinking?! Showing this now?! That's so inauspicious!"
"What's inauspicious about it? I heard it has a lot of self-rescue tips for earthquakes in it. Consider it educational."
"Oh... I guess that makes sense? No wonder it's back in theaters..."
Then Fang Qi watched the couple go buy tickets.
The girl linked arms with her boyfriend, chatting about how to take cover during an earthquake as they walked.
Fang Qi stood in front of the poster, expressionless.
Oh...
So that's what it was.
An old earthquake-related film being re-released because of the earthquakes.
And the title gave him a huge scare!
Still...
He felt a little guilty, honestly.
Damn it...!
He just remembered—because he and Lin Xiaoyou had been provoking the "goddess" Liguang all day yesterday...
This world had taken one hell of a hit!
Desert earthquakes, Pacific typhoons, equatorial tsunamis...
They were still trending on the hot searches!
Last night, Lin Xiaoyou's series of suicidal stunts—"getting a hotel room," "paying to take you to a brothel," "wearing Liguang's clothes"...—
That thunderstorm had nearly flooded the entire city!
And everywhere else in the world was probably worse, right...?
Hiss...
He looked up again at the line on the poster: "The Last Love in an Earthquake."
Yeah...
Decision made!
He was watching this one!
Time to educate his wife!
Liguang, you better watch this carefully!
Look at how terrifying earthquakes are!
Look at how miserable the people caught in natural disasters are!
So...
No more random jealousy for now, okay?!
The consequences of jealousy are too severe—the whole world suffers!
Liguang didn't respond.
They were indoors now, so even if she did, he couldn't see it!
Hey!
Sit still and be educated!
So he walked up to the counter, said the movie title to the staff member, and then...
Held up four fingers!
"Four tickets, seated together! And one bucket of popcorn!"
The staff member was a young woman. She looked up at him, then glanced at the empty lobby behind him...
"Sir... just you alone... and four tickets?"
She was clearly a bit surprised.
"That's right!"
Fang Qi nodded, as if it were the most natural thing.
The staff member looked at him with some curiosity, but eventually lowered her head and started processing the order.
Fang Qi scanned the QR code to pay, took the four tickets, grabbed the popcorn, and headed toward the screening hall.
He chose four tickets for a reason!
Among the four tickets, the two in the middle were his and Liguang's seats.
Even if Liguang wasn't here, she still had to have a seat!
As for the other two...
Even though the screening hall would likely be almost empty at this hour, and chances were nobody would be sitting nearby, still—
Buying out the seats on both sides, so no one could get close to him...
That was sending a message!
If some clueless person happened to pick the seat next to him?
He didn't want his "date" with his wife interrupted!
Anyway, he had money to burn!
In this world, he seemed to have inherited a hefty fortune too, and—
He hadn't blown it all buying an island this time.
So why not spend it?
Making his wife happy was what mattered most!
Come on, wife, let's go watch a movie!
...
...
Two hours later.
Fang Qi walked out of the screening hall, satisfied.
This movie date...
He was very, very pleased!
Mainly because the movie itself was genuinely good!
Even though this film was also called "The Last Heartbeat," the...
content was completely fine!
Nothing creepy like last time—it was exactly the earthquake love story described on the poster.
The male and female leads encouraging each other under the rubble, the rescue team racing against time, the reunion during post-disaster reconstruction...
Every segment even taught some earthquake self-rescue knowledge and first aid measures!
What pleased him most was the ending.
It wasn't one of those tearjerker tragedies—it was a happy ending for everyone!
Both the male and female leads survived!
And they embraced in the rebuilt home!
Good, good, good...!
No wonder this old movie got re-released!
He loved endings like that—happy and fulfilling!
That's how it should be!
"How was that, wife?"
Fang Qi subconsciously spoke out loud.
"Pretty good movie, right!"
But then...
He felt the odd looks from the people around him.
It was a couple who had walked out of the same screening, glancing over at him.
The guy gave him a once-over, the girl covered her mouth and stared...
Then the two hurried off, looking back at him as they went!
Fang Qi: "..."
Come on, I...!
His face flushed red.
Damn it.
He must have looked like some poor wretch hallucinating that he had a wife!
No, wait—I really do have a wife!
He shoved the movie tickets into his pocket and hunched his shoulders as he rushed out of the mall!
Behind him, he could still vaguely hear the hushed whispers of the couple.
They were saying things like “He bought four tickets by himself,” “During the movie, the seat next to him was empty,” and “How pitiful.”
Fang Qi felt his face burning!
Damn it!
His wife just couldn't show herself right now!
She was watching him from the sky!
He screamed furiously in his head, but his mouth stayed shut tight.
He'd already embarrassed himself once—he couldn't do it twice!
I swear to god!
Wife, please come back soon!
Blind them with your brilliance!
He walked out of the mall and onto the street.
The sky was still bright and clear, a gentle breeze brushing against his face.
Fang Qi looked up slightly, the red flush of embarrassment slowly fading.
So... it seemed his goddess of a wife was in a good mood?
She really needed to be taught a lesson!
Seeing your own husband mocked for having no date—and you're happy about that, huh!
Fang Qi gritted his teeth.
The breeze touched his face like a soft hand.
...Fine.
Forgiven!
He pulled out his phone and glanced at the time.
It was almost noon. Time for lunch.
But...
Back in the theater, he'd single-handedly polished off an entire bucket of double-sized popcorn!
He reached up and rubbed his stomach.
...His stomach was still a bit full now.
Never mind, no lunch.
He wasn't hungry anyway!
Skipping it!
Alright, so where should he take his wife next...?
As he was thinking...
Suddenly, the world dimmed!
...Huh?
Fang Qi looked up and saw...
That white cloud drifting idly in the sky had suddenly turned dark!
It blocked out the sun without any warning!
The light on the street dimmed a notch, and even the temperature seemed to drop two degrees.
Fang Qi: "..."
Wife changes faces quicker than the weather...
But...
Why?
Had he just said something that upset her?
...Oh!
His mouth fell slightly open as realization hit him.
She thought it was unhealthy for him to skip lunch?
...That had to be it.
This...
...Alright, alright, alright!
I'll eat! I'll eat, okay!
Fang Qi made a series of promises in his head.
Then... a gentle breeze swept by.
That patch of dark clouds blew away.
Sunlight poured out again, making the leaves on the roadside trees shine.
Fang Qi blinked, looking at the sky returning to clear skies...
Whoa.
Wow.
Now that was something else...!
The weather changed with his inner thoughts—a thought brought clouds, a promise brought sunshine...
Did this make him...
Half the god of the world?
The divine was me all along!
But speaking of that...
Fang Qi recalled as he walked.
Yesterday, this hadn't been the case, right?
Yesterday, he'd spent the whole day at the An family's place, courting disaster with constant testing, saying things like “I want to go home” and “I want to marry Sister An Lian.” If he'd said those things today...
Wouldn't he have been struck by lightning on the spot?
But yesterday, even though Liguang got jealous enough to trigger global earthquakes and tsunamis...
There'd been no direct weather feedback aimed at him.
It wasn't until last night at the milk tea shop, after Lin Xiaoyou's endless string of reckless provocations, that the thunderstorm seemed to flip some kind of switch.
From that moment on, Liguang seemed...
To begin to control the weather around him?
He pulled out his phone and scrolled through the trending topics, wanting to see how global disasters were doing today.
What he found was that many media outlets were reporting the same thing today—
【Natural disasters around the world are gradually decreasing; things have basically returned to normal today】
【The public is advised not to panic and not to spread rumors of the apocalypse.】
In the comment section, some people said it was “the gods calming their wrath.”
Someone had snapped a photo of the lightning from the thunderstorm, saying the bolt looked like a glowing World Tree.
Fang Qi looked at it with an innocent expression.
So...
Today his wife could not only control the weather around him, but she could also wield her divine power across the entire globe with perfect ease?
Compared to yesterday's out-of-control state where jealousy caused earthquakes and envy brought tsunamis...
Liguang really seemed to have grown stronger.
Could it be that the anger Lin Xiaoyou stirred in Liguang yesterday had triggered an “upgrade”?
Today's wife was stronger than yesterday's?
...Whatever.
Wife is strong, and that's that!
No matter what—
“Ring—!”
The phone suddenly rang.
Fang Qi looked down at the screen.
Lin Xiaoyou.
He raised an eyebrow.
...What had she discovered this time?
He immediately pressed the answer button:
“Lin—”
“Senpai, I love you! I want to marry you! And I'll even pay to find you tons and tons of other women!!!!!!!”
Under her hysterical screeching...
The whole world seemed to go silent.
Fang Qi: “...?”
He froze in the middle of the crosswalk, his brain short-circuited by the shock!
This...
What kind of thunderous declaration was this...?
The sky didn't change at first.
Liguang seemed...
To be stunned too?
Her screeching continued on the other end:
“Senpai, senpai, can you hear me? I—”
“BOOM—!!!”
A thunderbolt from a clear blue sky!
Purple-white lightning struck down without any warning!
It slammed into a roadside tree less than twenty meters in front of Fang Qi!
“CRACK!!”
The trunk exploded on impact, wood splinters flying everywhere!
The sky quickly filled with dark clouds!
A heavy, pitch-black layer pressed down like a lid!
The entire street instantly went dark!
“Wow! Thunder! Thunder!”
Lin Xiaoyou's gleeful voice came through the phone!
“Mom Liguang, you're amazing!!!!”
Fang Qi: “...”
Lin Xiaoyou, you damn...!!!
“WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TRYING TO DO!!!!”
Fang Qi practically roared!
“You dare provoke Liguang again?!”
You really aren't afraid that tonight, Liguang will just descend to Earth and physically send you to the afterlife?!
“Oh, Senpai, this is all because you're not putting in enough effort!”
Lin Xiaoyou complained from the other end, her tone full of righteous indignation!
“Without variables, how can I observe anything!”
“And also...”
She giggled.
“I've figured it out! Liguang can't show herself while you're awake, right?”
Fang Qi's heart skipped a beat.
That girl... she'd actually deduced it?
“So~!”
Lin Xiaoyou's voice suddenly turned sly and teasing.
“All I have to do is keep Senpai from sleeping all night long, right?”
“Sen~pai~”
Her tone turned syrupy sweet!
“Don't you dare sleep tonight~ Tonight, I'll keep you company for a heart-to-heart all night long~”
“RUMBLE—!!!”
“PAH—!”
A torrential downpour!
Raindrops the size of beans poured down from the sky, instantly soaking Fang Qi from head to toe!
His shirt clung to his skin, his hair plastered across his forehead!
Fang Qi: “...”
Lin Xiaoyou, you damn...!!
“...Your time is UP. Right. Now. ENDED!!!!”
Fang Qi roared over the thunder!
“You're done observing—get moving right now! Head to that mountain!”
“Eh—? But Senpai...”
“If you don't go, I'm going by myself!!!”
The other end of the line went silent for half a second.
“Fine...”
Lin Xiaoyou's voice suddenly softened into compliance.
Then she switched gears, her tone light and casual:
“Then I'll come pick you up, Senpai! Right by the movie theater, right? I'll be there right away!”
And with that, she hung up!
...Huh?
Fang Qi stared at the “Call Ended” screen on his phone.
Rainwater ran down his cheeks, his shirt soaked through and clinging to his body, making him look exactly like a drowned rat just hauled out of a river.
Lin Xiaoyou, you...
You had planned to go all along, so you had to do one last stupid, pathetic thing...?!
"RUMBLE—!"
Thunder still rolled overhead, but the rain seemed to let up a little.
Fang Qi stood under the eaves, wiping the water off his face.
He looked up at the sky still flashing with lightning, the corners of his eyes twitching.
Wifey, tell me...
Should You Tou be cooked with chopped chili peppers, or braised in soy sauce?
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ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
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!
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?"
