"Big brother, let's go home together~"
Zhou Han walked behind Wang Ye with her hands behind her back, looking at him sweetly as she smiled.
Wang Ye's mouth twitched slightly as he remained silent.
Zhou Han grinned as she circled around Xiao Si and sidled up to Wang Ye's side, her expression indicating she was going to stick to him no matter what.
And so...
On the street, there was a gloomy-looking young man, an energetic, bouncing girl who looked almost like a young maiden, and a somewhat strange combination with Xiao Si wearing a pink bunny eared hat...
It inevitably drew some curious glances from passersby.
Upon returning home, the first thing Wang Ye did was shut the door and heave a faint sigh of relief.
"This crazy woman!" Wang Ye couldn't help but curse under his breath. Seeing the expressionless Xiao Si, he swallowed back the rest of his words.
There didn't seem to be much point in talking to this unfeeling ghost...
Thinking this, Wang Ye heaved a soft sigh, feeling the exhaustion in his body. He went back to his bedroom and collapsed onto the bed, falling asleep.
...
In the living room, Xiao Si, who had been standing motionless in the corner like a statue, slowly moved her stiff body and sat down on the sofa.
A long, soundless shadow silently extended across the floor, reaching all the way to the door of Wang Ye's bedroom.
But just before it touched the bedroom door, the shadow mysteriously halted.
Gradually...
The shadow receded, reappearing at Xiao Si's feet and returning to normal.
As night fell, a trace of color appeared in Xiao Si's eyes, and a bizarre smile emerged at the corner of her mouth as she leisurely reclined on the sofa, crossing her legs in a posture identical to Wang Ye's earlier in the day.
Gradually, she got up and looked towards the door...then suddenly recoiled, her gaze fixed intently on the doorway.
...
She was actually mimicking Wang Ye's actions from that afternoon.
After a long time...
The color in Xiao Si's eyes gradually faded away as she returned to her original position and resumed standing motionless.
In the bedroom, Wang Ye's eyes had opened silently at some point, though it was unclear for how long.
A bone-scraping dagger exuding a cold aura was gripped tightly in his hand.
Hearing the sounds from the living room gradually quiet down, Wang Ye closed his eyes again, but the bone-scraping dagger remained clenched in his hand.
...
Daylight gradually brightened.
On this rare day off, feeling the tranquil atmosphere, Wang Ye sat down on the sofa as a priority, observing Xiao Si.
After a long while...
Sounds could be heard from outside, seemingly Zhou Han going out. But judging from the sounds of footsteps going downstairs rather than knocking on the door, Wang Ye was visibly relieved.
According to the encrypted website Zhang ZiLiang had sent in a text message, Wang Ye logged in.
Sure enough...
With A-level access privileges, there was more and more detailed information available.
He tried searching for the suburban graveyard, but it showed a blank page. Wang Ye's brows furrowed deeply.
"Nothing, huh..."
"As expected, there are no records."
"Those good-for-nothing slackers in the intelligence department."
With a helpless sigh, Wang Ye turned off his phone.
Then, as if recalling something, Wang Ye went to the coat he had worn when going out with Zhou Han the other day. Reaching carefully into the pocket, he took out a somewhat yellowed, tattered slip of paper.
Due to its antiquity, the writing on the paper slip was now vaguely blurred.
Through the sunlight, only a few legible characters could be made out.
"Suburban graveyard..."
"Grave No. 6..."
"Bottom of grave..."
Looking at those few words, Wang Ye's pupils constricted slightly.
That mysterious suburban graveyard again? The mass grave, the suburban graveyard, and the ten li graveyard he had come across in the wasteland, what connections could there be between them all!
What secrets lay hidden beneath Grave No. 6?
Moreover, this slip of paper had been found on the clothes of a long-dead corpse, suspected to be an Esper.
Could it be...that Espers really existed before the Eternal Night?
These bizarre connections were like riddles, surfacing prominently in Wang Ye's mind.
It was as if there was a thread there, yet he couldn't grasp it.
Wang Ye irritably placed the paper slip carefully away in a drawer, sinking into contemplation.
Beside him, Xiao Si stood silently, a faint, imperceptible gleam flashing through her vacant eyes.
Nightfall...
Lying asleep in his bedroom, Wang Ye heard the sound of the door opening and silently opened his eyes.
Footsteps sounded on the stairway.
After a long while, Wang Ye quietly opened his bedroom door. Xiao Si's figure had vanished from the living room.
Wang Ye's expression was rather serious. He went to the window and looked down through the curtains. Xiao Si's somewhat stiff figure appeared in the housing complex, gradually walking out of the complex's main gate until she disappeared into the night.
His brows furrowing slightly, Wang Ye noiselessly got dressed and followed after Xiao Si in the direction she had gone, keeping a good distance behind her.
As the surrounding buildings became increasingly sparse, a chill rose in Wang Ye's heart as the scenery grew increasingly familiar.
The suburban graveyard!
Wang Ye was certain this was the path to the suburban graveyard!
Sure enough...
Standing not far from the entrance to the suburban graveyard, Wang Ye watched with his own eyes as Xiao Si's figure gradually vanished into the darkness.
Inside the wooden cabin by the entrance, candlelight flickered faintly.
But the cabin was empty, without a single person inside.
That bizarre, mysterious old man had disappeared at some unknown point.
Wang Ye hid himself in the darkness, his gaze fixed intently on the entrance to the suburban graveyard.
After a long while...
Sounds and roaring echoed from within the graveyard.
Ten minutes later, the roaring died down and the noises quieted.
Xiao Si silently reappeared at the graveyard's exit, her clothes slightly tattered. Her eyes were vacant, seemingly soulless.
Wang Ye's gaze shifted subtly as he concealed himself before gradually disappearing, returning home.
In the dim corridor, a shadow seemed to flit past for an instant.
Wang Ye's pupils contracted slightly as he watched closely for a long time without noticing anything amiss. Behind him...
On the stairway, footsteps gradually sounded.
A frosty glint flashed through Wang Ye's eyes. He opened the door and went inside, silently collapsing onto his bed in the bedroom and closing his eyes.
Before long, the door opened again.
Xiao Si strode in stiffly, resuming the standing posture she'd had before Wang Ye went to sleep.
Listening to the sounds from the living room, Wang Ye's eyes opened silently again at some point as he continued to ponder incessantly.
The next few days were tranquil.
Zhang ZiLiang was constantly researching the selection of team members, and Wang Ye heard that many Espers were frantically using connections trying to get into a team.
After all, joining a team meant endless resources.
The threshold of Zhang ZiLiang's office door had been trampled flat.
Some Espers had even somehow caught wind of Wang Ye's phone number.
It was only when Wang Ye could no longer stand it and was about to lose his temper that things gradually settled down.
Of course...
There was a small interlude where Zhou Han dropped by...
And breezily said she wanted a spot on Wang Ye's team.
When Wang Ye was at a loss, Zhang ZiLiang surprisingly agreed readily.
Wang Ye's head hurt instantly even more...
And then, at midnight that very night...the mysterious wooden door once again appeared in Wang Ye's living room.
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
iving with nine beautiful women. [Ding! Welcome back to the Joyous Sect, Host…] Lin Yu: ??? I’m clearly in a shared rental, but you’re saying I’m in the Joyous Sect? Watering plants is now [Tending to Spiritual Flora]? Cooking becomes [Researching Elixirs]? Making the bed turns into [Setting Up Formations]? A gentle and innocent auntie, twin classmates, a mysterious hacker girl on leave, a severely socially anxious artist, an elementary school Chinese teacher, a community hospital nurse, a pet shop owner, an antique clock restorer… This system… is kinda interesting.
