[Ding!]
[Brilliant move! Considering your dao companion at every turn while creating subtle surprises that make them feel cherished!]
[Reward: 50 spirit stones]
Lin Yu sat at the dining table, feeling pleased as he read the replies on his phone.
"Dreaming in Rain: Love you, hubby!"
"Dreaming in Rain: (Mwah) (Mwah) (Mwah)"
"Dreaming in Rain: (Hug) (Hug) (Hug)"
He glanced at Chi Qingshui’s back as she ladled soup, her cool demeanor unchanged despite occasionally stealing glances at him.
Impressive.
She could reply to his messages while maintaining her composure, not even slowing down as she served the soup. Her mental fortitude was truly remarkable!
Though her haste in replying was partly due to being suddenly moved, this time... when faced with Lin Yu’s mention of "if we meet," his little girlfriend’s first reaction wasn’t to immediately remind him to refuse.
It seemed his covert tactics over the past two days had paid off.
At the table, the four of them ate breakfast, each lost in their own thoughts.
Chen Qimeng:
So Xiao Yu doesn’t like the taste of vinegar? I never noticed before. I’ll have to be more careful when cooking from now on!
Chi Qingchi:
Ah… what should I do? Xiao Lin probably isn’t a pervert, right? He won’t try anything at night, will he? How can I sneak out without my sister noticing?
Chi Qingshui:
He drank it! He really did! Is that expression satisfaction or dissatisfaction? Does he not even like slightly sour tomatoes?
Lin Yu:
[Ding!]
[Congratulations, Host! You’ve completed the urgent mission "Dao Companion’s Morning Meal"!]
[Enjoying a morning meal prepared by your dao companion is one of the great joys of a close relationship!]
[Reward: 300 sect contribution points, 800 spirit stones, 1 free system mall draw.]
His girlfriend was a "benefits fairy"!
The girl who seemed the hardest to please actually had the easiest high-reward tasks to complete!
Early in the morning, she had delivered a full wave of benefits.
Love it, love it.
With time to spare, Lin Yu checked the information panels of the three women to see if there were any tasks he could casually complete.
[Chi Qingshui]
[Age: 20]
[Sect Status: Library Pavilion Elder]
[Intimacy Level with Host: 79% (Seventh Realm, Entwined Affections)]
[Number of Dao Companions (Soul Cultivation/Body Cultivation): 1/0]
[Attributes/Skills: Mortal Reflection (Beginner), Scholarly Dao Body (Great Perfection)]
[Other Info: Soul Cultivation Dao Companion (Lin Yu)]
[Current Missions:]
[Book Collection (Daily Mission): …Please purchase "Photography: Theory of Light and Shadow Composition" promptly.]
[Book Collection (Daily Mission): …Please purchase "Photography: Practical Applications of the Golden Ratio" promptly.]
[Laundry (Daily Mission): Immortal garments must be kept clean to reflect a cultivator’s purity. Please "use the washing machine to do laundry" promptly.]
[...]
[Chi Qingchi]
[Age: 20]
[Sect Status: Joyous Sect Bell Envoy]
[Intimacy Level with Host: 46% (Fourth Realm, Silent Understanding)]
[(Unimportant info omitted to save space)]
[Current Missions:]
[Meal Craving (Daily Mission): …Please try "street vendor fried chicken cutlet" promptly.]
[Meal Craving (Daily Mission): …Please try "takoyaki" promptly.]
[Meal Craving (Daily Mission): …Please try "grilled sausage" promptly.]
[Laundry (Daily Mission): …Please "use the washing machine to do laundry" promptly.]
[...]
[Chen Qimeng]
[Age: 35]
[Sect Status: Acting Sect Leader of the Joyous Sect]
[Intimacy Level with Host: 66% (Sixth Realm, Heart Fluttering)]
[Number of Dao Companions (Soul Cultivation/Body Cultivation): 0/0]
[(Omitted)]
[Current Missions:]
[Laundry (Daily Mission): …Please "use the washing machine to do laundry" promptly.]
[Clothing Purchase (Daily Mission): As the Acting Sect Leader, it is important to purchase immortal garments for the sect’s head disciple, hoping she will like the chosen attire.]
What a coincidence!
All three women had the same mission.
Lin Yu’s daily tasks also included helping Aunt Qimeng hang laundry.
If… all four of them washed together!
Wouldn’t that mean one action, four times the happiness?
He and Aunt Qimeng often washed their outerwear together.
But with his roommates, they weren’t that close.
Especially since they were all girls.
Mixing dark fabrics into their soft, pastel ones wasn’t something ordinary female roommates would easily accept.
As for now…
This was a good opportunity to test the Chi sisters’ tolerance levels.
Before the main event, proper buildup was essential.
He had to sweet-talk the girls into a blissful state before the real feast could begin.
"So delicious, Big Chi! I’m seriously impressed!"
[Ding!]
[Brilliant move! Sincere praise that delights your dao companion!]
[Reward: 50 spirit stones]
Chi Qingshui remained expressionless, merely nodding.
"It’s not that big a deal…"
Lin Yu took two more big spoonfuls and gave a thumbs-up.
"No, really, it’s amazing."
"Can you teach me sometime? I’d love to learn so I can…"
He pretended to hesitate before continuing:
"...make it for Aunt Qimeng!"
[Ding!]
[Brilliant move! Feigning hesitation while genuinely caring for your dao companion, moving them deeply!]
[Reward: 50 spirit stones]
[Ding!]
[Brilliant move! The host willingly learning something he’s not good at for the Acting Sect Leader, earning her gratitude!]
[Reward: 20 spirit stones]
Lin Yu internally:
This is the art of speech!
Chi Qingshui: "I-I’m not that skilled. It’s nothing special. You can watch next time."
Chen Qimeng: "I-I’m fine with anything, really. No need to trouble yourself, Xiao Yu. Thank you."
Chi Qingchi: "C-Can I join and eat too?"
Seeing that the "Yan Kingdom map" had been laid out smoothly and everyone was in high spirits, it was time to reveal the dagger!
Lin Yu casually brought up:
"I need to wash a few light-colored shirts later. Are any of you… planning to use the washing machine?"
"If you are, you can go first. I only have two pieces—I can just hand-wash them."
Here it was!
The test of their conscience.
Lin Yu had just buttered them all up nicely.
Would they really let him resort to hand-washing?
Reciprocate, fellow sect members!
Chen Qimeng was the first to speak up:
"I have some light-colored clothes and a skirt to wash too, Xiao Yu. Just give me yours."
"If Qingshui and Qingchi need to wash, they can go first. We can wash ours together afterward."
Heh!
With the lovely aunt setting the precedent, she’d given the girlfriend and the shut-in a model to follow.
Especially Aunt Qimeng’s line:
"You go first, we’ll wash together later!"
Unconsciously, it was like placing a weight on a balanced scale—one with the force of a thousand pounds.
It lifted Chi Qingshui’s prideful heart entirely.
What do you mean "you" and "we"?
Shouldn’t it be "you" and "us"?
Weren’t we just interacting a moment ago?
Territorial instinct exploded in Chi Qingshui's mind at that very moment.
She followed up by saying,
"I don’t have many light-colored clothes either—just three light short-sleeves."
"Washing them separately would waste water. There’s no need."
Chi Qingchi was thunderstruck: "!!!"
What the—?
Did my sister leave her "aloofness" in the room when she went out today?
...
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!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
