Lin Yu arrived at the first-floor lobby, wandering around the dining area.
He poured himself a glass of water and sipped it slowly.
Then, he started tidying up small items in the kitchen, deliberately creating “clang-clang” noises.
But he wasn’t in a hurry to find Chi Qingshui.
He wanted to keep his girlfriend curious and intrigued.
If Ying'er followed Lin Yu’s instructions and gave the keys to his girlfriend, at this moment, her mind would definitely be racing, wondering what Lin Yu planned to give her.
The more eager she was to figure out the answer, the less likely Lin Yu was to take the initiative. He preferred to wait for her to come to him.
In the bedroom shared by the twins on the first floor:
The younger sister, Chi Qingchi, had gone off to the supermarket with her pocket money, leaving the room with only Chi Qingshui.
She left the door slightly ajar, attentively listening to the sounds coming from the lobby.
That Lin Yu!
Why wasn’t he coming to retrieve the keys and return to the bedroom? What was he doing in the kitchen?
Ever since listening to Ying'er’s words, Chi Qingshui had been obsessively pondering over it.
What exactly was Lin Yu planning to give her?
The answer was so close, yet she couldn’t get it.
This was driving Chi Qingshui absolutely mad!
After another two minutes of stalemate, Chi Qingshui finally gave in, defeated by her curiosity.
She pretended to casually walk into the lobby and glanced toward the kitchen…
“Whistle~ Whistle~”
Inside the kitchen, Lin Yu was whistling, completely absorbed in the joy of cleaning.
His hearing was extraordinary, wasn’t it?
Yet, he didn’t turn around!
If you wanted a girlfriend who was obedient and took initiative, you had to start with the little things.
Small acts of initiative would accumulate over time, forming a habit.
In the not-too-distant future, this would yield greater rewards.
Chi Qingshui paced around the lobby twice, even deliberately opening and closing the laundry room door to create noise.
However—
Lin Yu in the kitchen remained utterly unmoved.
His hearing was terrible!
She had no choice…
“Ahem!”
“Lin Yu, I was wondering why there was noise coming from the kitchen at this hour.”
“Turns out you’re back?”
“Perfect timing, here’s your key.”
Chi Qingshui, out of options, walked into the kitchen and decided to speak up.
If she didn’t do this, it seemed Lin Yu really wouldn’t notice her.
“Thank you, Chi,” Lin Yu said with a smile.
“I was planning to finish tidying up the kitchen before coming to find you.”
“You all worked so hard this morning, especially you…”
“If there’s nothing going on tomorrow morning, I’ll make some porridge again. I’ll treat you then.”
Lin Yu’s words made Chi Qingshui feel a bit awkward.
She knew Lin Yu’s “especially…” referred to the second day of her monthly cycle, when it wasn’t ideal to exert herself too much.
“There’s no need to be so polite; helping each other out isn’t a big deal.”
“Well, I… I’ll head back now.”
Chi Qingshui glanced around but didn’t see anything special near Lin Yu.
Moreover, Lin Yu didn’t seem to have any intention of bringing up other matters.
Standing awkwardly at the kitchen door wasn’t her style.
Lin Yu suppressed his laughter as he watched his “snail-like” girlfriend slowly retreating.
He knew he had teased her enough; he couldn’t let her leave just like that.
Lin Yu called out, “Chi, wait a moment. I almost forgot…”
Chi Qingshui quickly turned around: “Hmm? What is it?”
Lin Yu reached up to the high shelf in the kitchen and took down two books wrapped in plastic covers.
He walked over to Chi Qingshui and handed the books to her.
Chi Qingshui received them with a look of surprise: “These are…?”
These are the two books she wanted to buy!
Earlier in the taxi, Lin Yu mentioned he wanted to buy them too and even promised to show them to her.
Unexpectedly.
It wasn’t just talk.
[Ding!]
[Congratulations to the host for successfully completing the daily task "Collection of Classics," earning 50 sect contribution points and 50 spirit stones!]
[Congratulations to the host for successfully completing... earning 50 sect contribution points and 50 spirit stones!]
[Ding!]
[Congratulations to the host! Your intimacy level with the Elder of the Library Pavilion has further advanced, upgrading to the eighth realm: "Soul-Bound Reverie"!]
[Reward: 100 spirit stones.]
The eighth realm!
Inside the apartment.
Chi Qingshui became the only roommate whose relationship with him had advanced to the eighth realm.
Even Ying'er, who had reached the threshold of body cultivation, was still stuck at the seventh realm.
The innate soul cultivation setting indeed made data-driven strategies much easier.
[Ding!]
[The Elder of the Library Pavilion's intimacy level with the host has reached the threshold of "Dual Contract Dao"!]
[Complete the "Dual Contract Dao" trial to have the opportunity to become cultivation partners!]
[Now announcing the "Dual Contract Dao" trial...]
[Identity Verification (Trial Task): At the right moment, let your hidden soul cultivation partner voluntarily reveal the long-standing spiritual connection with the host!]
[Warm Reminder: The trial task will create an opportunity to become cultivation partners. If the host takes no action, the opportunity will automatically be lost.]
Lin Yu: "!!!"
Exactly.
Reaching the eighth realm—how high does the intimacy level need to be to achieve a successful outcome?
As it turns out.
The eighth realm is already sufficient.
The system’s prompts are quite precise.
After completing the [Trial Task], it’s still up to him to seize the opportunity.
As for the content of this trial task, setting aside the difficulty level—
Does he really need the system to remind him to seize the opportunity?
Could it be...
Chi Qingshui tells Lin Yu, "I’m your girlfriend."
And Lin Yu responds by chatting with her over peanuts and edamame all night?
If the relationship is already revealed, who would bother with superficial pleasantries?
Does the system think he’s foolish?
The biggest challenge right now is figuring out how to get Chi Qingshui to voluntarily admit the truth.
As long as she says it out loud—
Given their level of conversation, it’s hard to imagine not ending up rolling around on a clean bed.
“You just bought these, didn’t you? Then... you should be the one to read them first.”
Chi Qingshui held the book in her hands, speaking with genuine emotion.
Lin Yu snapped out of his thoughts and replied:
“You’re the leader of our study group. Your expertise determines our grades.”
“Of course, your reading priority is higher. I’ll read them after you’re done.”
Putting it this way—
Chi Qingshui indeed had fewer reasons to refuse.
Moreover—
She subconsciously didn’t reject accepting Lin Yu’s “gift.”
Chi Qingshui clasped her hands behind her back and spoke earnestly:
“You’re so cunning. Turns out you just want me to put more effort into the assignments.”
“Alright, I’ll borrow them for now.”
“If I come across any key points, I’ll mark them for you in the book.”
Lin Yu cupped his hands in a gesture of thanks:
“Thank you, our brilliant study group leader.”
After the gift exchange—
Chi Qingshui still stood there without any sign of leaving.
Lin Yu: “???”
Could there be something else?
This morning, he had checked Chi Qingshui’s information panel.
There wasn't any other urgent or routine task.
Chi Qingshui pondered for a moment before finally speaking:
"Do you have any plans for Friday?"
Lin Yu: "!!!"
Was there really something he needed?
The day after tomorrow is Thursday, the day of the football match and the boxing match.
Friday is the day after that.
Indeed, there wasn't anything urgent to do yet.
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?"
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!
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
