[Ding!]
[During the forbidden zone exploration, obtained and read the Joyous Sect Bell Envoy’s private "Spring of Mortal Desires"!]
[Rewards: 100 Sect Contribution Points, 200 Spirit Stones, 1 bottle of Hundred Flowers Nectar.]
Hearing the system’s notification, Lin Yu, who was holding a comic book, became even more engrossed in reading.
This was way more satisfying than grinding daily quests!
After admiring a few pages of the comic featuring a goblin on the cover, Lin Yu clicked his tongue in amazement:
"Qingchi, this comic of yours is something else!"
"It doesn’t even have any censorship marks?"
Chi Qingchi sat on the bed, covering her face, her feet kicking frantically in the air:
"Ugh, Lin Yu, stop talking about it…"
"I swear I’ve never read it before… Can you believe me?"
Lin Yu: "Of course I believe you."
Chi Qingchi peeked at him through the gaps between her fingers:
"Really? You really believe me?"
Lin Yu turned the comic book around and pointed at a folded corner:
"Qingchi, this folded page at number 125… Surely the book folded itself by accident, right?"
Chi Qingchi: "Ugh, Lin Yu, you’re doing this on purpose…"
The photo blackmail hadn’t even been resolved yet, and now another piece of leverage had fallen into Lin Yu’s hands.
From now on, there’d be no escaping his grasp!
She could only blame her sister for returning early from Jizhou, catching her off guard.
To keep this "Saintess" comic hidden from her sister, Qingchi had stashed it in a less obvious pile of books.
And then… she forgot about it.
What can you expect? Twenty-year-olds are forgetful!
And now, thanks to a bizarre twist of fate, Lin Yu had dug it out!
Lin Yu leisurely stood up and walked to the bedside, reassuring her:
"Relax, Qingchi. We’re tight like this—of course I’ll keep your secret."
Chi Qingchi lifted her head, her face full of grievance:
"There’s a condition, isn’t there? Some weird condition?"
"My sister could come back any minute, Lin Yu—don’t you dare try anything!"
Qingchi was sharp.
She knew all the tricks in the book.
Getting the upper hand on her wasn’t easy.
Lin Yu wagged his finger:
"Don’t misunderstand me. As a fellow young person, I just want to give you a little advice."
Chi Qingchi was puzzled: "???"
Lin Yu continued:
"Something this private needs to be hidden carefully."
"If I found it, I could at least keep it a secret."
"But if your sister found it… what do you think would happen?"
"I’ve got experience in hiding things!"
Chi Qingchi: "!!!"
Strangely enough, Lin Yu’s words actually piqued her interest.
Wasn’t the whole reason he found it because she hadn’t hidden it well enough?
Chi Qingchi asked skeptically:
"Lin Yu, you… have experience?"
"Then where do you usually hide stuff?"
Lin Yu glanced at the corner beneath Qingchi’s bed.
Even through the bedsheet, the golden glow leaking out was impossible to ignore.
If he stopped exploring after just one comic book, wouldn’t the talisman have been wasted?
No way—today, he was going to conduct a thorough inspection!
"In a room this small, the safest spot is obviously under the bed!"
Chi Qingchi patted her mattress and pouted:
"Pfft, I thought you had some genius hiding spot."
"My sister sleeps on the top bunk, and she sits on my bed during the day too."
"Clearly, this is the most dangerous spot—how could it possibly be the safest?"
Lin Yu tossed the comic book in his hand and grinned:
"Good question!"
"See, this just proves you lack experience."
"Let me show you how it's done!"
Chi Qingchi stood up unsuspectingly, curious to see what Lin Yu had in mind.
Lin Yu lifted a corner of the outer bedsheet and slipped the comic book underneath.
Then, he pressed down on the sheet from the outside and said:
"If you hide it here, it’s practically the same as not hiding it at all. It’ll definitely get discovered sooner or later."
"But if you hide it like this…"
As he spoke, Lin Yu pulled the comic back out and moved to the foot of the bed near the wall.
He lifted the sheet again and tucked the book inside:
"This spot? Your sister would never sit here!"
Chi Qingchi tapped her chin thoughtfully and nodded:
"Lin Yu, you’re seriously sneaky."
"That’s actually a pretty good ide—"
Before she could finish, Chi Qingchi froze in place.
In her line of sight, Lin Yu’s hand slowly emerged from under the bed—
along with something delicate, sheer, and stretchy pinched between his fingers…
A pair of pure white stockings!
Chi Qingchi: "Ah! Ahhh!!"
[Ding!]
[During forbidden zone exploration, you’ve unexpectedly obtained the Joyous Sect Bell Envoy’s "sheer foot garment"!]
[Reward: 200 Sect Contribution Points, 400 Spirit Stones, 3 bottles of Hundred Flowers Nectar!]
Well, well.
Even pretty girls stash their socks under the bed.
Back in elementary school, Lin Yu had held a certain idealized image of graceful female classmates, thinking that "gross" things like sweat or grime had nothing to do with "fairies."
Chi Qingchi’s reaction just shattered another piece of his childhood illusions.
He expected her to lunge forward and snatch the stockings away.
But when he turned around—
she looked like she’d already "mentally checked out."
Lin Yu pulled the stockings free and politely draped them over the bed railing.
Then, in an eerily calm tone, he remarked:
"Qingchi… hygiene is still important, you know."
"Can’t have your bed smelling funky."
Chi Qingchi looked as if she’d been struck by lightning: "!!!"
She rushed over, desperate to defend herself:
"They’re washed! These were washed, I swear!"
"I-I thought I lost them!"
"It was an accident, definitely an accident…"
"I’m usually super careful about cleanliness! Don’t you dare misunderstand, Lin Yu!"
"Ughhh…"
This time, it really wasn’t an excuse.
Most likely, during a deep clean with her sister—changing sheets and reorganizing clothes—the stockings had accidentally gotten tucked under the bed.
Even she hadn’t realized a pair was hidden there.
Chi Qingchi was practically hopping in frustration, even more flustered than when her "sacred light" comic was discovered.
Lin Yu found it all the more amusing.
Turns out, she cared less about being seen as a "secretly naughty girl" and more about being mistaken for an "outwardly messy girl"?
Her personality was truly something else!
When panicked, the brain tends to short-circuit.
By the end of her rambling defense, she even uncharacteristically grabbed the stockings and thrust them forward, insisting:
"See? Clean! They smell fine—here, sniff them!"
Lin Yu blinked: "???"
Chi Qingchi immediately realized what she’d done and yanked her hand back.
Lin Yu: "No need for sniffing… I’d rather not risk a lung fungus."
Chi Qingchi: "Aghhh, they’re not dirty! Lin Yu, you can’t slander me like this…"
Lin Yu: "Haha, just teasing… you little slob."
Chi Qingchi: "Ahhh, Lin Yu, look at you..."
Lin Yu grinned brightly.
So the little homebody is such a neat freak.
And she won’t even let anyone think she’s anything less than spotless.
...
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?!
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.
'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.
