Chi Qingshui: "..."
The anxiety of potentially losing her was written all over Lin Yu's face.
After all,
from their online chats until now,
Chi Qingshui had always been reluctant to meet in person.
It was understandable that he now felt this unease of "possibly losing her at any moment."
Her previous attitude was entirely to blame for Lin Yu's current thoughts.
If there was any way to ease the turmoil in his heart,
perhaps only... complete honesty and a deep embrace would suffice.
Gradually,
the clear boundaries between them began to blur.
Chi Qingshui inched slightly closer to Lin Yu's side, taking the initiative this time.
"I guess I can't do anything about you... just a quick hug, okay?"
She had meant to say "one minute,"
but remembering how their previous time-bound attempts had failed,
she opted for a vague duration instead.
The next moment,
her petite frame was entirely enveloped in Lin Yu's arms.
This embrace
was entirely different from all the ones before.
In an instant,
it sent a dizzying sensation of freefall through Chi Qingshui.
"Don't look! Don't look! Close your eyes!" she urged, noticing Lin Yu's gaze.
Lin Yu grinned. "Wasn't it clearer just now than it is now?"
Flustered, Chi Qingshui hurriedly covered his mouth with her hand: "..."
"Just hugging, okay? Let's take a nap," she insisted.
Lin Yu nodded. "Yeah, just hugging. No moving. Rainy days are perfect for burrowing under the covers."
Chi Qingshui: "..."
She suspected his words carried a double meaning,
but had no proof.
...
There’s an old saying:
"Patience is a virtue"—
or more aptly, "Haste makes waste."
This applied to most girls in the apartment.
Except for Chi Qingshui, who stood before Lin Yu now.
Hesitant, cautious, and overthinking every step,
if he let her go today, once she regained her rational composure,
who knew how long it would take for another opportunity like this to arise?
For her, a different set of proverbs applied:
"Opportunity knocks but once."
"In for a penny, in for a pound."
"See it through to the end!"
That said...
For girls, this sort of thing really depended on natural aptitude.
It reminded Lin Yu of that classic line from the movie Those Green Years,
spoken by Chen Xun’s legendary roommate:
"Girls born between August and September are the most exhausting!"
Turns out,
it was absolutely true.
Lin Yu felt like he was maneuvering two rigid telephone poles.
No matter how he shifted, they remained stiffly in place.
Ying'er never had this issue—
maybe because she was used to squatting on chairs,
training her body to stay flexible even under tension.
He used to think the trope of teenage couples failing their first time
was just an exaggerated trope in romantic fiction.
But now he realized—
when neither party had any experience, it really was a struggle.
"Qingshui, relax... try to loosen up a little?" Lin Yu ventured.
Chi Qingshui covered her face, too embarrassed to look.
All she could do was shake her head and whimper:
"Mmm... I can’t..."
"Lin Yu, can we... can we try another day?"
Asking for a rain check now?
How naive.
"It’s okay, let me tell you a story..."
As he spoke,
Lin Yu began adjusting slowly, narrating all the while:
"Once, a troubled man told a wise monk, 'I can’t let go of certain things.'
The monk handed him a teacup and poured hot water into it.
When the water overflowed and scalded his hand, the man instantly dropped it.
The moral of the story is..."
"...when it hurts, you’ll let go."
Seizing the moment her attention wavered—
Chi Qingshui finally understood the parable’s lesson.
...
[Ding!]
[Congratulations, Host! You have completed the "Twin Vows of Cultivation" trial, successfully binding a Dao Companion!]
[Rewards: 200 Sect Contribution Points, 300 Spirit Stones.]
[Dao Companion’s Sect Identity: Librarian Elder!]
[Note: New reward categories have been added to the lottery pool as Dao Companion count increases.]
[...]
[Ding!]
[Congratulations, Host! You have completed your first Dual Cultivation with Librarian Elder Chi Qingshui!]
[Dao Companion: Chi Qingshui (Librarian Elder)!]
[Bound by fate, harmonized in union—the Joyous Dual Cultivation Art has advanced to the second layer!]
[Rewards: 500 Sect Contribution Points, 2000 Spirit Stones, 1 free system store lottery draw.]
[Bonus Attributes: "Mortal Reflection," "Scholarly Dao Physique," "Speed Reading."]
Outside, the rain continued its gentle patter.
The bright gray of dusk gradually deepened into the black of night.
Blossoms bloomed and wilted, again and again.
His online girlfriend, once hidden in the digital world, had finally been captured by Lin Yu in reality.
The awkwardness of the "telephone poles" became a thing of the past after the second round.
Chi Qingshui, who had initially insisted on hurrying so she could go home,
never brought up leaving again after that.
In fact, she secretly wished the day would never end.
That the night would never fall.
They were so absorbed that they skipped meals entirely.
Lin Yu’s body, tempered by elixirs and bolstered by his sect’s buffs,
though not as ferocious as when he’d taken the Crimson Dragon-Tiger Pill after drinking,
was still overwhelmingly powerful—reducing Chi Qingshui from silence to speechlessness.
Had he not worried about exhausting her to the point of illness,
they might still be at it.
"Qingshui, food’s here. I ordered from the hotel."
"How about some congee? Let me help you up."
As he spoke, Lin Yu gently lifted Chi Qingshui from the bed.
"Hu—"
She nearly called him "hubby" out of habit.
During those hours,
Lin Yu, that big bad wolf, had deliberately made her say it over and over.
Now that the battle was over,
it felt too embarrassing to continue.
What worried her more was—
if it became second nature, she might slip up in front of their roommates!
One thing that reassured her was
Lin Yu’s promise:
Until she was ready, their relationship would remain private.
Her family was strict, forbidding her from dating in college.
Worried about the liberal arts school’s reputation,
they’d even arranged for her to live in an all-girls shared apartment.
Little did they know,
Lin Yu was the lone exception.
If possible,
Chi Qingshui wanted Lin Yu to wait a year.
At graduation, she’d reveal their relationship to everyone—family included.
"Lin Yu, about the sheets..."
She glanced at the towel-covered spot, her face burning with embarrassment.
...
(Second update today—more coming soon!)
ine. During your journey, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her elder brother】 【You rely on each other, becoming each other's support】 【At the end of the simulation, you shield the now-grown girl with your life, sacrificing yourself to block numerous demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in the girl's eyes fades】 …… 【Second Simulation: You are transported to a world where steam and magic coexist】 【You immerse yourself in the study of magic, obsessed with its research. One day, while out, you encounter a half-blooded demon girl wandering the streets. You take her in as your student】 【You teach the demoness what it means to be human, show her the beauty of the world, and nurture her into a miracle that surpasses even the gods】 【At the end of the simulation, you die of old age in front of the nearly immortal demoness due to your mortal lifespan】 …… One simulation after another, one encounter after another. Xu Xi suddenly felt something was off: "Wait, you said you're coming to the real world to find me?"
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!
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
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?!
