Her heart was already filled with guilt.
Hearing Lin Yu’s question,
Tang Yimian immediately replied:
"O-of course it was helpful! Extremely helpful!"
"I’m actually also a first…"
Mid-sentence, Tang Yimian’s words trailed off.
She wanted to tell Lin Yu that it was also her first kiss.
But then she remembered
how troubled Lin Yu had seemed about it earlier.
Saying it now would feel like she was trying to level the playing field between them.
Behind every "apologetic personality"
lies a heart that treads carefully.
As the one who had received the "favor," expressing gratitude and apologies were both her duty.
"It was my first time experiencing such an immersive method too."
"I got a little nervous toward the end, so I couldn’t say it in time."
"But now I truly understand the psychology of the characters in my novel!"
"Thanks to you, Junior Lin Yu!"
"I wanted to apologize, but even more… I wanted to thank you…"
What a wonderful senior she was.
Never one to get angry—only flustered.
Lin Yu picked up where she left off:
"That’s great! I’m really happy my method helped you, Senior."
"Maybe since it was our first try today, we were a little reserved…"
"Next time!"
"I promise next time, I’ll do even better and help you completely overcome this hurdle!"
Tang Yimian: "!!!"
Hearing this,
Tang Yimian’s entire body went weak, her fingertips tingling.
Junior Lin Yu was… just holding back earlier?
If he was already this "immersive" while holding back,
what would it be like if he let go?
Of course,
someone like Tang Yimian would never refuse him at a moment like this.
She couldn’t even say no to her bosses and coworkers about work matters,
let alone
to a junior who had helped her.
"Okay… If it doesn’t take up too much of your time, I’d love to master this writing skill as soon as possible."
"Junior Lin Yu, I’ve already taken up so much of your time… I should go back and sort through my thoughts now."
With that,
Tang Yimian hurried to the chair to retrieve the shoes she had kicked off.
Lin Yu didn’t stop her.
Completing the "Soul Cultivation Bonding" mission today was probably impossible.
But
with today’s groundwork laid, it was like holding an "Imperial Sword"—
next time, small gestures like kissing and hugging could be smoothly justified.
As Tang Yimian gathered her things and reached the door,
she didn’t forget to thank Lin Yu one more time.
Only after leaving his room and reaching the stairwell
did she wobble to a stop, leaning heavily against the wall, her breathing uneven.
Thank goodness.
At least she hadn’t shown her nervousness and panic in front of Junior Lin Yu.
Her fingers twisted together restlessly.
Remembering the scene—the lingering intimacy—
Tang Yimian pinched her own cheek.
"Ouch…"
Not a dream.
She had actually done… that with her junior housemate in his room!
Heavens, what had she been thinking at the time?
…
[Ding!]
[Masterful move—lingering on the room’s ambiguous atmosphere, the "Transmission Hall" stirs with inexplicable emotions!]
[Reward: 20 Spirit Stones.]
Lin Yu chuckled, lying on his bed as he pictured his senior’s forced composure and flustered escape.
After resting for a while,
he took out his phone and sent a message to tomorrow’s date, his sweetheart, Xiao Fufu.
「Lin Yu: Xiao Fufu, what are you up to? Do you remember what tomorrow is?」
[Ding!]
[Masterful move—proactive care and affection fill your Dao Companion’s heart with sweetness!]
[Reward: 50 Spirit Stones.]
Another wonderful girl.
Just one message from him, and her heart responded with sweetness.
Soon,
Ye Mengfu’s reply came through.
「Ye Mengfu: Watching a drama.」
「Ye Mengfu: Tomorrow is the day we go out together.」
Even their date had to be phrased so indirectly.
Lin Yu teased further.
「Lin Yu: At least you haven’t forgotten. What drama? It Started with a Kiss?」
[Ding!]
[Masterful move—the telepathy between Dao Companions is both magical and delightful!]
[Reward: 50 Spirit Stones.]
Lin Yu grinned even wider.
Xiao Fufu’s thoughts were so easy to guess.
…
Meanwhile,
in Ye Mengfu’s bedroom.
Her tablet lay on the bed, paused on the exact drama Lin Yu had mentioned—It Started with a Kiss.
Holding her phone, she glanced at the screen and smiled faintly.
The reason she and Lin Yu had gotten together
was because of this indescribable tacit understanding between them…
Ye Mengfu typed, deleted, and retyped her reply several times before finally sending it.
「Ye Mengfu: (A cute animal sticker with the word "Amazing!")」
「Ye Mengfu: How did you guess? That’s unbelievable.」
After sending it, she immediately regretted it.
"Unbelievable" didn’t convey her feelings at all.
She should’ve chosen a better word.
Ding.
Lin Yu’s reply arrived quickly.
「Lin Yu: Shouldn’t I get a reward for guessing right?」
「Lin Yu: (Kiss) (Kiss) (Kiss) (Kiss)…」
Ye Mengfu burst into laughter, giggling for a long time.
After exchanging a few more messages,
Lin Yu sent one that instantly made her tense up.
「Lin Yu: I’ve picked our date spot for tomorrow. Don’t forget to bring your ID.」
Ye Mengfu: "!!!"
A date location that required ID…
She had a pretty good guess what that meant.
Curling her knees to her chest, she buried half her face against them.
Slowly, she typed back.
「Ye Mengfu: Okay, I’ll remember.」
After sending it, she touched her cheeks—they felt warm.
Then,
a few images popped up.
「Lin Yu: (Picture of two tickets: Jimmy’s Fairytale World – Comic Exhibition)」
「Lin Yu: These tickets were so hard to get. The VIP Starry Sky Pavilion requires real-name registration.」
「Lin Yu: Send me your ID number again.」
Jimmy… comic exhibition?!
So the ID was for this event? She’d completely misunderstood his intentions…
A comic exhibition!
And not just any—it was for Jimmy, one of her favorite illustrators.
She’d tried to get tickets three times this past week, failing every time.
Yet she’d never even mentioned it to Lin Yu.
Not only had he gotten tickets—he’d gotten two!
Was this… the tacit understanding of soulmates?
…
(Bonus chapter delivered! Thank you all for your support—keep the love coming!)
ver to a world of cultivation and returned invincible. Modern medicine is child's play compared to elixirs; technological might crumbles before true cultivation. My name is Qin Ning, Earth's sole cultivator!
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.
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?!
