Opening Fang Xinran’s chat window.
A seemingly ordinary message, yet it set Lin Yu’s mind racing.
“Fang Xinran: Lin, are you asleep?”
Lin Yu: “...”
Could it be that if he replied, Fang would launch into another round of those cringe-worthy dad jokes?
Ignoring it outright would be a bit rude.
After all, who actually goes to bed before midnight these days?
Besides, it’s about showing some respect.
She’s a colleague of Senior Tang Yimian and seems to have a good relationship with her.
Being too cold toward her wouldn’t look good.
What if Tang Yimian ever finds out? It’d be awkward.
Lin Yu prided himself on being considerate like that.
After a moment’s thought.
“Lin Yu: Not asleep yet (grinning)”
“Lin Yu: Found any good jokes today?”
Rather than waiting to be roasted, better to take the initiative and give Fang Xinran a chance to show off.
At least that way, when the jokes inevitably make him cringe, he’d feel a little better about it.
“Fang Xinran: I’m about to sleep now. Get some rest, Lin. Good night.”
Lin Yu: “???”
What the heck?!
This girl’s messing with his mind late at night?
Is she trying to mess with his head?
“Ding dong!”
Right then, Lin Yu’s phone buzzed again.
“Fang Xinran: How about this joke? Let me see if I fooled you into thinking I was really going to sleep.”
Lin Yu stared at the screen: “!!!”
She must have been soaking in too many soup dramas today, his IQ temporarily dropped.
It had to be that!
If he didn’t comfort himself with that thought, he felt like his brain had just been brutally tortured.
The kind of torture where someone drags you up a tree on the street for no reason!
He’d seen similar hellish prank replies online before.
But never in real life.
Fang Xinran was definitely the first!
If she were standing in front of him right now, Lin Yu honestly wanted to grab her by the collar.
Sentence her on the spot: a thousand brain pops!
While popping, he’d ask:
“You think you’re funny, huh? Tell me, am I laughing or not?”
“Ding dong!”
Suppressing the urge to complain, Lin Yu opened the next long message.
“Fang Xinran: Lin, do you have time tomorrow night to take a look at my prose? I heard from Yimian that you have great writing skills and are happy to help. I’ll be staying at Yimian’s place for one night tomorrow. If it’s convenient, I hope you can come by and give me some pointers.”
Lin Yu: “???”
Fang Xinran’s coming to stay at the apartment tomorrow?
Another literature lover!
And this time, she’s into prose!
Does she really think online writers are literary gods?
Tonight, he’d gone out late with Aunt Qimeng.
So late that he had to bail on his “online writing tutoring” session with Tang Yimian.
The previous two tutoring sessions had been scheduled too tightly.
Tang Yimian was starting to get a little wary.
Stretching out the schedule a bit to give her some breathing room was a good move.
Unexpectedly, before he even finished teaching one student,
Tang Yimian had already introduced him to a “new student”!
The key point is... what the heck does he know about prose?
"Lin Yu: Senior Fang, it’s not that I don’t have time, it’s just that I haven’t really dealt with prose before."
Instead of beating around the bush, it’d be better to just be honest.
If you don’t know, you just don’t know.
However.
What’s clear to normal people might not be so to others.
"Fang Xinran: Just like Sister Mianmian said, be humble. So you’re free tomorrow night, right?"
Lin Yu: "..."
He says he kills without batting an eye, and she asks if his eyes feel dry?
Is that the point of his words?
Only paying attention to what you want to focus on, and automatically censoring the rest, huh?
She really knows how to switch faces!
"Lin Yu: Yes, I’m free. Getting together to chat about something else is fine, but prose is really beyond me."
"Fang Xinran: Great! How about nine o’clock tomorrow night?"
Lin Yu: "..."
Did she even see the second half of his sentence?
Why is she still saying “Great” and all?
...
After exchanging some polite words with Fang Xinran, Lin Yu spent another half hour chatting with Aunt Qi Meng.
After saying goodnight to each other,
Lin Yu started his bedtime ritual.
Choosing tonight’s dream targets!
After opening the Dream Entry Skill interface,
Lin Yu was pleasantly surprised to discover...
【Ding!】
【Congratulations, host! After continuous practice of the Dream Entry Technique, your skill level has increased...】
【Dream Entry Technique (Intermediate) → Dream Entry Technique (Advanced)!】
【Advanced Dream Entry Technique allows +2 dream targets per night!】
【New Skill Effect: Rule Nullification!】
(Warm reminder: The story will no longer fully describe all four dreams each night; it will still focus on two key dreams, while briefly summarizing the other two to avoid slowing down the pace of the real world. Thank you for understanding.)
Woohoo~ The four-person night dream mode god skill is here!
And it even added a new effect, with detailed explanations included.
Lin Yu quickly skimmed through it and summarized the characteristics of the new effect.
Rule Constraints!
This refers to things like Nurse Sister forcibly declaring Lin Yu insane,
or Xiao Chi forcibly trapping him in the black mist on the boss chair.
These are all examples of dream rule constraints.
Upgrading to the advanced version of Dream Entry Technique means ignoring these constraints.
You can freely “be yourself” even inside the dream world.
With this brand-new version upgrade, Lin Yu has taken another big step toward becoming the true King of Nightmares.
When it came to choosing the four participants,
Lin Yu barely hesitated on the first pick...
Nurse Sister, Xia Yiwei!
Last time, in her dream world, Lin Yu was thoroughly "humiliated."
As an adult male, being told he’s no good?
Absolutely unacceptable, and something he must make up for!
【Ding!】
【Advanced Dream Entry Technique activated (four-person mode)!】
【Tonight, the host will encounter the Elders of the Spirit Medicine Hall and the Martial Arts Disciple (Xia Yiwei) in the dream; please choose the appropriate dream type!】
【1. Secretly filmed cuddling with Lin Yu, caught red-handed!】
【2. Beat up the big sister, showing off the glory of the sect!】
【3. Medical treatment at home, continuation of an embarrassing condition!】
【4. Speed racing competition, little master, how do you use items?】
【5. None of the above, random dream!】
Lin Yu: "???"
He carefully looked over the dream types for Nurse Sister.
There are quite a few things worth complaining about!
Little did he know, Xia Yiwei actually enjoys sneaking photos in secret.
And what’s this about using power-ups in a racing competition? Are we playing some kind of crazy car chase game here?
If it weren’t for the chance to “avenge past humiliations,”
Lin Yu really wanted to see how good Nurse Sister’s photography skills were.
To prove himself,
Lin Yu still chose Dreamland Three!
……
(Here’s an extra chapter for you all. I’ll keep grinding tomorrow. While you’re busy making your daily fortune, I hope you can spare a moment to give a like and support this free work powered by love. Much appreciated!)
for mindless slaughter, this isn't for you.] My name is Ye Shu, and I'm a transmigrator. It seems I'm supposed to be the protagonist, but that feels pretty unlikely. This world has been invaded by a system. The antagonists on the other side have suddenly become pure, flawless saints. The female leads have been force-fed the so-called "original plot," making them think they've been reborn. Now, everyone thinks I'm scum. Including the old lady in my ring. And here I am, in the Monster Beast Mountain Range, braising pork. To put my situation in perspective— It's as if, the moment Xiao Yan stepped into the Monster Beast Mountain Range, the Soul Emperor already knew he would become the Flame Emperor, and Yao Lao had been turned to the enemy's side. I have nothing right now. Oh wait, that's not true. I do have a white-haired loli child-bride who's the Heavenly Dao, and her only skill is acting cute. So, tell me guys... what are my chances of making it to the end?
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!
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
