The trait that Lin Yu found most refreshing about Xiang Tiange was this kind of frankness, never feigned or hesitant.
Things had been said to this point.
How could Lin Yu not have thought of these things?
He had come out for a late-night snack with genuine sincerity in tow.
Going back to the same place was one thing.
But how could he possibly force someone who couldn't eat any more to frantically stuff themselves?
"Don't worry, the place I'm taking you to, you can still have a little even if you're full."
"The light drizzle has stopped now; eating outside has a different feel!"
Lin Yu kept her in suspense, not telling Xiang Tiange which shop it was.
Xiang Tiange was genuinely intrigued by Lin Yu.
When it came to food, Chi Qingchi was absolutely an authority.
She had pretty much introduced Xiang Tiange to all the best snacks on the food street.
Xiang Tiange really couldn't imagine where the place Lin Yu had chosen might be...
Not long after.
Lin Yu led Xiang Tiange to a stop in front of a shop called "Old-Fashioned Ice Cream & Ices."
Calling it a shopfront.
was really just two small stalls set up in a modified shipping container.
Next door was another stall for "Everything Wrapped in a Pancake."
The two businesses shared one container.
The site usage fee for this little night market area wasn't cheap.
For venues with already slim profit margins, it was even more necessary to save space to reduce expenses.
"So many kinds of ice cream?"
"I was still guessing what kind of mysterious place it could be."
"Haha, I didn't expect it to be a place for ices!"
Only then did Xiang Tiange understand why Lin Yu had seemed so confident.
He hadn't planned to take her for a meal from the start, but for ice cream.
This unconventional, different idea made Xiang Tiange very happy.
Sure enough.
She hadn't misjudged him!
Lin Yu really was a guy with high emotional intelligence.
During their dinner appointment with Chi Qingchi today, the topic of the comic convention event had inevitably come up.
Without Xiang Tiange even asking, Chi Qingchi had described how Lin Yu saved the day at the event.
Someone not from the anime circle, yet performing so well on stage at a comic convention!
And effortlessly winning over their club's performance.
Xiang Tiange was super, incredibly envious of Little Chi for having such a treasure of a friend by her side.
Of course.
Right now, he wasn't just Little Chi's friend, but her friend too.
Maybe...
in the future, they could be even closer than just friends.
Xiang Tiange chose a full two servings: one of ice cream scoops, and a double-flavored cone.
Lin Yu's choice was common and old-school.
He directly ordered a shaved ice with syrup poured over it!
A decade or more later.
You wouldn't even know where to find this kind of thing in one go.
People around would even use terms like "frankenfood science" to describe these things.
Lin Yu's physical condition wasn't worried at all.
If a man eats healthy, keeps regular hours, doesn't smoke, doesn't drink, doesn't go online, doesn't play games...
what's the difference between that and being dead already?
Young people should do things young people do.
Don't wait until you're old, past your prime, to... shed tears over nothing.
The two of them, holding their ice creams, sat on the small folding stools beside the shipping container.
They chatted while eating their ice creams.
"Hey, Lin Yu, let me ask you a question, answer me honestly..."
Xiang Tiange ate her ice cream with a tiny spoon, first throwing out a teaser to start the conversation.
Lin Yu said nonchalantly:
"Sure, what's the question?"
Xiang Tiange suddenly leaned close to Lin Yu, looking up slightly to stare at him as she asked:
"Treating me to ice cream... were you trying to see if I could eat cold things today?"
Lin Yu: "!!!"
He knew Xiang Tiange was straightforward and frank, but he hadn't expected her to be this direct!
Her level of sharpness was in no way inferior to Little Chi's.
Today, Lin Yu really hadn't had that intention.
He hadn't been expecting anything to happen at all.
Tomorrow was his birthday party where he'd get to enjoy the company of both beauties.
Before the party, it was better to keep things quiet.
At least for now, the fellow sect member drifting outside the sect wasn't yet part of his cultivation goals.
Lin Yu was just shocked by Xiang Tiange's associative thinking and bold statement.
Most girls, even if they thought of this layer, would rarely dare to say it out directly.
Xiang Tiange, impressive, truly impressive!
"Ahem..."
"Tiange, you know quite a lot, huh?"
Lin Yu looked at her with an expression of surprise.
Xiang Tiange nibbled on her spoon, laughing happily:
"Of course! I'm not a silly girl, not that easy to fool!"
"So, you're basically admitting it?"
"You're something else, Lin Yu..."
Before Xiang Tiange could finish.
Lin Yu directly raised a hand to stop her, then said:
"'No ice, no spicy food during your period' is purely a myth."
"Medicine has long proven that 90% of menstrual cramps are primary dysmenorrhea, related to constitution."
"It has nothing to do with what you eat!"
"If you normally don't feel much discomfort during your period, you can eat whatever you want."
Xiang Tiange's big eyes were filled with even bigger confusion:
"Really? You know so much about this?"
Lin Yu responded with a completely serious expression:
"Look at my face, does it seem like I'm joking with you?"
How did he know so much?
He had to thank all kinds of marketing accounts from every field!
Whether it was actually true or not, Lin Yu didn't know.
He wasn't a girl, after all, and couldn't verify it himself.
Anyway, the marketing accounts said it was true, and even provided data that seemed credible.
Lin Yu never produced opinions; he was merely a porter of opinions!
It was perfectly sufficient for dealing with female college students.
Wasn't Xiang Tiange beside him completely taken in?
Xiang Tiange continued eating with a smile on her face.
Even though Lin Yu had given a reasonable explanation and spoken with great confidence.
Hearing him defend himself so "impartially and dispassionately," Xiang Tiange felt a bit of inexplicable disappointment in her heart.
The frequency and force of her nibbling on the spoon increased noticeably compared to before.
Lin Yu quickly followed up:
"Why does it seem like after my explanation, it's worse than not explaining at all?"
"You don't seem happier at all?"
How could Lin Yu not see through Xiang Tiange's little thoughts?
What girl at this age doesn't want to prove her charm in front of someone she's ambiguously involved with?
It seemed Lin Yu's "fair and impartial" performance had dealt a small blow to her.
Under normal circumstances.
Lin Yu wouldn't ask such a brainless follow-up question.
If he already knew the answer in his heart, why ask it out loud?
Today, facing Xiang Tiange, he was using a method he normally didn't employ.
The girl was saying whatever was on her mind, not hiding or holding back at all.
He, a straightforward, never-been-in-love "gentleman," why should he hide?
Might as well lay all the cards on the table!
...
(Second update for today. There will be an extra update later. Continuing to work hard to maintain steady updates without hiccups, stabilizing my mindset to write well first.)

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.”

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?"

shall grant"] ["Inscribing the glory of our race upon tombstones"] ["All that is threatened, I shall protect"] How his younger sister sees her brother: A brother who only makes eye contact once a day, mostly fading into the background as he tinkers with who-knows-what in his room all day. Their life paths should have remained largely separate. Until one day. Su Qi created an equipment card for his never-met "online girlfriend." His sister fell into silent contemplation upon receiving the "white stockings." [Card can be upgraded] [Upgrade by fulfilling any of the following conditions] [Condition ①: Consume one hundred higher-tier cards] [Condition ②: Complete one 'Heart-Pounding Adventure'] What constitutes a Heart-Pounding Adventure? [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Beginner Level): Equip the card and invite 'Su Qi' to admire it.] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Easy Level): Equip the card, invite 'Su Qi' to touch it, and analyze the equipment's texture.] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Entry Level): Equip the card and invite 'Su Qi' to...] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Challenge Level): Freely combine the words 'Brother' 'Out' 'Brother' 'Me' 'Please' into a complete sentence...] "Please help me analyze both teams' mistakes in this match, brother..." His sister exhaled in relief—surely... surely there couldn't be anything more difficult? [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Suicide Mission Level): Sneak a peek at the names of the galgames in 'Su Qi's' hidden E-drive folder]

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!