Xiang Tiange made a funny face and said in a not-so-friendly tone:
"Alright, alright, the great 'friend of women'! I just got a good lecture from you!"
"If I had absolutely no ulterior thoughts at all, wouldn't that make me seem like I have no charm?"
"Hmph! I'm definitely going to catch your little tail!"
Lin Yu couldn't hold back and laughed out loud.
Seriously? Not even a tiny bit of disguise?
Gotta say.
It really has a somewhat cute style.
Xiang Tiange pinched a section of something between her fingers, pointed weakly at Lin Yu, and continued:
"Wow, Lin Yu, has anyone ever told you your smile is very scheming, very wicked?"
"I keep feeling like you were just brushing me off, but I don't have any proof."
The expression on Lin Yu's face changed incredibly fast, from shock to confusion, then to grievance.
"Me? Me? I could brush you off?"
"Xiang Tiange, how smart you are!"
"Little Chi hasn't been able to outwit you all these years, how could I be your match?"
"I'm just an ordinary male college student, hahaha..."
By the end.
Seeing Xiang Tiange's uproarious laughter, Lin Yu simply couldn't keep up the act.
The thoroughly cheerful chat atmosphere completely opened the floodgates of conversation for the two of them.
...
What kind of lover Xiang Tiange would be, Lin Yu didn't know.
But after nearly two hours of chatting, Lin Yu dared say that being friends with her was really, really enjoyable.
As long as they talked about a shared area of interest, there was never any need to worry about awkward silences.
Xiang Tiange could absolutely take care of her friend's mood.
As time grew later and later.
Xiang Tiange opened a webpage on her phone and showed Lin Yu what looked like a flashy, colorful interface.
When he took the phone, Lin Yu thought it was some anime-related website.
But it turned out to be a promotional poster.
Title: "Pingchuan City 2014 New Anime Exhibition! Hot and Here!"
The location was Spring Square!
The very same square where he had taken Little Chi to buy figurines before.
Such a niche-targeted event naturally spoke for itself regarding the intended audience.
Moreover, it was an event held locally in Pingchuan.
How could pure otaku like Xiang Tiange and Chi Qingchi possibly miss it?
Forget about within Pingchuan; for any large-scale anime event held within the province or in cities less than five hundred kilometers away, the two of them would almost always find a way to attend.
“Lin Yu, even though you're newly into the fandom, or not even into it yet is fine too.”
"But it's a new anime exhibition held in Pingchuan, you know! Want to go have some fun together?"
"It's next week, and it doesn't even require tickets."
“There aren't really any competitions this time, it's purely for enjoying and visiting.”
"I've talked with Little Chi, she and the club members are all going. How about you?"
Xiang Tiange looked at Lin Yu expectantly.
Lin Yu: "..."
Wasn't Xiang Tiange's look obvious enough?
This was an invitation for him!
Wanting him to go along to this new anime exhibition!
It wasn't that Lin Yu didn't want to...
It was just that what Xiang Tiange said next scared Lin Yu.
Little Chi and everyone from the anime club... would all be there?
Those were all Lin Yu's acquaintances!
If he agreed to Xiang Tiange and went to the exhibition with her.
If Little Chi and so-and-so from the anime club saw them, wouldn't he be completely done for?
To want to pass through a forest of flowers unscathed, one also needed the life to enjoy it.
Placing himself in such a dangerous environment was completely outside Lin Yu's consideration.
But to reject Xiang Tiange, he at least needed a decent reason.
From their detailed conversation earlier, Lin Yu knew Xiang Tiange's logical thinking was strong.
If anything was slightly off, she could completely pick up on it.
Brush her off?
The difficulty was no less than trying to get something naughty from Little Chi!
"Seems like a pretty good event, huh..."
Lin Yu first affirmed it positively, laying the groundwork for what he was about to say next.
Who would have thought.
Xiang Tiange's next sentence stunned Lin Yu outright!
"Right? Little Chi and I both think so."
"We two have already agreed!"
"Probably when she sees you tomorrow during the day, she'll discuss it with you then."
Lin Yu: "???"
What?
Agreed with Little Chi?
What was that supposed to mean?
It was hard to imagine what kind of context...
would allow the two of them to talk about him, and moreover, directly assume he would go too.
For a moment.
It made Lin Yu feel very nervous inside!
Seeing Lin Yu's puzzled look, Xiang Tiange quickly added:
"Little Chi said you'd definitely participate, hahaha!"
"When the time comes, the three of us can walk around together."
"It's not a club activity, everyone is free to move around on their own."
“She was the one who brought you up on her own initiative, I wouldn't initiate talking about an out-of-school guy, hmph!”
Lin Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
Thank goodness.
He and Little Chi lived under the same roof and were classmates.
For Little Chi to directly talk about Lin Yu wasn't unfathomable.
"If both of you are going, wouldn't it be much less fun without me...?"
"Let's settle it then, let's go together next week!"
Three people acting together.
Juggling between two sides was something Lin Yu was particularly good at.
[Ding!]
[Heavenly Show-off move, the Saint agreed to the invitation from the Joyous Sect's Nisheng Envoy, making her heart blossom with joy!]
[Reward: 20 Spirit Stones]
As the system's voice faded.
A new task directly popped up from Xiang Tiange's information box.
It was the [Mundane Trial] for attending the new anime exhibition together next week.
With the boost of a system task, Lin Yu's motivation greatly increased!
11 PM at night.
The two ate a bowl of spicy skewers together, and feeling satisfied, prepared to leave.
Where Xiang Tiange lived was at least a twenty-minute drive from Pingchuan University.
It was so late.
Lin Yu naturally wouldn't let Xiang Tiange go home by herself.
Even though Xiang Tiange refused repeatedly, he still took the initiative to hail a cab and sent Xiang Tiange home.
...
At the entrance of Xiang Tiange's residential compound.
Lin Yu saw her to the gate, politely not going further inside.
It was so late; going directly to a girl's building downstairs would inevitably make her suspect his intentions.
Although, in Xiang Tiange's heart, Lin Yu had long been harboring ulterior motives.
"Hurry inside, I'm heading back. Had a great time tonight."
"Next time you're free, let's have a late-night snack together again!"
"When your semester starts, I can also come hang out near your school."
Lin Yu waved, taking a few steps back, preparing to watch her enter.
Xiang Tiange said with a smile:
Okay, I was also especially, especially happy today.
“You're the first guy to buy me ice cream, it's very meaningful.”
"Here's a friendship gift for you, catch it, okay? Happy birthday!"
As she spoke.
Xiang Tiange kissed her own palm.
Made a shooting motion, and threw it towards Lin Yu.
...
(Extra chapter served up. We'll call it a day for now, continue fighting tomorrow. Thank you all for the support these past few days, accompanying this little author through a tough period. Thank you very much!!)
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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?!
lities. One day, Qi Yuan was buying groceries when he unfortunately came face-to-face with a monster. Just when he thought he was going to die on the spot, he suddenly heard the monster's thoughts... "This aura, he's definitely not an ordinary master!" "So terrifying, so terrifying." "A fight with my back against the wall, I can't take it anymore." Qi Yuan: Ah, no one told me that my awakened ability isn't telepathy, but rather the stronger my enemies imagine me to be, the stronger I truly become. PS: Zhou Hai in the first chapter is not the protagonist.
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.”
