Inside the apartment.
Five minutes after Lin Yu returned to the apartment.
"Ahahaha, my sister, that country bumpkin, actually gave you a 'Heavenly Sword'!"
"Is she preparing you to ascend Wudang Mountain to defend the Central Plains martial arts world?"
"Ahahaha, everyone, come take a look, I can't, I'm dying of laughter."
"..."
As soon as Xia Yiwei saw Lin Yu return holding a gift, she immediately scurried over.
Whether the sisters had communicated beforehand or Xia Yiwei recognized the box at a glance is unknown.
She promptly urged Lin Yu to open it in front of everyone.
Once opened, the apartment became a sea of joyous laughter...
Originally, people weren't laughing, but with the instigation of the owner's own little sister, Xia Yiwei, it was really hard not to crack up.
Xia Yiwei even clamored for Lin Yu to perform a segment, to see what an authentic "sword dance" was all about.
Forget whether Lin Yu actually knew how.
Even if he did, he would rather die than perform such an act in public!
What a joke.
Today he was here for his birthday, the birthday star!
Not the class clown.
Although this gift was completely unexpected.
The "great sword" had a very substantial feel to it!
Even unsharpened, it gave off a vibe of "if you're my bro, you can totally slay me with this."
Lin Yu examined it carefully for a long time; internally, he was actually quite pleased.
To avoid a cascade of mockery, Lin Yu decided to take the great sword to his room first.
If this thing stayed out here.
After drinking in the evening, it would be hard to refuse everyone's inevitable demand for a performance.
Putting it away first to eliminate unnecessary risks was the wise move.
"Little Lin Yu, that thing is so heavy, it's not easy to carry upstairs alone, right?"
"What if it gets damaged? Wouldn't that waste my sister's thoughtful gift?"
"Let me help you carry it up. I don't have anything to do right now anyway."
Upon learning Lin Yu was taking it upstairs, Xia Yiwei quickly jumped in, proactively offering to help.
Lin Yu: "..."
Lin Yu was no fool.
How could he not guess Xia Yiwei's ulterior motives!
Such a long box was indeed somewhat awkward for one person to carry upstairs.
Two people...
Wouldn't that be even more awkward?
Since when did Nurse Sister ever have good intentions?
No doubt, she must be planning to seize this opportunity to continue discussing the major event of last night's dream with Lin Yu!
To be honest.
Given Xia Yiwei's level of openness.
On the phone, Lin Yu had almost failed to hold his ground.
And now he had to talk about it face-to-face?
Was she planning to bring out some seriously spicy material?
And everyone was watching right now.
If Lin Yu refused outright, it would seem overly guilty.
He had no choice but to brace himself and accept Xia Yiwei's help.
Xia Yiwei held one end of the box, pretending to march in step with Lin Yu up the stairs.
After ascending one step, she realized Lin Yu was stuck outside the staircase.
Lin Yu: "..."
Xia Yiwei: "Hehe, sorry. Should we switch directions?"
Lin Yu: "Is this just a matter of switching directions?"
Xia Yiwei: "Hmm, you might have a point there?"
Lin Yu: "..."
If you offer to help, at least make it look like you're helping!
If you haven't thought it through, why step forward?
To be funny?
Finally, under Lin Yu's guidance, the two of them cradled the box between them and headed to the third floor, one in front, one behind.
It has to be said.
Nurse Sister was really good at seizing the moment.
The timing was perfect, right before lunch.
There were also many things needing tidying up in the first-floor common area.
Everyone currently in the apartment was gathered on the first floor.
The third floor was completely empty, in a...
"Shout to the heavens, no answer; call to the earth, no relief" kind of timeframe!
The perfect time to commit a little mischief.
Arriving at the bedroom door, Lin Yu made one last small attempt to struggle free.
Fumbling for his keys, he said to Xia Yiwei:
"Sister Weiwei, thanks for the help."
"The little living area inside the door is pretty narrow. I'll carry it in myself."
"Why don't you... head back down first?"
As soon as he asked, Lin Yu knew it was a wasted effort.
He saw a sly smile spread across Xia Yiwei's face:
"Hehehe..."
"Little Master, there are no outsiders here, just the two of us."
"Come on, stop pretending. Hurry up and open the door, I'm about to die of curiosity."
As she spoke,
Xia Yiwei wiggled her hips slightly on the spot.
If another girl did this move, Lin Yu might have found it somewhat appealing.
Coming from Xia Yiwei, it just sent chills down his spine.
It felt like what he was about to open wasn't his bedroom door.
But the evil gate leading down the road to hell!
Seeing Lin Yu hesitating at the door, Xia Yiwei simply let go of her end of the box.
"Clang!"
The gift from her sister, which she claimed to "treasure," fell directly to the floor.
Now she didn't care if the gift got damaged; her eyes were only on the keys in Lin Yu's hand.
She snatched them from him, clicked them twice in the lock, and opened the door.
Then.
She entered as casually as if it were her own home.
She leaned halfway in, but one arm remained outside.
Hooking the corner of Lin Yu's shirt...
Lin Yu: "!!!"
Alright, alright.
Daring to play this wild with him?
If there were no one else in the apartment today, Nurse Sister would absolutely meet a terrible end!
Carrying the box alone, he entered the room.
Truth be told, his room wasn't that spacious either. Storing such a large box would take up a lot of room.
He could only leave it in the bedroom for now and move it to the party venue after the gathering.
Maybe in the future, he could take some fellow enthusiast there to play a game of "riding and fighting"?
"Click! Click!"
Seeing Lin Yu enter, Xia Yiwei quickly circled back to the door and locked it from the inside.
Seeing no hope of evading the issue, Lin Yu had no choice but to face it head-on.
"Weiwei, I advise you to give up on this idea."
"This matter of 'borrowing' something you mentioned, I could never agree to."
"I don't know what trouble you've encountered that requires this kind of solution."
"But have you ever considered? This is a lifelong responsibility, not a moment of pleasure."
Lin Yu preemptively took the moral high ground.
A little thought would make Lin Yu's reasoning clear; what he said was correct.
If you said you had a physical need.
Lin Yu would be happy to oblige.
But if you said what you needed was a child?
How does one oblige that?
That's terrifying!
He felt he was just a kid himself!
Xia Yiwei looked around and sat down on Lin Yu's bed.
She sat far back, able to swing her legs.
"Little Master, it's not that I haven't thought about what you said."
"Don't talk so lightly without being in my shoes. What if your family arranged for you to marry someone you'd absolutely detest?"
"To escape that situation, wouldn't you have to fight for a way out?"
"Besides, aren't there plenty of couples who have a child first and then fall in love?"
...
(Second update for today. There will be an extra chapter later, won't be updated too late. Thanks for your support!)
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
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?!
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
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!
