"Lin Yu, there's really no one else inside. Maybe we should just..."
Xia Xiashan stood at the doorway, attempting a final blockade.
After all, everyone currently hiding was part of a united front.
Little Chi had held out for so long in the car without betraying his teammates.
Even though Xia Xiashan was a newcomer, she intended to do her part for the team as well.
"Sister Shanshan, you know me..."
"Stop struggling in vain. Just close the door for me, would you?"
Lin Yu looked at Xia Xiashan and couldn't help but reveal a "kindly" smile.
That single glance was enough to make Xia Xiashan shudder. It was as if the demon from the car had appeared before her once again.
She hurriedly stepped aside and pulled the door shut behind her.
Clang!
The light within the utility room instantly dimmed.
Finally.
In the corner behind a storage shelf, Lin Yu spotted a dark silhouette.
The creativity was on par with Little Fufu's; the person had chosen to balance a brand-new floor mat on their head, attempting to use this crude disguise to slip past Lin Yu's gaze.
Just think about it.
Lin Yu had done so many tasks in the public areas.
How could he not know exactly what was in the utility room on every floor?
Did they really think they could fool him with such an out-of-place floor mat?
They really weren't treating Lin Yu like a detective, were they?
Even though he wasn't one.
Whoever came up with such a clumsy hiding method had to be one of the apartment's "geniuses."
Lin Yu didn't lift the mat immediately. Instead, he reached in with his large hand and firmly grabbed the person's arm first!
"Still trying to hide? Heh heh, let's see who this is!"
As he spoke, Lin Yu exerted a little force, easily pulling both the person and the floor mat out from behind the shelf.
The moment the mat fell to the floor, Lin Yu finally got a clear look at the gi—woman he had caught.
Lin Yu: "!!!"
Du Ruxue: "..."
Their eyes met in the dim light.
For a split second, Lin Yu really wanted to stuff Auntie Ruxue back in there.
He wanted to start over and "catch" her again in a relatively more gentle and polite manner.
There was a long silence.
Du Ruxue finally raised her arm. Lin Yu's hand was still firmly gripping her wrist.
"What a domineering 'Sheriff.' Is this how you caught the previous 'thieves' as well?"
Lin Yu quickly let go and chuckled awkwardly.
"No, Auntie Ruxue, I thought..."
Du Ruxue: "Thought I was who?"
Lin Yu: "..."
He couldn't answer that!
It was a massive trap!
How could he say who he thought it was?
If he actually named someone...
In Auntie Ruxue's mind, wouldn't that mean Lin Yu was mentally inseparable from that person?
Lin Yu's gears turned quickly. "That's not what I meant. I just thought..."
Du Ruxue's expression remained unchanged. "It doesn't matter. You don't need to explain to me. It's your birthday; you're the boss."
Lin Yu: "..."
His mental gymnastics had been for nothing.
Outside the door, Xia Xiashan was currently as anxious as an ant on a hot pan!
She had just wanted to find a temporary hiding spot, but as luck would have it—or rather, as bad luck would have it—she had stumbled upon Auntie Ruxue's spot!
Recalling the scene when she had tried to hide earlier, Xia Xiashan felt a wave of trepidation.
She had run into the dark utility room and specifically asked, "Is anyone here?"
Auntie Ruxue was truly a committed hide-and-seek player!
She hadn't answered Xia Xiashan at all.
Naturally assuming the room was empty, Xia Xiashan had squeezed her way to the very back.
She had even casually lifted the floor mat off Auntie Ruxue's head.
What followed was...
Xia Xiashan: "???"
Auntie Ruxue: "Put it back."
Xia Xiashan: "Oh... okay."
Auntie Ruxue: "Scoot over a little."
Xia Xiashan: "..."
The scene was simply too bizarre.
So much so that Xia Xiashan couldn't even begin to describe her feelings at that moment.
The Auntie Ruxue in her memories—always so dignified and aloof—was actually taking a game of hide-and-seek seriously?
She even knew how to use her companion as cover so she could tuck herself deeper into the hiding spot.
Was this normal?
It made absolutely no sense!
Before Xia Xiashan had time to dwell on it, Lin Yu and Auntie Ruxue walked out of the utility room together.
Xia Xiashan stared at the pair. "..."
It wasn't that she didn't want to say anything.
She honestly just didn't know what to say!
Du Ruxue gently patted Xia Xiashan on the back and said calmly:
"It couldn't be helped. We both got caught."
Xia Xiashan's brain completely short-circuited; it was hard to imagine such words coming out of Auntie Ruxue's mouth.
She could only force a smile and reply:
"Yeah, I guess we didn't hide well enough."
Du Ruxue: "If you hadn't come in, I think I was hidden quite well."
Xia Xiashan: "..."
Was she assigning blame now?
Was that really the point?
Did she really need to care about winning or losing over something like this?!
Du Ruxue continued, "Shanshan, how about you be the seeker next time?"
"Let's see if you can find me."
Xia Xiashan: "???"
So it wasn't about blame; she was actually addicted to the game?
Did Auntie Ruxue always like hide-and-seek this much?
Without waiting for Xia Xiashan's reply, Du Ruxue turned to Lin Yu:
"You've received the gifts from Shanshan and me."
"The next step should be writing the cards, right?"
Lin Yu reacted quickly, using the railing as a makeshift table to write the cards for Auntie Ruxue and Xia Xiashan.
Naturally, he wrote the one for Auntie Ruxue first.
[Sharp reasoning, gentle resilience, and occasional childishness.]
[Every facet is the composure and wisdom you possess after seeing through life.]
Du Ruxue looked at the content of the card, then gazed at Lin Yu with a complex expression:
"Why does this feel..."
"Less like a message to an [enemy] and more like one to a [lover]?"
Lin Yu: "..."
Lin Yu didn't dare touch that comment.
Sister Curator was still watching nearby!
Flirting with someone's aunt right in front of Sister Curator?
That would be tantamount to blowing his own cover and self-destructing on the spot!
Of course.
Regardless of how Lin Yu responded, Xia Xiashan didn't have the time to pay attention to it right now.
Her entire attention was focused on the card she was holding:
[A true opponent never loses their luster after a single fall; they only forge their defeat into harder bones and sharper blades.]
[I am waiting at the summit for a stronger you.]
Xia Xiashan felt like she had been struck by lightning!
The words were incredibly arrogant, yet they struck a chord deep within her heart.
Lin Yu didn't look down on her just because she was a "defeated opponent."
Instead, he was encouraging her to become a stronger version of herself.
No mockery, no belittling—this was the greatest respect one could show to the defeated.
Watching Xia Xiashan's reaction, Lin Yu knew that his pretentious, "condescending" words had hit the mark.
"Auntie Ruxue, Sister Shanshan, the cats are waiting for you downstairs."
"I'm in a hurry, so I'm taking off!"
Lin Yu didn't waste any time and quickly ran down the corridor.
Besides the utility room, there was also a small communal tea room on the third floor.
However, everyone usually boiled water in their own rooms.
As a result, this small area didn't see much use.
Auntie Qimeng had placed quite a few plastic bins here, using them to store various odds and ends.
Could someone be hiding here?
...
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
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!
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?"
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?!
