This scene.
It gave Lin Yu an uncomfortable feeling.
"Ying'er, give the money back to Xiaofu!"
"What's the meaning of this? Were the two of you betting on me?"
Mo Shangying's smile widened as she replied:
"Hehehe, as expected of my shifu."
"Xiaofu and I made a bet—that when shifu returned, you'd definitely say..."
"you only agreed to eat with that stinky cat because of me."
Lin Yu: "..."
The girls in this apartment are really hard to fool!
Are they all this sharp?
With Ying'er saying everything first, Lin Yu was left with no dignity at all.
Was the word "pervert" written on his forehead? How could they see through him so easily?
"Ying'er, you better take responsibility for your words."
"I had nothing but good intentions. At the time, I was considering..."
Before Lin Yu could finish, Mo Shangying cut him off:
"Shifu, I get it, I get it."
Lin Yu: "..."
You get nothing!
You clearly don’t believe me at all!
"But shifu, I don’t mind you going on a date with that stinky cat."
"As for bringing your disciple along, at most, I can help remotely as your wingman like today."
"I don’t want to show my face!"
"If I wanted to be seen in public, why would I need you to go in my place in the first place?"
Mo Shangying spoke with an exaggerated look of distress.
As expected.
Even if the cat girl believed Lin Yu was ZerO...
Getting the little hacker to join them for dinner wouldn’t be so easy.
"Ah, but I already said I’d bring my disciple. If you don’t go..."
Lin Yu had planned this in advance, cornering Mo Shangying.
Once the words were out, how could he take them back?
However.
Mo Shangying clapped her hands, analyzing shrewdly:
"Oh, so that’s what shifu’s worried about? Easy fix!"
"Just tell the stinky cat your disciple got sick, got hit by a car, got beaten up, or just straight-up died..."
"Any excuse will do, right?"
Lin Yu: "..."
Damn, she’s ruthless to herself.
Just to avoid showing up, she’d say anything!
It seemed his plan to trick Ying'er into joining the dinner was completely ruined.
Having her as a remote wingman was better than nothing, at least ensuring he wouldn’t slip up.
With the ZerO persona intact, Lin Yu was confident he could create the perfect opportunity to lure the cat girl to the apartment.
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After entering the hotel room.
Before Lin Yu could even take a sip of water, Mo Shangying rushed to say:
"Shifu, Xiaofu, wait here for me."
"To celebrate today’s successful negotiation, I ordered cake, crayfish, mantis shrimp... a whole bunch of food!"
"It’s at the shop across the street—I’ll go pick it up."
The whirlwind of a girl didn’t even wait for their response.
She excitedly bounced toward the elevator.
Lin Yu stood at the doorway, pretending to complain:
"Hey! Ying'er, what kind of arrangement is this?"
"You’re leaving the two of us alone in a hotel room? That’s not right..."
Click!
While calling out, Lin Yu casually shut the door.
At the same time, he took two deep breaths, steadying his expression.
Must not look too perverted!
Behind him, Ye Mengfu: "..."
Oh no.
That familiar feeling is back.
As Lin Yu turned to face her, Ye Mengfu instinctively wanted to pull up the hood of her cherry-pink sweatshirt.
Her hand hovered, then dropped.
In the end, she didn’t do it.
After a moment’s thought, she hurried to the TV stand and picked up a drawing board, holding it up for Lin Yu to see.
Lin Yu: "???"
This again?
The board displayed another illustration of a rabbit holding a sign.
This time, the sign read: You worked hard.
Compared to Mo Shangying’s fiery enthusiasm, Ye Mengfu’s "hardworking rabbit" was like a gentle stream—
soothing and sweet, flowing straight into the heart.
Lin Yu waved it off warmly:
"Not hard at all. A promise is a promise."
"Though this room’s setup is weird—only one chair?"
"Who sits and who doesn’t?"
"How about... we both sit on the bed and chat?"
Hearing this, Ye Mengfu’s legs trembled slightly.
Every time Lin Yu spoke, she got a strange feeling.
Yet if she didn’t overanalyze it...
on the surface, his words sounded perfectly reasonable, with no obvious issues.
She’d already misunderstood him once before.
She couldn’t let that happen again.
Lin Yu took the lead toward the bed, his mind already racing with mischievous thoughts.
But when he reached it, he froze—
The bed was covered with a disposable bedsheet!
Lin Yu turned back in surprise: "You prepared this?"
Ye Mengfu nodded and flipped to the next page of the drawing board.
This time, the rabbit was diligently spreading out a bedsheet labeled Clean.
She’d clearly anticipated his question.
What a treasure of a girl...
She took even his offhand jokes so seriously.
If only more girls were like this—quiet but thoughtful—life would be perfect.
"Xiaofu, thank you. I appreciate you remembering my habits. Come, sit."
Lin Yu gestured to the bed, politely making space.
However.
Ye Mengfu remained standing, her eyes expectantly fixed on the bed.
Lin Yu followed her gaze and noticed—
a gift box tied with a ribbon, placed neatly on the mattress.
Ye Mengfu didn’t move, as if waiting for him to discover it.
[Ding!]
[Masterful move—the Joy Sect’s Talisman Master voluntarily presents a gift to the host!]
[Reward: 20 Spirit Stones.]
"For... me?" Lin Yu pointed at himself.
Ye Mengfu flipped to another page:
The drawing was split into two panels.
Left: A little boy sticking a bandage on a bunny’s shoulder.
Right: The bunny handing a gift box to the boy.
It really was a gift for him!
"Tsk..."
Lin Yu sucked in a sharp breath.
Don’t do this to him.
This was too much to handle.
What a sweet girl...
How could he keep having impure thoughts about her?
Among the apartment’s many petite girls, she was the rare one with long legs.
And today, she was wearing her sweatshirt like a dress—
Just look at those legs.
Straighter than his moral compass!
"Listen, Xiaofu, don’t be too nice to me..."
Lin Yu muttered, but his hands obediently picked up the gift box.
Ye Mengfu clutched the drawing board nervously, watching his expression.
Ever since returning from Lin Yu’s room last night,
she’d spent over an hour researching—
just to decide what to give him in return.
Even if she didn’t know whether he’d like her gift...
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
