Given the current atmosphere.
Of course, he wouldn't actually put on an adult film to enhance the mood.
Many times.
Using such a direct method to spice things up.
Is a huge insult to girls with little experience.
It is as if having a real person right in front of you does not interest you at all.
And you need to rely on other means to stimulate yourself.
Doesn't that imply you cannot muster any interest in the girl sitting right in front of you?
A battle-hardened veteran and a rookie fresh on the battlefield receive completely different signals from this.
To avoid causing troublesome misunderstandings and adding unnecessary obstacles.
The best method, naturally, is to avoid touching things with unpredictable outcomes.
Lin Yu definitely wouldn't put on an adult video to set the mood.
However, this zombie movie absolutely had to be changed.
Lin Yu searched on his phone and directly used the intranet to cast it, using the TV as a monitor.
In this era, TV screencasting technology was not that mature yet.
At least, it had not reached a small city like Pingchuan yet.
Playing a movie found on a phone onto a TV required a complex set of networking procedures.
Of course.
It was only complex in the eyes of others.
For the current Lin Yu, it was not a difficult task at all.
Lin Yu chose an old, obscure art-house film, 2046.
The more elusive the plot, the better, so people would not focus their attention on the movie itself.
Although the plot of 2046 was confusing, some scenes perfectly matched the current atmosphere.
Seeing Lin Yu play a movie on the TV without using a remote control.
Shen Jiuyi asked curiously,
Did you do that with a phone app?
No wonder everyone says you are a computer expert.
2046, huh? I didn't expect you to like art films...
...and the erotic scenes in them.
Lin Yu: ...
This delayed punchline way of speaking was very much Shen Jiuyi's style.
At a glance, she was clearly not an expert at playing dumb.
Putting the main idea directly out in the open was quite a mood killer.
Lin Yu did not refute her, but instead said,
Wouldn't it be boring to just watch the action scenes without any plot?
Shen Jiuyi: ...
Noticing Lin Yu staring straight at her.
Shen Jiuyi did not immediately avert her gaze; instead, she looked back at him.
She held out for about twenty seconds.
Finally.
Shen Jiuyi regretfully admitted defeat and looked away.
How could her temporarily feigned bravado be a match for Lin Yu?
Just that one glance of evasion allowed Lin Yu to catch the signal.
It seemed.
Little Jiu was still the same Little Jiu.
Perhaps it was because she was afraid to face what was about to happen that she made herself put on an indifferent front.
Doing so could somewhat alleviate the guilt in her heart.
Lin Yu did not continue to tease Shen Jiuyi.
The groundwork had pretty much been laid...
Taking advantage of the runtime of this movie, he would personally verify just how much of an impact Shen Jiuyi's destiny and dreams had on her.
Lin Yu leaned back against the headboard.
This time.
He took the initiative to sit a little closer, almost shoulder to shoulder with Shen Jiuyi.
Shen Jiuyi seemed to have expected this.
Not only did she not resist, but she also proactively reached out and linked her arm through Lin Yu's.
She said in her usual aloof tone,
Normal couples probably watch movies like this, right?
Even though we are not a couple, does doing this make you feel a bit better?
In Shen Jiuyi's heart.
What was happening today was at her own proactive request.
Lin Yu was the one helping out, so his feelings needed to be prioritized.
As for how she herself felt during the whole process, she placed that in a secondary position.
Truth be told.
Seeing Shen Jiuyi take the initiative gave Lin Yu a unique feeling in his heart.
He looked sideways and said,
The distance is still a bit too far. Real couples would be even closer.
Hearing Lin Yu pushing his luck after already getting an advantage.
Shen Jiuyi indulged Lin Yu's behavior once again.
She adjusted her sitting posture and linked her arm even deeper.
Feeling slightly stiff, she rested her face against Lin Yu's arm.
The moment their skin touched, their body heat transferred to one another.
Lin Yu was surprised to find.
That even with the atmosphere reaching such an ambiguous stage.
Shen Jiuyi's body temperature still felt icy cold.
It seemed her constitution was very weak!
He needed to find an opportunity to properly examine Little Jiu.
Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong...
At the same time.
Shen Jiuyi's phone rang.
She took out her phone, glanced at it, and then looked at Lin Yu beside her.
Lin Yu asked curiously,
It isn't Yaoyao again, is it?
Shen Jiuyi nodded, a trace of panic flashing across her face.
No matter how hard she tried to feign calmness, when she saw Shen Buyao's incoming call, Shen Jiuyi still could not help but feel nervous.
Lin Yu leaned closer to glance at the phone screen and breathed a slight sigh of relief inwardly.
Fortunately, this time it was just a voice call, not a video call.
Lin Yu muted the TV, signaling to Shen Jiuyi that she could answer the phone.
Antique Sister sure was busy today.
She had just finished calling Lin Yu, and now it was Shen Jiuyi's turn.
Of course.
It definitely was not because she suspected any connection between the two of them that she chose to call Shen Jiuyi.
If she had noticed anything suspicious, she definitely wouldn't have been able to hide it in her tone during her phone call with Lin Yu just now.
Besides.
Right now, in Shen Buyao's eyes, Huang Feiya was her absolute number one enemy.
Everyone else.
They were completely off her radar.
Calling Shen Jiuyi was probably just to discuss some private matters between the two of them, right?
After confirming that there was no noise in the room.
Shen Jiuyi answered the call and pressed the phone to her ear.
She didn't have Lin Yu's confidence and wouldn't dare put the call on speaker.
With a girl as unpredictable as Yaoyao, it was completely impossible to guess what she might blurt out.
Judging by the call she just had with Lin Yu, Yaoyao was probably still furious.
Thinking about it for even a second, it was obvious she wasn't about to say anything pleasant!
Most likely.
She hadn't been able to talk any sense into Rongrong and ended up getting a bellyful of anger instead.
So she was calling Shen Jiuyi to harshly criticize Huang Feirong's behavior.
Otherwise.
She must have thought about Huang Feiya's attitude toward Lin Yu and couldn't contain her indignation.
She wanted to use Shen Jiuyi as a sounding board to properly vent her frustrations.
If it was the former, that would be fine.
But the latter...
What Shen Jiuyi was doing right now was far more egregious than Huang Feiya's mere words.
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
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.”
Cheng's father told him he was getting remarried—to a wealthy woman. Cao Cheng realized his time had finally come: he was about to become a second-generation rich kid. Sure, it might be a watered-down version, but hey, at least he'd have status now, right? The wealthy woman also had four daughters!! Which meant, starting today, Cao Cheng gained four stunning older sisters?? But that wasn't even the whole story... "My name is Cao Cheng—'Cheng' as in 'honest, smooth-talking gentleman'!"
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!
