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.
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
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.
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?"
