At this moment, Little Chi was still immersed in her own emotions.
She was completely unaware of her older sister's movements in the top bunk.
Until...
A figure with disheveled hair suddenly appeared hanging upside down beside her bed, snapping Little Chi back to reality.
"Ah! A ghost!!"
Little Chi screamed at the top of her lungs.
She violently jumped up from her lying position and cowered in the corner of the bed.
Her little heart pounded wildly, feeling as if it were about to leap out of her chest; she was almost scared to death on the spot.
The magnetic stick-on lamp beside the bed lit up, exposing Chi Qingshui's face in the light.
Maintaining her upside-down posture, she looked at Little Chi suspiciously and asked:
"Hey, Little Chi, did you do something you shouldn't have again?"
"Why is your reaction so exaggerated today?"
Hearing her sister's voice, Little Chi finally calmed down a bit.
Patting her chest, she said to her sister in annoyance:
"What do you mean, something I shouldn't have!"
"Sister, you look like something straight out of a horror movie right now. Who could handle that?"
"Staying up this late just to scare me—are you trying to lose your own sister?"
Faced with Little Chi's questioning, Chi Qingshui didn't answer.
Instead, she pulled her head back up and climbed down from the top bunk to Little Chi's bed.
Little Chi instantly turned pale with fright.
She quickly returned to where she had been lying, her little brain working in overdrive...
She wasn't thinking about her dream.
She was trying hard to recall if she had hidden anything recently!
Ever since Little Lin taught her how to hide things, Little Chi found it extremely useful.
She hid all the "little trinkets" she didn't want her sister to see in inconspicuous spots around her bed.
Normally, unless someone carefully searched her bed, they wouldn't notice a thing.
Of course.
Little Chi wasn't an idiot either.
She wouldn't keep too many things hidden in the same place all the time.
Moving things back and forth, shuffling them around.
It got to the point where even Little Chi herself couldn't remember exactly what was hidden under her bed right now.
No matter what it was.
It never hurt to be a little careful.
Little did she know.
Chi Qingshui's attention wasn't on such trivial matters at all.
"Little Chi, sit a bit closer."
"I have something to ask you!"
Chi Qingshui spoke in a serious tone, making Little Chi's heart skip a beat with dread.
Oh no, oh no.
She didn't want to inspect the bed after all?
Could it be that she noticed something off about her mood and was preparing for a late-night heart-to-heart?
Trying to pry some useful information out of her mouth?
Normally.
Little Chi definitely wouldn't panic; no matter what her sister wanted to talk about, she could handle it smoothly.
But at this very moment...
She had just been doing indescribable things with Little Lin in her dream.
In her mind, Little Lin was already labeled as her sister's boyfriend.
Sitting face-to-face with her sister like this, she inexplicably felt a guilty conscience.
The more she felt this way, the easier it would be for her sister to spot unnecessary flaws in her demeanor.
"What is it... that you absolutely have to ask in the middle of the night?"
"I haven't secretly bought anything recently, you know!"
"Even if you are my own sister, you can't falsely accuse me."
Despite what Little Chi said, she obediently moved closer.
If she didn't let her sister ask her questions clearly, Little Chi worried it would lead to even more baseless speculations.
Chi Qingshui stared at Little Chi's face, not in a rush to speak.
The invisible pressure released by her gaze gradually spread through the darkness.
Actually.
Chi Qingshui didn't have anything special she wanted to ask.
It was just that seeing Little Chi's flustered appearance made her feel like she had done something wrong.
Every time Little Chi acted like this, her intimidating glare would do the trick.
Unable to bear the psychological pressure, Little Chi would proactively confess to things she didn't know about.
Today, however, Little Chi appeared quite calm and didn't avoid eye contact.
At the same time, she looked as if she had nothing to hide.
To a certain extent, this dispelled the doubts in Chi Qingshui's mind.
How could Chi Qingshui know that the secret hidden in her sister's heart wasn't something she didn't want to say, but rather something she absolutely couldn't say.
If she said it out loud, the consequences would be absolutely terrifying!
Right after.
Chi Qingshui placed her hand on Little Chi's forehead and gently felt it.
With her other hand, she touched her own forehead, comparing their temperatures.
"I thought you were sick with a fever. Why have you been sleep-talking so much lately?"
"If you're feeling unwell, you must tell me right away, and I'll take you to the hospital."
"Don't try to endure it all by yourself, do you hear me?"
Chi Qingshui said with concern.
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?"
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?!
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.
uld barely embark on the path to immortality. Just as he was on the verge of death, his golden finger awakened. No matter whether it was poison, drained blood and vital energy, diminished lifespan, or any other physical debuff caused by paying a price—once midnight passed, everything would be refreshed. From then on, whenever someone asked what kind of person Chu Ran was, the answer was simple: Forbidden arts that other cultivators dared not learn? Chu Ran would learn them. Prices that even demonic cultivators dared not pay? Chu Ran would pay them. Lifespan that even righteous cultivators dared not burn? Chu Ran would burn it. All the blood essence in his body? Take it. Want both his hands and feet? He would cut them off and send them to you. You say he’s finished? He wasn’t built to sit idle. You think he’s gone mad? No—he was simply waiting for midnight. From that day onward, Chu Ran would respect neither Heaven nor Earth, bow to neither gods nor ghosts. He had only one wish: For midnight to arrive a little sooner.
