At midnight.
After making sure there was no movement in the apartment.
Lin Yu tiptoed out of the bedroom.
Any slight disturbance could be noticed by his housemates in the apartment.
Tonight's operation was not to be known by others.
If discovered, he wouldn't be able to find a suitable excuse at all.
Slipping out of the house with ease, Lin Yu hailed a cab and headed to the residential complex where Xiang Tiange lived.
Xiang Tiange had already sent him the specific door number in advance.
Arriving near the complex, Lin Yu passed by a night market.
It was his first time visiting a girl's home as a guest...
Or more accurately, to take charge!
Showing up empty-handed would make him seem very socially inept.
Although Xiang Tiange didn't have an iron stomach like Little Chi.
She was still a foodie.
Eating something with too strong a smell late at night would inevitably affect his performance later on.
Therefore.
After walking around for a bit, Lin Yu bought two portions of ice jelly to go.
Following the information Xiang Tiange provided, he made his way to the designated door without any obstacles.
Lin Yu didn't knock.
Instead, he took out his phone and sent a WeChat message.
Lin Yu: I'm here.
A girl home alone in the middle of the night.
A sudden knock on the door.
If the neighbors heard it, how would Xiang Tiange explain it to her parents the next day?
Worse still.
An overly righteous middle-aged neighbor might pop out.
And interrogate Lin Yu on the spot.
Better safe than sorry.
Lin Yu didn't get to where he was today purely by luck.
Soon.
A rustling sound came from inside the front door.
Through the peephole, a dark shadow could be clearly seen moving about.
Click!
The door opened.
Xiang Tiange's little head poked out.
Meeting Lin Yu's eyes, she was the first to let out a playful laugh.
Even in the dark corridor.
Her bright smile and innocent purity could still be clearly seen on her face.
It made one's heart flutter uncontrollably.
"You took so long, I thought you chickened out and weren't coming."
Xiang Tiange teased.
"Shh!"
The silly goose obviously hadn't thought things through as thoroughly as Lin Yu.
She made it seem like they were out sneaking into a hotel room, not at her own house at all.
Lin Yu made a shushing gesture and pointed at the neighbor's door.
Xiang Tiange immediately pursed her lips tightly, understanding what Lin Yu meant.
Then.
She stepped aside and lowered her voice:
"Hurry and come in."
"The slippers are inside, just come in and change."
Once Lin Yu stepped inside, Xiang Tiange slowly closed the door again.
Click! Click!
She locked the door from the inside for good measure.
Having done all this, Xiang Tiange looked out through the peephole for another half a minute.
After making sure the commotion just now hadn't drawn out the neighbors, she finally let out a long sigh of relief.
"I'm so stupid, talking so loudly just now."
"The grandma living next door is super fierce!"
"I've been scared of her since elementary school. She used to always tattle on me to my parents."
"Thank goodness..."
"You reacted so fast just now, Lin Yu!"
"Exactly how many girls' houses have you sneaked into?"
Hearing that Xiang Tiange was still in the mood to joke with him.
Lin Yu knew she hadn't been scared by what just happened.
So.
Lin Yu placed the ice jelly on the table, opened his hands, and said:
"Let me count... three, six, eight..."
"Two hands are just about enough!"
An innocent little girl like Xiang Tiange.
Naturally didn't understand the truth summarized by predecessors long ago:
Some truths are always spoken in jest.
"Hahaha, how did you not die of exhaustion!"
"Then wouldn't I have successfully made you hit double digits?"
Watching Xiang Tiange's adorable figure as she strolled toward the fridge with her hands clasped behind her back, Lin Yu smiled from the bottom of his heart.
A girl this open and natural was a rare find.
Having seen too many girls who would get shy at the last minute, occasionally running into a girl like her, with her signature goose-like laugh, had a truly unique charm.
Back in middle school, when romance first began to bloom, if a carefree boy were to meet an outgoing girl like her, he definitely wouldn't be able to resist teasing her every single day.
Just like right now.
"What double digits?"
"Didn't you invite me over for a late-night snack tonight?"
"Could it be that besides eating, you have other designs on me?"
Unable to suppress his urge to tease Xiang Tiange, Lin Yu asked with a perfectly straight face.
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?!
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!
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
] [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!"
