A little after seven in the morning.
Pingchuan University…
The library!!
Lin Yu swiped his student card and ushered Ying’er and Maomao in close behind him.
The three of them entered the library like a single conjoined centipede.
After all that fuss…
The place Ying’er claimed she had never visited turned out to be the university library!
Lin Yu had thought it would be some sort of embarrassing, men-only establishment.
He had gotten his hopes up for nothing.
“T-That’s it? We’re already inside?”
“I thought the library would be closed during summer vacation!”
“We were all ready for Master to lead us through a window and sneak past the security cameras, hehe~”
Mo Shangying stared at the library’s practically nonexistent security checkpoint in disbelief.
In those days, university gates had yet to enforce a strict one-card-per-person system.
As for scanning QR codes or using facial recognition, those technologies were still years away.
Whenever it wasn’t outside the gate’s operating hours, or unless someone was behaving particularly suspiciously, the security guard at the entrance generally wouldn’t stop anyone from entering.
As long as you could get onto campus, getting into the library was easy.
Even without Lin Yu, all you had to do was find a student with a campus card and ask them to swipe you in.
“Ying’er, you never came to the library before dropping out?”
“What a hopeless student. You never read any books?”
Lin Yu couldn’t help teasing her.
Mo Shangying shrugged.
“Who goes to the library to read books? What era are we living in? Doesn’t everyone read e-books now?”
“Maomao, don’t you agree?”
“Maomao?”
Mo Shangying and Lin Yu had only walked a few steps before they turned around.
Maomao was gone.
Lin Yu retraced his steps and looked between the rows of bookshelves.
Maomao was holding a thick, yellowed book. She was reluctantly preparing to put it back.
“If you want to read it, go ahead.”
“Ying’er is only going to look around. I’ll come back for you after I finish showing her around.”
Maomao’s eyes lit up.
“Really?”
Lin Yu nodded, giving her a definite answer.
Maomao happily picked up the book again and began reading.
Ying’er wasn’t the only one visiting a university library for the first time.
Maomao was in the same boat.
Anyone who could casually quote the source of a line had clearly watched and read an astonishing number of movies and books.
How could she possibly resist the sight of shelves filled with so many books?
Ying’er glanced at Maomao, who was completely absorbed in her reading, and blinked in surprise.
“There are actually people who read books in university libraries?”
“Hey…”
The moment she finished speaking, Lin Yu raised his hand and flicked her on the forehead.
“What on earth is going on in that head of yours?”
“What’s wrong with a university library? Isn’t it still a library?”
“You either read books or study there. What else did you think people did?”
Lin Yu couldn’t help questioning her.
Ying’er stuck out her tongue and grinned mischievously without saying a word.
Lin Yu: “…”
Judging by the setting of the game she wanted to make, a university library definitely wasn’t going to be a sacred place for quiet reading and study!
Ying’er’s request after “infiltrating” the library was very simple.
She merely wanted Lin Yu to show her around the entire place.
She took pictures here and there, saving a few photos of the overall layout as well as some close-ups of specific areas.
With Ying’er’s memory, she could probably remember most of it even without the photos.
Although the library had only opened a little over ten minutes earlier, a handful of students were already scattered around the reading areas, wearing headphones as they began to study.
College students generally don’t have much money.
It was summer vacation, so no one had to fight over the dormitory bathrooms, and there was no one competing for seats in the library.
Many juniors and seniors who had already begun preparing for graduate school or civil service exams chose to stay on campus during the summer.
They took advantage of the school’s free facilities and conveniences to focus on their studies.
“Shh. Keep your voice down. Don’t talk.”
As they passed through this area, Lin Yu reminded her in a low voice.
Of course, there were also people who came to the library to do things unrelated to studying just to save a little money!
Ying’er held up her phone, doing her best to stay quiet as she took pictures around the room.
When she aimed the camera at the tall, empty bookshelves toward the back, it clearly captured a piece of clothing lying on the floor!
and couldn't return to the real world. Finally, I gave up and decided to go with the flow, only to discover that writing a diary could make me stronger. Since no one could read it, Su Luo wrote freely, daring to pen anything and everything. Female Lead #1: "Not bad. This diary helped me steal all the protagonist's opportunities. I just want to get stronger." Female Lead #2: "I don’t care about reaching the peak of the cultivation world. Right now, I just want to enjoy the chaos." Female Lead #3: "What? Everyone around me is a spy? I’m the Joker Demon Lord?" ... It’s so strange. Why is the plot completely off track, yet the ending remains the same? Are you all just messing with me?!
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?"
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.
] [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!"
