The moment he stepped into the restaurant, Lin Yu immediately darted over to Huang Feiya’s side.
Seeing her miserable expression, he lowered his voice and said, “Damn it, Feiya, are you trying to make me die of embarrassment?”
“Sure, your dad showing up was an accident, but now that it’s happened, you should at least face him head-on, right?”
“You could’ve at least invited him to come eat with us!”
“Calling just me over—are you trying to get me killed?”
Lin Yu clenched his fists.
He really couldn’t figure out what was going on in this eccentric young lady’s mind.
Huang Feiya reached behind herself, trying to untie the apron around her waist.
“It’s fine. Just eat your food.”
“Didn’t he say he’d already eaten before coming over?”
“The person at home probably went out to play mahjong. He only thought of stopping by because he was bored.”
Lin Yu held a finger to his lips, signaling for Huang Feiya to keep her voice down.
Was she trying to make sure her father outside could hear every word?
“Seriously, it’s fine. I’m not joking…”
After fumbling with it for quite a while, Huang Feiya still couldn’t untie the apron.
She turned around, presenting her back to Lin Yu, and motioned for him to help.
With an utterly helpless look on his face, Lin Yu began untying it for her.
He simply couldn’t understand the way this father and daughter interacted.
All he knew was that he was unbearably embarrassed.
How was he supposed to eat like this?
There were freaking ears on the other side of the wall!
He couldn’t say a word too many.
…
In the end, Lin Yu still couldn’t win against Huang Feiya.
They were already there.
The food was already cooked.
Sitting around in the restaurant with a headache without eating a bite wouldn’t accomplish anything.
Since things had come to this,
they might as well eat first.
He had to admit, Lin Yu had truly underestimated Huang Feiya.
Her cooking couldn’t be called first-rate, but it was definitely delicious.
She hadn’t used heavy soy sauce to darken the dishes, so everything had a light, understated appearance.
Yet once the food entered his mouth, it didn’t taste bland in the slightest.
The most accurate way to describe it would be…
She had brought out the ingredients’ purest, most natural flavors.
“How is it? Are you satisfied?” Huang Feiya asked, watching Lin Yu expectantly.
Lin Yu gave her a thumbs-up and exclaimed, “Your cooking is incredible!”
“I thought you’d only brought me here on a whim to use me as a taste tester!”
“I take it all back. I was being narrow-minded—it’s really delicious.”
Huang Feiya gazed at Lin Yu tenderly.
Her smile was filled with happiness.
But the very next sentence made every alarm in Lin Yu’s head go off.
“Lin Yu, you were the one who helped Shen Buyao reclaim the Shen family, weren’t you?”
Lin Yu’s brows furrowed. “!!!”
Why bring this up all of a sudden?
And in an atmosphere like this?
Wasn’t this supposed to be the perfect time for a romantic dinner?
The mood had been building perfectly.
Huang Feiya didn’t seem like the kind of person who would willingly ruin it.
Unless…
This had been her real purpose all along!
“You invited me to your home for dinner just to talk about this?”
Lin Yu asked, his expression turning solemn.
Being approached with romantic intentions and being approached for personal gain felt completely different.
Lin Yu hated being treated as nothing more than a tool for someone’s benefit.
Seeing the serious, displeased look on Lin Yu’s face, Huang Feiya’s heart trembled.
She knew she had chosen the wrong moment to bring it up.
But if she didn’t say something, her father—who was “eavesdropping” outside—would probably keep lingering in the house and getting in the way.
“You’re turning hostile already?” she asked.
“I’m not as complicated as you think. I invited you to dinner simply because I wanted to spend some time with you.”
“It has nothing to do with the Shen family.”
“It just occurred to me that you and Shen Buyao are fairly close, and there’s something I don’t want to keep from you.”
“If you hear about it from someone else later, you’ll only misunderstand me.”
“If someone else is going to tell you anyway, I’d rather tell you myself.”
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?"
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...
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
