Lin Yu’s words left Chi Qingchi unable to find a single flaw in his reasoning.
She even felt a little touched.
It wasn’t as if this was their first photo together. They’d taken pictures together on their phones before...
It was right around mealtime.
And with such a great deal on offer,
quite a few couples out shopping came over to join in the fun.
There was even a line for the photos.
Lin Yu wasn’t in any hurry. As he waited, he carefully read through the vendor’s rules.
The current rules
had changed subtly since the last time Lin Yu and Little Chi had come by.
The biggest change was in the time limit.
It had been manually crossed out and changed to “twenty minutes”!
The vendor’s scheme was actually rather shrewd.
Reducing the time limit meant reducing costs.
The less people ate, the lower the cost would be.
Lin Yu, however, wasn’t particularly bothered by it.
Eating a little less wasn’t a bad thing.
Who would foolishly stuff themselves with a huge pile of meat for no reason?
Not only would it leave your stomach uncomfortable, but it could cause health problems as well.
One of the rules was fairly reasonable, though.
As long as a couple ate ten or more giant red-willow skewers within the allotted time,
their bill would be waived outright, regardless of whether they placed in the contest.
If they couldn’t finish that many, they would have to pay for however many they ate.
Under normal circumstances,
as long as the two of them divided the task properly, eating five skewers each in twenty minutes shouldn’t be too difficult.
At worst, their jaws would get a serious workout!
Still, anyone with bad teeth should think twice before taking on the challenge.
If you couldn’t even manage five skewers, why the hell were you entering in the first place?
Just pay for your food and be done with it.
“Little Lin... how about we don’t take the picture after all?”
Chi Qingchi shrank back as hard as she could.
“Why? We’ve been waiting in line for so long. It’s almost our turn, isn’t it?”
“Why do you suddenly not want to do it?”
Lin Yu asked suspiciously.
She had been the one to suggest taking a photo in the first place!
And now she wanted to bail after bringing it up herself? What was that about?
From the way Little Chi looked, she seemed to be afraid of something.
Only when he asked did he understand what she was worried about...
“Don’t get mad, don’t get mad. I’m just scared... you know...”
“Look, it feels like several young people around us are staring at you!”
“Could it be that you’ve become too popular on Bilibili, and they recognized you?”
“What if... what if...”
Little Chi didn’t continue.
But Lin Yu understood what she meant.
So she was treating him like some kind of celebrity!
Did she really think fans would recognize him everywhere he went?
He’d only had one video blow up on Bilibili.
And the Lin Yu in that video looked completely different from how he normally did.
Even if someone present had watched the video,
unless they were told in advance that Lin Yu was the boy in it,
they would never connect him with the person in the video.
Wasn’t Little Chi being overly cautious?
Besides,
Lin Yu hadn’t been idle while waiting in line. His ears were working too.
He could roughly make out the scattered conversations and discussions around them.
Mostly, he wanted to hear what people thought about the vendor’s tactics.
If anyone nearby had mentioned Bilibili or anything related to it,
there was no way it would have escaped Lin Yu’s ears!
She was worrying over nothing.
Even so,
Lin Yu didn’t tell Chi Qingchi to wake up and face reality.
Instead, he went along with her, taking her little hand again and saying firmly:
“Then we have to take it!”
“This is our first date. How can we not take a picture to remember it?”
“If anything happens, I’ll take responsibility! Take it!”
e school belle recognized by the whole school, a genius girl from the kendo club. She also has a hidden identity, the youngest legendary demon hunter. Chen Shuo just transmigrated and found himself turned into a weak, helpless little vampire. He was caught by Su Xiyen and taken home at the very beginning. Since then, Chen Shuo's life creed only had two items. "First, classmate Su Xiyen is always right." "Second, if classmate Su Xiyen is wrong, please refer back to item one." Many years later, Chen Shuo, who had turned back into a human, led a pair of twins to appear in front of all the vampires to share the secret of how he turned back into a human. "It's simple, I tricked a female demon hunter into becoming my wife!"
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
e vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
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.
