"Then you have to be good to me. If you were a woman, you’d have to pledge yourself to your savior—never letting go for the rest of your life. But since you’re a boy, we can just make a contract, like giving me half of all the money you earn when you grow up."
The boy fell silent for a long time, as if struggling to understand Lin Ran’s words.
"I… will give you everything."
Lin Ran hadn’t expected the kid to be so easy to fool. The ancients really didn’t lie.
"Since you’re so sincere, I’ll reluctantly forgive you. Now tell me, how do we get out of here?"
The little boy tilted his head.
"You… want to leave?"
Lin Ran studied the boy’s expression. Something felt off. That tone?
"Of course I’m leaving. You expect me to stay here and eat people with you?"
The boy’s eyes turned icy as he slowly spoke, uttering words Lin Ran never saw coming.
"You! Can’t! Leave… You have to… stay… with me."
Lin Ran froze.
"What the hell? Do you always talk like this?"
"Can’t! Leave! You! Are! Mine!" The boy began enunciating each word, his demeanor growing increasingly unhinged.
Lin Ran took a step back, frowning at the child. He was starting to regret saving him.
"But I have to go. Even if I stay with you now, I’ll disappear in a few hours. Do you understand what that means? I’m not from this world."
The boy didn’t comprehend a word Lin Ran said. All he knew was that he desperately wanted to keep this person close.
Seeing the child on the verge of losing control, Lin Ran sighed deeply.
"Ugh!"
He glanced back at the endless darkness outside, then at their grim surroundings. Exhaustion weighed on him.
Damn it, Little Black. Couldn’t you have picked a better time and place?
Where the hell am I supposed to find anyone here?
Finding Luo Yao tonight seemed impossible now.
Damn it, wasted one of my wishes.
"Fine, I’ll stay with you for one night. But this cave is suffocating—let’s go outside."
The boy understood that. Watching Lin Ran step out of the cave, he reined in his hostility and followed, while Little Black trembled in Lin Ran’s arms.
[Little Black: "That kid’s not right. Let’s get out of here—I can’t breathe."]
Lin Ran: "You chose this, oh mighty Creator."
[Little Black: "I was wrong. Please, let’s just go. Consider this wish void—I’ll give you another one, okay?"]
Lin Ran: "Since we’re here, we might as well make the best of it, oh mighty Creator."
[Little Black: "Make the best of my ass."]
Lin Ran found it amusing. Who knew this cat could be such a coward? And you call yourself the Creator? How impressive!
Outside the cave, Lin Ran searched for a while before finding a large, pale boulder bathed in moonlight, unobstructed by trees.
He lay down on it, immediately regretting his decision as the cold seeped into him. Maybe the cave wasn’t so bad after all.
The boy watched Lin Ran gaze at the stars before quietly sitting beside him.
Lin Ran wasn’t heartless. Thinking of the boy’s circumstances, he felt a pang of sympathy.
So he offered some advice.
"If you really survive, you can come find me in the future. Can’t promise much, but I’ll at least give you a meal."
"Mm."
"Do you like looking at the stars?"
"St—stars?"
Lin Ran pointed at the twinkling lights above. "Those little blinking things up there."
The boy didn’t care for them, but being with Lin Ran made him want to look. So he tilted his head upward.
"My wife loves watching the stars."
"Watch… stars? Love? Wife?" the boy murmured.
"Yeah, normal people do that. But I’ll tell you something—don’t stare at them too much. Stars make you feel good, give you endless fantasies."
"But you know what? For someone like you, stars might not be so good. Your world’s too harsh for fantasies. If they ever shatter, you’ll only feel despair."
"Got it?"
"Got… it."
The boy lowered his head but soon looked up again.
"Just… once."
Those words—"just once"—struck Lin Ran. What kind of world was this? What had happened to this child?
If he could, Lin Ran would’ve loved to unravel the boy’s story. But time wasn’t on his side.
The two sat in silence, watching the sky until Lin Ran’s mind began to drift.
A chill swept over him, and Little Black nuzzled closer, offering some warmth.
The night sky was radiant, but the towering trees obscured most of it, leaving only scattered glimpses of starlight. Yet the boy was mesmerized.
So this was the beauty of the stars?
For the first time, a smile—one that shouldn’t belong on his face—appeared.
Before they knew it, dawn approached. Lin Ran realized he’d spent the whole night here.
"I have to go now."
The moment Lin Ran spoke, panic flashed across the boy’s face. Slowly, his eyes turned blood-red.
"You can’t… leave me. You belong… to me—"
Lin Ran: ??? Why does that sound so familiar?
"That’s not how it works. No one belongs to anyone else in this world… Well, actually, maybe not."
He reconsidered—after all, he did belong to Luo Yao.
"Only the closest two people can belong to each other. And that’s not us."
The boy stared intently, as if Lin Ran might vanish any second.
Because Lin Ran had said he would disappear.
"You are… mine."
Lin Ran was done. Talking to this kid was a waste of time.
"May I ask, what do people call you?"
"They call me… White-Eyed Wolf."
Lin Ran’s face darkened.
"Well, they’re not wrong. But I really have to go. If I don’t leave now, I never will."
[Little Black: "Finally figured it out? Hurry, my heart’s racing."]
Lin Ran pitied the poor cat.
[Little Black: "We’re leaving in five minutes."]
Brushing off the dust, Lin Ran suddenly thought of something and turned to the boy.
"Oh, what’s your name?"
Since fate brought them together, it was only natural to ask. If the kid grew up to be someone important, Lin Ran could always cash in as his savior.
Even if he didn’t get half the boy’s earnings, a tenth would be nice.
The boy tilted his head, looking dazed. "Name…?"
"Yeah, everyone has one. Like me—I’m Lin Ran. Don’t you have a name?"
After a long pause, the boy seemed to remember.
"I do."
"What is it?"
"Luo Yao."
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
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!
villain is the number one simp for the book's leading female protagonist, Shen Wan'er. As expected, he later becomes a tool for the main character to show off and slap faces, ultimately meeting a tragic end with his family ruined and his life in shambles. Fortunately, he awakens the [Universal Pure Love System], which allows him to earn points by performing acts of pure love. To change his fate, Gu Yan makes a decisive choice to seek warmth and companionship with the book's biggest villain—Cold Qingqiu. ........... My name is Leng Qingqiu. To find the murderer who killed my parents years ago, I deliberately blinded myself so that everyone would lower their guard around me. Just as I was secretly accumulating power and capital according to my initial plan, a man walked into my world. "Lengleng, Qingqing, Qiuqiu, which nickname do you prefer?" I don't like any of them. You'd better leave quickly! "Why aren't you saying anything? How about I call you my baby wife?" Leng Qingqiu thinks to herself, this man is truly annoying! (Stubborn pure love warrior + single female lead + true pure love + 1v1)
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.
