"Nini, I heard everything. You just confessed to Lin Ran. I never thought you'd be this kind of person."
Huo Haini.
"Liu Ruxue, don’t make it sound so ugly. I’ve always tolerated you, given in to you, and even helped you scheme—all because I genuinely considered you a sister. But you lost Lin Ran because of your own stupidity."
"Nini, you—"
"What? You won’t even let me speak now? Who else can you blame for your own foolishness? You’re such a two-faced flirt, always stringing guys along, and now you expect me to help you win Lin Ran back?"
Liu Ruxue’s chest heaved with anger.
"Why? Why are you doing this to me? I treated you like a sister, and yet you like Lin Ran?"
Huo Haini scoffed. "So what if I like Lin Ran? Does he have your name written on him? Why can’t I compete for him?"
"Do you really think everything you want automatically belongs to you, Liu Ruxue? You self-righteous bitch."
At that moment, Huo Haini snapped.
She couldn’t keep pretending anymore. Every time she was with Liu Ruxue, all the guys would orbit around her.
It had been eating at her for a long time.
She’d held it in again and again, but now she couldn’t take it anymore. She might as well lay it all out today. That way, the next time she saw Lin Ran, she could compete openly.
But what she didn’t realize was that she was about to face the harsest punishment of her life.
Liu Ruxue was stunned. This was the first time Huo Haini had ever spoken to her like this.
She had always considered Huo Haini her closest friend, someone she trusted with everything—including her feelings for Lin Ran. Because she once believed that sisterhood far outweighed any man.
Men could be replaced, but true friends were rare.
But now—
Liu Ruxue screamed, "Huo Haini, what have I ever done to wrong you? Why would you betray me and steal my man behind my back?"
Huo Haini laughed coldly.
"Ha! You’re hilarious. ‘Your man’? Liu Ruxue, get a grip. Lin Ran was never yours. In the past, he was your simp. Now, you’re his."
"You—!" Liu Ruxue felt like her lungs were about to explode from rage.
Huo Haini: "From today on, we’re done."
With that, Huo Haini shot Lin Ran a coy smile and walked away without another glance. She didn’t want to stay and watch Liu Ruxue’s pitiful act—as if she were the victim here.
Liu Ruxue collapsed to the ground, sobbing.
Seeing that the catfight was over and there was nothing left to spectate, Lin Ran turned to leave.
Liu Ruxue suddenly cried out, "Lin Ran, I’m sorry! I’m really sorry! I was wrong—this time, I truly know I was wrong!"
But Lin Ran ignored her. Liu Ruxue couldn’t even push past his bodyguards.
Desperate, she pulled out her phone and tapped on Lin Ran’s profile.
[I’m sorry. I always thought Huo Haini was my best friend. I never imagined she’d betray me like this. I regret everything—I shouldn’t have listened to her. Lin Ran, please stay with me. I’m in so much pain.]
She hit send.
A red exclamation mark appeared.
Liu Ruxue broke down completely.
In that moment, she suddenly remembered all the times Lin Ran had been good to her.
Every time she needed help, he was there, standing in front of her like a hero. But what had she done in return?
She took it all for granted.
Back then, she really had been the most important person in Lin Ran’s life.
She was so sure of it—even his own family couldn’t compare.
That’s why she refused to believe he didn’t love her anymore.
But his indifference now crushed her.
"I really lost him… wu wu wu!"
After crying for a while, Liu Ruxue suddenly felt an urge to return to their old campus.
So she disguised herself and went back.
Luckily, the chilly weather made masks and hats normal, so no one recognized her. Otherwise, she’d have been swarmed again.
Walking across the school grounds, memories flooded back.
That time Lin Ran confessed to her right here on this field.
And the basketball court where he used to play.
Outside the dormitory, where he once told her, "I’ll make you the happiest woman in the world."
Her response back then? "I don’t want to date before graduation, Lin Ran. Don’t pressure me."
Remembering the warmth in his eyes that day, Liu Ruxue smiled.
But staring at the empty dormitory now, her smile twisted into tears.
They fell like broken strings of pearls.
The man who loved her most was gone. Her best friend had betrayed her.
Lin Ran used to be so pure, so devoted to her—and she had thrown him away?
This time, she truly understood her mistake.
"Wu wu wu! Lin Ran, I know I was wrong! Please forgive me! Why won’t you look back at me? Didn’t you love me the most?"
Just as Liu Ruxue was drowning in despair, a girl approached her.
"Liu Ruxue!"
"No, I’m not—" Liu Ruxue quickly denied.
The girl sighed.
"I get it. I know how you feel about Lin Ran."
Liu Ruxue stared at her in shock—had she finally found someone who understood?
"Who are you?"
"Just a junior. I’ve liked someone for a long time too, so I know what you’re going through."
Liu Ruxue frowned, confused. Why was this stranger telling her this?
"I had a crush on a senior, but my best friend kept manipulating me into testing him. But I was luckier than you—now, we’re together."
Liu Ruxue’s eyes lit up.
"Really? Then can I—? Why won’t Lin Ran forgive me? I was just manipulated by Huo Haini too! And that thing with Lin Jian—he tricked me! I was just a victim! I’ve always loved Lin Ran the most. Why doesn’t he get that?"
The girl’s eyes filled with pity, but inside, she was screaming.
Oh my god, what kind of delusional princess is this?
"Do you know why Lin Ran won’t take you back?"
"Why?"
"Because of Huo Haini. He resents her. Every time he sees you, he remembers how you neglected him—and Huo Haini was the one who orchestrated it all."
Liu Ruxue’s gaze sharpened.
"I bet Huo Haini repeatedly told you not to commit to Lin Ran but also not to let him go, right? It was that push-and-pull that made him give up on you completely."
She was right. This was all Huo Haini’s fault.
Liu Ruxue remembered clearly—there was a time she had been so moved by Lin Ran, ready to say yes, but Huo Haini intervened, convincing her to "test him for a few more years."
ver to a world of cultivation and returned invincible. Modern medicine is child's play compared to elixirs; technological might crumbles before true cultivation. My name is Qin Ning, Earth's sole cultivator!
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!
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
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.
