"Brother Lin, what brings you here all of a sudden? I thought you'd forgotten about your company while staying home with your wife."
Lin Ran sat on the sofa, pouring himself a cup of tea.
"Honestly, I almost did. Not just the company—I forgot I was even a student, even lost track of time itself. Being with my wife is just too intoxicating. That’s the taste of happiness, something single folks wouldn’t understand."
Wu Zhishang: "What the—@#�0�6%… Huh? Wait, I’m not single either, why am I getting worked up?"
Lin Ran took a sip of tea, grinning as he prodded into Wu Zhishang’s love life.
"Old Wu, how’s it going with Zhang Xinyan lately?"
Wu Zhishang paused for a moment. "Well… it’s complicated."
Lin Ran knew Wu Zhishang too well—his tone alone betrayed that something was off.
"Listen, Old Wu, you overthink things. That’s not necessarily a flaw, but it’s definitely a stumbling block in relationships."
Wu Zhishang sighed. "I know, I get it. But I just can’t help feeling like I’ll get hurt if I let myself fall too deep."
Lin Ran found it strange. He was the one who came from a broken family, yet Wu Zhishang’s temperament seemed more scarred. How did he develop such indecisiveness?
"By the way, is Zhao Miaomiao still bothering you?"
Wu Zhishang looked exasperated. "She keeps harassing me, but I never respond."
Zhao Miaomiao always found ways to get his contact info, bombarding him with messages and even spreading rumors online that they were still a couple.
As far as Wu Zhishang was concerned, they’d broken up long ago—there should be nothing between them now.
But Zhao Miaomiao disagreed. Her logic was: "You said we’re over, but I never agreed, so it doesn’t count."
By now, Wu Zhishang had seen through her. She was the type to abandon him when he was down and cling to him when he succeeded.
He wasn’t stupid—he wanted nothing more to do with her.
But she was like sticky glue, impossible to shake off.
And unlike Lin Ran and Luo Yao, he didn’t have the means to make someone "disappear" permanently.
Lin Ran was surprised Zhao Miaomiao still dared to harass Wu Zhishang.
Had Shen Jingbing’s threats lost their effect?
Still, Lin Ran wouldn’t send Abo to deal with it. This was something Wu Zhishang needed to face himself.
Everyone had to grow up. Wu Zhishang had made strides in his career, but his emotional intelligence was still lacking.
If Wu Zhishang truly couldn’t handle it, Lin Ran would step in—but only if Wu Zhishang rejected Zhao Miaomiao outright.
If Wu Zhishang let himself be reeled back in, Lin Ran wouldn’t stop him.
Some lessons had to be learned the hard way.
"Where’s Zhang Xinyan? Why isn’t she with you?"
Wu Zhishang lowered his head, eyes fixed on the resignation letter on his desk.
"Nothing, she’s just out working. Brother Lin, let’s talk about something happier."
It wasn’t that Wu Zhishang disliked Zhang Xinyan—in fact, he was quite taken with her.
But her aggressive pursuit and rapid pace overwhelmed him.
They’d barely been in the ambiguous flirting stage, not even officially dating, when Zhang Xinyan stormed into his office today, pointed at him, and demanded, "Will you marry me or not?"
Wu Zhishang froze, unable to answer—his mind racing with overanalysis.
Then Zhang Xinyan slammed the resignation letter on his desk. "Either we get married, or you’ll never see me again. Lose me, and you’ll regret it for life."
Sigh.
Lin Ran frowned. "Unhappy news? What, did Zhang Xinyan force herself on you?"
"Brother Lin, what kind of person do you take me for? Do I seem like the type to cave under lust?"
Lin Ran’s expression screamed "Oh my god."
"So you’re saying Zhang Xinyan actually tried to force herself on you?"
Damn, this was juicy.
"Uh… well, not exactly. Let’s drop it."
Lin Ran suppressed his curiosity. He firmly believed in not prying when someone didn’t want to share—especially about relationships.
Digging for details wasn’t his style. He wasn’t Chen Qingtian.
Maybe it was a gender thing.
Women often shared their romantic lives, gossiped about each other’s relationships, even meddled in them.
But among men? Rarely did they dissect each other’s love lives.
It was more like: "Brother’s in love? Happy for him. Brother got dumped? I’ll be there. If he finds a wife, good for him. If not, that’s on him."
"Fine, let’s talk about something cheerful. But I’ll say this much—don’t let your indecision lead to lifelong regrets."
Boom.
Regret for life?
Zhang Xinyan had said the same thing today.
Lin Ran’s words exploded in Wu Zhishang’s mind like a bomb, suddenly clarifying things.
Wu Zhishang had been an early fan of "Luo Yao and Lin Ran’s" love story. He looked up at his blissfully married friend, envy undeniable.
Maybe it was time to take a step forward—into a new world.
Zhang Xinyan… would you be that new world?
"I understand. Thanks, Brother Lin."
Seeing Wu Zhishang’s expression, Lin Ran knew his friend had reached some clarity and let it go.
Everyone had their own path.
Wu Zhishang and Zhang Xinyan’s ending could be a mystery—or it could be sweet as honey.
"Weren’t we going to talk about something happy? Let’s discuss work then."
Sure enough, Wu Zhishang perked up at the topic.
Through him, Lin Ran caught up on recent developments.
Two rising stars in their media company, riding the wave of "Luo Yao and Lin Ran’s" popularity and their own efforts, had become phenomenons in the livestreaming world.
Shen Jingbing had surpassed Zhang Xiaolong as the top livestreaming influencer, while Zhang Xiaolong dominated e-commerce sales.
The duo was now known as Warm Yao Media’s "Twin Dragons."
Recently, they’d been promoting Women’s Day (rebranded as "Goddess Day") gift sets, which sold out instantly.
The sets came in two versions: one for wives, one for mothers.
Customers bought them as heartfelt gifts for their spouses and moms.
Other streamers were also performing well.
As for short dramas, "Reborn as My Yandere Husband’s Spoiled Darling" had started filming today, with Chen Qingtian reprising her role as the female lead.
This marked the first collaboration between Warm Yao Films (Chen Qingtian’s division) and Warm Yao Media.
Inter-company projects weren’t unusual.
Wu Zhishang rambled on, "Chen Qingtian poached a few promising talents today for ‘training’—more like outright theft. Brother Lin, you can’t let her keep doing this."
Lin Ran thought, It’s not me allowing it—Luo Yao assigned her the task.
This was just the beginning. Eventually, Chen Qingtian would recruit every pretty face in the company, leaving Wu Zhishang with a testosterone-filled office. Served him right.
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
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.
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!
