Lin Jingyue nodded in admission. "I do like him, but he already has a girlfriend, and he's deeply in love with her. I'll never have a chance to be with him in this lifetime."
"That's true," Chen Ting sighed. "But Yueyue, you'd better not let Boss Su find out about your feelings for Lin Xuan. Someone in a position of power like Boss Su definitely won't tolerate a single flaw in her eyes. If she finds out you like Lin Xuan, I'm afraid she might take action against your family."
Lin Jingyue shook her head and said, "Don't worry, I'll keep my feelings for Lin Xuan well hidden."
If Lin Xuan ever found out she had feelings for him, she would probably be kicked out of the project.
Then she wouldn't have any more chances to spend time with him.
Chen Mo, who had been hiding in the corner, stepped out.
He stared at Lin Jingyue's retreating figure with a dark expression.
He was right. Lin Jingyue really did like Lin Xuan.
"Lin Jingyue," Chen Mo said coldly. "You are the woman I've been pursuing for years. Of course I want to see you happy. Since that's the case, I'll gladly help fulfill your wish to be with Lin Xuan."
Now, all he had to do was wait for an opportunity—an opportunity to push Lin Xuan and Lin Jingyue together.
After leaving Shangqing University, Lin Xuan took out his phone and called the butler.
"Young Master Lin," Butler Wang's respectful voice came through the phone.
"Uncle Wang," Lin Xuan asked, "what is Hua doing right now?"
"Miss?" Butler Wang frowned and replied, "Miss hasn't returned to the Night Garden."
She hasn't returned to the Night Garden?
Could Hua still be at work?
"Alright, I understand." Lin Xuan nodded. After hanging up the phone, he called Jiang Qing to ask where Su Hua was.
"Boss Su isn't at the company. She went to the Su family's old residence," Jiang Qing replied.
"Young Master Lin, have you not gone back yet?" Jiang Qing added.
"No, I was busy with my research at Shangqing University and only just finished," Lin Xuan answered.
So that was it.
Jiang Qing nodded in understanding.
No wonder Boss Su looked so upset when she left the company. It turned out Young Master Lin hadn't been able to make it back in time to keep her company.
However, Jiang Qing kept this observation to herself.
She knew that under these circumstances, Boss Su's mood would instantly improve the moment she saw Young Master Lin.
There was absolutely no need for her to worry.
"Secretary Jiang, why do you ask?" Lin Xuan inquired, feeling a bit puzzled.
"It's nothing," Jiang Qing replied, shaking her head. "I was just curious, so I asked. Young Master Lin, you should go look for Boss Su. I still have work to catch up on."
After she hung up the phone,
Jiang Qing looked at the massive pile of documents on her desk that needed to be processed and completed today.
With this much work, even if she didn't take a single break, it would still take her another three hours to get through it all.
"Sigh."
Jiang Qing let out a heavy sigh.
The life of a corporate wage slave was truly a bitter one.
While the boss was off having a good time, she was stuck here working miserable overtime hours.
Suddenly, she found herself missing the old workaholic version of Boss Su.
At least the old Boss Su would never have left her secretary to work overtime alone while she went out to enjoy herself.
Meanwhile, Lin Xuan made a U-turn and drove toward the Su family's old residence.
As he drove past a night market, Lin Xuan spotted a plush kitten being sold at a street stall.
An image suddenly popped into Lin Xuan's mind: a certain little woman in bed, wearing a black kitten lingerie set with cat ears perched on her head. She was on all fours, kneeling on the mattress, looking up at him with an alluring, seductive expression...
"Ahem." Lin Xuan cleared his throat lightly, awkwardly reigning in his wandering thoughts.
He shifted his gaze back to the plush kitten.
The plush toy looked incredibly soft and adorable—it actually resembled Hua a little bit.
Lin Xuan pulled his car into a parking spot and stepped out.
He walked over to the stall.
"Hello, how much is this plush kitten?" Lin Xuan asked.
The vendor running the stall was a young woman who looked to be only in her early twenties.
"This one?" The young woman looked up. The moment Lin Xuan's handsome face entered her line of sight, smack—she felt as if she had just been struck by Cupid's arrow.
This guy was just way, way, way too handsome...
He was literally her dream man come to life!
Seeing that the young woman was staring blankly without saying a word, Lin Xuan frowned and asked again, "How much is this plush kitten?"
The young woman snapped out of her daze and replied, "Sir, it's fifty yuan."
"Alright."
Lin Xuan pulled out a fifty-yuan bill and handed it to her.
As she took the money, she tried to sound casual as she asked, "Sir, are you buying this plushie for a relative's kid, or for your girlfriend?"
Lin Xuan replied, "It's a gift for my girlfriend."
Shatter.
The young woman's heart broke into a million pieces.
He already had a girlfriend... She had absolutely no hope.
Then again, even if he didn't have a girlfriend, judging by the elegant aura he exuded, he was undoubtedly a wealthy young heir. He wasn't someone an ordinary girl like her could ever dream of being with anyway.
"Sir, your girlfriend is very lucky."
She packed the plushie into a bag and handed it to Lin Xuan.
"Take care, sir."
"Thank you."
Lin Xuan took the bag and walked away.
The young woman watched his retreating figure and sighed.
"It's true what they say. All the good men are already taken."
He wasn't someone an ordinary person like her could ever covet.
At that exact moment, Feng Yaya and her friend happened to be walking by.
"Yaya, isn't that Lin Xuan?" Feng Yaya's friend, He Jialing, said excitedly.
Feng Yaya's bedroom was covered in photos of Lin Xuan, and she constantly followed any news about him on the internet.
She had even gone on a strict diet just to lose weight for him.
He Jialing knew full well that Feng Yaya's crush on Lin Xuan bordered on sheer obsession.
Feng Yaya looked in the direction He Jialing was pointing.
She immediately spotted that strikingly handsome figure.
Thump, thump, thump— Feng Yaya's heart began to pound wildly in her chest.
It really was Lin Xuan.
She was finally seeing him again.
He Jialing nudged Feng Yaya's shoulder and teased, "Yaya, haven't you been dieting day and night just so you could slim down and appear in front of Lin Xuan?"
"Now that you have such a perfect figure and look so pretty, you should hurry up and go over there. You can pretend to accidentally bump into him. That way, you'll definitely leave a deep impression on him."
"No, I'm not going," Feng Yaya said, shaking her head.
He Jialing asked in confusion, "Yaya, didn't you lose all that weight just so you could be with him? Now that you've finally slimmed down, why aren't you going to see him? What are you waiting for?"
Feng Yaya raised a hand to touch her own cheek. "I'm still in the recovery phase right now. I want to wait until I'm back to looking my absolute best before I see him."
Because she had been so desperate to appear in front of Lin Xuan as soon as possible, she had dieted far too aggressively over the past few months. As a result, her skin was slightly loose, and her complexion was somewhat sallow.
She wanted to wait until her complexion was fully restored before making contact with him.
When she and Lin Xuan officially met face-to-face, she wanted to leave him with the most perfect impression possible.
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
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!
transmigrates into the role of a villainous rich second-generation kid in an urban fantasy novel, and gets bound to a god-tier choice system. Right at the start, he catches the female lead stealing exam papers! This triggers the villain's choice options! [Choice 1: Pretend you didn't see anything] [Choice 2: Loudly call her out, drawing everyone's attention] [Choice 3: ...] And thus, a twisted villain is born. To avoid getting killed by the protagonist, he has no choice but to take down all the protagonists first. Jiang Che: Nobody understands being twisted better than me!
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
