"Once Zhou Xiong is dead, the Duke's difficulty in taking Pukou City will be reduced by ten thousand times."
"No, more than ten thousand times."
"But you all supported Zhou Xiong before. Didn't that hinder the Duke?"
"Now you must turn over a new leaf."
"Coordinate with the Pukou City Love Mutual Aid Alliance to deal with Zhou Xiong together. Drive Zhou Xiong mad, and Pukou City will be the Duke's."
"Then our good days will come."
The train of thought Song Shaoyi provided was too clear, practical, and hit everyone right in the heart, almost instantly igniting their enthusiasm the moment his words fell.
"Shaoyi is right. Let's hypocritically join the Love Mutual Aid Alliance, unite against Zhou Xiong, and take Pukou City!"
"Yes, exactly, let's do it!"
"What are we waiting for? Let's go join the Love Mutual Aid Alliance now!"
...
Their passion surged, and they took action immediately.
They returned to where they had come from.
Watching these people, Song Shaoyi couldn't help but breathe a faint sigh of relief.
He had won over one group, but that was far from enough. He had to keep going, win over others, build up a bigger momentum, and make it easier for the Duke to attack Pukou City!
Pukou City, facing the capital Yun Jing across the river, was its gateway. If Pukou City fell, Yun Jing would be hard pressed to survive.
So he had to crack this hard nut!
Take it down with determination!
...
In front of the stage, Chen Liang paced like a leader, checking that everything was fine, even chatting with some Pukou City officials along the way to deepen relations.
Just as he was feeling satisfied, a member of the Love Mutual Aid Alliance came to report.
"Master Chen, so many people want to join our Love Mutual Aid Alliance—an overwhelming number, wave after wave..."
The man's voice trembled as he spoke.
The Love Mutual Aid Alliance in Pukou City had always been as an extraordinary presence throughout the city, but its numbers had remained small. On one hand, the alliance itself exercised restraint; on the other, most people didn’t have much fondness for it.
But now...
That majority had suddenly come.
How could that not be a surprise?
Chen Liang instantly understood what was happening and said immediately, "People are coming—that's a good thing."
"This is a time of crisis, so we must adopt extraordinary measures. We can absolutely bring these people in and strengthen ourselves."
"Together, we will denounce Zhou Xiong!"
"Here's what we'll do: set up an auxiliary detachment of the Love Mutual Aid Alliance and absorb these people."
...
The Pukou City Love Mutual Aid Alliance's influence grew rapidly. In just one night, its size multiplied several times over.
And people kept joining without pause.
This delighted the founding members of the Pukou City Love Mutual Aid Alliance.
"Haha, I always said love is great. No matter how stubborn, anyone can be moved."
"Look how these people would never give us the time of day before, and now they're rushing to join. It seems that under Master Chen's leadership, our Pukou City Love Mutual Aid Alliance has truly become a benchmark."
"Yes, we're no longer inferior to the Love Mutual Aid Alliance in Yun Jing."
The Pukou City Love Mutual Aid Alliance was reveling in celebration. At the same time, General Zhou Xiong finally got a good night's sleep.
He even went home to sleep.
In his dreams, he saw the millions of people in Pukou City supporting him.
So what if the Love Mutual Aid Alliance was surging?
With such popular support, he would surely defend Pukou City as solid as a rock!
He slept until broad daylight before waking up groggily.
The fatigue of recent days had completely vanished.
Now, his body was in fine shape, and his spirits were unbelievably high.
Just as he was about to head out, he heard a faint noise. Frowning slightly, he got out of bed, put on his clothes, and pushed open the door. The noise swelled into a wave of sound, rushing toward him.
"What's going on?"
Zhou Xiong asked instinctively. The two guards standing by his side looked pale and dared not answer.
He walked straight out. The farther he went, the louder the noise grew. Gradually, he could make it out clearly.
"Zhou Xiong, you scumbag!"
"Zhou Xiong, give us back Miss Wanqing!"
"Zhou Xiong, you should kill yourself!"
...
These curses were much like the ones aimed at him the night before, so Zhou Xiong didn’t care.
What he cared about was...
How loud it was?
It sounded like thousands, even tens of thousands, shouting in unison.
No, it seemed like even more.
But the Love Mutual Aid Alliance in Pukou City only had a few thousand people total. Even if every one of them came, plus the people called up by the city lord, it shouldn’t be this many!
The noise was enough to shake Pukou City to pieces!
Puzzled, Zhou Xiong quickened his pace. Soon, he reached the front of his mansion. Opening the door, he was dumbfounded!
Holy cow!
People!
People!
People!
Everywhere he looked—people!
So many people!
A sea of humanity!
They packed his courtyard, crowding every inch.
"Is this half of Pukou City here?"
"What are they trying to do?"
"Raise a rebellion?"
Zhou Xiong thought.
Then his eyes happened to glance sideways.
He saw that the wall of his mansion had changed color.
It had become garish and messy.
Looking closer, he nearly went crazy.
"What the hell is this stuff? Smeared all over my wall?"
"And why..."
"Does it stink so bad?"
"Damn it, who smeared feces on my wall?"
Zhou Xiong was furious, but what made him nearly lose his mind was that, in those few moments he stood at the door, some scoundrel started throwing things at him.
The aim was poor and nothing hit him.
But Zhou Xiong saw clearly.
It was...
Rotten vegetable leaves!
Moldy leaves!
That already enraged him, but he knew what rotten leaves meant—they were thrown at prisoners in carts!
So was he being treated like a criminal now?
Clearly, Zhou Xiong overestimated his standing with the people of Pukou City.
The moldy rotten leaves were just the beginning!
As Zhou Xiong stood in a daze, more stuff came flying at him without mercy.
Fruit peels, useless vegetable roots,
Rocks, clods of dirt,
Trash, dirty grass,
And, of course, excrement again!
Not only had it smeared his wall, but now it was coming after him too?
The worst was the rotten eggs thrown at him—
Each one was devastating!
But this barrage made Zhou Xiong realize something.
Someone was pulling the strings—definitely!
After all, eggs were nothing like moldy leaves; they were precious commodities.
Even though large amounts of sweet potatoes had flooded into Pukou City in recent years, and people's lives had somewhat stabilized, they were still far from wealthy enough to just throw away something as valuable as eggs.
So...
There was only one truth!
Someone had hired these people to throw eggs at him!
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?"
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
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?”
