"I won't leave you, Miss."
In the room, the head maid continuously patted Xia Tongxin's back, softly comforting her very sad eldest miss who had just had a nightmare.
To save time, while going upstairs, the head maid had already asked the junior maid who led the way about the situation. To sum it up simply, she had a nightmare, then said some strange things, and started crying there in an emotional breakdown.
She successfully caught the keyword... Grandpa Niu.
The head maid: "..."
How could this guy even appear in dreams?
The head maid was somewhat speechless. If she dreamed of Ye Cheng while sleeping, she would really call the police. It was too ridiculous!
"Woohoo... Xia Xia, are you really not going to abandon me, really?" Xia Tongxin was pitifully held in the head maid's arms, her head rubbing against her non-stop as she kept asking.
The head maid comforted her patiently, time and time again. Although she looked calm on the surface, she was actually burning with anxiety inside, the kind that was about to ignite.
Faster, a bit faster!
The head maid kept muttering in her heart, over and over again. Although her body was here, her soul had already drifted downstairs.
"I won't, Miss. I won't abandon you." The head maid took a deep breath and spoke once again.
Xia Tongxin seemed to have listened a bit, sniffling her pitiful little nose. "Woohoo, Xia Xia, I dreamed that you ran away with Grandpa Niu, woohoo, it was too scary, woohoo..."
The head maid: "..."
Rarely, the expression on the head maid's face stiffened, and her heart skipped a beat.
A trace of disbelief and shock appeared in her eyes as she looked at her eldest miss, her expression quite complex... Can she even sense this kind of thing?
The three minutes quickly passed, and Xia Tongxin's emotions were soothed and controlled. The head maid breathed a sigh of relief and stood up very briskly.
"Miss, please wait a moment. I will go heat up some milk for you. Please rest early after drinking it."
The head maid spoke with considerable authority. Xia Tongxin usually didn't need to think about anything and just followed along; her Xia Xia wouldn't harm her anyway.
Habitually, after the head maid finished speaking, Xia Tongxin nodded. "Mhm, Xia Xia, you have to come back quickly, don't run away..."
The head maid: "..."
Before leaving, her footsteps echoed one by one. Reaching the corner of the stairs, the head maid finally sped up and rushed into the equipment room.
Seeing clearly the surveillance footage of the room displayed on the computer in front of her, the head maid froze for a moment.
The scene was so shocking and bizarre that the head maid's brain short-circuited. She had only been gone for three minutes, how... how did it become like this?
The head maid's scalp tingled, but... the person under more pressure right now wasn't her, but Ye Cheng, who was locking eyes with Dongfang Zhixia in the surveillance feed.
...
Hospital, in the corridor.
Clack, clack, clack. The crisp sound of high heels echoed through the hallway.
Su Su chased over from the corner of the corridor with an anxious face, and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her daughter stopped at the door ahead.
Great, there's still room for mitigation. Zhixia hasn't closed the door yet!
Su Su felt somewhat fortunate. If she had chased over now and the door was closed, there would be nothing left to discuss about today's matter. The longer this dragged on, the worse it would be for their mother-daughter relationship. Not just their relationship, but the entire family's dynamics would be affected.
Rewind the time back a little bit.
Although Su Su strongly denied giving Ye Cheng money to make him get lost, her brief pause was still noticed by Dongfang Zhixia, leading to a brief confrontation between mother and daughter.
The smart President realized something, but... there were some things she needed to confirm personally.
Continuing to talk was meaningless. Dongfang Zhixia decisively chose to leave and return to the ward to take care of the little secretary. Similarly, this was to prevent a bigger argument from breaking out if they continued to confront each other.
She didn't want to argue about these things with her family right now.
The little secretary's matter hadn't been resolved yet, and she didn't expect to be stabbed in the back by her own family. Truly attacked from both front and back, Dongfang Zhixia was now so miserable she couldn't even speak.
She didn't want to speak either. Let it be. Without aggressive questioning and arguing, this was considered her greatest respect and concession to her parents.
If it were anyone else, she would have started cursing long ago.
Su Su quickened her pace, the crisp sound of her high heels echoing in the corridor. As she got closer, she slowly came to a stop. "Zhixia, listen to Mom, things aren't what you think..."
Su Su's expression was complex. She felt extremely guilty and didn't know how to begin.
Dongfang Zhixia also snapped back to reality, gave the ward a meaningful look, and finally closed the door.
She still chose to believe.
The moment the door closed, the world was separated into two: one inside the room, and one outside.
Outside the room, Su Su's expression was full of conflict as she thought about how to make her daughter less angry and minimize the damage. Inside the room... Ye Cheng was wondering if he could live to see tomorrow.
An epic stare-down.
The moment the door opened, Dongfang Zhixia and Ye Cheng locked eyes, staring at each other for over ten seconds.
Obviously, both sides were shocked by this encounter. Ye Cheng still had a pained smile as if he had eaten shit, and the little secretary's hand, which had been pulled away earlier, had somehow grabbed onto him again, holding tight.
Well, this is great. No more crying, no more screaming... Hamster, are you satisfied now!
From their first meeting, Ye Cheng knew that the little secretary was somewhat involved in metaphysics. She was his absolute bane. He felt their destinies clashed. During their first meeting, he was tricked by this "genius" little secretary using coins from a piggy bank.
Later, he was bitten in the cafeteria, and before this, they were caught together at the arcade, and finally... it turned into the current situation.
Hamster, I'm going to spend all your pocket money!!!
Ye Cheng secretly swore in his heart that he would give the little secretary, who had bitten him time and time again, the most painful and cruel revenge!
Actually, there was a chance to salvage it. Ye Cheng could have briefly transformed into Peter F*cking Parker and clung to a triangular area of the room, a blind spot. As long as they didn't turn on the lights to search, his chances of surviving were very high.
But the problem was, just as Ye Cheng was about to act, he heard the sound of footsteps coming from Su Su behind him.
As soon as the sound came, the little secretary's sobbing and crying in the room disappeared. The two happened almost simultaneously; one disappeared, and the other immediately appeared. The key lay in whether the little secretary grabbed Ye Cheng.
If she didn't grab him, she would continue crying; if she grabbed him, she would quiet down...
Ye Cheng: "..."
Weighing his options, Ye Cheng chose to tough it out, engaging in an extreme, ten-second-long "epic stare-down" with the President. Everything was communicated in silence. Otherwise, if Su Su outside heard the little secretary's crying and came in to see what was going on, wouldn't he be doomed?
A wolf in front and a tiger behind?
No, no, no. A Barrett sniper rifle locking onto his head in front, and a blue-fire Gatling gun dealing continuous damage from behind... F*ck!!!
Ye Cheng was a man of dignity, and he chose a dignified way to die: confronting the President head-on!
Dongfang Zhixia: "..."
It was impossible to determine exactly what kind of mood Dongfang Zhixia was in before opening the door, but one thing was certain. After opening the door and seeing Ye Cheng inside the room... the wrinkles in her brain were momentarily smoothed out.
In short, her brain short-circuited.
Why was a certain bastard here?
It was somewhat unexpected, but... for some reason, it also kind of made sense?
Click, clack, click. Hearing the approaching sound of high heels, Dongfang Zhixia snapped back to reality. She gave Ye Cheng a deep, meaningful look and chose to close the door.
Bang!
Inside the room.
"Hamster, you better remember this! Your medical bill this time is going to cost you all your pocket money!!!" Ye Cheng gritted his teeth, his eyes turning red. The look in one's eyes when they like someone... oh wait, no, the look in one's eyes when they want to drain someone's pocket money cannot be hidden!
Ye Cheng's mind raced, desperately trying to think of a trigger that could completely wake the little secretary up.
External stimuli hadn't worked before. If they had, she would have woken up a long time ago. It was precisely because they didn't work that they had to inject her with drugs to force a shutdown. Yet now, suddenly, it was taking effect again.
So... the key lay with him.
He needed to provide enough stimulation...
Stimulation?
What kind of stimulation would it take to wake the little secretary up?
What kind of stimulation...
A flash of inspiration struck Ye Cheng!
He had it!
Ye Cheng stepped forward, climbed entirely onto the bed, leaned his body forward, and then...

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.”

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."

ose... to cooperate with the protagonist! Shen Yuan: I have a system! Protagonist: What? System: Holy crap, you're just spilling it out like that? Shen Yuan: Let's team up, we'll split the system rewards! Protagonist: Fifty-fifty split? Shen Yuan: No way! Protagonist: What!? I'm the one getting beaten up, and I don't get half? Shen Yuan: Forty-sixty split, I get forty, you get sixty! Protagonist: Deal! Big brother, come on, hit me! As long as it doesn't kill me, beat me like you mean it! Shen Yuan: Don't worry... I will definitely protect all of you! No one but me can lay a finger on you! Guard our Heaven's Chosen Ones! I'm the only one allowed to bully them!

and couldn't return to the real world. Finally, I gave up and decided to go with the flow, only to discover that writing a diary could make me stronger. Since no one could read it, Su Luo wrote freely, daring to pen anything and everything. Female Lead #1: "Not bad. This diary helped me steal all the protagonist's opportunities. I just want to get stronger." Female Lead #2: "I don’t care about reaching the peak of the cultivation world. Right now, I just want to enjoy the chaos." Female Lead #3: "What? Everyone around me is a spy? I’m the Joker Demon Lord?" ... It’s so strange. Why is the plot completely off track, yet the ending remains the same? Are you all just messing with me?!