"Zhixia, can you just listen to what Mom has to say about this?"
Out in the corridor.
Su Su's tone carried a hint of pleading, begging the daughter standing before her to actually take her words to heart.
Dongfang Zhixia remained unmoved. With a cold expression, she maintained the same angry demeanor from when they had last parted. However, her heart was nowhere near as calm as she appeared on the surface.
A stormy sea was already raging inside her.
Her only thought was to quickly find an excuse to send her mother away so she could go inside and deal with a certain bastard who had sneaked in at some unknown time!
She had only been gone for a short while, and Ye Cheng had actually seized the opportunity?
This guy...
Although Dongfang Zhixia could not understand what Ye Cheng was doing, it had to be related to the little fool of their family. No matter how slim the chances were, it was still a glimmer of hope, wasn't it?
If even Ye Cheng could not do anything, she would have to prepare for the worst.
At the thought of the worst-case scenario, a layer of gloom and a lingering shadow clouded Dongfang Zhixia's heart.
The two of them had been companions for many years and shared a deep bond. The sudden thought of losing someone left an indescribable feeling in Dongfang Zhixia's heart... There has to be a way, there will definitely be a way, no matter the cost!
She absolutely would not give up!
Thinking of this, Dongfang Zhixia's eyes grew much more resolute.
"If you have anything else to say, I am listening. Once you are done, go back and rest early. I am getting a bit sleepy too," Dongfang Zhixia said.
She was already starting to usher her away.
Su Su's heart sank. Gritting her teeth, she seemed to have made a decision. "We were wrong about this matter. We really shouldn't have used money to make that boy leave."
This single sentence instantly pulled Dongfang Zhixia's wandering mind back from the room, and her expression turned ugly.
Although she had mentally prepared herself and suspected what her parents had done while she was away, hearing her mother admit it personally still shocked her.
It was true!
Well, at least this saved her the trouble of investigating it herself.
"Heh, you two were quite generous. How much did you give him in total?" Dongfang Zhixia's laughter was inexplicably cold and bitter. She felt quite hurt, as if she had been stabbed in the back by her own family.
Su Su's eyes showed her inner conflict. Her hands, hanging by her sides, kept clenching tightly, squeezing harder and harder.
Seeing her like this, Dongfang Zhixia more or less had an idea.
"Did he accept it?" Dongfang Zhixia asked.
This was the only thing she cared about right now.
Su Su's tone faltered, seemingly unsure of how to explain this to her daughter.
Strictly speaking, Ye Cheng had accepted it, but... the two checks worth over a hundred million ended up adding up to less than a hundred bucks, not even fifty.
She had told Ye Cheng to treat himself to something luxurious, and his idea of luxury was adding two braised eggs to his meal, which had nearly angered Su Su to death.
In a sense, it was more accurate to say Ye Cheng had not accepted the money. This was exactly what Su Su was conflicted about; she just did not know how to say it...
Seeing her mother's reaction, Dongfang Zhixia secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He probably had not accepted it. She felt an inexplicable surge of joy in her heart. That bastard was so greedy for money, yet he had not taken it.
It seemed he really did like her and could not bear to leave her!
Heh, at least this guy had some conscience.
"Go back, Mom. I am tired. I will keep watch here," Dongfang Zhixia sighed, speaking in a weary tone.
Su Su had not figured out how to explain the matter, but her daughter had already issued an order for her to leave. She secretly breathed a sigh of relief; it was better to keep things vague on such issues.
Now, Su Su just hoped that Ye Cheng would not repeat the harsh words she had said to him earlier, otherwise it would provoke her daughter again, and then things would truly be over.
"Alright, then Zhixia, Mom will go back first. You should rest early too. There is no rush with Mengmeng's situation. Everyone is helping to figure out a solution, so she will be fine. Mom will go back and ask your grandfather's side..."
Before leaving, Su Su said a few things about the little secretary, which eased the tension between mother and daughter.
Click-clack, the crisp sound of high heels echoed through the corridor. It was late into the night, and Su Su disappeared into the darkness, leaving Dongfang Zhixia alone in the hallway.
Watching her mother's retreating back, Dongfang Zhixia muttered, "There has to be a way. There just has to be!"
Taking a deep breath, Dongfang Zhixia placed her hand on the doorknob and, with a click, opened the door.
Time did not allow her to just keep waiting like this!
No matter what the method was, she had to try it!
The moment she opened the door, the light from the corridor outside spilled in, increasing the visibility in the room and shining squarely onto Ye Cheng. Ye Cheng was currently still casting a spell.
"Resurrect! My hamster!!!"
The instant he finished reciting his line, Ye Cheng tapped his screen, playing a pre-saved audio file on his phone!
"Ding!"
"Congratulations, you have completed the final redemption and received Allowance +100!!!"
He was using the same reward-style notification sound that he previously used to motivate the little secretary to exercise. Unlike before, there were no empty promises this time. He skipped the unnecessary intermediate steps and went straight to the final step.
Reward successfully redeemed!
This was also the most crucial stimulation step. The previous attempts at stimulation were always lacking something, but the notification sound for an allowance reward would definitely work!
The moment he finished his dramatic line, a miraculous scene unfolded. The little secretary, who had been unconscious for nearly a day, finally opened her eyes. Unlike her previously cloudy and lifeless gaze, her eyes had now regained their vibrant sparkle!
She blinked and looked toward the light, seeing her young miss standing not far away.
Staring wide-eyed at each other.
Dongfang Zhixia, who had witnessed the entire process from the sidelines and was preparing to beat Ye Cheng to death, was dumbfounded. Everything else was thrown to the back of her mind at this moment. Nothing was more important than their little fool waking up!
An eerie silence fell over the room.
"Mengmeng, you... you are awake?"
Dongfang Zhixia was the first to break the somewhat bizarrely quiet atmosphere, her tone filled with uncertainty.
She had already prepared for the worst, but now she was being told that everything was fine and the best possible outcome had occurred!
From hell to heaven in an instant, the emotional whiplash was so massive that even someone with Dongfang Zhixia's strong psychological endurance was stunned, standing there blankly and asking questions that sounded rather silly.
The sorrow in her heart and the worries of the past dozen hours all dissipated at once, turning into tears that overflowed uncontrollably and slid down her cheeks, driving Dongfang Zhixia to throw herself at the hospital bed.
She hugged the little secretary tightly in her arms.
"You little fool, you scared me to death..." Dongfang Zhixia's tears rolled down.
Silent sobbing. This was the second time Ye Cheng had heard the omnipotent Student Council President cry. The first time was on the back mountain when she got bitten by a snake, and she cried out of sheer panic when he was about to leave.
In a sense, this was her first time truly crying.
What a touching, happy ending for everyone!
It was so moving that Ye Cheng could hardly hold back his own tears. However... the most urgent matter right now was to slip away quickly. The eldest miss was waking up, and if nothing unexpected happened, the President would surely have some heart-to-heart words she wanted to share with him later.
If he did not want his health bar to drop, he had better run away quickly.
Moving bit by bit, good, just like that!
Ye Cheng stealthily inched toward the door for a while. Once he reached a certain distance, he suddenly realized he couldn't move any further. Something had grabbed him.
One of the little secretary's paws had a firm grip on Ye Cheng.
Ye Cheng: ...
You damn hamster, biting the hand that feeds you, huh!
Ye Cheng frantically shot eye signals at the little secretary, gesturing for her to let go. However... Ye Cheng had clearly overestimated the little secretary's intelligence. Her big, sparkling eyes were filled with nothing but pure, unadulterated stupidity.
The eye contact did do something, at least. It prompted the little secretary to grab Ye Cheng with not just one paw, but two. Her other free hand reached right across from the embrace of the still-crying Dongfang Zhixia to grab hold of him.
Locked tight!
Ye Cheng: ???
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.”
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
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."
