Inside the villa.
On the first floor.
"Sir, Miss, the soup is still heating up. It will take a little while longer."
Nanny Wang held a pair of chopsticks in her hand. From the kitchen came the bubbling sound of a simmering clay pot and the sizzling of sausages frying in oil. The chopsticks in Nanny Wang's hand were being used precisely to flip those sausages.
She felt like she was on the verge of success.
After her persistent efforts and constant feeding, Da Huang was finally willing to look her in the eye. Although it still had an aloof attitude, she was definitely heading in the right direction!
This was a good thing!
Keep it up!
Lin Tianxiong had just sat down when he seemed to remember something. "Nanny Wang, call Da Huang out to eat with us. It's so late now, you should come and eat with us too."
"Thank you, Sir, but I've already eaten. At my age, I can't eat too much at night. I appreciate your kindness..." Nanny Wang said with a smile.
Seeing this, Lin Tianxiong didn't force the issue. Everyone had their own considerations. Perhaps his presence would just make her feel constrained.
That was fine too; he could enjoy some rare father-daughter time.
Lin Baizhi furrowed her delicate brows. "Da Huang? What Da Huang?"
Was it the Da Huang she was thinking of?
How did it end up in her house?
"Woof!" A robust bark came from the kitchen. Da Huang, its mouth covered in grease from eating, dashed out of the kitchen, aiming straight for Lin Baizhi.
Lin Tianxiong's heart skipped a beat. Reacting swiftly, he stood up and threw himself onto Da Huang, barely managing to hug the dog. "Da Huang, do me a favor and let this go."
"Woof woof woof!!!" Da Huang bared its teeth, glaring fiercely at Lin Baizhi, who stood not far away.
Clearly, it still remembered being grabbed by Lin Baizhi earlier. She had already been labeled a bad woman by Da Huang.
It was determined to take a bite out of her no matter what!
Nanny Wang ran out of the kitchen, still holding a sausage, looking terrified. Everything was perfectly fine just a moment ago, why had Da Huang suddenly gone mad?
She rushed out, only to see her employer hugging Da Huang. One man and one dog were wrestling on the floor, with her employer muttering something about doing him a favor.
Nanny Wang: "..."
Lin Baizhi: "..."
In the end, Lin Tianxiong successfully bribed Da Huang with ten packets of crispy noodles, ten packets of spicy strips, a large bottle of iced tea, and two barbecue meals. A temporary truce was reached.
However, anyone could see that Da Huang was looking down on Lin Baizhi with immense disdain, as if to say: If it weren't for this meal... this wouldn't be over!
Lin Baizhi: "..."
Her plan had completely backfired. She was supposed to build a good relationship with it, but now she was utterly despised.
Lin Baizhi's resentment +1 +1 +1...
Her relationship with Da Huang was even worse than Da Huang's relationship with her dad!
As the father and daughter ate, Da Huang ate too. It had soup and bones. One person... oh wait, one dog, one basin, and a huge bowl of sausages, eating voraciously!
Not a single bite of food that contributed to the fat on its body was innocent!
Lin Tianxiong seemed to notice that his daughter was unhappy and feeling down. He took the initiative to say, "Sweetheart, Da Huang doesn't hold grudges. It will be fine after a while. You could also take it out to eat more often."
"Mhm," Lin Baizhi nodded, still unable to cheer up.
Lin Tianxiong deliberately changed the subject, or rather, steered it back to a topic his daughter would be interested in.
"Sweetheart, did you know that after I brought you back home back then, I actually went to see Xiao Cheng in private?"
Lin Baizhi nodded. "Yes, I know."
Lin Tianxiong: "???"
"You know?" Lin Tianxiong's eyes widened in shock. That couldn't be; he had never revealed this matter to anyone.
"I guessed it," Lin Baizhi offered to clear up her father's confusion.
Lin Tianxiong froze for a moment, then felt relieved. He smiled and said, "That's true. You are so smart, you should have been able to figure it out... Sweetheart, do you blame me for doing that back then?"
"Yeah, sometimes I wanted to stab you to death," Lin Baizhi nodded.
Lin Tianxiong: "???"
Lin Tianxiong looked horrified, his old face turning pale. Pfft, Lin Baizhi burst out laughing, though her tone carried a hint of resentment.
"Who told you to be so cruel to me back then..." Her previous words were just a joke. She knew her father's situation hadn't been very good at the time, and she was his only solace and hope.
Her father had nothing left but her.
Lin Tianxiong's mood sank. "I'm sorry, Baizhi. I've made you do so many painful things over the years..."
"Not at all, those things were quite simple." Lin Baizhi's tone was light. She swung her pale legs, her white nightgown highlighting a unique beauty about the young woman.
"When I said you were cruel, I meant why did you have to separate me from him? I lived in torment every single day. Life without him was so painful for me, truly painful, Dad..."
Lin Baizhi's voice trembled as she seemingly recalled the past.
The things she had to learn to take over the company were only slightly difficult for her. Once she understood them, it was no big deal. What truly caused her pain over the years was the matter concerning Ye Cheng.
She used to be a very independent person. It was only after meeting Ye Cheng that she became dependent. Ye Cheng had a way of handling everything perfectly, so she never needed to worry excessively.
In Lin Baizhi's heart, Ye Cheng was omnipotent, far more outstanding than anyone his age. If she could... she wanted to tie Ye Cheng up and keep him at home every day, where only she could look at him, touch him, and...
But that was impossible. She couldn't control her brother.
Her brother was as dazzling as the sun, while she was a star at best, not even a moon... She didn't think anyone in this world could fully keep up with her brother's train of thought and ideas.
She didn't want to be the moon anyway, because the sun and the moon could never meet. She just wanted to be a satellite orbiting Ye Cheng, constantly revolving around her brother, round and round, until she burned out...
"Dad, I can't read him. My relationship with him is stuck. It's stuck at a critical bottleneck, and I can't push it forward anymore. What should I do?"
Lin Baizhi suddenly spoke, her tone filled with confusion.
Lin Tianxiong remained silent for a moment.
"Sweetheart, do you know how I've felt interacting with Ye Cheng all these years?"
Confusion appeared in Lin Baizhi's eyes, and she instinctively replied, "He's very capable, omnipotent."
"Yes, very capable, extremely capable, and... his way of thinking is different from ordinary people. After I took you away, I met with him alone. I offered him money and other forms of help... but he refused them all."
"His greedy and street-smart demeanor can be somewhat annoying, but those all seem to be just a facade. Five million, an ordinary person wouldn't see that much money in a lifetime, yet he didn't even blink an eye. How old was he back then?"
Lin Tianxiong's tone was full of emotion and shock. Even after all these years, the memory was still vivid in his mind.
He had never met another young man as outstanding as him. No other brilliant youth could ever catch his eye again; there was always that one person standing tall in his mind.
"For all these years, I could never figure out what he was actually trying to do or what he truly wanted. It was only recently that I finally grasped a few key clues!" A sharp gleam flashed across Lin Tianxiong's eyes.
It was the intuition of a formidable mastermind!
He had discovered things that no one else could possibly see!
Lin Baizhi grew frantic with excitement. "Dad, tell me quickly! Stop reminiscing and just tell me!!!"
She was so anxious she was practically ready to shake the answers out of him. She wanted it too badly; she dreamed of making her brother hers!!!
Lin Tianxiong was speechless. "..."
My dear daughter, you are a young lady, at least try to show a little restraint...
Seeing this, Lin Tianxiong stopped keeping her in suspense. He told his daughter everything he knew, everything he had deduced, and every little detail he had caught onto!
"Over the years, he has worked under the table, repaired cell phones, worked as a private tutor, and even acted as a human forklift at a logistics company..."
Lin Tianxiong sighed deeply.
"Do you know, my daughter? I only just realized it. What he wants isn't money, nor is it a stable job. What he wants is..."
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?"
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
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!
