An eerie silence fell over the hospital room.
After sending her first message, Tang Yuyao waited for a while. Seeing that Ye Cheng still hadn't replied, she started bombarding him with texts. The phone buzzed relentlessly, acting as if it were about to explode.
Furthermore, since the phone was a heavily modified version by Ye Cheng, its vibration motor was incredibly powerful. As Tang Yuyao sent messages, the phone vibrated and inched closer and closer toward Ye Cheng.
A point-blank ultimate attack!
Ye Cheng: "..."
Don't be like this, phone. We aren't that close yet. The eldest miss will get jealous if you act like this...
The phone remained silent, merely buzzing continuously and accelerating its movement toward Ye Cheng, looking exactly like a crazed bullfrog.
Ye Cheng: "..."
Yamero, don't come any closer! Stop it, you bastard!!!
Smack! The endlessly buzzing phone was pinned dead against the bed by the eldest miss. The air seemed to freeze, making the already eerie atmosphere feel even more terrifying.
Thump thump, thump thump... Ye Cheng could clearly feel the eldest miss's heartbeat.
At this point, curious friends might ask: why wasn't it Ye Cheng's own heartbeat?
Because right now, all of Ye Cheng's attention was focused entirely on the eldest miss. The two of them were locked in a chokehold and elbow-strike posture. Ye Cheng was on the bottom, the eldest miss was on top, and then... thump thump thump.
Fully automatic elbow strikes!
As a result, Ye Cheng's phone started howling like a ghost. While it delivered a point-blank ultimate to Ye Cheng, it also delivered one to the eldest miss, who, sitting in a "high position," could see it even more clearly.
It was a message sent by a certain Single Salted-Fish Spinster from earlier!
The path that the President took nearly twenty years to walk, Tang Yuyao managed to complete in less than half a year, successfully earning the exact same treatment as the President.
The eldest miss's "personalized little tag" for her: Single Salted-Fish Spinster!
"Reply to her," Shen Qinghan released her grip on the phone and issued a command to Ye Cheng.
Ye Cheng: "..."
Who, me?
Asking me to reply at a time like this... Eldest miss, are you serious?
Ye Cheng hesitated for less than 0.0001 seconds before decisively sticking out his finger. "Ahhh! My finger is cramping! It hurts! Damn it, it looks like I can't reply to the message. What a pity, eldest miss..."
Crack!
Silently, Shen Qinghan bent the finger of the hand Ye Cheng was howling about. A crisp sound could even be heard. It seemed like... it was broken.
Ye Cheng: "..."
My finger feels painful.
"Reply to the message. Hurry up," Shen Qinghan repeated her previous words. As she spoke, she maintained the chokehold and knocked on Ye Cheng's head.
Thump thump thump...
Ye Cheng's HP -1 -1 -1...
Ye Cheng: "..."
And so, wearing a painful, forced smile matching the Fire Punch meme, Ye Cheng began replying to the messages under the eldest miss's "friendly" supervision.
Tap tap tap...
Doctor Tang, please don't say anything unnecessary. I'm begging you, onegai!!!
...
The Tang Family.
The youngest son rubbed his chubby double chin. "Grandma, is Auntie heartbroken over a breakup?"
Mother Tang: "..."
My dear grandson, don't talk nonsense. Your auntie hasn't even managed to win him over yet, so how can it be a breakup? At most, it's unrequited love...
The truth was too hurtful. After thinking about it, Mother Tang decided it was best to save her daughter some face. She pondered for a moment.
"Probably not. It's not like you don't know your auntie's personality. She's extremely awkward. It's most likely that some TV show you young people like to watch just ended, and that's why she's so sad..."
Mother Tang spoke with a straight face, making it sound entirely true. The youngest son nodded and put on a look of agreement, and then... expressed his disbelief.
"Grandma, do you take me for a three-year-old child? How could you even say something like that?"
"Auntie is clearly doing what people call an old cow eating tender grass, and then she got caught by his official girlfriend..."
Mother Tang: "???"
In a sense, the youngest son was indeed right. He wasn't a three-year-old child, because he was five years old, currently in the senior class of kindergarten, and about to enter first grade.
Oh yeah~~~
Mother Tang had clearly underestimated her little grandson's intelligence. To think she was seen through so easily. She was momentarily speechless. While she was still trying to figure out how to fool her little grandson, the "self-deprecating quotes" of her innocent eldest daughter inside the room suddenly stopped.
Mother Tang: "???"
Why did it stop?
I was just enjoying listening to it. Why did it stop?
Mother Tang simply pressed herself against the door, putting her ear to it to hear more clearly. The youngest son followed suit, copying his grandmother and pressing against the door to eavesdrop.
Right at this moment, Old Master Tang finished his meal and came over to call Mother Tang to eat. Otherwise, the food would get cold. They were eating yesterday's leftovers, which actually tasted pretty good...
"Hm?" Old Master Tang saw that in his previous spot, one old and one young were pressing against the door in identical eavesdropping postures, doing it even more blatantly than he had just done.
Old Master Tang: "..."
Guilan, you...
Inside the room.
Tang Yuyao had already perked up. Wrapped in a blanket, she lay on her stomach on the bed, propped up on both hands, holding her phone and sending messages to Ye Cheng. Naturally, she was talking about getting "reality-checked" by the eldest miss that morning.
She still felt upset in her heart. She had finally mustered the courage to be brave for once, only to be instantly one-shot by the other party's combo attack, returning in utter defeat. Damn it, why didn't her legs listen to her?
The more she thought about it, the angrier she got. Finally, Tang Yuyao decided... to collude with Ye Cheng, making him go and explain to Shen Qinghan some of the "misunderstandings" from their previous chats.
Damn it, I miscalculated. What a rude little girl, casually looking through someone else's phone without any manners at all!
Hmph!
Tang Yuyao seemed to have forgotten the time back in the apartment when she held a knife to Ye Cheng's neck, forcing him to unlock his phone so she could look through his photo album... She was just as bad as the eldest miss.
Tap tap tap...
Inside the room, the crisp sound of typing continued.
After a while, Tang Yuyao typed a question mark.
"Why does it keep showing that you're typing, but you aren't saying anything?"
"What, is your eldest miss right next to you now? Are you too scared to speak?"
Tang Yuyao secretly mocked Ye Cheng, feeling a bit bitter in her heart. She had already heard the gossip going around the school regarding the "love and hate" between Ye Cheng and the two eldest misses.
But Tang Yuyao didn't believe it at all. Based on her experience interacting with Ye Cheng, if Ye Cheng were a normal person, she might have believed those school rumors of "love and hate."
But the problem was that Ye Cheng wasn't a normal person!
Previously at the hotel, she did this and that, yet a certain bastard tied her up like a rice dumpling while he sat to the side watching brain-dead short videos. Is that something a human would do?
Come on, she was a great beauty after all. A mature woman, long legs, 3C certified... and she couldn't compare to brain-dead short videos on a phone?
What the heck!
It was precisely because Ye Cheng did not think or act like a normal human being that Tang Yuyao liked him. She looked down on normal people; she just liked this kind of intense, unhinged kid. Of course, if an ugly guy dared to try this with her, she would beat him to death on the spot.
Brother Cheng might lack other things, but his eccentricity and charm were maxed out. Because he was so excessively unhinged, the people around him subconsciously ignored the fact that Ye Cheng was actually a ridiculously handsome guy.
Just like a certain madam, who was so excessively wicked that everyone around her forgot she was an absolute knockout...
The concept of "talent" overshadowing beauty was perfectly embodied in this moment!
Two massive weirdos.
"Say something, are you mute?!" Tang Yuyao was getting a bit angry, feeling a pang of jealousy.
She had known him just as long as a certain young lady had, so why couldn't she compare?
Tang Yuyao did not even realize it herself, but her way of thinking and the way she spoke to the young lady had subtly undergone a massive change!
She had become much more aggressive and hostile!
Buzz!
Her phone vibrated. Ye Cheng had finally replied. Tang Yuyao's furrowed brows instantly relaxed the moment she heard the notification. Her mood improved by leaps and bounds!
Ye Cheng: "How could that be? Our young lady is so kind and gentle, why would I be afraid of her? Dr. Tang, you are overthinking it. The young lady and I get along very peacefully."
Seeing these words made Tang Yuyao inexplicably annoyed. Her relaxed brows furrowed once again: "Qinghan? Gentle? Give me a break, do you even believe that yourself?"
Ye Cheng: "..."
Ye Cheng: "Dr. Tang, you shouldn't look at people through colored lenses. Sometimes we need to open our hearts, look deeper, and discover a person's inner self. Although the young lady seems icy on the outside, she is actually very gentle, really!"
Tang Yuyao: "Heh, so do you believe it?"
Ye Cheng: "I believe it."
Tang Yuyao: "You are talking weird today, kid. Are you being threatened?"
Ye Cheng: "???"
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!
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
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!
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...
