Xia Yanchun broke out in a cold sweat. Opening her eyes, she found sunlight already streaming through the curtains, filling the room with bright light.
Dreams really can have anything. It was terrifying enough to make her cry. She wouldn't tell anyone she dreamed of Shen Nian kissing her foot last night.
Whew—
After a full night's sleep, Xia Yanchun stretched lazily, subconsciously lowered her feet, and slipped on her slippers.
Huh?
Didn't I sprain my ankle?
Looking down, the swelling had subsided considerably. It didn't hurt much unless she purposely twisted it.
This ointment works way too well... An ankle sprain that might take others days to heal, and for her, it hadn't even been a full day since she twisted it, yet she felt she could walk normally already.
But then again, she just sprained it slightly while trying on high heels. It wasn't serious, and she applied the ointment, so healing quickly was normal.
Home alone and too lazy to fix her hair, she took a shower first thing in the morning. With no one else in the house, she didn't even bother wearing a bra.
Noticing two cups of century egg and lean pork congee standing on the coffee table, Xia Yanchun paused. She didn't need to think; who else but Shen Nian had a key to her place?
Sister Shen Yue, really! What was she thinking giving Shen Nian the key!
But she couldn't really complain either. Three months ago, she was the same, using a key to let herself into someone else's house without permission, even...
The congee was still warm and tasted pretty good. She could already picture Shen Nian returning from his workout with breakfast, then stealthily using the key to open the door and sneak away.
As for whether Shen Nian had peeked into her room, she wasn't worried.
Shen Nian had always been all bark and no bite. He wouldn't dare to peek secretly.
But he would look right in front of her.
That's exactly why Shen Nian nowadays was so hard to judge!
Shen Nian who brings me breakfast is good! Shen Nian who sneaks around is bad!
...
Shen Nian looked at his two buddies, utterly bored.
Both sides were empty—Chunbao wasn't here. Apart from shooting the breeze with Ma Mingfan and Chen Dong about nothing in particular, he didn't know what to do.
"Shen Nian, what do you think is the best way to train willpower?" Ma Mingfan turned around, his expression serious, as if he had made some firm resolution.
"Working out. Like me, I exercise for an hour every morning. Look at my muscles." Shen Nian rolled up his sleeve and flexed his arm; the muscle was quite noticeable.
Ma Mingfan was moved to tears. Good looks, good grades, popular with girls, and now he works out too? This stats monster still isn't getting nerfed?
The stats monster thinks he's all skill.
"Why do you want to train willpower?"
"Don't ask. It's a slippery slope you shouldn't touch."
"What day of NoFap is it today?" Shen Nian rephrased the question.
"Why ask so much? Got a crush on me, Shen Nian? I won't be interested in you until you turn into a little Nanliang, though I'm not interested in little Nanliang either."
Shen Nian understood now and looked at Chen Dong. "You're also on day one of NoFap?"
"What do you mean 'also'?" Ma Mingfan fumed.
Hearing Shen Nian ask him, Chen Dong's face stiffened, and he said indignantly, "I was flirting with someone on Sunday. Isn't holding hands and touching faces nice? I've long moved past such lowly pleasures!"
"Not bad, not bad."
It seemed Chen Dong really was making progress. Shen Nian, who also enjoyed the thrill of flirting, understood Chen Dong well.
"How did you two start talking? So, do you have a method for training willpower? I asked Chen Dong earlier, and this jerk told me to go watch Jiaqi's absolutely ripped muscle lines. That's so damn ridiculous. I urgently need a method to train willpower."
Shen Nian stroked his chin, pondering for a moment.
"Watch 'Candy Super Sweet' a hundred times every day. Your willpower will become unbreakable. Whenever your body can't hold back, the willpower forged from watching it a hundred times will guide you to fiercely strike the demon pill two hundred times."
?
Ma Mingfan died peacefully, having found enlightenment.
"That thing works?"
"Who says it doesn't? I can watch 'Candy Super Sweet' ten times with a straight face. Dare you say that's not willpower?"
"Holy crap, you're really something."
Maybe... this really was a good method.
Ma Mingfan secretly resolved that as soon as school ended at noon, he would immediately download the "Candy Super Sweet" video. Watch it twenty times before bed, twenty times upon waking. Until he developed superhuman willpower, there was no turning back.
“So, why this sudden urge to train willpower? What stimulated you? Did the girl you like get taken by a jock?” Shen Nian propped his chin on his hand and asked him again.
"Does getting stronger need a reason?" Ma Mingfan laughed. "It's just transforming from Sasuke into White Robe Sasuke."
Shen Nian: ...
You're White Robe Sasuke? Then who am I?
Trying to impersonate your bro? Shameless. Think you're hot stuff just because you're good at playing Naruto?
Shen Nian believed his own willpower was strong.
He could have an offline Naruto 1v1 with Ma Mingfan, get styled on for thirty minutes, and only go red with frustration without delivering a Leo flying kick to Ma Mingfan's face.
That was even more impressive than watching "Candy Super Sweet" with a straight face.
Although he was only on day two of NoFap, he still wanted to say: Ma Mingfan wasn't cut out for it, needed more training.
Chen Dong was capable, had the same spirit he himself once possessed.
"When are you bringing your fling out to meet us? Bro, I've been in the romance game for years. I can tell at a glance if your fling is good or bad. I'll be your strategist."
"Cut it out. I've known her for over ten years. What do I need you to see?"
"Childhood friend? No wonder you said childhood friends are natural wives before. So you were just making excuses for yourself to make a move." Shen Nian saw right through it, laughing and scolding.
But he agreed with Chen Dong's statement.
"Don't say that out loud," Chen Dong said seriously. "She goes to No.1 High School. She lives off-campus, I commute. We only get to see each other on weekends. Bringing her out..."
Chen Dong's smile faded, his tone flat, betraying little emotion. "Can't bring her out. It's not convenient for her."
"Damn you all, you really deserve to die!" Ma Mingfan, listening to them talk about their flirting business, had mentally checked out a while ago.
How can the gap between people be so huge?
Shen Nian could chat and laugh with all the girls in class, even eat meals with them.
Chen Dong has a childhood friend...
Who has never held a girl's hand since childhood? So hard to guess.
Ma Mingfan's resolve to train his willpower grew even firmer.
Extra training!
Besides watching "Candy Super Sweet," he would also eat two meals of Hualishi every weekend and then not go to the bathroom with a straight face until he absolutely couldn't hold it anymore.
“Keep it up, Naruto players will eventually find their own Hinata. This old man back in my hometown insisted on playing Naruto for an hour every day and finally met his female CEO when he was sixty,” Shen Nian patted Ma Mingfan's shoulder, comforting him.
"And then?"
"And then he bought thirty thousand yuan worth of health supplements from the female CEO, said they boosted brainpower so his reactions in Naruto would be faster."
"Haha, you bastard."
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rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
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?"
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."
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!"
