Xia Yanchun leaned against Shen Nian, comfortably watching two episodes of TV while Shen Nian rubbed her stomach for the duration of the two episodes.
His hands were strong and surprisingly comfortable; it wouldn't feel this good if she rubbed it herself.
Yawning, Xia Yanchun checked the time with a soft, sleepy expression.
It was already twelve o'clock.
"Are we going to sleep?"
"Let's watch one more episode. This is really good, I'm a bit hooked."
"You can watch until you fall asleep, we're already in bed anyway."
"Mhm..."
After powering through a whole episode, Xia Yanchun finally let Shen Nian turn off the laptop.
Next was sleep time.
Shen Nian moved his desk back to its original place, put the small table Xia Yanchun brought under the bed, carefully checked the bed for any snack crumbs, and then reached out to turn off the light.
There was still the faint sound of the TV outside; Shen Yue was still watching TV in the living room, while Xia Yanchun had already lain down.
After clarifying their relationship, Xia Yanchun no longer minded staying the night at Shen Nian's house. They used to sleep hugging each other every day when they were kids anyway, so what was the problem with spending a night here now?
They were boyfriend and girlfriend now, after all.
"Good night." Feeling relaxed and content, Xia Yanchun kissed Shen Nian on the neck.
"Good night." Shen Nian kissed her back on the forehead.
Before going to sleep, Shen Nian opened Ma Mingfan's QQ and realized that Ma Mingfan had sent him some more messages later on.
[Ma Mingfan]: Did you finish watching the video? Holy crap, you're on TV. This is huge, I'm telling you.
[Ma Mingfan]: My god.
It was obvious he was very surprised.
Not only was Ma Mingfan surprised, but Shen Nian was equally surprised. These reporters had just posted the interview video without asking for his permission. If they had at least blurred his face, he wouldn't have picked a bone with these TV stations.
However, precisely because they didn't blur his face, exposing him to the public eye, Shen Nian got the idea of monetizing the traffic.
Shen Nian replied to Ma Mingfan with a meme holding back laughter. Seeing that he didn't reply instantly, Shen Nian ignored it and clicked on the video again.
The phone automatically redirected to the video platform.
In just three short hours, the number of likes had surged from 12,000 to 116,000, and there were over 20,000 comments.
Right at the time when college entrance exam scores were being released, this kind of interview video of a high school graduate leaving the campus generated a lot of discussion.
Especially one who dared to say "guaranteed 140 points."
It wasn't like no one had said such things before. Everyone would think they were amazing, but then netizens would find the interviewee's information, and upon investigation, their scores wouldn't be as awesome as they claimed. Those who didn't know better would have thought they were some kind of top student.
There were too many cautionary tales of this sort.
Shen Nian could understand that, but he just couldn't understand some of the comments.
[High school boy, high school boy, fresh high school boy (crawls darkly) (indiscriminately eats high school boys) (wriggles)]
[Sisters, I think I'm a little bit in love.]
[This skin looks so beautiful to me.]
[Infusing Yongchu Taffy meow, Taffy thanks you meow...]
Shen Nian found it hard to hold back his cringe.
Forget it, forget it. The most pressing matter right now is sleeping with Chunbao.
The next day.
Shen Nian took a rare opportunity to go to the park early for a workout, casually running twenty kilometers.
The early morning wasn't very hot yet. After running twenty kilometers, Shen Nian only broke a slight sweat, and even his breathing was as steady as usual.
As long as it was jogging, he really could run all day.
Of course, treating an anaerobic run like an aerobic one was also doable. When the energy consumption got too high, he would slow down and wait for his stamina to recover before continuing anaerobically.
Muscle soreness naturally didn't exist; he had the self-massage healing down pat.
"You've been lazy lately, kid. Haven't seen you here in a while." The old man, who arrived relatively late, watched Shen Nian run his final two laps around the park before striking up a conversation.
"Can't be helped, I've been busy."
He really just didn't want to get up from the bed that had Chunbao in it. If Chunbao wasn't lying in the same bed with him, he would definitely come to work out every day.
Bad women make men degenerate.
"Looks like you found a part-time job." The old man smiled. "My grandson found a part-time job too."
"..." Shen Nian always felt like this old man wanted to curse at him. Good thing he didn't find a part-time job.
The old man was old in age but not in spirit. If he were fifty years younger, he would definitely have a place in Zaun as a legendary trash-talker.
No, Zaunites weren't this polite. My old man just likes to curse people subtly, what bad intentions could he have?
After chatting with the old man for a few sentences, Shen Nian jogged back to the residential area.
It wasn't even eight o'clock, and the breakfast shops were bustling. As the steamer baskets were lifted, plumes of hot steam rushed upward.
After exercising, Shen Nian was starving. He bought breakfast for three, but by the time he walked back to his neighborhood, he had already eaten his portion.
After taking a shower, Shen Yue happened to come out of her room, her hair messy and looking sleepy.
"Why are you taking a shower so early in the morning?"
"I went for a run. Who's as lazy as you?"
"Is that how you talk to your older sister? You're asking for a beating."
"I bought you breakfast. It's on the coffee table, don't mention it."
"At least you know what's good for you."
Having a disciplined younger brother was pretty nice. At the very least, she didn't have to make a special stop to buy breakfast on her way to work.
After brushing her teeth and washing her face, Shen Yue unhurriedly ate the century egg porridge Shen Nian had packed. Glancing at Shen Nian's tightly shut bedroom door, she seemed to think of something, and a playful expression spread across her face.
She lifted her chin toward the room. "Hey, is Little Chun in there? I didn't see her go back yesterday."
"No, she's not."
"Really not? Then I'm opening the door."
"Ugh, is there a hole in your brain?" Shen Nian hurriedly came back from the balcony. Honestly, he couldn't even hang up the laundry in peace.
What kind of good sister acted like this, making fun of her own brother every day?
"Hehehe, and you say she isn't. You're getting anxious," Shen Yue laughed teasingly.
Sure enough, they had started sleeping together ages ago, and Little Chun still didn't dare to admit it.
That was underestimating her smart and witty older sister too much.
Shen Yue wasn't just Shen Nian's older sister; she was also like an older sister to Xia Yanchun. The creature known as an older sister possessed a natural suppressive power over younger siblings.
Unable to show off for long, Shen Yue could only go off to work looking miserable.
Shen Nian wasn't in a hurry to return to his room. Instead, he sat in the living room for a while and reopened the video from last night.
Very good, the likes had already reached 180,000.
Five minutes later, Shen Nian refreshed it again. The likes had increased by another 1k. The popularity was still rising. If nothing unexpected happened, this video's views would surge again on the day the college entrance exam scores were released.
This was a good thing.
Unfortunately, it wasn't viral enough. If it brewed for another two days, he could go out and claim his identity.
Before claiming his identity, it would be best if someone could dig up his identity and make it public that he was the number one student in the Second High School's grade. That way, the hype would be even higher.
Shen Nian grinned foolishly and swiped his finger up, and the next video popped up.
Wait, why does this look so familiar?
Isn't this me?
It was another video from a blue-verified account. First, it forwarded a clip of the interview, then the camera cut to a host reading from a script...
"A young top student or a king of bragging? Recently, an interview video of a boy in Cinan City, Nanjiang Province, has sparked heated discussions among netizens because he predicted he would score 140 points in both major subjects, Chinese and Math..."
A very standard piece of internet news.
It was published an hour ago and already had tens of thousands of likes.
The invisible hand of the platform was exerting its power.
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
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.”
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.
pression Bureau] Transported to a fantasy world overrun by demons and monsters, Gu Qingfeng becomes a jailer in the Demon Suppression Prison of the Great Yan Dynasty's Demon Suppression Bureau. From this point on, bizarre cases frequently occur in the Demon Suppression Prison, once known as hell on earth and infamous for its gloomy, terrifying atmosphere! Why do the demons and monsters in the prison wail miserably every night? Why has the corpse demon, capable of transforming into various beauties, donned black stockings and switched careers to become a foot massage therapist? Why has the eye demon, expert in soul-snatching and illusions, turned into a VR headset? Why is the fox spirit performing otaku dances? Are all these occurrences a twisted expression of demonic nature, or a descent into moral depravity? After peeling away layer upon layer of mystery, all clues ultimately point to a jailer named Gu Qingfeng. Gu Qingfeng: "Hehehe... My dear demons and monsters, whose card shall we flip today?"
