Taking the high-speed rail, compared to the subway and the bus, was quite comfortable.
It took three hours to get out of town. She hadn't rested for long at home before coming out to catch the high-speed rail. Fortunately, the high-speed rail was relatively comfortable, otherwise Xia Yanchun wouldn't have been able to handle it.
Xia Yanchun was already leaning softly against Shen Nian, listening to music. They shared a pair of Bluetooth earphones, and her hand was pulled into Shen Nian's embrace, letting him caress it to his heart's content.
Their destination was Minghai City, a fourth-tier city in the neighboring province. Minghai City wasn't as developed as Cinan and didn't even have a subway. However, there was a local beach used for tourism. Whenever the sun set, the beach and the shallow sea would be dyed a brilliant golden color, hence it was called Minghai Golden Beach. Many people came to visit every year, making it a landmark of Minghai City.
The locals had also opened a comprehensive commercial street around the Golden Beach, complete with food, drinks, entertainment, and accommodation. During the peak tourist season, it was packed with people at all hours.
It was currently the summer vacation. Adults had to work, and students had just started their break. Traveling at this time meant avoiding the peak crowds, which was also within Xia Yanchun's considerations.
It was a leisurely journey. After passing through a long tunnel, the view outside the window was already filled with a continuous stretch of fiery sunset clouds.
It was already five in the afternoon when they arrived in Minghai City.
The high-speed rail arrived at the station. The great Sister Chun didn't need Shen Nian's help to take down her heavy luggage.
"Ouch, I'm tired just from sitting." After getting off the train, Xia Yanchun reached back to massage her lower back. Riding in a vehicle was physical labor; sitting for a few hours really made one dizzy and blurry-eyed, wishing to fall asleep immediately.
"Weak." Shen Nian wasn't tired at all, though he did feel a bit bored. If he didn't have Xia Yanchun's little hand to relieve his boredom, he definitely would have come out looking like a resentful wife too.
"Hmph." Xia Yanchun didn't want to talk to him and ran to the back to walk with Li Shiyan and Shen Yue.
Everyone pulled their luggage together, huddling close and chatting away. As if reaching some kind of tacit agreement, no one paid attention to Shen Nian.
Shen Nian clicked his tongue. Female cliques were indeed terrifyingly formidable. They could even ostracize their best rival, their best younger brother, their strictest fa... classmate. Shen Nian didn't even dare to imagine how they were cursing him in private.
They exited the station together, hailed a Didi ride at the bus pavilion, and breezily headed toward their pre-booked hotel.
The hotel was booked near the Golden Beach. Even though it wasn't the peak tourist season, the hotel rates were surprisingly high. A single room was two hundred and eighty yuan, and a twin room cost four hundred yuan.
Xia Yanchun wasn't treating them. Shen Yue, as the only working adult among the four, took the initiative to bear the bulk of the expenses. Shen Yue had already covered half the cost of the rooms, and the remaining half was split equally among the three kids.
Xia Yanchun had booked two twin rooms for two days. The hotel booking alone cost a whole lot of money.
Traveling burned a lot of money, except for budget traveling.
By the time they reached the hotel, the sky had gradually darkened.
Xia Yanchun communicated with the hotel reception, got the room cards for the two rooms, and went upstairs.
The hotel was very clean and had aromatherapy diffusers, making the whole room smell fragrant. Xia Yanchun walked around and was quite satisfied. Pulling open the curtains, she could even catch a glimpse of the Golden Beach not far away.
It was just a pity that it was a bit late now; she still wanted to see if the Golden Beach was really that golden.
Xia Yanchun had agreed with Li Shiyan in advance: she and Shen Nian would share one room, while Li Shiyan and Shen Yue would share the other.
Since they had already confessed to each other, wouldn't it be a waste of a confession if they didn't blatantly stay together?
"Woohoo, so comfortable." Shen Nian had already lain down on the bed.
"Aren't you going to organize your things? Honestly." Xia Yanchun puffed her cheeks and looked at him. "Do you know what the first thing to do when staying in a hotel is?"
"I know, take off your shoes first."
"Idiot, check for hidden cameras first!"
"Places focused on tourism like this usually crack down hard on those things. There shouldn't be any."
"I'll know whether there are any once I look." Xia Yanchun hummed, took her phone, and entered the bathroom. Following the hidden camera detection methods online, she checked the bathroom and toilet inside and out.
After confirming there were no problems, she ran next door to help them check.
Shen Nian also went to the bathroom to take a look. Upon entering the Focus state, his perception would be greatly enhanced. He was confident he could find even the almost imperceptible light of a hidden camera. However, even in the Focus state, he didn't find a trace of a camera. After confirming there was nothing inside or out, he also ran next door...
Just as he thought, he found nothing. In a place that heavily relies on tourism, if hidden cameras were exposed, the impact would undoubtedly be massive, so this aspect was definitely taken very seriously.
"I'm hungry. Let's order some takeout. What do you guys want to eat?" Shen Nian said calmly.
The four of them were squeezed into the same room, so ordering takeout meant they didn't have to run back and forth.
"Just order me a random rice dish, but no pork trotter rice."
"The vast majority of workers love eating pork trotter rice, and you actually look down on it. I don't even dare to imagine what you're thinking."
"Keep babbling and I'll kick you." Xia Yanchun was left speechless. Those who didn't know better would think Shen Nian came from a hat factory, always putting labels on her at the drop of a hat.
"Ahem..." Shen Nian cleared his throat and looked at Li Shiyan and Shen Yue. "What about you two?"
"I'll have the same as Little Chun..." Li Shiyan's voice was soft and sweet.
"I'll have the same as Shiyan." Shen Yue's voice was righteous; who would stand on ceremony with their own younger brother?
Since all three ordered the same thing, Shen Nian automatically followed suit and ordered four portions of braised pork rice.
The trip would only officially begin tomorrow. They were very tired today and needed to rest and recharge. After eating dinner, Xia Yanchun grabbed her clothes and prepared to take a shower.
When she saw the layout of the bathroom clearly, her world collapsed.
"Shen Nian!"
"What's wrong?"
"Look at this, it can actually be pulled open!" Xia Yanchun pointed at the bathroom wall, speaking gloomily.
Rather than a bathroom, it was more like a glass viewing tank. What kind of genius designer replaced one wall of the bathroom with glass? There was only a small curtain-like panel acting as a partition, and to make matters worse, the partition was translucent.
"What's the problem with that?" Shen Nian pinched his chin. "If you pull the partition down inside, the most I can see from the outside are your feet."
"That's still really weird..." Xia Yanchun gave him a dead-fish stare. "You wash first."
"Tch, fine, I'll wash."
Shen Nian was treated as a guinea pig by Xia Yanchun.
Shen Nian went in and happily took his shower, while Xia Yanchun watched from the bed. Actually, it wasn't as bad as she had imagined. Although the partition was translucent, she could only see a very blurry dark shadow moving around inside, as if it had two layers of mosaic censorship applied to it. She could only see Shen Nian's two feet stepping around.
It was definitely still really weird.
Xia Yanchun couldn't help but inwardly complain about the hotel designer's sick sense of humor.
"Hey, hey, hey, can you see me?" As if thinking of something, Shen Nian waved at her from inside, and the dark shadow moved along with him.
"I can see you, just hurry up and wash!"
"Alright, I'm going to look at yours later too."
"..."
Her fists hardened; she wanted to hit someone.
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.”
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?"
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?"
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!"
