Shen Nian generously treated them to lunch outside.
Naturally, they didn't get to take a nap. Following the principle of convenience, Xia Yanchun dragged Shen Nian to a nearby supermarket to buy some daily necessities like hangers, bamboo mats, and buckets, putting them all into their respective single dormitories.
Although they might not necessarily live there, these daily necessities still needed to be prepared.
The single dormitories were in the international students' building, so the environment was naturally top-notch. There was a bedroom and a small living room, fully equipped with air conditioning and the like. After arranging the daily necessities, it looked just like a hotel room that cost a couple of hundred bucks a night.
Even for single dormitories, there was a gender division. Shen Nian and Xia Yanchun's single dorms were not in the same building, which completely dispelled Shen Nian's idea of taking a nap together with Xia Yanchun in the single dorm.
Washing the bamboo mats, hanging them out to dry, sweeping the floor... by the time they finished all this, it was already afternoon.
Xia Yanchun and Li Shiyan waved goodbye at the school gate and headed to their respective homes.
"Shiyan and I have already made plans. Tomorrow, she and I are going out to stroll around the campus and the mall, so you'll be home alone."
Xia Yanchun hugged Shen Nian's waist from behind, burying her small face in his back. When he was driving, she loved doing this. If she wasn't talking, she would secretly trace the word 'idiot' on Shen Nian's back.
"Go ahead, then I'll just focus on playing games tomorrow." Shen Nian nodded.
"Mhm, ugh, I'm a bit sleepy. Let's take a nap together when we get back..."
"I originally wanted to stream and earn a few thousand bucks, but it looks like I'll just have to sacrifice myself." Shen Nian bared his teeth and said, "Chunbao, keeping you company for a nap costs me thousands. In this world, who else but me would be so willing to part with that?"
"... Give it a rest."
It was a very common PUA rhetoric; Xia Yanchun was tired of saying it herself, let alone hearing Shen Nian say it.
When she and Shen Nian were together, neither of them said these kinds of things any less... Although it was completely useless anyway. Shen Nian was a shrewd guy and couldn't possibly be fooled by such words, and the same went for her.
They were arch-rivals with eight hundred hidden agendas.
It was a safe trip all the way.
Upon returning home, Xia Yanchun went to wash her face and rinsed her feet with warm water for a while. Before Shen Nian arrived, she ran into his house first.
She wanted to take today's nap on Shen Nian's side.
Shen Nian had just come out of the bathroom and happened to see a certain someone's back heading towards the bedroom.
"What wind blew the sweet and beautiful girl Haji Chun over here?"
"I sensed that you were thinking about me, so I came over." Xia Yanchun threw herself onto the bed, hugging Shen Nian's pillow and humming.
"Uh, okay, I was thinking about you, alright."
"Hurry up, hurry up, I'm sleepy."
"You're so impatient, but I'm not in a rush." Shen Nian put on the appearance of a decent man.
Those who didn't know better would think he was Tang Sanzang, who stayed away from feminine charms.
"Then I'll go back to my house to sleep." Xia Yanchun puffed out her cheeks.
"Coming, coming. I really can't do anything about you."
"Hmph, I was wondering how long you could pretend."
"What are you mumbling about? I can't understand. Let me touch your legs."
"No way." Xia Yanchun shrank into the blanket.
Watching Shen Nian close the bedroom door, Xia Yanchun helped him adjust his pillow. When Shen Nian lay down, she draped the small blanket over him.
The air conditioner had just been turned on, and the room hadn't cooled down yet. Feeling hot, Shen Nian threw the blanket off again.
To be honest, he had sweat a bit while tidying up the single dorm in the afternoon. Now that he hadn't showered, even if Xia Yanchun called him smelly, he wouldn't retort.
If it were Xia Yanchun's room, she probably wouldn't let him get on the bed without a shower, but there weren't so many rules for his own room.
Shen Nian buried his nose into the young girl's neck, sniffed, and smiled faintly. "Didn't you sweat when tidying up the dorm? You're so amazing."
"Shiyan and I took our time doing it together, so it was okay, not too hot."
"How's the environment in your dorm?"
"Pretty good, I even took pictures... Look." Xia Yanchun raised her hand to grab her phone and showed the pictures she took to Shen Nian.
"Looks like they're all the same. My side looks like this too."
"Mhm, I'll send the pictures I took to you now."
"Alright, when we wake up, let's each post an update to tell our fans that we got into Nanjiang University, hehe."
"I think you just want to show off our affection."
"You know and you still ask. Haji Chun, you..."
Xia Yanchun didn't blame Shen Nian either. Showing off affection was nothing unusual. Didn't those celebrities and internet influencers officially announce it on Weibo when they fell in love? Not to mention, her relationship with Shen Nian had never been a secret.
With her frequent guest appearances in his stream and their matching ID templates, who couldn't guess it?
Speaking of IDs, it made her angry. Shen Nian had previously asked her to change it to 'Airborne Enemy Madam Xia', but she didn't agree. As a result, a couple of days ago, she saw an ID named 'Airborne Enemy Madam Xia' pop up in the stream, which infuriated her.
She strongly suspected it was Shen Nian's alt account.
In addition to that, there were all sorts of others, like 'Peerless Senior Sister Zhang', 'Second in the World Senior Brother Xia', 'Supreme Overlord Hero Shen'. At first, it was just the beginning, but now there were more and more IDs using this template, like a gang.
And she and Shen Nian were the gang leaders.
"Aren't you going to sleep?" Shen Nian twirled a strand of Xia Yanchun's hair. Seeing her lying still with her eyes open, he asked curiously, "What are you thinking about?"
"Nothing, going to sleep now."
Xia Yanchun shook the thoughts out of her head, snuggled into Shen Nian's embrace, and tilted her head up to kiss his lips.
Already planning to drift into dreamland, Xia Yanchun closed her eyes and nestled in comfortably.
She hadn't changed clothes when she got home and was still wearing the little strawberry dress from before she went out. Because she was wriggling around under the blanket, the hem of her dress inevitably rode up a bit.
Although Shen Nian couldn't see the young girl's fair thighs, he could feel their smooth and warm softness through his palm.
His hand was very restless.
"Mhm..." Xia Yanchun's small face flushed red in an instant, and she buried herself deeper into Shen Nian's embrace.
Because of shyness, the wide-awake girl only dared to let out soft, charming murmurs against his chest. It was a tacit consent, an indulgence, a small submission hidden within resistance, and a small resistance hidden within submission.
The girl nestled in his arms could feel the increasingly clear heartbeats—Shen Nian's, and her own... so fast, so fast.
...
Xia Yanchun hid in the bathroom, feeling bashful. She felt a bit awful, both clumsy and flustered, rustling about to clean up for several minutes before she dared to come out.
She was glad they hadn't slept in her room, otherwise it would have been even worse.
Coming out of the bathroom, Xia Yanchun hadn't yet snapped out of a certain state, a trace of unusual color lingering on her cheeks.
She had clearly intended to take a comfortable nap...
Shen Nian had already thrown the bedsheets into the washing machine and was spreading out new sheets he had just taken from the closet.
Having been stored for a long time, the sheets had a closet smell, but fortunately, they were clean. Shen Nian had taken them out and washed them together with his clothes before returning to the town.
"Are... are we still sleeping?" Shen Nian caught a glimpse of Xia Yanchun at the door, scratched his head, and didn't quite know what to say.
"Let's... let's sleep?"
"Alright, come on."
Xia Yanchun's movements were noticeably much smaller, like a mischievous child who had been taught a lesson and was now behaving.
Temporarily.
Usually, she was the one helping Shen Nian, but being helped by Shen Nian once today, why did it feel a bit embarrassing...?
Xia Yanchun didn't even dare to recall it, her mind feeling stuffy.
Shen Nian was even more well-behaved than Xia Yanchun, simply holding her in his arms without a single stray thought.
Just kidding. Human beings can never lose their curiosity.
"Chunbao..."
"Go to sleep. Stop talking," Xia Yanchun murmured softly.
"How did it feel just now?"
"!"
Xia Yanchun viciously pinched Shen Nian's lower abdomen. She couldn't pinch through his abs, but twisting the skin on his lower belly was enough to leave him hurting for a good while.
Shen Nian's face contorted. "Hiss—"
"Sleep! If you keep blabbering, I'll snap your fingers off."
"Alright, alright, I'm going to sleep..."
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.”
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?"
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
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.
