Their lips parted, leaving a lingering thread of silver. Xia Yanchun's almond eyes were filled with affection as she flashed a wide, toothy smile at Shen Nian.
Shen Nian pinched her cheek and told her to get off him.
After lying there contentedly for a while, Xia Yanchun mustered her energy and dragged Shen Nian into doing a livestream with her.
It had been a while—time for a duo stream!
Naturally, they used her account for the stream. She figured she might as well use Shen Nian to drive some traffic to herself.
The afternoon stream wasn't just about solving academic problems. Most of the time, they were just chatting—talking about future plans, sharing streaming experiences, discussing how they used to study, and how she managed to hold the number one spot at Cinan No. 2 High School for so long...
Shen Nian's role was just to sit on the side and be a mascot.
Shen Nian just had to stand there to generate traffic. Her stream, which usually only had one or two thousand viewers, surged to over four thousand just because of his presence.
If they had posted a notification in Shen Nian's own stream, even more of his fans would have undoubtedly flooded in.
Over the two-hour stream, a few people subscribed to her channel, bringing her net revenue to barely over a thousand.
It was decent, but still a far cry from what Shen Nian pulled in.
For Shen Nian, the income from monthly auto-renewing subscriptions alone was a substantial sum.
Xia Yanchun could cry from the sheer envy.
"Hmph," the frustrated girl grunted, poking Shen Nian with her elbow. "I want to eat braised pork ribs tonight."
"If you want to eat it, can't you make it yourself?"
"..."
Heh, other people's boyfriends only showed their true colors after getting married. Hers was already acting like this before he had even proposed. After marriage, he probably wouldn't even let her eat at the table.
Xia Yanchun felt a sense of sorrow. What exactly did marriage bring to women?
Shen Nian relented in the end. By evening, he dragged Xia Yanchun to the market, bought two pounds of ribs, and cooked them for her.
With culinary skills that had long reached the level of a restaurant chef, Shen Nian barely had to try. A fresh batch of braised pork ribs, supposedly good for beauty and skin, was served straight from the pot.
"This is so good!" Xia Yanchun used a toothpick to pick up a small piece and popped it into her mouth, her almond eyes sparkling.
"With a boyfriend as gentle and sweet as me, what time would you come home?"
"I wouldn't even leave the house."
"I'll give you points for sweet-talking," Shen Nian grinned, showing his teeth.
It couldn't be helped; being a gentle guy was just like that.
Could his 98% eccentricity really negate his 2% gentleness?
They had to wait for Shen Yue to come back before eating dinner together. After dinner, Xia Yanchun dragged Shen Nian downstairs for a walk to digest their food.
At seven o'clock in winter, the sky was already dark. The streetlights flickered on, but even in the dead of night, the city rarely quieted down.
The rain had stopped around three or four in the afternoon. Although there was no bright sun, a strong east wind was blowing. In just a few hours, the pavement and roads were already half dry.
Xia Yanchun seemed to be in a great mood, swinging Shen Nian's hand back and forth as she held it.
"Without realizing it, I fell in love with him, trying to find a way to express it, where is my courage~"
"..."
"Casting aside those most romantic words, I just want to melt all the coldness for you~"
Shen Nian gave a fake smile.
Listening to someone tone-deaf sing was a unique kind of entertainment.
Her voice was actually quite pleasant, but when she started singing, it was an indiscriminate sonic attack on everyone around her. That was the problem.
Sometimes, Shen Nian really wanted to suggest that Xia Yanchun take vocal lessons. It didn't matter if she tortured him with her singing in the future, but she shouldn't torture their future kids.
After painfully enduring an entire tone-deaf song, Shen Nian couldn't hold back anymore. "Let's go buy something to eat up ahead."
"I came down here to digest. If you want to eat, buy it yourself."
"I mainly just want to stuff your mouth. Your singing is too damn awful."
Xia Yanchun furrowed her delicate brows, angrily kicked Shen Nian, and said fiercely, "You're not gentle at all."
"Honest advice is hard to hear, Xia Yanchun. You can't let yourself be blinded by sweet talk."
"I'll hit you, I'll hit you." Xia Yanchun couldn't be bothered to argue with him. She didn't care about honest advice or sweet talk; she only knew that Shen Nian had insulted her. This was an unbearable weight in her life, and she wouldn't feel right until she kicked him.
Neither of them had showered yet anyway.
And so, Shen Nian's pants gained two dirty footprints.
Xia Yanchun had a typical internet mindset, and Shen Nian was too lazy to criticize her for it.
After strolling around the neighborhood and feeling less full, Xia Yanchun leaned closer to Shen Nian, shifting from holding his hand to linking arms and pressing herself against him.
She loved this. Leaning against Shen Nian felt so incredibly comfortable.
Even before they had made their relationship official, she used to lean against him like this on the bus ride back to their town.
Thinking back carefully, she had been so bold back then. Even though she had never considered spending the rest of her life with Shen Nian, she still engaged in all sorts of ambiguous behavior with him...
Xia Yanchun felt bashful and stopped herself from thinking further. Neither she nor Shen Nian had partners back then, and they had known each other since childhood. What was the big deal about leaning on him a bit!
"Should we head back?"
"Okay, okay. Let's go back, take a shower, and laze in bed together until tomorrow morning."
"No way, I have to do my homework later!"
"Damn it, can't you do it faster? I finish my homework the moment the teacher assigns it."
"Wow, Student Shen Nian is so amazing. You're the absolute best, okay?!"
"Guaranteed, guaranteed. I'm the most badass little sheep."
"..."
Xia Yanchun's mouth twitched. Thankfully, there was no one around, otherwise she would have abandoned Shen Nian right there and gone home alone. He was too embarrassing.
...
The maiden of winter rose from the very tail end of the year and gently flipped past the first few thin pages of the new year.
The biting, crisp wind blew at a leisurely pace, slipping into the gaps of their idle chatter, blowing away all their gloom, and sweeping time away inch by inch.
Studying and exams took up almost the entire day. Shen Nian always felt like he was rushing through his days; before he even realized it, winter break had arrived.
"I'm so scared of failing a class... boohoo."
Hearing the murmurs of the classmates around her, Xia Yanchun flipped her hair, glanced around the classroom, and cheerfully skipped over to Li Shiyan.
"How did it go?"
"Hm? It was fine, not too hard."
"I thought so too. Let's go, let's go, we'll have Shen Nian give you a ride home later."
"No need to go to the trouble. I don't have much luggage anyway, I'll just take a cab back."
Li Shiyan smiled, her eyes curving into crescents. Being an off-campus student was so convenient; she didn't even need to pack to go home.
"Oh, I see. That works then. Hehe, let's go eat hotpot in a few days and make Shen Nian treat us!"
"Hehe, I've been hitching rides with you guys for so long in college, I should be the one treating."
"Oh, why are you keeping such clear tabs? I'll check tonight to see which day we can go. Come on, we'll at least drop you off at the school gate!"
"Mhm!"
Xia Yanchun found Shen Nian, who was already waiting on the side, linked arms with him, and walked out of the classroom together. Li Shiyan quickly followed behind them.
She felt like a little sidekick.
But then again, being a little sidekick wasn't so bad. In a way, she had witnessed nearly four years of Shen Nian and Xia Yanchun's romance!
Watching Shen Nian and Xia Yanchun being so affectionate left her feeling satisfied. They were just too adorable to ship, simply too sweet.
This kind of bickering young couple was the absolute best to ship.
ng to die together with you." Lin Xuan is dead, his body thrown into the river by his scumbag lover and her accomplice. She, the president of the Su Group, is decisive, ruthless, and ice-cold. For three days and three nights, she had his body fished out of the river, and without hesitation, she kissed the bloated corpse of Lin Xuan. She laid down beside him in a cold coffin, their fingers intertwined, a smile lingering on her lips as she closed her eyes. The noble and cold-hearted woman, only bending for one man—Lin Xuan. Lin Xuan, with his golden finger, is reborn and returns to the day of his wedding to the treacherous woman. Su Qiang comes to steal the bride. Lin Xuan's eyes light up, eager to pledge his loyalty on the spot, but instead, her kiss transfers a glass of drugged wine into his mouth, causing him to pass out... 【Male Protagonist with Single Female Lead】【Yandere Tycoon】【Action-Packed】【True vs. Fake Heir】
] This is a dark fantasy-themed dating simulation game. The main gameplay involves containing various monster girls and investigating the truth of a world shrouded in mist alongside your companions. However, due to his love for the dark and bizarre atmosphere, Luo Wei ended up turning a dating game into a detective mystery game. Women? Women only slow down his quickdraw! To Luo Wei, the female leads in the game are more like tools to perfectly clear levels and squeeze out rewards. For Luo Wei, flirting with every girl he meets and then discarding them is standard procedure. Worried about characters losing affection points? No need. With his maxed-out charm stat, Luo Wei is practically a "human incubus." A little psychological manipulation and those points come right back. It's a bit scummy, but the paper cutout heroines in the game won't actually come at him with real cleavers. However... Luo Wei has transmigrated. He's accidentally entered the second playthrough of this game. His past actions have caused all the girls to transform into terrifying yanderes. Due to the game's setting, most of the heroines he once contained are "troubled girls." Obsessive, twisted, mentally unstable, all aggressive yanderes... The type who will kill you if they can't have you... Luo Wei wants to cry but has no tears left. "I really just want to survive..." In short, this is a story of battling wits and engaging in a love-hate relationship with yanderes.
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!
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?"
