The heart of a woman is as deep and unfathomable as the ocean.
Even a young girl is no exception—one moment she’s shedding tears, and the next, she’s happily sipping on her snowflake dew drink.
"Your ability to self-regulate is terrifyingly impressive," Long Aotian said with a chuckle.
"Do you want to see me cry, Brother Long?" Hu Yuying asked seriously, her voice soft as she looked at him.
"Little girl, you’ve got the nerve to tease your big brother now. Have I been too lenient with you lately?"
Seeing Long Aotian clench his fist, Hu Yuying obediently held her snowflake dew drink, pretending to be scared. "No, I was wrong, Brother Long."
Long Aotian grabbed her by the back of her neck, and Hu Yuying shrank back, looking up at him with pleading eyes. "Brother Long..."
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"Damn it, damn it, damn it!" On the other side, Ye Liangchen, who had been secretly observing the scene, felt his heart bleeding. Yet, there was nothing he could do but silently rage.
Though he couldn’t hear what Long Aotian and Hu Yuying were saying, he could see Long Aotian’s clenched fist and the way he gripped Hu Yuying’s neck...
"That despicable Long Aotian! You’re toying with someone I’ve dreamed of having, someone I consider a treasure!"
At this moment, Ye Liangchen let out a bitter laugh. Despite how Hu Yuying had treated him, seeing her like this still pained him—truly pained him.
He had once thought he could harden his heart. He had once believed that Hu Yuying’s current situation was the consequence of her not choosing him.
But now, it seemed he couldn’t bring himself to be so ruthless after all. "I guess I’m still a kind-hearted person," he sighed softly.
"By now, you must realize what kind of person Long Aotian is, right?"
"He’ll only drag you down, while I can pull you out of the darkness."
Suddenly, Ye Liangchen’s eyes lit up.
He saw Hu Yuying get up and leave the stall.
Seeing this, Ye Liangchen quickly followed her.
Long Aotian, that beast, had been keeping Hu Yuying too close, not allowing anyone, including him, to approach her. But now, this was a perfect opportunity.
With this thought, Ye Liangchen narrowed his eyes, exuding a cold, snake-like aura. "Since you don’t know how to cherish her, don’t blame me for stealing her away and cuckolding you!"
After saying this, Ye Liangchen straightened his clothes, took a detour, and headed in the direction Hu Yuying had gone.
It was the public restroom.
Once there, Ye Liangchen leaned against the wall outside the restroom, tilting his head at a 45-degree angle, exuding an air of loneliness and melancholy.
Soon, a graceful figure emerged from the restroom.
Ye Liangchen’s lips curled into a charming smile as he called out softly, "Yuying."
Hearing her name, Hu Yuying turned her head. When she saw it was Ye Liangchen, she ignored him and walked away.
Ye Liangchen chuckled softly. He believed that Hu Yuying’s reaction was due to her feeling inferior in the face of his mature and confident demeanor!
If she had chosen him back then, she wouldn’t have ended up selling goods at a street stall with Long Aotian.
He hurried after her. "Hu Yuying, to be honest, I had given up on my savior complex, but seeing you like this, I’ve decided to redeem you after all."
"Your life shouldn’t be like this. It should be radiant and dazzling."
Ye Liangchen grew more and more impassioned as he spoke, as if he could already see the confident, elegant business goddess of his dreams...
"Only I, only by being with me, can I save and redeem you. Only then can you reach the pinnacle of life and become a business goddess admired by all..."
Hu Yuying stopped in her tracks, the disgust in her eyes impossible to hide. "Ye Liangchen, we’re not close at all. I don’t know what makes you think I’m living a miserable life."
"I want to tell you that I’m fine, really fine. You don’t need to redeem me. Go save someone else, okay?"
Brother Long once said that a person’s life should be lived for themselves, not by clinging to others.
Everyone will carve out their own path.
If her success had to depend on Ye Liangchen, then she’d rather not have that kind of life at all!
Ye Liangchen was stunned, his eyes filled with disbelief. "What... what did you say? Do you even know what you’re saying?"
"Long Aotian is like a pile of mud. If you stay with him, you’ll end up covered in filth. That kind of life has no future."
"Do you really want to live a hard life with Long Aotian forever?"
"Don’t you want a refined life? Living in a multi-million-dollar villa, driving luxury cars at your leisure? You could be picky too, you know."
As he spoke, Ye Liangchen stared intently at Hu Yuying, afraid he might miss even the slightest change in her expression. "And I can help you achieve all of that."
Hu Yuying smiled. In the sunlight, her smile was breathtakingly beautiful.
Seeing this, Ye Liangchen’s heart raced. "So, you’re willing to be with me..."
Before he could finish, Hu Yuying cut him off.
"You’re wrong."
Ye Liangchen was taken aback. "What? What do you mean?"
"Long Aotian isn’t mud. To me, he surpasses everything in this world."
"And as for you, in my eyes, you’re utterly unworthy. At least Long Aotian never badmouths others behind their backs."
With that, Hu Yuying smiled sweetly. "If I ever needed redemption, I think I’ve already found my light."
Hu Yuying was a timid person, and these were words she could never say to Long Aotian’s face.
"Stop following me. I really don’t like you, and I especially hate the way you look at me."
With that, Hu Yuying walked toward the light, knowing that someone who truly cared for her was waiting ahead.
Someone who believed she was worth it.
"You’ll regret this," Ye Liangchen said darkly as he watched Hu Yuying walk away.
But Hu Yuying didn’t respond. Instead, she quickened her pace, as if silently telling Ye Liangchen that she had no regrets...
"Why? Why is this happening? I was only trying to guide you back to the right path. I only wanted to save you," Ye Liangchen muttered to himself as he watched Hu Yuying’s retreating figure.
After a long while, his gaze grew increasingly cold. "If you’re determined to wallow in the mud, then I won’t waste my time on you anymore."
"In my dream from my past life, I was the one who accompanied you, and that’s why you achieved success. But in this life, without me, I want to see if you can still succeed."
He could already imagine Long Aotian’s irresponsible behavior.
He could already picture Hu Yuying, who should have been shining brightly in college, now haggard and pregnant, struggling to take care of Long Aotian.
"I’ll prove to you just how wrong your choice was."
"From the moment you saw Long Aotian as the light in your dark life, you’ve already lost!"
Despite his words, Ye Liangchen couldn’t let go. He truly couldn’t accept it!
"Damn it! Long Aotian is just a scoundrel who forced himself on you. Just because he took your body, you’d rather choose a loser like him over me?"
"You’re such a fool. Long Aotian doesn’t deserve you!"
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
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.”
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!
ine. During your journey, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her elder brother】 【You rely on each other, becoming each other's support】 【At the end of the simulation, you shield the now-grown girl with your life, sacrificing yourself to block numerous demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in the girl's eyes fades】 …… 【Second Simulation: You are transported to a world where steam and magic coexist】 【You immerse yourself in the study of magic, obsessed with its research. One day, while out, you encounter a half-blooded demon girl wandering the streets. You take her in as your student】 【You teach the demoness what it means to be human, show her the beauty of the world, and nurture her into a miracle that surpasses even the gods】 【At the end of the simulation, you die of old age in front of the nearly immortal demoness due to your mortal lifespan】 …… One simulation after another, one encounter after another. Xu Xi suddenly felt something was off: "Wait, you said you're coming to the real world to find me?"
