Hu Yuying looked at Long Aotian seriously: "Brother Long, I know what you want to say. Look at me, just look at me. I'm not the pushover I used to be anymore."
"I really have been changing."
As she spoke, Hu Yuying mimicked Long Aotian's posture, leaning back on the chair, her gaze lifting slightly to the night sky: "After meeting you, Brother Long, I've grown stronger."
"If I'm not wrong, I won't fall into self-doubt. No matter who tries to label me, that's not who I am."
"The me in their eyes isn't me. The me in my own eyes is who I truly am."
"I haven't done anything wrong. No matter who says harsh words to me, it only proves what kind of person they are, not a fraction of who I am."
Long Aotian listened to Hu Yuying's words, a faint smile unconsciously curling at the corners of his lips.
So she remembered. So she had never truly forgotten.
He had been worrying for nothing. Hu Yuying was far stronger and more resolute than he had imagined. It was a good thing.
Hu Yuying pursed her lips, her eyes lowering as she stole a glance at Long Aotian: "I will love myself without reservation. I am better than anyone else..."
"Because I am worthy in your eyes, Brother Long, I will move forward courageously."
Seeing the smile on Long Aotian's face, Hu Yuying's heart shouted: "Thinking of how much you care for me, how could I not strive to be excellent? I've finally grasped the light; how could I dare to give up halfway..."
But the timid Hu Yuying only dared to shout these words in her heart.
Because she also felt that such words sounded too ambiguous.
The age of eighteen is beautiful, and the crush of an eighteen-year-old is heart-fluttering.
Hu Yuying, at eighteen, touched her beating heart, seemingly delighted by the innocent love of her youth.
"Not bad, not bad. The little girl has grown up," Long Aotian said with deep satisfaction.
"I was already grown up, okay?" Hu Yuying protested, feeling that Long Aotian always treated her like a child. She was already eighteen, no longer a kid.
The two of them fell silent after that, both looking up at the starry sky.
The moon was full tonight, and the stars were exceptionally bright.
......
The day to check the exam results arrived.
Long Aotian took Hu Yuying to an internet café.
"Relax, look how nervous you are," Long Aotian teased, amused by Hu Yuying's tense demeanor.
"But I can't help it," she replied.
"Don't be nervous. You're such a good student; if you're nervous, you're making me nervous too."
"Okay, I won't be nervous, and you shouldn't be either," Hu Yuying said softly.
Little did he know, most of Hu Yuying's nervousness stemmed from Long Aotian himself.
Taking a deep breath, Long Aotian entered Hu Yuying's information first.
688.
Seeing the score, Long Aotian immediately jumped up, as if he himself had achieved such a high score.
"688 points! 688 points! That's 28 points above the admission line for University A! Hu Yuying, you're amazing!"
In contrast, Hu Yuying's reaction was surprisingly calm.
While Long Aotian was celebrating, Hu Yuying took a deep breath to suppress the trembling in her heart and entered Long Aotian's information.
"Yes! 518 points! Brother Long, you scored 518 points!" Hu Yuying's nervousness instantly turned into excitement.
She hugged Long Aotian's arm, her voice trembling with joy, clearly overwhelmed by the thrill of the moment.
Long Aotian was momentarily stunned.
Seeing Hu Yuying's ecstatic expression, the noisy internet café seemed to fade into the background, as if the entire world was illuminated by her happiness.
"This is great, this is great! Brother Long, we can both go to Capital City together..."
After her burst of joy, Hu Yuying noticed Long Aotian staring at her in a daze. She waved her small hand in front of his face: "Brother Long, we can go to Capital City together."
"That's right, I can go to Capital City too," Long Aotian snapped out of his trance, his energy and excitement returning. "I can attend University T! I must be the luckiest guy alive, haha..."
Without caring that Hu Yuying was still holding his arm, he happily ruffled her hair, messing it up.
Hu Yuying didn't mind her disheveled hair. She looked up at Long Aotian seriously: "Brother Long, it's not luck. You earned this with your hard work."
The intense training sessions had drained even someone as energetic as Long Aotian, so it wasn't just luck.
"Right, right. Today's a happy day. Brother Long will treat you to something delicious."
"Don't hold back, eat to your heart's content!"
......
This day was destined to be one of joy for some and sorrow for others.
"No! I can't accept this!" Ye Liangchen stared at the score on the computer screen, gripping his hair in despair, clearly unable to come to terms with what he saw.
Not just Ye Liangchen.
Even Father Ye and Ye's Mother were in disbelief.
129 points?
This had to be a joke.
"Liangchen, is this a mistake?" Father Ye was the first to react, asking hesitantly.
Ye's Mother's expression also darkened as she recalled boasting to the neighbors just a few days ago. Now, she felt nothing but shame.
Both parents turned their gaze to Ye Liangchen.
Feeling their eyes on him, Ye Liangchen clenched his fists tightly: "I've been targeted. Someone must have targeted me."
The college entrance exam was a life-changing event for their child, and the parents were deeply concerned.
They immediately decided to call the school.
Ye's Mother acted so quickly that Ye Liangchen couldn't stop her.
As a teacher, the homeroom teacher took the possibility of a scoring error seriously. Although she didn't have a favorable impression of Ye's Mother, Ye Liangchen was still her student.
After checking the score, the homeroom teacher confirmed Ye Liangchen's result.
"How could it be 129 points? Are you sure you didn't make a mistake? Six subjects! My son isn't an idiot; how could he only score 129 points?"
The words were spoken without malice, but they struck a nerve.
Ye Liangchen's face turned green upon hearing this.
The homeroom teacher had no choice. Official scores were rarely incorrect.
She advised Ye's Mother that if they had doubts, they could bring Ye Liangchen's ID and exam admission ticket to the education examination center for a score review.
Father Ye and Ye's Mother immediately prepared to have their son's score reviewed, continuously comforting him: "Son, it's okay. Mom and Dad will take you to have your score checked!"
Ye Liangchen remained silent, his head lowered. Father Ye and Ye's Mother called his name twice, but he didn't respond.
Just as Father Ye was about to pull him up, Ye Liangchen raised his head, his face streaked with tears: "Are you trying to push me to my death?"
Hearing this, Father Ye and Ye's Mother were stunned. Their frantic hearts suddenly calmed: "Sweetheart, what's wrong? Mom and Dad only want the best for you. How could we ever harm you?"
"For my own good? If people find out about this 129-point score, how will they look at me?"
"Just thinking about how they'll look at me, how they'll look at you, Mom and Dad... my heart hurts. It hurts so much I can barely breathe."
As he spoke, he collapsed to the ground.
This scene terrified Father Ye and Ye's Mother, who quickly rushed to support him.
"Mom, Dad, I want to keep studying. You know I've always been excellent. Believe in me. I will succeed in the future. I have that confidence."
Ye Liangchen spoke sincerely: "Use your connections, spend money, and get me into a school. Don't let anyone know I scored 129 points. I can't bear the shame..."
With these words, he slowly closed his eyes, two lines of tears streaming down his cheeks as he did so...
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?!
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!
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
iemie, male, Race: Moon. Hobby: Collecting anomalies. At first, he thought he possessed two systems: the Crimson Rainbow Moon and the Clear Cold Frost Moon. One day, he discovered that he himself could also become a system for others, holding the chessboard of fate. The Eighth Epoch, also known as the Eternal Moon Epoch. Humans, witches, elves, bloodline descendants, specters, demons, and spirits together compose a new history. Walking the path on behalf of the moon, before he knew it, Chen Miemie's footsteps were followed by all manner of strange and wondrous anomalies. As time passed, many titles circulated about him—The King in Yellow, Lord of Anomalies, Heart of the Eternal Moon, and more. "Me? I'm just a traveler who enjoys collecting interesting creatures," Chen Miemie said.
