Upon returning to the dormitory door, I was startled by the commotion coming from inside before even opening it. "Damn, have these guys lost their minds?"
Pushing the door open, the blaring music from a phone hit me. Three shirtless guys were inside—one wiggling his butt in a bizarre dance, another spinning a T-shirt in the air, and the last, cigarette in mouth, scribbling furiously at the desk.
"It’s a miracle the neighbors downstairs haven’t come up to complain."
The three grinned. "Long Aotian, you’re back!"
"So, what’s got you all so hyped up today?"
Xu Shuai stopped his butt-wiggling and exclaimed excitedly, "I sat at the same table as Wang Lijuan today! We even talked!"
Li Longlong tossed his shirt aside. "Same! I finally spoke to Han Xiaojing. It wasn’t as hard as I thought."
Long Aotian nodded, then turned to Huang Fei. "And you?"
Huang Fei exhaled a puff of smoke, stubbed out his cigarette, and picked up his notebook. "Aotian, check this out—my notes. Spending time with Shen Mengjie today made me realize gaps in my theories. I’m revising them. Once I win her over, I’ll publish this. I’ll be the grandmaster of romance!"
Long Aotian gave a solemn nod. "Solid plan."
He walked to the balcony and opened the window, letting the smoke escape. Gazing at the sky, he stretched. "The moon’s really bright tonight."
"Yeah," Hu Yuying murmured, looking at the moon on the horizon. "It’s so beautiful."
"Yuying, did you know you look just like Long Aotian right now?" Li Qingxue teased beside her.
Hu Yuying froze for a moment, then smiled. "Really?"
"Mm-hmm," Li Qingxue nodded. "Back at the bay, when Long Aotian watched the sunset, he had the same expression. Your mannerisms and tone are so alike."
Hearing that she resembled Long Aotian sent a warm flutter through Hu Yuying’s heart. Propping her chin on her hand, she gazed at the moon. "I wonder what he’s doing now?"
They were still in the same city, not far apart, yet they couldn’t meet as freely as before.
So, Hu Yuying missed him. She missed him often, restless with the urge to see him, even if just to sit quietly together.
The longing didn’t fade with time—it only grew heavier.
"Ugh, that guy’s fine wherever he goes. He’s way more adaptable than us."
But then she remembered how, after asking him to wait for her at the school gate, girls had swooped in for his contact the moment she stepped away. The thought soured her mood.
At this point, Li Qingxue bit her lip and hesitantly asked, "Yuying... you’ve known Long Aotian for a long time. Do you..."
She trailed off, struggling for words, her ears tinged pink with nerves.
Finally, in a small voice, she asked, "Do you know what kind of girls he likes?"
The question left her face flushed, a delicate shyness coloring her features.
Hu Yuying was stunned by Li Qingxue’s confession and the vulnerability in her demeanor.
Some words were hard to say, but once spoken, they brought relief.
Li Qingxue met Hu Yuying’s gaze earnestly. "I know you’re close to him, that he cares about you most. Please tell me. I... I think I might like him."
After admitting it, she fidgeted, as if her deepest secret had been laid bare, leaving her bashful and briefly exposed.
Hu Yuying’s smile stiffened. Li Qingxue’s bluntness was jarring, stirring something indescribable in her chest.
Her eyes dimmed slightly, and a hollow feeling spread inside her—weightless, like the emptiness she’d felt before meeting Long Aotian. It was disorienting, almost suffocating.
Qingxue... likes him?
The idea had never crossed her mind. Li Qingxue had always seemed to treat him as just a friend. The revelation left Hu Yuying’s mind blank.
"Yuying? Are you okay?" Li Qingxue’s momentary shyness faded as she noticed Hu Yuying’s dazed expression.
Hu Yuying shook her head instinctively, her voice quiet. "You... like him?"
Though embarrassed, Li Qingxue pressed her lips together and nodded. "Yes." The coyness of a girl in love looked enchanting on her flawless face.
"At first, I thought you two were together. But when you said you weren’t, I decided to try."
Li Qingxue had her pride. If Long Aotian and Hu Yuying had been a couple, she would’ve buried her feelings and kept her distance—remaining a friend who joked, bickered, and shared meals without crossing lines.
Long Aotian was easy to like. Falling for someone like him felt almost inevitable.
She’d considered waiting, giving it more time. But seeing other girls approach him for his number or ask him out made her impatient.
She understood how those girls felt—the ones Long Aotian had helped.
She’d been one of them, by the bay. She knew the warmth of that stolen light in her heart.
The memory of him pulling her into his arms had planted a seed in her, quietly growing ever since.
Faced with Li Qingxue’s eager sharing, Hu Yuying shook her head on instinct. She didn’t want this. A surge of unease and dread rose within her.
"You don’t know either?" Li Qingxue assumed Hu Yuying was saying she didn’t know Long Aotian’s preferences.
] 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.
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.”
with countless casualties. As a top-tier gamer, Liu Xuan volunteered to join the fight, intending to dominate with his skills, but instead he obtained the hidden class: [Pacifist]. Unable to attack. Unable to use active skills. Fortunately, with each level gained, he acquired a new passive skill. And so, armed with a body full of passives, Liu Xuan slaughtered his way through the battlefield of ten thousand races! [You attacked Liu Xuan] [You gained the debuffs: 'Poison', 'Fear', 'Burning', 'Bleeding', 'Freeze', 'Silence', etc.] [Your attack speed has been reduced by 99%] [Your armor and magic resistance have been reduced by 99%] Warriors of the Ten Thousand Races: How the hell am I supposed to fight this?!
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
