The week passed by quickly.
"After this weekend, there are only three more days of classes before the seven-day holiday. What are you guys planning to do?"
The speaker was Huang Fei, who had originally wanted to invite Shen Mengjie out for a trip—preferably somewhere far away—so they could spend quality time together and deepen their feelings.
Even if the trip ended late, the distance would make it impossible to go home, meaning they’d have to "make do" with a hotel. Heh heh.
But imagination was beautiful, while reality was painfully harsh. Yep, he got rejected. Since he didn’t want to go home either, he figured he’d ask his friends about their plans.
"Sigh... no plans," Li Longlong muttered with a sigh. His thoughts had aligned perfectly with Huang Fei’s, but the outcome was just as bleak.
He couldn’t tell if he wasn’t trying hard enough, but it always felt like there was some invisible barrier between him and Han Xiaojing.
They could still smile and chat when they met, and they even went out for meals in group settings. But the moment he tried to ask her out alone, she’d turn him down.
Like now—he’d texted her, and the first thing she asked was, "Who else is going?"
When he said it was just the two of them, she flat-out refused. It felt like all his efforts were just crashing into a wall of cotton...
"Heh heh heh..."
"Heh heh heh..."
Amid their conversation, a rather lewd chuckle reached the ears of the two disheartened souls.
Following the sound, they turned to see Xu Shuai buried under his blanket, the laughter clearly coming from inside.
Huang Fei and Li Longlong exchanged glances before creeping toward Xu Shuai’s bed and yanking the blanket off in one swift motion.
Underneath, Xu Shuai was sprawled on his stomach, clutching his phone, his face lit up with a perverted grin as he stared at the screen.
Caught off guard, Xu Shuai flinched like a startled rabbit and quickly hid his phone.
"What the hell are you doing?" he stammered, flustered.
"What the hell are you doing?" Huang Fei and Li Longlong shot back, their eyes locked onto the phone Xu Shuai was trying to conceal.
"The creed of Room 147 is: 'When a brother’s in trouble, all rally to help. No abandonment, no betrayal.' And yet, here you are, keeping secrets from us!"
"I’m not! Don’t spout nonsense!" Xu Shuai protested.
"Oh really? Then what were you just doing? Hiding under your blanket, giggling like a creep at your phone? You dare say you’re not keeping secrets?"
Xu Shuai turned to Long Aotian. "Aotian, back me up here. Be fair."
Long Aotian climbed down from his bed and stood beside Huang Fei and Li Longlong. "Just confess, traitor. No one can save you now."
The two blinked at Long Aotian in shock. He’d always been the fair, mature one in their group...
Noticing their stares, Long Aotian frowned. "Why are you looking at me? Let’s focus on the traitor here!"
Xu Shuai had hoped for some backup, but it seemed his trust was misplaced.
Cornered by three pairs of merciless eyes, Xu Shuai finally caved. "Fine, but you have to pretend you don’t know. Otherwise, you’ll lose a damn good father!"
After they nodded, Xu Shuai’s expression twisted into something both eerie and blissful.
"Holy sht x3! You actually—"
"Shh shh shh!" Xu Shuai leaped up and clamped his hands over Huang Fei and Li Longlong’s mouths.
"If you even think about shoving your foot in my mouth, I swear I’ll beat you to death!" Long Aotian growled, veins bulging on his forehead as Xu Shuai’s foot hovered dangerously close.
Once he calmed down, Xu Shuai scratched his head. "Yeah, so... Wang Lijuan made me promise not to tell you guys. So, my dear sworn fathers, keep it to yourselves."
Long Aotian patted Xu Shuai’s shoulder. "Wang Lijuan seems like a decent girl. Treat her well, and stop scheming like a dumbass."
Xu Shuai grinned sheepishly. "I know my limits. I never aimed too high, and Wang Lijuan’s the first girl who even let me hold her hand. The fact she agreed to go out with me? Totally worth it."
Huang Fei slumped onto his bed, lighting a cigarette with a melancholic sigh. "Honestly, I can stay single, but seeing my sworn son get a date before me? That hurts worse than death."
"But as your brother, I still hope you succeed."
"Don’t worry, man. I didn’t get a date either. I’ll suffer with you!" Li Longlong threw an arm around Huang Fei’s shoulders, equally despondent.
"Ugh, get off me. That’s so cringe."
Suddenly, they both turned to Long Aotian. "Aotian, you heading out again?"
"You vanished all last weekend. Same deal this time?"
"Yeah, got some things to do."
"Sigh..." Huang Fei and Li Longlong watched Long Aotian and Xu Shuai leave. "Busy, busy... busy is good..."
With the two gone, the dorm was left with nothing but a pair of lonely, dejected "old men," staring blankly into the void.
Outside, Long Aotian received a message from Li Qingxue: "Long Aotian, we’re coming to see you."
"Don’t," he replied.
Back at University A, Li Qingxue was tidying up in her dorm when her phone buzzed.
Her face fell at Long Aotian’s response, lips puckering so hard they could’ve hung a beer bottle.
But the next second, she was grinning like an idiot.
That brief emptiness in her heart vanished instantly. Her pout melted into an unstoppable smile, her entire being radiating joy.
She pulled up Long Aotian’s location on her map and quickly typed back: "Taking Metro Line 15—5.6 km, no transfers. Just 800m walk from the station."
Giddy, she finished getting ready and headed downstairs to meet Hu Yuying.
Stepping out of the girls’ dormitory, she spotted Hu Yuying already waiting on the bench.
Dressed simply, she sat there quietly, her natural grace and warmth exuding a serene charm that was impossible to ignore.
Hu Yuying’s eyes lit up when she saw Li Qingxue. "Qingxue, you look so pretty today."
"R-really?" Li Qingxue tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ear, suddenly self-conscious. Was it that obvious?
Today, she seemed less playful and more refined, her usual bubbly energy replaced with a gentle elegance.
That small gesture of brushing her hair aside added an indescribable charm to her already dreamy, innocent aura.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
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?"
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
e vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
