"Here I am!"
As he spoke, he flicked his hair.
"Yeah!"
The reply came with an equally defiant hair toss.
With a light chuckle, he stepped out of the darkness, his lips curled into a supremely confident smile.
Xue Shaohua sighed at the sight of that self-assured grin—once again, he had fallen short.
When it came to sheer swagger, he just couldn’t surpass him.
Noticing the gloom in Xue Shaohua’s eyes, Ye Liangchen’s smirk deepened. Trying to out-cool him? Still a bit green. He stepped forward and gave Xue Shaohua’s shoulder a light pat. "Did you find it?"
"Yeah, it’s all in the phone." Xue Shaohua’s expression shifted to confusion. "Though I don’t get why you need this. I could’ve just sent it to you. Why go through the hassle of meeting in person?"
Ye Liangchen chuckled softly and flicked his bangs. "Don’t you think this is way cooler?"
Truth be told, Ye Liangchen was in high spirits today. He’d just charmed a stunning beauty—gorgeous looks, killer figure, and an aura to match. Life was good.
Xue Shaohua rolled his eyes. His mood wasn’t nearly as bright. The sting of Hu Yuying’s rejection still echoed in his ears.
Being turned down wasn’t the issue—he thrived on a challenge. But what really stung was Hu Yuying publicly declaring that he couldn’t measure up to Long Aotian... That hurt.
"Here."
He handed his phone to Ye Liangchen.
Just as Ye Liangchen reached for it, Xue Shaohua pulled it back. "You remember what you promised me, right?"
Ye Liangchen smirked, flicked his hair again, and snapped his fingers. "Of course. But judging by your face, something’s up."
"Don’t tell me—let me guess."
"You went after Hu Yuying, didn’t you? And got shot down?"
Xue Shaohua’s darkening expression confirmed it.
For Ye Liangchen, figuring this out was child’s play. He knew Xue Shaohua inside out—a prideful soul, much like his former self.
Him chasing Hu Yuying? Predictable.
Her actually accepting him? Now that would’ve been a shock.
"I told you before—Hu Yuying’s the type who sticks to her choices. Once she picks someone, she doesn’t waver."
"If I hadn’t messed up, she would’ve been mine to begin with."
A shadow crossed Ye Liangchen’s eyes. If only he hadn’t been stuck in the bathroom that day, maybe he could’ve stopped Long Aotian from stealing Hu Yuying away...
Tilting his head at a dramatic 45-degree angle, he took a deep breath. "I said I’d take back what’s rightfully mine—personally. You’re rushing things."
"How can I not rush?" Xue Shaohua burst out. "Hu Yuying—everything about her, every move, every smile—it’s all I can think about..."
Ye Liangchen patted his shoulder. "Alright, I get it. But trust me on this. I will reclaim what’s mine, and that includes Hu Yuying."
It was clear—Hu Yuying had become Xue Shaohua’s white moonlight. And the devastation of an unattainable ideal? Ye Liangchen knew that pain all too well.
Xue Shaohua handed over the phone. "You were right. Hu Yuying has been keeping records. These are photos I took when she left for the restroom."
Ye Liangchen’s grin widened. Of course he knew—he was a reincarnator, armed with foresight no one else had!
He opened the phone and skimmed through.
[Color Coordination: Use monochromatic schemes, e.g., pairing dark gray with light gray for a harmonious, unified aesthetic...]
[Style Syncing: Maintain consistency between top and bottom garments, such as... such as... such as...]
His brow furrowed deeper with each line. "Huh. Pretty dense stuff."
With a self-deprecating laugh, he kept reading.
[Layering Techniques: ...]
[Style Examples: ...]
Ye Liangchen sucked in a sharp breath. "You’re sure this is what Hu Yuying’s been writing lately?"
"Absolutely. No reason to lie about this."
Ye Liangchen nodded. He believed Xue Shaohua—no motive to deceive him here. So this was Hu Yuying’s own handwriting.
It felt familiar, yet something about it was... off.
But if it rang a bell, maybe he’d glimpsed her notes in his past life. Complex, sure, but nothing he couldn’t crack with time. After all, only something this intricate could’ve propelled Hu Yuying to business stardom.
He transferred the files to his own phone.
He’d study them later. With two lifetimes of experience, mastery was just a matter of time.
"Good work. This is exactly what I need. Whatever else Hu Yuying writes—send it to me immediately."
"No problem." Xue Shaohua still didn’t see the point, but if Ye Liangchen wanted it, so be it.
Once the files were saved, Ye Liangchen flicked his hair, radiating confidence.
Xue Shaohua mirrored the hair toss, hands in pockets. "Why do you seem extra hyped today?"
Ye Liangchen glanced at him through his bangs, then flicked his hair again. "Want to know? Fine, I’ll tell you."
"I might just give Long Aotian a shiny new green hat."
Xue Shaohua’s eyes bulged. He never expected Ye Liangchen to dare provoke Long Aotian—let alone cuckold him!
"Don’t look so shocked. In a battle of looks, I’ve never lost. Put me and Long Aotian on the same starting line, and he wouldn’t even compare to a single strand of my hair."
"So... what’d you do?"
Ye Liangchen’s smile was cool and effortless. "Nothing much. Just swooped in when Long Aotian tried playing hard-to-get with some girl. Ended up flustering her so bad she could barely look at me."
"He thinks he’s so smooth? So irresistible? Well, I’ll prove that any woman he wants, I can snatch with a snap of my fingers."
A dark glint flashed in Ye Liangchen’s eyes as a plan took shape.
Not only would Long Aotian get a taste of his own medicine, but Ye Liangchen would use incriminating photos to make Hu Yuying, Li Qingxue, and Lin Wanning despise him.
Then, he’d sweep in and claim them, one by one.
And once they were his? Oh, they’d beg for his forgiveness. A "chase-him-through-hell" arc was mandatory—otherwise, all the humiliation he’d endured would’ve been for nothing.
"Don't blame me for being ruthless—after all, this is what you owe me!"
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!
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
