In sleep, Long Aotian was disturbed by the muted sounds of suppressed sobs.
With hazy eyes still heavy from slumber, he saw Hu Yuying attempting to put together scattered pieces of a broken pen shell, hoping to keep using it.
Seeing her distress, Long Aotian pulled out several pens from his pouch and placed them before Hu Yuying, “Don't cry, use mine.”
"Thank you."
As Hu Yuying spotted the pens on her desk, she inhaled deeply, trying her best to hide the traces of her tears. But her slightly reddened eyes and trembling shoulders betrayed her.
Hesitant at first, Long Aotian asked: “What's wrong?”
Nothing,” replied Hu Yuying as she bit her lip and shook her head lightly.
Tears are streaming, yet she insists it's nothing. Do I look stupid?, thought Long Aotian.
He looked around the classroom and finally landed on Wang Shuo. A smirk on Wang Shuo's face as he stared at Hu Yuying left no doubt about what had transpired.
It was clear to him now.
In the original plotline that he was aware of, it was him, Long Aotian, who led the ridicule and bullying of Hu Yuying.
However, since he had traveled to this world and deviated from the original plot, someone else was now bullying Hu Yuying.
"Did I bother you?" Hu Yuying asked in a small voice after she collected herself.
"No, I was just waking up."
"Do you need this? You were sleeping the entire class time. You can check it if you want," Hu Yuying offered, even while using Long Aotian's pen. She didn't want to owe anybody anything.
Therefore, she offered her carefully compiled study notes to Long Aotian.
Considering his current academic level, getting into a university was a dream. A costly lesson learned: he didn't want to suffer from a lack of education ever again.
In the original story, Hu Yuying was a top student, maintaining excellent grades even under relentless bullying.
Her notebook, filled with key knowledge points, would certainly be a great help for Long Aotian.
Taking the notebook, Long Aotian paused, then said, "You know, if you're being bullied, you should tell the teacher.”
"It's useless," Hu Yuying said softly while lowering her gaze.
Her words stunned Long Aotian.
When reading the novel, he only skimmed over Hu Yuying's earlier experience.
He didn't know about her past before her transfer.
According to the original plot, Hu Yuying didn't dare to report when she was bullied by Long Aotian. It was likely related to her previous experience.
Long Aotian remained silent for a moment.
When reading the novel, it was only a means of entertainment.
But when he arrived in this so-called novel world, it became a different emotional experience altogether.
The people here, they are real.
They feel pain when hurt, they cry when they're sad, they laugh when they're happy, and they regret when they make mistakes...
Everyone here is struggling for their own lives.
If he hadn't traveled here with memories of the past, this world is as real as it can get.
As the author breezed over the plot, for Hu Yuying, it was her reality; she had suffered through it all.
The process had been painful and bitter, shaping Hu Yuying's resilient character as it stands today.
She sighed quietly.
Flipping through her notebook, she had marked each knowledge point with her own analysis.
It's like cooking a meal and bringing it to Long Aotian's mouth, all he needs to do is open his mouth, and he can eat it directly.
The break between classes ended.
When Long Aotian returned to the classroom, he saw Wang Shuo standing in front of Hu Yuying's desk, maliciously pushing her pencil case and books from the tabletop to the ground with his finger.
Long Aotian frowned and went back to his seat. Bullying starts small and escalates from there. Right now, Wang Shuo is targeting Hu Yuying's books, but if she continues to be too scared to resist, the bullying will inevitably become more personal.
Watching as Wang Shuo deliberately stepped on the pencil he himself had given Hu Yuying, crushing it underfoot, an image of Hu Yuying’s teary eyes looking at him, trying to force a smile and pretend that everything was okay, surfaced in Long Aotian's mind.
He couldn't help but think back to the time when he was at the orphanage, being bullied by the other children.
But he and Hu Yuying were different. He knew how to resist, and slowly, no one dared to bully him anymore.
Taking a deep breath, he was a youth of the new era, and bullying was happening right before his eyes.
Was he really going to just stand there and watch as Hu Yuying experiences the humiliation and bullying once again, as per the original script, and eventually walks down the road of despair?
There is no innocent snowflake in an avalanche.
How could he bear to watch Hu Yuying walk step by step into the abyss of despair and pain in front of him?
No matter what, he could not let this go on.
Time to change the script!
"Is this the third time?" Long Aotian knocked on the desk with his knuckles.
Upon hearing Long Aotian's words, Wang Shuo turned around and scowled at him, "This is none of your business, is it?"
In his past life!
Long Aotian dropped out of school and started working at a young age. After years of hardships, being tricked, fighting for his wages...
Even if he's now back to being eighteen, having shed the hardened shell formed by society, the sophistication in his eyes is something these school-going kids cannot match.
"What if I make it my business?" Long Aotian got up from his seat. His 6'1'' frame, broad shoulders, narrow waist, when standing up, immediately radiated an aura of manly authority and strength.
Faced with a Long Aotian who was significantly taller, Wang Shuo couldn't help but take a step back.
They had argued over a slight disagreement before.
In school, the worst it got was threatening each other with the people they knew, challenging them to a physical confrontation at the school gate.
But Long Aotian didn't play that way. He went straight for a punch, not bothering to save face just because they were all delinquents.
Having been beaten before, he knew how hard Long Aotian punched.
Wang Shuo's eyes flickered, completely beaten down by Long Aotian's imposing aura.
"Long, Long Aotian, the teacher said, if you hit someone again, you'll get a serious infraction."
Seeing the fear etched on Wang Shuo's face, a touch of a smile emerged on the corner of Long Aotian's mouth.
Bullies can also be afraid of being bullied, huh.
"Do you think I care?"
He pounded the table sharply after he finished speaking.
The noise startled Wang Shuo, causing him to back up another two steps while trembling with fear. Simultaneously, it attracted all the gazes inside the classroom.
"School is a place for studying, not for bullying. If any of you bullies have the guts to try to bully anyone, come to bully me first!"
Even though what he said was right, for some reason, when this sentence came out of Long Aotian's mouth, everyone felt it was kind of strange.
Outside the classroom door, Hu Yuying was staring blankly at Long Aotian who had spoken these words.
Sunlight was scattering on him, as if he was sparkling. An involuntary trace of blush spread in her eyes, she hurriedly looked down, leaning against the wall outside the classroom, trying to look composed and shifting her gaze elsewhere...
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
