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...
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.
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
【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.)
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.”
