Looking at the scenery outside the car, a smile involuntarily curved Hu Yuying's lips.
The consent of her grandparents was the greatest support for herself and also the greatest trust in Brother Long.
She glanced at her phone, which still showed the record of the interrupted video call from Brother Long.
However, Hu Yuying didn't choose to call back immediately.
She wanted to give Brother Long a little surprise when she arrived.
Occasionally, she would also fantasize about what Brother Long was doing now.
He was taking a shower!
After ending the call with Lin Wanning, Long Aotian was really bored, so he simply went to take a shower.
He was going to leave in a couple of days, and taking a shower now was just right!
After taking a shower and returning to his room, he started to blow-dry his hair in front of the mirror.
Suddenly, his heart skipped a beat for no apparent reason.
This feeling came very suddenly, an indescribable feeling.
He subconsciously looked up at the window.
His heart started to beat even more violently, as if there was something outside the window that he was deeply concerned about.
He slowly walked towards the window.
Pulling open the curtain, he saw a figure in a light apricot-yellow dress dragging a suitcase slowly approaching him from afar.
It was too far away to see the face clearly, but a voice in his heart told him that the little girl had come to see him!
Thinking of this, Long Aotian quickly put on his clothes, ran outside while calling Old Han.
Unfortunately, the call didn't go through.
Long Aotian had already rushed downstairs and was now running towards the courtyard gate.
A flash of joy crossed Hu Yuying's eyes. She had been to Brother Long's home once before and knew which floor his apartment was on. She had originally wanted to give Brother Long a surprise, but unexpectedly, Brother Long gave her one instead.
"How did you know I was coming?" Hu Yuying asked softly with a smile, looking at Brother Long who trotted up to her.
She hadn't told Brother Long in advance.
"I did some divination and knew you were coming. That's why I came out to greet you right away!"
"I don't believe it!" Hu Yuying wouldn't believe such a far - fetched excuse. She had known Brother Long for so long, and when did he learn to do divination?
"Where's Uncle?"
It was her first time visiting, and she didn't know what to bring. So after arriving in Haiwan City, she wandered around a store and bought a coat.
"He's out. I couldn't get through to him just now. Let's go home first."
On the way, listening to Brother Long say that Uncle was like a man possessed, eagerly looking forward to her arrival, Hu Yuying blushed.
She pinched Brother Long's lower back with her little hand: "You're talking more and more nonsense. See if I don't pinch you."
Chatting and joking, they had already reached the room.
The room hadn't changed much since her first visit.
"Have a seat first. I'll pour you a glass of water."
"Brother Long, you don't have to go to so much trouble. I'll pour it myself when I'm thirsty."
"Have you had your meal?" Long Aotian put a glass of water in front of Hu Yuying and asked.
"Not yet." Hu Yuying took a sip from the water cup and then bit her lip and asked, "Brother Long, when did you bring this cup back?"
The cup in her hand was the one they won by playing the ring - tossing game at the mall when Brother Long took her there while she was still in Haiwan City.
"This is the first thing a girl has ever given me in my life. Can I not cherish it?"
"There isn't much prepared at home. Have some fruit first. Later, I'll change my clothes and take you out for a meal."
"No, let's cook at home. I'll do the cooking. By the time Uncle comes back, he can have a hot meal," Long Aotian said as he walked into the room and started changing his clothes. "Don't worry about him. He won't go out and starve."
It was likely that he was still drinking with Uncle Zhu at the moment.
The room wasn't big and wasn't very sound - proof. Even when Long Aotian was talking in the room, Hu Yuying in the living room could hear him clearly.
"Okay, then," Hu Yuying whispered, quietly clenching her small hand and looking at the ring on her finger. In fact, she wasn't really ready to meet Uncle yet.
She had been prepared before, but Uncle wasn't at home...
Long Aotian took Hu Yuying to the square. Hu Yuying was more familiar with this place than he was.
Maybe it was because she hadn't been here for a long time. Hu Yuying was excited throughout the whole process.
"That was the place where I used to do part - time jobs. Now it has a new signboard," she said.
"Do you want to go and have a try?"
Long Aotian took Hu Yuying's hand and walked into the shop that had a new signboard but still sold shrimp pots.
They had a great time during this meal.
When they got home, Old Han still hadn't come back.
Long Aotian changed his bedding and put on clean sheets.
"You'll sleep in my room tonight," he said.
"What about you?"
"I'll just sleep beside you casually."
Hearing this, Hu Yuying gave him a disdainful look.
He was always trying to take advantage.
As they were talking, they heard the sound of the door opening.
"Is it Uncle coming back?" Hu Yuying asked in a low voice.
"Let's go out and have a look."
Old Han, who had had a little wine, lay on the sofa and turned on the TV. However, his attention was caught by the suitcase placed beside him.
He was wondering when there had been an extra suitcase at home.
A soft - voiced "Uncle" instantly sobered Old Han up completely.
He turned his head and saw the young teacher standing in front of Long Aotian's room, smiling at him.
He rubbed his eyes.
"Stop rubbing. You're not drunk," Long Aotian said with a smile. "Happy New Year, Old Han. Hurry up and get a red envelope ready."
"You brat," Old Han knew that Long Aotian was joking with him.
He wasn't angry. He looked at Hu Yuying and said, "Wait a moment, young teacher. Uncle will go and wrap a red envelope for you."
"No need, Uncle. You can just call me Ying."
Looking at the two of them standing together, Old Han quickly wrapped a red envelope and handed it to Hu Yuying.
"Take it. Welcome to your boyfriend's home. I'm really happy!"
Hu Yuying gently pinched Long Aotian. The words were too ambiguous, especially in front of the parents. She was so embarrassed...
Old Han chattered with Hu Yuying for a while. In short, he said that if Long Aotian dared to bully her, he would take care of him and break his legs.
"All right, all right. I won't bully her. You go back to your room and go to sleep," Long Aotian said.
The little girl didn't like the smell of alcohol. Long Aotian helped Old Han back to his room.
Suddenly, Old Han sobered up completely. "Son, do you think I acted well? To create some alone time for you two, your dad really went through a lot of trouble."
"You weren't drunk?"
"This little bit of wine is nothing. Go out. Don't keep Ying waiting."
As he said that, he even pushed Long Aotian out of the room.
Watching Long Ge being pushed out of the door, Hu Yuying said amusingly, "Got kicked out, huh?"
After Uncle went back to his room to sleep, Hu Yuying gradually plucked up more courage.
"Yeah, I got kicked out. Please take me in!"
"Stay in the living room then..."
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.”
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
【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.)
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.
