"Are you okay?"
Seeing Huang Fei come out, the three of them stepped forward. Xu Shuai and Li Longlong patted Long Aotian's shoulder and said, "Nice job, Lao Ao! Just like you said!"
"It's fine. I had to pay 1,000 yuan in medical compensation. What were you guys talking about?"
Huang Fei had never been to a police station before in his life, and pretending he wasn’t nervous would be a lie.
Hearing Xu Shuai and Li Longlong’s words, he couldn’t help but ask.
Xu Shuai and Li Longlong explained what had happened.
After listening, Huang Fei suddenly slapped his thigh. "No wonder! No wonder! Right after you left, that guy’s attitude did a complete 180."
"Thanks, Lao Ao."
Long Aotian waved his hand. "I just tried my luck. You got lucky—he happened to fall for our bluff."
Huang Fei didn’t say anything else. He just bumped fists with Long Aotian.
Then, in a low voice, he asked, "What about Shen Mengjie? Is she alright?"
Hearing this, Long Aotian also looked at Xu Shuai and Li Longlong.
He had rushed over after receiving their call midway and didn’t know the full details of what had happened.
"Shen Mengjie was taken to the hospital."
"What?" Huang Fei froze for a moment. "Is she okay?"
When he had arrived earlier, he’d only seen Shen Mengjie being dragged away by that creepy older man. Had she been hurt during the struggle?
"Which hospital is she in? I’ll go see her."
"Don’t panic, let me ask." Xu Shuai immediately called Wang Lijuan.
"Alright, got it. We’ll be there soon." After hanging up, he nodded to Huang Fei. Li Longlong had already flagged down a taxi, and they headed straight for the hospital.
As soon as they got out of the car, they saw Wang Lijuan waiting at the entrance.
"What happened to Shen Mengjie?" Huang Fei asked anxiously.
"She’s fine," Wang Lijuan said softly.
Earlier, Shen Mengjie had suddenly complained of stomach pain. By the time they got to the hospital, she insisted she was fine before any tests could be done.
But no one was convinced—her face had been deathly pale and weak.
In the end, unable to refuse Wang Lijuan and Han Xiaojing’s insistence, Shen Mengjie agreed to stay for observation. If nothing was wrong, at least everyone could rest easy.
Hearing this, Huang Fei let out a heavy sigh of relief. Soon, they arrived at Shen Mengjie’s hospital room.
Inside, Shen Mengjie was already asleep.
Seeing the red mark from a slap on her face and the bruise at the corner of her lips, Huang Fei punched the wall in frustration. "How could a mother like that exist in this world?"
"Eighty thousand yuan—just eighty thousand—and she was willing to sell Shen Mengjie’s entire future. How could she be so heartless?"
Long Aotian didn’t respond. Looking at Shen Mengjie lying on the hospital bed, he recalled the scars he’d seen on her earlier.
The answer to how they got there was obvious.
"Let’s go grab something to eat. We’ll keep watch here," Long Aotian said, checking the time before turning to Han Xiaojing and Wang Lijuan.
"Mm." Han Xiaojing glanced at him.
After everything that had happened, they were all starving.
"I’ll take them to eat," Xu Shuai volunteered.
"What about Shen Mengjie’s mother?" Long Aotian asked instinctively.
This issue had to be resolved. If she kept causing scenes at the school, not only would it hurt Shen Mengjie’s reputation, but the school might even punish her. If she got expelled, half her life would be ruined.
"When Huang Fei fought that man, she slipped away in the chaos as soon as she saw blood. No one knows where she is now," Han Xiaojing explained.
She was timid by nature and hadn’t dared to step forward earlier, so she’d seen everything clearly.
"Lao Huang!" Li Longlong called out, then tilted his chin toward the hospital room.
Shen Mengjie, who had been lying down earlier, was now turned away from them. From the trembling of her shoulders, it seemed she was awake.
Huang Fei immediately rushed into the room.
Long Aotian didn’t even have time to stop him.
"Get out… get out!" Shen Mengjie covered her head with her hands, her voice nothing like the proud tone she usually carried.
Afraid of upsetting her further, Huang Fei quickly said, "Okay, I’ll leave. I’ll be right outside. If you need anything, just tell me—I’ll be here."
With that, he stepped back out.
"Don’t take it personally. She’s emotionally unstable right now. She’s always been so proud—give her some time alone," Long Aotian reassured him softly.
Some wounds are desperately hidden. But when those ugly scars are exposed, the confident, aloof persona she’d built crumbles instantly.
This pressure wasn’t just superficial—it came from deep within. Shen Mengjie was someone who cared so much about her pride.
"I know." Huang Fei leaned against the wall, staring at the ceiling, lost in thought.
Before long, Xu Shuai and the others returned.
Han Xiaojing carried a disposable food container with a bowl of lean meat porridge inside.
"You guys should go eat too. I brought something for Mengjie," Han Xiaojing said gently.
At that moment, Xu Shuai tugged at Long Aotian’s sleeve. Having known each other for so long, Long Aotian understood that Xu Shuai had something to tell him privately.
So he followed Xu Shuai to a corner of the hallway.
"What’s up?"
"There’s something… Lijuan and Han Xiaojing told me earlier. But—but I’m not sure how to bring it up to Huang Fei."
Seeing the hesitation on Xu Shuai’s face, Long Aotian grew curious. "What is it?"
"Last month, Lijuan and Han Xiaojing both noticed Shen Mengjie gagging a few times during meals."
Hearing this, Long Aotian’s eyebrows shot up, and he lowered his voice. "Gagging? You mean… what I think you mean?"
Xu Shuai knew exactly what Long Aotian was implying.
He nodded awkwardly. "That’s what I thought too, but we can’t be sure."
"According to Lijuan, ever since the incident with Zhang Mengmeng, Shen Mengjie hasn’t been going out much. She’s been spending most of her time with them. The only exception was during the holiday break… You get what I’m saying, right?"
It had already been over two months since the break.
Winter vacation wasn’t as long as summer break. From what Long Aotian knew, Shen Mengjie had stayed at his place for nearly half of it…
The bigger issue was that neither of them knew whether two months was enough time for morning sickness to show.
"Let’s not tell Huang Fei about this yet. At least not now—his emotions are all over the place too…"
Xu Shuai nodded in agreement. "That’s what I thought too. That’s why I wanted to talk to you first."
Long Aotian scratched his head. What kind of mess was this?
Even he had always been careful not to make mistakes. What had Shen Mengjie been thinking?
Or maybe… this was all just a misunderstanding?
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.”
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.
【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.)
nto another world, I bought a slave for the first time, never expecting the silver wolf girl to be so cute... Lin Feng: I know it's cold, but you don't have to sneak into my bed! Yuna: Just sharing body warmth, if you dare do anything naughty, I'll definitely...
