Seeing Long Aotian's excitement, Li Qingxue's eyes sparkled with amusement. "Why are you so worked up?" she teased, as if she had caught onto something interesting. Squinting mischievously, she added, "I get it now—your heart's in turmoil, isn't it?"
Hearing this, Long Aotian realized he had been a little too expressive. He shifted his posture and said, "I'm Hu Yuying's older brother. She... she's a very kind person."
Li Qingxue pursed her lips, her thoughts swirling. She hesitated for a moment before tentatively asking, "What about me? What kind of person do you think I am?"
Long Aotian glanced back at her. "You? You're lively and spirited."
Hearing his description, Li Qingxue couldn't help but smile, a faint blush creeping onto her cheeks. "You... you're quite the smooth talker," she said, her earlier frustration completely forgotten.
Coming here had definitely been the right decision.
"You're pretty good at asking questions too," Long Aotian remarked.
"Of course," Li Qingxue replied proudly.
She was naturally outgoing and talkative—what people in later years would call a "social butterfly."
"By the way, did you hear what I said earlier?" she asked.
"I did," Long Aotian replied.
"Don't you think they're being unreasonable? They accused me of dating someone at school and said it was affecting Ye Liangchen's studies. That's not true at all! I even shared my study materials with him, but he didn't even use them."
"I didn't affect his studies at all. Why would he say something like that about me?"
Li Qingxue sighed, feeling utterly helpless.
"Now I realize that Ye Liangchen has changed. All he thinks about is dating, as if the college entrance exam means nothing to him."
"He keeps saying stuff like, 'The knight has stepped down,' and now he's making false accusations about me, worrying my parents."
Long Aotian gave her a calm look. "If you can't untie a knot, turn it into a bow. Take care of your health and emotions, and let everything else take its course."
He wanted to remind Li Qingxue not to overthink things or let her emotions control her. While she was busy being upset, others might be laughing.
Life is full of troubles.
If you don't learn to manage your mindset, you'll spend your short life constantly angry.
Sometimes, it's better to let go and go with the flow.
No one's life is smooth sailing.
Li Qingxue propped her chin on her hand, studying Long Aotian with curiosity. "You seem so mature. Aren't young people supposed to be more impulsive?"
"And it feels like nothing can shake your composure."
"Who said that?" Long Aotian disagreed. "The college entrance exam definitely affects my mindset."
Although his grades had improved, with a score of just over 300, getting into a decent university was still a long shot.
Hearing this, Li Qingxue's interest was piqued again.
"Which university do you want to go to?" she asked softly.
"I don't know," Long Aotian admitted. He hadn't looked into the universities in this world yet, and with his current score, it wasn't like he could just pick any school he wanted.
"I want to go to A University. I also want to visit the capital. I've never been there before, but I imagine it must be beautiful and grand." Li Qingxue gazed at the river, her eyes filled with longing.
"If it's you, I'm sure you'll make it... after all, you're the top of your grade."
Li Qingxue chuckled. "I'm starting to think you're teasing me, but I have no proof!"
Even as she said this, she felt a little happy inside.
If nothing unexpected happened, she might really get into her dream school with her current grades.
The college entrance exam is a crossroads in life, and university marks the beginning of a new chapter.
Long Aotian had suffered from his lack of education. In society, his options were limited, and he could only take on manual labor jobs.
At first, it didn't seem so bad, but as he got older, the limitations became more apparent.
That's why he was now more determined than ever to go back to school, to experience life from a different angle and start anew.
"Ugh, physics is so hard!" Long Aotian groaned at the thought, his head aching.
Those formulas were downright sneaky and shameless...
Seeing his frustration, Li Qingxue couldn't help but laugh.
Finally, she had found something that troubled him.
For some reason, seeing someone like Long Aotian struggle made her inexplicably happy.
Perhaps even Li Qingxue herself hadn't realized it yet.
From the start, she had come to vent to Long Aotian.
But now, they were chatting about everyday trivialities, and the conversation seemed endless.
This shift in mood and emotion was an uncontrollable, secret joy.
"Hu Yuying aced the latest test too. Couldn't she teach you?"
"Though physics is pretty tough."
"She explains problems very thoroughly," Long Aotian said, a smile forming as he thought of Hu Yuying's serious expression while tutoring him. "That girl..."
Li Qingxue noticed the smile on Long Aotian's face whenever he mentioned Hu Yuying, and for some reason, it felt a little irritating.
Her own smile faded slightly. "You two..."
Before she could finish, Long Aotian tapped her on the head. "What's going on in that little brain of yours?"
Li Qingxue pouted, rubbing her head and acting like she wasn't going to let him off the hook. "I didn't even say anything yet!"
"You don't have to. I can tell what you're thinking just by the look on your face!" Long Aotian quickly corrected himself.
"You don't know Hu Yuying. She's a really good person."
Children who have been hurt grow up too fast. Long Aotian could see this, and it always made him feel protective.
He lay back on the grass, staring straight at the clouds in the sky. "Who knows? Maybe you'll be classmates someday."
Li Qingxue's eyes flickered as she watched Long Aotian lying on the grass, his arm under his head as he gazed at the sky. "Really?"
She couldn't tell if it was her imagination, but she thought she saw a hint of sadness and tenderness in Long Aotian's eyes—a sense of loneliness.
Li Qingxue slowly lay down on the grass too. She could sense it but couldn't quite understand it.
A person's background and family are beyond their control.
Li Qingxue couldn't fully grasp the loneliness reflected in Long Aotian's eyes.
Even if she could feel it, she didn't know how to respond.
This is life—differences in age and experience.
Perhaps one day, when we've grown older, we'll look back and laugh at our younger selves, saying, "How silly we were!"
[Thanks for the gifts, hehehe... I'm so happy...]
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?!
【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.”
villain is the number one simp for the book's leading female protagonist, Shen Wan'er. As expected, he later becomes a tool for the main character to show off and slap faces, ultimately meeting a tragic end with his family ruined and his life in shambles. Fortunately, he awakens the [Universal Pure Love System], which allows him to earn points by performing acts of pure love. To change his fate, Gu Yan makes a decisive choice to seek warmth and companionship with the book's biggest villain—Cold Qingqiu. ........... My name is Leng Qingqiu. To find the murderer who killed my parents years ago, I deliberately blinded myself so that everyone would lower their guard around me. Just as I was secretly accumulating power and capital according to my initial plan, a man walked into my world. "Lengleng, Qingqing, Qiuqiu, which nickname do you prefer?" I don't like any of them. You'd better leave quickly! "Why aren't you saying anything? How about I call you my baby wife?" Leng Qingqiu thinks to herself, this man is truly annoying! (Stubborn pure love warrior + single female lead + true pure love + 1v1)
