"Good morning!"
Outside the door was Ji Mengyao, who had changed her outfit again today.
Ning Yu noticed that she had also changed her baseball cap - today it was a black and white one split down the middle, with a blood-red rose pattern running across the front.
This girl has good taste.
"Morning~ By the way... do you have a lot of caps?"
Ning Yu couldn't help but ask.
"Hehe, you noticed!"
She adjusted her baseball cap with a proud expression:
"How does it look? Want me to give you one too?"
Friend, you can't just give away caps so casually.
Ning Yu silently complained to herself.
But before she could say anything, Ji Mengyao had vanished from the doorway in a flash.
??
15 minutes later, she returned with several baseball caps of different colors and decorations.
"Just... how many baseball caps do you have?"
Ning Yu's mouth twitched. Was this girl a baseball cap wholesaler or something?
"Hmm... let me think, maybe several dozen?"
She actually started counting on her fingers seriously.
"Here, pick one you like, it's yours! With your beautiful hair, you'll look great in a baseball cap!"
Since she had already brought them over, it would be rude to refuse.
Ning Yu looked over the ones she brought:
A plain khaki one, a pink one with cherry blossoms...
"I think this one would suit Ning Yu!"
Shen Yiyue had emerged from her room at some point and saw Ning Yu struggling to choose.
She pointed to a black baseball cap decorated with two small surgical scalpels forming an X shape, along with some splattered blood pattern accents.
Ning Yu followed her finger and had to admit it looked pretty good.
"I'll take this one then, thank you~"
Ning Yu took it from Ji Mengyao and tried it on.
"Nice, nice, that one really suits you!"
Ji Mengyao nodded in approval seeing how it looked on Ning Yu.
"Ning Yu, Ning Yu! Since we have this rare opportunity, I have a bold idea!"
Beside them, Shen Yiyue seemed to have come up with some mischievous plan after seeing how the silver-haired little girl looked in the black cap.
She put her hands behind her back, tilted her body while looking at Ning Yu, her bright eyes blinking, with a playful smile on her face.
Ning Yu and Ji Mengyao both turned to look at her, wondering what Shen Yiyue was up to.
30 minutes later.
Ning Yu walked out of the room somewhat resignedly.
"Wow!!!"
"Wow!!"
Ji Mengyao and Shen Qianqian, who were sitting outside, exclaimed in unison when they saw Ning Yu emerge.
She was wearing the black baseball cap from earlier, her now-lengthy silver hair tied into two low pigtails that hung down from under the cap's brim.
Wisps of hair from her temples fell from under the cap, perfectly framing her pristine white face.
The white ends of her pigtails rested softly on her shoulders, looking particularly striking against the black outer layer she wore.
Underneath was a black crop top, though her chest was quite flat with barely noticeable curves.
Below she wore black denim shorts that revealed her snow-white legs.
Since she was dressed in black from head to toe, attention naturally focused on her beautiful silver-white hair and pretty face.
Her amber-jewel-like eyes seemed like the most precious things in the world.
A hint of world-weariness showed in her pupils, giving her whole being an otherworldly quality.
"Sister Ning Yu looks so cool! Just like a female assassin!"
Shen Qianqian lay on the sofa, cupping her adorable cheeks as she looked at Ning Yu.
Ji Mengyao nodded in agreement.
What if I actually am one...
Ning Yu didn't even know where to begin with her complaints.
"Wait, Ning Yu, there's this too!"
Shen Yiyue appeared behind Ning Yu, affectionately wrapped her arms around her, and tied a black elastic ribbon around her neck.
The cold aura around Ning Yu instantly gained an additional hint of forbidden sensuality.
"Wow! That's perfect!"
Shen Qianqian pointed at her sister's finishing touch, showing strong approval.
"Hey, don't just put collars on people randomly, okay?"
Ning Yu turned her head to give Shen Yiyue a helpless side-glance.
"Silly Ning Yu, it's called a choker, don't make it sound so crude by calling it a collar."
Shen Yiyue snorted and stopped Ning Yu from trying to take it off.
"Mmm, perfect, this whole outfit is perfect!"
Shen Yiyue circled around Ning Yu several more times, like a talent manager examining their star, nodding with satisfaction as she looked.
"Okay, okay, as long as you're happy."
Ning Yu had given up resisting and threw up her hands helplessly.
Ji Mengyao, not one to miss out on the fun, came over and put a ladies' cigarette in Ning Yu's mouth, just for show of course.
Acting like a tough guy saying "Boss, try this one, it's strong."
"Alright, alright, is our exploration team really this free?"
Ning Yu complained after Ji Mengyao had taken several photos with her phone.
"Oh my! I almost forgot about the important matter!"
Ji Mengyao suddenly slapped her forehead, as if remembering something crucial.
"Come on, I came to get you all to check out the mission!"
She said to Ning Yu and Shen Yiyue.
They finally set out, leaving the apartment and heading toward the exploration team's office.
On the way, Shen Yiyue didn't forget to ask Ji Mengyao to send her that beautiful photo of Ning Yu later.
She definitely wanted to keep it forever.
Before they reached their destination, the three ran into Wu Di, the suit-wearing man, coming from the opposite direction.
He still had his usual poker face devoid of expression, but now there was a hint of seriousness showing through.
He hurried forward a few steps, as if he had finally found who he was looking for, and said:
"Mengyao, why did you take so long to come? Something's happened."
Upon hearing "something's happened," the group's previously playful mood immediately turned serious.
"What happened?"
Ji Mengyao asked solemnly.
"Something might have happened to Wan Heng. He apparently took a mission yesterday to transport something in the Industrial City, but he hasn't returned."
Wu Di answered.
"Impossible, with that guy's abilities, how could he..."
Ji Mengyao shook her head slightly, seemingly in disbelief.
"Wan Heng is...?"
Ning Yu asked, confused.
"The guy with sunglasses who invited me for drinks."
Ji Mengyao explained to Ning Yu, then turned back to Wu Di:
"I ran into him yesterday, did he leave in the evening?"
"Yes."
Wu Di nodded.
"Why would he go out at night? And alone?"
Ji Mengyao furrowed her brows, seeming to contemplate something.
"I'm not sure, maybe the mission was urgent, and he was confident in his abilities, wanted to earn the credit alone. You know how he often works solo."
Wu Di analyzed.
"So what now? Should we go check it out?"
Ji Mengyao suggested to Wu Di.
"I was thinking the same thing. I'll go inform the team."
With that, Wu Di turned and ran off somewhere, acting swift and decisive.
Ji Mengyao's expression was grave as she suddenly turned to look at Ning Yu and Shen Yiyue:
"Want to come with us?"
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
【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.)
lities. One day, Qi Yuan was buying groceries when he unfortunately came face-to-face with a monster. Just when he thought he was going to die on the spot, he suddenly heard the monster's thoughts... "This aura, he's definitely not an ordinary master!" "So terrifying, so terrifying." "A fight with my back against the wall, I can't take it anymore." Qi Yuan: Ah, no one told me that my awakened ability isn't telepathy, but rather the stronger my enemies imagine me to be, the stronger I truly become. PS: Zhou Hai in the first chapter is not the protagonist.
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.”
