The morning sunlight was warm and gentle.
Back at the manor's dining room, exquisite dishes were laid out on the table, far too lavish to be considered breakfast.
Luo Wei stared at the food without any appetite.
He absent-mindedly picked up his fork, not even aware of what he was putting in his mouth, chewing mechanically.
His mind was still preoccupied with what had happened earlier.
Ophelia watched his distracted state with slightly furrowed brows.
"Luo Wei!"
She pouted and said with displeasure:
"Caroline and Susan spent all morning preparing this. If you're not satisfied with the taste, just say so directly!"
Luo Wei shook his head with a smile, "Not at all... I've always appreciated their culinary skills."
Trying to forget about that strange dream, he put on a show of heartily enjoying the meal.
"Mmm... look how perfectly this steak is cooked~"
Luo Wei nodded while eating, then commented: "It's cooked just like a steak!"
Seeing Luo Wei return to his usual playful self, Ophelia burst out laughing.
"What are you even saying? A steak is a steak, how else could it be cooked?"
"Well, that's not necessarily true..."
Luo Wei inexplicably recalled a charred, completely carbonized "dark steak," and couldn't help but smile.
That creation came from someone who couldn't cook at all.
Wait...
The suddenly emerging memory made Luo Wei fall silent for a moment.
This impression of the "dark steak" felt both familiar and foreign, as if it had happened not too long ago...
But...
Luo Wei glanced suspiciously at Ophelia. He hadn't left this manor for several years, living together with Ophelia the whole time.
So where did this memory come from... Besides the manor's maids, who else would cook something like this for him?
Luo Wei fell into contemplation again.
It felt like a memory he shouldn't have forgotten...
Many, many memories sealed away by time...
"Luo Wei..." Ophelia suddenly leaned closer, forcefully interrupting his thoughts.
"What's been wrong with you these days?"
Her light-colored eyes examined him with suspicion.
"Being so absent-minded..." her tone turned teasing, "Are you perhaps missing some pretty girl?"
Luo Wei looked up, "Yes, I am!"
Ophelia's expression changed instantly.
Her face became expressionless, her light eyes turning cold – an emotion Luo Wei had never seen on her face before.
His heart inexplicably trembled; the girl he had always known to be gentle and kind suddenly seemed so distant.
Though alarmed internally, Luo Wei maintained his expression.
He said with a smile: "I'm missing... Caroline's bedtime massages, Sister Susan's pies, and the skillful Bella, whose newly tailored clothes always fit me perfectly~"
Hearing this, Ophelia breathed a sigh of relief internally.
"Smooth talker, I thought you were missing some girl from the village or the city..."
Her expression softened, "Oh, just the manor's maids..."
"What? You're not concerned just because they're maids?" Luo Wei looked at the maids around them, "These sisters are all pretty, have nice figures, and are about my age..."
He teased Ophelia, "Aren't you worried..."
"They wouldn't dare!" Ophelia immediately turned to glare at the maids.
Her gaze was filled with murderous intent.
The maids, suddenly caught in this unexpected glare, all nervously lowered their heads.
The dining room fell deathly silent.
"Ophelia..." Luo Wei stared at her in surprise.
He had never seen Ophelia lose composure like this before, yet it had happened several times today, as if he was meeting her for the first time.
"I'm sorry... I..." Ophelia quickly reined in her gaze and hurriedly stood up.
"I probably haven't been sleeping well lately, my emotions are a bit unstable..."
She forced a smile, kissed Luo Wei's cheek, and quickly disappeared from the vast dining room.
Luo Wei watched her hastily retreating figure.
Lost in thought.
...
In the evening, after receiving his bedtime massage from Caroline, the head maid, Luo Wei returned to his bedroom and yawned tiredly.
He lay in bed and quickly fell into dreamland.
Luo Wei rarely dreamed, but this time, he found himself in an unfamiliar place.
Airships floated slowly in the sky, and the bustling noise of street markets filled the air.
Looking at the endless rows of tall buildings, he realized he was in the midst of a prosperous city.
As Luo Wei wandered the unfamiliar streets, someone suddenly bumped his shoulder hard.
The person acted suspiciously, not apologizing for the collision, and quickly disappeared into the crowd.
"Luo Wei! What are you standing there for? Quick, chase after them! The murderer is getting away!"
A face with a full beard and wearing a police badge appeared before him.
"You are..."
Luo Wei frowned. Although it was his first time seeing this police chief, he felt as if they were already very familiar with each other.
Like old friends who had known each other for years.
The police chief glanced at him, then ignored him and rushed into the crowd.
Gunshots rang out among the crowd.
How strange, why would they want me to help catch criminals? I'm not their assistant...
Luo Wei continued walking forward in confusion as the scene underwent bizarre changes.
He saw a school and students riding commuter buses to class.
This school also felt very familiar, especially when Luo Wei clearly saw the text:
Saint Callen Royal Academy of Magical Science...
Strange, why did it feel so familiar? Had he been here before?
But he had never studied here, hadn't even attended the school in town – he had always had private tutors arranged by Ophelia.
Luo Wei continued walking aimlessly, watching scenes both familiar and foreign, and he seemed to remember something...
This was Saint Callen, the capital of the Empire.
Finally, after another scene change,
Luo Wei arrived in the lower district of Saint Callen.
It was dirty, chaotic, filled with unpleasant smells.
He didn't know why he came here, but as if possessed, he stopped in front of a dark, narrow alley.
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
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.
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?!
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
