Chen Miemie emerged from his [Yellow Garment] state and returned to the temporary base at No. 1 Fairy Tale Road. Once the doors were shut, he began holding a meeting with the oddities.
Just moments ago, everyone had been scrambling around in a panic. Now Origami, acting as the warehouse manager, began taking inventory of all their supplies. Each time she counted something, she folded it into a tiny paper scrap and tucked it into one of her little pockets.
Before long, Origami came to Chen Miemie.
“Chen Miemie, there’s a problem with the shop key you launched earlier.”
The tuft of hair on Chen Miemie’s head shot straight up. “What problem?”
“You threw away the key to Room 1803 in Paradise Building in Sixiang City. And I discovered that the shop’s front-door key is nowhere to be found. I suspect we didn’t bring it out with us.”
Chen Miemie inwardly cursed his carelessness, but stubbornly said, “Isn’t it possible that anything I give him is, by definition, a key that can open the shop’s front door?”
The matter had already happened, so everyone soon put the little mishap aside and turned their attention to another major problem.
“The shop is gone. Where are we sleeping tonight?”
The incident had happened too suddenly, catching Chen Miemie and the oddities off guard. According to their original plan, they had intended to stay until this week of [No Tomorrow] was over and leave next week. This sudden change had left them with two days in between.
Chen Miemie thought it over. He didn’t really want to go looking for acquaintances.
Whether it was the City Library or the [Shedding Clinic], if he asked, they would naturally welcome him with open arms. The problem was that Chen Miemie planned to say goodbye to his friends tomorrow and then return to Sixiang City. For just one night, he felt there was no need to trouble people by making them arrange everything for him.
“Forget it. We’ll find an inn and make do for one night. Before we leave, I’ll say goodbye to a few of the neighbors I know.”
It was only eight in the evening, and quite a few shops along Fairy Tale Road were still open.
First, Chen Miemie walked into No. 17 Fairy Tale Road.
Old Man Yu was inside reading the newspaper. Hearing someone enter, he assumed a customer had come in. But when he looked up and saw Chen Miemie, the businesslike smile immediately vanished from his face.
Old Man Yu was a little surprised. Chen Miemie usually liked to drop by in the afternoon to chat with him, while in the evenings he always claimed he had to watch the shop and never showed his face.
“It’s you, boy. What brings you here so late tonight?”
“Old Man Yu, I’m leaving.”
“Leaving? Going where?”
“I’m not from this city. I only came here to take care of something. Now that it’s done, of course I’m going home.”
“What about that vanishing shop of yours? You’re closing it down?”
“Just taking a temporary break. Like you said, it’s a shop that disappears without a trace. If it closes, no one will even know.”
Old Man Yu was silent for a few seconds, then laughed. “That’s true. Young people like you should travel around and see more of the world. Wasting your youth every day on this remote street, playing chess with an old man like me—that would be a shame.”
Chen Miemie sighed dramatically. “Exactly. You’re no longer any match for me. I’m off to find stronger opponents.”
Old Man Yu immediately exploded. “Bullshit! The score is 133 to 132. You’ve only won one more game than me!”
Chen Miemie shook his head. “That’s just the surface. If you didn’t keep taking back your moves, I could’ve beaten you by a hundred games.”
Old Man Yu gave a cold laugh. “All I do is take back moves. That’s still better than secretly hiding my pieces.”
Chen Miemie looked genuinely shocked. “You knew?”
“Every time I turned around and came back to find a piece missing from the board, how could I not know? Your skill was lousy enough that I couldn’t be bothered to call you out.”
Chen Miemie hurriedly changed the subject. “Forget it. That’s all in the past.”
“Another game today?”
“No. I’m leaving with my victory intact. I’m not giving you a chance to turn things around.”
“You really aren’t human, boy.”
Chen Miemie reached into his clothes and pulled out a chess piece. “We’ve known each other for a while, and we’ve played more than a hundred games. Take this as a keepsake.”
Old Man Yu picked it up and examined it. “It’s ugly, and it digs into my hand. Why is this chess piece yellow?”
“Keep it. Pass it down as a family heirloom. Who knows? It might come in handy someday.”
“I give up. A family heirloom, my ass. Fine, thanks. There isn’t anything suitable in my shop to give you in return, so I’ll—”
Chen Miemie had already turned and reached the doorway. With his back to the shop, he waved.
“You got your precious paper shroud from me ages ago. Take care, Old Man Yu.”
The second stop was the [Four Seasons Café].
Chen Miemie took his usual seat. “Qiu Tian, bring me a cup of coffee made at your absolute best.”
Qiu Tian walked over. “What happened? Did something good happen today?”
“I’m going back home. Thinking that I won’t be able to drink your wonderfully unpredictable coffee every day anymore… I have to admit, I’m a little sad.”
“Going home, huh? That’s good too. I’ll miss having a customer who comes in every day. This cup is on the house.”
A few minutes later.
Chen Miemie stared at the thick, black liquid bubbling in front of him.
“What is this?”
“My finest work. The ingredients are sea cucumber, abalone, shark fin, fish maw, tendon, shrimp, chicken, duck…”
“Wait.” Chen Miemie hurriedly cut her off. “Why does that sound so familiar? Is this really coffee? It sounds more like a dish.”
Qiu Tian nodded. “It’s my version of the legendary dish ‘Great Sage Jumps Over the Wall.’ I turned it into ‘Super Seafood Coffee.’”
“That can’t be right. The broth in ‘Great Sage Jumps Over the Wall’ is golden yellow. Why is yours black?”
Qiu Tian looked at Chen Miemie as if he were an idiot. “Because I added coffee grounds. Of course it turned black.”
No matter how strange it looked, the coffee Qiu Tian brewed was unbelievably delicious.
“As expected of your finest work. The coffee is rich and full-bodied, and every flower of latte art is bursting with the freshness of seafood. It’s delicious.”
Qiu Tian smiled at him from nearby. “Want another cup?”
Chen Miemie shook his head. “The best part of any flavor is in the first sip.”
He set down his coffee cup and walked over to the counter where Qiu Tian was standing.
Thinking he had come to pay, Qiu Tian waved both hands. “I said this cup is on the house. Consider it a farewell gift.”
Chen Miemie stood quietly in front of her.
“Qiu Tian, if one day you lost this ability of yours—this ability to make delicious coffee no matter how you brewed it—would you be happy or sad?”
Qiu Tian tilted her head slightly. After thinking for a moment, she smiled.
“I’d be sad. Unlike my father, who thinks this ability is a curse and wants to get rid of it, I find it very happy to see the smiles on customers’ faces after they taste delicious coffee. I think it’s a blessing.
“Besides, this ability was passed down from my parents. It’s the only thing they left me.”
“I’m a little curious. What do you mean by ‘passed down’? If it’s convenient, tell me about it. If not, forget I asked.”
“It’s nothing inconvenient. I’m not a combat-oriented mystic, so there’s no need for me to keep it hidden so carefully.
“My ability comes from my father, [Four Seasons Tea]. In fact, we aren’t related by blood, so I shouldn’t have been able to inherit it.
“My ability to inherit came from my mother, [Biyi]. Before she ‘went away on a long journey,’ she used an ability that could only be used once in a lifetime on me. It gave me one chance to transform my [Mystical Embryonic Form]. Later, I chose to transform it into my father’s ability.”
Chen Miemie listened in silence, then nodded lightly, abandoning the thought of having Daidai take back the price. Though, to begin with, he had no idea whether this kind of “inheritance” could be undone.
“Since you like it, you’ll have it forever. Qiu Tian, until we meet again.”
“Chen Miemie, safe travels.”
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
