Origami unfolded into a spatial wormhole.
Chen Miemie instantly arrived at his old home—Room 1803 in Paradise Building.
Since no one had lived there for a long time, a thin layer of dust had indeed settled over everything.
Chen Miemie looked through each room but found no sign of Chen Miaomiao.
He sent her a message: “I’m back, but I don’t see you anywhere. Where are you? I’ll come find you.”
A new message arrived soon after.
Time: 8:23 p.m.
Sender: Chen Miaomiao
Message: Come up to the rooftop~
Chen Miemie climbed the stairs and soon reached the top floor. He stepped out of the stairwell and onto the rooftop.
On the rooftop, beneath the moonlight, someone sat on the edge of the building with her back to him. Her legs dangled over the side, gently swinging in the air.
Hearing his footsteps, she turned her head.
She wore a heart-shaped hat with an openwork design, its brim decorated with rubies. Her long, fluffy apricot-colored hair was soft and silky, with a lock of hair framing each cheek and the ends curling playfully upward.
Her features were so exquisite that she seemed too perfect to be a creation of the mortal world. Her brows were like distant mountains veiled in mist, and her small, straight nose was delicate and refined. In her red eyes, four-leaf clover patterns spun like pinwheels.
As she looked back, her slender neck was revealed. Her pointed ears gave a slight twitch, and when the breeze swept past, tiny fragments of moonlight flickered through her hair.
She patted the spot beside her. “Chen Miemie, hurry over and sit down. The show’s about to begin!”
Chen Miemie walked over and climbed onto the edge of the rooftop. Like Chen Miaomiao, he sat down beside her and carefully lowered both feet over the side.
Even though Chen Miemie could fly and wouldn’t die from a fall at night, dangling his feet in midair beyond the building still made him feel a little uneasy.
Chen Miaomiao blinked her red eyes and rested one hand on Chen Miemie’s shoulder. “Relax. You won’t fall. I’ll hold on to you.”
Chen Miemie was just about to speak.
“Shh~” Chen Miaomiao placed a finger to her lips. “Are you ready? This is my gift to you.”
Chen Miemie hadn’t even had time to react.
In the night sky directly before them, a point of light rose from the ground with a whoosh.
Then countless beams of light shot up from the horizon like ten thousand swords thrusting into the heavens. Before the whooshing sound had even faded, the lights had already reached their zenith.
The points of light exploded.
The sky shattered. The world lit up.
This wasn’t one firework, or a hundred. Thousands of fireworks bloomed in the exact same second!
They packed the entire sky, their glow enveloping the whole city.
Dense clusters of fireworks filled Chen Miemie’s field of vision. From the skyline on the left to the skyline on the right, there was nothing but light, flowers, and splendor.
The sky was no longer the sky. It had become a hanging garden turned upside down, a city of moonlight and fireworks.
Chen Miemie’s eyes widened and his mouth fell slightly open. He looked at the dazzling fireworks, then at Chen Miaomiao, who was smiling sweetly beside him.
Her four-leaf-clover eyes held the fireworks, the moonlight, and his own reflection.
Below them, the city of Sixiang began to sound its alarms.
Commander Sun had already gone home after work, but when he noticed the disturbance, he immediately rushed back outside. Seeing the countless fireworks in the sky, he developed a splitting headache and kept growling under his breath:
“She’s back. It has to be her—Chen Miaomiao! Are you planning to blow up the entire city of Sixiang? Someone get the car ready! We’re going to City Hall to hold a high-risk emergency meeting!”
The fireworks continued for half an hour.
When the citizens realized there was no danger, they began emerging from their buildings and gathering on rooftops to watch. Soon, different colors flickered across their upturned faces, and their eyes reflected joy and delight.
Children perched on their fathers’ shoulders, excitedly pointing at the sky with their little hands. Every new burst of fireworks drew a fresh round of gasps and cheers.
Couples held hands, exchanging glances in the brief moments when the fireworks flickered and faded.
The elderly sat on benches, the fireworks of a lifetime hidden in the wrinkles at the corners of their eyes.
After one enormous firework shaped like a smiling face, all the fireworks across the city went out at once, and heaven and earth fell into a brief silence.
But after little more than ten seconds of quiet, before the fading light of the first round had completely disappeared, the second round came roaring in.
Bigger, brighter, and denser fireworks rose into the sky one after another, their explosions merging into a continuous rumble of thunder.
The thunderous blasts made the trees rustle and caused people’s chests to tremble faintly.
People stood with their mouths open—not merely because they were cheering, but because they were left speechless by the overwhelming brilliance and thunder.
For a full hour, the fireworks continued.
At last, they faded away.
Chen Miemie and Chen Miaomiao remained quietly on the rooftop, watching until the very end.
The fireworks had stopped, but the city’s alarms had not.
“So? So? Do you like this gift?” Chen Miaomiao asked.
“It’s beautiful. I love it.”
“Good! From too far away, it wouldn’t have been impressive enough, but from too close, it would have damaged the city. I ran so many experiments to get it right!”
Chen Miemie suddenly had an ominous feeling. “Where did you run those experiments?”
Chen Miaomiao’s gaze wandered. She stammered something about some ruins or other.
“Oh no!” Chen Miaomiao suddenly cried out after glancing at the messages on her wristwatch. “Little Sun actually figured out I was behind it! He wants me to pay a fine! Chen Miemie, let’s get our stories straight first. We have to insist to the bitter end that this had nothing to do with us.”
Chen Miemie’s cowlick curled into the shape of a question mark. “Why is there an ‘us’?”
Chen Miaomiao glared at him angrily. “You saw it, so you’re an accomplice.”
“Oh. All right, count me in. Don’t worry—Little Sun has no evidence, so there’s nothing he can do to us.”
Chen Miemie began calling him “Little Sun” too.
By then, quite a few people had come up to the rooftop. Unlike Chen Miemie and Chen Miaomiao, however, they had stopped well short of the building’s edge.
One little boy was still reliving the spectacle. He tugged on his father’s sleeve and cried out in a childish voice, “Daddy, Daddy, I liked the four-leaf-clover fireworks best! That one was the biggest!”
The boy’s father gently patted his head. “Yes, it was. Half of them were shaped like four-leaf clovers in all sorts of colors. Whoever set off those fireworks must really love that plant.”
Chen Miaomiao and Chen Miemie: “……”
“Chen Miaomiao,” Chen Miemie said, “do you think it’s possible that someone besides you also really likes four-leaf-clover patterns?”
Chen Miaomiao nodded.
Chen Miemie brightened. “Who?”
Chen Miaomiao pointed at him. “You. Your old schoolbag and book covers were covered in four-leaf clovers. Everyone at school knew you liked them.”
“Besides the two of us?”
“Of course not. The lucky four-leaf clover is our family’s exclusive plant. No one else has it.” Chen Miaomiao put one hand on her hip, looking extremely proud.
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."
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
e vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
