Su Bai had to admit, for a split second, his heart skipped a beat.
To be fair, this Reporter Xu was absolutely top-tier. Her attitude was so earnest that it compelled him to seriously consider her proposal.
However, before Su Bai could offer any response, her movements didn't cease.
The faint rustle of fabric friction and the wind noise from the rooftop of the high-rise—filtered through the glass curtain wall of the sky garden—blended together perfectly...
...
Su Bai immediately grimaced.
Xia Lin and Zhou Jialu were right outside, not far away. If they were exposed and discovered... well, it wouldn't exactly be dangerous. Su Bai was a man of broad affections, and it wasn't the first day they had known that. But at the very least, Su Bai still pretended to be a decent human being capable of feeling embarrassment. Xu Xinran seemed to have realized this and appeared exceptionally excited by it.
...
Su Bai estimated that her height was slightly shorter than Zhou Jialu—just a tiny bit.
...
Xu Xinran seemed to have reached an enlightenment.
...
The two women outside, unable to find Su Bai, didn't just stand around foolishly. They sent Su Bai a message, and upon receiving no reply, guessed that he might have gone to inspect the residential complex's clubhouse. After all, anyone familiar with Su Bai knew he enjoyed swimming and taking baths.
So, they left.
"Phew..." Su Bai let out a long sigh. Just as he was about to make a snarky comment, a notification from the System popped up in his mind.
[Detected S-Class Goddess Xu Xinran. Favorability +1.]
Huh??
So this woman really did have some strange kink. Just now, when they were hiding behind the flower trellis "playing" alone, her favorability hadn't budged. But the result of... well, it was instant.
Just as Su Bai was forming this hypothesis, Xu Xinran gave a wicked smile and said, "..."
...
"It was alright," Su Bai quickly interrupted. "Are so-called superior genes really that important? Important enough for you to invest so heavily just to seduce me?"
Su Bai had indeed heard that women from some wealthy families would go to great lengths to seek out high-quality mates. Tracing it back to the source, it was mostly for the sake of the next generation.
However, from a biological perspective, genetic expression tends to regress to the mean.
For example, even if both parents are graduates of prestigious universities, there is a high probability that their children will possess mediocre learning abilities, perhaps only managing to get into an ordinary college despite hard work.
Of course, that was thinking from a bystander's perspective. If one were to be technical, having a child with Su Bai would indeed result in a high probability of excellent offspring. After all, Su Bai's genes had been modified; strictly speaking, he wasn't even entirely human anymore.
"It is worth it. This is something I've been very concerned about for the past two years. If I can't find a suitable partner, I might just give up on having children altogether."
"Would your parents agree to that?" Su Bai figured that tycoons in the media industry wouldn't tolerate their family bloodline being severed.
"It's fine. I have a younger brother who is about to start elementary school. In the future, whether it's the family assets or the leadership of the group, it will all be handed over to him. My being a reporter is just a personal hobby."
That poor little brother, shouldering such a heavy burden before even starting elementary school... Su Bai secretly roasted the situation in his mind, but he roughly understood. It seemed the responsibilities resting on Xu Xinran were much lighter than those on Xia Lin, who was, after all, an only child.
Precisely because of this, her style of conduct was much more uninhibited than Xia Lin's. If Xia Lin was a traditionalist young miss, then this Reporter Xu was undoubtedly a reformist.
...
Of course, she had watched educational videos in private, but those things were too clinical and felt intangible.
But was she supposed to be like the rich cougars in her circle, spending money to hire handsome young men for "research"?
That felt dirty.
The vast majority of men in this world triggered a subconscious revulsion in Xu Xinran—a physiological rejection. Su Bai was an exception. He smelled very good. Squeezed into the narrow space behind the vine trellis with him, Xu Xinran felt as if her entire body was stained with Su Bai's scent. It was wonderful.
...
"I don't want to!"
Su Bai shook his head helplessly and patted Xu Xinran on the back...
What surprised Su Bai was that... her eyes even flickered with a deeper level of curiosity.
...
This made Su Bai click his tongue in secret wonder. Could it be that...
Well, it wasn't impossible. To a large extent, this kind of thing really just depended on natural talent.
Feigning that nothing had happened, Su Bai strode out with large steps.
"I'm going to meet up with them for lunch. Please suit yourself, Reporter Xu."
"Mmh, go ahead. I didn't intend to disturb you all anyway."
Xu Xinran left in a hurry. While Su Bai could still see her retreating figure, he noticed she had already started making a phone call to communicate something.
Only then did Su Bai remember that she seemed to have captured some explosive scoop.
Was she arranging for her staff to publish a press release right now?
He didn't know.
Su Bai was completely in the dark regarding the news industry, nor did he wish to wade into those muddy waters.
The most critical matter at hand right now was still lunch.
Time to order.
lanned to earn money steadily and take life at a slower pace. But he never expected... his father's remarriage, and the stepmother bringing along a dependent, would completely disrupt his life's plans...
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.”
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.
saw a female celebrity tied up and stuffed in the trunk! Little did he know, countless cameras were aimed at him at this moment - this was a new type of reality show. The first randomly selected passerby was caught in less than an hour. But when Xu Moru was selected, things started to take an unexpected turn. "Damn, this isn't how the script goes. This Xu Moru is too bold, he's not following the rules at all." "Crap, is this guy taking it seriously?" "The female celebrity has been scared to tears!"
