Generally speaking, children's bodies are soft and squishy. After all, they haven't fully grown yet and are still developing.
Sending a child to learn dance is usually quite easy. Apart from a few exceptionally "gifted" individuals, most can pull off a few moves. However, for the very same people, things change after puberty. Their joints and waists become stiff, compounded by the development of various muscle groups.
Lu Yuning, however, was soft and supple all over, coupled with that adorably innocent and youthful face...
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Lu Yuning bit her lip and buried her small face in the blanket, occasionally peeking out stealthily to observe Su Bai's expression.
For an introverted pushover, reading people's moods was an essential survival skill. Even though Su Bai wasn't a mean person—he was leagues better than those female classmates who used to bully her at school—Lu Yuning still cared deeply about his mood.
After all, her current situation was, in essence, being kept by Su Bai.
A kept girl should coax her sugar daddy and make him happy; it was only natural and right.
Those who clearly lived off a man's money yet flaunted some independent strong female lead persona were something Lu Yuning truly couldn't understand. Where exactly was the independence?
...
"You need to hydrate. I'll go get you some electrolyte drinks." Su Bai prepared to get out of bed.
"No need, um, I... I can go myself," Lu Yuning said hastily.
She tried to get out of bed, but the moment her toes touched the floor, a pained expression appeared on her face.
This was entirely within Su Bai's expectations.
...
Looking at her state, he figured she might not even be able to get out of bed and move around smoothly tomorrow.
"Just lie down and get some good rest."
"Sob... Boss, I'm so useless," Lu Yuning said with an apologetic face.
"Hilarious. How does this make you useless? This is perfectly normal."
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Unexpectedly, Su Bai burst into laughter. "Seriously, girl, you should watch fewer weird movies."
"Eh..."
"I don't think there's anything wrong with you being like this."
...
Why did it feel completely different from what she had imagined?
Was it really so, or was Su Bai just saying nice things on purpose to comfort her?
The latter wasn't impossible. After all, in Lu Yuning's eyes, Su Bai was an incredibly, incredibly gentle man.
Ningning fell into confusion...
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Outside the room, in the living room, Zhou Jialu was studying.
This was truly a miraculous thing. Not too long ago, she had been completely drained of energy, yet now she was full of drive, holding a tablet and watching some instructional video.
Lately, she seemed to really enjoy carrying an iPad around and following Su Bai whenever he went out, wandering all over the place with quite the air of a female secretary.
Having someone to help worry about the miscellaneous chores was a good thing anyway, so Su Bai didn't object.
"What are you watching?" Su Bai asked casually.
"Ah, junior... you're out so soon?" Zhou Jialu looked surprised.
Tonight was basically a complete success.
Zhou Jialu was quite proud of this.
With a soft and sweet personality like Ningning's, if you put her in the right atmosphere, she could very smoothly transition into a romantic confidante relationship with Su Bai.
As a fellow woman, Zhou Jialu understood this best.
Girls value atmosphere the most.
Of course, given Su Bai's qualifications, him just standing there created an atmosphere. If it were a more casual girl, he could just beckon with his finger and take her to get a room. But Ningning wasn't casual, so it required a little extra effort.
As a result...
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Su Bai's casual absurdity was on a level that ordinary people couldn't reach.
Who knows how this guy's brain comes up with these things.
While Zhou Jialu was laughing non-stop, Su Bai snatched the iPad from her hands to take a peek at what tutorial she was watching.
An online course for tourism majors.
"If I remember correctly, you're an accounting major, right, senior? Why are you watching this stuff..."
"Oh, it has nothing to do with school stuff. I'm just looking at tourism route planning and some tips for scheduling itineraries and the like."
"You could just look at Little Red Book for that."
"Too much marketing," Zhou Jialu pointed out the flaw right on the money. "This online course was recommended to me by a teacher from a training center. It's relatively short and concise. I just watch it when I have free time, striving to become an all-around warrior, a super manager."
Excellent. Super Su Bai's super harem deserves to use a super manager!
Out of curiosity, Su Bai watched the online course with Zhou Jialu for a while. Along the way, he asked the front desk staff at the Ascott to bring up a few bottles of iced Pocari Sweat.
This stuff was incredibly effective for rehydrating after exercise. Sweet and salty, Su Bai loved drinking it after playing a game.
Although this was just the standard suite where Lu Yuning was staying, Su Bai was, after all, an esteemed resident of the Shanshui Villas, so basically any service he wanted could be arranged.
Soon, the items were brought up.
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Before long, Su Bai and his senior were immersed in laughter.
ine. During your journey, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her elder brother】 【You rely on each other, becoming each other's support】 【At the end of the simulation, you shield the now-grown girl with your life, sacrificing yourself to block numerous demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in the girl's eyes fades】 …… 【Second Simulation: You are transported to a world where steam and magic coexist】 【You immerse yourself in the study of magic, obsessed with its research. One day, while out, you encounter a half-blooded demon girl wandering the streets. You take her in as your student】 【You teach the demoness what it means to be human, show her the beauty of the world, and nurture her into a miracle that surpasses even the gods】 【At the end of the simulation, you die of old age in front of the nearly immortal demoness due to your mortal lifespan】 …… One simulation after another, one encounter after another. Xu Xi suddenly felt something was off: "Wait, you said you're coming to the real world to find me?"
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...
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
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.”
