Upon learning that refueling a yacht once costs fifty thousand yuan, Wang Haoran immediately expressed that yachts didn't sound so wonderful after all.
Jokes aside, this kind of consumption was purely a toy for the wealthy class. Even top-tier wage earners who became CEOs couldn't reach that level.
In fact, many luxury expenses were like this. An excellent wage earner could grit their teeth and afford to buy them, but they couldn't afford to maintain them.
Just like luxury cars, if there was a minor bump or scrape, the repair costs alone would make one's heart ache to death.
Su Bai didn't have such problems at all. Of course, his driving skills were also good; anyway, Wang Haoran had never seen him get into any scrapes.
After complaining for a while, the two logged into the client and started playing ARAM.
It had to be said, after experiencing many luxurious lifestyles, Su Bai finally understood why so many rich second-generation kids were addicted to the internet.
Damn it, phones and computers were still the most fun!
Art exhibitions, extreme sports, traveling around the world, RVs, and yachts—they were fine to play with occasionally, but doing it every day got boring. In everyday leisure time, one still had to play games fiercely to wind down.
Oh, women were fun too, but generally, an average person's body couldn't handle going too hard. Su Bai, on the other hand, had always maintained a high intensity in this regard. After eating cream cake with Ningning last night, he was still full of energy today.
Cream cake was really delicious.
He should try similar playstyles more often. After all, satisfying both the upper and lower mouths was hitting two birds with one stone.
While playing the game, someone Su Bai didn't know at all suddenly added him as a friend. It looked like a female account. After accepting the request, the other party introduced herself, saying she was from the art department of the neighboring Normal University.
Good heavens, the Normal University's art department...
Actually, Su Bai didn't have a very good impression of the art department at his own university either.
There were indeed many pretty girls. If there were clean ones to play with, it wasn't impossible, but clean, smart, and obedient ones like the Wan sisters were the minority among minorities.
But the girls over there were generally empty-headed. Getting along with them wasn't as smooth as with girls in STEM.
Perhaps this was an inevitable trade-off; the overall appearance of the smart girls' group was slightly inferior.
Top-tier girls like Chen Yusheng were ultimate exceptions, after all.
The art academy at Jiang University was already so watered down, let alone the neighboring Normal University.
Even when Su Bai browsed the campus confession walls of both schools, he often saw drama tearing apart the art department of the neighboring Normal University.
Who became the other woman, who cheated on whom.
It was literally staging Tiny Times every single moment.
Mainly because there were actually quite a few rich guys who went to pick up girls in the Normal University's art department, then fell deep into emotional whirlpools, and some even acted as simps. Who knew what their mindset was. Su Bai felt these guys probably had a "become stronger by being a simp" system...
Holding a mindset of watching the fun, Su Bai pulled the girl in to play a couple of rounds together.
They didn't duo queue; Wang Haoran was still present. The girl was quite dissatisfied with this but could do nothing about it.
After playing two games, he decisively found an excuse and kicked her.
During this time, Chu Mingzhe returned to the dorm to get a book. He originally planned to go to the library again to pretend... oh wait, to study seriously!
As a result, he was unexpectedly sealed away by the bed monster.
Then he heard that girl fighting to play with Su Bai, showing off her fake cutesy voice for a long time, only to be ruthlessly kicked out by Su Bai.
"Brother Su Bai, why did you kick her out so soon? I thought this girl's voice sounded pretty nice."
"Nice where??" Su Bai was numb. "Her forced cutesy voice makes me uncomfortable."
"True, it's too deliberate (Keqing pun), not natural enough," Wang Haoran echoed. "And she plays really terribly, ruining the experience. She's even worse than Brother Bai."
"Damn, what do you mean worse than me? You're quite deliberate (Keqing pun) too..."
"Sigh!" Chu Mingzhe inexplicably sighed.
This piqued Su Bai's curiosity: "What's wrong, Shanghai Lord? Did the scene trigger your emotions and remind you of your Leilei?"
Recently, Old Chu and the goth girl's relationship had entered a white-hot stage.
This wasn't alarmist talk. Just two days ago, Leilei threw a tantrum and almost ended up in the hospital.
Actually, she did go to the hospital, but the emergency room doctor took one look at the seemingly fatal but actually minor superficial cuts, sent her to the outpatient clinic, and casually prescribed a stomach pumping.
After health insurance reimbursement, it didn't actually cost much money.
But it truly turned Chu Mingzhe's life upside down.
Su Bai knew that Old Chu, this guy, seemed to like pretending to be artsy and deep, but his psychological quality was actually lacking.
Getting stuck with such a girlfriend was really something else.
Could it be that he also wanted to make a clean getaway?
Thinking back to the past... oh wait, it really wasn't that long ago. When the Shanghai Lord and the local guy first started dating, they were really competing to show off their affection.
Now they both wanted to back out. Sigh, I see the Shanghai Lord and the local guy are also a pair of ill-fated lovers!
Chu Mingzhe sighed again: "Sigh, yeah. Leilei has been saying she feels insecure lately, but damn it, my final grades have no security either!"
Pfft!
Although it was very dark humor, neither Su Bai nor Wang Haoran could hold back and laughed out loud.
You really have to admit, Chu Mingzhe was one of Xia's key targets of attention... not for anything else, but for whether he would fail his classes.
Xia even sent review materials summarized by the Student Union's Study Department to those students with dangerous grades, urging them to be more serious during exam week.
It had to be said that this counselor was still very competent.
"I think studies are more important. If a relationship affects your life, it's better not to date," Wang Haoran said.
He was the smartest. He only dated 2D characters, didn't spend a dime, and if he wanted to change his 2D wife, he could retreat at zero cost. He belonged to the veteran hatchet-runner players in the emotional field.
"But, it wasn't easy to get into this relationship... and well, only Leilei can understand my heart!"
"Understand where?"
"She can talk with me about Hayek, classical music, modern philosophy history..."
Holy crap, the artsy niche bro has arrived!
No bro, if you want to talk about these things, wouldn't it be much more satisfying to go to those elective courses in the liberal arts college and talk with the professors?
Take Xia for example, she actually listens to classical music too. Because of this, she took corresponding elective courses during her undergrad.
Jiangcheng University, as a comprehensive university of considerable scale, don't ask about its level in cutting-edge fields, but at least there is absolutely no shortage of fancy elective courses.
I think you kid aren't artsy enough at all; you purely just want to talk about those things with pretty girls!
Su Bai felt somewhat helpless.
"And this, we've only been dating for a few months. At least... at least I can't break up earlier than the local guy!"
"That's so true!" Su Bai and Wang Haoran said in unison.
This aspect of being competitive all one's life, this aspect of being rivals.
They had both just overlooked this point.
Chu Mingzhe changed the subject: "So I decided to have a good talk with Leilei. Brother Su Bai, what do you think about that camping trip this weekend? The activity organized by the Outdoor Association doesn't require worrying about too much, and we can get close to nature. It's a good place to have a heart-to-heart talk with a girlfriend..."
"Support! I absolutely support it!"
It's going to be really lively, this camping trip.
] This is a dark fantasy-themed dating simulation game. The main gameplay involves containing various monster girls and investigating the truth of a world shrouded in mist alongside your companions. However, due to his love for the dark and bizarre atmosphere, Luo Wei ended up turning a dating game into a detective mystery game. Women? Women only slow down his quickdraw! To Luo Wei, the female leads in the game are more like tools to perfectly clear levels and squeeze out rewards. For Luo Wei, flirting with every girl he meets and then discarding them is standard procedure. Worried about characters losing affection points? No need. With his maxed-out charm stat, Luo Wei is practically a "human incubus." A little psychological manipulation and those points come right back. It's a bit scummy, but the paper cutout heroines in the game won't actually come at him with real cleavers. However... Luo Wei has transmigrated. He's accidentally entered the second playthrough of this game. His past actions have caused all the girls to transform into terrifying yanderes. Due to the game's setting, most of the heroines he once contained are "troubled girls." Obsessive, twisted, mentally unstable, all aggressive yanderes... The type who will kill you if they can't have you... Luo Wei wants to cry but has no tears left. "I really just want to survive..." In short, this is a story of battling wits and engaging in a love-hate relationship with yanderes.
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.
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.”
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
