Evening.
A bonfire was lit in the clearing, and several senior students from the outdoor association organized an ice-breaking activity for everyone.
Similar activities were theoretically meant to liven up the atmosphere, commonly seen in situations like onboarding new employees in a department.
However, as the saying goes, the drinker's heart is not in the cup. The successful senior guys naturally wanted to use this segment to get closer to the junior girls.
With a bit of luck, they might even score tonight.
Amidst the lively atmosphere, Liu Yuanyuan seemed a bit out of place.
Actually, she usually liked this kind of activity. Flirting with unfamiliar guys and seeing them mesmerized or flustered by her proved her charm.
Greedy women were like that—never satisfied, always wanting to be doted on by more people.
But today, she really wasn't in the mood because her plan to use her current boyfriend as a stepping stone to find a better one had failed miserably!
The vice president, who had previously been quite attentive to her, had somehow shifted his target. He was now chatting with a few acquaintances, looking very relaxed. It was clearly a circle she couldn't join. Moreover, the vice president was obviously giving her the cold shoulder.
She couldn't just go over and ask for a snub.
The key issue was that returning to Xue Tao's side seemed very difficult as well.
She saw Xue Tao and Huang Ran dancing together.
Xue Tao claimed he had learned to dance when he was young, but his dancing skills were truly clumsy. Yet, that scheming bitch Huang Ran kept praising him, which made Liu Yuanyuan's scalp tingle with disgust.
Seriously, sister, are you that desperate?
To climb the social ladder, she could actually tolerate someone like Xue Tao.
Liu Yuanyuan felt this woman was practically engaging in malicious competition. As a heavy user of a certain lifestyle app, she firmly believed that in a relationship, men should provide for women, and women should just enjoy it. Therefore, even though she enjoyed the financial benefits of Xue Tao's family, she still maintained an arrogant attitude.
But now, a competitor had arrived, and she was actually treating Xue Tao so well...
Liu Yuanyuan was about to explode with anger, her whole body radiating bitter resentment. This caused the few companions she had temporarily joined to keep a respectful distance from her.
No one wanted to hang out with a bitter woman like that.
Everyone came camping to have fun. If you harbored weird ulterior motives and radiated negative energy, you couldn't blame others for isolating you.
Meanwhile, Su Bai had, through his own efforts, put Xia Lin into a peaceful sleep in their tent.
After increasing her affection level twice today, Xia Lin's attachment and cooperation with him had leveled up even further.
And this wild camping environment seemed to make Xia Lin exceptionally excited.
Ah, sure enough, every seemingly aloof or demure girl had a hidden, wild side in her heart.
All Su Bai had to do was unleash these hidden attributes and make them exclusive traits only shown to him.
Although Su Bai wasn't actually sleepy, watching Xia Lin sleeping soundly made him want to take a nap too. So, he lay down on his side next to her, hugged her from behind, sniffed the scent of her hair, and began to doze off.
When he was little, Su Bai had always wanted an older sister like this, someone who could give him a complete sense of security.
Xia Lin was the perfect character that fulfilled Su Bai's deepest wishes.
...
The next day, early morning.
Su Bai woke up feeling refreshed... or rather, he had so much excess energy that he couldn't help but wander around in the mountain's morning light as soon as he woke up.
Navigating through the undeveloped forest was somewhat difficult for ordinary people who grew up in the city.
But for Su Bai, it posed no trouble at all.
Uneven ground didn't matter; Su Bai's jumping ability was very strong, and he could even leap onto a tree in one bound.
As for the occasional snakes or even wild beasts... they were completely outside Su Bai's scope of concern, as they would automatically avoid him.
It was said to be the biological instinct to seek advantages and avoid harm, making them automatically stay away from powerful individuals.
That seemed about right. After all, with Su Bai's current speed, strength, and agility, even a Siberian tiger would have to retreat.
After Su Bai casually strolled around and returned to the edge of the campsite holding a bag of freshly picked mushrooms that the system had identified as non-toxic, he happened to bump into Old Chu taking a leak.
"Yo, Old Chu, up so early?" Su Bai was a bit amused. He had thought he would be intimately busy with that problematic girl last night. Given Old Chu's stamina, if they had really gotten intimate, he would probably be sleeping until noon today.
Yet, Chu Mingzhe was up bright and early.
Chu Mingzhe looked at Su Bai with a suppressed, half-smiling expression, as if indicating he had witnessed some god-tier entertainment.
"Brother Su Bai, you missed the best part."
"What?!" Su Bai was taken aback. "Did your girlfriend turn into a magical girl last night?"
"...Well, not quite that spectacular. It was Brother Tao. Brother Tao's tent hosted a massive catfight drama last night. I wanted to call you over to watch, but on second thought, I figured you were probably enjoying some alone time with Xia, so I didn't bother you."
Should he say, as expected of a rich Shanghai guy? Although he occasionally acted pretentiously in weird ways, his emotional intelligence was at least online. Old Chu's EQ was truly leagues ahead of Brother Tao's.
"Where was the catfight?" Su Bai asked curiously.
"Uh, basically Xue Tao tried to break up with Liu Yuanyuan, she refused, and then Huang Ran joined the argument. I don't know what exactly they were yelling about, but long story short, Liu Yuanyuan and Huang Ran got into a physical scuffle. The scene was incredibly fierce..."
"...Whoa."
Wait, so the commotion last night was a fight?
Su Bai was busy practicing deep squats with Xia at the time and didn't pay attention. He had thought the vice president was organizing a wrestling tournament or something. It seemed the senior members of the outdoor association were quite fond of martial arts. Previously, when they gathered at the International Student Art Development Center, a senior had even asked Su Bai if he knew martial arts and wanted to spar.
After all, Su Bai's physique and muscles made him look like a combat type, someone who was very good at fighting.
But after seeing Su Bai carry Xia Lin quickly up the mountain, no one asked him to spar anymore.
Alas, humanity was so lacking in the courage to challenge the strong!
Who would have thought the truth was actually Liu Yuanyuan and Huang Ran fighting...
"That's a good thing!" Su Bai revealed a mysterious smile. "Doesn't this prove Brother Tao's infinite charm?"
"Uh, forget it. Would you like being pestered by an unreasonable woman like Liu Yuanyuan?"
"True that."
"Besides, Xue Tao didn't have a good time either. Someone already sent him to the hospital at the bottom of the mountain."
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"While the two women were grappling, Xue Tao tried to break up the fight and got kicked... well, right in a man's most painful spot."
"..."
It started with Xue Tao wanting to break up with his girlfriend, and it ended with him hospitalized for a crushed nut. Who the hell could have seen that coming?
Su Bai was genuinely a bit regretful now. He should have worked harder on Xia Lin last night to make her fall asleep earlier so he could have gone to watch Xue Tao's drama. Sigh, what a miscalculation!
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
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...
