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!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
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.
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
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!
