"Look at you, why did you have to act tough for no reason? Now you're injured like this, and I have to take care of you—I make 100,000 a day, you know!
If you're not strong enough, just admit it. If you can't win, don't force it. That's what I'm here for! Sure, you're a bit weak, but I’m awesome!
That half-robot Gabriel? I’m not bragging, but after finishing off that birdman, I took him down too—smooth as silk, didn’t even break a sweat."
An Yi casually peeled an apple with a fruit knife, glancing at Lin Chen, who was too injured to move, barely hiding his glee while pretending to sigh.
Lin Chen kept a cold face, silent, but his fists clenched tightly.
Noticing this, An Yi hurriedly said, "Hey hey hey, don’t move! Your tendons are still severed and haven’t healed yet. You’ll reopen your wounds!"
Fang Jueming, who had his arm in a sling, chimed in, "Brother Chen, just listen to Master. When it comes to medicine, he’s actually pretty reliable!"
"Trust me, I know what I’m doing."
An Yi paused, feeling something was off.
Lin Chen glanced at An Yi, who was still peeling the apple, and said flatly, "I don’t need it peeled."
An Yi took a bite of the apple, confused. "What did you say?"
Lin Chen’s expression remained icy. "Nothing."
"So, what were you up to in Hong Kong lately?" An Yi asked curiously.
After leaving the secret realm, Lin Chen hadn’t left Hong Kong at all.
But news about him was everywhere.
An Yi had been scrolling through the Martial Alliance app nonstop—every headline was about Lin Chen.
One day he seized a port, the next he took over a district, and then he killed the Black Crocodile Patriarch, who had ruled Hong Kong for forty years, throwing the entire city into chaos.
Some even dragged An Yi into it, claiming Hong Kong had fallen and that the Asura Gate was revealing its claws.
All this left An Yi—who had been either lazing around on his phone or walking his dog—completely baffled.
Lin Chen brushed it off. "Just minor stuff, not worth mentioning."
After exiting the secret realm, he’d randomly appeared in the wardrobe of a gangster’s mistress.
After killing the gang leader, he became the new boss.
What followed was beyond his control—what started as a misunderstanding snowballed into a mess, and within weeks, he was fighting the Black Crocodile Patriarch.
Fang Jueming, munching on an apple, timidly asked, "Master, why did we come to the capital anyway?"
Wu Shuangshuang had already called three times, supposedly to check up on them.
She even accused him of picking up bad habits from his rogue master, joking that they’d gone all the way to the capital for… certain activities.
An Yi said casually, "Ever heard of Bai Chenxiang?"
Fang Jueming shook his head.
"The woman known as the number one physician in Xia?" Lin Chen pondered.
"Wow, didn’t expect you, Mr. Poker Face, to be so well-informed."
An Yi nodded, his expression dreamy. "Legend says she was peerlessly beautiful, a woman who dazzled an entire era, unmatched in both medicine and looks."
Though information about Bai Chenxiang was scarce—just scattered rumors—An Yi had managed to track her down. Supposedly, she was in the capital!
He’d come to seek her out for a prescription to treat Shen Muxuan’s Heavenly Yin Meridian condition.
If anyone in this world could cure Shen Muxuan, it was probably the legendary Physician Immortal, Bai Chenxiang.
Lin Chen mused, "Hmm, but those rumors are from sixty years ago. Where’d you hear them?"
"Sixty years ago…?"
An Yi’s hopeful expression froze.
Lin Chen added coolly, "Oh, and by the way—Bai Chenxiang is Bai Xiu’s grandmother."
"Bai Xiu’s grandmother?!"
An Yi’s eyes nearly popped out of his head. "What the hell? That’s too much of a coincidence!"
He frowned. "Wait, no—that doesn’t make sense. If she’s Bai Xiu’s grandmother, why does she share his surname?"
"Simple. Bai Xiu’s grandfather was a live-in son-in-law," Lin Chen explained flatly.
An Yi: "…"
"Speaking of which, where the hell are Bai Xiu and Chen Bing?" An Yi wondered aloud.
He’d tried contacting Bai Xiu but couldn’t reach him.
Lin Chen replied indifferently, "No news on my end either."
[Breaking News: Asura Gate Ambushes Hundred Ghosts Sect, Wipes Out Trading Stronghold! 207 Cultists Killed!]
[Asura Gate Declares War on Hundred Ghosts Sect—Night Emperor An Yi Slays Demon Hall’s Chi Xiao!]
[Heaven’s SSS-Rank Assassin Gabriel Killed—Just How Strong is Lin Chen, the Asura Gate’s Second-in-Command?]
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Bai Xiu, stepping out of the airport, casually scrolled through his phone, eyebrows rising at the flood of Asura Gate headlines.
What the hell had An Yi been up to while he was gone?
"Finally out of that hellhole… I don’t even look human anymore."
He pocketed his phone, yawning lifelessly as he trudged forward like a wandering ghost.
After spending time in Demon Valley, constantly harassed by beasts, starving and sleep-deprived, returning to the human world felt oddly unfamiliar.
In the sea of people, Bai Xiu’s gaze suddenly locked onto a woman in a white lace dress with golden hair.
His dead-fish eyes sharpened, radiating killing intent.
"Damn, she’s strong."
Katies also glanced at him.
But the two merely passed each other without interaction.
Bai Xiu shrugged and headed for the exit.
"Time to go home."
Today was his grandmother’s 80th birthday. Raised by her since childhood, he couldn’t miss it, no matter how busy he was.
"Katies, over here!" Qin Yao waved from a distance.
Katies caught up, apologizing, "I had to stow my sword, or it wouldn’t pass security."
Qin Yao glanced around, puzzled about where she’d hidden it, and smiled. "No worries. Our flight’s boarding soon."
"Be careful. There are a lot of shady characters around lately," Katies said gravely.
She’d encountered countless martial artists on the way, many of them formidable.
Like that dead-eyed young man just now—beneath his calm exterior lurked a beastly aura that even she found unsettling.
Qin Yao paled slightly but reassured her, "It’s fine. We’re boarding now. It’ll be quick. My dad’s already sent someone to pick us up."
Uncle Fu, however, wore a troubled expression, shaking his head subtly.
For some reason, he couldn’t shake a sense of foreboding.
Unseen by them, a masked man in black trailed behind, quietly pulling out his phone.
"Lord Prefect, the young mistress is about to board."
After a long silence, a woman’s cold voice replied, "Bring her to me."
"There’s also a member of the Holy Knight Order with her—according to Ah Biao’s intel, it’s Sky Knight Katies," the man added hesitantly.
The Sky Knight wasn’t someone to trifle with.
"How confident are you in bringing her back?" the woman pressed.
"Ah Biao and I together… maybe 70%? But there might be…"
"Spare no effort. Bring Qin Yao back. She’s already being targeted."
On a remote island in the vast sea, a beautiful woman issued her orders, her brow furrowed with worry.
Hesitating for a long time, she finally dialed a number.
"Hello? Who is this?" A young man’s cold voice answered.
"It’s… it’s me—"
"Wrong number."
The call ended abruptly.
The woman stood frozen, a bitter smile forming.
【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.)
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!
+【Epic Battles!】 "Your Highness, they say Linxi Temple is miraculous. Won’t you make a wish?" "A wish? It should be making wishes to me." "That may be so, but since you’re already here..." "..." "Fine. Then grant this princess a consort to play with." "He must be obedient, devoted, and utterly infatuated with my body—so much so that he’d kneel and kiss my feet." "Your Highness, that’s not a consort. That’s a dog." "Then add clever, witty, heroic, ambitious yet pragmatic..." "Hmm, that’s enough for now. I’ll add more later." After tossing out these words half in jest, Princess Anle departed the temple—only to catch a fleeting glimpse of the Bodhisattva statue smiling at her. Meanwhile, Yang An, fresh out of university, was having a very bad day. Good news: He’d transmigrated into another world with a cheat granting tenfold combat power. Bad news: He’d immediately fallen into the clutches of a certain villainess. Good news: Said villainess possessed peerless beauty and royal status. Bad news: She was absolutely monstrous!!! In the frozen wilderness, Yang An knelt beneath Qin Guo’er’s feet, drenched in sweat despite the cold. Desperately clutching her porcelain-perfect foot—the very one poised to crush his throat—he could only think: How do I survive this?! Need answers NOW!
