"Are you sure she can take care of me?"
Lin Chen asked An Yi with a calm tone.
An Yi cleared his throat lightly. "You're already recovered, aren't you?"
"Where's A-Chen?"
Su Xue'er rubbed the fluffy head of the dog but gradually sensed something amiss. She looked around in confusion.
"Put your glasses on."
Lin Chen took a pair of glasses from her pocket and handed them to her.
Su Xue'er put on the black-framed glasses and murmured shyly, "Do I look silly like this?"
"You look sillier without them!"
Lin Chen lied smoothly, "No, you look beautiful like this."
"R-Really?"
A blissful smile spread across Su Xue'er's lips as she declared earnestly, "Don’t worry, I’ll definitely protect you! I even brought my sniper!"
With that, she slung the oversized guitar case off her back, opened it, and pulled out… half of a mop.
"I must’ve grabbed the wrong thing while packing." Su Xue'er scratched her head sheepishly.
Lin Chen: "..."
"Promise me you’ll never take those glasses off. You’re stunning like this."
Lin Chen ruffled her hair, his expression serious.
Su Xue'er’s face flushed crimson.
"Ugh, so cheesy. I’m heading to the Enforcement Bureau. You two eat first."
An Yi grimaced, snatched a sandwich, and strode out the door.
---
Downtown Imperial City, a bustling commercial street.
"Hey, Chen Bing! What kind of love potion did you feed my sister?"
Tang Qingqing stared in disbelief at her older sister, Tang Xiaoya, who was clinging to Chen Bing’s arm with an uncharacteristically tender expression.
She knew her sister was anything but docile.
Though famously beautiful, Tang Xiaoya’s fiery, domineering personality had scared off most men. Her 22 years of singlehood spoke volumes—she was practically untamable.
Yet, after just one month of dating, this bespectacled guy had somehow tamed her?
Tang Xiaoya shot her sister a glare. "What love potion? We’re genuinely in love."
Chen Bing wasn’t classically handsome, but there was an effortless charm to him—every little mannerism inexplicably drew her in.
A faint smirk curled Chen Bing’s lips.
As if.
He’d spent ten years in a thousand-year timeline just studying how to win Tang Xiaoya over.
And his conclusion?
If not for him, this woman would’ve died single.
Tang Qingqing rolled her eyes. "Fine, I won’t third-wheel. You two keep drowning in your lovey-dovey bubble. I’m heading to the Bai family."
Bai Xiu was a block of wood—his brain only knew sleep, and his emotional IQ was painfully low.
So, she had to take the initiative, starting with winning over Granny Bai. Her frequent visits had paid off—Granny Bai already called her "granddaughter-in-law" in private.
"Why go to the Bai family?" Tang Xiaoya frowned, then warned, "That Bai Xiu is off-limits. Grandpa would never accept a drug addict."
"He’s not a drug addict! Bye!"
Tang Qingqing waved playfully and skipped away.
"She’s grown up so fast," Tang Xiaoya murmured, a soft smile on her lips.
"Bai Xiu isn’t a bad guy," Chen Bing adjusted his black-framed glasses casually.
"But he’s not you." Tang Xiaoya hugged his arm and pouted. "Chen Bing, will you always love me? I’m hot-tempered, stubborn, not gentle at all, and sometimes downright dumb—"
"At least you’re self-aware."
Chen Bing chuckled fondly. "I will."
"Then swear it! Love me for a thousand years without changing!" Tang Xiaoya teased.
Chen Bing shook his head. "A thousand years is too short. Make it ten thousand. I’ve already loved you for a thousand."
"You—!"
Tang Xiaoya’s ears turned pink.
This man always knew how to make her heart skip a beat.
Bang!
A silenced gunshot rang out, the bullet cutting through the air of the crowded street.
But an invisible thread intercepted it mid-flight, splitting the bullet and dissipating its force.
The pedestrians remained oblivious.
"What the—? Where’d the bullet go?!"
The sniper scowled, scanning the street through his scope. Nothing had changed.
Did I miss?
Chen Bing gripped Tang Xiaoya’s shoulders. "Close your eyes."
"What trick are you pulling now?"
Tang Xiaoya’s bright eyes sparkled with curiosity, but she obediently shut them.
Chen Bing’s gaze turned icy as he locked onto the sniper’s position.
Sang Jie.
A legendary assassin from the Monro Sect in India—success rate nearing 100%, a killer who could rival even the Void Realm warriors of Great Xia.
But his legend ended here.
A streak of light flashed.
Sang Jie sensed danger and bolted—
Too late.
A thread slit his throat.
Blood gushed from his severed windpipe.
The entire kill took less than two seconds.
As Sang Jie’s eyes dimmed, his body crumpled to the ground.
India’s most feared assassin was no more.
Back on the street, Tang Xiaoya counted softly, "One, two, three… eyes open!"
Before she could react, warmth pressed against her lips. A jolt ran through her as she opened her eyes to see Chen Bing, then slowly closed them again.
Her slender arms wrapped around his neck as they kissed amidst the bustling crowd.
---
Enforcement Bureau, Interrogation Room
"Wait, is this what he’s supposed to look like?"
An Yi winced at the sight of the bearded man before him—his face was so battered it was unrecognizable.
Jiang Cheng smiled cheerfully. "Mr. Ito here was being stubborn, so we had to… persuade him. But he still won’t talk."
"Hey, beardy, who sent you?" An Yi demanded, staring him down.
The bearded man grinned, revealing missing teeth. "You think I’d tell you? Beat me to death—I won’t say a word!"
"Oh really?"
Jiang Cheng slid on a pair of silver knuckle dusters with a smile.
Thud!
"Talk!"
"Never! Kill me!"
Thud!
"Still playing tough? Talk!"
"No!"
Thud—
The bearded man collapsed, bloodied but unbroken.
An Yi was moved.
Now this was a real man!
Jiang Cheng wiped the blood off his knuckles and sighed. "His lips are sealed. Won’t even admit he’s from Paradise."
The bearded man: "..."
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
uld barely embark on the path to immortality. Just as he was on the verge of death, his golden finger awakened. No matter whether it was poison, drained blood and vital energy, diminished lifespan, or any other physical debuff caused by paying a price—once midnight passed, everything would be refreshed. From then on, whenever someone asked what kind of person Chu Ran was, the answer was simple: Forbidden arts that other cultivators dared not learn? Chu Ran would learn them. Prices that even demonic cultivators dared not pay? Chu Ran would pay them. Lifespan that even righteous cultivators dared not burn? Chu Ran would burn it. All the blood essence in his body? Take it. Want both his hands and feet? He would cut them off and send them to you. You say he’s finished? He wasn’t built to sit idle. You think he’s gone mad? No—he was simply waiting for midnight. From that day onward, Chu Ran would respect neither Heaven nor Earth, bow to neither gods nor ghosts. He had only one wish: For midnight to arrive a little sooner.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
e school belle recognized by the whole school, a genius girl from the kendo club. She also has a hidden identity, the youngest legendary demon hunter. Chen Shuo just transmigrated and found himself turned into a weak, helpless little vampire. He was caught by Su Xiyen and taken home at the very beginning. Since then, Chen Shuo's life creed only had two items. "First, classmate Su Xiyen is always right." "Second, if classmate Su Xiyen is wrong, please refer back to item one." Many years later, Chen Shuo, who had turned back into a human, led a pair of twins to appear in front of all the vampires to share the secret of how he turned back into a human. "It's simple, I tricked a female demon hunter into becoming my wife!"
