The continuous chirping of cicadas added a touch of clamor to the already sweltering summer.
A gentle breeze blew past, bringing with it rolling waves of heat.
At the end of the scorching asphalt road stood a modest-sized supermarket.
Its signboard, however, was quite eye-catching.
"Chuanfang International Chain Supermarket Headquarters... Aunt Zhou, you really should change this store name, it's basically false advertising!"
An Yi said, pointing at the sign above while biting into a popsicle.
Aunt Zhou rolled her eyes at him. "You brat, even eating can't shut your mouth."
"Please come again!"
Shen Muxuan skillfully worked the cash register. After seeing off a customer, she looked at Aunt Zhou and said, "Aunt Zhou, you should come live with us. Our place is huge, it has a swimming pool, and the TV is super big too. An Yi said you can even see the mosaics crystal clear."
"Oh my, it's always the girls who care about their auntie! Unlike a certain little rascal who starts rummaging for food the moment he walks in, trying to empty my pantry!"
Aunt Zhou gently hugged Shen Muxuan, speaking with doting affection, not forgetting to shoot An Yi another glare.
It had been three or four years already; was this really his image in her heart?
An Yi put down his half-eaten sausage, feeling that Aunt Zhou still had some deep misunderstandings about him after all these years.
"Aunt Zhou, running a supermarket is so tiring. Come to my place. I have so much money I don't even know where to put it; you can spend it however you want and it won't make a dent."
An Yi said boldly.
Of course, he did have the capital to back it up.
Not to mention the An family's company, a corporation with a market value in the hundreds of billions.
There were also the various industries taken over by Asura Island. Adding all the bits and pieces together, it was a fortune that would take countless lifetimes to spend.
"Auntie knows you guys are rich, but I won't live in a villa."
Aunt Zhou chuckled and said, "Running a small supermarket is quite nice. When I have free time, I can chat with my old friends. I get to hear all the neighborhood gossip from the nearby communities. If I were truly idle, I wouldn't even know what to do with myself."
An Yi sighed, "Alright then. Please take this bank card, the password is six zeros."
There was a hundred million in the card.
For an ordinary person, it was a sum they couldn't exhaust in a lifetime.
"I have enough money of my own, why would I want yours?"
After looking at it, Aunt Zhou smiled gently and declined.
Shen Muxuan said with a bright smile, "Please accept it, Aunt Zhou. It's not much, just consider it a token of our appreciation."
"Are you two really planning to leave Jiangbei?"
Aunt Zhou asked with a soft sigh, feeling a wave of emotion.
Over the years, she had come to treat An Yi and Shen Muxuan as her own children.
Now that both of them were leaving, she truly couldn't bear to see them go.
"Yes, I want to go back to An Yi's hometown with him to build our future."
Shen Muxuan nodded, looking at An Yi with tender affection.
Under her relentless efforts, An Yi had finally compromised.
It was one thing to refuse to cook for him, but she had even swapped out Hongtian's dog food!
"Your hometown, it's quite far away, isn't it?"
Aunt Zhou looked at An Yi and said with a beaming smile, "Have you recovered your memory?"
An Yi coughed lightly, "It should be recovered."
When he first arrived in this world, if it hadn't been for Aunt Zhou, he would have died in the city moat long ago.
It was Aunt Zhou who kept him alive and gave him a place to stay.
This was a profound debt of gratitude.
Aunt Zhou looked at An Yi with a wistful expression and smiled, "Whenever you visit Jiangbei, remember to come see Aunt Zhou."
As she spoke, Aunt Zhou's tears began to fall.
"Aunt Zhou."
Shen Muxuan hugged her gently, her own eyes brimming with tears.
"Aunt Zhou, don't worry, we will come back."
An Yi's eyes also grew a little red as he spoke.
...
Summer.
It was also the annual graduation season.
"Outside the long pavilion, along the ancient road, fragrant green grass joins the sky..."
The broadcasting system of Donghai University played a graduation song, invisibly adding a touch of sorrow to the impending farewells.
They were graduating.
Inside a hotel near the entrance of Donghai University.
The students of the entire class were clinking glasses and exchanging toasts.
They were filled with hope and excitement.
Qin Shan and Liu Dachao were undoubtedly the social butterflies of the group, joking around without a hint of seriousness and driving the atmosphere of the entire venue.
Bai Xiu had fallen asleep the moment he walked in. Now he was leaning back in his chair, sleeping soundly, with a red lipstick mark on his face, though no one knew who it belonged to.
"If you strike it rich, don't forget your old pals! When you make it big in the future, don't forget us brothers."
An Yi joined a group of people and raised his glass.
"Cheers!"
"Cheers! To the future!"
Everyone raised their glasses and downed their drinks in one gulp.
"Who is this handsome guy?"
"I've never seen him before. Do we have someone this handsome in our class?"
Several female students stared at An Yi with sparkling eyes, their pretty faces flushing red.
"An Yi, over here, over here! You're at the wrong table, our class is over here!"
An ordinary-looking boy wearing glasses called out to him.
Wrong class?
An Yi raised his eyebrows, looked at the bespectacled boy, and asked in confusion, "You are?"
"I'm the class monitor!" the bespectacled boy said helplessly.
"Haha, we're all brothers here, let's drink!"
An Yi laughed, putting his arms around the shoulders of others as he returned to his own class's table. "Come on, let's have a drink together, wishing everyone great success!"
Clink!
The clinking of glasses seemed to announce that their story of youth was coming to an end.
"So, Da Shan, Dachao, what are your plans?"
An Yi, slightly tipsy, walked over to Qin Shan and Liu Dachao and asked.
Qin Shan said, "Dachao and I aren't strong enough, so we'll stay behind on Xingming Island to recruit troops and build the base for you."
Liu Dachao shrugged. "You have to be careful over there. I'm most worried about Old Bai; he sleeps like the dead, he doesn't even know when someone kisses him."
An Yi smiled, "Don't worry, you have me. I am the Night Emperor!"
"Wow! Teacher Yan!"
"Teacher Yan actually came! Holy cow!"
At this moment, the atmosphere in the entire banquet hall instantly boiled over.
An Yi looked over in confusion. That enchanting and stunning older woman—if it wasn't Yan Zhi, who else could it be!
"Hello, students!"
Yan Zhi pushed up her plain glasses and said with a smile.
Although she had only used the identity of Yan Zhi to pose as a teacher for a month, to the students of this graduating class, she was an unforgettable memory of their youth!
In a corner of the hotel.
"Here, Student An, your graduation certificate."
Yan Zhi said with a smile, handing over the diploma.
Without her intervention, how could this guy, who had barely shown up to school a few times, have successfully graduated?
An Yi looked at the diploma and chuckled, "Then I really must thank Teacher Yan."
"How will you thank me?" Yan Zhi asked, raising her beautiful eyebrows.
Her answer was a kiss.
The long kiss ended.
Yan Zhi adjusted An Yi's collar and said softly, "I can't go with you. Once you're over there, take good care of yourself."
An Yi nodded. "You too."
With that, the two kissed again.
The tipsy class monitor, passing by, saw this scene and wiped his glasses.
"Impossible, I must be completely drunk!"
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.
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!
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.
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!"
