Jiang Huihui first sent Xu Mu a sweating and speechless emoji.
Followed by a message, "The martial arts contest to choose a husband is the day after tomorrow."
Seeing this, Xu Mu shook his head gently. It was already evening now, meaning there was only one full day of preparation time left—tomorrow.
Xu Mu sent a message back to Jiang Huihui, "Received. Don't worry."
Then, he tossed his phone onto the sofa.
He stretched vigorously, stood up from the sofa, and walked towards the kitchen.
Ye Tong was standing nearby at the time, watching Ye Yu chop vegetables in the kitchen.
"Are the noodles you're making any good? Maybe we should just let your sister do it," Xu Mu said with a smile, looking at Ye Yu.
"Brother-in-law, don't underestimate me. Mine will definitely be more delicious than Sister's," Ye Yu said calmly. Then she looked at Ye Tong, "Sis, you go out too. I can manage by myself."
"Alright."
Ye Tong had originally wanted to offer some guidance, since Ye Yu couldn't cook.
But seeing her current confidence, perhaps she had been secretly learning on her own.
Xu Mu and Ye Tong sat back down on the sofa to chat.
Not long after, Ye Yu walked over carrying a bowl of tomato and egg noodles.
"Brother-in-law, for you!"
Ye Yu placed the bowl and chopsticks in front of Xu Mu and then sat down beside him, watching him with her large, dewy eyes.
Xu Mu looked down at the noodles. At least from appearance, they looked decent.
He took a sip of the broth first and immediately made a pained expression.
So sour!
"Brother-in-law, how is it?"
Ye Yu looked at Xu Mu, her face excited as she said, "The essence of the noodles I make is all in the broth."
"It's good. A bit sour, but it stimulates the appetite," Xu Mu said, not wanting to dampen Ye Yu's enthusiasm, so he offered a bit of encouragement.
[Favorability +15]
Ye Yu immediately beamed with joy. "If it's good, eat more. From now on, I'll make it for you every day."
As she said this, she realized her words sounded almost like a confession to Xu Mu, and her face instantly flushed red.
At that moment, a favorability prompt also appeared above Ye Tong's head.
"Okay."
Xu Mu nodded. Apart from being a bit sour, it wasn't exactly inedible.
He then began eating in big mouthfuls, finishing all the noodles in no time.
"I'll go wash the bowl."
Ye Tong smiled at Xu Mu, took the bowl and chopsticks, and headed to the kitchen.
"Honey, after washing up, remember to come to the room for a meeting," Xu Mu said before heading to the second floor first.
Ye Tong's face immediately turned slightly red. She stole a glance at Ye Yu.
This bad man. Ye Yu isn't a child anymore, always saying such things in front of her.
Ye Yu followed Ye Tong into the kitchen, planning to pull her aside and ask her to stay in her room tonight.
But then she noticed Ye Tong taking a small sip of the leftover broth from Xu Mu's bowl.
She immediately made the same pained expression.
Seeing this, Ye Yu couldn't help but ask, "Sis, what's wrong?"
"Nothing, nothing."
Ye Tong took the bowl to the sink, but Ye Yu immediately snatched it away.
She looked at the leftover broth and took a small sip herself.
Her expression was almost identical to Ye Tong's, but she also stuck out her tongue.
"So sour! I forgot, tomatoes are sour too. I shouldn't have added so much vinegar."
Saying this, Ye Yu hung her head low. "Brother-in-law, really... it clearly didn't taste good, yet he ate it all so cleanly."
"Because you made it," Ye Tong said with a smile.
[Favorability +20]
Ye Yu's cheeks flushed bright red. She immediately put the bowl down and ran upstairs.
After washing the dishes, Ye Tong returned to the bedroom. Xu Mu was already under the covers.
She freshened up briefly and came to Xu Mu's side.
"Husband, you moved Xiao Yu deeply again today. That bowl of noodles was hard to swallow, wasn't it?"
Ye Tong held Xu Mu's hand and whispered.
"It was alright. I'm not too picky. She'll get better with time. Haven't you heard the saying?"
Xu Mu whispered in Ye Tong's ear, "Good things take time."
Ye Tong's face flushed with shyness. She was about to be 'taken time with' again.
...
Early the next morning.
Xu Mu woke up early as usual.
Tomorrow was the day of the martial arts contest to choose a husband, so he definitely couldn't idle around today.
Ye Yu also got up very early. She had already made plans with a close friend from her class to go get their driver's licenses together.
Xu Mu didn't say much. Ye Yu possessed a Level Nine Destiny, so she might encounter opportunities. It was indeed good for her to go out and about.
Ye Tong also went to work, leaving Xu Mu alone at home now.
Just then, Xu Mu's phone rang. He took it out and saw it was a message from "Hundred Ghosts Night Parade."
The sender was the official customer service: "Hello, Mr. Lin. We have investigated your chat records with Mr. Black Robe. After you agreed to meet yesterday, Mr. Black Robe lost contact."
Xu Mu immediately replied: "You're not suspecting me, are you? He's an assassin, after all. There are always risks. I paid the full amount."
The customer service message continued: "We do not suspect you. We merely wish to inform you that Mr. Black Robe is likely deceased. The mission is terminated."
Xu Mu sent back: "Then according to the contract, you should refund the money, right?"
"Correct. We are a legitimate platform. We will refund you ten percent. Please proceed with facial recognition now."
As soon as the customer service message came through, a prompt popped up on the phone.
It asked for permission to grant the app camera access.
Seeing this, Xu Mu was taken aback. Where was he supposed to find Lin Yang now?
He had no choice but to click "Deny."
After about thirty seconds, the app prompted for facial authentication again.
Xu Mu shook his head slightly, watching the countdown end. Then another message popped up.
"Account has been banned."
"I should have known better than to ask for a refund. Maybe I could have used it a bit longer," Xu Mu thought with some frustration.
...
With nothing else to do, Xu Mu drove to find Chen Xuan. He hadn't told him about tomorrow's martial arts contest yet.
Parking the car in front of Chen Xuan's house, Xu Mu used his perception to scan the area.
He found it surprising that this Zhou Xia was so bold. Even though she'd been exposed, she still dared to come back.
She was currently sleeping in the bedroom.
Xu Mu pushed open Chen Xuan's door and found Chen Xuan with a woven bag on his back, about to go out.
"Brother Mu, you're here," Chen Xuan said with a smile. "I was just about to go to the back mountain to train."
"The date for Jiang Huihui's martial arts contest to choose a husband has been set. It's tomorrow," Xu Mu revealed the news.
"I didn't expect it to be so soon. But I will definitely do my best," Chen Xuan said. Suddenly, he turned around. "Brother Mu, someone is releasing qi behind the house."
"I sensed it too."
Through his perception, Xu Mu detected a man with narrow, slit-like eyes who had jumped over the wall into the backyard of Zhou Xia's house.
The man now opened the back door of the house, entered the living room, and sat down on the sofa.
Xu Mu pondered. Most likely, this person was also from the Yin-Yang Sect, probably here to deliver a mission.
He was very curious now about the relationship between the Yin-Yang Sect Leader and Ye Chen.
If they were friends, then Xu Mu would be out of luck.
But if they were enemies, Xu Mu could appropriately lend a hand to the Yin-Yang Sect.
"Old Chen, I want to stay and monitor. If you want to go to the back mountain to train, go ahead," Xu Mu said.
Sitting here, he could not only see what was happening but also hear their voices.
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
Cheng's father told him he was getting remarried—to a wealthy woman. Cao Cheng realized his time had finally come: he was about to become a second-generation rich kid. Sure, it might be a watered-down version, but hey, at least he'd have status now, right? The wealthy woman also had four daughters!! Which meant, starting today, Cao Cheng gained four stunning older sisters?? But that wasn't even the whole story... "My name is Cao Cheng—'Cheng' as in 'honest, smooth-talking gentleman'!"
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!
ng to die together with you." Lin Xuan is dead, his body thrown into the river by his scumbag lover and her accomplice. She, the president of the Su Group, is decisive, ruthless, and ice-cold. For three days and three nights, she had his body fished out of the river, and without hesitation, she kissed the bloated corpse of Lin Xuan. She laid down beside him in a cold coffin, their fingers intertwined, a smile lingering on her lips as she closed her eyes. The noble and cold-hearted woman, only bending for one man—Lin Xuan. Lin Xuan, with his golden finger, is reborn and returns to the day of his wedding to the treacherous woman. Su Qiang comes to steal the bride. Lin Xuan's eyes light up, eager to pledge his loyalty on the spot, but instead, her kiss transfers a glass of drugged wine into his mouth, causing him to pass out... 【Male Protagonist with Single Female Lead】【Yandere Tycoon】【Action-Packed】【True vs. Fake Heir】
