After putting down the gift box containing the birthday present, Chen Shuo's hand stayed on top of the box, as if unwilling to let go.
He knew this was the attachment in his heart.
Putting down the gift means letting go of the expectations in his heart.
His slender fingers trembled slightly. The fingertips curled up for a moment, then he retracted his hand.
Many things are just like this gift box - carefully prepared for a long time, exquisitely packaged, but losing the plan at the critical moment, unable to see the other person unwrap the gift box and reveal the answer inside.
If one has eyes, they can see that Su Xiyan was just using her own crisis as bait to try to lure a certain person out.
What Chen Shuo had never dared to believe finally happened.
Su Xiyan was with so many demon hunters, deliberately pretending to be unable to defeat the vampire, clearly having the upper hand in strength, yet not rushing to hunt and kill the vampire.
What was her intention? It was so obvious!
Chen Shuo felt he was not extremely intelligent, but neither blind nor silly. The play Su Xiyan and these hidden demon hunters were singing was as clear as day to him.
Things had come to this point, there was no need to stay here any longer.
Su Xiyan seemed to realize Chen Shuo had misunderstood her and took two steps forward, "Chen Shuo, I..."
The words had reached her throat, but Su Xiyan saw so many other demon hunters around her and swallowed back what she was about to say.
She couldn't reveal to so many demon hunters that Chen Shuo was a vampire!
Su Xiyan's hesitation appeared to Chen Shuo as guilt and lack of confidence.
When Su Xiyan spoke, Chen Shuo did not interrupt her, he even stood in place, his eyes looking at her, giving her a chance to explain.
But Su Xiyan only called out his name, and said nothing else.
The light in Chen Shuo's eyes shone because Su Xiyan called his name, then extinguished because of Su Xiyan's hesitation and guilty behavior.
"Happy birthday!"
Chen Shuo pointed at the gift box, "The birthday present is here, remember to take it."
After saying that, Chen Shuo looked at Su Xiyan once more, then turned and left, leaving Su Xiyan with a cold and lonely back view.
Chen Shuo had just taken two steps when he was stopped by a young female demon hunter.
This demon hunter was already very weak, all her strength seeming to have been drained. She stood up, one hand bracing herself on the table, the other hand blocking Chen Shuo's way.
Her voice had no strength, "You... stand still!"
Chen Shuo: "What's the matter?"
The female demon hunter cut straight to the chase, "Are you... the Demon King?"
Chen Shuo was stunned for a moment, and looked back at Su Xiyan.
Su Xiyan's face was also full of questions.
Chen Shuo's heart sank even lower.
His expression was extremely calm, without any flaws, "Demon King? Are you guys filming a movie?"
"What Demon King? The two jokers in a deck of cards?"
Chen Shuo's handsome face was very natural.
The female demon hunter wanted to ask more, but was pulled by the sleeve by another slightly older demon hunter next to her, hinting to her with his eyes not to continue questioning.
By the rules of demon hunters, they cannot affect ordinary humans, nor let humans know of the existence of vampires and demon hunters. So this vampire girl asking Chen Shuo if he was the Demon King was already against the rules.
They were demon hunters, and suspected Chen Shuo was the Demon King.
But they couldn't just bluntly ask like this!
Besides Chen Shuo, who else could they suspect?
Also, Chen Shuo's expression was too calm! If it was an ordinary person seeing this scene, they would probably be scared enough to pee themselves, not remain as composed as Chen Shuo.
But even with suspicion, they could not inquire so directly, it would break the demon hunters' rules.
Seeing the complex look in Chen Shuo's eyes, Su Xiyan called out to stop him again, "Chen Shuo."
"Wait, I have something to ask you."
Su Xiyan walked up to Chen Shuo and pulled his sleeve, using the pretext of helping him tidy up his clothes, she asked in a voice only the two of them could hear, "You really aren't the Demon King?"
When Chen Shuo saw Su Xiyan, his eyes still couldn't hide the scorching feelings.
But when Su Xiyan asked this question,
the bright stars in Chen Shuo's eyes instantly darkened.
Looking around, Chen Shuo asked:
"So this is a trap, right?"
Su Xiyan nodded.
It really was as he had imagined...
Chen Shuo's expression froze for a moment, he didn't know what expression to show Su Xiyan.
In the end, he just smiled, "I see."
After saying that, Chen Shuo turned and left, leaving Su Xiyan with a cold and lonely back view.
Su Xiyan wanted to catch up, but her legs wouldn't obey.
She froze in place, the beauty in her eyes also losing its luster.
Chen Shuo had misunderstood! And the misunderstanding was quite big!!
Su Xiyan wanted to explain clearly, but she couldn't explain her thoughts in front of so many demon hunters, right?
This was indeed a trap, and the people setting it up were not just her. The chess masters behind the scenes wanted to use Su Xiyan and the vampires as pawns to achieve their own goals. Then, after sensing it, Su Xiyan turned the tables to find out who was behind the scenes.
What she didn't expect was that all her actions, in Chen Shuo's eyes, appeared to be a completely different picture:
Su Xiyan herself was a demon hunter, and she was hiding a group of demon hunters Chen Shuo had never seen before, disguised as staff of the private kitchen restaurant, fighting with vampires - wasn't this to lure the Demon King Chen Shuo to show himself?
Any explanation was futile in the face of the current situation.
Moreover, Su Xiyan now had no chance to explain under the gazes of so many demon hunters.
So the huge misunderstanding was created.
Watching Chen Shuo's back disappear at the end of the private kitchen's corridor, Su Xiyan's eyes were filled with too many emotions. Most of all, worry!
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
iemie, male, Race: Moon. Hobby: Collecting anomalies. At first, he thought he possessed two systems: the Crimson Rainbow Moon and the Clear Cold Frost Moon. One day, he discovered that he himself could also become a system for others, holding the chessboard of fate. The Eighth Epoch, also known as the Eternal Moon Epoch. Humans, witches, elves, bloodline descendants, specters, demons, and spirits together compose a new history. Walking the path on behalf of the moon, before he knew it, Chen Miemie's footsteps were followed by all manner of strange and wondrous anomalies. As time passed, many titles circulated about him—The King in Yellow, Lord of Anomalies, Heart of the Eternal Moon, and more. "Me? I'm just a traveler who enjoys collecting interesting creatures," Chen Miemie said.
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?!
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!
