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!
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!"
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
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 vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
