Su Xiyan's tone sounded quite anxious, and there was also a very helpless look.
The usually so powerful person was actually also showing an anxious state because she was locked out of her home.
After all, Su Xiyan was still just a girl!
Chen Shuo frowned and asked, "Isn't your door lock an electronic lock? Fingerprint recognition, how did it get stuck?"
On the phone, Su Xiyan replied: "I don't know what's going on either. It should be because the battery hasn't been changed for a long time and the fingerprint lock ran out of power. It warned of low battery a few days ago, but I didn't care, thinking it could last a while longer. I didn't expect the little bit of battery would run out so quickly."
"The lights outside the door don't seem to be on either, it's pitch black, and I'm a little scared."
"What if I run into bad guys?"
Chen Shuo: "..."
"You're still afraid of bad guys? Bad guys would be so scared just seeing you that they'd call 110 themselves!"
Su Xiyan pleaded pitifully: "Chen Shuo, could you please come help me?"
In the days living together with Su Xiyan, Chen Shuo had never heard her speak in such a tone.
For her to lower herself like this, could she have really encountered something that made her feel afraid?
Chen Shuo struggled to regain his composure and said to Su Xiyan: "You know there's a campus curfew, if I go out now, I definitely won't make it back in time."
"Let me find a locksmith for you!"
After hanging up the phone, Chen Shuo searched on his phone for a good half day but couldn't find the number for any locksmiths.
I remember having saved a locksmith's number before! But that was back in high school, and I don't know if that locksmith is even still in business, or if I accidentally deleted it when clearing my contacts.
Chen Shuo asked his three dormmates: "Xuxu, Xiaochen, Fei, do you guys have a locksmith's number?"
The three other boys unanimously said no.
I wonder why I never noticed they were so in sync before?
Chen Shuo started looking online for a locksmith, and there were quite a few in the city. Just as he was about to pick one, he overheard his roommates talking:
Zhu Fei: "Locksmiths nowadays are too sly! Last time my sister found a locksmith, agreed on a price, but when he got there he wanted more money."
Shen Xu: "He probably saw your sister was an easy woman to take advantage of!"
Zhu Fei nodded: "That's right! My sister got herself locked out in the middle of the night, found a locksmith online that looked fierce and sinister, agreed to fifty bucks to get it open, but when he got there he jacked up the price."
Lu Chen chimed in: "Actually money is a small matter, safety is the big issue! Your sister living alone as a woman, how unsafe if someone targets her!"
"Luckily your sister practices taekwondo, otherwise it would be very dangerous!"
Zhu Fei waved his hands repeatedly: "Taekwondo is useless, those bad guys nowadays use dirty tricks you just can't defend against!"
After his three vividly descriptive dormmates planted sinister images in Chen Shuo's mind, he immediately got out of bed, grabbed a jacket, and headed out.
Behind him, Lu Chen asked: "Old Chen, it's almost curfew, where are you going in the middle of the night?"
Chen Shuo: "I have something to take care of."
"Leave the door open for me."
By the time Chen Shuo's figure disappeared around the corner of the stairs, Lu Chen had briskly closed and locked the door.
"Leave the door open for you? What are you thinking? If we left the door open, how would we explain it to the campus belle Su?"
No sooner had Chen Shuo left than the three roommates took out a huge bag of snacks and happily started feasting! Many of these snacks were imported goods or internet celebrity snacks with exorbitant prices that students couldn't normally afford.
As Zhu Fei ate snacks, he reached over to rummage through Lu Chen's snack bag asking "How many bags of those potato chips do you have? Share one with me, they're so good."
Lu Chen retorted "The snacks Campus Belle Su bought for the three of us are equal shares, you just eat the fastest!"
"If you eat the most, you should do more to help make it happen!" Zhu Fei protested with his mouth full "Didn't I do most of the talk just now to help out?"
The more honest Shen Xu meekly asked "Fei, Xiaochen, isn't it a bit callous that for a few bags of snacks we sold Old Chen to Campus Belle Su? What if Chen finds out, won't he be angry?"
Lu Chen said "How can you say we sold him out? While helping Campus Belle Su, we are also helping Old Chen!"
Hearing Lu Chen say this, Shen Xu immediately felt much more at ease.
Without Chen Shuo, the dorm room atmosphere again turned cheerful!
It had only been a few days since Chen Shuo was last at Haiyi Apartment.
But it somehow felt as if it had already been a very long time.
The security staff downstairs all recognized Chen Shuo and assumed he still lived at Haiyi Apartment.
One was an electrician holding a light bulb who saw Chen Shuo like he was a savior: "Mr. Chen, Ms. Su said the light outside your home seems to have gone out. You can change light bulbs right? I'm the only one on duty tonight and can't get away."
"Could I trouble you to..."
Before he finished speaking, Chen Shuo had already taken the light bulb and toolbox and headed for the elevator up to the penthouse.
It really seemed everything was happening at once. First the fingerprint lock broke, and now the light bulb too.
Chen Shuo truly suspected Su Xiyan did this deliberately.
When the elevator dinged arriving on Su Xiyan's floor, Chen Shuo carrying the light bulb and toolbox walked out to see Su Xiyan curled up sitting on the doormat outside.
She was slender to begin with, looking rather frail and delicate like this.
Calm down Chen Shuo! Don't let this woman's exterior fool you!
After all, she had tricked you not once or twice!
Chen Shuo reminded himself not to stumble twice in the same place.
"Isn't the light by the elevator still on?" Chen Shuo looked up at the currently bright light bulb.
Furrowing his brow, he was even more certain Su Xiyan was just messing with him.
Instantly, his disgust towards Su Xiyan grew some more.
Did this woman decide to play him like a fiddle?
Just as Chen Shuo was about to leave, the light suddenly went out.
The instant the light darkened, Chen Shuo only felt a soft and fragrant bundle appear in his arms.
The next second, the light came back on.
Chen Shuo opened his eyes to see Su Xiyan curled up in his embrace like a frightened bunny rabbit, her hands quite skillfully wrapped around his waist.
Su Xiyan looked at the light on the ceiling that had dimmed and re-brightened, saying "The light just suddenly blinked on and off like that, scared me to death."
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】
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?!
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
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!
