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."
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
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.
