Su City was so small that it only took about an hour and a half to drive from the airport in the neighboring provincial capital.
Chen Shuo calculated the time. It would take at least another twenty minutes from the time his mother's plane landed to when she walked out of the arrival gate. That meant there were still at least two hours before he could pick up his mother.
"I'm getting a little hungry. I only had a couple bites of dinner last night," Su Xiyan pulled on Chen Shuo's arm, "Chen Shuo, I want to try some breakfast from your hometown."
Chen Shuo: "..."
"Our hometown? You make it sound like my home is ten thousand miles away from Nanli University. The breakfast you can eat here is the same as what we eat at home, isn't it?"
Su Xiyan looked at Chen Shuo with puppy eyes, "But I want to try it!"
"Take me to eat the breakfast you often had when you were little, okay? I want to learn more about your childhood."
Chen Shuo looked around, "Miss Su, there's no one here. You don't have to pretend to be a sweet and well-behaved lady."
As soon as Chen Shuo said this, Su Xiyan immediately let go of his arm and resumed her aloof demeanor, "Chen Shuo, I'm hungry. Go buy me breakfast."
"Make it light."
Chen Shuo breathed a sigh of relief, "That's more like the original you. Don't put on an act anymore, it's making me cringe."
Su Xiyan's beautiful eyes glanced at Chen Shuo, "Chen Shuo, don't be ungrateful. I'm doing this for your sake. What will others think if they know you have an ill-tempered and cold-hearted girlfriend?"
"I don't really care. No one knows me here anyway."
Chen Shuo saw right through Su Xiyan, "I think someone wants to gain the approval of my hometown, right?"
He had hit Su Xiyan's sore spot, but she still had to maintain her pride.
"Don't be so full of yourself, Chen Shuo! It's not what you think!"
"I'm hungry. Go buy breakfast."
Chen Shuo looked ahead and said, "Alright, I'll go buy some."
"Follow this road straight ahead past the residential area, take a right turn, and that's my elementary school when I was little. I heard that school is going to be demolished soon. If we don't go take a look now, we may never see it again."
Speaking of this, Chen Shuo felt a little nostalgic about the past.
On his way to buy breakfast, Chen Shuo suddenly sensed someone following behind him.
It turned out Su Xiyan had caught up.
In fact, Su Xiyan also wanted to see what Chen Shuo's school was like when he was little.
If only they had met earlier, she could have been part of Chen Shuo's childhood.
Unfortunately, their encounter came too late, and she had missed out on too much.
Su Xiyan didn't say it outright. Her pride wouldn't allow her to reveal all her thoughts to Chen Shuo.
After buying breakfast, Chen Shuo didn't stand on ceremony. He started eating while walking.
Su Xiyan had to remind Chen Shuo every now and then to wipe the oil from the corners of his mouth.
"Chen Shuo, this is the kind of breakfast you ate when you were little?" Su Xiyan looked at the oily cake she was holding with disgust.
Chen Shuo wiped the oil from the corner of his mouth, "Yeah! I loved eating these when I was little."
"I'm going to make a 'delicious' emoji for you on the computer when we get back home."
Su Xiyan: "Stinky Chen Shuo, you don't understand."
Of course he didn't understand her subtle thoughts and feelings. What sinister motives could Su Xiyan have? She only felt that she had come too late and wanted to be part of Chen Shuo's life earlier!
Su Xiyan's pouting made her look naturally cute. This wasn't an act she had put on to fool the neighbors.
Her pink lips against her fair complexion looked even more charming.
"Eat slower. No one is going to grab it from you."
Chen Shuo took out a tissue and gently wiped the oil cake crumbs from the corners of Su Xiyan's mouth.
He was a little careless and smudged her lipstick, leaving a red lipstick stain spreading across her cheek, looking rather silly.
Chen Shuo couldn't help laughing out loud.
Su Xiyan: "Chen Shuo, what are you laughing at?"
Chen Shuo: "Haha! I'm not telling you!!"
Just then, a neighbor who was out buying groceries walked by and saw Chen Shuo and Su Xiyan laughing and fooling around.
"Hey, isn't this the Chen family's boy? What a beautiful girlfriend!"
Chen Shuo was tired of hearing such flattering remarks. His expression was merely polite.
After some small talk, he sent the neighbor on their way.
After the neighbor left, they shook their head and mumbled to themselves, "Time flies so fast! The little brat has grown into a handsome young man! And he even has a girlfriend now!"
The neighbor immediately took out their old-fashioned cell phone and called their grandson, "Xiaojun, do you still remember your neighbor Chen Shuo? You should learn from him... Not only did he get into Nanli University, he brought his girlfriend home right after starting school..."
The rest of the words were no longer clear.
Chen Shuo never imagined that bringing Su Xiyan home would make him a "model child" in the eyes of the neighbors.
Being the so-called "someone else's child" actually didn't feel so bad.
Everyone has some vanity after all! Chen Shuo looked at Su Xiyan beside him, even her aloofness seemed more agreeable now.
After finishing the two oily cakes, Chen Shuo and Su Xiyan arrived back at the parked car.
Checking the time on his phone, it was just the right time to drive to the airport to pick up Mother Chen.
Sitting in the passenger seat, Su Xiyan noticed that Chen Shuo had smudged her lipstick.
"Chen Shuo! You have to make up for this."
Chen Shuo nodded, "Okay, just tell me what brand and shade you want. I, Chen Shuo, may not be as rich as you, but I can still afford to buy lipstick for my girlfriend."
Su Xiyan: "You have to buy expensive lipstick, the more expensive the safer."
Chen Shuo chuckled, "Then let's buy a cheap one! Ideally something toxic that you can wear every day and develop a chronic reaction until you suddenly drop dead from poisoning one day."
"I wonder how many episodes I could last in a detective anime with a clever brain like mine?"
A hint of a smile flashed across Su Xiyan's lips, "Chen Shuo, I don't know how many episodes you could last in a detective anime."
"But I do know, this little trick of yours won't even get you through one episode with me."
Chen Shuo looked back in confusion, "Why not?"
Su Xiyan leaned forward slightly, the corners of her mouth curling into a fox-like smile, "Because the lipstick I wear is meant to be eaten by you!"
pression Bureau] Transported to a fantasy world overrun by demons and monsters, Gu Qingfeng becomes a jailer in the Demon Suppression Prison of the Great Yan Dynasty's Demon Suppression Bureau. From this point on, bizarre cases frequently occur in the Demon Suppression Prison, once known as hell on earth and infamous for its gloomy, terrifying atmosphere! Why do the demons and monsters in the prison wail miserably every night? Why has the corpse demon, capable of transforming into various beauties, donned black stockings and switched careers to become a foot massage therapist? Why has the eye demon, expert in soul-snatching and illusions, turned into a VR headset? Why is the fox spirit performing otaku dances? Are all these occurrences a twisted expression of demonic nature, or a descent into moral depravity? After peeling away layer upon layer of mystery, all clues ultimately point to a jailer named Gu Qingfeng. Gu Qingfeng: "Hehehe... My dear demons and monsters, whose card shall we flip today?"
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."
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?”
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
