The day was jam-packed with activities.
After buying gifts in the afternoon, Chen Shuo and Su Xiyan also purchased some fall and winter clothes.
Most of them were couple outfits.
Su Xiyan was like an artist, devoted to adorning her masterpiece.
In her eyes, her masterpiece was Chen Shuo.
It wasn't until nightfall that Chen Shuo and Su Xiyan prepared to return home.
As they drove past a bridal shop, Su Xiyan's eyes suddenly lit up.
They happened to be at a traffic light intersection, and during the red light, Su Xiyan pointed at the shop's exterior wall: "Chen Shuo, look!"
Chen Shuo followed Su Xiyan's finger and saw a large LED advertisement covering an entire wall.
The advertisement prominently featured the wedding photos of Chen Shuo and Su Xiyan that they had taken earlier that morning!
Chen Shuo was dumbfounded at how efficient this shop was!
The images of the handsome couple in their wedding attire were barely edited, yet they looked stunning!
Su Xiyan took out her phone and took a photo with the advertisement.
Chen Shuo: "Now, the whole Su City knows we're together. We've even taken wedding photos."
Su Xiyan: "What's wrong? Don't you like it?"
She leaned towards Chen Shuo, pinching his cheeks with her little hands and smiling sweetly, "Chen Shuo, now the whole Su City knows you're mine."
"You have to behave yourself from now on!"
Chen Shuo: "..."
"I feel like I'm at a disadvantage here."
Su Xiyan blinked her big eyes: "How are you at a disadvantage?"
Chen Shuo's gaze held a mischievous intent: "The whole Su City knows we're together, but in reality, we haven't really been together."
Su Xiyan tugged at Chen Shuo's arm, not understanding: "Aren't we together now?"
Chen Shuo: "I mean... something more... physical..."
Su Xiyan understood what Chen Shuo meant and her beautiful face turned red as she pinched his arm hard: "Chen Shuo!!!"
Chen Shuo's agonizing scream overpowered even the car's sound: "Help!"
"Su Xiyan is murdering her husband!"
The two playfully roughhoused before returning to their home at the Haiyi Apartments.
After an exhausting day, Chen Shuo was truly tired.
After showering, he didn't even feel like playing games and just wanted a good night's sleep after crawling into bed.
Accompanying a woman while shopping is a physical activity! More tiring than a whole day of basketball practice!!
As soon as Chen Shuo got into bed, there was a knock on his door.
Su Xiyan's voice came through: "Chen Shuo, are you asleep?"
Without waiting for an answer, Su Xiyan opened the door: "I'm coming in!"
Chen Shuo hid his head under the covers, pretending to be asleep.
But Su Xiyan didn't care and shook him: "Chen Shuo, wake up."
Chen Shuo: "...Don't you need to sleep?"
"If you're not sleepy, don't disturb me. I'm trying to sleep!"
A battle for the blanket ensued, ending in Chen Shuo's defeat.
Su Xiyan held Chen Shuo's blanket, watching him in his little bear cartoon pajamas and unable to stifle her laughter.
She had bought those pajamas for Chen Shuo!
The cute little bear matched Chen Shuo's adorable little brother style perfectly.
Chen Shuo: "Give me the blanket!"
Su Xiyan: "No!!"
Chen Shuo: "Fine, it's better if you freeze me until I catch a cold, then I won't have to accompany you to your cousin's wedding."
Su Xiyan was unmoved: "Even if you're bedridden, I'll just find a wheelchair and roll you over there."
While she said that, Su Xiyan was just putting on a tough front.
The warm blanket was already back on Chen Shuo.
Chen Shuo felt something was off as he covered himself with the blanket, only to realize he had it on backwards.
Su Xiyan noticed too and reached over to help Chen Shuo flip the blanket around.
But she stepped on Chen Shuo's slipper at the bedside, lost her balance, and fell right onto Chen Shuo's bed.
Chen Shuo instinctively shifted to the side.
With a thud, Su Xiyan landed on the spot where Chen Shuo had just been sleeping, still warm and carrying his scent.
Was Chen Shuo's dodge intentional?
Su Xiyan was mad! But she couldn't show it. How could she tell Chen Shuo that she was angry because she didn't fall into his embrace?
If he found out, he would just mock her again.
So, even though she was mad, she couldn't let it show.
"Su Xiyan, why are you staying up late and disturbing my sleep? What do you want?"
Chen Shuo slept on the inside of the bed, hogging the entire blanket for himself without leaving any for Su Xiyan.
Fortunately, Su Xiyan wore a fuzzy house dress, so not having a blanket wasn't too cold.
"Chen Shuo, I'm having second thoughts."
Su Xiyan's sudden statement left Chen Shuo perplexed: "Second thoughts about what? About being with me?"
Su Xiyan shot Chen Shuo a glare: "..."
On any other day, Chen Shuo would have received a flurry of Su Xiyan's punches and kicks.
But tonight, her mood seemed somber as she looked at Chen Shuo with concern.
"Chen Shuo, I'm having second thoughts about asking you to accompany me to the wedding."
"Because for you, the risk is truly quite high."
Chen Shuo: "It's just a wedding, what risk? Are there monsters that can swallow me whole?"
Su Xiyan's gaze fixed intently on Chen Shuo, her tone serious: "Not just one, basically the entire wedding party."
Chen Shuo: "??"
"The entire wedding party are monsters? With three heads and six arms?"
Su Xiyan sighed slowly: "The entire wedding, including the bride and groom, guests, they're basically all vampire hunters."
"And their ranks are quite high!"
Chen Shuo: ...
"So, I'm crashing a vampire hunters' nest?"
Su Xiyan nodded: "More or less, yes."
"My cousin's wedding is in the neighboring Yu Hua City. Chen Shuo, do you know what nickname Yu Hua City has in the vampire hunting circle?"
Chen Shuo shook his head, indicating he didn't know.
Su Xiyan: "Yu Hua City is known as the 'No Vampire City'. There's not a single vampire in the entire city!"
What? That strong?? Chen Shuo wasn't afraid, just surprised.
The vampire hunters in Su City were already powerful, but Su City still had many vampires lurking in the shadows, and some arrogant ones even caused trouble in the open.
Yet Yu Hua City had not a single vampire?
"You mean if I go to the wedding, I'll be the only vampire on their turf?"
"That sounds kind of fun! Su Xiyan, do you think they'll discover I'm a vampire?"
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!
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
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!
