Su Xiyan mustered her courage: "Chen Shuo, I have something to tell you."
She placed the pillow she was holding between herself and Chen Shuo:
"Chen Shuo, this pillow is the boundary line. You're not allowed to cross it."
Chen Shuo seemed not to have heard and didn't respond.
Su Xiyan got angry and propped herself up halfway: "Chen Shuo! I'm talking to you!"
When she leaned over to look at Chen Shuo, she realized this guy had already fallen asleep!!!
How ridiculous!
With a super beautiful girl like me lying next to him, he could still fall asleep?
Outrageous!
Chen Shuo was already asleep, so if I didn't sleep too, wouldn't I be at a disadvantage?
He might even make fun of me later.
So, Su Xiyan hugged her pillow and lay down, feeling annoyed.
With Chen Shuo by her side and his familiar scent, Su Xiyan felt quite peaceful inside.
It was just like sleeping at home in Haiyi Apartment, feeling completely safe and secure!
Despite her annoyance, Su Xiyan soon fell asleep too.
Not long after, Chen Shuo woke up from his slumber.
His stomach growled, and Chen Shuo suddenly remembered he hadn't eaten lunch yet today!
So that's why he woke up – he was hungry?
There was a knock on the door, and Chen Shuo quickly put on his slippers to answer it.
It was his cousin Sheng Xueyao in a red dress, along with her fiancé who looked ordinary but clearly wealthy.
"Xiyan... Xi..." Sheng Xueyao raised her hand to knock, just as the door opened.
Luckily, she stopped in time, or she would have knocked on Chen Shuo's broad chest.
Cousin Sheng Xueyao was surprised to see Chen Shuo opening the door. She stepped back and carefully checked the room number on the door.
She hadn't knocked on the wrong door! This was Su Xiyan's room.
But why was Chen Shuo the one opening the door?
Hadn't Su Xiyan just woken up in this room this morning?
Sheng Xueyao looked back at her fiancé beside her, then at the sleepy-eyed Chen Shuo, and suddenly felt envious of the free and loving relationship between Chen Shuo and Su Xiyan.
They seemed so sweet together, and it appeared they had already done things that couples should and shouldn't do.
What a beautiful love!
Cousin Sheng Xueyao, with her high emotional intelligence and being about to get married herself, immediately covered her slight disappointment with a bright smile:
"Most of the family members have arrived. Let's go down to the restaurant to eat!"
Chen Shuo rubbed his eyes: "I'm sorry, I was really too tired last night and didn't rest well, so I came back to the room for a quick nap."
Sheng Xueyao smiled: "That's fine, quickly wake Xiyan up, and let's go downstairs to eat together."
Chen Shuo looked back at the still-sleeping Su Xiyan, his tone unable to hide his affection: "She didn't seem to sleep well last night either, so..."
Before he could finish speaking, Chen Shuo felt something was off.
Especially when Sheng Xueyao gave him a look that said, "I understand now."
Hearing voices from outside, Su Xiyan also woke up.
A drowsy voice came from inside the room: "Cousin, wait for me a moment, I'll be up right away."
Su Xiyan wasn't someone without a sense of time.
The lunch was just for family relatives, with no outsiders, so Su Xiyan didn't waste time putting on makeup.
She simply washed her face, threw on a jacket, and went downstairs with everyone.
In the elevator, Su Xiyan's hair was a bit messy, and Chen Shuo casually helped her tidy it up, tucking it behind her ear.
The movement was quite practiced, and Su Xiyan seemed used to such small gestures. She was like a lazy little cat, leaning against Chen Shuo, allowing him to arrange her hair.
With a ding, the elevator arrived at the restaurant floor.
As Chen Shuo walked out of the elevator, he naturally took Su Xiyan's small hand in his.
In the largest private room of the restaurant, there was a huge round table that could seat dozens of people.
The Su family's lunch banquet was set up here.
From the conversation between cousin Sheng Xueyao and Su Xiyan, Chen Shuo learned that today's lunch was for Su family relatives.
Not only were Sheng Xueyao's parents there, but also Su Xiyan's father Su Yuanying, as well as some close relatives.
Moreover, the Su family's 80-something-year-old matriarch had also come.
It was normal for relatives to gather for Sheng Xueyao's wedding, such a big event.
But the wedding wasn't until tomorrow! Why such a formal affair for lunch today?
Sure enough, Sheng Xueyao's next words confirmed Chen Shuo's thoughts:
"Everyone heard that our Xiyan brought her boyfriend back, and they're all eager to see what kind of guy could win Xiyan's heart!"
Chen Shuo's smile froze on his face: Oh crap! A large-scale meet-the-family scene?
The largest private room in the restaurant was at the very end of the corridor.
The closer Chen Shuo got to that room, the more he felt a powerful pressure.
It was the oppressive feeling a Demon Hunter gives to a Vampire!
Demon Hunters and Vampires were like cats and mice, with an innate oppressive feeling in their blood. This was encoded in their genes and couldn't be changed.
Fortunately, Chen Shuo had his system, and he was already at the Demon Saint level.
Even though the pressure was strong, it wasn't enough to intimidate Chen Shuo.
Arriving at the door of the private room, several waiters together opened the heavy, luxurious doors.
A super large round table appeared before Chen Shuo.
Around the table sat the Su family relatives.
The only ones Chen Shuo could recognize were Su Xiyan's father Su Yuanying, and the aunt who had picked them up at the highway exit that day.
In the main seat at the far end sat a white-haired but spirited old lady.
This must be Su Xiyan's grandmother, the Su Old Lady, right?
From the moment Chen Shuo entered the room, all eyes were on him.
Su Xiyan led Chen Shuo around, greeting each relative.
Chen Shuo felt like he had developed face blindness; after a round of greetings, he could only remember a few people.
Anyway, he just followed Su Xiyan's lead, calling the relatives whatever Su Xiyan called them.
After the round of introductions, Chen Shuo's scalp was tingling.
Even Chen Shuo, who was somewhat of a social butterfly, felt like he had social anxiety.
He thought to himself that even just recognizing everyone in a big family was not an easy task.
His own small family was better, with simpler interpersonal relationships and just a few relatives.
During his first meal with Su Xiyan's family, several elders got excited and started toasting each other.
Enthusiastic elders even poured drinks for Chen Shuo personally, wanting to have a good drink with this young man who had "stolen away" their family's most beautiful daughter.
Chen Shuo had never drunk alcohol before,
But with so many eyes on him at the table, he couldn't back down, could he?
So, Chen Shuo almost never refused, and even took the initiative to toast several elders.
Before the meal was even over, Chen Shuo had already won the approval of the male elders present with his outgoing personality and generous nature:
This young man is a good one!
When you ask him to drink, he really drinks!
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
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.
tions: attribute allocation, analysis, proficiency, and simulation. Specializing in mechanical alchemy, from crafting sorcerous battle armor to handcrafting mechanical maidens, his mechanical legion conquers endless realms... Relying on his wits, he begins with a student-teacher romance, wins over a female director, enslaves a female assassin and a underworld queen, becoming the husband of a Grand Duchess... He enslaves the Goddess of Magic from the divine realm, developing his power simultaneously in both the Wizard World and the Realm of Gods...
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
