What's that supposed to mean??
Chen Shuo was about to scare Su Xiyan again. Just as he turned to face her, Su Xiyan had already shrunk back against the car window like a little rabbit.
"All bark and no bite" perfectly described Su Xiyan.
Chen Shuo put on his fiercest expression and said the most blush-inducing words: "This place isn't suitable today. I don't want to be secretly filmed and uploaded, becoming '91 Mr. Chen', so I'll let you off for now."
"Next time, I'll show you that I'm not just talking tough."
With that, Chen Shuo started the car and drove out of the underground parking lot.
Su Xiyan was still asking: "Why isn't it suitable?"
"You're picky about where you bully me?"
Chen Shuo: "..."
"You don't think that when I say I'm bullying you, it's actually bullying? Couldn't it have a double meaning?"
Su Xiyan was completely oblivious to Chen Shuo's implications. Her cold goddess demeanor and mature aura were on full display:
"Chen Shuo, don't forget what I told you from the first day we met."
"From now on, only I'm allowed to bully you. You're not allowed to bully me."
Chen Shuo raised an eyebrow: "Oh? We had such an agreement?"
"Alright then!"
"Who says I don't like girls who take initiative?"
As he finished speaking, Chen Shuo's gaze swept over Su Xiyan's body, the corner of his mouth curling into a mischievous smile.
Su Xiyan didn't think along those lines at all. She just felt that Chen Shuo was talking strangely and his smile was quite punchable.
"We still have a class this morning. The professor takes attendance and doesn't let anyone off. We can't be late." Chen Shuo stepped on the gas pedal, and a strong sense of acceleration hit them as they sped towards Nanli University.
On the way, Su Xiyan briefly told Chen Shuo about the Demon King Xiao Mingchen.
Is that all? Just a Demon King made Su Yuanying, a Platinum Tier 3 Demon Hunter on the verge of breaking through to the Legendary Realm, go into hiding for so many years?
How would the Demon Hunters of Su City feel if they knew that Chen Shuo, the seemingly ordinary freshman they had just overlooked, was actually a Demon Saint, a level higher than a Demon King?
Chen Shuo shook his head, thinking that Su Yuanying only seemed impressive. A mere Demon King had him so flustered?
On second thought, both a Demon King and a Platinum Tier 3 Demon Hunter were indeed formidable! It was only in Chen Shuo's eyes that they weren't impressive.
Who could blame Chen Shuo for being a Demon Saint? Plus, he had a system, equivalent to having a cheat code. No wonder he didn't take Demon King Xiao Mingchen and Platinum Tier 3 Demon Hunter Su Yuanying seriously.
Without comparison, there's no sense of superiority in combat prowess. Chen Shuo thought that by hiding his Demon Saint identity, he was actually protecting the Demon Hunters of Su City. Otherwise, given how inexperienced they seemed, getting scared out of their wits by a mere Demon King, wouldn't they drop dead on the spot if they knew Chen Shuo was a Demon Saint?
However, Chen Shuo was quite interested in this Demon King.
Why did the Demon King come to knock on his window earlier in the underground parking lot?
At that time, Chen Shuo had concealed his vampire aura. With the system's enhancement, even so many Demon Hunters couldn't detect his hidden vampire essence. He was completely indistinguishable from an ordinary person, with no trace of vampire characteristics.
This meant that Demon King Xiao Mingchen definitely hadn't recognized his identity. Unless he had already been in contact with the vampires in Su City and learned about Chen Shuo being a vampire traitor from other vampires.
So the Demon King from earlier was very likely trying to take out Chen Shuo, the traitor.
Fortunately, a large group of Demon Hunters arrived just in time to save Chen Shuo's life.
So it was a Demon King. No wonder the Demon Hunters had such an incredulous expression when they learned that Chen Shuo had told him to get lost.
Just as they finished discussing the Demon King matter, Chen Shuo and Su Xiyan arrived at the school parking lot.
With ten minutes left before the professor's roll call, Chen Shuo grabbed his bag and sprinted towards the teaching building.
Behind him came Su Xiyan's worried voice: "Chen Shuo, be careful!"
Chen Shuo waved his phone at Su Xiyan, indicating that he understood.
So Su Xiyan was worried about him? No wonder she had sent that "be careful" message earlier.
It felt good to have someone care about you!
When Chen Shuo rushed into the large classroom, breathless, the notoriously strict professor was just about to start taking attendance.
Luckily, he made it in time.
His roommate Lu Chen quietly scooted closer to Chen Shuo: "Old Chen, you've been looking radiant lately. Are things progressing quickly with the campus beauty Su?"
After the last incident, Chen Shuo had already concluded in his heart that Lu Chen and his other roommates had been bought off by Su Xiyan, becoming her spies + lookouts + wingmen.
So, Chen Shuo had no intention of answering any of Lu Chen's questions about Su Xiyan.
In Chen Shuo's eyes, Lu Chen had transformed into a character from a movie he watched as a child: "The commander asked me to pass on a message to you~"
The image couldn't be more fitting!
Chen Shuo couldn't help but overlap Lu Chen with the movie character in his mind, finding it increasingly amusing.
Just as the professor was taking attendance, Chen Shuo's phone rang, and everyone's eyes turned to him.
Only then did Chen Shuo realize that in his rush, he had forgotten to turn off his phone.
He quickly turned off the phone and then focused on listening to the professor's lecture.
During the time his phone was off, Chen Shuo didn't know how many messages Su Xiyan had sent him on WeChat. But she never received a reply from Chen Shuo. Calls also went straight to voicemail, which made Su Xiyan, who was also in class, extremely restless.
The duration of one class felt unbearably long for Su Xiyan!
While attending class, she was also sensing the aura of vampires in the surroundings. If that Demon King came to the school looking for Chen Shuo, Su Xiyan would be able to sense it and call for backup immediately.
Su Xiyan, the youngest and highest-ranked Demon Hunter in Su City, was usually calm to the point of intimidation. Only when it came to Chen Shuo would she lose her composure.
Having someone to care about was tiring, but also sweet!
Compared to Su Xiyan's anxiety, Chen Shuo was much more relaxed.
While the professor was lecturing, the class was dead silent. Lu Chen wrote a sentence on a piece of paper and passed the notebook to Chen Shuo.
[An older man came looking for you this morning, said he was from your family.]
Chen Shuo thought for a long time but couldn't recall having any "family" or any "older man" to speak of.
So, he added a line below Lu Chen's note:
[Are you sure they didn't get the wrong person?]
Lu Chen's answer nearly made Chen Shuo fall out of his seat:
[That older man resembled you in one way – you both have slightly reddish eye sockets.]
Reddish eye sockets?!
When Chen Shuo was first bitten by a vampire and started showing vampire traits, it began with his eye sockets turning red! At that time, Chen Shuo was still living in the dorm, and his roommate Lu Chen, who had just woken up, was the first to notice Chen Shuo's reddened eye sockets.
Could it be that the so-called "family elder" who came looking for him was a vampire??
If he wasn't mistaken, it was the Demon King! Why would he come looking for Chen Shuo? And he even came to the school?!
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)
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?”
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.
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."
