At noon, the main road in the old town of Su City was narrow again, causing a traffic jam for quite a while. They finally arrived at the restaurant chosen by Su Yuanying.
On the second floor in a private room, Su Yuanying sat alone at the table, brewing tea for himself.
On the table was a set of Kung Fu tea utensils, with the aroma of tea permeating the air.
"From Nanli University to here, there are six traffic lights in total. Even if you waited for the full duration at each light, it should only take twelve minutes to get here," Su Yuanying said while pouring tea. "But you were eight minutes late."
Chen Shuo: "..."
Ultimate obsessive-compulsive disorder??
Chen Shuo was about to explain the delay due to traffic congestion when Su Yuanying suddenly asked, "Was there a traffic jam?"
Chen Shuo nodded: "Mm-hmm!"
Su Yuanying picked up his teacup, took a slow sip, and said thoughtfully: "It seems that the little white car you're driving now is still too small. After lunch, let's go choose a car!"
"Cars like AMG are just for Xiyan to practice with. Small sedans are fine for girls to drive for fun."
"Real men should drive Range Rovers. If you don't like those, other SUVs are fine too."
Su Xiyan: "..."
Chen Shuo: "..."
Is this how all rich people think so simply?
Fortunately, Chen Shuo didn't have many requirements for these cars. Su Xiyan's AMG wasn't an entry-level model; that configuration would cost at least over a million yuan. Elegant and low-key, it didn't have that ostentatious nouveau riche feeling at all, which quite suited Chen Shuo's taste.
"One car is enough for the two of us, we don't need to buy another one. Besides, I can afford to buy one myself," Chen Shuo's answer was very sensible. He had a system, and the system no longer malfunctioned in Su Xiyan's presence.
If he wanted the system to give him some money-making mini-tasks, the system certainly wouldn't disappoint Chen Shuo.
Why ask others for something he could easily obtain himself?
To Su Yuanying, Chen Shuo's response seemed like a perfectly sincere performance!
"Alright! If you need anything in the future, just let me know!"
"We're family, no need to be formal."
Already considered family? Chen Shuo recalled his performance in Yu Hua City, where he saved people from three families, and all three major families were scrambling to win him over.
With this connection to Su Xiyan, Su Yuanying had already assumed that Chen Shuo was part of their Su family.
Su Xiyan had previously worried that her big-shot father wouldn't like Chen Shuo, but she never expected that they would become even closer than she was with her own father!
Although she pretended to be jealous on the surface, Su Xiyan was actually feeling sweet inside!
Chen Shuo was the opposite; he appeared to have a good relationship with Su Yuanying, but he still had reservations!
Moreover, Chen Shuo could sense Su Yuanying's depth! Su Yuanying was a super big shot with extremely high emotional intelligence, in other words, he was incredibly smooth! It was one thing for him to trust Chen Shuo, but if anyone said he had no reservations, probably no one would believe it.
And so, a seemingly approachable super big shot and a seemingly ordinary freshman with terrifyingly powerful abilities exchanged glances, with what seemed like deeply hidden flashes of swordplay flickering between them.
At this moment, the waiter began to serve the dishes.
Chen Shuo, Su Xiyan, and Su Yuanying were now seated at the dining table.
Su Xiyan checked the time on her phone: "Dad, you asked us to come for lunch, do you have something to tell us?"
"We both have classes at two o'clock this afternoon!"
Su Yuanying didn't answer his daughter's question, but instead turned to Chen Shuo and asked casually: "I heard that the new Ghost King in Su City went to your school to find you?"
Chen Shuo was surprised: "Ah? Uncle Su, you even know about this?"
Chen Shuo's surprise wasn't feigned. He had only learned about the Ghost King looking for him when Lu Chen told him during class.
He didn't expect Su Yuanying to already know about it.
Su Xiyan thought her father was suspicious of Chen Shuo and became nervous, speaking up for him:
"Dad, Chen Shuo, he..."
Su Yuanying interrupted his daughter: "I didn't say anything bad about Chen Shuo, look at how nervous you've become!"
"It seems I've wasted these twenty years raising a daughter!"
After saying this, Su Yuanying even pretended to sigh.
Chen Shuo briefly recounted to Su Yuanying what Lu Chen had told him about the Ghost King coming to find him.
The more he spoke, the more nervous Su Xiyan became!
She didn't know if the Ghost King meant harm to Chen Shuo.
After listening to Chen Shuo's narrative, Su Yuanying's face showed no expression, as if he had known all of this long ago.
"Is that so?" Su Yuanying picked up his bowl and drank some double-boiled soup.
"The soup at this restaurant is not bad. Your studies are very tiring, drink more to nourish yourselves."
After saying this, Su Yuanying even ladled a bowl of soup each for Chen Shuo and Su Xiyan, showing no airs of an elder at all.
Chen Shuo and Su Xiyan exchanged glances, both full of questions.
They thought Su Yuanying was about to announce some major decision, but unexpectedly, throughout the entire meal, their conversation with Su Yuanying still didn't reveal any substantial information, just casual everyday chatter.
Finally, Su Xiyan couldn't hold back anymore: "Dad, did you really call us here for lunch just to have a meal?"
"Is there nothing else you want to tell us?"
Su Yuanying put down his chopsticks: "Huh?"
"What else could there be?"
"Does a father need a reason to invite his daughter and future son-in-law for a meal?"
Chen Shuo quickly denied: "Of course not, in the future, as long as we have time, we'll come to have meals with you, Uncle Su! Just call and we'll be here! No hesitation!"
He still needed to curry favor!
Chen Shuo thought, analyzing the current situation, the person most likely to help him reverse his bloodline and turn back into a human in the future was still more likely to be Su Yuanying!
He was already at Platinum Three, just a step away from the Legendary realm.
As for Su Xiyan, she had been so engrossed in romance lately that she seemed to have not leveled up for a long, long time...
Chen Shuo looked at Su Xiyan, his mind full of disappointment.
It was time to stimulate Su Xiyan, to make her rediscover her inner goal and strive to become a Legendary realm hunter as soon as possible.
With the double insurance of Su Yuanying and Su Xiyan,
turning back into a human was just around the corner!
Thinking of this, Chen Shuo felt a bit excited inside!
Su Yuanying was quite satisfied with Chen Shuo's performance, nodding,
Then he said to Su Xiyan: "Look at Chen Shuo, this is how you should treat your elders!"
Su Xiyan: "..."
She felt helpless inside, it seemed that she, the biological daughter, had once again been left out by Chen Shuo and her father.
After the meal, Chen Shuo and Su Xiyan had to hurry back to school for class.
Su Yuanying stood by his car, watching the direction Chen Shuo and Su Xiyan left in, his gaze gradually becoming calm.
His eyes were deep, like an owl's!
Su Yuanying originally had some plans he wanted to discuss with Chen Shuo face to face, but seeing how sweet Chen Shuo and Su Xiyan were together, he changed his mind.
Many things had been entangled for decades.
If they were to be resolved, he should do it himself!
Chen Shuo should stay behind to protect Su Xiyan!
At this moment, Su Yuanying didn't know that his arch-enemy of several decades would ultimately require Chen Shuo to resolve.
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?”
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."
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
