“It's okay, who gives who a refill is the same. Besides, my son is a man, and it's not a bad thing to be considerate to his wife.”
Xu Mei couldn't help but giggle, she was quite assertive, but she was also open-minded.
She could feel her son's fondness for Su Xiyan, and since he liked her, she supported whatever he wanted to do.
“No, Auntie, actually…”
Su Xiyan was still trying to explain something. She knew that in Xu Mei and Chen's father's minds, they must have thought Chen Shuo was always being bullied by her.
She didn't want to leave such an impression on the elders, so she tried to defend herself.
“You know, my mom already said it, right? We like each other, so no more explanations.”
Chen Shuo shook his head and laughed. For some reason, the more he saw Su Xiyan like this, the more he liked her.
She was quite considerate of his pride.
In front of his parents, some things didn't need to be explained.
Su Xiyan's good qualities, Chen Shuo understood them well, which was why he was willing to do these things.
At the dinner table, everyone's conversation was quite pleasant, mostly with Xu Mei asking questions.
After previous interactions, Xu Mei already had a good understanding of Su Xiyan.
The questions she asked later were things she hadn't asked before, and Su Xiyan answered them obediently, without evasion.
“By the way, Xiyan, what are your plans after graduation? Are you planning to stay in Su City or develop elsewhere?”
Just as the atmosphere was about to quiet down, Xu Mei asked again.
“This…” Su Xiyan hesitated, due to her special identity, whether she graduated or not, she had to dedicate her life to the Monster Hunters' Guild.
So as long as there were no personnel changes or upward mobility, she would stay in Su City.
But how to respond became a dilemma.
Her identity couldn't be casually revealed to ordinary people, not even to Chen Shuo's parents.
“Mom, are you getting forgetful again? Xiyan's family is well-off, her choices are much more than ours.”
Fortunately, Chen Shuo stepped in to help Su Xiyan out at the crucial moment. Hearing Chen Shuo say that, Xu Mei seemed to remember something and patted her forehead.
“Look at my head, I forgot about that. Well, it's good, staying in the Su Family's business, your work will be busy in the future.”
“Yes, Auntie, there are a lot of trivial matters, but don't worry, I'll make time to accompany Chen Shuo. After all, besides work, there's life too!”
Su Xiyan responded seriously. If there was any deliberate performance before, at this moment, every word from Su Xiyan was heartfelt.
For her in the past, only her career mattered.
As long as her career was successful, nothing else was important. Until Chen Shuo appeared, he changed many of her views.
She felt the joy of life, the happiness of being with someone, and even looking forward to the future together.
Each point was crucial to her, she learned to live, learned to love.
“Auntie believes you. As a girl, you are a pride to many girls. Unlike my son, who has never had any ambition since he was a child. If it weren't for meeting you, he would be a piece of mud that can't be helped up. I wonder what kind of blessing he accumulated in his past life to meet you.”
Xu Mei said excitedly, and by the end, Chen Shuo was a bit unhappy.
After all, he was Xu Mei's son, how could he be worthless in his mother's mouth?
In the younger generation of the Chen family, he was also a pride.
From elementary school, his grades were always at the top, and in middle and high school, he was among the top students.
In others' words, he was always the child of others.
Although there weren't many glorious moments, he still managed to enter the most prestigious university in Su City, where he was always a good student.
In daily life, Chen Shuo rarely let his parents worry.
Whatever he could do himself, he did it himself.
Yet, in his mother's mouth, he became mud that couldn't be helped up?
“Mom, am I that bad?” Chen Shuo protested.
In response to Chen Shuo's protest, he just got a big eye roll: “Shut up, you have no say here.”
“Xiyan, this is your first time at our house, we don't have much, so please forgive us for not being a good host. Try your uncle's cooking, if you like it, tell Auntie.”
Xu Mei said while continuously adding dishes to Su Xiyan's bowl.
Soon, the dishes in Su Xiyan's bowl piled up like a small mountain, not just any small mountain, but a symbol of Xu Mei's partiality.
“Yes, if you like it, come often. Whenever you have time, I'll cook personally.”
Chen's father, who was not good at talking, also spoke up at this moment, which made Chen Shuo feel even more like he wasn't their real child.
“Mom and Dad, eat your food. Look, Xiyan's bowl is almost overflowing.”
Chen Shuo's words were full of jealousy, and it was his reminder that made the elders realize the problem.
While apologizing, they also started to add dishes to the female vampire's bowl: “Eat, by the way, we've known each other for so long, but we don't know your name yet?”
Suddenly asked by the elders, the female vampire froze, she had forgotten when was the last time someone cared about her.
“A name is just a label, it's not important.” The female vampire's answer was cold.
This made the elders a bit awkward, looking at each other, they could only ask everyone to continue eating and drinking.
“If it's for convenience, call me Mei.”
After tasting a dish from Chen Shuo's mother, the female vampire said in a low voice.
But in Chen Shuo's memory, this female vampire didn't seem to be called that.
He didn't ask much, maybe living with a new identity would be better.
Mei also gradually improved, at least from this moment on, she was willing to communicate with everyone.
“Mei, that's a nice name.”
Su Xiyan also added a word, the female vampire didn't say anything, just kept her head down and continued eating.
However, her gaze occasionally glanced at Su Xiyan.
Every time she was about to speak, the words got stuck in her throat.
This detail, though subtle, was noticed by Chen Shuo.
But in such a situation, he didn't over-question it. The dinner went smoothly, after finishing, Su Xiyan helped Xu Mei clean up the dishes.
Chen's father went to the balcony to smoke alone, and Mei, after putting down her bowl and chopsticks, was about to go back to her room.
Seeing this, Chen Shuo quickly blocked Mei's way: “Wait, let's talk for a bit.”
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.
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
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!"
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?"
