The refrigerator was fully stocked with all kinds of ingredients, as well as beverages, fruit, milk and more. The double-door refrigerated compartment had been tidied up neatly by Chen Shuo. All items were put in their proper places. At a glance, although there was a dazzling array of things, it gave people a comfortable feeling. After all, when it came to storage and organization, Chen Shuo was a bit of a perfectionist. Things had to be categorically put away properly.
"The fresh milk you drink has been pasteurized by the Pasteur method, the bottles are quite large, so I put them in the very back," Chen Shuo said, opening the other door of the double-door refrigerator and reaching inside for the milk.
As he slightly leaned to the side, Chen Shuo was facing Su Xiyan. Both of their little heads were searching inside the refrigerator, unintentionally moving closer together.
Time seemed to suddenly stop in this moment. This was the closest Chen Shuo and Su Xiyan had been in proximity so far (fights don't count).
Su Xiyan's eyelashes were like a doll's, curly and thick, casting a crescent moon-like delicate shadow below her eyelids.
At this moment, her gaze met Chen Shuo's.
She did not have the usual shyness of young girls, without the slightest intention to dodge, instead directly meeting Chen Shuo’s eyes head-on.
Her fan-shaped eyelashes quivered slightly, flickering rapidly.
From Chen Shuo’s perspective, Su Xiyan’s forehead was glossy white, her nose was graceful, and her unkempt hair casually draped at both cheeks, setting off her already delicate little face, adding a touch of charm and allure.
Her eyes were still cold and clear, yet she seemed like a lofty queen.
She had an innate aura about her that made people instinctively want to obey her every command.
This damn high-class feeling!
Although it was just a brief few seconds of eye contact, it felt like a long time. Su Xiyan was the first to break the silence.
"I'll get it myself."
Her slender hand reached into the back of the refrigerated compartment, grabbed a carton of milk, and walked away without looking back.
Chen Shuo's hand was still propping open the refrigerator door. For a moment, he felt a little lost.
Why did that intimate little interlude by the refrigerator just now feel a bit surreal?
Was it his imagination?
Su Xiyan was always fierce and stern, just liking to boss him around. How could there be such a charming moment?
He must not have slept well last night and was hallucinating.
Chen Shuo patted his cheeks and closed the refrigerator door. He went back to the dining table to continue eating his scallion oil-tossed noodles.
The traditional scallion fragrance mixed with the baked aroma of the sandwiches, forming a very unique scent. Usually Chen Shuo would have felt it was improper, but today when he smelled it, it seemed to have a special flavor.
After that sudden intimate twist by the refrigerator, Chen Shuo and Su Xiyan very tacitly ate their breakfasts silently, without speaking a word.
After eating, Su Xiyan went back to the master bedroom to change her clothes for school, and urged Chen Shuo, "Hurry up and finish eating. The car keys are on the coffee table."
Chen Shuo understood what Su Xiyan meant and nodded.
Ever since reaching a cooperative agreement with Su Xiyan, it seemed their relationship had eased up a bit.
Every morning, Chen Shuo would drive Su Xiyan to school together.
Nanli University did not allow students to drive cars to campus, and the school did not prepare parking spaces for students either.
Therefore, every time Chen Shuo would park Su Xiyan’s car on the roadside parking space outside the school, or find a nearby parking lot to properly park the car, then walk to school.
On rainy days, Chen Shuo would drive up and drop Su Xiyan off at the school gate, then go park the car himself afterwards.
He was quite capable in fulfilling the role of a driver.
A few minutes later, Su Xiyan had changed into her clothes for school, and was also carrying a backpack with a change of clothes inside.
Compared to the black leather chain bag she usually carried, Su Xiyan’s outfit today added a touch of the artistic flair of a young maiden.
She was like a freshly bloomed lotus, only to be appreciated from afar, not to be approached.
Chen Shuo seemed to recall Su Xiyan mentioning that her school’s kendo club had an event in a few days. They would be holding a friendly match against the kendo club of the nearby Wangjing Media College.
So these days when Su Xiyan didn't have classes, she would be at the school’s kendo club practicing.
After Chen Shuo cleaned up the bowls and chopsticks, he noticed the fresh milk packaging box Su Xiyan had left on the table looked a little odd.
"What did you drink this morning?"
Without even turning her head back, Su Xiyan replied, "Milk right? Why are you asking about this?"
Chen Shuo said, "Don't you think the taste was a little off?"
Su Xiyan responded, "Huh? Don't tell me you left expired milk in the fridge without clearing it out??"
Chen Shuo pointed at the bottle on the table, "You drank coconut milk, you took the wrong one."
Su Xiyan looked back and realized the "fresh milk" on the table really was coconut milk! The packaging looked quite similar, and had both been placed in the furthest corner of the refrigerator's chilled compartment, so she had grabbed the wrong one.
The key was that she actually hadn't even tasted that the flavor was off!
Chen Shuo felt very strange and continued questioning, "Didn't I tell you the location of the fresh milk? You went to get it yourself from the fridge, how did you take the wrong one? Can't be that you weren't fully awake right?"
Su Xiyan recalled that subtle encounter in the refrigerator just now.
Her delicate face turned red then white, then she swiftly regained her composure. She grabbed the car keys on the coffee table and headed out the door.
Chen Shuo hurried to catch up, "Hey! I haven't changed yet! Wait for me!"
Su Xiyan said, "...You go to school yourself today!"
Chen Shuo spread his hands helplessly, unable to figure out how exactly he had offended this icy queen.
At this moment, he felt his posture resembled Uncle Da's meme: *Hey! I haven't gotten on the car yet!*
A woman's heart is like a needle at the bottom of the sea - simply an unpredictable time bomb, with no way of knowing when they would suddenly lose their temper.
After getting ready, Chen Shuo took a car himself to school. When he finished classes in the afternoon, it was already past 3 pm.
Chen Shuo changed into his basketball clothes and teamed up with some classmates to play basketball happily.
Ever since living together with Su Xiyan, it had been a long time since he was able to freely exert himself to perspire on the courts.
After drinking the body enhancement liquid given by the system, Chen Shuo’s physique had also been steadily improving, and the effects did not disappear even as the liquid was metabolized.
It was simply amazing!
Chen Shuo received the ball passed from a teammate. His footwork was agile, and the basketball seemed to stick to his hands as he charged straight for the basket.
Below the hoop, several people were guarding Chen Shuo. They didn't expect that this cute newbie who looked like a little white face would actually turn out to be a hidden basketball expert!
Chen Shuo was over six feet tall, which looked quite tall normally.
However, this height did not give him the slightest advantage on the basketball court. Many basketball players started at 6'3" or above.
For example, the two burly players currently defending Chen Shuo below the hoop.
Chen Shuo was very nimble, and his legs seemed to have springs installed.
Even his teammates felt that Chen Shuo's shot would likely get blocked and were already getting ready to run back on defense.
Chen Shuo didn't even give the two defending opponents a straight look. With a graceful backward jump shot, the basketball drew out a beautiful parabola in midair.
With a thud, the ball went in.
Everyone present was stunned, their jaws practically dropping to the floor, disbelief written on all their faces.
The current freshmen were simply too freakishly awesome!
It looked like Nanli University's basketball circle was about to set off shocking waves again!
Chen Shuo, however, felt it was no big deal. He went to the sidelines to get some water and take a short break.
His phone rang. It was Su Xiyan calling.
"I have a delivery that arrived, it's in the south campus delivery locker. Go pick it up for me and bring it to the kendo club."
"I sent you the pickup code on WeChat."
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
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?!
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!
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?"
