Cheng Xinran asked the waiter again to confirm when the food they ordered would be served. Only then did she have time to sit down quietly and tell Su Xiyan what she was thinking.
"Xiyan, since when have you become so impatient?"
Su Xiyan's eyebrows raised slightly: "I have always been straightforward, taking action as soon as I think of something."
"So, cut the nonsense. Did you bring what I wanted?"
Cheng Xinran took out a black USB drive from her small bag and placed it mysteriously on the table:
"Here it is."
"Inside is the time-tested and undefeated pick-up artistry guide that I have treasured for years."
Pick-up artistry?? Su Xiyan's face reddened slightly, but fortunately her emotional control was quite strict, so Cheng Xinran did not notice her discomfort.
Su Xiyan was about to reach for the USB drive, but Cheng Xinran's little hand pressed it down on the table, a look of doubt flashing across her cute round face:
"Xiyan, let me ask you again! This USB drive contains pick-up artistry guides! Are you sure you want to pick up guys?"
Su Xiyan thought for a moment and nodded: "More or less!"
Cheng Xinran: "What do you mean more or less? Xiyan, you're so beautiful, like the moon in the sky. How many boys are gazing up at you! Do you still need to pick up guys?"
"What kind of guy is so charming? It wouldn't happen to be Chen Shuo you live with, would it?"
"But from head to toe, he doesn't seem like your type at all!"
Su Xiyan's hand resting on the table trembled slightly at the fingertips, then calmed down again.
"I'm not sure if I really like him, let alone love him."
"I just know he belongs to me. I won't allow anyone else to covet him."
"Also, he can only stay by my side, he can't leave."
Imagining the scene after Chen Shuo left, Su Xiyan unconsciously clenched her hand into a fist.
Cheng Xinran sighed as she looked at Su Xiyan with her clear eyes, and handed the USB drive to her:
"Okay! Your situation is really different from what I usually encounter. But this pick-up artistry guide should be quite useful to you."
"I've organized it all for you! Follow what I wrote step-by-step from the beginning, and take it slowly."
"With my pick-up skills, plus your stunning looks, I'd like to see how long Chen Shuo can hold out."
Cheng Xinran's eyes flashed with meaningful laughter: "He wouldn't be able withstand a single move, would he?"
Su Xiyan: "Then it wouldn't be interesting."
Cheng Xinran looked at her best friend in disbelief: "Xiyan, are you really going to try to win over Chen Shuo?"
"Although I trust your judgement, you're a complete beginner when it comes to relationships."
"Just now, you said you don't even understand what love is."
"Xiyan, you have to think it through carefully!"
Su Xiyan grabbed the USB drive in her palm and put it back in her bag.
Just then, the waiter started serving the dishes.
The delicious food finally shut up Cheng Xinran's chattering mouth.
Just as Su Xiyan was about to start eating, her phone rang.
The caller ID displayed on the phone resting on the table showed it was Chen Shuo. "Your little puppy is calling you," Cheng Xinran said.
Su Xiyan was about to answer but Cheng Xinran stopped her.
Cheng Xinran shook her finger: "Xiyan, you have to remember, even though you're strong, you're still a girl. You can't just pick up whenever he calls."
"You have to make him long for you a bit, test his patience, so he'll be itching to talk to you and answer your call."
Cheng Xinran sounded very knowledgeable. Su Xiyan's obsidian eyes shone with puzzlement, like gems.
Would what she said really work? Su Xiyan started having doubts, but Cheng Xinran looked cute and innocent on the outside while being a boy killer on the inside.
When it came to relationships, Su Xiyan really was a blank slate without any experience.
She should just listen to Cheng Xinran!
Su Xiyan didn't answer Chen Shuo's first call.
Cheng Xinran blinked: "It's time to witness the miracle."
"If he cares about you, he'll call again right away."
Su Xiyan asked: "But if it was something urgent, wouldn't Chen Shuo call a second time anyway? You can't use that to judge whether he cares about me or not."
Before she could finish speaking, just as Cheng Xinran predicted, Chen Shuo did call again right away.
Cheng Xinran let it ring for a while before signaling Su Xiyan to answer.
As soon as she picked up, Chen Shuo cut straight to the chase: "Su Xiyan, why didn't you answer my call earlier?"
Su Xiyan maintained her cold tone: "What law says I have to answer your calls?"
"Go on, what did you call me for?"
Chen Shuo: "I...forgot after you interrupted me."
Su Xiyan: "If you've forgotten then don't mention it! In the future if you have something to say, think it through clearly before calling me."
After saying that, Su Xiyan hung up.
Cheng Xinran had been eavesdropping closely by Su Xiyan's side the whole time to listen in on her conversation with Chen Shuo.
Delight shone in her round eyes: "See, Xiyan? Am I right? He didn't actually have anything important, he just wanted to call you. Especially when you didn't answer the first call, he seemed anxious on the second one, didn't he?"
"He called but had no urgent business, yet his tone was very urgent."
"In summary, Chen Shuo is also interested in you! But boys mature slower, and aren't as emotionally sensitive as girls. He must be very conflicted now, not knowing how he should confess to you. Or maybe he still doesn't even realize he likes you."
Cheng Xinran sounded very knowledgeable. Su Xiyan couldn't help retorting: "Xinran, just from a few short sentences you can analyze so many inner thoughts and feelings? It'd be such a waste of talent if you didn't become a psychological consultant."
Cheng Xinran was quite proud: "Did you forget Xiyan? I majored in psychology in university! I have a very accurate grasp of these boys' minds!"
Now that she put it that way, what Cheng Xinran said did seem to make some sense.
Su Xiyan asked: "In that case, should I just ask him directly??"
Cheng Xinran: "...Of course not! Xiyan, you're a girl, okay?"
"Can't girls act a little more girly? The boy should take the initiative!"
Su Xiyan: "But other than making me angry, he doesn't seem to show any other intentions."
Cheng Xinran's eyes sparkled as she turned over ideas in her mind: "No need to speak directly, but you can drop hints!"
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.
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
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.”
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
