Su Xiyan was holding a soup spoon, gently stirring it in her own small bowl, very much wanting to ask Cheng Xinran clearly, what kind of hints was this so-called hint? But she couldn't show it, lest her bestie mock her.
Although Cheng Xinran confided everything to Su Xiyan, even to the point that Su Xiyan was a demon hunter who kept a little vampire by her side, she could accept it and help conceal it. Now she even gave her good bestie ideas and suggestions.
Cheng Xinran looked at her good bestie with a scrutinizing gaze, thought for a bit, and asked: "Xiyan, you wouldn't be serious, would you? I feel like you..."
Su Xiyan elegantly took a sip of soup, her tone calm: "It's just finding a little brother to practice on, you can think of it as me grinding for experience!"
Hmm hmm? Grinding for experience? She's quite dedicated to this grind!
Cheng Xinran lightly tapped the table with her fingers: "Then there's no problem. I've put the detailed tutorial in the USB drive, it's my Cheng Xinran’s nanny-level flirting secret manual. Xiyan, you're so smart, I believe you can definitely learn and apply it."
Su Xiyan breezily expressed: "Doesn’t matter, it's just practice anyway."
Hmm hmm? Emphasizing it again? Is she feeling guilty?
Su Xiyan didn't want any flaws being spotted, so she hurriedly changed the topic: "I heard Boss Tang has been very busy recently?"
Boss Tang referred to Tang Zhiyuan, he was the boss of Su City's demon hunter organization, fully responsible for all affairs and coordination.
Cheng Xinran shrugged: "Yeah! Boss Tang has deployed all his power recently to search for that vampire king-level vampire lurking in Su City."
"It’s a pity, nothing yielded."
"Xiyan, think about it. To be able to reach the vampire king level, their concealment skills must be extremely formidable! I reckon even your dad might not necessarily be that vampire king's match."
Su Xiyan had always been extremely respectful and admiring of her own dad: "Nonsense, my dad just needs a little bit more before he can become a legendary demon hunter. It's a pity, he just lacks one opportunity."
"An opportune chance is hard to come by. If my dad encountered this vampire king-level vampire in Su City, he might be able to break through to the legendary demon hunter realm."
"But my dad travels all year round, I don't know where he's run off to now."
Cheng Xinran grabbed Su Xiyan's hand: "Xiyan, I know you are very competitive, but if you really encounter that vampire king, you must not act rashly and protect yourself!"
Su Xiyan smiled with a nod: "Okay, don't worry, I will."
"Let's not talk about work while eating out. Shall we talk about something else?"
Cheng Xinran: "???"
"Xiyan, obviously..."
It was clearly Su Xiyan herself who deliberately changed the topic earlier!
It seemed that Su Xiyan knew her bestie was about to retort her, so she hurriedly picked up her phone to scan the table's QR code for ordering, then handed her phone to Chen Xinran:
"Xinran, want some dessert after the meal?"
When it came to food, Cheng Xinran's eyes lit up. She couldn't even retort Su Xiyan anymore.
When two women were together, they always had endless topics to talk about. After eating, they went shopping again.
As Su Xiyan was walking hand in hand with Cheng Xinran shopping, Chen Shuo was ransacking boxes and cabinets at home.
He had called Su Xiyan twice earlier, just wanting to ask where the spare charger was placed.
Usually when not in use, chargers seemed to be everywhere. But now when he needed it, he couldn't find it. How strange.
He called to ask Su Xiyan where she had kept the spare charger.
But after Su Xiyan picked up, Chen Shuo was interrupted by her before he could ask.
After searching half a day in vain, he picked up his phone again to ask Su Xiyan. However, on second thought, he put his phone down again.
Whatever, just go out and buy a new one!
Chen Shuo still didn't know his simple intention to just call and ask where the spare charger was had instead sparked Su Xiyan and Cheng Xinran's imagination into dramatizing a plot about him.
After buying a new charger from downstairs, Chen Shuo’s phone finally turned from red to green in remaining battery.
Modern young people’s sense of security really does come from their phone’s battery percentage, the saying was indeed spot on.
With his phone charged again, Chen Shuo started booting up his computer to play games.
He had placed his desktop on the slanted writing desk.
The desk was a little small. After laying out the mousepad, if the mouse movement range was a bit too big, it would knock into the keyboard.
But it was still better than nothing right? Certainly more comfortable than a bedside desk in a dorm.
Chen Shuo put on his headset, launched Steam, teamed up with his buddies, driving a truck and toting an AKM, wearing a Level 3 helmet, cruising through PUBG's vast Miramar desert.
Seeing the toxic circle constricting, Chen Shuo prepared with his team to ambush care package deliveries at the edge of the circle.
His four teammates had each staked out their position. Chen Shuo was armed with an AKM, the most lethal at close range, so he hid behind a small dirt pile closest to the roadside.
Sure enough, a convoy came to deliver packages.
The enemies were already right in Chen Shuo’s face with their vehicles, yet he hadn't fired.
His anxious teammates shouted at Chen Shuo over voice chat before he finally snapped back to his senses and let loose a sweep with his AKM.
Although Chen Shuo had zoned out earlier, his pinpoint shooting skill was still peerless. Adding his teammates’ coordination, they managed to wipe out the entire enemy squad and harvest this wave of packages.
While looting, his teammate asked Chen Shuo: “What were you thinking about earlier? They already drove up to your face yet you didn't shoot?”
Chen Shuo found an excuse for himself: “Was just organizing my headset wire, didn't notice."
"Here, the Level 3 helmet's for you."
When guys play games together, things were just that simple and blunt. Some minor slip-ups wouldn't be taken to heart, handing over some equipment in-game would be good enough.
The final circle was closing in soon. Chen Shuo took a look at his phone, it was already past 9 p.m.
How come Su Xiyan still wasn't back??
Could she really be spending the night out?
His teammate’s voice pulled Chen Shuo back: “Get in, the toxic circle’s shrinking.”
“What are you dazing out for?”
Chen Shuo hurriedly hit F to get in the vehicle and continued rampaging in the game, periodically glancing at the doorway.
After another game, when it was 10 p.m. Chen Shuo finally heard the door lock’s successful verification prompt from the doorway with his perked ears.
The door opened with a clicking sound as Su Xiyan came back.
Chen Shuo’s tense sitting posture instantly slackened. He lazily sat in his chair and sneered: “Weren’t you spending the night out?”
“Why come back so early?”
Su Xiyan retorted: “Came back to see if you, this little vampire, secretly ran away.”
“I...”
Su Xiyan was about to mock him when she suddenly recalled Cheng Xinran’s words to her.
She had to guide Chen Shuo, make him voluntarily express what was on his mind.
If that was the case, she couldn’t keep being fierce. What if she really frightened Chen Shuo away? How awful would that be?
Su Xiyan took a deep breath, walked over behind Chen Shuo, leaned in to take a look at his screen: “Final circle huh? Chen Shuo, you’re so good!”
Chen Shuo was so frightened he dropped his mouse. He turned back with an expression of utter shock: “Su Xiyan, are you on drugs??”
] [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!
lan, the Luo family, tracked him down - along with the babies in their arms. Mo Xuan stared pensively at the paternity test results from over a dozen top institutions, both domestic and international, showing a 99.99% match between himself and the two baby girls. At 23, Mo Xuan, a doctoral student, had become the father of two three-year-old children. The kicker? The mothers weren't even the same person! He gradually realized he was being lured step by step into an elaborate trap designed by these two yandere sisters. "Be good, little Xuan. Sister's life belongs to you entirely." "Brother, if you try to run away, I'll have no choice but to tie you up." Mo Xuan: "Do whatever you want, ladies. I give up."
