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??”
【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.)
u Chenyuan transmigrated into a female-oriented novel about a real and fake heiress, becoming the CEO elder brother of both. Unfortunately, the entire Lu family—including himself, the CEO—were mere cannon fodder in the story. Determined to save himself, Lu Chenyuan took action. The spoiled, attention-seeking fake heiress? Thrown into the harsh realities of the working class to learn humility. The love-struck real heiress? Pushed toward academic excellence, so lofty goals would blind her to trivial romances. As for the betrayed, vengeful arranged marriage wife… the plot hadn’t even begun yet. There was still time—if he couldn’t handle her, he could at least avoid her. "CEO Lu, are you avoiding me?" Mo Qingli fixed her gaze on Lu Chenyuan. For the first time, the shrewd and calculating Lu Chenyuan felt a flicker of unease.
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.”
