Su Xiyan: "..."
Su Xiyan's slender and pale hand was hidden behind her back, clenched into a fist. Su Xiyan told herself in her heart that she must not get angry.
But she also could not indulge Chen Shuo too much.
This stinky younger brother was becoming too full of himself and arrogant.
"The housing area has been occupied by others, you should come to this side." Su Xiyan pointed at the screen with her finger: "This area has uneven terrain that can be used as cover."
Chen Shuo looked at Su Xiyan with an extremely surprised expression: "You even know how to play Battle Royale games?"
Su Xiyan disdainfully said: "Of course..."
No, she should not have answered like that.
Cheng Xinran had said that in getting along with boys, she must make the boy feel a sense of wanting to protect her, a feeling of being needed.
If the girl seems to know everything, the boy will subconsciously feel that she does not need him.
In that case, the boy will not have a sense of existence.
Thinking of this, Su Xiyan immediately changed her tone: "Of course... I don't really know how, but I watched people play livestreams. The final circle just happened to be around this area. You also know, the Demon Hunter's skills allow total recall, so I remember the terrain of this area."
In fact, Su Xiyan did not need to explain so much at all. Chen Shuo was currently playing the final circle and would not have the time or attention to ponder her words.
The poisonous gas circle was shrinking, the housing area had already been occupied, so Chen Shuo could only lead his teammates to the location Su Xiyan had specified.
Sure enough, there were some small mounds there that formed a natural cover.
In addition, parking a car next to it as cover was simply perfect!
The teammates all praised Chen Shuo for finding such a good position.
Chen Shuo gave Su Xiyan an approving look.
Su Xiyan also knew that when boys were playing games, what they disliked the most was being disturbed.
So, taking advantage of the time Chen Shuo was playing the final circle, Su Xiyan went to change her clothes.
By the time Su Xiyan had changed into comfortable home clothes and was removing her makeup while walking to Chen Shuo′s room, she saw that the screen had already returned to the game lobby.
"Did you get the chicken dinner that last round?"
Chen Shuo nodded: "Almost."
Su Xiyan: "Huh? Weren't you guys full squad when you entered the final circle?"
Chen Shuo mumbled in agreement: "Yeah, second place, ate a chicken butt."
Su Xiyan sneered coldly: "Eternal number two."
"Still too weak in the end."
Chen Shuo said indifferently: "The other side was hacking."
No matter how great your martial arts, you still fear a hacking brush.
...
A new game round had started again. Su Xiyan seized the opportunity: "Chen Shuo, this game looks really fun, can you teach me how to play it?"
At this time Chen Shuo had just entered the game and was in the pre-game lobby countdown.
He was still fuming from not getting a chicken dinner last round!
Without even thinking about it, he directly rejected Su Xiyan: "Didn't you watch livestreams? After watching for so long, shouldn't you have already learned it yourself?"
"I'm jumping now, don't bother me."
After saying that, Chen Shuo put on his headphones and started discussing the jump path this round with his teammates.
"Last round doesn't count, ran into a hacking brush."
"But that hacker wasn't that great either, probably just had wall hacks to see where people were. His aim compared to mine was still lacking a bit."
"If it wasn't for the desk being too small and the chair not comfy enough, I could've sprayed him down with an AK, suppressed him at close range last round."
"Anyway, forget last round. Come on, we're jumping Military Base this time, let's frag out and get our groove back."
"Marker 1, let's go!"
Chen Shuo had already entered the game world. Su Xiyan stood with her arms crossed in front of her chest, looking thoughtfully at Chen Shuo's small desk and chair.
In the middle of the night, Chen Shuo got up to use the bathroom.
Gamers drink a lot of water when playing.
Should've drank less in hindsight.
Still half-asleep, Chen Shuo got up and went to the bathroom. Passing by Su Xiyan's room, he noticed her door wasn't fully closed, and a sliver of light shone through the gap.
"Still not sleeping this late?"
"As expected of a top student, studying this late into the night!"
Chen Shuo walked to Su Xiyan's door and knocked gently.
Su Xiyan was sitting on the bed wearing a long nightgown, legs bare and crossed. Her eyes stared intently at the laptop screen placed on the bed tray.
Next to the laptop was a notebook, which she occasionally jotted notes in.
Hearing Chen Shuo's voice, Su Xiyan reacted very alertly, slamming the laptop shut with her hand.
"Still not sleeping?? Sneaking around outside my door so late at night, what are you up to?"
Chen Shuo snorted disdainfully: "You're the sneaky one! Studying for postgraduate exams? Or are classes in your department too intense?"
Su Xiyan: "What's it to you?"
"Academic failure!"
Chen Shuo: "Alright alright, you're the top student, satisfied?"
Chen Shuo turned to leave, when Su Xiyan's cold command came from behind: "Close the door on your way out."
"Slam!!"
Seeing that Chen Shuo had closed the door, Su Xiyan reopened her laptop and continued looking at the screen.
Plugged into the side of her laptop was a black USB drive - the very one her bestie Cheng Xinran had given her at dinner tonight.
On the USB drive were notes Cheng Xinran had compiled on how to flirt with guys.
As Su Xiyan read, she took notes of anything she found useful in her notebook.
Might as well get some dating practice in anyway, so why not use Chen Shuo!
Her thoughtful yet somewhat sarcastic little brother was quite a catch!
Su Xiyan felt that Chen Shuo was hers, and must not let other girls take advantage.
Whether she actually liked him or not, in any case, she absolutely would not allow others to covet him.
The early bird gets the worm, while the late bird gets nothing.
Su Xiyan looked at the words on the screen, a slightly excited gleam in her eyes.
"Chen Shuo, where do you think you're running off to?!"
At that moment, Chen Shuo who was using the bathroom suddenly let out a huge sneeze.
Looks like someone was talking about him behind his back.
Who could it be, so late at night?
Ordinary days passed quickly.
Chen Shuo kept feeling Su Xiyan had been acting abnormal lately.
But he couldn't pinpoint exactly what.
At times, Chen Shuo had the illusion that Su Xiyan was like a fierce beast baring its bloody fangs, as if ready to devour him whole in the next second.
The way Su Xiyan looked at him was like a hunter eyeing delicious prey.
Could this Demon Hunter obsessed with advancing levels still be coveting him, a lowly vampire underling?
Anyway, something was definitely off!
As the saying goes, a gentleman avoids danger.
Chen Shuo decided it would be best to be wary of Su Xiyan and keep his distance whenever possible.
On the excuse of basketball club training, Chen Shuo had been spending time after school playing basketball with his buddies at the club, staying until close to curfew before returning to Haiyi Apartment.
On the first floor by the elevators, two deliverymen were carrying several large boxes, waiting for the elevator.
Chen Shuo immediately noticed the esports gaming chair depicted on the packaging. His eyes filled with envy.
Damn! Weren't these the latest ergonomic gaming chairs?
Every guy's dream - graphics card, PlayStation, gaming chair.
Not only were this brand's gaming chairs expensive, they were hard to get too.
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!
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?!
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.
Cheng's father told him he was getting remarried—to a wealthy woman. Cao Cheng realized his time had finally come: he was about to become a second-generation rich kid. Sure, it might be a watered-down version, but hey, at least he'd have status now, right? The wealthy woman also had four daughters!! Which meant, starting today, Cao Cheng gained four stunning older sisters?? But that wasn't even the whole story... "My name is Cao Cheng—'Cheng' as in 'honest, smooth-talking gentleman'!"
