Inside an entertainment-integrated milk tea shop.
In a private room.
"Hehe, running into you is so great, brother-in-law. I’ve never been in a luxury private room before~"
Leng Ling'er's eyes sparkled as she gazed at the high-end gaming console in the room.
Though Gu Yan had already bought her all this during their previous shopping spree.
Lately, her sister had been holed up in the gaming room studying, leaving her deprived of her beloved computer for ages.
Gu Yingying sat nearby, frowning at the milkshake in front of her. After mustering her courage, she took a cautious sip.
Her brows lifted slightly in surprise. Hmm?
She picked up the milkshake with delight. "Commoner food isn’t half bad."
"Pfft, are you acting out some clueless noble princess from another world?"
Leng Ling'er, fiddling with the console, shot back without missing a beat.
"You—!"
Gu Yingying’s face flushed red. She did enjoy those prince-and-princess storybooks, but how did this brat see right through her?
Clenching her teeth, she was about to retort when Leng Ling'er cut her off with a glare.
"'You' what?"
"...Nothing."
Gu Yingying’s defiance instantly deflated.
Damn it!
This is all Gu Yan’s fault! That jerk!
She shot him a resentful glare, huffed, and turned away.
Gu Yan was baffled.
He hadn’t expected Gu Yingying to be outmatched by Leng Ling'er.
Was this the so-called... "every bully meets their match"?
When he first met Leng Ling'er, she’d been calling him "trash" left and right.
Only after his excellent guidance had she toned it down.
Though, judging by her unfiltered antics on short-video platforms, she’d probably just shifted battlefields.
Gu Yingying sulked, sipping her milkshake.
The sweetness filled her mouth, but her mind lingered on her earlier humiliation.
After all these years...
She stole a glance at Gu Yan and bit down on the straw.
Even now, in danger, her first instinct was still to call for him...
Her thoughts drifted to the past.
Back then, she knew nothing about martial arts, let alone being a prodigy.
She’d just trailed after Gu Yan like a shadow.
The turning point was during a gathering at the Gu Family estate.
Shy and chubby as a child, she’d often been bullied by peers.
Only Gu Yan had stood up for her.
Maybe that was when she’d started liking him?
But as time passed, her father lost the race for the family head position and became a changed man.
He demanded she become a genius and reclaim what they’d lost.
Then came Gu Yan’s infamous "simp" rumors.
Gu Yingying felt both disillusioned and... weirdly relieved.
If Gu Yan was just an ordinary man, then once she became family head...
She could—
Thunk!
"Ow!"
Gu Yingying clutched her forehead, glaring up.
Leng Ling'er stood over her, holding a controller and jerking her chin. "Hey, can you even play games?"
"Games? That’s kid stuff."
Gu Yingying smoothed her hair, annoyed. "Can’t you see I’m thinking?"
"I’m not a mind-reader," Leng Ling'er scoffed, dropping the controller in her lap. "Can’t believe a genius doesn’t game. My sister’s a pro at everything!"
That did it.
Gu Yingying snatched the controller, eyes blazing. "Fine. But if you lose, you answer a question."
"Uh, this is a team battle game."
"Then—change it!"
"Nah, let’s try this first! It’s way more fun with at least three players. You’re perfect!"
"So I’m just filler...?"
Gu Yingying sighed but stood up anyway.
Bai Qionglan observed her discreetly, concluding she was just a kid—no threat.
Ling'er was probably just humoring her. Definitely.
Soon, the three girls were crammed on the couch, gaming away.
Seeing the situation under control, Gu Yan turned to the elegant woman beside him.
"Big sis, did you really come to Jianghai just to snoop on my love life?"
Gu Yunrou responded with a nonchalant hum.
Then, as if remembering something, she looked at Gu Yan with a hint of resentment in her eyes: "Little brother, do you still remember what happened when we were kids?"
"Huh? What?"
Gu Yan was taken aback, then asked in confusion.
"Ah."
Gu Yunrou sighed.
It was back when Gu Yan was still very young.
The moment happened during a gathering at the Gu Family estate.
Back then, due to her introverted personality and her belief that her intelligence far surpassed others,
she was at that age where she was deep into her chuunibyou phase, and no one dared to approach her.
But in truth, she was also lonely and wanted to make friends.
Yet... no one noticed this.
Except for Gu Yan.
He mustered up the courage to approach her with the still slightly chubby Gu Yingying in tow.
["Yun... Yunrou sister, are you alone?"]
["Then come play with me and my little sister."]
At that time, the sincerity in Gu Yan's expression and words had moved her.
Especially since Gu Yan was... quite adorable as a child.
So her heart melted instantly.
But later, rumors spread about Gu Yan being a "simp," which left her feeling frustrated with him.
She thought that if she seized the family head position, maybe Gu Yan would sense the danger and snap out of it, no longer acting like a simp.
Who would’ve guessed that before this year’s family gathering even began,
Gu Yan would do a complete 180-degree turnaround.
"Ah."
Gu Yunrou sighed again. She reached out and pinched Gu Yan’s cheek: "You were much cuter back then."
"??"
Gu Yan swatted her hand away and said irritably, "Has anyone ever told you you’re like a riddle-speaker?"
"Riddle-speaker?"
"Someone who only says half of what they mean, thinks they’ve explained everything in their head, and leaves the listeners dying of curiosity."
Gu Yan retorted in annoyance.
Gu Yunrou found this amusing. She smiled wordlessly as she looked at him.
Little brother... still the same little brother.
But he’s really changed so much...
Is it because of Leng Qingqiu?
I’m really looking forward to meeting her tomorrow.
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.”
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?"
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?!
] This is a dark fantasy-themed dating simulation game. The main gameplay involves containing various monster girls and investigating the truth of a world shrouded in mist alongside your companions. However, due to his love for the dark and bizarre atmosphere, Luo Wei ended up turning a dating game into a detective mystery game. Women? Women only slow down his quickdraw! To Luo Wei, the female leads in the game are more like tools to perfectly clear levels and squeeze out rewards. For Luo Wei, flirting with every girl he meets and then discarding them is standard procedure. Worried about characters losing affection points? No need. With his maxed-out charm stat, Luo Wei is practically a "human incubus." A little psychological manipulation and those points come right back. It's a bit scummy, but the paper cutout heroines in the game won't actually come at him with real cleavers. However... Luo Wei has transmigrated. He's accidentally entered the second playthrough of this game. His past actions have caused all the girls to transform into terrifying yanderes. Due to the game's setting, most of the heroines he once contained are "troubled girls." Obsessive, twisted, mentally unstable, all aggressive yanderes... The type who will kill you if they can't have you... Luo Wei wants to cry but has no tears left. "I really just want to survive..." In short, this is a story of battling wits and engaging in a love-hate relationship with yanderes.
