Wang Yulan was a bit worried that Gu Yan would be angry about this, but to her surprise, he wasn't.
Gu Yan shook his head and extended his hand to Xiao Lin, saying kindly, "Hello, Xiao Lin. I'm Gu Yan."
"Since you're Wang Yulan's friend, you're my friend too."
Seeing this, Wang Yulan felt relieved.
It was so good that Gu Yan wasn't angry. She had been afraid that if the two men got into a conflict, she wouldn't know whose side to take.
However, after this comparison, Wang Yulan's impression of Gu Yan became even better.
Xiao Lin also noticed that Wang Yulan's gaze towards Gu Yan had become gentler.
He was irritated inwardly. Damn it!
Xiao Lin looked up at Gu Yan. Although the other man's expression was smiling, Xiao Lin, who had spent years training and fighting fierce beasts in the mountains, could clearly sense that beneath Gu Yan's smiling facade lurked a malevolence more chilling than any man-eating beast.
That's right, Xiao Lin was on high alert. From the moment he first saw Gu Yan, he could feel the blatant malice directed at him from the other man.
Although Gu Yan tried hard to conceal it, the thick aura of malice was still detectable to Xiao Lin.
This man... is very dangerous.
Xiao Lin made this assessment of Gu Yan.
His motives for approaching Wang Yulan must be impure!
So then...
He looked at Gu Yan's outstretched hand. Since you're asking for trouble, don't blame me for giving you a taste of pain!
Thinking this, Xiao Lin also reached out and grasped Gu Yan's hand, his eyes fixed on the other man as he said coldly, "Your name is Gu Yan, right? I don't want to be your friend."
"But I advise you to drop your little schemes and stay away from Wang Yulan."
Hearing this, Gu Yan put on an extremely surprised expression. "What are you talking about? My little schemes?"
His expression turned a bit embarrassed as he looked towards Wang Yulan, whose face had also darkened. "Um... Sister Yulan, did your friend misunderstand something?"
"Should I explain?"
Hearing this, Wang Yulan shook her head and took a deep breath before speaking to Xiao Lin, her tone becoming harsher, "Xiao Lin!"
"Gu Yan is my mother's student. How could he have any schemes towards me?"
"What you said is extremely disrespectful! Xiao Lin! Apologize to him!"
Apologize? To this man?
Listening to Wang Yulan's words, a surge of anger welled up in Xiao Lin's heart.
He gritted his teeth and glared at Gu Yan. This man...
Is he using this act to deceive Sister Yulan?
Fine, fine, fine. If that's how it is, I'll give you a taste of pain!
Thinking this, Xiao Lin tightened his grip on Gu Yan's hand.
He squeezed harder and harder.
On Gu Yan's side, he felt Xiao Lin's grip gradually increasing in strength.
However, it was as if some energy was blocking this gripping force, so Gu Yan didn't feel much.
Nevertheless, for the sake of his plan, he pretended to change his expression, saying with a pained look, "Brother Xiao Lin, you... you should let go."
"You're gripping too hard... ouch..."
Gu Yan's face turned pale, and he twisted his body, leaning against the car door, but Xiao Lin still wouldn't let go.
Seeing the other man's miserable state, Xiao Lin felt his frustration dissipate.
Haha! Serves you right! Ordinary people should act like ordinary people!
How can mere mortals compare to a genius like me?
Meanwhile, seeing Gu Yan like this, Wang Yulan's face also turned pale with fright. She quickly ran over to support Gu Yan's arm.
Then she angrily shouted at Xiao Lin, who was still gripping Gu Yan's hand and whose expression was gradually turning into a smile, "Xiao Lin!! Let go right now!"
"Are you trying to kill Gu Yan?"
Hearing this, Xiao Lin quickly let go, realizing he had gone too far.
After all, Gu Yan was just an ordinary person. With that grip, the bones in his hand were probably broken.
However, seeing Wang Yulan defend Gu Yan so strongly made Xiao Lin even more upset. He said, "Sister Yulan, stop protecting him."
"This Gu Yan is just scum. The stench of evil coming from him is making me sick!"
"You shouldn't..."
Slap!!!
The words stopped abruptly.
Thump! Thump!!
Xiao Lin felt his head buzzing. His cheek was burning with pain.
What... what happened?
Did I just get slapped?
He looked at Wang Yulan in disbelief.
She still had her right hand raised from slapping his left cheek. Wang Yulan's eyes were red-rimmed, tears flowing down her face.
She looked at Xiao Lin, who she had just slapped, with disappointment and said, "Xiao Lin, you've gone too far."
"I never thought you were this kind of person. I really misjudged you."
I... I'm not...
Gu Yan really is a bad guy.
Yulan, you'll definitely suffer if you stay by his side.
Xiao Lin's expression was somewhat dazed. He couldn't believe the beautiful sister would say such things to him.
"Xiao Lin, I'm very grateful that you saved me before."
"But I can't let you insult my mother's student like this."
No... I didn't insult...
Xiao Lin reached out his hand, wanting to explain something.
However, from the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Gu Yan's expression.
In an angle that only he could see, Gu Yan actually...
revealed a malicious smirk.
That look of mockery, not hiding his true face at all.
In an instant...
Boom!!
"Arghhhh!! You hypocrite! Get away from Yulan!!"
"Go to hell!"
Xiao Lin was instantly blinded by rage, swinging his fist as he charged towards Gu Yan.
Seeing this, Wang Yulan screamed in fright: "Xiao Lin, what are you doing?!"
Without time to think, Wang Yulan immediately threw herself in front of Gu Yan to shield him.
Bang!!
"Ugh!"
Xiao Lin's fist didn't hit Gu Yan, but instead hit...
"Yu... Yulan..."
"Why did you...?"
Xiao Lin looked at Wang Yulan, who had shielded Gu Yan, with a pale face.
She had suddenly rushed out, and in the heat of the moment, although he had pulled his punch, it had still landed on Wang Yulan's back.
She was just an ordinary person, and she had taken a punch from him...
"Yu... Yulan, are you okay?!"
Xiao Lin's body trembled as he stepped forward, wanting to check on Wang Yulan's injury.
However.
Slap!
Gu Yan reached out and knocked away Xiao Lin's outstretched hand.
His previously pale face was now gone, replaced by an indignant and angry expression: "Look at what you've done!!"
"You bastard! I never thought someone like you would be around Sister Yulan!"
"Sister Yulan, Sister Yulan, are you alright?"
Gu Yan quickly supported Wang Yulan, whose body was trembling and whose face had lost all color.
"I'm... I'm fine..."
Wang Yulan took a breath, enduring the intense pain. She held onto Gu Yan's arm and turned to look at Xiao Lin with a pale face.
Seeing his pale and panicked expression, she shook her head weakly and said in a disappointed tone, "Xiao Lin, you should move out of my house today."
"I can't let someone like you live in my home."
Wang Yulan's good impression of Xiao Lin completely vanished at this moment.
She felt too disappointed in Xiao Lin.
This punch was no different from attempted murder.
It was fortunate that it had landed on her instead. Judging by his stance, the punch was clearly aimed at Gu Yan's face.
She absolutely couldn't allow such a dangerous person to stay with her any longer.
"Sister Yulan, I'll take you to the hospital."
Gu Yan supported Wang Yulan as they got into the car, while inwardly feeling very amused.
Who would have thought... who would have thought...
This progress came as fast as a tornado, I couldn't have imagined it~~~
"What..."
Hearing this, Xiao Lin's expression froze.
He reached out his hand, wanting to explain something.
But...
Wang Yulan had already gotten into the car with Gu Yan.
Vroom!
The car started and instantly disappeared from Xiao Lin's sight.
He stood there dumbfounded, not understanding what he had done wrong.
He had only wanted to keep the beautiful sister away from that dangerous man.
"What... did I do wrong..."
Xiao Lin muttered to himself.
At this moment.
In the shadows.
Mei Xue frowned as she watched the entire process unfold.
She looked at Xiao Lin, who was standing there dejectedly with his head down, feeling somewhat exasperated.
Is this the future heir of the Dragon King Palace?
How could he be so devastated because of a woman?
However, Gu Yan was truly impressive, managing to make the heir of the Dragon King Palace lose his composure without even lifting a finger.
Wait... that's not quite right...
Mei Xue shook her head. Gu Yan didn't even know this person was the young master of the Dragon King Palace. It was really just a lucky coincidence.
Well... it seems this young master isn't all that formidable. Perhaps it would suffice to have someone under her command test him out casually?
As Mei Xue pondered this, her figure vanished from the scene.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
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.”
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
