Su Luo drifted in and out of consciousness, as if caught in a dream where dozens of hands toyed with her. It should have been a terrifying scene, yet it felt oddly pleasant—something she couldn’t quite understand. But since she couldn’t make sense of it, she let it go. Exhausted, all she wanted now was to sleep deeply.
Half a day later, Su Luo slowly opened her eyes.
And then she noticed two people lying beside her, their hands interlaced and resting against her cheeks.
What was going on?
"Su Luo, you’re awake?" Little Yu rubbed her eyes; she’d ended up dozing off unintentionally.
"What are you two doing?"
Little Yu immediately pulled her hand back. "Nothing..."
Yun, however, retracted hers leisurely and changed the subject. "I’m back~"
"Oh."
"So cold. At least show a little concern for me?"
"You’re fine, so it’s fine."
"Hehe."
Su Luo didn’t press further. Where Yun had gone or what she’d done—such things were better left unspoken. Overanalyzing wouldn’t do any of them any good.
"Little Yu." Su Luo called out.
But Little Yu avoided her gaze.
"What’s wrong?" Su Luo shifted slightly, angling herself to meet Little Yu’s eyes again.
Little Yu continued to evade her.
Su Luo was puzzled. She didn’t do anything inappropriate in her sleep, did she?
Indeed, she hadn’t—except for rolling over and pulling Little Yu into her arms, treating her like a hugging pillow. Though Su Luo had quickly shifted back to lying flat, the act had already left Little Yu flustered, and she hadn’t fully recovered yet.
"You really don’t know what you did to her?" Yun fanned the flames from the side.
"What did I do?"
"Nothing, nothing at all!" Little Yu hurried to explain before things got more awkward. Being reminded of it repeatedly only made her more embarrassed.
"Haha, I just wanted to tease Little Yu. She’s too adorable."
"You really... don’t bully her too much."
Little Yu gradually steadied herself. "Su Luo, are you feeling better now?"
"Yeah, much better. Thanks for taking care of me. If you hadn’t been here, I wouldn’t have slept so well."
Hearing Su Luo’s words, Little Yu flushed but managed to reply, "I’m happy to help."
Su Luo sat up, stretching lazily. Her energy had mostly returned.
After resting a little longer, she announced, "Let’s head back to the Shattered Bone Abyss."
Little Yu: "Mm."
Yun: "Yes."
Upon returning to the Heavenly Demon Sect, they found the Left Enforcer in the middle of a meeting, reprimanding the disciples.
This operation had been a complete failure.
The original plan was to raid the Emperor Heaven Sect first, then stir up trouble at the Northern Heavenly Gate.
But they hadn’t even fought the Emperor Heaven Sect for long before Di Haoran returned, cutting their destruction short and leaving them worse off.
And their attack on the Northern Heavenly Gate hadn’t achieved the desired results either.
A scolding was inevitable.
Of course, after the reprimand came the praise—the classic "slap then sugar" approach the Left Enforcer had mastered.
Many took his words to heart, given his standing in the sect.
Repeated failures to grasp the Demon Lord’s orders had gradually pushed her out of the Heavenly Demon Sect’s focus.
And with her absence in recent operations, doubts about her competence had begun to surface.
Unconsciously, the Left Enforcer had become their de facto leader.
Su Luo, of course, treated it all as background noise.
Once dismissed, she returned to her quarters.
After so much busywork, all Su Luo wanted was to lie down. One could never get enough of lying down.
But when she arrived, someone had beaten her to it.
Jiang Ningshu was already reclining on Su Luo’s lounging chair.
"Such an honor, Demon Lord."
Su Luo hadn’t expected the Demon Lord to visit. What was she here for?
Jiang Ningshu seemed to read her thoughts and answered, "I realized that going out for a walk isn’t so bad."
After accompanying Su Luo on her last excursion, Jiang Ningshu had found her own residence too empty, leaving her restless.
So she’d moved into Su Luo’s space instead.
"But that doesn’t explain why you’re here, does it?"
"I don’t know why either. It just feels... nice here."
"Fine."
Su Luo decided to let it slide.
Yun, however, was curious. "Su Luo, are you and the Demon Lord... close?"
Little Yu also edged closer, intrigued.
"Not really. Does this count as close?"
"If this doesn’t, then what does? Are the two of you... involved?"
"Bold words. You’ve got a death wish, huh?" Su Luo found Yun unusually daring today.
She glanced at Jiang Ningshu—at this distance, she’d definitely heard.
But the Demon Lord showed no reaction. Perhaps she didn’t care.
"Well? Are you?" Yun pressed.
"Of course not." Su Luo answered truthfully.
"My apologies, then."
After that, life resumed as usual. There was no reason to act stiff just because the Demon Lord was present.
Su Luo certainly wasn’t going to.
Yun maintained surface-level respect at first, but after a few interactions with no reaction from Jiang Ningshu, she eventually ignored her altogether.
Little Yu simply followed Su Luo’s lead—if Su Luo said to treat the Demon Lord as if she weren’t there, then that’s exactly what she’d do.
Days passed in peaceful routine.
The only one still busy was the Left Enforcer, who refused to concede defeat and continued plotting against the Emperor Heaven Sect.
Having come this far, how could he retreat empty-handed?
But his plans now required more caution. Without the beast army, facing the Emperor Heaven Sect head-on would be costly.
His ambition to replace the Demon Lord grew stronger. A few more successful schemes, and he could overturn her rule—after all, she had no real power now.
Even if others objected, who else was a more suitable candidate?
......
On this particular day, Su Luo lazed under the sun as usual.
Jiang Ningshu lay beside her, equally idle.
"Does lying around like this really mean anything to you?"
Before Su Luo’s return, Jiang Ningshu had been on the verge of recovering to her second-tier strength.
But with Su Luo back, she no longer trained in front of her.
She couldn’t fathom why Su Luo enjoyed this so much.
"Meaning? No. It’s comfortable, so I do it."
Su Luo had long outgrown the age of relentless striving. With the rewards from her diary, she’d rather write a few more entries than grind her cultivation.
"Seems like you’re the only one with nothing to do here," Jiang Ningshu teased.
Yun was training Xiao Pa.
Little Yu was deep in meditation.
"Same goes for you. You’ve been here a while. Does this hold any meaning for you?"
"Hard to say. But staying like this for a little longer isn’t bad."
Jiang Ningshu figured delaying her recovery by a few days was fine. According to Su Luo’s "plot," she was already far ahead of schedule.
"Is that so."
Su Luo didn’t bother guessing the Demon Lord’s motives, but...
"Don’t you think this place is getting a bit crowded?"
Two people had been manageable, but three? It was starting to feel like a crowd.
Originally, Su Luo had planned to quietly clear this world all by herself.
ave】 Shen Qingling was a man with peerless looks, a cunning mind, and the ability to play both the aloof noble and the innocent sweetheart—a master of seduction who could outplay any player. But after an untimely death, he found himself bound to a system and transmigrated into the tragic "true young master" of a melodramatic novel. In the original story, his childhood sweetheart treated him as a backup plan, his fiancée swore to break off their engagement for the sake of the "fake young master," and his own sister saw him as the family's disgrace. He was nothing more than a rat everyone wanted to stomp on. System 077: "Your mission is to change the original fate and conquer the goddesses." Shen Qingling: "Thanks for the invite. If seduction had tiers, I’d be max level." His childhood sweetheart knelt, begging for forgiveness: "Qingling, I was wrong. Please give me another chance." His ex-fiancée refused to marry anyone else: "Shen Qingling, I was blind before. In this life, I’ll marry no one but you." A yandere CEO went mad for love: "Shen Qingling, you can only like me. I’ll stop at nothing to make you mine!" His green-tea sister clung to him daily: "Brother, look at me, won’t you? I’m more obedient than them—I love you the most~" At first, they scorned and trampled on him. Later, they burned themselves like moths to a flame, all for his sake. His looks were his weapon, his sweet words the bait—heroines obsessed over him, villains turned to madness for him. Shen Qingling became a true male siren, igniting battlefield after battlefield of women fighting for his affection. Years later, when System 077—now one of the elites—was asked how to become as outstanding as it, it lazily exhaled a smoke ring and replied: "Just know how to cheer ‘666’ at the right time."
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
world slacker. But a genius female disciple just had to get clingy, insisting that he take her as a disciple. Not only that, she was always making advances on him, thoroughly disrupting his peaceful slacker life...
