Then, she opened her arms and threw herself into Gu Chengyin's embrace.
"Sob, sob!"
Lin Qingyan rubbed against him vigorously while wailing tearfully:
"I thought you didn't want me anymore, boo-hoo!"
Gu Chengyin was knocked backward a bit. He quickly steadied himself and reached out to hold Lin Qingyan.
The fairy in his arms was like a wronged little kitten, desperately burrowing into his chest.
She burrowed and rubbed against him until his lapels were all wrinkled into a ball.
Gu Chengyin gently patted her back, his voice very soft:
"Although I was indeed very angry, how could I possibly not want you, Little Aunt."
It would have been better if he hadn't said that. As soon as he did, Lin Qingyan jerked her head up.
Her eyes were red, and teardrops hung from her eyelashes.
The crystal-clear tears fell patter-patter as she blinked.
Her lips pouted, jutting out high.
"But... but... but..."
Lin Qingyan said "but" three times in a row, each laced with a sob, each sounding as though she had suffered a monumental grievance.
"You just didn't want me anymore back then!"
As she spoke, her tears fell even more fiercely.
"I really had no other choice but to do that..."
Sniffling, her voice carried a crying tone:
"Chengcheng, please don't leave me, okay!"
Gu Chengyin froze.
He looked at Lin Qingyan in front of him.
Normally, she was cold and aloof, keeping people thousands of miles away.
But at this moment, her eyes were blurry with tears, red-rimmed, with teardrops hanging from her lashes as she pouted and looked at him pitifully.
So delicate that it made one's heart ache.
So dependent that it made one's heart soften.
Even someone like Gu Chengyin, upon seeing Lin Qingyan like this.
Almost agreed right then and there.
Yes.
Almost.
Gu Chengyin took a deep breath, suppressing the surging softness in his heart, and asked gently:
"Little Aunt, did you hear my thoughts?"
Lin Qingyan shook her head. She sniffled and said:
"I didn't hear them."
"But I can feel the electricity on your body."
Gu Chengyin blinked.
The electricity on his body?
What did she mean by feeling the electricity on his body?
Could it be... brainwaves?
Do brainwaves count as electricity?
It seems they actually do...
Lin Qingyan continued:
"I can feel the electricity on everyone, and yours is the best."
"But just now, your electricity changed."
A heavy stone fell from Gu Chengyin's heart.
As long as it wasn't mind-reading, there was room to maneuver.
Gu Chengyin sighed softly.
This sigh was a bit deeper than the last.
"Little Aunt, have you ever thought..."
Lin Qingyan blinked, waiting for Gu Chengyin to continue.
"That leaving isn't because of not liking, but because of liking too much?"
As soon as these words came out.
Lin Qingyan was stunned.
It was as if something exploded in her mind.
What did that mean?
Lin Qingyan stared blankly, the tears in her eyes forgetting to fall.
Seeing her like this, Gu Chengyin nodded secretly in his heart.
There was a chance.
He continued, his voice even softer:
"Because I like you too much, I don't want you to suffer with me."
"Because I like you too much, I would rather shoulder it myself than let you worry."
"Because I like you too much, so..."
Gu Chengyin paused, his gaze affectionate as he said:
"No matter how reluctant I am, I have to let go."
Lin Qingyan was completely dumbfounded.
Her originally firm belief began to waver.
Could it be...
That she was really wrong?
Could it be... that he wasn't refusing to take a step further back then?
Could it be... that his saying there was no future wasn't because he didn't want to give her a future.
But because...
He felt he couldn't give her a future?
Countless thoughts surged in Lin Qingyan's mind.
She remembered everything Gu Chengyin had gone through these past few days.
Emperor Luo wanted to kill him, immortal cultivation sects wanted to kidnap him, and the Heavenly Master's Mansion wanted to control him...
They even sent an imperial decree ordering her to capture him personally.
Lin Qingyan's heart suddenly clenched.
She suddenly remembered that Gu Chengyin was never the type to complain.
He always shouldered everything alone, always digesting all the pressure by himself.
He was always calm and composed in front of her, acting as if nothing was wrong.
But it was this very person who silently thought about leaving her.
Not because he didn't like her, but to protect her.
Because Gu Chengyin's situation was too dangerous.
Even if she was the invincible Golden Core expert, Jingzhe of the Heavenly Master's Mansion.
She might not be able to retreat completely unscathed.
Lin Qingyan's nose tingled.
She felt she was too stupid.
She only saw the electricity of having no future, but didn't think about why there was such electricity.
She only knew she wanted him, but didn't think about whether Gu Chengyin was considering her well-being.
She only cared about her own feelings, but didn't think about how much he was carrying alone.
Lin Qingyan's eyes turned red again.
But this time it wasn't out of grievance.
It was out of heartache.
Lin Qingyan suddenly reached out, gently caressing Gu Chengyin's face, her voice trembling:
"Chengcheng... I'm sorry..."
Gu Chengyin saw the deep heartache and guilt in Lin Qingyan's eyes.
He nodded secretly in his heart.
It worked.
But he didn't show it on his face at all. Instead, he sighed softly and reached out to hold the hand she had on his face.
"Silly Little Aunt, what are you apologizing for."
Lin Qingyan shook her head, tears welling up in her eyes again:
"I... I shouldn't have treated you like that..."
"You clearly... you were clearly thinking of me..."
"Yet I... I treated you like that..."
As she spoke, her voice took on a crying tone again.
Seeing her like this, Gu Chengyin felt a momentary flash of guilt, but it was only fleeting.
He pulled Lin Qingyan into his embrace, resting his chin on top of her head, his voice very soft:
"Alright, alright, don't cry."
"It's all in the past."
Lin Qingyan buried her face in his chest, her arms wrapping tightly around his waist.
"Chengcheng..."
"Hmm?"
"If anything happens in the future, you have to tell me."
"Don't carry it all by yourself."
"I... I can help you."
Gu Chengyin fell silent for a moment, then smiled.
"Okay, I promise you."
Lin Qingyan hugged him even tighter.
The carriage rumbled forward.
The wheels rolled over the official road, making fine, crushing sounds.
The sunlight leaking through the gap in the curtains danced upon the two of them.
Lin Qingyan nestled in Gu Chengyin's embrace, completely still.
Her tears had stopped, though her eyes were still red, and she just stayed there quietly.
But the guilt in her heart grew deeper and deeper.
She remembered what she had just done: electrocuting him unconscious, tying him up, hanging him up, demanding him.
She had gone so far, but what about Gu Chengyin?
He just bore it silently.
Even after being hurt by her, he was still thinking of her.
Even when he was in such a dangerous situation, he still thought about her, unwilling to let her fall into danger too.
Lin Qingyan bit her lower lip.
She felt she was truly too wicked.
Simply the worst woman in the world.
From now on, she had to treat Gu Chengyin well.
She absolutely could not let anyone hurt him.
If they returned to the Divine Capital and that dog Luo Houcong dared to act recklessly.
Lin Qingyan wouldn't mind smashing the entire imperial palace to pieces.
e school belle recognized by the whole school, a genius girl from the kendo club. She also has a hidden identity, the youngest legendary demon hunter. Chen Shuo just transmigrated and found himself turned into a weak, helpless little vampire. He was caught by Su Xiyen and taken home at the very beginning. Since then, Chen Shuo's life creed only had two items. "First, classmate Su Xiyen is always right." "Second, if classmate Su Xiyen is wrong, please refer back to item one." Many years later, Chen Shuo, who had turned back into a human, led a pair of twins to appear in front of all the vampires to share the secret of how he turned back into a human. "It's simple, I tricked a female demon hunter into becoming my wife!"
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
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?!
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!
