When Lin Qingyan said this, her face remained as lifeless as ever, showing no concern for anything.
But Gu Chengyin could tell that she was holding a grudge.
A grudge over Gu Xiaoli's sudden attack on her earlier.
Gu Chengyin let out a sigh, though he wasn't too surprised.
After all, the Heart Demon Lin Qingyan only lacked desire and love; everything else about her was the same.
So it was perfectly normal for her to hold a grudge. Someone who couldn't even let go of pain and hatred.
How could she possibly forgive Gu Xiaoli for the sudden attack, especially when there was already bad blood between them?
If Lin Qingyan had shown complete indifference, or even acted like it didn't matter,
that would have made Gu Chengyin question whether she really was the Heart Demon.
But no matter which version of Lin Qingyan it was—the original or the current one—she always seemed to forget one thing.
That the upper hand was in Gu Chengyin's hands.
The deal he had with Lin Qingyan involved nothing beyond that.
If he gave in now, there would be no telling how much trouble it would cause later.
After a moment of silence, Gu Chengyin suddenly moved.
He stepped forward and grabbed Lin Qingyan by the wrist.
This action caught Lin Qingyan off guard.
Gu Chengyin's hand was long and strong, his knuckles distinct, carrying a faint warmth as he firmly wrapped it around her wrist.
What was he doing?
Lin Qingyan instinctively wanted to pull away, yet she couldn't bring herself to.
She wanted to ask him what he was doing, but didn't know how to put it into words.
Especially now, when she was still playing the role of the Heart Demon.
She had no idea how a Heart Demon consumed by pain and hatred would respond to such an intrusion from Gu Chengyin.
Would she coldly shake off his hand?
Would she ask him expressionlessly what he intended?
Her mind was a complete mess, and she had no idea what to do.
In the end, she could only keep a stiff face, letting Gu Chengyin pull her out of the room and toward the room next door.
Since things had already come to this, Lin Qingyan stopped trying to break free.
Her face still wore that lifeless indifference, as if nothing mattered.
But deep down, she was secretly delighted.
Lin Qingyan cast a furtive glance at the hand holding hers.
That hand, with its distinct knuckles, pale and slender, now firmly gripping her wrist.
The warmth, the touch, the pressure…
Ever since she started playing the Heart Demon, she hadn't gotten to be close to Gu Chengyin like this.
Even though this was just hand-holding, it still made her heart leap with joy.
And that made her even less likely to try to pull away.
The two walked through the corridor and arrived at the room next door.
Gu Chengyin pushed open the door and led Lin Qingyan inside.
In the room, Shangguan Yunying was still petting the cat.
Gu Xiaoli lay curled up in her arms, her eyes squinting in comfort.
Shangguan Yunying held her with one hand while gently rubbing her cat ears, her face full of contentment.
But the moment Gu Chengyin and Lin Qingyan stepped into the room.
Gu Xiaoli's cat ears shot up.
Her squinting eyes snapped open, her vertical pupils contracting sharply as she glared warily at the doorway.
It was that bitch Lin Qingyan!
Gu Xiaoli's fur was about to bristle.
She opened her mouth, ready to hiss and bare her sharp little fangs.
"Xiaoli."
A calm voice rang out.
Gu Xiaoli looked up.
Gu Chengyin was staring at her with his calm eyes.
His gaze wasn't harsh or fierce—it was practically gentle.
But when Gu Xiaoli met his eyes, she trembled all over.
Even though she was at a higher cultivation level.
Even though she was a half-Step Nascent Soul cat demon, and Gu Chengyin was only at the Foundation Establishment Stage.
At that moment, she inexplicably felt a surge of fear.
That fear was vague and hard to describe. It wasn't fear etched into her instincts.
Rather, it was more like the involuntary submission one feels toward a master.
Gu Xiaoli slowly closed her mouth, and her perked-up cat ears drooped down.
She didn't dare to hiss anymore.
Gu Chengyin pulled Lin Qingyan over to the table, standing above as he stared down at Gu Xiaoli.
His heart was steady, calm as still water.
Gu Xiaoli might be a half-Step Nascent Soul cat demon to others.
But to him, she was just a soft little cat girl.
Because of those two binding vows, Gu Xiaoli could never harm him.
That meant Gu Chengyin had no need to sweet-talk her into compliance.
All he had to do was discipline her harshly when she did something wrong.
It was that simple.
Gu Xiaoli curled up in Shangguan Yunying's arms, looking at Gu Chengyin with unease.
She didn't know what she had done wrong, but the look on Gu Chengyin's face clearly showed he was angry.
Was it because she had attacked Lin Qingyan?
But hadn't he already forgiven her earlier?
Gu Xiaoli bit her lip, feeling wronged but too afraid to speak.
Just as she was stewing in her anxiety, Gu Chengyin's free hand suddenly reached out and grabbed hers.
Gu Xiaoli froze for a moment, but didn't dare resist, letting him hold her hand.
Then she watched as he pressed her hand together with Lin Qingyan's.
Two hands—one large, one small; one cold, one warm—were forced together.
Gu Xiaoli stared blankly at their hands.
She was now holding Lin Qingyan's hand.
That hand was cool and slender, nothing like her own small one.
Lin Qingyan was equally stunned.
She never expected Gu Chengyin to resort to this method.
Forcing her and Gu Xiaoli's hands together, making them reconcile by force?
This…
This was too…
Lin Qingyan's feelings were a tangled mess.
Sure, she liked Gu Chengyin, but that didn't mean she wanted anything to do with that stupid cat…
"I don't care what history or grievances you two have."
Just as Lin Qingyan was wrestling with her thoughts, Gu Chengyin's voice rang out:
"But starting now, you have to make up!"
His tone carried an authority that couldn't be ignored.
Lin Qingyan's heart jolted.
Gu Xiaoli trembled again.
Both of them stood there stunned, unsure how to react.
Gu Chengyin's gaze first fell on Gu Xiaoli, stern and unyielding.
"Xiaoli."
Gu Xiaoli instinctively looked up at him.
"If you still bear the surname Gu, then apologize to your aunt."
Gu Xiaoli's eyes widened.
The surname Gu…
With that sentence, Gu Chengyin was telling her.
If she didn't listen to him, she could forget about being a Gu.
Gu Xiaoli pursed her lips, glancing back and forth between Gu Chengyin and Lin Qingyan.
Lin Qingyan still wore that expressionless mask—empty, disinterested, as if none of this mattered to her.
But her eyes were secretly watching Gu Xiaoli's every move.
Gu Xiaoli hesitated for a moment.
Just earlier, she had been stubborn, refusing to apologize.
But now Gu Chengyin had spoken again.
With that tone, that look, that uncompromising certainty.
Gu Xiaoli lowered her head.
Her cat ears drooped, and her tail hung limp, no longer bristling with defiance.
Finally, she whispered: "Sorry, Sister Qingyan. Xiaoli shouldn't have attacked you."
Her voice was small, soft, tinged with a note of grievance and reluctance.
But in the end, the words had been spoken.
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?"
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
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!
