Night fell, and Tang Xiaoyu and Lu Changchun lay under a bridge hole. The ground was covered with straw mats and their bodies were covered with worn quilts. Tang Xiaoyu didn't know what was inside the quilt, but it felt quite like cotton.
"Xiaoyu, this won't work!"
Tang Xiaoyu rolled over and said, "I know, I'm trying to find a way!"
"No, let's go to the tea house or brothel and try it out? There are more people looking for fun there, and their ability to accept new things is stronger."
Lu Changchun thought for a moment and felt this was the only resort.
"Let's try it tomorrow!"
Tang Xiaoyu sighed, "Ah! It would be great if we had a projection stone."
"I have it!" Lu Changchun stood up.
Tang Xiaoyu asked curiously, "Are you a cultivator?"
"Didn't you know that day by the river?"
Tang Xiaoyu slapped his forehead, "I got it wrong. I just took you for an ordinary person afterwards."
"Uncle, what cultivation base do you have?"
Lu Changchun proudly said, "Late Yuan Ying stage."
Tang Xiaoyu immediately got up, "Senior, please accept my bow."
"Xiaoyu, I can tell you, don't get any ideas! I just want to live an ordinary life, you should understand the rest."
Lu Changchun thought for a while and felt this was the only way out of no way.
"Let's try it tomorrow!"
Tang Xiaoyu sighed, "Ah! It would be great if we had a projection stone."
"I have it!" Lu Changchun stood up.
Tang Xiaoyu asked curiously, "Are you a cultivator?"
"Didn't you know that day by the river?"
Tang Xiaoyu slapped his forehead, "I got it wrong. I just took you for an ordinary person afterwards."
"Uncle, what cultivation base do you have?"
Lu Changchun proudly said, "Late Yuan Ying stage."
Tang Xiaoyu immediately got up, "Senior, please accept my bow."
"Xiaoyu, I can tell you, don't get any ideas! I just want to live an ordinary life, you should understand the rest."
Tang Xiaoyu walked up and patted Lu Changchun's shoulder with a smile, "Uncle, we can use your storage ring and some things, right?"
"That's fine."
"Uncle, can you record the scenery we see, then project it out when needed?"
"Sure!"
Tang Xiaoyu was a little excited in his heart, "Then can you not add the sound too?"
"That's simple enough."
"What about adding words inside?"
"That's also doable."
Tang Xiaoyu immediately jumped up and kissed Lu Changchun on the face.
Lu Changchun was so frightened that he immediately distanced himself from him.
Soon Tang Xiaoyu told Lu Changchun his idea.
That is to combine the scenery, music, and subtitles into a projection stone. Whenever he needed a song, he would take out the projection stone for that song.
Finally, Tang Xiaoyu told the microphone to Lu Changchun, and Lu Changchun said he had no problem.
The next day, the two began to leave the city to collect scenery.
The scenery of the cultivation world was indescribable in one word: beautiful.
In the morning, they finished shooting the scenery and started recording songs and lyrics in the afternoon.
To be down to earth, Tang Xiaoyu chose ten light and beautiful old songs. Of course, he chose ten sad songs with a slightly DJ flavor for places like brothels.
At night, the two tried the effect and felt it was not bad.
"Uncle, this music still lacks something. When we have money, let's ask some people to improve it. Let's just use it for now!"
Lu Changchun glared at him, "Don't imply that I should pay! I won't take money out. Did you finish that today? That DJ thing?"
"Cheapskate, it's called DJ."
"Learned from you. It almost killed me without that DJ thing."
After a while of bickering, the two went to sleep.
The next morning, the two began to ask tea houses if they needed someone to sing.
After running through half of White Tiger City, they finally found a tea house that agreed to let them sing there.
To get the boss to agree, Tang Xiaoyu also promised that one-third of the income would go to the boss.
This tea house was relatively remote, divided into upper and lower levels. The number of customers every day was neither too many nor too few.
After reaching an agreement with the boss, it was already afternoon when Tang Xiaoyu and Lu Changchun came out of the tea house. Tang Xiaoyu touched his growling stomach, then touched his pocket.
"Let's go eat a bowl of noodles first!"
"Ok."
After eating noodles, Tang Xiaoyu took Lu Changchun and started running to the brothel.
As expected, they were kicked out everywhere.
Tang Xiaoyu was not angry and continued to try his luck at the next brothel.
Lu Changchun followed behind with mixed feelings, admiring yet feeling sorry for the child.
[This child's mentality makes me, who has lived for hundreds of years, feel inferior. He does not complain about the injustice of fate or resign himself to degradation, nor does he think of doing crooked things. ]
[With such a mindset, he can't cultivate. It's really unfair!]
Tang Xiaoyu was unaware of Lu Changchun's thoughts as he continued looking for the next brothel.
"Orchid Lodge, the name is so-so. I wonder what it's like inside."
"Uncle, wait outside for me, so you don't get kicked out again."
Lu Changchun didn't mind, "I don't care. If you want to go in alone, then go in alone."
Tang Xiaoyu walked into the brothel. The bouncer at the door did not stop Tang Xiaoyu because of his attire.
Upon entering the brothel, a little waiter immediately ran over, "Sir, do you want to drink and listen to music, or do you want a girl to accompany you drinking and listening to music?"
"Brother, I'm sorry! I just came in to ask if you need someone here to sing?"
The waiter was not angry at Tang Xiaoyu's words. He politely said, "Wait a moment, I'll ask Sister Lan."
"Thank you for your trouble."
"We all have to make a living, no need to mention trouble or not."
The waiter quickly ran to the backyard. Tang Xiaoyu began to look around this brothel.
The brothel was not much different from what he had seen on TV, only much larger in space.
Compared to other brothels, this one looked much quieter, with almost no customers.
Soon, the waiter brought a voluptuous, extremely beautiful woman over.
Tang Xiaoyu hurried over, "Hello boss, I just wanted to ask if you need someone here to sing?"
Sister Lan smiled faintly, "Whether needed or not depends on how well you can sing."
Tang Xiaoyu did not look Sister Lan in the eye and lowered his eyes to reply, "How well I can sing, I can't say. Only you as the boss can decide."
Sister Lan went to sit at the side table, an alluring posture that even made the waiter swallow his saliva.
Tang Xiaoyu still kept his eyes down, not looking at Sister Lan's figure.
Sister Lan chuckled charmingly, "Interesting. Then sing me a song to hear."
"I don't know what kind of song the boss likes to listen to."
Sister Lan thought for a while and said, "Once a man said he would be with me for life, but in the end, he left me alone and ran off somewhere. If you can sing a song that expresses my emotions at that time, you can sing here."
Tang Xiaoyu thought for a while. There was a suitable song in the recorded ones.
"Please wait a moment, I'll prepare."
Tang Xiaoyu ran to the door and waved to Lu Changchun, "Uncle, we have a chance."
Lu Changchun was surprised, "They agreed?"
Tang Xiaoyu impatiently said, "If you don't hurry up, we really can go back."
"Ok, coming!"
The two ran into the brothel and started preparing.
Sister Lan was confused and asked, "What are you doing?"
Tang Xiaoyu replied, "We're different from others, you'll know in a moment."
After tinkering for a while, they were ready.
Tang Xiaoyu held the microphone, "Testing, testing, testing the mic."
He nodded to Lu Changchun to indicate he could start.
Soon, the arranged projection stone projected images while the music sounded.
"Here is a song 'Do You Still Remember Who Once Promised to Stay with You' for everyone."
The people in the hall were shocked by Tang Xiaoyu and Lu Changchun's gadget.
"These two are awesome! A projection stone can be played with so many tricks? I'm convinced."
Sister Lan's mouth curled up slightly, "Interesting. This alone is reason to keep you."
When the lyrics appeared, Tang Xiaoyu started singing.
When the others saw the subtitles appear inside, they exclaimed again.
Sister Lan was also a little surprised, "In vain I'm at the Yuan Ying stage, yet my mind is not as clever as an ordinary person's."
At this time, Tang Xiaoyu's singing voice reached everyone's ears.
"Snowflakes are floating in the sky again"
"Thinking of him again"
"We once agreed to grow old together"
"Where is he now"
"Who said I was the most beautiful flower"
"Who stroked my long hair..."
With the lyrics, there was no awkward situation of mishearing.
As Tang Xiaoyu sang, Sister Lan's expression also changed, slowly becoming lonely, sad, and finally tears flowed down.
[Why write such lyrics, why does it feel like it was written for me, why trick my tears.]
Sister Lan closed her eyes, listened to the song carefully, and let the tears wet her face.
Tang Xiaoyu held the microphone and sang wholeheartedly, completely unaware of Sister Lan's situation.
Lu Changchun saw it clearly. He thought, [This child Xiaoyu has succeeded, but the success did not come easy! Should I help him in the future? Or forget it, he probably likes to work hard himself.]
If Tang Xiaoyu heard this, she would likely grab onto Lu Changchun's legs and yell: "Boss, I don't want to work hard anymore, please support me financially!"
【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.)
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
