Xiao Hanhan happily clung to Su Ze's back, using a transparent umbrella to shield both of them from the rain. Su Ze waded slowly through the water, stepping across the flooded asphalt road. Ripples spread around his feet as he carried Uesugi Akizuki to the back seat, closed the door with the umbrella in hand, and jogged toward the driver's seat.
Shen Qingsheng stared dumbfounded at Su Ze, who was knocking on the window. "Get out, I'll drive!"
Shen Qingsheng cracked the window open slightly and asked coldly, "Do you even have a driver's license?"
"A driver's license? What's that... I... don't have one?" Su Ze looked confused. "I remember you saying I used to be really good at things, and I feel like I'm familiar with driving. How could I not have a license?"
"If you had even a shred of common sense, you wouldn't ask such a ridiculously stupid question!" Shen Qingsheng's face darkened.
Uesugi Akizuki in the back seat was already growing anxious. This was just like the last time Su Ze had sent her into the car and then sneaked away!
Su Ze knocked on the back seat window. "Wait a moment."
He continued to ask Shen Qingsheng about what a driver's license was.
A minute later, Su Ze seemed to have an epiphany.
"If I don't have a license and I break traffic rules, they can't deduct my points! They can't do anything to me! But if you break the rules, you'll get points deducted!"
Su Ze laughed and kicked the car's chassis. "Get out, I'm driving!"
"Did you just ignore everything I said? Fines of 200 to 2,000 yuan and 15 days of detention—did you just let it go in one ear and out the other?" Shen Qingsheng was furious.
Su Ze was also getting impatient. "Stop talking nonsense and get out. If you want to catch me, at least you'll need to see my taillights first!"
Shen Qingsheng instantly panicked and locked the doors tightly!
When Su Ze had his memories, he at least knew some boundaries, but now he was just a complete idiot.
With his driving style, letting him drive now would probably require more than a dozen bullets to atone for the crimes he'd commit.
"Don't you dare act up! Believe me, I'll hit you!" Shen Qingsheng pointed at Su Ze.
"I vaguely remember you can't beat me!" Su Ze stared back at him without backing down.
Nonsense! If I could beat you, I'd give you a few rounds of military boxing every day, you jerk!
"Nonsense! What nonsense are you spouting? I can't beat you? If it weren't for your girlfriend in the back seat who's already impatient, I'd have you pinned to the ground right now!"
Shen Qingsheng's back felt cold, but he still shouted with his neck stiff.
Seeing that Uesugi Akizuki was indeed getting anxious, Su Ze stopped arguing with Shen Qingsheng and got into the back seat.
As he shook the water off the umbrella outside the car, Xiao Hanhan tightly grabbed the corner of his shirt.
Su Ze folded the umbrella and put it back into the umbrella bag.
The sports car's headlights pierced through the gray rain curtain, cutting through the rain as it sped away.
"Let me pinch you," Su Ze said, now acting like an old rogue, pinching Xiao Hanhan's adorable little face.
Xiao Hanhan suddenly pinched his face too and rubbed it.
Su Ze smirked, leaning his head back so Xiao Hanhan's slightly shorter arms couldn't reach his face. "No pinching," he teased.
The little witch wasn't having it and suddenly pounced on him, pinning him to the seat! Su Ze, caught off guard, was pressed beneath her and muttered with a hint of dissatisfaction, "I want to!"
Uesugi Akizuki stretched out her fair hand, contentedly rubbing Su Ze's cheeks.
Shen Qingsheng gripped the steering wheel with a dark expression.
The wise don't fall in love; fools repeat their mistakes. The single king pursues a Ph.D., and we shall all marry rich women!
It's fine... the final winner will always be the one who endures the most.
Don't be fooled by their lovey-dovey act now. When they break up over some small argument, they'll cry more than anyone else! The more affectionate they are now, the more heartbroken they'll be later!
At that time, they'll lose more than anyone else! Because... they'll have lost their entire world!
Thinking this, the increasingly deranged Shen Qingsheng revealed an evil smile.
From An Yang to Kyoto, it was a seven to eight-hour journey. Su Ze was heading to Kyoto for surgery, scheduled for around tomorrow afternoon. It was still early morning, so they had plenty of time.
But for Shen Qingsheng, who was used to such drives, seven to eight hours was nothing.
However, for him now, it felt like an eternity!
After some time, Su Ze noticed through the rearview mirror that Shen Qingsheng looked off, and he hadn't said a word since earlier.
"Are you okay? Are you feeling unwell? Should I drive?" Su Ze asked considerately.
Shen Qingsheng's calm lips suddenly twisted into a strange smile, then returned to normal. His lips curled up again, and he let out a dry, eerie chuckle.
Su Ze felt a chill down his spine, watching the cars speeding through the rain on the highway. "Don't... scare me like that."
"Brother Ze, what's the point of living in this world?" Shen Qingsheng asked with a laugh, seemingly losing his grip on reality.
Su Ze, holding the confused Xiao Hanhan, felt a cold shiver:
"If you're dissatisfied with life, all I can say is, don't lose hope."
"If anything happens, and I survive, I'll take care of your parents and wife. If we both don't make it, I'm sure someone will take care of your wife."
Shen Qingsheng's fingers gripping the steering wheel creaked, his knuckles turning white. "How do you manage to be even more of a jerk after losing your memory than before?!"
"I'm not dissatisfied with life, I'm dissatisfied with you two!" Shen Qingsheng gritted his teeth, almost spitting out each word.
"You... don't have a girlfriend, do you?" Su Ze saw right through his facade of strength.
"Ahhh! Don't push me to the point of taking us both down with me!" Shen Qingsheng was on the verge of a breakdown!
"I've thought about what you said," Su Ze gradually calmed down, speaking slowly. "Life does seem rather meaningless. The memories I have only span a dozen or so hours, but the world around me feels both unfamiliar and familiar. It makes me feel lost, as if... I don't belong in this world..."
Seeing Su Ze's increasingly calm and contemplative expression in the rearview mirror, it was now Shen Qingsheng's turn to feel a chill down his spine:
"Don't you dare lose it now!"
"You need to remember, there are still many things worth living for—your girlfriend, your gaming console, the 'study materials' on your USB drive, and... and you can recover your memories! Don't do anything stupid... we're on the highway, and it's raining! The road's slippery!"
Shen Qingsheng's heart pounded, terrified that the increasingly calm, life-weary Su Ze in the back seat might lunge for the steering wheel!
Despite the tension, the seven to eight-hour journey was completed in just six hours by Shen Qingsheng!
The amnesiac Su Ze in the back seat didn't do anything outrageous.
He simply held the sleeping Xiao Hanhan in his arms, leaning against the window, watching the rain and listening to its sound, silently lost in thought.
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.
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."
for mindless slaughter, this isn't for you.] My name is Ye Shu, and I'm a transmigrator. It seems I'm supposed to be the protagonist, but that feels pretty unlikely. This world has been invaded by a system. The antagonists on the other side have suddenly become pure, flawless saints. The female leads have been force-fed the so-called "original plot," making them think they've been reborn. Now, everyone thinks I'm scum. Including the old lady in my ring. And here I am, in the Monster Beast Mountain Range, braising pork. To put my situation in perspective— It's as if, the moment Xiao Yan stepped into the Monster Beast Mountain Range, the Soul Emperor already knew he would become the Flame Emperor, and Yao Lao had been turned to the enemy's side. I have nothing right now. Oh wait, that's not true. I do have a white-haired loli child-bride who's the Heavenly Dao, and her only skill is acting cute. So, tell me guys... what are my chances of making it to the end?
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
