After finishing his afternoon practice, although he had been focusing on his breathing, he knew that concentrating on his breathing exercises in the quiet dojo wouldn't yield any substantial results.
So, he decided to take up his own unique, somewhat intrusive, concentration practice after dinner.
**Supermarket**
After parking his bicycle, he went straight to the electronics section and picked out a music player with the loudest volume. Then, he bought some glutinous rice from the rice shop.
Only then did he ride his bike back home.
The trees by the roadside rustled in the wind, and leaves occasionally fell onto his shoulders and arms.
After returning home, he quickly ate a few bites of food and then started searching for and downloading music that would make people feel annoyed or irritable. He downloaded the tracks onto his phone.
It wasn’t until around 7 PM that he finally got everything ready.
He stretched lazily, but his gaze inadvertently landed on a game icon.
“It’s been a while since I last played. Maybe I’ll have a quick match?”
He muttered to himself.
Then, he clicked on the game and entered the matchmaking queue.
As soon as he entered the game, he instinctively glanced at the bottom left corner and saw that [Cute and Noble] had joined the game…
He didn’t pay much attention to it, as he had already forgotten about it.
……………………
Not far away, in the villa area,
Cornelia looked at her teammate’s name and suddenly stood up, gritting her teeth as she stared at the in-game name [Yasuo King]. Her eyes burned with fury.
She knew the time for revenge had come.
“Today, I’ll make you feel guilty. I’ll make you experience the taste of sleeplessness too!”
Cornelia clenched her fists and muttered fiercely through her teeth.
As expected, about ten minutes into the game,
after she had died ten times, [Yasuo King] clicked on her ID.
“He’s going to scold me, he’s going to scold me! He’s going to scold me!”
Cornelia said excitedly, her eyes sparkling with anticipation.
[Yasuo King]: “Can you just go AFK and let the AI play?”
Seeing this message, a sly smile spread across Cornelia’s face. She looked at the screen and began typing.
[Cute and Noble]: “Sorry, I’ve been diagnosed with cancer and need to rest in bed. I’m playing lying down today, so I’m not used to it.”
[Yasuo King]: “Oh, I understand. I’m sorry too. I have late-stage heart disease, so I’m a bit irritable and anxious. Please understand.”
Cornelia was momentarily stunned by this message, and her expression shifted between disbelief and confusion.
“Is he lying to me?”
“He’s definitely lying, just like I did!”
Cornelia bit her lip, muttering to herself. But the next message from him left her completely dumbfounded.
[Yasuo King]: “I haven’t played the game in a while. This is my last match. Let’s do our best together. After this, I’ll delete my account.”
At that moment, Cornelia felt like her entire world was collapsing!
Was it true?
How could it be?
But he really hadn’t been online for a long time…
Although she still had some doubts, she began to take the game more seriously.
With the team’s renewed vigor, they gradually turned the game around from a losing position to a winning one, ultimately securing victory.
“We won!”
Cornelia stood up and jumped in excitement as the enemy’s Nexus exploded. But the next second, she felt a wave of overwhelming guilt wash over her.
She moved her mouse and clicked on the recent match history. [Yasuo King]’s name was still lit up, indicating he hadn’t deleted his account and was still online.
Suddenly, a friend request popped up.
Cornelia glanced at it and saw the familiar name.
He added me?!
She clicked accept, and a chat window appeared.
[Yasuo King]: “It’s so hard to win a game with a noob like you. Didn’t expect that, did you? I was lying to you. Hahahahaha!”
The next second, Cornelia’s face twisted in anger, and her mental state plummeted to its lowest point.
She clenched her fists tightly, ready to type a retort, but found that she had already been blocked by him.
“Damn it, damn it!!! You’re the worst!”
Her hands were trembling, and the veins on her forehead were visibly throbbing.
“Why? Why did you lie to me? Why did you lie to me?”
Cornelia shouted in frustration, her voice echoing through the empty room.
A minute later, she slumped back onto the couch, muttering to herself, “Well, at least he doesn’t have heart disease.”
She shook her head and decided to go find Su Cheng. Whenever she was feeling down, she liked to spend time with him because his words were as comforting as a therapist’s.
Plus, there was always the bonus of getting some walnuts as a reward.
Besides, this time she had a legitimate reason to visit Su Cheng.
**Returning the slippers.**
The slippers from yesterday had already been dried, and she had even attached a personalized label to them.
Thinking of this, she grabbed the plastic bag and headed toward Su Cheng’s neighborhood. When she arrived at his building, she saw Su Cheng pushing his bicycle out, apparently about to leave.
Cornelia quickly walked up and stopped him.
“Su Cheng!”
She called out to him.
Su Cheng looked up at her, his eyes filled with confusion. “Hmm?”
Cornelia hesitated, unsure of how to explain herself.
Finally, she held up the plastic bag and said in a serious tone, “I’m here to return the slippers from yesterday!”
“Tomorrow. I’m busy right now.”
Su Cheng said as he got on his bicycle, but then he noticed Cornelia’s pitiful and pleading expression.
“I’m busy right now. You can go ahead.”
Su Cheng sighed and took out his keys from his pocket, tossing them to her.
Cornelia caught the keys in disbelief, staring at them as if she were in a dream.
“Are these… house keys?”
Cornelia looked at the keys in her hand, momentarily dazed.
“Yeah.”
Su Cheng rode off on his bicycle, but before he left, he couldn’t help but add, “Just put them under the doormat when you’re done.”
“Keys… keys.”
Cornelia repeated the word over and over, and then it suddenly hit her.
“Wow.”
Cornelia’s face lit up with joy as she looked at the keys in her hand. Then, she glanced at the disappearing figure of Su Cheng on his bicycle, her heart pounding wildly.
Su Cheng had given her his house keys.
Did that mean…?
Cornelia thought to herself, then immediately skipped into the neighborhood and straight into Su Cheng’s house.
“It’s just me here…”
She put on the slippers she had brought and confidently walked into the living room, which was empty.
“Huh? The bedroom door isn’t closed?”
Cornelia noticed that the bedroom door was unlocked and the TV was still on. Using the excuse of turning off the TV, she tiptoed to the door, pushed it open, and saw the neatly folded blankets on the bed.
She walked in, a faint blush appearing on her cheeks.
Does he sleep on this bed?
Cornelia wondered, then turned her gaze to the light source nearby. She realized it wasn’t the TV but a computer, and the screen displayed a game interface.
“He plays this game too?”
Cornelia’s heart leaped with joy. She stepped forward, extended her slender, pale fingers, and gently clicked the mouse to check the player’s profile.
[Yasuo King]
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?"
] This is a dark fantasy-themed dating simulation game. The main gameplay involves containing various monster girls and investigating the truth of a world shrouded in mist alongside your companions. However, due to his love for the dark and bizarre atmosphere, Luo Wei ended up turning a dating game into a detective mystery game. Women? Women only slow down his quickdraw! To Luo Wei, the female leads in the game are more like tools to perfectly clear levels and squeeze out rewards. For Luo Wei, flirting with every girl he meets and then discarding them is standard procedure. Worried about characters losing affection points? No need. With his maxed-out charm stat, Luo Wei is practically a "human incubus." A little psychological manipulation and those points come right back. It's a bit scummy, but the paper cutout heroines in the game won't actually come at him with real cleavers. However... Luo Wei has transmigrated. He's accidentally entered the second playthrough of this game. His past actions have caused all the girls to transform into terrifying yanderes. Due to the game's setting, most of the heroines he once contained are "troubled girls." Obsessive, twisted, mentally unstable, all aggressive yanderes... The type who will kill you if they can't have you... Luo Wei wants to cry but has no tears left. "I really just want to survive..." In short, this is a story of battling wits and engaging in a love-hate relationship with yanderes.
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
