Strange... why is there a faint strawberry flavor in this plain water?
Ye Feng raised the empty cup and examined it carefully. It shouldn’t be like this—could it be that it wasn’t washed properly?
Su Yuxin, noticing Ye Feng’s actions, understood what he was thinking. She tiptoed and snatched the empty cup from his hand, her fair face quickly flushing with a hint of red.
"Brother Ye Feng, since you’ve finished drinking, just give it to me."
"Hmm... but Yuxin, it seems like this cup wasn’t washed properly. There’s still a faint strawberry taste in it."
Su Yuxin froze for a moment, her eyes darting around uneasily.
Oh no... maybe I added too much, and Brother noticed! Ugh... it’s all because Brother Ye Feng is so charming. I couldn’t stop myself when I thought about you drinking the water filled with my affection~
"Maybe... maybe this cup was used to make strawberry juice before. I drink it every day at home, you know."
"Is that so..."
"It’s... it’s getting late! Brother, let me walk you home."
Seeing the slight suspicion in Ye Feng’s eyes, Su Yuxin quickly interrupted his train of thought.
"Alright, it is getting late. I’ll head back now. Yuxin, you don’t need to see me off."
"No! As the host, I must make sure you’re properly taken care of. Let me at least walk you to the gate."
Seeing how insistent Su Yuxin was, Ye Feng didn’t argue further. He nodded, and the two of them walked toward the entrance.
"Brother, are you going to tutor Mu Cheng tomorrow?"
Su Yuxin suddenly asked as they walked side by side, her usual cheerful tone noticeably subdued.
"Yes, Mu Cheng’s lessons are on weekends. You know that, Yuxin."
"How much longer will you be tutoring Mu Cheng? From what I know, her grades are much better than mine."
Su Yuxin’s mind began to picture Ye Feng teaching Li Mucheng, and a sour feeling welled up inside her.
"Really? I haven’t been teaching her academic subjects. Most of what I teach her are life skills."
Life skills? Well... Mu Cheng probably wouldn’t be able to take care of herself without her servants. Her haughty personality wouldn’t allow her to learn such things.
Thinking this, Su Yuxin felt a bit better. After all, she was the only one who could tolerate Li Mucheng’s peculiar personality in the past. Surely Ye Feng must feel somewhat annoyed by her too.
"Alright, Yuxin, you can stop here. I’ll head home now."
"Okay, Brother, be careful on your way home. See you next week~"
"Goodbye."
After waving goodbye to Su Yuxin, Ye Feng hailed a taxi and headed to a large electronics mall. He hadn’t forgotten that he needed to buy a smartphone for Xie Yuyan today.
"Hello, how may I assist you?"
As soon as Ye Feng stepped into a store selling a well-known brand of smartphones, a friendly salesperson approached him.
"Hi, I’m here to buy a smartphone. Do you have any recommendations?"
"Do you have any specific requirements for the phone’s performance?"
"Hmm... not really. Just something practical will do."
Ye Feng recalled his conversation with Xie Yuyan about her interest in smartphone features, but her response had been that she’d be happy just being able to stay in touch with him.
"Practical, you say... then how about this one!"
The salesperson pulled out a sleek-looking phone from the display.
"This phone is designed specifically for practicality. It has a brighter flashlight than most phones, a special location feature, and its battery life and call quality are excellent. It also receives signals faster than other phones. And most importantly..."
The salesperson suddenly turned the phone over and slammed it against a nail on the counter. The nail embedded itself into the wooden surface, but the phone remained completely unscathed.
"Most importantly, it’s extremely durable and can even be used to crack walnuts~"
"I’ll take it!"
Without a moment’s hesitation, Ye Feng pulled out his card and handed it to the salesperson.
Seriously, a phone that can crack walnuts is just too cool!
"Thank you for your purchase. Please come again~"
After buying the smartphone, Ye Feng walked home, enjoying some peaceful time to himself. He couldn’t help but reflect, "Come to think of it, since I ‘kidnapped’ Xie Yuyan, not much progress has been made on the tasks. Li Mucheng and Xie Yuyan’s progress has been stuck at 89%, and as for Su Yuxin, I haven’t ‘kidnapped’ her yet, so there’s no data to see."
Recalling the details of the kidnapping tasks issued by the system, Ye Feng had initially thought it would involve the ruthless actions of a villain. However, he soon realized that even a physical kidnapping counted toward task completion, as if the system’s true intention wasn’t to harm the girls but to create some kind of connection between them and himself. It seemed the kidnapping was more like a bond tying them together.
But why would the system want to connect him with these girls?
After pondering for a while, Ye Feng couldn’t come up with an answer. In the end, he decided to take things one step at a time and set the question aside for now.
......
"Huh?"
As Ye Feng approached his apartment building, he noticed two men in maintenance uniforms walking out of the entrance of the building next to his.
Assuming they were just routine inspectors, Ye Feng didn’t pay them much attention. He stepped into the elevator and naturally pressed the button for his floor. As the elevator ascended, he suddenly remembered where he’d seen those two maintenance workers before.
Wait... they’re not maintenance workers! They’re the same two men who were staking out the apartment building earlier! Could the organization hunting Xie Yuyan have started conducting door-to-door inspections? No! I need to get home quickly!
As the elevator reached his floor and the chime sounded, Ye Feng finally let out a sigh of relief, waiting for the doors to open.
Thank goodness... everything’s still under control...
As the elevator doors slowly opened, Ye Feng saw the two maintenance workers talking to a resident. When they noticed Ye Feng in the elevator, they glanced at him warily but quickly averted their gaze.
"Is there anything else you need to check?"
"No, sir. Thank you for your cooperation."
"Honestly, what a hassle."
The resident grumbled impatiently and closed the door, while the two workers moved on to the next apartment.
Ye Feng watched as they continued their inspection and realized that only two more apartments stood between them and his own. Feeling grateful that he’d returned in time, he cautiously made his way to his room.
I absolutely... absolutely cannot be discovered!
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...
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
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.
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
