During the afternoon electronic class, the professor released soporific sound waves on the screen. Wang Dali leaned listlessly on the desk and said, "Yang Zi, what's good about this lousy class? Look how few people attend? We're seniors already, still afraid of being called on?"
I glared at him. "What's with all the complaints? Can't you sleep like everyone else?"
"Humph, then I'll go to sleep. Wake me when class is over." After speaking, Wang Dali placed a book over his face and began to drift off.
I used my textbook as a cover while holding my phone, constantly flipping through private messages on Weibo.
Someone sent a private message saying they really admired me and asked if my family were police; someone was asking which dorm I lived in, wondering if we'd had class together before; someone suspected I was just hyping myself up and posed a bunch of professional questions to me; there was even a girl who sent me a cute photo of herself directly, asking if I wanted to be her boyfriend. I was actually a little tempted for a moment, but I heard from others that you can't take photos of girls at face value, especially the kind puckering their lips cutely - in real life they may just be dinosaurs!
No wonder they say people fear fame as pigs fear fatness. Going through over 300 private messages was truly exhausting, but I did make some discoveries. There was an account with a girl's avatar called "Little Bear Bear" that kept asking if I could reveal any updates on the case, or if I'd found the real murderer.
This person caught my attention, but I couldn't confirm if he was Deng Chao, so I tentatively told him that there had been major developments in the case.
Thirty seconds later, Little Bear Bear said, "Great detective, can you reveal to me what major developments there are?"
"I can't, that's confidential. You can read about it in the paper after we've caught the murderer," I replied privately.
"Then who is the murderer?"
"Hmm, I can't reveal that either."
"What's the harm in giving me a little hint? I'll tell you a secret too - I'm actually a girl in Deng Chao's class. I had a secret crush on him, and I was so surprised when he suddenly died."
I was suddenly excited - this person was definitely suspicious!
I typed out a response, but on second thought deleted it. If the other party was Deng Chao, I had to be careful and deliberate with every word and punctuation, and not let him suspect I was setting a trap.
Although we were separated by Weibo, the feeling was as tense as the scene in Infernal Affairs where Tony Leung and Andy Lau were trying to probe each other's identities over the phone. My palms were even sweating.
After thinking it over, I typed out and sent this response: "Alright, I'll give you a little hint. This morning I found a suicide note at the scene."
I waited about five minutes. During this time, I even wondered if the other party had sensed something. I desperately wanted to send another message but kept telling myself to stay calm!
I could imagine the other person doubting, thinking, and analyzing every word I sent.
Finally, he replied with a confused emoji, asking "A suicide note? Written by who?"
I almost cried out in excitement - I was 200% certain this was Deng Chao!
Because our earlier conversation had been about Deng Chao's death the whole time. A normal person would naturally assume it was Deng Chao's suicide note. But he had asked "Written by who?"
This inadvertently revealed that he knew the note wasn't Deng Chao's, because Deng Chao was still alive - he was Deng Chao!
I admit Deng Chao was a criminal mastermind, but every person has blind spots in their thinking, and that's how many criminals slip up.
For example, in the Case Breaker Chronicles there was a story of someone who killed his business partner in a rage, then returned to the victim's wife pretending to be clueless, calling out "Sister-in-law, is big brother home?" Later the interrogator Song Ci asked how he knew the victim wasn't home since he was already dead.
The criminal immediately confessed, a classic example of exploiting thought blind spots.
I was so excited my hands were shaking. I calmly replied, "Is that so? It's found in Zhang Kai's dorm, simply shocking. You'd never guess who the murderer is!"
"Oh? Could I see it?"
"I shouldn't, since I haven't handed it to the police yet!"
"Hmph, you're bluffing!"
Finally took the bait! I smiled coldly. I sent him a photo Little Bro had photoshopped to look like a letter that could easily pass for real.
Of course the photo only showed part of the letter, so the key info couldn't be seen, only that it was a suicide note from Zhang Kai.
After I sent the photo, the other side suddenly went silent, but I wasn't worried at all. I could even imagine Deng Chao's panic right now!
I casually sent: "What do you think, I didn't lie right? Oh, and don't spread this photo around, I'm handing it to the police first thing tomorrow morning."
The other replied: "Then could we meet tonight? I'm really concerned about this case, I want to know who the murderer is as soon as possible."
Just as I expected, he was ready to kill me. Time to set the trap. I said, "I can't tonight, I still have to keep investigating at the scene. *sigh* it's so tiring."
He sent back a cute emoji, encouraging, "Keep it up, hope you crack the case soon!"
"Thanks!" I replied.
I shook Wang Dali awake. Wang Dali complained, "I was just dreaming of a date with my goddess, why'd you have to wake me up?"
"Take a look at this." I handed him my phone.
Wang Dali rubbed his eyes and exclaimed, "Song Yang, nice going!"
"See, I was right!" I smiled smugly.
"Don't get cocky just because you started catching female fans. Trying to hook up with fans, tsk tsk..." Wang Dali said.
I almost spat out a mouthful of blood. He actually didn't see how important this conversation was. No wonder, from an outsider's perspective it just looked like I was bragging to a female fan about finding an important lead.
"This person is Deng Chao!" I reminded him.
"What? You're certain?" Wang Dali asked.
"100%!" I said confidently.
Wang Dali looked it over again and said, "So since you told him you're investigating the scene tonight, isn't he going to show up and kill you to keep you quiet?"
"That's exactly what I want, to lure him out!" I said.
"You're using yourself as bait, dang, you're playing with fire!" Wang Dali looked at me like I was crazy.
"Don't worry, I'll set up defenses all around. When the time comes, you come too," I said.
Wang Dali scratched his head and mumbled, "Uh...I was planning to review tonight..."
I glared at him fiercely. Of the 365 days in a year, besides the night before an exam, when had this guy ever studied? Such a lame excuse.
Under my withering stare, Wang Dali finally looked guilty and said, "It won't be dangerous right?"
"Deng Chao isn't some three-armed six-armed demon, there's no danger," I said.
Wang Dali said worriedly, "But, why did you say you're at the scene? That place is haunted!"
I reassured him, "We'll be fine, we're both guys. Plus look at our names, one is 'Yang' and one is 'Great Strength', very strong yang energy. What do we have to fear from female ghosts? It'll definitely be alright."
Wang Dali said despairingly, "Yang Zi, can I opt out..."
"No!" I stated firmly.
The end of class bell rang, and students who'd had their naps started heading out. I said to Wang Dali, "Let's go, while there's still time. We need to buy some stuff."
Just then Huang Xiaotao called me. I picked up and she urgently yelled, "Song Yang, you got it all wrong! The victim is Deng Chao!"
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.
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?"
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!
e school belle recognized by the whole school, a genius girl from the kendo club. She also has a hidden identity, the youngest legendary demon hunter. Chen Shuo just transmigrated and found himself turned into a weak, helpless little vampire. He was caught by Su Xiyen and taken home at the very beginning. Since then, Chen Shuo's life creed only had two items. "First, classmate Su Xiyen is always right." "Second, if classmate Su Xiyen is wrong, please refer back to item one." Many years later, Chen Shuo, who had turned back into a human, led a pair of twins to appear in front of all the vampires to share the secret of how he turned back into a human. "It's simple, I tricked a female demon hunter into becoming my wife!"
