On the north side of the stone forest, two girls sat facing each other in front of a campfire, not saying a word.
They had cried for a long time and had little tears left to shed.
The wind was strong at night, and they could no longer hear Ice Sister's voice from the south side.
In the depths of the night, endless loneliness and despair shrouded their hearts.
"Qian Qian, do you think Lu Zhe and Yao Yao...won't come back?"
Qian Qian nodded listlessly, "I...don't know."
"He promised me...It's all my fault, I shouldn't have said those things when he left..." She sniffed twice more.
Qian Qian shook her head, "Don't blame yourself Class Monitor, didn't you say to be brave earlier, Lu Zhe and Yao Yao will come back?"
Ning Shu sighed, it was easy to advise others but when it came to herself, who could let go in just a few words?
"I felt very hopeless before, but when I think calmly, maybe they really are still alive. Let's make lotus lanterns!"
"What is that?"
"Also called floating lanterns, lanterns that float away when placed in water."
"What's the point of making that thing? It's like making an offering to deceased relatives..." Ning Shu was about to refuse but then sat up straight as she had an idea.
"That's right, we can observe the direction of water flow with this lantern, and also expand the signal range for Ice Sister to see us too!"
Qian Qian nodded, "That's right!"
Ning Shu's eyes lit up, "Anyway we don't know what to do now, so let's make this. Maybe it can really help Lu Zhe find his way back! Do you know how?"
Lin Qian Qian thought for a moment, "We need something buoyant for the base, candles that can burn steadily for a while, and canopies to shield the flames from the wind."
Ning Shu pondered, "There are plenty of things that can provide buoyancy, like wood, bamboo, bottles and foam. For steady burning we have resin, bear fat candles. As for the canopies...where can we get those..."
Qian Qian took out two pairs of stockings from her bag, "Use Guo Er's stockings!"
"What a great idea...Wait, why do you have Guo Er's stockings?"
"Uh...she can't wear them anymore anyway and didn't want them. I felt it would be too wasteful to throw them away so I kept them."
Ning Shu nodded, "Then we really can make lotus lanterns!"
On the other side of the stone forest.
Tang Xiaoguo was tied to a tree, sadly humming My Sadness Flows Like a River.
Just then, a 50 cm long lizard crawled over and perched nearby on a rock, seeming to listen to her hum.
Normally she would have screamed in fright but today, she just looked at it lifelessly.
"Do you understand my sorrow? No, no one can understand the pain of losing your beloved! And you're not human, you're Godzilla..."
The lizard tilted its head, as if it really understood her words.
"My dear boy has left, I don't know if he's dead or alive. I want to follow him but the other woman who loves him tied me up. Little Godzilla, don't you think I'm the most pitiful woman in the world?"
The lizard actually nodded.
Tang Xiaoguo felt a little comforted, "I didn't expect there would be a lizard in this world that understands me. Alright, help me chew through these ropes so I can go find Lu Zhe."
The lizard didn't move.
Just then, another lizard appeared and climbed onto the first lizard's back. The two lizards started doing some unusual movements.
Tang Xiaoguo was fuming, "Ahhhhh, go show your love somewhere else, I don't want to live anymore!"
Just then, Shen Bing returned, swinging a trench shovel which smacked the top lizard unconscious. The bottom lizard saw trouble ahead and scurried away into a crevice.
Tang Xiaoguo stared wide-eyed and shouted, "Awesome job Ice Sis!"
Shen Bing threw down the shovel, and sliced off the lizard's head with a paratrooper knife, hanging its body on a small tree as protein reserve.
She was expressionless, her actions swift and efficient.
"I found a route but it's too long a detour. We'll rest here tonight and I'll take you to meet up with Little Ning and Qian Qian tomorrow. Take what supplies you can carry, leave what you can't. "
With that she started organizing their things.
"What about Lu Zhe?"
Shen Bing froze, her lips trembling slightly.
After a long pause, tears welled up in her eyes but she wiped them away before they could fall, seeming to want to say something but only managing to utter three words:
"Don't mention him."
After a while, she went over to Tang Xiaoguo, "I'll untie you now but you must promise not to jump into the sea, okay?"
Tang Xiaoguo sniffed twice, "Jumping into the sea is useless anyway, I just get washed back each time."
"Don't dash yourself on the rocks either."
"That's too painful. I think hanging is good, Ice Sis you like Lu Zhe too right? Let's hang ourselves together..."
Shen Bing sighed, "Guo Er, Lu Zhe loved you the most, he definitely wouldn't want to see anything happen to you! If he came back alive and found you gone, can you imagine how heartbroken he'd be?"
Tang Xiaoguo said, "Ice Sis, how likely do you think it is that Lu Zhe is alive?"
"I don't know." She replied, untying Tang Xiaoguo's ropes.
Tang Xiaoguo gazed towards the sea, her grief plain to see.
"Do you think my dear Lu Zhe and Yao Yao drifted to a nearby island, and lit a big fire that they're watching us from over the sea, like those eyes!"
Shen Bing shook her head, thinking Tang Xiaoguo was speaking nonsense.
She carried an armful of firewood from the woods and dumped it on the sand, taking out a Matchlock-style fire starter to drill for fire.
"Hey Ice Sis, how can there be eyes on the sea? Is it a monster?"
"Don't talk nonsense, how can there be eyes on the sea?"
"Right there!"
Shen Bing looked up dubiously and vaguely made out two bright spots on the sea's surface.
"There really are!"
Shen Bing immediately put down her things and rushed to the beach.
Sure enough, there was a pair of glowing eyes on the sea!
] 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.
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
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."
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.
