Lu Zhe had insulated it for two hours and felt it was about time. He said, "Who wants to go in first to test it out!"
Tang Xiaoguo jumped up with her hand raised, "Me, me, me!"
Lu Zhe lifted up a corner of the palm leaves and Tang Xiaoguo immediately crawled in!
"This method really works. It's much cooler inside than outside."
"Is that so? Xiaoguo, crawl around in there a bit."
"Be careful not to lift it up too much and let the cool air escape."
The four girls reminded each other as they all crawled in.
Shen Bing smiled and said, "My four sisters, how does it feel to be in the cold palace?"
"Huh?"
"Extremely comfortable!"
"Sis Bing, you should come in too."
"That's right, your name has the character for 'ice.' Maybe you'll feel even more comfortable once you're inside!"
"Is there room?"
"Come on, let's all squeeze in. 40 cm of space for each person. No one is allowed to take up more space!"
"This isn't very friendly to girls with large chests!"
"Oh my, we won't need that much space!"
Shen Bing also crawled in, and the five girls were squeezed in together. The space was just right.
What was even more surprising was that this palm-sized area really provided some coolness.
While it was 37-38 degrees Celsius outside, inside it was only 23-24 degrees. The girls lay down and didn't want to get up.
"Where will Lu Zhe sleep?"
Lu Zhe didn't care: "You're all under 1.7 meters tall. If you curl up a bit and give me a spot, just don't kick me while sleeping."
Qian Qian deeply admired him. Again, he casually touched our feet while cooking, without making a fuss about it...
After lying down for a while, everyone got up except for Tang Xiaoguo, who had truly fallen asleep.
"It looks like we really can escape the heat!"
"Oh no, all our little flowers have been plucked!"
Lu Zhe was startled, but quickly smiled. "They have died on the road to exploring the truth. To be honest, the nitrates reminded me."
Although Qian Qian and Jiang Yao didn't know the story behind this, since Lu Zhe said it this way, they weren't upset about the flowers.
Everyone understood that while the flowers were gone, they could gather more. If Lu Zhe's ideas for survival were cut off, they would suffer greatly.
At that time, the weather became hot again!
The girls started their daily complaining again.
"I really want to eat ice cream!"
"Lu Zhe said we can't get ice cream, so stop fantasizing."
"If we can't get ice cream, chilled yogurt would be nice too!"
"We can't get ice cream, so we can get chilled yogurt?"
"Unlikely!"
At this time, Lu Zhe spoke again: "Ice cream is indeed difficult to obtain, but yogurt may not be impossible!"
"You know about yogurt?"
"A little!"
Lu Zhe's words excited the girls. Everyone understood that in this kind of weather, being able to eat chilled yogurt meant something.
"Lu Zhe, you're not joking?"
"Of course not! We have milk, stone mortars that can be used for pasteurization, honey to increase sweetness, and nitrates that can be used for chilling."
"When you put it that way, all that's left is fermenting it into yogurt."
"We'll need a yogurt starter, right?"
"Right!"
"Where can we get the yogurt starter?"
"It's present in the human mouth and intestines!"
The girls were all shocked, with the same thought popping into their minds: "The original formula, the familiar taste - is that coming again?"
Jiang Yao frowned: "We're not going to use that stuff to make the yogurt, right?"
Qian Qian thought for a bit: "Doesn't milk itself contain yogurt cultures?"
Lu Zhe nodded: "Correct, milk itself contains yogurt cultures, but don't forget, it also contains many other harmful bacteria! Yogurt fermented directly would not be suitable for our pampered city girl stomachs."
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?"
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
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.
uld barely embark on the path to immortality. Just as he was on the verge of death, his golden finger awakened. No matter whether it was poison, drained blood and vital energy, diminished lifespan, or any other physical debuff caused by paying a price—once midnight passed, everything would be refreshed. From then on, whenever someone asked what kind of person Chu Ran was, the answer was simple: Forbidden arts that other cultivators dared not learn? Chu Ran would learn them. Prices that even demonic cultivators dared not pay? Chu Ran would pay them. Lifespan that even righteous cultivators dared not burn? Chu Ran would burn it. All the blood essence in his body? Take it. Want both his hands and feet? He would cut them off and send them to you. You say he’s finished? He wasn’t built to sit idle. You think he’s gone mad? No—he was simply waiting for midnight. From that day onward, Chu Ran would respect neither Heaven nor Earth, bow to neither gods nor ghosts. He had only one wish: For midnight to arrive a little sooner.
