Half a minute later, Lu Zhe handed Ning Shu a bottle of warm water: "Use this to wash!"
"What is this?"
"Don't ask, just say it's sterile water!"
"Lu Zhe, you..."
"There's no other way now, this is the only choice. Continue to feel uncomfortable, or make positive coping efforts, you choose!"
After saying that, Lu Zhe put the bottle there, then walked away.
Ning Shu looked at the bottle bitterly, muttering to herself in a crying voice: "Dear God, just kill me!"
Gritting her teeth, she started rinsing!
The unbearable itchy feeling was finally relieved, but in her heart, it was messy beyond measure.
"Are you done?"
"Yeah!"
"Then let's go!"
She didn't move her feet!
Seeing that she didn't follow, Lu Zhe looked back and said, "What's wrong?"
"Date me!"
"Huh?"
Ning Shu sniffed and said with some yearning: "Just...just date for one day, is that still not okay?!"
"What?"
"Date for one day, break up tomorrow!"
Lu Zhe realized that although Ning Shu seemed casual on the surface, she was actually a very traditional girl at heart.
She cared a lot about going beyond the boundaries of friendship with a boy, unless he was her boyfriend.
If he still refused now, she might suffer for a long time!
Anyway, just one day and then break up, so he might as well play house with her!
Thinking of this, Lu Zhe nodded: "Okay!"
Then he reached out his hand: "We can go together now, right, my school belle class monitor?"
Ning Shu pursed her lips and nodded vigorously twice, sniffing as she walked forward and put her hand in Lu Zhe's.
The island was not big. Although the central area was a bit steep, it wasn't very high. The two climbed up in half an hour!
Looking around, there really was no higher place than this!
The 200-meter mountain ridge on the high ground, with a big banyan tree growing at one end!
Lu Zhe took out a pen and notebook and started surveying and recording this small island!
He estimated that this small island was only about twenty football fields in size, surrounded by the sea on all sides!
The middle part was high terrain, dense forest, and beaches around the coastline on all sides.
This disappointed him a little!
At this moment Ning Shu pointed to the west coast: "Look, there are so many coconut trees on the other side of our island!"
Lu Zhe analyzed: "The currents flow from north to south. They would have washed coconuts from the island across to this side, passing by the west of our island, and then took root and grew into coconut trees there!"
"I see! Let's go over there later and pick some to take back. We'll have fresh water tomorrow!"
But what about fresh water for later days?
The fresh water resources on this small island were severely deficient!
So deficient that it was not enough to meet the daily needs of the five people.
What if...
they switched to another island??
Lu Zhe nodded. He began observing the island across from them!
The two islands were very far apart. Faintly visible was a volcano, with a green peak, apparently it hadn't erupted in a long time!
The area of the island was probably very large, at least much larger than the one they were on now, because even from the top of the mountain, they couldn't see the bottom part of the island!
At this moment, the sun was shining brightly on the ground, and the sultry feeling came over them again!
To the northeast, a wisp of blue smoke rose slowly above the beach!
That was where the campsite was!
"Let's take a break and go back later," Lu Zhe said.
Ning Shu nodded: "Okay!"
The two leaned together under the banyan tree!
Looking at the nearby beach, the distant waves, the small island beyond the sea level, both were lost in thought!
"Lu Zhe, what if the rescue team never finds us, what should we do?"
Lu Zhe thought about it: "Survive! I believe a fishing boat will pass by here eventually!"
"Will it take a long time?"
Lu Zhe pondered for a while and shook his head: "Don't know!"
Ning Shu sighed, looked at the ocean for a while longer and said: "Let's give this island a name!"
Lu Zhe's mind moved: "That's a great idea!"
Ning Shu thought about it: "Because the five of us were stranded here together, how about calling it Five Human Island?"
Lu Zhe shook his head: "It sounds like mooncakes, Egg Yolk Lotus Seed Island or Rose Bean Paste Island would be better names than Five Nuts."
"Pfft!" Ning Shu couldn't help laughing again and punched him lightly: "Be serious!"
"Well, it's quite serious..."
Ning Shu thought for a while: "But Five Nuts is kind of like a mooncake! Looking at the shape of this island, it's a bit like a goose egg, so let's call it Egg Yolk Island. And the one across from us..."
"Has a volcano, so let's call it Volcano Island!"
"Okay!"
Then she took out two raspberries and handed Lu Zhe one!
Ning Shu said happily: "Come on, let's drink to the day we can one day return to our homeland and back to school together!"
Lu Zhe felt it was a bit childish, but considering they were surviving in the wild, a positive and optimistic heart was also a necessary element for survival, so he decided to play along!
"Come on, we'll never fail a class when we get back!"
"Haha!"
The two clinked their little berries together and then threw them into their mouths!
Then they looked at each other and couldn't help laughing out loud!
Ning Shu laughed and said, "I feel we're so silly!"
"It's you, I'm much more normal!"
"Jerk!" Ning Shu twisted Lu Zhe lightly again!
"Are you a swan? Why do you keep twisting people?"
"You think I twist just anyone!" Ning Shu pursed her lips smugly: "Only people I'm close with I'll twist, people I'm not close with I won't even want to touch!"
"So I should feel quite honored?"
"Of course..."
Unconsciously, the two had moved a little closer, their faces almost touching, and both felt a little shy and awkward!
They both adjusted their sitting postures!
Ning Shu stroked the hair by her ear, looking at the clouds on the horizon, and said faintly:
"Why don't we...kiss?"
......
"What?"
Lu Zhe was a little surprised, thinking he had misheard!
Ning Shu's face turned red as she raised her head: "After all, we were boyfriend and girlfriend for a day! Since we're breaking up soon anyway, why don't we take this chance to do what couples are supposed to do, so it's not a complete waste!"
"That does make some sense, but..."
As soon as she heard "but", Ning Shu immediately put on a stern face, holding up one finger: "Let me tell you, this chance is only once, miss it and it's gone!"
"Then this chance is pretty precious..."
"Stop saying useless things. One sentence! Kiss or not?"
"Kiss, why not kiss!"
"Come on then!"
"Come on!"
The two closed their eyes, leaned in, and their lips touched lightly!
It was like a dragonfly skimming the water, light as could be!
But it gave Lu Zhe a hint of heart-stirring feeling.
At that moment, Lu Zhe also felt Ning Shu's body tremble slightly!
"What's wrong with you?"
"No...nothing. After all it's my first kiss, I'm a little excited..."
"Me too..."
"Quit pretending! I saw you kiss Xiao Xiao and Guo Er!"
"Xiao Xiao was drinking water, Guo Er was purely an accident!"
Hearing Lu Zhe defend himself like this, Ning Shu was not angry at all, on the contrary, she pursed her lips and smiled: "Then you have to admit, those don't count, this one of mine is your true, meaningful first kiss!"
"Fine, exclusively certified by Brother Zhe!"
Ning Shu smiled and said, "You know, Lu Zhe..."
"Hmm?"
"I've read so many romance novels, I just wanted to have a college romance! But I never found the right person. Today..."
She breathed out, with tears brimming in her eyes, but her face overflowing with a warm smile: "Ning Shu has fulfilled her wish!"
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.
with countless casualties. As a top-tier gamer, Liu Xuan volunteered to join the fight, intending to dominate with his skills, but instead he obtained the hidden class: [Pacifist]. Unable to attack. Unable to use active skills. Fortunately, with each level gained, he acquired a new passive skill. And so, armed with a body full of passives, Liu Xuan slaughtered his way through the battlefield of ten thousand races! [You attacked Liu Xuan] [You gained the debuffs: 'Poison', 'Fear', 'Burning', 'Bleeding', 'Freeze', 'Silence', etc.] [Your attack speed has been reduced by 99%] [Your armor and magic resistance have been reduced by 99%] Warriors of the Ten Thousand Races: How the hell am I supposed to fight this?!
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."
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
