What's going on?!
Yan Xing looked around frantically but found that Lin Hao had completely vanished from the room.
Had he seen a ghost?
The blades around his body began to flutter chaotically, responding to his agitated emotions.
It was beyond bizarre how a full-grown person could just disappear right under his nose.
He suddenly noticed the door was slightly ajar. Sensing something was wrong, he rushed forward to open it.
But just as he reached for the handle, the door was violently kicked open.
Caught off guard, he was sent flying backward by the impact of the door, landing hard on the floor behind him.
Damn it!
His head was spinning, and the door had struck him right in the nose. He could feel something warm trickling from his nostrils.
He was bleeding.
He stumbled backward several steps, trying to wipe away the blood from his nose, but the impact had been too severe.
Each time he wiped away some blood, more would flow out, impossible to stop.
His hands weren't idle though. Sensing an intruder, he commanded all his blades to shoot toward the open doorway in perfect unison.
"Clink! Clink! Clink!"
Sparks flew in the darkness as metallic sounds rang out from the doorway. The more of these sounds he heard, the more his heart sank.
Either he was facing a steel plate rather than a person, or whoever it was had deflected every single blade.
If it was the latter, what terrifying reflexes and speed would that require?
He wiped another smear of blood and peered toward the doorway.
There stood a girl with silver hair wearing a baseball cap. She hadn't stepped into the light yet, so he couldn't make out her face clearly.
If it weren't for the unusual hair color, he might have mistaken her for Ji Mengyao.
"Who are you?!"
He demanded with barely contained rage, though a hint of fear crept into his voice.
This person was almost certainly another Awakened One.
Ning Yu finally stepped into the light, which illuminated her from behind, making her silver hair appear translucent and dazzling.
She stared coldly at Yan Xing, holding an unusually shaped straight sword with a blood butterfly ornament dangling from its pommel.
How beautiful!
This was Yan Xing's first thought upon seeing Ning Yu. After seeing nothing but zombies day after day, suddenly encountering such an otherworldly beauty made him momentarily forget his situation.
How could such a beautiful girl exist in this world?
He stared at her, mouth slightly agape.
But he quickly snapped out of it.
"You're an Awakened One too?"
Ning Yu observed his research facility uniform, surprised that someone like him could become an Awakened One. She had thought the two roles were completely separate.
But Yan Xing, having gotten a clear look at Ning Yu's weapon, suddenly let out a sinister chuckle:
"You shouldn't have brought a blade here. Come to me!!"
He suddenly reached out his hand, attempting to seize control of Ning Yu's sword from afar.
But nothing happened. The scene he had imagined of controlling Ning Yu's sword didn't materialize?!
Even he was dumbfounded, his hand awkwardly suspended in the air like some delusional teenager.
A moment of silence hung in the air, the scene frozen in time.
Ning Yu watched him with amusement, wondering what this fool was doing.
Yan Xing couldn't understand why his metal-controlling ability had no effect on this sword.
Could it be a toy sword?
Looking at the metallic gleam reflecting off its surface, he didn't think that was possible.
So he stubbornly tried again.
Still not even a tremor; the sword remained perfectly steady in Ning Yu's hand.
It must be fake, this has to be a fake sword!
"Shing!"
After watching his embarrassing performance with patience, Ning Yu swiftly brought the Blood Kite to his throat.
The blade precisely nicked his skin, drawing a small amount of blood which the Blood Kite immediately absorbed.
Now things got worse - having tasted blood, the Blood Kite began drinking eagerly. What should have been a tiny cut started bleeding profusely.
Yan Xing didn't dare move, but the itching sensation at his neck told him his skin was broken. Why was his vision starting to blur?
Ning Yu pulled the Blood Kite back slightly - if it kept drinking like this, Yan Xing would die.
"Did Zhuang Wugou order you to kill Lin Hao?"
Yan Xing responded with silence, as if determined to resist to the death.
Ning Yu just smiled contemptuously, picking up one of her bent blades from the ground and easily straightening it with her hands.
Yan Xing considered trying to control the blade to attack Ning Yu while she was distracted, but ultimately didn't dare. He had already realized he was no match for her.
"Don't waste time and needlessly suffer more."
Ning Yu took hold of his finger and slid the blade into the gap between his fingernail and flesh.
"AHHHHH!!!!"
The room echoed with Yan Xing's pig-like screams as his face contorted in agony, cold sweat beading on his forehead.
"Weren't you going to torture others? I see you don't even know how to properly torture someone. Let me teach you."
Ning Yu's words were like a demon's whisper as she smiled softly and picked up another bent blade from the ground, smoothing it flat with her hands.
Yan Xing watched her with terrified eyes, knowing another blade was about to be inserted under his fingernail.
Any thought of resistance was completely drowned by fear.
"Now, will you talk, or should I keep torturing you until you do?"
Ning Yu smiled sweetly, throwing his own words to Lin Hao back at him.
Yan Xing nodded frantically like a bobblehead doll, the excruciating pain in his finger destroying any courage to endure another blade.
"It... it was him. He discovered what Lin Hao was doing, but wanted to see what Lin Hao would do next, so he hadn't acted yet."
The words tumbled out of him rapidly like beans from an upturned container.
"Then why choose to act today?"
Ning Yu stared directly at him, giving him no time to catch his breath as she continued her interrogation, still playing with the blade in her hands - bending it, then straightening it again.
The metal seemed as pliable as clay in her hands.
Yan Xing watched her movements, swallowing hard before speaking:
"I... I don't know, he just ordered me to act, I... I... AHHHHH!!!!"
A second blade slid under his fingernail, and this time he broke down completely, tears and mucus streaming down his face.
He lay on the ground in a pathetic heap, clutching his hand and howling.
"I... I'm not lying... I really don't know!"
His whole body trembled with pain as he curled into a ball.
Seeing his state, Ning Yu believed he wasn't lying and changed her line of questioning.
"Why are you sending Awakened Ones out to die?"
. 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!"
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!"
ither go to a cultivation world where a single sword strike can defeat ten thousand enemies. Or they travel back to historical dynasties to alter history and wield imperial power. At the very least, they'd go back a few decades to get rich using their future knowledge and build a harem. Who the hell would transmigrate here!
reezy rom-com) Good news: Jiang Liu is quite the ladies' man. Bad news: He’s lost his memory. Lying in a hospital bed, Jiang Liu listens to a parade of goddesses spouting "absurd claims," feeling like the world is one giant game of Werewolf. "Jiang Liu, I’m your first love." "Jiang Liu, you’re my boyfriend—she’s your ex." "Jiang Liu, we’re close friends who’ve shared a bed, remember?" "Jiang Liu, I want to have your baby." The now-lucid Jiang Liu is convinced this must be some elaborate scam... until someone drops the bombshell: "The day before you lost your memory, you confessed your feelings—and got into a relationship." Jiang Liu is utterly baffled. So... who the hell is his actual girlfriend?! ... Before recovering his memories, Jiang Liu must navigate this minefield of lies and sincerity, fighting to protect himself from these women’s schemes. But things spiral even further out of control as more people show up at his doorstep—each with increasingly unhinged antics. On the bright side, the memories he lost due to overwhelming trauma seem to be resurfacing. Great news, right? So why are they all panicking now?
