It was dark, and the crystal lamps were lit in the room.
Xue Yi brought his own luggage. His clothes were few, just a few sets, and he could stuff them into the wardrobe casually.
Along with the clothes, there was also a box. That was his treasure!
"What's inside here?" Xiao Qingruo saw his box and asked.
"Weapons." Xue Yi replied.
"The guards have been equipped with weapons by the residence, why did you buy another one yourself?"
"I didn't buy it, I picked it up."
Xue Yi explained briefly and stuffed the box into the wardrobe as well.
Xiao Qingruo's eyes flashed, thoughtful. But she didn't say much, picked up her book and continued reading by lamp light.
"Still reading? You're so diligent, if you had talent to cultivate one day, you would definitely become a powerful person." Seeing her hardworking appearance, Xue Yi couldn't help saying.
"Are you poking my sore spot?" Xiao Qingruo looked unhappy.
"No, just making a remark. I'll continue my cultivation, go to sleep later yourself, don't try to run out to call someone to kill me, otherwise if I find out, I'll spank you until your butt blossoms." Xue Yi smiled and then went back to the side room to sit down and continue cultivating.
Persistence is the key to cultivation. His aptitude was actually quite good. He didn't have time to fully demonstrate it when he was a guard. Now with the "Imperial Five Spirit Formula" and enough time to cultivate, he could soon catch up and become an excellent genius.
Seeing his diligent cultivation, Xiao Qingruo also felt a little moved, as if seeing herself in the future.
After a while, she said with a hook of her mouth, "I don't believe you can sit up all night without sleeping."
After reading for a while, she went back to the inner room to sleep.
Until the mid-three watch of the night, Xiao Qingruo had slept soundly and woke up.
She pricked up her ears and listened. It was very quiet outside.
"At this time, that bastard should have gone to bed..."
The lights in the outer room had gone out. She got out of bed carefully, walked barefoot on the carpet without making a sound.
When she came to the outer room and looked towards the side room, Xue Yi was no longer there cultivating as expected.
"Humph, with this level of ability, he still wants to control me for life. He's really daydreaming."
She thought, and slowly reached under the table to take out a shimmering dagger from the hidden compartment.
But...she put it back soon after.
"My strength is small. Weapons forged from mundane iron I'm afraid can't penetrate his Gang Qi protection..."
Xiao Qingruo's gaze fell on the wardrobe in the side room.
Inside...were Xue Yi's weapons.
"The weapons he deliberately kept must be more powerful than black iron swords and blades, able to cut metal like mud. It's just right to send him to his death."
Thinking this way, Xiao Qingruo tiptoed into the side room and came to the wardrobe.
Then she slowly, without the slightest sound, opened the wardrobe and took out the box under the clothes.
"How is this so light..."
The box was two feet long but only weighed four or five pounds. It didn't look like it contained divine weapons.
With some doubt and some expectation, Xiao Qingruo gently opened the box.
Ka Cha~
With a soft click, the box slowly slid open, revealing a glimpse of shadow.
"So Miss likes to sleepwalk and sneak peeks at other people's things in her dreams."
At this moment, a mocking voice came from behind her.
"Ah! Mmm Mmm Mmm!"
Xiao Qingruo was frightened by the sudden movement and screamed.
But she had just uttered a syllable when Xue Yi quickly covered her mouth to suppress the sound.
"Mmm Mmm Mmm!"
Xiao Qingruo struggled hard. Xue Yi sneered, "What's wrong, want to use my weapons to kill me?"
"Mmm Mmm..."
Miss wanted to speak but couldn't speak out.
Xue Yi released her mouth. Her chest heaved as she said hoarsely, "You were pretending to sleep!"
Xue Yi said casually, "Where was I pretending to sleep? I'm your personal guard. Miss's every move, I must keep track of, otherwise how can I attend to your every need? Also, tonight is our first night sleeping in the same room. I have to be vigilant, otherwise if Miss sneaks into my bed at night, my chastity would be ruined."
"You!" Xiao Qingruo was angry. She didn't expect him to be so cautious. It seemed she still underestimated this guard.
"Be good. Don't make trouble again next time, or I'll really make your butt blossom."
Xue Yi pinched her smooth little face, then took the box back and threw it into the cabinet again, locking it.
Xiao Qingruo was disappointed. This failure made her have to recalculate Xue Yi's abilities.
It seemed getting rid of him would be much more difficult than she imagined.
"Go back. Or do you want to sleep with me?" Xue Yi slapped her butt.
"Humph...we'll see!"
Xiao Qingruo left unwillingly with dissatisfaction.
Xue Yi looked at the locked wardrobe, the corners of his mouth moved slightly, and his eyes flashed.
It was late, he should go to sleep too.
The Primordial Qi Realm still couldn't stay up indefinitely. He still needed rest when it was time.
But with Xiao Qingruo around, he couldn't really relax and fall asleep.
He lay in bed, half asleep and half awake, not daring to completely let his guard down.
After about an hour, extremely soft footsteps came.
Xue Yi, who was lightly sleeping, became fully alert in an instant.
He deliberately remained still, maintaining the breathing rhythm as if he was asleep.
Shortly after, a delicate figure came over, and quickly slashed at his neck.
"Coming again?"
Xue Yi reached out and grabbed her wrist.
"Ah"
The dagger fell on the edge of the bed, directly inserted into the wood.
"You...you're not asleep yet!"
There was bitterness in Xiao Qingruo's tone.
She had thought it through that human vigilance was limited. After resisting an assassination attempt, one would basically let down their guard.
She didn't expect Xue Yi to be so cautious. She had calculated the time he fell asleep, the stages of deep sleep, and came over carefully, but was caught red-handed again!
This was miserable...
"Miss is very enthusiastic, huh." Xue Yi got out of bed and casually threw the dagger, embedding it into the roof beam.
Then he pulled hard and brought Xiao Qingruo into his arms.
"What do you want to do!" Xiao Qingruo panicked.
"How can I not teach you a lesson after you tried to assassinate me twice in one night?" One of Xue Yi's hands fell on her waist, slowly moving up.
"Xue Yi, don't you dare!" Xiao Qingruo scolded in a low voice, wanting to yell to frighten him, but also afraid of waking up the maids in the garden.
"What do I not dare?" Xue Yi chuckled and started with his hands.
"Stop! You bastard! Ah..." Xiao Qingruo's body tensed up, breathing hurriedly from anxiety.
A few minutes later.
Xue Yi let her go.
Xiao Qingruo's face was flushed red, and she cursed, "Disgusting!" then ran back barefoot.
"Welcome to come again next time." Xue Yi said with a laugh.
After there was no movement from the main room, he lay down to continue sleeping.
But he still didn't fully fall asleep, keeping his mind vigilant.
After all, once or twice, there could be a third time.
In the next room, Xiao Qingruo lay in bed.
The quilt covered her head. There was anger and shame on her face, but also a touch of strange satisfaction.
"This dog is too vigilant. It seems killing him on my own is impossible."
"However..."
"He's not completely useless. With such audacity, it's just right to help increase my shame value..."
The young miss thought to herself under the quilt.
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
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!
d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!
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.
