The Leng Family experienced a major incident.
As a result, Leng Qingqiu, the de facto head of the Leng Family, convened a small family meeting for the first time since Gu Yan arrived.
The attendees were: Leng Qingqiu, Leng Ling'er, and Gu Yan.
Leng Xing'an had no connection to the content of this meeting.
In the living room, Leng Qingqiu sat on the sofa with her legs crossed, arms folded, and her eyes open—a rare sight—staring intently at Leng Ling'er, who knelt on the floor, trembling with her head down.
To Leng Qingqiu, the life essence of the person before her felt both familiar and alien.
"Sister, what's wrong with you? Why have you become like this?"
Leng Ling'er knelt on the floor. When she saw the 18+ book titled "Being a XXXXX" thrown in front of her, she knew.
It was over.
Everything was over.
Her sister had discovered the secret of this book!
Her lifelong reputation was about to be ruined!
Just look at the serious atmosphere. Sister rarely called family meetings, and whenever she did, it was always to address major issues.
And now she even had her eyes open—something she hadn't done in front of others since she blinded herself.
In short, Leng Ling'er was utterly panicked.
The atmosphere grew heavier. Gu Yan, seated beside Leng Qingqiu as arranged, began to feel restless.
He had already figured out that this 18+ storybook belonged to Leng Ling'er.
Oh dear... this was awkward.
He glanced at Leng Ling'er, unsure of what to say. Who would have thought...
The cuckold was right beside me??
Although his sister-in-law had just helped him out, making him feel somewhat guilty, he couldn't help but...
Gu Yan cleared his throat and spoke slowly to Leng Ling'er, "I'm sorry, Ling'er... I know your brother-in-law is quite charming, but... sorry, I'm a pure love enthusiast."
"Cuckolding is heresy."
Just as Leng Ling'er was about to explain that she didn't want to cuckold him but simply enjoyed the thrill of the cuckold fantasy, Leng Qingqiu shot Gu Yan a sideways glance, silencing him.
Then she turned her gaze back to Leng Ling'er, her tone calm but carrying the tension of an impending storm. "Ling'er, your brother-in-law is here too."
"Tell your sister the truth. How do you really feel about him?"
As she spoke, Leng Qingqiu's heart was filled with struggle and pain.
She loved Gu Yan, but if Ling'er also had feelings for him, she truly didn't know what to do.
Ling'er was her only sister. Her previous wish was for Ling'er to grow up happily, living a normal life like any other girl.
Not like her, who had spent her life consumed by revenge.
But... that was before.
Since Gu Yan came into their lives, she realized she could balance revenge with a normal relationship with him.
However, if Ling'er also fell for Gu Yan... what should she do?
On one side was the man she loved, and on the other was her beloved sister.
"I... I..."
Leng Ling'er opened her mouth, glancing at Gu Yan and then at Leng Qingqiu.
Regret surged within her. If only she hadn't borrowed that book from Bai Qionglan back then.
Now everything was misunderstood.
Seeing Leng Ling'er remain silent, Leng Qingqiu assumed she was admitting to it.
Her face paled visibly.
She forced herself to stay composed, her voice filled with disappointment. "Not answering means you agree, doesn't it..."
"I never thought... I never thought Ling'er would become like this..."
"You're at an age where you should be studying. Why are you reading such books and doing things unrelated to your education?"
"Oh, right..."
At this point, Leng Qingqiu took a deep breath and continued, "Is it because you've made some bad friends? Did they teach you this?"
Gu Yan, listening from the side, felt something was off. He looked at Leng Qingqiu, whose expression was pale and weak. Though her tone was calm, Gu Yan could clearly sense the turmoil in her heart.
She was clearly suffering a major blow.
But... Qingqiu, the child is grown up now. Speaking like this will only hurt Ling'er deeply.
He glanced at Leng Ling'er, whose expression was also growing distant, as if she hadn't expected her sister to say such things.
But Leng Qingqiu didn't notice this. From the past until now, everything about Leng Ling'er had been under her control—her education, her daily life, everything.
She had promised their mother to protect Ling'er.
And what did protection mean? It meant guiding Ling'er down a path she deemed safe.
After delivering a series of parental admonishments, Leng Qingqiu's voice grew colder. "Ling'er, why are you so disobedient? Why won't you follow the path I've set for you..."
Before she could finish, Leng Ling'er interrupted.
"Stop talking!"
She didn't know where her courage came from, or if it was because Leng Qingqiu had insulted her friends.
She couldn't hold back anymore.
She stood up abruptly and shouted at Leng Qingqiu, "Sister, you're terrible! You don't understand anything!!"
The living room fell silent.
Leng Qingqiu's calm expression froze. "Wh... what?"
Did Ling'er just... yell at me?
This was the first time Leng Ling'er had ever talked back to her, and Leng Qingqiu was momentarily stunned.
But Leng Ling'er didn't wait for her sister to recover.
Her eyes were red, holding back tears.
In the past, whenever Leng Qingqiu scolded her, she would tremble and cry in fear.
But this time was different. Her sister had insulted her friends.
So she mustered her courage, looked at Leng Qingqiu, then at Gu Yan.
Finally, she took a deep breath and shouted, "Sister, you don't understand anything!!"
"I just enjoy the thrill of cuckolding, not because I want to steal your man!"
"Why don't you understand cuckolding?? We cuckolders don't love the person! We love the process!!"
"Fantasy cuckolding is still cuckolding! And fantasies make it even more exciting!!"
"Why can't you understand that, sister?!"
"This is the creed of me, Leng Ling'er, the cuckolder!!"
"Yes, Bai Qionglan gave me this book! But I didn't plan to return it!!"
"Because!! I'm an adult now!! I need to release some stress too!"
"You and brother-in-law can do all sorts of things together! What am I supposed to do by myself?!"
!!!
Gu Yan covered his mouth. What's happening? Wait, what's going on here?
How did such outrageous words come out of a 37-degree mouth?
And how would Leng Qingqiu, the future antagonist and his beloved wife, react?
Her sister, whom she had raised, was now confronting her...
He looked over.
Leng Qingqiu's face first froze, then gradually regained composure. She bit her lip tightly.
Then she suddenly stood up, took two steps toward Leng Ling'er, and shouted, "I don't understand? Yes! How can I understand you?!"
"Didn't I always ask about your hobbies?!"
"What do you like? Did you ever tell me?!"
"I asked you what happened at school, and you always brushed me off with a few words!!"
"I asked you what you did today, and you said nothing, just studying... Is this what you call studying?!"
"Sister can't see you! In my mind, you're still that little girl, just this big!"
"I raised you to this age! Don't you remember? Mom told me to take care of you! I don't want you to get hurt, Ling'er!"
"What is cuckolding? What is love? What are these 'spiritual girls'?!"
"What are influencers? What are short videos? What are soap operas and cheesy dramas?!"
"I don't understand! Sister really doesn't understand!!"
"I tried so hard to learn about everything you like, but sister... I can't see!!"
Her voice, initially calm and trembling, gradually turned into a forceful roar, and by the end, it was choked with tears.
Leng Ling'er was stunned. Because, in her memory, her sister had always been strong...
At this moment... tears were streaming uncontrollably from her eyes.
In an instant, she understood.
The weight of these past years had been far too heavy for her sister.
With the Leng Family annihilated, all the responsibilities had fallen on Leng Qingqiu's shoulders. She had to seek revenge...
Deep down, she knew everything. She had witnessed the night of the massacre with her own eyes.
But she was terrified... utterly terrified, so she chose to close her eyes and avoid thinking about that night.
As a result, all the burden had been placed on Leng Qingqiu.
"I'm sorry, sister..."
Then, Leng Ling'er turned to Gu Yan, and her gaze shifted to the fragile and uneasy expression on Leng Qingqiu's face.
"So that's it, sister...
You've found your [heart] again, and that's why you've become [softer] than before.
But this is the sister I know. Indeed, only Gu Yan could change you.
This guy... truly is something extraordinary."
Gu Yan sat on the sofa, wanting to comfort them and intervene in the matter.
But reason told him he couldn't.
This was a moment for the sisters to open up to each other, and he shouldn't disturb them.
This might be the best opportunity for the two sisters to truly understand each other.
And!
Gu Yan watched as Leng Qingqiu cried, her tears falling like pear blossoms in the rain.
He nodded firmly. Such a vulnerable side of Qingqiu was a rare sight, and he had to quietly appreciate it!
e vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
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."
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!
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.
