Midnight.
Rustle, rustle, rustle...
Gu Yan was awakened by some faint rustling sounds.
He opened his eyes groggily.
"What's that noise?"
Gu Yan stood up from the bed with a slight headache.
The sound was like someone flipping through pages of a book.
Wait a minute...
As this thought occurred to Gu Yan, his sleepiness vanished and his eyes widened slightly.
It couldn't be, could it?
Could it be our Qingqiu?
Gu Yan checked his phone.
2:10 AM.
No way, she couldn't still be up this late, could she?
With this in mind, Gu Yan tiptoed to open the bedroom door, and sure enough.
The moment he opened the door, he saw a faint light coming from under the crack of the study room door off to the side.
Sigh...
Gu Yan let out a soft sigh. Qingqiu was really pushing herself too hard.
Even though he knew she was driven by her desire for revenge and didn't want to stop for a moment.
But... at this rate, her body would definitely break down first.
Moreover, Gu Yan had made it clear that he would help Leng Qingqiu uncover the truth about what happened in the past.
Even though the original novel barely mentioned it.
Thinking of this, to prevent his beloved wife from exhausting herself first, Gu Yan quietly made his way downstairs.
Fifteen minutes later.
In the study.
On Leng Qingqiu's desk lay a book emitting black smoke.
She had her eyes open, revealing those special runes carved into her irises.
Leng Qingqiu seemed able to see the contents of the book.
Her fingers flipped through the pages of the book, and wisps of black smoke from the book drifted into Leng Qingqiu's eyes.
Buzz! Buzz!
Just then, the book flickered slightly.
Leng Qingqiu's expression changed. She closed her eyes and quickly switched to a normal book on the desk.
Whoosh!
The original book vanished instantly.
Then.
Click~
The study door was gently pushed open.
Gu Yan walked in, using his body to prop the door: "Qingqiu, why aren't you in bed yet?"
His exasperated voice reached Leng Qingqiu's ears.
Hearing his voice, Leng Qingqiu's heart finally relaxed. She replied in a cool tone: "Because I don't want to sleep."
"Nonsense, I can tell at a glance that you're exhausted."
"Look at those dark circles around your eyes, it's like they've been smoked."
Gu Yan set down what he had prepared on the desk.
Then he looked at Leng Qingqiu with her dark-ringed eyes, full of concern.
Hearing this.
Leng Qingqiu was silent for a moment. She could hardly say she had just been practicing an evil secret technique, could she?
Even if she did say it, Gu Yan probably wouldn't believe her. After all, he was just an ordinary person who knew nothing of the world of martial artists.
"Well, you're not sleeping either."
"And... what did you make?"
Leng Qingqiu seemed to catch a whiff of something sweet and asked curiously.
Gu Yan casually pulled up a chair and sat down next to Leng Qingqiu.
Then he picked up the bowl on the table, scooped up a spoonful with a spoon, and smiled: "I made some brown sugar ginger water."
"The weather has been getting much colder lately, and now it's the early hours when the yin energy is strong. It wouldn't be good if you caught a cold, Qingqiu."
"Here, let me feed you some."
Hearing this.
Leng Qingqiu found it somewhat amusing.
Ever since she started practicing this evil secret technique, her body had long since stopped fearing the cold.
Or rather, Leng Qingqiu's body temperature had already become different from normal people due to practicing this secret technique.
Thinking of this, Leng Qingqiu pretended to be indifferent and shook her head: "No, I'm not cold."
Hearing this, Gu Yan put down the spoon and held Leng Qingqiu's small hand, feeling how cold her palm was. He became even more concerned: "What nonsense are you talking? Your hand is so cold, and you say you're not cold?"
Saying this, Gu Yan quickly took off his jacket and draped it over Leng Qingqiu.
Leng Qingqiu pretended to resist, but the corners of her mouth turned up slightly.
She felt a warmth in her heart.
She hadn't expected Gu Yan to specially make her a bowl of brown sugar ginger water.
It was the middle of the night, and he must be very tired himself.
Thinking of this, an indescribable feeling welled up in Leng Qingqiu's heart, and she said: "You should go to sleep. I told you I'm not cold."
"No, no, I'm going to sit here and feed you until you finish drinking before I leave."
"It's not good for a girl's health to catch a chill."
"You didn't eat much for dinner either."
Gu Yan shook his head, then sat down and scooped up a spoonful of the brown sugar water, bringing it to Leng Qingqiu's lips.
If Leng Qingqiu had eyes, she would definitely have rolled them. She let out a light snort: "If I don't like the taste, you have to take it away and go back to sleep immediately."
Hearing this, Gu Yan's face lit up with joy as he slowly fed it to Leng Qingqiu: "Alright, I promise."
Seeing Leng Qingqiu frown as if savoring something, Gu Yan asked expectantly: "Does it taste good?"
"...Hmm... too much sugar, the fire was too high, it's just so-so."
Leng Qingqiu said expressionlessly.
??? How is that possible?! My culinary skills are godlike!
[Pure love interest feels happy and finds it delicious, +1 point]
Gu Yan was slightly stunned, then he understood.
So she's playing this game with me again, huh?
Alright, alright.
Gu Yan looked at Leng Qingqiu, then at the spoon in his hand.
Then he came up with an interesting idea.
On Leng Qingqiu's side, seeing that Gu Yan had fallen silent, she knew he was dumbfounded.
She couldn't help but laugh inwardly. Hmph, that's what you get for saying my cooking is bad.
Alright, it's about time to tell him I was just joking.
But just as Leng Qingqiu opened her mouth: "Gu..."
"??? Ah??? How could this be? I'll use this spoon to taste it myself!!!"
Gu Yan exclaimed dramatically.
Now it was Leng Qingqiu's turn to be stunned.
Wait, what did he say? Use the spoon to taste?
"Wait! Wait!"
Leng Qingqiu hurriedly stood up, reaching out her hand to stop Gu Yan.
Her face instantly turned red. That spoon! She had just used it!
However, she didn't touch anyone in front of her.
Instead, the sound came from behind her, and it was the sound of someone drinking soup.
"Slurp slurp~~"
"Sweet and smooth on the tongue, with an indescribable hint of sweetness on the spoon. Combined with my brown sugar water, it's perfectly delicious!!!"
"Qingqiu, tell me, how could you think such delicious brown sugar water doesn't taste good??"
Gu Yan put down the spoon, finished savoring, then looked at Leng Qingqiu who had turned around with a somewhat dazed expression.
"You... you really used the spoon I drank from?"
Leng Qingqiu's face looked a bit off, her tone seemed to be suppressing something as she asked.
Hearing this, Gu Yan looked at the spoon he had just licked clean, then smiled at Leng Qingqiu: "Yep, and I licked it very clean! Thanks for the treat!"
Ahhhhh!!!
Leng Qingqiu's heart pounded with unbearable embarrassment. She never imagined there could be such a perverted person in this world!
"You! You!!!"
Leng Qingqiu took a deep breath. She picked up the cane beside her, then faced Gu Yan with a flushed and angry expression and swung it at him: "You saliva-eating perverted lecher! Die! Die! Die!"
Leng Qingqiu never dreamed she would encounter such a situation.
It completely shattered the calm demeanor she had cultivated over years of practice.
Gu Yan was dumbfounded: "Ouch! Wait!! Qingqiu, you're really serious?!"
Whack! Whack!
"Of course! I have nothing more to say to a perverted lecher like you!! Die! Die!"
"Ahh! You're murdering your husband!"
"You! What husband! Stop yelling! Don't wake up Ling'er!!"
At this moment.
In another room.
Leng Ling'er, wearing pajamas, stared at the ceiling with dark circles under her eyes.
Hearing her sister's words, she felt like crying.
No, I've already been woken up by the noise.
Are you always this intense late at night?
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."
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.
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
