Wen Xinya had no idea how tough of a time Xia Ruya was going through. Throughout the past three days since the product launch, Ai Shang Cosmetics had already occupied 30% of the market. They were currently working with the Wen Corporation, whose employees were incredibly busy because of the launch in the French market. 
However, she was only paying slight attention to the news. She had recently been focusing all of her energy on the revision for the final examinations. She did not even take part in the cooperation between Ai Shang Cosmetics and Floral Lingo Pavilion.
The afternoon sun was bright and warm.
After lunch, Wen Xinya felt extremely lazy and sluggish. She laid on Si Yiyan's lap while reading her revision notes, not wanting to move at all. She was also looking through the practice questions that Si Yiyan had given her.
Si Yiyan was reading through a document attentively. 
Although their bodies were stuck together, they were focusing on the things that they each had to do. It was an inexplicable intimacy.
"Si Yiyan, how do I do this question?" Wen Xinya asked, pointing at a math question.
Wen Xinya lacked talent in math, though she did not face any major problems because she was willing to put in effort into learning. However, Si Yiyan was afraid that her math results would pull her final score down and hence, made it a point to tutor her.
Si Yiyan looked down and grabbed a notebook, on which he wrote a math formula. "Try using this formula to solve the problem."
Wen Xinya nodded. She did not know that she could use that formula to solve the math problem.
A moment later, Wen Xinya managed to solve the problem. 
Si Yiyan took a look at her answer and said, "Not too bad, but your working is a little messy and your solution is too complicated. By using that method, you will be awarded at most three marks."
He then wrote a simpler solution.
Suddenly enlightened, Wen Xinya exclaimed, "Oh, it's actually so easy! I didn't know it could be solved using such a simple method."
Si Yiyan said, "This is one of the popular questions that came out during last year's final examination. Lots of scholars and top students were defeated by this question, and only a few could obtain full marks."
Wen Xinya listened to his explanation attentively.
In the end, Si Yiyan showed her a few more solutions that she could use to solve the question.
Wen Xinya placed a hand on her forehead and gazed at Si Yiyan in awe with glistening eyes. She peeled a litchi and bit it before moving it closer towards his lips. 
Si Yiyan opened his mouth and bit the litchi and her lips at the same time. He savored the sweetness of the litchi and her lips, finding it to be extremely delicious.
Wen Xinya moved her lips aways while the sweetness filled her mouth. "Is it sweet?"
"Yes!" Si Yiyan answered, lowering his head to lick her sweet lips.
Wen Xinya grinned and said, "It's been hard on you. This is the reward for your hard work."
Si Yiyan had been putting in lots of effort and hard work into helping her with her revision. He definitely deserved to be rewarded.
Si Yiyan peeled a litchi and fed it to her. "I prefer receiving a reward from you in bed."
Wen Xinya could not help but glower at him. A man's lecherous nature was often exhibited in his words. He often liked to tease her and flirt with her verbally, and he was… unrestrained with his words.
"I can't be bothered to talk to you." Wen Xinya rolled her eyes again and thought to herself, All he thinks about is sex. Is he still that Si Yiyan who used to be proud of his self-control and willpower?
Si Yiyan burst into laughter and said, "Fine. If you ignore me… who's going to give you tuition?"
Wen Xinya rolled her eyes and said, "Zhong Rufeng sent me a text message last night asking me if I have encountered any issues with revision. He offered to help me with tuition…"
Si Yiyan raised her chin and planted a kiss on her lips fiercely with immense force. It was almost as if he was trying to punish her. She began to find it hard to breathe and her tender lips turned numb.
Wen Xinya began pleading pitifully. She absolutely regretted her decision to say that. She could not help but berate herself for being rash.
It was as if the kiss was endless.
When Wen Xinya almost fainted, Si Yiyan finally let go of her. Appearing a little daunting, he said, "Seems like the tuition I'm giving you is not intense enough. You still have the energy to… chat with other men!"
He sounded fierce and intimidating. Wen Xinya frantically waved her hands and said, "No, no, I barely have enough time to serve you. How could I still have the energy…"
She turned red as soon as she finished talking.
Si Yiyan stared at her calmly and asked, "Is that so?"
Wen Xinya hurriedly nodded and answered firmly, "Yes, yes!"
As soon as she finished speaking, she felt that she had answered a little too quickly. She felt that there was something wrong.
Si Yiyan stared at her calmly and his lips curled into a smile.
Wen Xinya recovered from the shock and covered his mouth bashfully. Glowering at him menacingly, she said, "You're not allowed to laugh. Laugh again and I'll ignore you."
Si Yiyan grabbed her hand and kissed it. "Yes, I'm not going to laugh."
Wen Xinya felt sudden moisture and numbness in her hand. She quickly retracted it and said, "You're not allowed to tease or flirt with me either. Got it?"
She glowered at him menacingly. 
Si Yiyan held her in his arms and said, "Turns out I'm that powerful…"
His ego was fed.
Wen Xinya turned incredibly shy and hurriedly tried to change the subject. "By the way, where's Cleopatra? I haven't seen him in a while."
She realized that she missed Cleopatra.
Instead of continuing to tease her, Si Yiyan answered, "Oh, he's gone to look for his wife."
That lecherous dog was fidgety and hyperactive. The vet had verified that it was time for him to start mating. Due to the fact that his hormones were raging, it would be inappropriate to keep him in the Lishan mansion. Hence, he immediately instructed his men to send Cleopatra back to Italy.
Thinking that she had heard him wrong, Wen Xinya asked, "Huh?"
Look for his wife? Do dogs need to look for wives too? I don't remember hearing that before.
Si Yiyan rubbed her soft hair and chuckled. "What a silly little lass."
Sometimes, she was terrifyingly smart. Sometimes, she was adorably foolish. Sometimes, she was brazen and dauntless, to the extent that he felt helpless. Sometimes, she was slow-witted and amusing.
Wen Xinya finally realized what Si Yiyan meant. After giving it some careful thought… she wondered to herself, Don't dogs usually mate in April or May? No wonder Cleopatra kept rubbing himself against me a few days ago. He wasn't even threatened by Si Yiyan's warnings.


Originally born from a wealthy family, she ends up leading a vagrant life for fifteen years. However, when she is eventually found by her family, she falls into another devious plot and eventually dies tragically. 

Fifteen years after her rebirth, ravenously raging for revenge, she tears down the hypocritical mask of the foster daughter who had taken her place, and reduces her greedy stepmother and stepsister back to their original sorry states. 

To the jerk's profession of his deep love for her, she only has one thing to say, "Get the hell out of my life. The love you speak of humiliates love!" 

Regardless of the appearances of you monsters, I’ll take in it my stride with my capability, building a business dynasty of my own, sitting in the depths of my riches, bathing in the glistening limelight of the world. 

A certain rich empire's CEO: "Don't mind me. I'm just leaving my mark here to declaring my possession rights; I’ll wait patiently for you to grow up!" The queen's mighty return with commercial warfare fully within her grasp, she navigates the power struggles with skill and verve. When it comes to scheming conspiracies, all she has to say is, "Who are you again? Don’t even bother!"

I kept this one, since it has been the most commented on with real criticism.

First of all, I'm apologizing to all readers for this revision process. This has been deemed necessary since the "NTR" gave no purpose in this story. As for why did I put "NTR" in the first place? To put off readers from reading my novel in itself. This may be strange, but I don't write for the sake of being popular, but simply to keep me out from boredom (with Covid-19 I've not been able to go to work since March, and I won't return to work until Oct/Nov, so I have too much free time in my hands...).


So, after Meky's explanation, I've decided to revise this story to remove that "NTR" tag. But it also means I need to remove an entire set from the character cast, which means changing MC's past etc...
This won't end up as a simple revision. My two main problems (other than the poor grammar) are:
- No planning ahead the whole story (because at some point I didn't know how to end it), and it ended up in a way I didn't want it to be (truthfully strange, since the author should have control on what he/she is writing. I was too engrossed in the story myself and went on with martial arts, nobles, big family etc...).
- And the lack of descriptions, which can mislead some readers. Like they didn't know the MC was a man or a woman. Or who's talking to who (that's chaos when I'm doing more than two people speaking together). This is a problem coming from a first person perspective, you don't get an omniscient view on everything, and there's no narrator to fill in the blanks (like the by-standing second characters who comment on the intricate functions of a technique in shounen manga...).

In conclusion this story will probably have to change its course entirely, and will certainly be an entire other story.

On a side note, I didn't want to put any "trademarks" in the title, but original title was "I Play this Game Like the Sims", so if you feel the "simulator" part is clearly off... now you know why.

On Hiatus...

Synopsis: A café owner playing a VRMMO (... I'm not good with synopsis).

Since the "R-18" tag and the "restricted" weren't enough. This novel contains:

!!!MATURE CONTENT!!!

(made enough space so it cannot be missed)

I'm not an English-native, spare me a bit on my grammar. By the way, I only accept criticism when there's a reason to. No reason = delete. Please excuse me in advance from deleting your comments if it happens.

Ling Yun's gaze caused Cao Shanshan to look down at her chest. She felt embarrassed yet joyous at the same time. She then bit her lower lip and said, "You only took leave for the morning lessons, yet you did not come for the lessons after those. It'd be weird if our form teacher doesn't look for you to clarify things…"
Upon hearing those words, Ling Yun thought to himself. If not for my little sister, I wouldn't even have turned up in school today… That would have saved me this hassle…
Actually, Ling Yun's original intentions were not that far off from Tang Meng's. He had originally wanted to meet up with Tang Meng and Tie Xiaohu after finishing his business with his sister in order to meet Yao Rou to discuss the clinic.
However, in Ning Lingyu's excitement, she insisted on him staying to have a meal with her. This miscalculation on his part, along with him being caught by Cao Shanshan, left him with no choice but to return to class for revision instead.
Ling Yun thought to himself. Although the form teacher is a beauty, she's definitely strict. I'll probably receive some criticism from her about my extended absence… Ah, whatever…
When the time comes to train my Yin-Yang harmony balance, cultivating my dantian Yin-Yang energy should take no longer than twenty minutes…
Ling Yun laughed, "I told you I haven't been in top condition since the afternoon… It still hurts there… Don't believe me? Just touch it…"
Cao Shanshan's face turned completely red. She dared not try it again. If she were to do so, it would only be when there was nobody else around.
Seeing Cao Shanshan's blush and hesitance to respond, a cheeky smile appeared on Ling Yun's face. He then proceeded to quickly finish reading through the last of his History notes before putting them aside to start on Geography.
Cao Shanshan warned Ling Yun softly, "We're in a History lesson right now… Be careful that the teacher doesn't catch you studying Geography!"
Ling Yun let out a chuckle and said softly, "I'm not afraid of being caught. If you ask me, my current grasp of the History syllabus exceeds even that of Zhang Ling!"
Cao Shanshan looked at Ling Yun and raised an eyebrow. She asked in a tone of disbelief, "Really?"
Ling Yun gave her an expression that basically said 'duh', as he could not be bothered to answer her question.
…
Two periods of lessons quickly passed, and the next lesson was about to start.
As the bell rang to signal the start of the next period, Kong Xiuru, with her long hair draped on her shoulders, entered the class. She was wearing a snow-white shirt, a black office skirt, translucent skin colored stockings and a pair of white high heels. She also had a stern expression plastered on her beautiful face.
Cao Shanshan could not help herself but to look at Ling Yun and feel worried for him.
After Teacher Kong entered the class, she passed a stack of English test papers to two female students to distribute to the class. She followed that up by telling the students, "For the next two periods, everyone will be attempting this test paper."
After she had finished delivering her instructions, Teacher Kong lightly coughed and signaled towards Ling Yun. She said, "Ling Yun, come outside with me for a bit. Bring volume one of your English textbook as well."
Ling Yun hurriedly scoured through his belongings to find the English textbook. At this point, Ling Yun had already memorized almost all of his History, Geography and Politics notes. He had even revised Chinese and Mathematics already! However, he had not even touched English. Throughout all of the studying he had done, he had not even bothered to look at any English notes. He had long forgotten where he had put volume one of his English textbook!
Seeing his predicament, Cao Shanshan immediately took her English textbook out and passed it to Ling Yun. She said, "You can use mine first."
"Thanks!" Ling Yun exclaimed as a smile appeared on his face. He then proceeded to squeeze behind Cao Shanshan's seat to walk towards the door. Cao Shanshan felt the bulge between Ling Yun's thighs, and her heart started to pound. Her ears also got red and hot.
Kong Xiuru was already outside the classroom. Ling Yun soon followed.
"Come with me!" Kong Xiuru ordered. Seeing Ling Yun walk out of the classroom, she decided that she would not bother with pleasantries and immediately ordered him to follow her.
Kong Xiuru was silent. Ling Yun naturally followed suit. With the textbook in hand, Ling Yun could only follow Teacher Kong as she went.
After walking for quite a distance, Ling Yun sensed something was off. He then asked, "Teacher Kong, where might we be going?"
Kong Xiuru flatly replied, "To my dormitory."
Ling Yun started to sweat profusely all of a sudden. He thought to himself. My God… You're clad in such sexy clothes, and you're bringing me back to your dormitory at this late hour? I'm not mentally prepared for this…
Ling Yun stopped in his tracks. He then asked again, "About that… Teacher Kong, what are we going back to your dormitory for?"
Kong Xiuru furrowed her eyebrows and replied flatly, "To give you some revision. If we go to the English Department's office, we would disturb the other teachers' work."
Ling Yun sighed and thought to himself So it's just revision… Ah, whatever…
Because of Ling Yun, Kong Xiuru had had a headache all afternoon. This was because she reasoned that Ling Yun's revision could not be done in the classroom or the office. In her desperation, she chose the location to be her personal dormitory.
Even though such a location would normally give the people the idea that something illicit was going on, the whole Qingshui High knew of Kong Xiuru's character. Therefore, she concluded that there would not be much of a problem.
Kong Xiuru's dormitory was on the school grounds. It was no further than four hundred meters from Ling Yun's classroom. Hence, they got there rather quickly.
"Teacher, so do you stay on the fifth floor?" Ling Yun asked as he saw the lift was headed up to the fifth floor. He was just trying to make small talk to curb the awkwardness.
"Yes," Kong Xiuru replied plainly.
Upon reaching the fifth floor, Kong Xiuru let Ling Yun into her dormitory.
Kong Xiuru was among the most well respected and capable teachers in Qingshui High. Therefore, her dormitory was rather large in size despite being for one person only.
The whole apartment was about a hundred and twenty square feet big. With three rooms, two halls, a kitchen, and a bathroom, it was basically a complete household. Aside from having no objects belonging to men, it could be said that the dormitory did not lack anything.
Because there were three rooms and only one person living there, Kong Xiuru had decided to convert one of the rooms into a study room of sorts, to use as a place to work while at home.
The room was clean, neat, quiet, tidy, comfortable and cozy. Upon entering, Ling Yun felt extremely impressed. His impression of Kong Xiuru improved by quite a fair bit.
"Come here!" Kong Xiuru ordered. She still had a strict expression on her face. Her expression did not change even after she had returned to her dormitory.
Kong Xiuru decided to cut to the chase. She asked, "Ling Yun, why did you apply for leave today?"
Ling Yun braced himself. He put on a serious expression and said, "Teacher, I'm feeling rather unwell. This could be because I've lost so much weight in such a short period of time. That's why I didn't come to school earlier."
This was just an excuse thought up by Ling Yun on the spot, but it proved to be extremely persuasive. Kong Xiuru took a deep breath and explained, "The final exams are coming. Even if you are in a hurry to lose weight, you should still focus on keeping yourself healthy. If not, it'll affect your performance. It'll be too late for regrets then."
"Yes, Teacher! I got it. Thank you." Ling Yun responded. Although Kong Xiuru had a stern expression on her face, her words carried genuine care and concern for Ling Yun. This made Ling Yun genuinely thankful for her words.
"Alright, let's start some remedial now. I know that your fundamentals for English are rather poor. However, I've heard that you have a fantastic memory, so I'll start with the basics for this session.
With such an excellent teacher going to the trouble of bringing him back to her own dormitory to aid him in his studies, Ling Yun knew that if he did not take the session seriously, it would bite his conscience to no end. Therefore, he nodded his head in agreement.
Kong Xiuru took out the English textbook and started by reciting the alphabet. She was really curious as to whether Ling Yun's memory was as good as the rumors said!
It did not take long for Kong Xiuru to be awed. She thought to herself. How can Ling Yun's memory be this good?! It's unbelievable to the point that it's almost scary!
For the alphabet, Kong Xiuru only needed to go through it once. Ling Yun had no problem listening, reading, and writing it. He even got their pronunciations down to perfection!
His proficiency was so immense that his handwriting for English was basically a carbon copy of what was printed out in the textbook. It did not matter whether the words were in capital letters or small letters, they were all perfectly written!
Kong Xiuru thought to herself. This is basically a perfect reproduction of whatever has been printed in the textbook!
Kong Xiuru still found it hard to believe that Ling Yun's learning ability was so prodigious. She jumbled up the order of the words and let Ling Yun read them again. He then proceeded to read them with startling accuracy and pronunciation. Not a flaw could be found in his reading!
Kong Xiuru was shocked, to say the least. She then proceeded to teach Ling Yun the forty-eight phonetic symbols of English. The phonetic symbols were a vital part of English and if Ling Yun was able to learn them, he would be able to read English by himself without any problems.
Kong Xiuru was in disbelief at how Ling Yun managed to learn everything after just one explanation and attempt. The phonetic symbols were no exception. Just like the alphabet, she only needed to go through them once for Ling Yun to completely grasp everything.
Kong Xiuru then flipped to the later pages of the textbook. She wanted to expose Ling Yun to new words such as 'Christmas', the months from 'January' to 'December', and other phrases such as greetings which were more complex than just simply the alphabet. Ling Yun then proceeded to recite everything at a glance, without even taking time to hesitate about the difficult words and phrases.
Kong Xiuru was left speechless. Her student was too incredible! Ling Yun was not just a genius, he was a monster!
Kong Xiuru could not maintain her stoic expression for any longer. She proceeded to give Ling Yun half an hour to memorize some vocabulary.
After learning the alphabet and phonetics, the most important part was vocabulary. In English examinations, the wider one's vocabulary, the more advantageous it would be. It was similar to learning Chinese!
Kong Xiuru did not want to disturb Ling Yun, therefore she went to pour Ling Yun a cup of water. She placed the cup beside him and went out to brainstorm about what method she could use to most effectively educate Ling Yun.
Kong Xiuru had never even heard of such a genius in school, let alone seen one. However, she then began suspecting whether Ling Yun had been hiding his great talent from everyone for the past three years.
After half an hour, which marked the end of the first half of the English period, Kong Xiuru re-entered her study room to get Ling Yun to stop memorizing the vocabulary.
She could not hold her stoic expression anymore as she broke out into a rare, but beautiful small smile.
"How's it going? How much do you remember?" Kong Xiuru asked, full of expectation. Her expression was much like that of a young girl proclaiming her love for a boy for the first time. It showed great nervousness and expectation.
Ling Yun smiled as he said, "There was too little time. I could only memorize everything from the junior high textbook to the Grade 10 textbook…"
"What?! You've memorized everything?! You… you can read it all?" Kong Xiuru exclaimed.
Given Ling Yun's capability, if he was given another two periods worth of time, he would be able to memorize the entire high school syllabus' worth of vocabulary!
Ling Yun was rather pleased with himself. He gave Kong Xiuru a small grin as he said, "Listening, reading, speaking and writing, all of them should not be a problem now. Teacher, if you don't believe me, you can give me a test right now to confirm it!
"Ah?! This…" Kong Xiuru could not believe what she had just heard!
His ability to memorize was simply…


Lingyun's tribulation has failed and he has descended onto Earth in the degenerate age. Step by step, he will rise up against the natural order!

'Sooo... this is what a big city looks like in real life.' Simon thought as he walked through the modern architecture of the Reaper town. 

'In all honesty, Reaper town is more of a city than an actual town. It's funny, everything is different when you see it in person, even if I thought up all of this.'

'But d**n, it's so boring. What should I even do here? The system and Xander still haven't come back, and I am just here wondering what I should do in the meantime.'

'Actually, when I think about it, the year is 12444. I did write the start of my novel in 12454... To be honest, the events also cover 10 years back, including what's happening today.'

'I've been doing to much f***ing training. I've barely even considered the actual year and time before the story starts. But, meh. It might just be that I have to wait a couple more years until Xander shows up again and starts talking. Maybe the system will naturally come back to accompany me? Who knows?'

Simon continued walking through the thick crowd of commoners, until he finally reached an ornate-looking clothing shop. With black marble walls and clear glass, the store looked simple yet beautifully well chiselled; enough for a demon to just stop and admire. After entering through an open door, Simon was greeted by a devil in his Middle Ages, possessing a pair of blue blesbok horns.

"Greetings, young knight." The man cheerfully greeted as he usher Simon into the shop.

A thing peculiar thing to note is that the devil's horns weren't exactly what a typical blesbok would possess, instead, it seemed that the horns had been chiselled to form sharper points. This gave an atmosphere of refinement and 'sharpness'.

"Fufu... you have good eyes." Simon said as his white paste disappeared, revealing his grey horns.

"I have an eye for such things, and it also seems you are rather young. Perhaps not even old enough to be considered an adult." The man warmly spoke as he guided Simon into the silent setting of the shop.

"This shop is known as 'Black Circle', we only handle a single customer at a time, and pride ourselves in our private and homely customer service. Every once in a while, a homeless devil may come here just for a chat. They always leave with a smile." The man continued.

"Do you know why?" 

Simon listened intently and knew exactly what this opening speech meant. It is a test, a test for a potential customer. This shop isn't just a normal shop after all. This is Simon's favourite establishment from his novel. And that didn't change when he arrived in this world. It more homely than home for starters.

'This is more of a test than a simple question.'

"Because there are no homeless devils, the ones that come in are but disguised demons. You leave their mouths stitched together with a smile as you send them to the custodians." Simon laughed.

"And that is why this store is named the Smiling Needle." Simon finished with a grin.

"CORRECT!"

"I am indeed impressed, little customer. I see your ears are refined and your senses are keen. That is what I love in youth. It is quite laughable though, we don't mind the odd homeless demon, but we still are disgusted at those that steal the devil identity. It is a rather terrible sin." The man warmly declared.

"You have passed the test. I will now guide you into the Needle's den. Also... while we are at it, I shall  greet you with my devil name."

"I am"

'Nidal Tuskan.'

"Nidal Tuskan."

"Here is your valued customer badge." Nidal smiled as he handed a black metal badge to Simon.

"This will allow you to enter my shop even when I am not here. In any case, an employee of mine will guide you and help you pick out your favoured piece."

"Thank you, Tested Senior." Simon respectfully responded.

"No need, no need. You are a valued customer." Nidal said as he opened a hidden door in the wall using his devil magic.

"You probably have never seen this before. This is devil magic, magic that becomes stronger as a devil Gains tiers in their horns. My magic is rather laughable compared to the Viclars and so on." Nidal explained.

'Hmmm... I didn't write about that, it was a revision from the system. I honestly didn't like this revision since it complicates things, but it's rather interesting.' Simon noted.

"Thank you, please guide me."

"As I will. This room is my master embroidery room. I create the finest of wear here."

Pointing towards another door, Nidal smiled. "And this here is my headwear room. It is only for customers that I deem to be fit for it. Say... I think you qualify."

"Why don't we sort out your primary attire first, and then we can move onto the more special business."

"As you recommend." Simon answered.

"Very well!" Nidal exclaimed as a mirror appeared out of nowhere.

Instantly, the mirror blinked in front of Simon, resting 2 meters away from him.

"Also, each set of attire comes at a flat rate of 100 blood coins. It is quite affordable and definitely cannot be beaten in quality across the devil world. But for you, you get a one time 'freebie' because I say so." Nidal joyfully explained as a set of golden needles started to levitate around a pile of fabrics and silk-like thread.

"I see from your eyes... orange eyes of complex intensity... that you desire something that spells 'I am not to be trifled with!' I rather like this, it means you will survive as a young noble."

"I will create a set of attire according to what I see in you now, it will only take a few minutes. And don't worry about measurements, I have been in business for an entire century."

***

Author: I say... I rather enjoyed writing this chapter. It feels... different.
Cheers.

Also, if you aren't reading on Webnovel.com, then you are reading on a pirate site. Please don't continue if you are reading on a pirate site. Filing a DMCA takedown notice is really annoying you know?

Cheers... again.

(Extended Hiatus)


Being a socially inept terminally ill person for most of his life, Simon dies after completing his novel. 

What is waiting for him? 

A cliche mess that he had written himself.

Watch as he becomes OP through his knowledge and random coincidence. 

“Why did I make my MC an edgelord?”

“Why does this system make me too OP?”

“Why am I bored?”

“Why did I put harem in my novel?”

Read before the MC drops this novel himself!

By the time Qiao Dongliang snatched the novel from Qiao Zijin, only then did she realize that someone had entered her room. 
Qiao Zijin flushed with embarrassment and said to Ding Jiayi, "Mom, why did you enter my room without knocking!" 
"What kind of nonsense novel are you reading!" Qiao Zijin had stopped at a page where there was some saucy material. Qiao Dongliang took a few glances and was exasperated. "Did you coop yourself up in your room to read this kind of novel?" 
Giving Qiao Zijin no time to react, Qiao Dongliang spread his two hands and tore up the novel. "You refuse to let Nan Nan study, and yet you have spare money to buy this for Zijin. Old Ding, let me ask you, do we have money or not?" 
Qiao Dongliang saw that the novel was not cheap, and there was the elder daughter's name on the book. It was undoubtedly hers. 
"I… I…" Ding Jiayi was dumbfounded. Old Qiao wanted his daughters to be well-educated and to have a promising future, so as to make up for his regret of being discharged from the army. This was the first time that she had seen Old Qiao tear up their daughter's books. 
"I didn't." Ding Jiayi hurried to explain. "I didn't give Zijin money and I never knew that she bought books recently." 
Ding Jiayi felt that she had been treated unjustly. She had saved and scrimped at home and kept tight control on the meat and fish dishes at home in order to save some money to pull strings for Zijin. 
She would never give Zijin extra money to buy these kind of novels. 
Ding Jiayi had no idea what the novel was about. But judging from Qiao Dongliang's reaction, when he only took a glance and tore it into pieces, intuition told her that there was nothing great about the book. 
Out of curiosity, Qiao Nan picked up the book on the floor, and flipped to the last page.
She has been sisters with Qiao Zijin for two lives. She knew all the small habits that Qiao Zijin had.
As expected, when Qiao Nan flipped to the last page, she saw some dates written on it. It dated back to more than half a year ago, around New Year last year. 
Looking at the pages, there weren't brand new. It meant that Qiao Zijin bought it more than half a year ago, and she had finished reading some time ago. 
Qiao Nan calculated the dates, and realized that it had been during the most crucial part of the year where Qiao Zijin was sitting for her middle school examination. Qiao Zijin had spare money, yet she did not spend it on revision books, but wasted it on this kind of novel. No wonder Qiao Zijin had not been doing well in her exams, and that she only barely managed to make it to high school. 
Qiao Dongliang used to serve in the army, he was more insightful than others. 
Just one glance at Qiao Nan's flipping actions and he knew what was going on. There was no need for Qiao Nan to say a word. 
Qiao Zijin was sitting for her crucial middle school examination at that time, and yet she had the time to read novels. Thinking back on her results, Qiao Dongliang felt extremely disappointed. 
Ever since he had been discharged from the army, he had pinned his hopes on his two daughters, hoping that they would have good prospects, and that was why he let them enrol in school. 
He thought she was not as gifted but had tried her best, thus with the adequate results that she had, he had not scolded her at all for two whole months. 
But now Qiao Dongliang knew the truth. Qiao Zijin did not put any effort into her studies at all. 
"No wonder your results are less than satisfactory; this is where you have channeled your attention to." Qiao Dongliang was puzzled, at such a young age, how did Qiao Zijin know about these romance novels?
Thinking back on the near seventeen years that he had spent bringing up his elder daughter, she had never shed a tear for her Dad. Yet she had cried her guts out for that book. Qiao Dongliang felt awful. 
But he could not take it out on his daughter, so he ranted at Ding Jiayi. "She was preparing for her middle school examination and yet she was reading this sort of immoral book. How could she possibly get good results?! Zijin's heart was not set on studying and you forced her to study. On the other hand, Nan Nan had been performing well all along, yet you wanted her to quit school. What do you mean by that?!" 
Qiao Dongliang grabbed the book from Qiao Nan and threw it into Ding Jiayi's face. 
Her face was not hurt, but her pride did. However Ding Jiayi could not rebut a word now. "Zijin, why did you…" 
Why did she have to fumble the ball at such a juncture?
Ding Jiayi never imagined that her elder daughter would be reading novels instead of revising in such a crucial half-year period. 
On the other hand, even though Qiao Nan wanted to study at home, Ding Jiayi would always order her around, asking her to run errands and to clean up the house. 
Qiao Zijin still had a buzzing sound in her ears. She was totally baffled, scared out of her wits. 
Whenever Qiao Zijin was reading, no-one in the house would disturb her. 
In particular today, she made it a point to tell Ding Jiayi that she was going to study. As always, Ding Jiayi would not let anyone disturb her or go into her room. 
Because there was Ding Jiayi around, Qiao Zijin read her novel without a care. 
The story had reached a climax, Qiao Zijin was totally absorbed in the plot, sobbing terribly for the couple who were forced to stay apart by the wife of the male lead. Yet all of a sudden there were three people in her room. 
As for the revision that Qiao Zijin was saying, the content of this book had no relation whatsoever to her junior high studies. 
"No, no, Dad, you… you are mistaken, this book… I, I only read it after exams were over, not, not before that…" 
Qiao Zijin stuttered and could not utter a proper sentence. But everyone could tell that she was trying to make excuses for herself. 
Ding Jiayi came to her senses and went to Qiao Zijin's rescue. "Old Qiao, you heard it, though Zijin bought the book way before exams, she only read it recently. How she fared in middle school examination had nothing to do with this book. Zijin was so sensible, she would not do things like that." 
"Never read before, does this look like a new book?" 
"Dad, I never read it, but I lent it to my classmate!" 
"Who did you lend it to?" 
"I have lent it to Wang Hua from the next class." But Wang Hua has moved house four months ago. She did not even sit the middle school examination. Her Dad would not be able to find her.
"The one who moved, sister, since when are you on such close terms with the classmates from the next class?" Qiao Nan laughed. Qiao Zijin might be able to convince their mother, but definitely not Dad. 
This was obviously Qiao Zijin's intention. Wang Hua had moved house and Dad had no way of verifying with her. 
"You shut up!" Ding Jiayi shouted at Qiao Nan. "At this juncture,you are still adding fuel to the fire, Qiao Nan, what ill intentions are you harboring, if you do not know how to speak, just keep your mouth shut!" 
Ding Jiayi was startled by Qiao Dongliang's darkened face. 
"Dad, I have to enroll for school the day after tomorrow. Where are my school fees?" Qiao Nan tried changing the topic, the date for enrollment was just a few days away, would she be able to get her school fees? "Dad, I have used up all my pens and exercise books." 
Qiao Dongliang let out a deep breath, "Give twenty yuan to Nan Nan." 


Qiao Nan: Crap! I am your biological daughter, yet I am treated as if I was picked up from the streets. In fact, you treat me worse than that!

Mother Qiao: Qiao Nan, you are not as pretty or smart as your elder sister. You are not as blessed as her. You have no right to study, marry, or to have your happiness!

Qiao Nan: Why am I not allowed to study, marry, or to seek my happiness? I will find a man right now and marry him!

Qiao Nan is dumbstruck upon discovering that the man right beside her is a powerful figure in the quad—the person who has the most promising prospects to be the future Chief.

Qiao Nan stares at the well-built man in front of her. He has firm abs and cold, chilling eyes. She swallows the lump in her throat as she says her greetings, "Good Morning, Chief!"

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Alena, Ally & Sabrina's life changes when they find out that they have been chosen as agents to work for a secret agency. The training starts and the first rule to become agent is to be punctual. 

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My dear readers,

I have started writing this book and there maybe some parts where there may be a bit of grammatical mistake or typographical mistake. Please forgive this writer for that. I shall re-read this book after writing up to 100 chapters. Then the previous chapters will be revised. So, bear with me till that time, if there is any gaping flaw. I write my books while travelling, so, sometimes it's impossible for me to check the previous chapters and continue writing. So, there may be some parts which doesn't match with the later parts of the story, which will be changed during the revision. So bear with me till then. 

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One day, Sophie finds herself in a dark forest in immense pain. She was betrayed by her loved ones and beaten black and blue. She lost consciousness but was saved by a pair of good looking brothers. She got a second chance in life. She resolved to take revenge on those people who harmed her. What will happen to her? Will she be able to take revenge on those who hurt her? What will happen to her dream of conquering the world?

Robert, Sophie's childhood best friend, was forced to separate from her despite trying hard to fight against the circumstances. He came to know about Sophie's circumstances after a long time. He tried hard to find her. Will he find his lost love? Or, will destiny separate them? 

Both will set out to conquer the world not knowing that destiny will bring them so close that her world will revolve around him.

Sneak Peak:
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“What happened? My dear wifey, are you sore?”, he chuckled.
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“Hey, how did you find me guilty, dear wifey? It was you who asked for more.”, he smiled evilly.
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You must be annoyed.

"How could the author be so inconsiderate, doesn't she know others waiting for an update?"

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I wronged you first *deep bow* Truthfully its because I've been very busy with revision and homework... I basically have to learn french by next week or my results by next week so...
I'm going on a mini hiatus because I have mock exams starting in like... in two weeks so you know how that gets...

I promise(this is a very big promise) a mass release by Christmas. Yes, I know that a long time to wait. I'll try to finish this volume them maybe even finish the next volume...

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When a famous actress dies a tragic death, Cupid takes pity on her and sucks her into his twisted Cannon Fodder System...

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Although Joshua did not like to play tricks, his EQ was not low. The warrior clearly knew that the old mage would invite him to travel together over to the Imperial City. Other than sincerely wanting to help the warrior, part of it was because the old mage wanted to strike an impression on the people in the Imperial City.
The current political situation in the Imperial City had yet to become complicated. In short, there were only a few parties such as the Central Royal Family, the local nobles, the Church and the more powerful merchants. The royal family had obviously suppressed the other parties because they had the emperor who had the strength of a Legendary tier. However, even in that case, there were many smaller factions under each party. Some of them even joined forces with the other faction in other parties just to for their own benefits.
Meanwhile, that sort of things was actually not uncommon.
Nostradamus was the emperor's tutor when he was young. He himself was once part of the Central Royal Family party, a Supreme-tier mage of the Kaos family. He was one of the Imperial Leaders who was extremely powerful. Meanwhile, the Radcliffe family had also been part of the royal family party in the Empire 400 years ago. The emperor of that time had directly granted the territory in the North to the Radcliffe family. So theoretically speaking, the Radcliffe family should still be the party that supports the Central Royal Family.
However, due to the inability to establish a teleportation portal to communicate smoothly with the outside world for the past 400 years, the Moldavia administration gradually shifted to a local party of nobles. In actual fact, before Joshua's succession, Radcliffes were like the royal family of Moldavia. Although they did not rule ruthlessly like tyrants, the words of the count were as powerful as the law of the Empire Kingdom. If they said one, then it would be one and not two. [1]
Even though it was actually not that significant that Joshua and Nostradamus could go to the Imperial City together, it could at least send a message saying that the Radcliffe family had returned to the party of the royal family.
In fact, Joshua did not mind that. However, he was aware of the future development of this world. The warrior knew that the future of the royal family of the Northern Empire would be involved with a number of difficulties. Hence they would not have extra energy to provide him with support. Instead of going out into the public with such a high profile, why not he just lay low and get rich quietly for the moment first? That would be the best option for the moment.
After all, it was truly tedious to get involved in political struggles. Compared to that, even wandering around in the territory would be even more interesting.
After ending the conversation with Nostradamus, Joshua took a moment to think about it. Walking back and forth in the study room, he was almost done planning and confirming his future plans.
Since he no longer planned to teleport over to the Imperial City with the old mage, then he would just walk all the way over to the Imperial City then. Well, he could just treat the journey as a trip. He could also rest up a little on the way and better understand the local customs along the way to the Imperial City. Truthfully speaking, Joshua had not yet truly observed the culture of this world up till this point. Due to the long winter, the cities in the North appeared to be a little monotonous and inactive. Occasionally, he wanted to see the beauty of other places.
"Hey, come here."
After making that decision, he stopped in his tracks and turned his head, with a serious expression on his face. He looked at Ling who was leaning on the table as if he was doing nothing and said, "I have a mission for you."
"Yes, Master!"
The idea of the count would naturally be fulfilled. After the order was given out by Joshua, people in the liege's mansion began to prepare all the supplies and things required for Joshua's journey. As the butler with power in managing the mansion, Ling was naturally busy with basically everything that was going on in the mansion. Meanwhile, Ying was not in a better situation than her brother as well, She would sometimes be dragged by her brothers over to do some work. Even after the sun had set, the liege's mansion was still filled with a busy atmosphere.
Meanwhile, Joshua did not stay idle either. After he had instructed everyone to prepare everything he needed for the upcoming journey, he straight away went over to Winter Fort Academy at Mount Nissia through the teleportation circle as he was ready to observe the academy.
Night had arrived. When he reached the academy, Joshua could see that there were countless stars blinking bright in the night sky, along with the presence of the twin moons, blanketing the academy on the mountainside with a layer of radiance that looked like silver snow.
Compared to a month ago, the academy had many changes. Every time when Joshua arrived to observe, the place seemed to have changed a lot.
Nostradamus seemed to have devoted all his energy and effort into this. Halfway up the mountain, other than Winter Fort, the construction of the rune factory was the only thing that was yet to be completed. The unfinished rune factory surrounded by a dense cedar forest. But now, there was no more cedar trees that were tough as steel within hundreds of meters around the academy. The rugged terrain of the ground was also flattened by magic. There was no longer a complex and varied terrain seen on the surface of the land. Meanwhile, right by the side of the main gate of Winter Fort, there were artificial turf and a series of magical bouquets that could survive the cold.
That was only the outer perimeter of the academy. Meanwhile, the change in the interior of the academy was much more significant than that on the outer perimeter of the academy.
The warrior walked into the hall of the academy and looked up into the ceiling of the hall. He found that there were more exotic decorations, such as the inscription of the magic patterns, the stone carvings that could provide a range of magical power, and a fountain that was flowing with an endless stream of pure water. The surroundings also had quite a number of seats for people to rest. It looked like a place that many people would come. However, there were not many people around here because of the time now. There were only a few young students walking across the compound in a hurry.
These students did not seem to have noticed the presence of the warrior at the side. The teenagers seemed to be carrying heavy notebooks in their hands. However, although their faces seemed a little tired, they still looked energized and vibrant from the bottom of their hearts and souls.
As it ought to be—most of the students around here were just civilians. Even the children of the hunters in the mountains, the children of the farmers with only a little savings had the opportunity to change their lives because of the 'gift' they had. Only fools would not cherish such opportunity presented in front of them. Nobody would give up even if it was extremely tiring and tormenting.
That was a place where people could see hope for continuous improvement and advancement. Hence, no one here would become deprived.
"... I blame you for forgetting to bring your notebook. Now you have to go back and get it. We're going to be late for the night revision class because of you. I wonder how Teacher will criticize us now…"
"It's my fault, my fault…"
"Night revision? So now they actually have such a thing going on? Nostradamus is truly responsible."
Upon hearing what the two students said as they hurried through the compound of the academy, Joshua could not help but chuckle in silence. However, right after that, he noticed that some of the issues regarding education he discussed with the old mage seemed to have advanced a little too soon.
According to Nostradamus' wisdom, the academy had now implemented night revision classes. And maybe he would soon create and implement something like five years of magic and three years of simulations. Well, one should know that other than night revision classes, the academy also had other co-curricular activities, tuition classes, and other programs. Everything that should be there was already there, except for the exams.
Joshua did not interfere with the construction and the development of Winter Fort at all. That was the academy owned by Nostradamus after all. He was the honorary principal of the academy and he had the right to prioritize which students he would pass. However, other than the investment that was made at the beginning of the project, the warrior did not even do a thing in the follow-up construction and development of the academy after its construction was completed. Well, it seemed that the old mage had done a really good job in those regards. Also, he did not even need to worry about it. He only needed to enjoy the outcome of it in the future.
Walking along the way, Joshua passed by many places, including the restaurants, the laboratories, and the classrooms where the night revision classes were held. Joshua looked around and nodded. No matter whether the students were serious in their studies or the teachers that were serious in their teachings, he felt reassured by all of it.
After walking through a few corridors, the warrior arrived at the library located in the center of the academy in the halfway of the mountain.
There were many people in the library. Most of them were young students. They were quietly holding on their own books, and they were reading the books like they were hungry for knowledge. They were learning and absorbing the knowledge in the books.
According to some rumors, in order to fill up this huge library, Nostradamus even made copies of most of his own library's books and put them all there. There were many valuable books that were no longer being printed. The old mage even included his own notebooks into the archives of the library. Meanwhile, his students and teachers who had been hired also made a lot of contributions in such regard. However, the sum-up of their contributions was no match to the contribution made by the old mage alone.
For a mage, books were the true wealth they sought after. The things that Nostradamus did was equivalent to donating half of his fortune to the needy ones. One could see how much effort and dedication he had put into running the academy.
Standing by the door of the library, Joshua swept the environment with his eyes. After that, just when he was ready to take his leave, he saw a familiar person from the corner of his eye.
It was a little boy with blond hair. The warrior felt that the boy looked very familiar at first sight. After that, he swiftly remembered.
Not long ago, there was a little fellow that showed utterly high interest in his magic-enhanced armor. His name was Ivan. He was very courageous. This little boy had struck a deep impression in Joshua's memory. However, unfortunately, based on the information obtained from the previous investigation on the Dragon's Calamity, the warrior learned that parents of this little boy would die when the Dragon's Calamity arrived. By then, the little boy and his sister would be left with an elderly foster parent who appeared to be a scholar. Well, Joshua had never expected that this little boy had enrolled himself to Winter Fort now.
The boy was focusing his attention on reading a book by the name [Detailed Structure of the Guardian Servants]. It seemed that the boy had chosen to enroll in the Magic-Enhanced Mechanical course. Joshua smiled gently and nodded in satisfaction. After that, he walked into the shadows by the corridor and vanished.
Everything was going fine and well in the academy. So the warrior did not need to worry about the affairs in the academy.
Meanwhile, at the same time, in the depths of the Great Ajax Volcano, in the underground lava pool.
Black was still circling back and forth in the lava pool, looking joyful without showing even the slightest sign of tiredness. Well, it was unprecedented in its history that Black had actually felt so comfortable with an environment. It used to be a dragon-blood horse with the fire attribute. However, it had been living in an extremely cold environment in the North for more than a year. It was really bad. Even after it had awakened its bloodline and made some slight adjustment to adapt to the cold, Black could only swim in the palm-print lake by Mount Nissia, which coldness would seep into one's bones.
Hence, the lava pool was the perfect place to perfectly match the strength of its bloodline. If it could, Black would really want to stay in this pool of lava forever until it really reaches a limit of its own strength.
However, just when it was thinking about that, a strange and bizarre quiver came from above.
The blue light continuously radiated in the form of rippling waves. The dimensional door that was located in the mid-air right by the lava pool was shaking slowly. Right on the end of the dimensional space, some strange movements were heard. It sounded as if it was the voice of someone speaking.
Somewhat suspicious, Black lifted its head up and looked at the empty pit. In the meantime, it seemed as if the voice of someone speaking lasted for a brief moment and stopped.
Black had no understanding at all towards such situations. However, since it already stopped, Black should not feel bothered by it anymore. It continued to soak itself in the lava as it was feeling the heat of the fire elementals.
However, along with a sudden violent tremor that gradually became intense, something seemed to be thrown over into this world. A chunk of black matter passed through the dimensional passage and flew across mid-air in the shape of an arc.
The half-dragon horse completely did not understand what the hell was that chunk of matter that was thrown at it. It subconsciously opened its mouth and caught the chunk of matter with its mouth and held it tight in its mouth after that.
[1] It means that the Radcliffe family's word is absolute.


Joshua woke up in the middle of a battlefield one day only to discover that he has been transmigrated into a popular MMORPG, Continental War. Discovering that he has not only been displaced in space but also in time, Joshua realizes he has knowledge of the events unfolding around the world as he had played through them as game events. Read on to discover how Joshua forges his path toward becoming a legendary warrior embroiled in the struggle of Order and Chaos!

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