After school, he was then offered himself to a succubus.

You have fulfilled Lin Yinmeng's thousand-year-old wish, but in doing so, you have created even more unfulfilled wishes for her.

[Reward Obtained: Faith (Part Two of Body Root)]

[Note: Besides yourself, you can observe the lifespan of all living things.]

You have now completed the 'Body Root' set and have gained the additional 'Summoning the God' effect.

[Summon God: You can briefly restore your peak physical condition for ten minutes, with a twenty-four-hour cooldown]

This long-cherished wish can still undergo mitosis, right?

Lin Yinmeng, how can you be so selfish! He clearly belongs to everyone.

Zhang Chen had a perfectly good plan. He just needed to make Lin Yinmeng understand that they could actually reproduce, and then pretend to want to... cooperate a little.

Because whether or not a long-cherished wish is fulfilled is actually quite subjective, even if Zhang Chen has not made any progress, as long as Lin Yinmeng believes that she has made progress, then it is considered fulfilled.

It just so happened that Miss Shen Nianxi had practiced with him for an afternoon, and he had also gained valuable experience from washing the coins of the burning cat earlier.

His technique has reached a point where it's indistinguishable from the real thing.

It's simply a matter of finding the right opportunity to [share fate].

But he didn't expect Lin Yinmeng to be so sensitive and violent. She directly controlled and suppressed him completely. Zhang Chen wanted to resist, but she slapped him through his pants, which stunned him. He was completely finished in an instant.

Does it count?

He definitely bled; there was blood on his pants.

I just need to wash her clean as soon as I get home today, otherwise Bai Nuoyan will get all pricked up if she smells blood while playing with the cat.

What puzzled Zhang Chen the most about this was... didn't it hurt?

Um...

Zhang Chen wasn't unwilling; in fact, he was practically bursting with pent-up frustration. Anyone would find it hard to resist a singer, a big star, and a mature woman in black stockings who had been a fan of for years, striking seductive poses in front of them.

The key issue is that the woman in the house will catch him in the act.

However, Zhang Chen had a guess: since the monster could only observe his primordial yang... it was actually the most concentrated yang energy.

But if he, like Shen Nianxi, had absorbed the primordial yang back before... well, before that happened, wouldn't he have been able to keep it a secret from Tu Shan Han Su and the others?

That's the principle.

"call."

This is temporarily over.

Zhang Chen tried activating [Fate Watch] to test its effects.

Close your eyes, open your eyes.

As you can see, each of the mosquitoes hovering overhead is enveloped in a thick black mist.

The cicadas chirping noisily in the trees were also surrounded by black mist.

An old stray dog ​​walked past him on the school grounds, a cricket was stepped on, Li Yu was striking up conversations on the playground, the group of "plastic sisters" who were regulars on Xiaohongshu (a Chinese social media platform), and onlookers excitedly discussing the spectacular sight of birds flying in the sky that day...

Even the stars in the sky.

They all had varying degrees of black aura.

It can be inferred that the denser the black aura, the shorter one's lifespan.

Zhang Chen didn't really want to use this skill.

Seeing other people's fates can unknowingly interfere with their destiny.

unless...

"Take your pants off so I can see." A beautiful girl with long, straight black hair, wearing white socks and leather shoes, appeared in his field of vision with her long, straight legs.

"President! What did you say... We're still on the playground." The girl with glasses next to her hid behind the girl in fear.

Zhang Chen looked up and first saw a thin wisp of black mist above the bespectacled woman's head, which meant that she was very long-lived.

What you see next is a thick cloud of black energy above Li Yinuo's head, making her look like she's having a very hard time.

Zhang Chen was not surprised; he had expected this outcome.

Yet, I still couldn't help but feel a little guilty.

What sins did I commit in the past?

"Take it off and let me see." Li Yinuo lifted her skirt and bent down, holding her chin in her hands and staring straight at him.

"This isn't convenient..."

Li Yinuo sat on his lap without saying a word, the little dog pawing at him and sniffing him.

She stopped halfway through the smell, and the tuft of hair on her head stopped shaking.

"The smell of blood."

"..." Zhang Chen didn't know how to explain.

The glint in Li Yinuo's purple eyes vanished instantly, her pink lips pouted, and she turned to Ye Zhi, saying:

"Give me a wet wipe."

"Oh, oh..." Ye Zhi took out a wet wipe, puzzled. "What do you need a wet wipe for?"

"Wipe it off."

Zhang Chen and Ye Zhi both stared wide-eyed.

"Xiao Ye, help me block this, I need to disinfect him." After wiping his mouth briefly, Li Yinuo covered Zhang Chen's mouth and dragged him to the bushes beside the playground...

"Ah, how can I block it..." Ye Zhihua's face turned pale.

"Hmm... there's no need to block it much."

"Ahhh! President!" The girl with glasses watched as Li Yinuo bent over and disappeared from sight.

"Is this how you disinfect?"

"A puppy's saliva can disinfect," Li Yinuo said.

"..."

Ye Zhi felt that things couldn't go on like this, and one day she would be dragged into it too!

She mustered her courage and rushed into the bushes to stop them.

But the two of them were nowhere to be seen; instead, it seemed that her calf had bumped into something.

"You've gone invisible." Li Yinuo's voice drifted over. "Xiao Ye, move aside. You bumped into me and made me choke."

Ye Zhi knelt on the ground; the little secretary had been utterly defeated today.

More than ten minutes passed.

Zhang Chen was initially a little embarrassed, but Li Yinuo wasn't really that curious; she was simply wiping the bloodstains on his pants with a wet wipe.

However, she seemed to need some time alone with him; it was clear she had something to say.

"Li Yinuo?"

"Um?"

What happened between us?

"Um."

"I feel like I owe you a lot of favors."

"If I could save Lin Yinmeng, I should be able to save you too."

"Um..."

"Are you listening? I mean..."

The girl looked up, her soft hair clinging to her lips, and tilted her head adorably. "Zhang Chen, what's our relationship now?"

"Uh... an old friend."

"No, you should say—don't talk, keep eating," Li Yinuo corrected. "It's very impolite of me to keep interrupting you at a time like this."

"..."

"Sorry." Zhang Chen couldn't help but pat her head.

"That's not how you touch her." Li Yinuo grabbed Zhang Chen's hand and pressed it against the back of her head. "While holding her, press down. That will make it much easier for me."

"...I've learned something."

"Okay, could you tie my hair into a ponytail for me? Otherwise, my hair will get into my mouth. High ponytail or low ponytail, it's up to you."

"...good."

They were really just wiping with wet wipes and disinfecting at the same time, but Zhang Chen didn't understand why Li Yinuo's words were so easily misunderstood.

About half an hour passed in the blink of an eye.

After disinfecting, the girl with long, straight black hair walked side by side with him on the playground, while the girl with glasses followed behind, looking lost and dejected.

People kept coming to Li Yinuo to take photos with her, but the girl politely declined them all.

Zhang Chen originally thought that openly holding hands with a public figure would cause some annoying Jiahao fans to get angry.

Fortunately, in front of Li Yinuo, they only dared to pretend to be jogging slowly on the track, running past Zhang Chen and Li Yinuo while crying.

"What price did you pay?" Li Yinuo asked suddenly after a long silence.

"Basically none," Zhang Chen said.

"The Bitter Love Tree has withered, I can't persuade you anymore," she said again.

Then, the girl covered her mouth and yawned, releasing Zhang Chen's arm. "Oh dear, I'm getting sleepier and sleepier. I didn't sleep well tonight."

"Speaking of sleeping, Zhang Chen, do you know how you died?"

"I've died before?"

"Yes, I've died many times, but I always come back to life in a flash," Li Yinuo said calmly when discussing the topic of death.

"That time, you died in the middle of the night."

The girl with long, straight black hair looked up at the moon. "I was sleeping right next to you then. I kept crying and couldn't sleep, so you sang me a dog song. I looked at the moon in the sky and listened to your song, and I slowly fell asleep. I slept so soundly, so soundly."

"But the next day, when I woke up, I saw you surrounded by people, all of them staring at me with bloodshot eyes, saying—"

"How can you sleep so soundly, you dog?"

"I haven't slept so well since then," Li Yinuo murmured dejectedly.

Zhang Chen was taken aback.

"You got fooled." The girl with long, straight black hair blinked her pitiful eyes, leaned closer, and poked his cheek. "Of course, it was a story I made up. I write books."

"But that's just the kind of person you are, Zhang Chen." Li Yinuo gave him a deep look, then turned and pulled up Ye Zhi, whose health bar was almost depleted.

"Time for bed~ Goodnight, dog~"

Zhang Chen belatedly waved goodbye to her, leaving the words "goodnight" lingering in his mouth.

"Brother Chen!" Li Yu suddenly called out from the crowd on the playground, scrambling over. "You really got together with Li Yinuo?"

"Mm." Zhang Chen nodded.

"I'm truly convinced, I'm kneeling before you, brother! No, godfather! Teach me, I really don't want to live anymore if I can't find someone like that in this lifetime!"

"This cannot be taught."

You'd have to live for at least two thousand years.

"Then help me get a few autographs from her, godfather! I want to show off to those girls!"

"Oh right! Didn't you go to Lin Yinmeng's film set today? Did you see her in person? What role do you play? What were all those birds doing in the sky tonight?"

"Come sing!"

Zhang Chen shook his head with a wry smile and walked into the crowd, preparing to pick up Xu Mianmian and take her home.

The little rabbit was still very curious about university life and would participate in various freshman activities in the evenings.

Li Yu then pressed him for an answer, asking who this Zhang Xiaotu was and why his name sounded so similar to his.

While they were making excuses along the way, they ran into Huang Yiming. However, Huang Yiming seemed to be afraid of him now, and hesitantly came over to plead for him. Perhaps Hong Jin, who was on the verge of death due to the curse of the crow, had let something slip.

Ignoring everyone else, Zhang Chen walked up to Xu Mianmian, and the group of "plastic sisters" immediately swarmed around him.

"Mianmian, you're close to him, could you say a few words for us? We're all classmates, and we didn't know he was so close to Li Yinuo..."

"Yes, Mianmian, we've deleted all the posts on the school walls that were criticizing him... Please..."

"There's no need to make things so tense."

Li Yu was furious when he heard this, and went off to argue with his group of sisters.

Unable to dissuade him, Zhang Chen decided to ask Li Yinuo for a few autographs the next day as compensation.

"I'm home."

"Okay, sir~" Xu Mianmian hopped over to him.

"My lord, Sister Hansu said she made pork ribs for you today."

"I was just thinking of eating this," Zhang Chen said expectantly.

"The rat demons say that the rat leader can't be found."

"Sing a song about West Oil Goose and you'll be back."

"My lord~ Now that you're playing Lin Yinmeng's male lead, will you become a big star?"

"If I don't want to, I won't."

"Sir... if the film is made, will more monsters come looking for us?"

"That suits me perfectly," Zhang Chen shrugged.

Leaving the school inevitably meant passing through the woods again, where he saw the ground littered with the corpses of cicadas.

Zhang Chen paused, then remembered that many birds had come today and probably ate all the cicadas that were still singing.

But it was these cicadas that inspired him to come up with a way to save Lin Yinmeng's life.

"I'm sorry," he sighed.

"Sir? Who are you apologizing to?" Xu Mianmian had already transformed into a rabbit and was hiding in his pocket.

"Follow the cicadas."

Why should I apologize to the cicadas?

Zhang Chen didn't speak, bit his fingertip, dripped a drop of blood, and buried it in the soil.

"My lord... you're doing this again... Sister Hansu will scold you if she finds out," the little rabbit said pitifully.

"It's okay, she's easy to appease."

A short while later, countless cicadas emerged from the soil ahead of schedule, ready to continue singing their hearts out in this summer, just like their predecessors.

Several cicadas had just grown wings when they flew into the sky.

"Boom!"

After experiencing two extreme weather events, the sky was filled with layers of clouds, the weather was constantly changing, and there was a faint rumble of thunder, but it was not frightening.

Just like catching a cold from the snow in the middle of summer, the sky inevitably sneezed a little.

The rabbit climbed onto Zhang Chen's head and looked curiously at the clouds in the sky arranged like fish scales.

"My lord! The carp all say that the appearance of these fish-scale clouds means a dragon is passing by!"

"That dragon is too common," Zhang Chen laughed.

"It's true! Jinzai told me!"

"Let's buy a pack, it's been a long time since I've had any," Zhang Chen said thoughtfully.

"Sir, if Jinzai knew the meaning of this name, he'd be angry, wouldn't he..."

"Ha ha..."

Zhang Chen and Rabbit chatted all the way back to the matchmaking agency, where Tu Shan Han Su had already set the dishes on the table.

Miss Fox's busy figure was also beautiful, and Zhang Chen stared at her for a long time.

And... a dark aura as dense as Li Yinuo's.

"What are you looking at? Wash your hands and eat." Tu Shan Hansu turned around and saw him. "A customer just asked if you're still going to keep this lousy matchmaking agency open?"

"Go ahead and open it." Zhang Chen washed his hands in the fishpond and sat down. "Why wouldn't I open it? I haven't even found a girlfriend yet."

Upon hearing this, Miss Fox rolled her eyes with a charming expression, served him his meal, and chose to sit next to Zhang Chen tonight.

But she didn't take off his pants.

"Could you pay for my clothes?" she suddenly said in a coquettish tone, "They cost over two thousand."

"What kind of clothes did you buy? So wasteful!"

"Maid outfit."

"Two thousand isn't much, I'll buy it!" Zhang Chen changed his tune.

Although the maid outfit is supposed to be worn by maids, the person wearing it can actually control their master.

However, Xiao Zhangchen said it was willing to be controlled.

"You pervert." Tu Shan Han Su resumed her aloof expression, changed seats, and sat opposite Zhang Chen, keeping her distance without sticking her feet out. "I'll let you rest tonight."

"Do you monsters feel more repressed the longer you live?" Zhang Chen asked.

"That depends on how stupid the monster is. For example, if it waits for someone for thousands of years, it's stupid enough to die, and it deserves it," Tu Shan Han Su said angrily.

Start eating.

Do not speak while eating or sleeping.

Zhang Chen would comply to some extent, and Tu Shan Han Su would wait until he was half full before starting a conversation.

Outside the courtyard, the sounds of bustling voices could be heard; it was the men from one family after another returning home from get off work.

Miss Fox twitched her ears at the sound and looked outside.

The windows of the apartment building lit up intermittently, as wives from one family after another greeted their loved ones.

Wisps of smoke drifted by, like stars falling to earth.

Tu Shan Han Su was mesmerized. She had loved watching the stars two thousand years ago, but she never imagined that the stars two thousand years later would be hidden in the lights of countless homes.

She looked away, then stole a glance at Zhang Chen, whose eating manners were unsightly. She pursed her lips and called out:

"Zhang Xiaotu".

"What?" Zhang Chen looked up, seemingly oblivious to her charm.

"In your next life, you must marry a good woman, she has to be human, you know?"

"oh."

"Oh my god, why don't you ask me about my whole life?"

"Too lazy to ask."

Tu Shan Han Su stepped on his foot, neither too hard nor too softly.

Zhang Chen was already used to it, and looked out of the courtyard with her, smiling:

"People choose houses with good natural light, but they end up not getting off work until dark."

"You don't know anything." Tu Shan Han Su stomped on his foot again. "If you can't speak properly, then don't spoil the mood. You've ruined all my goodwill."

As she said this, she turned her head away, her eyes slightly moist.

"Ha ha..."

Outside the courtyard, the female mice in their burrows unanimously opened the small loaves of bread they had been hoarding for a long time, intending to treat the male mice who had worked for Zhang Chen all day.

The little mice brought back a few cicadas and played with them in the yard, using them as loudspeakers, but the noise disturbed the cats and dogs.

The lights are on in the summer night, and the cicadas still sing.

Although it is said that ephemeral mushrooms do not know the difference between dawn and dusk, and cicadas do not know the difference between spring and autumn.

But no matter when they were about to reach the end of their lives, Zhang Chen wanted them to see the seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter a little longer.

Maybe in the next life.

I will definitely do it in this lifetime.