Ye Luoli: The Charismatic Girl Leads the World to Darkness

Hearing Gao Taiming's words, Yan Xi was taken aback, then her eyes lit up, and she leaned in to whisper to Gao Taiming, "Introduce me? You've got your eye on me?"

Gao Taiming, who automatically lowered his head because he was afraid Yan Xi couldn't reach it: ...

He rolled his eyes, straightened up, put his arm around Yan Xi's shoulder, and said unhappily, "Alright, stop introducing us. You have such a wild imagination. Did you think we were together just because I said one sentence to her?"

"Huh?" Yan Xi turned her head with shining eyes, then looked at him with a gossipy expression.

Gao Taiming: ...

Can you please listen to more than just half of what we say? Selective deafness is unacceptable!

Mo Ran, who was suddenly caught in the crossfire, slowly turned his head and looked Gao Taiming up and down with disdain. Feeling annoyed, he then pulled Yan Xi behind him.

She could tolerate Prince Yan Jue, who was a great fairy of the fairy realm, but this weakling was no good! He was delicate, frail, and sickly. It was certain that he was not worthy of her.

Gao Taiming hadn't used much force when pressing down on Yan Xi's shoulder; she only tilted slightly before regaining her balance. He wanted to curse but instinctively stopped and looked at Yan Xi. Seeing that she was alright, he glared angrily at Mo Ran and hissed, "What are you doing?!"

His eyes were fierce, like a wolf or a tiger.

However, Mo Ran didn't care about his gaze at all. She coldly extended her hand and said, "Hello, I am Mo Ran, Yan Xi's most loyal friend."

"Gao Taiming." Gao Taiming suppressed his anger and reached out to grasp Mo Ran's hand. Suddenly, a cold smile appeared on his face, and then he secretly tightened his grip.

Mo Ran felt the force coming from his hand, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly. Then he began to increase the force in his hand.

Sparks flew as the two locked eyes, the tension palpable.

The two stared at each other, testing each other's strength, their smiles growing increasingly... grotesque.

Yes, you read that right, he's a pervert.

Gao Taiming's face was flushed red with pain and anger, and his stiff, forced smile... it would be an understatement to call him a pervert.

Mo Ran was a bit more normal than him; his face wasn't red and he wasn't out of breath. However, the increasingly stiff curve of his lips looked rather strange.

Yan Xi: ...

Yan Xi was completely bewildered after sensing the aura of the two people, looking at them with puzzlement.

Although she is not sensitive to emotions, she is not so brainless as to mistake the tension of a romance novel heroine for a romantic bubble.

She simply couldn't understand why there was such a tense atmosphere between them on their first meeting.

"What's wrong with them?" Yan Xi asked the idiot in her mind.

"You are completely unaware of your own beauty and charm." The idiot quoted what Mo Ran had said last time, his tone helpless but his eyes shining.

As expected of her, she always has the magical ability to turn friends into suitors.

While eating melon seeds, the idiot wrote Gao Taiming's name in his notebook. After writing it, he thought for a moment, added a few words, and then casually threw the notebook onto the workbench.

The notebook pages fluttered, then quickly returned to their original calm, neatly stacked, looking like they were more than half used. On the top page were a few black characters, the handwriting fresh and beautiful.

The page read:

Known: Chen Sisi, Yan Jue, Water Prince, Gao Taiming. (Shu Yan and Jian Peng are pending.)

If someone manages to flip to the cover of the notebook, they will see a few large characters:

The Main and Supporting Characters Who Were Distracted from the Plot by My Host (Part 3)

(Oh, my dear dividing line~~~)

A few minutes later, Yan Xi could no longer tolerate the tension between Mo Ran and the other man, as well as the subtle scrutinizing gazes around them. She slapped their clasped hands and hissed, "That's enough, you two! Let go, let go of me!"

The slap was hard, leaving red marks on both of their hands, and then they instinctively let go.

"Damn it!" Mo Ran cursed under her breath, then gently rubbed her right hand. Her hand had already been squeezed so hard that it was bleeding, and with Yan Xi's slap, it was swollen.

"Damn it!" Gao Taiming, standing to the side, was no exception. His body was much weaker than Mo Ran's, and his hands were swollen like pig's trotters.

"Serves him right!" Yan Xi cursed, then looked up and saw that many people in the room were subtly glancing in their direction, and quite a few were whispering among themselves.

Yan Xi publicly claimed to be Lu Ze's sister, and Mo Ran came with her and Lu Ze, appearing to outsiders as Lu Ze's female companion.

As a rising star in the business world, Lu Ze is bound to be watched by many.

Needless to say, Gao Taiming, the heir of the Gao family, despite his poor health, always had a few people around him who wanted to curry favor with him.

Mo Ran and Gao Taiming are like this now...

Yan Xi could already imagine the gossip about the wealthy families that would happen tomorrow:

Shocking! The female companion of the president of the Lu Group and the young master of the Gao family fell in love at first sight, exchanging glances and acting inseparable in public!

The president of the Lu Group was cheated on by his female companion. Is this a sign of moral decay or a distortion of human nature?

Yan Xi glared at Mo Ran and the other two with a headache, then looked around with a fierce, sharp gaze, as ruthless as a knife.

Everyone who came into Yan Xi's sight instinctively shut their mouths and lowered their heads, and the entire room fell silent.

"Hmph!" Seeing that no one dared to look this way anymore, Yan Xi snorted with satisfaction and pulled the two people to a quieter place with fewer people on either side.

Not long after the three left, everyone who had been frightened by Yan Xi quietly looked up, just about to gossip with those around them, when they met Lu Ze's smiling but threatening gaze.

Everyone:...

Everyone lowered their heads silently again. Fine, they couldn't afford to offend them, so they decided to stay silent.

The atmosphere suddenly became awkward again.

However, everyone present was shrewd. After a brief silence, the seasoned veterans led the people around them in small talk, changing the subject and giving everyone a way out while also doing Lu Ze a favor. The room immediately became lively again.

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At the corner of the garden, Yan Xi looked at the two people standing opposite each other, staring at each other with a complicated expression and a look of exhaustion.

They've been staring like that for five minutes straight without blinking. Yan Xi was exhausted just watching them; they seemed incredibly powerful.

After waiting another minute, Yan Xi said helplessly, "What's wrong with you two? This is only the first time we've met, why are you so hostile?"

Two people:…

Both of them breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing the sound, turned their heads at the same time, rubbed their eyes and blinked rapidly with their backs to each other, and then quickly turned back as if nothing had happened, each looking at Yan Xi with reddened eyes.

Yan Xi rolled her eyes and said, "I'm asking you two questions, so speak up!"

Mo Ran thought for a moment. That little rascal's gaze towards Yan Xi carried a hint of hidden admiration, but Yan Xi clearly didn't have any such thoughts. If she pointed it out, it wouldn't be good if Yan Xi suddenly took a liking to him.

Gao Taiming had similar thoughts. He had known Yan Xi for quite some time, and because of his secret feelings for her, he was rather cautious about everything concerning her. Moreover, he had discovered that Yan Xi didn't have any romantic feelings for him in that way, and if he were to reveal it, they might not even be able to remain friends.

Thus, the two people with different intentions suddenly united and spoke at the same time:

"It's nothing, I just saw that he was weak and wanted to test him."

"It's nothing, I just thought she was pretty strong, so I wanted to have a contest."

Yan Xi: ...Do you two think I believe you?

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Off topic:

I often see people saying that my storyline is disjointed, so let me explain: it's mainly because I forgot.

Like the part about Chen Sisi's parents' transformation, there should have been a dream description and an emotional shift, but... I forgot. Seriously, I'm not kidding, I only realized I'd forgotten something after I finished writing the next chapter, and then... I was too lazy to think about it and just gave up.

There should be a timeline rewind regarding Feng Yinsha's deception of the Queen, which is a scheme orchestrated by Feng Yinsha and Yan Xi. However... don't doubt it, I forgot again. I remembered it later, but realized I didn't know how to write it, so I gave up.

Um... If you find any disjointed plot points, don't doubt it, it's just that something was left out. It's very likely that I'm not good at writing and decided to give up.

Next, let's talk about the hiatus.

I haven't been updating lately... mainly because I've had writer's block. I don't really know what to write. I started by writing over a thousand words, but I kept deleting and revising the rest, and it still didn't achieve the effect I wanted (although I don't even know what I wanted...).

Then I'm planning to go through the entire Ye Luoli storyline from beginning to end recently (carefully without skipping any plot points). I feel it's very difficult, mainly because the later plots are getting more and more outrageous, and I can't watch it at all.

I haven't been looking at my phone much lately. Like yesterday, I took it out for less than five minutes in the morning, sent two messages, took it out for two minutes at noon, and started replying to various messages around 9 pm. I got home at 10:30 pm, chatted for a while, typed a little, and then went to sleep. I haven't been on Tomato Novels for three or four days now.

Finally, don't say I'm padding the text. The main text is over 2,100 words, not padding at all, okay? Those dividing lines were just me joking around. The main text, excluding the dividing lines, is almost 2,000 words long, so don't say I'm padding it. If you don't like the dividing lines, I won't use them anymore.

Finally, I still need to ask for leave, but I will try my best to find time to write and won't miss so many days like this time.

—Love you all, Lemon