Chen Here Reads the Spring and Autumn Annals!

"This is your room."

After returning home, Su Ze helped Chen Keqing put away her luggage.

He first introduced the girl to her room.

Su Ze's current home was fairly ordinary, with two bedrooms. He used one himself, while the other was a guest room that only occasionally came in handy.

The guest room was simply furnished, but it had everything it needed.

"If you want to read or do homework, you can use the study."

Su Ze pointed at the study directly across from the guest room.

The study was quite spacious. It had a desk, as well as a computer desk with a desktop PC on it...

"Go sit in the study for a while. I'll change the bedding for you, then when it's time to eat, I'll take you out for dinner."

Like a proper host, Su Ze arranged everything perfectly.

"Th-thank you for the trouble."

Chen Keqing stammered.

She cautiously turned her head, surveying her surroundings.

After all, it was her first time being alone in a room with a reliable adult man. She was inevitably a little nervous and restrained...

"Oh, right. I'll clear off the desk for you first."

Noticing the notebook on the study desk, Su Ze walked over and neatly put it away.

It contained information about the apocalypse, so it was better to keep it stored safely...

While Su Ze was clearing the desk, Chen Keqing stared at the notebook in his hands. Since it seemed like the main thing he wanted to put away was the notebook, she grew curious...

"A diary."

Su Ze explained casually.

"Oh..."

Chen Keqing gave the notebook another look, even more curious about what was inside.

After tidying up the study, Su Ze turned and went to prepare the guest room.

Chen Keqing obediently sat in the chair in the study. While Su Ze busied himself back and forth, she looked over the bookshelves in the room.

The girl's gaze passed over the books on the second shelf one by one: the Analects, Collected Works of Wang Yangming, Zhuangzi...

So many books...

Could there... be books like The Plum in the Golden Vase among them?

Ahh, I'm so nervous. What if Su Ze wants to... push me down later?

Whew—don't panic. You need to stand firm by your principles, Chen Keqing!

Mom said that things obtained too easily won't be cherished. If Su Ze wants to, I absolutely have to refuse. Mm... at least refuse a few more times...

Clearly, student Chen Keqing rather enjoyed reading the Spring and Autumn Annals.

The works arranged on the bookshelf did not understand Chen Keqing's refined tastes.

And at that moment.

As Su Ze changed the bedding in the guest room, he listened in on Chen Keqing's thoughts with a smile, looking at the notebook he had placed by the bed...

He now had a plan to push Chen Keqing down.

Late at night.

In the study.

Slumped over the desk, Chen Keqing's eyelids kept drooping.

The math test paper beneath her pen seemed filled with hypnotic symbols, relentlessly battering her fragile defenses...

Nothing particularly special happened that night.

After dinner, she sat in the study doing practice problems, burying herself in study for a full five hours.

Since Su Ze was reading beside her, she had not even dared glance at her phone. She had no idea how many times she had inwardly cried out about how powerful love was.

To maintain a good image in front of the person she liked, a poor student had actually turned into a top student...

"If you're sleepy, go to bed. Don't worry, I'll keep watch tonight," Su Ze suddenly looked over and said.

"I am a little sleepy..." Chen Keqing stretched, her full curves rising and falling in an especially eye-catching way.

"I have informants too. If there's any disturbance, I should get an early warning. So rest well. Don't be afraid," Su Ze said with utmost seriousness.

"...Oh." Chen Keqing secretly felt embarrassed.

If Su Ze had not mentioned it, she would have nearly forgotten that she had come to stay at his home to hide from some young master...

"Th-then I'll go to sleep first." Chen Keqing stood up and said shyly.

"Mm, go ahead."

"...Good night."

"Good night."

The guest room door closed softly.

Su Ze smiled to himself.

What he had just said about having informants and getting advance warning was, of course, complete nonsense.

But there truly was danger.

After all, he had physically vaporized Bai Zhimao. Nothing might happen today, but if the Bai family still could not find him tomorrow, they would probably become suspicious.

If they moved quickly enough, someone might trace it back to Su Ze as early as tomorrow...

So what Su Ze had told Chen Keqing that afternoon had not been entirely meant to scare her.

Of course.

These were all trivial matters.

Once the apocalypse arrived, perhaps everything from the past would no longer matter.

Apocalypse countdown: 1 day, 18 hours, 16 minutes

In the blink of an eye, it was nearly six in the morning.

After checking the Simulator's cooldown, Su Ze got up, went to the living room to pour himself a cup of hot water, then returned to the desk and sat back down...

The notebook was taken out again.

The cooldown was about to end. He had to start the simulation as soon as possible.

Strictly speaking, if his luck was incredible, the remaining time was still enough for him to obtain three simulation rewards.

But if he insisted on aiming for three rewards, the timing would be far too tight.

So it might be better to lower his expectations. If he set his goal at only two simulation rewards, he would have plenty of time...

The Apocalypse Simulator's cooldown has ended...

The instant the cooldown ended, Su Ze chose to begin the simulation.

Doomsday Simulation has begun...

Please choose one of the following three talents as your innate talent for this simulation!

Random Landing (Purple): At the instant the apocalypse begins, you will be randomly teleported somewhere in the world, though never onto the sea. During your journey through the apocalypse, you will encounter one miraculous event.

King of Games (White): You are highly skilled at all kinds of games and possess exceptional comprehension.

Axe King (Green): You can summon a massive axe as your weapon. While wielding it, you can use the Leap Strike ability to deal devastating damage to enemies.

A purple talent had appeared...

And it was the type of talent that came with a cost.

Su Ze's gaze directly ignored the latter two piles of crap and locked onto the purple talent.

This type of talent was already relatively rare.

And the last cost-type talent that had made him a fortune was Demon Contract...

Unfortunately, it's only a purple talent. It probably won't be that great.

Su Ze muttered inwardly.

But even if it was not that great, he still had to choose it.

"Encounter one miraculous event..."

Before formally selecting the talent, Su Ze read through its description once more.

The miraculous event in the description was extremely vague...

It did not even say whether the event he would encounter was good or bad.

There was no need to mention the good kind...

If it was bad, then he would probably encounter a highly dangerous Contained Object.

"If I can clearly see the true nature of all kinds of Contained Objects, it still won't be a loss."

After so many days of simulations, there was not much apocalypse-related information that Su Ze still knew nothing about.

But he basically had no information regarding Contained Objects, and he was even more clueless about Stars Fall, the apocalypse's endpoint.

If the Simulator allowed him to control his choices, Su Ze would definitely be exploring and digging into those two points now...

Innate talent "Random Landing (Purple)" selected.

Simulation begins...

On the first day, the apocalypse arrived as scheduled. In the blink of an eye, you were teleported to another domestic city, Cloud City. When you looked around, you discovered that you had appeared in a bustling downtown district...