Come On, Man, You're Slaughtering Me Like a Pig Here

My name was Gu Xin. I was eighteen this year, and I had gone from being a college student to being a college student in another world.

To Gu Xin, who had crossed over, college life in this world was honestly amazing.

Because unlike Blue Star in his previous life, this was a world of swords and magic, where magic and battle aura truly existed.

Gu Xin had crossed over half a year ago. Coincidentally, the person he had crossed into was also named Gu Xin.

No—actually, it would be more accurate to say he had awakened the memories of his previous life.

A father he had never met, a mother who had died of illness, and a younger sister who was said to have been abducted by human traffickers when she was little.

Fortunately, though it had been a single-parent family, Gu Xin's mother had been outstandingly capable in her own right, and before she passed away, she had left Gu Xin an inheritance of five million.

That saved Gu Xin from having to face the bitterness of society before he even finished university.

But the Gu Xin who had crossed over had no interest in becoming a mage or a knight. Instead, he was full of enthusiasm for becoming a card maker.

What a joke. What was the use of only knowing how to fight and kill? If he was going to do something, he was going to become the greatest angel investor!

As long as he could make the most badass cards, wouldn't that make him the strongest? And he could create a whole batch of powerful people too!

And so...

In less than half a year, his mother's inheritance was basically gone.

But that was fine!

"I have spent my whole life treading on thin ice. Today, at last, the bitterness has ended and the sweetness has come!"

Stopping in front of Uncle Chen's General Store, Gu Xin was filled with emotion.

"Student Gu Xin, you're here again."

A gentle, pleasant loli voice rang out.

Gu Xin turned his head and saw a loli who was only about one meter forty tall.

She had a fair, tender baby face, and her gray-black hair was tied up in a bun, making her look even cuter.

"Little Orange, sweeping again?" Gu Xin greeted the loli.

"Those kids were playing with water guns here again just now. I'm sweeping up the puddles. Otherwise, the ground will be too slippery, and it'd be bad if a passerby accidentally fell."

Shen Qingcheng's inexplicably soft loli voice sounded extremely healing.

As expected.

Gu Xin was not surprised at all. Shen Qingcheng was the daughter of the owner of the small shop next to Uncle Chen's General Store. Although she looked like a loli, in reality Shen Qingcheng was already twenty years old...

She was Gu Xin's senior at school.

And unlike her childlike appearance, she really was a very gentle person. Whether it was her gaze, her tone, or the way she handled herself in daily life, there was a stark contrast with how she looked.

"Little Orange is truly great!"

Gu Xin gave Shen Qingcheng a thumbs-up.

"It's not as exaggerated as you make it sound. Also, Student Gu Xin, you should be calling me Senior."

Shen Qingcheng pursed her lips and said to Gu Xin with a serious expression.

She was clearly older than Gu Xin, okay!

"Sure thing, Senior Little Orange."

"What I mean is, you can call me by my full name, or Qingcheng..."

Shen Qingcheng's clear, clean eyes stared at Gu Xin helplessly. Because of her height, she even had to tilt her head up to do it.

"Got it, Senior Little Orange. I'm going to find Uncle Chen to buy materials first." Gu Xin nodded.

The baby-faced loli senior's cheeks puffed up a little, but seeing Gu Xin head toward the general store, she still hurriedly called out.

"Wait, Student Gu Xin."

"?"

"I heard from Uncle Chen that you've bought a lot of venom recently. Has card making not been going smoothly?" Shen Qingcheng asked hesitantly.

"A little, I guess." Gu Xin tilted his head.

"Mm..." Shen Qingcheng looked at Gu Xin for quite a while. "Student Gu Xin, you're still very young. Don't put too much pressure on yourself."

"Although I'm not a card maker, I think that if your mindset is unstable, you definitely won't be able to make excellent cards either."

"So please don't be too anxious. You can take it slowly. If you really feel irritated, you can contact me. I can help you relax."

Shen Qingcheng spoke softly and gently, her crisp loli voice carrying advice as benevolent as a saint's.

"Is Senior Little Orange worried about me?" Gu Xin blinked.

"Because I know that you've actually always worked very hard, Student Gu Xin."

Shen Qingcheng said in a low voice. She and Gu Xin had met by chance, and she was also the one who had recommended that Gu Xin come to Uncle Chen's General Store to buy materials.

She had deliberately asked around at school for information about Gu Xin. She knew Gu Xin's family situation.

He was clearly still so young, yet he was already all alone. Classmate Gu Xin must have had it pretty hard.

Shen Qingcheng was kindhearted to begin with, so naturally, she paid even more attention to Gu Xin.

"Senior Little Orange..." Gu Xin looked at Shen Qingcheng. He could tell that every word she had said came from the heart.

But precisely because of that, Gu Xin felt something strange in his heart.

"You really are a unique girl."

"?" Shen Qingcheng froze when she heard that.

"Really. You're still so young, but sometimes, I see the radiance of motherhood in you."

"You really are too gentle."

Gu Xin sighed from the bottom of his heart. In this society where material desires ran rampant and refined egoists were everywhere...

Girls like Shen Qingcheng were truly far too rare.

"Classmate Gu Xin, are you conscious?"

Shen Qingcheng was both stunned and a little embarrassed and annoyed, her little face turning red. I'm kindly showing concern for you, and what nonsense are you saying?!

I'm clearly a pure maiden who has kept herself chaste, okay! You say you see the radiance of motherhood in me???

"Please don't mind it. I didn't mean anything else."

Looking at Shen Qingcheng's flushed doll-like face, Gu Xin seemed to realize that what he had just said was indeed very easy to misunderstand, so he hurriedly explained.

"In any case, thank you very much, Senior Little Orange, but I feel very good right now."

"If the pressure really gets too great, I'll come find you to relax, Senior."

"Mm..."

Shen Qingcheng nodded her little head, but somehow, she felt that Gu Xin's words sounded a bit strange.

Still, did she really look that much like Gu Xin's mother?

Holding the broom, Shen Qingcheng's gaze went a little unfocused as she watched Gu Xin enter the general store.

Could it be that Classmate Gu Xin was hinting at something?

Who knew what she thought of, but Shen Qingcheng's fair face flushed again. Like someone with a guilty conscience, she carefully glanced around to the left and right.

Come to think of it, Classmate Gu Xin really was quite good-looking. It was just that his personality was a little odd.

And at that moment, inside the general store.

"What did you say? One million each? No, Old Chen, are you slaughtering me like a pig?"

Gu Xin pointed in shock at a long treasure box in front of him, and inside the box were snow-white feathers.

But the price Uncle Chen had quoted made it a little hard for Gu Xin to accept.

"These are Holy Griffin feathers, and they're all premium goods that have been preserved very well. I'm already giving you a friendship price."

"But it's still too expensive, Uncle Chen. You know it too—I have no father or mother, and now I'm all alone. It isn't easy for me to live by myself."

Gu Xin decided to play the sympathy card.

"Then how much do you say?" Uncle Chen took a drag of his cigarette and looked sideways at Gu Xin.

Damn it, this kid really was practical. When he needed something, he called him Uncle. When he didn't, he called him Old Chen.

Gu Xin pondered for a moment, his brows furrowing as if he were thinking.

"How about... five hundred thousand each?"

"...Get lost!"