103: Chapter 103 No Lateness Allowed

The system light screen expanded, and three options jumped straight into view:

[Option A: Iron-Blooded Coach, Physical Correction — Find a ruler, sit upright opposite Leng Yue, and whenever she presses a wrong button or her game character dies once, hit her palm hard with the ruler.

Shout loudly, "You are the worst batch of zombies I've ever taught!"]

[Reward: Obtain the title [Demon Mentor].

Consequence: Leng Yue's self-esteem suffers a devastating blow, and she summons Red Lotus Karmic Fire on the spot, melting your PS5 console into a pool of molten iron. For the next half month, she refuses to engage in any form of Qi and Blood exchange with you.]

[Option B: Close Guidance, Hand-in-Hand Teaching — Give up independent single-player operation. Go directly behind Leng Yue, wrap her in your arms, reach around her waist, tightly hold her jade hands holding the controller, and conduct zero-distance physical teaching.]

[Reward: Husband Points +300, Leng Yue Affection +10. Unlock title [Gold Medal Esports Coach] (When equipped, all members' physical coordination is temporarily increased by 20%), trigger a limited-time sticky, ambiguous storyline.]

[Option C: Online Power Leveling, Outsourced Service — Pass the buck onto someone else. Throw the controller directly to Ayugu, who is playing Honor of Kings, let this internet-addicted girl teach her, while you hold a teacup on the side, eating sunflower seeds and watching the show.]

[Reward: Husband Points +50. Consequence: Two women with extreme personalities will break into a full martial fight within five minutes over a "positioning error," putting the second floor of the Funeral Shop at risk of total demolition.]

Lin Ye looked at these three options and gave the system a huge thumbs-up in his heart.

This dog system finally understood his pain points.

Option A was purely seeking death.

Tormenting his own wife was something only a psychopath would do.

Option C was playing with fire even more. Ayugu's fiery temper meeting Leng Yue's cold arrogance would blow the roof off the building.

Only Option B made sense.

It allowed him to take advantage reasonably while securing family harmony. This was called teaching through entertainment and combining Yin and Yang.

"I choose B."

Lin Ye gave the command decisively in his heart.

Setting down his goji berry tea, he stood up from the sofa armrest with a flash of movement, stepping around to behind the large single-seat sofa chair where Leng Yue sat.

Leng Yue was looking down, studying the buttons on the controller, unaware of the movement behind her.

Lin Ye bent down directly from behind, pressing his broad chest forward, wrapping Leng Yue—along with the sofa's backrest—snugly into his embrace.

Leng Yue's delicate body stiffened.

Lin Ye's firm, scalding-hot chest pressed tightly against Leng Yue's cold back, which was draped in her plain white dress.

Lin Ye didn't stop.

He extended his arms past her slender, supple waist.

His two broad, warm hands smoothly covered Leng Yue's icy jade hands holding the controller.

The man's large hands completely engulfed the woman's small ones.

"Wife, clear your mind."

Lin Ye lightly rested his chin above Leng Yue's shoulder.

As he spoke, his warm breath showered behind Leng Yue's fair ear.

"The joystick on this controller corresponds to your steps. These four buttons on the right correspond to your hands' actions."

"Look at the big screen, not at me."

Leng Yue's long silver hair draped across Lin Ye's collarbone, bringing a bone-chilling yet strangely comfortable itch.

She tilted her head slightly, wanting to pull away a bit, but found herself completely imprisoned in this embrace full of masculine aura.

"Husband..."

Leng Yue's voice was as quiet as a mosquito, carrying a suppressed tremor.

"Such contact... makes me feel restless. The flow of True Qi within my body seems to have lost its order."

Lin Ye chuckled softly, the vibration of his chest transferring directly to the person in his arms.

"Feeling restless is normal. It's called activating Qi and Blood, unblocking stiff meridians."

"Come, follow my command. Press your thumb on the left joystick and slowly push it forward."

Under Lin Ye's hand-in-hand guidance, the clay figure on the big screen began moving forward stiffly.

Leng Yue's learning ability was extremely strong, but applying spiritual perception to a virtual game still required an adjustment period.

The character on screen walked to the edge of a cliff, needing to press the jump button to cross.

"Get ready. Press the X button on the right, jump hard!"

Lin Ye issued the command in her ear.

Leng Yue panicked, her hand muscles instinctively contracting.

She forgot to control her strength, fully displaying the grip strength of a Millennium Drought Demon at this moment.

*Crack!*

A crisp cracking sound echoed in the living room.

The outer casing of the controller in Leng Yue's hand developed a long crack from her squeeze.

The internal circuit board made a soft short-circuit "sizzle," and the indicator light on top of the controller went out instantly.

The clay character on the big screen lost control, plunging straight into the virtual lava below and turning into a wisp of blue smoke.

"Game Over."

The merciless prompt popped up on screen.

Lin Ye looked at the ruined controller, his eyelid twitching wildly.

"My dear grandaunt! Go easy! This is plastic, not the skull of a Yinshan Sect elder! If you use that much force, this artifact will shatter on the spot!"

Leng Yue looked at the squished plastic casing in her hand, a hint of panic flashing in her eyes.

Feeling a bit aggrieved, she bit her rosy lower lip and squirmed uneasily in Lin Ye's arms.

"...

"...

Ayugu tossed her phone aside.

Sitting cross-legged on the carpet, she bit into a piece of spicy beef jerky with a crisp crunch, rolling her eyes hard at the three people on the sofa.

"Tsk tsk, cuddling in the living room in broad daylight. You city folks really know how to play wild."

She slapped off the spice residue on her hands, her face filled with disdain.

"This female zombie can shatter ten of my Life-bound Poison Gu with one palm strike, yet now she can't even figure out how to press a cheap plastic button."

"Shopkeeper, if you want to take advantage, just say so. Don't use playing games as a guise. How about I light a stick of [Acacia Incense] to add to the fun? I guarantee you'll have an even better time."

Lin Ye didn't bother responding to the sharp-tongued Miao girl's mockery.

He pulled Frost Star off his neck and stuffed her into the corner of the sofa.

Then, resigning himself to his fate, he dug out a spare controller from the drawer and pushed it back into Leng Yue's hands.

"Again. This time suppress your power to normal human levels. Break another one, and I'll deduct a bowl of Pure Yang True Blood."

The entire afternoon slipped away amidst this chaotic yet sweet, intimate atmosphere.

They fooled around for four whole hours.

...

Outside the window, the setting sun sank in the west.

The blood-red evening clouds painted half the sky above Jiangnan City red.

The clouds after the rain were torn open by the sunset glow, revealing brilliant light and shadows.

The clear screen settlement animation popped up on the display.

"Ding! Daily quest completed."

"Congratulations to the host for gaining Husband Points +300, current points: 5050. Leng Yue's affection has soared significantly, completely solidifying your family status."

The system notification sound faded away.

Lin Ye straightened up and stretched lazily, his knuckles popping crisp.

"All done, let's get ready for dinner. Fatty should be back from buying cinnabar soon."

At the same time.

Twenty kilometers away from Taiping Old Street, at Jiangzhou University Affiliated Primary School.

Night fell, and the campus was already completely deserted.

The students had long since gone home, and the daytime clamor was completely stripped away, leaving only dead silence.

On the third floor of the classroom building, in the classroom of Class 2, Grade 3.

For some reason, all the voice-activated lights in the hallway had failed.

In the darkness, behind the half-open wooden door of the classroom, a rhythmic scraping sound echoed.

"Rustle... rustle..."

It was the sound of chalk writing on a blackboard.

Old Wang, the night-shift security guard at the school, patrolled up to the third floor shining a flashlight and wrapped in a military coat.

Hearing this eerie sound, he shuddered all over.

"Who's in there? The students are all gone, where is that sound coming from?"

Old Wang plucked up his courage and directed the beam of his flashlight through the crack in the door.

The moment the light beam illuminated the classroom...

Old Wang's legs went weak, and the flashlight dropped to the floor with a clatter, rolling far away.

In the empty classroom, there wasn't a single human figure.

Over forty wooden desks and chairs were arranged neatly.

Above every single desk hovered a blue-and-white school uniform.

Bright red scarves fluttered in mid-air without any wind, as if invisible ghosts were sitting upright in the seats.

In front of the blackboard, a massive monster pieced together from countless failing math test papers was floating in mid-air.

The monster held a broken pointer in its hand. Where the eyes should be on the patched test papers, dark red blood oozed continuously, trickling all the way down the blackboard.

Written in blood on the blackboard was a line of large words.

[Class time. No being late.]

Old Wang's eyes rolled back, his brain crashed completely, and he fainted dead away onto the cold floor of the hallway.