Can a Scholar Be Called a Villain - Chapter 96: Ye Xiang and Xiao Die

As a scandal magnet in the entertainment industry, even Yu Xia helping to chase away a dog can spark rumors of cohabitation, causing her manager to nearly vomit blood out of frustration.Unexpectedly, after returning from a trip, her manager went crazy and got her into a boy band talent show, supposedly to fight poison with poison.It's quite venomous, because... her ex-boyfriend is on this show!When the talent show aired—Fans: Yu Xia, stop your hands and mouth, you can't go after young idols!Manager: Yu Xia, you better take your work seriously, no getting involved with people.After the talent show formed a group, on the explosively popular escape variety show,Xie Qingci and Yu Xia teamed up, becoming the nation's most-clicked escape duo.Fans watched wide-eyed, as the sparks of love between them flew high.Fans: Kiss him! Kiss him till the world flips upside down!Manager: Yu Xia, you actually went and got involved with someone again!Yu Xia: Those were mistakes of the past, now I'm forced into this / takes out a handkerchief to wipe tears away[Older woman-younger man romance, talent show, comedic derivative livestream, escape variety show, passionate romance]

Upon transmigrating, Su Xing awakens in a highly advanced game-like martial world.This world is populated by extraordinary beings known as Awakeneds. Favored by Heaven, these Awakeneds can level up and increase their power by clearing dungeons and slaying monsters.Su Xing receives a hidden profession, a Cultivator. However, due to unknown reasons, he is unable to gain experience or level up like other Awakeneds.Unable to level up, he can only cultivate. But in this era of declining spiritual energy, where cultivators are nearly extinct, even acquiring spiritual energy is a luxury. After four years of university, Su Xing is still at the puny Qi Refining stage, struggling to even graduate.Fortunately, he awakens a golden finger, the “Life Simulator,” which allows him to simulate the future by paying energy. He can bring back the cultivation and items obtained in the simulation to the real world.

Bubbles…Soft, fragile, and fleeting. They drift without purpose, bursting at the slightest touch.They aren’t weapons. They aren’t threats. Just harmless playthings, forgotten the moment they vanish.But what if bubbles weren’t so innocent?What if, in a world of Hunters—where magic shatters mountains and fists split seas—someone awakened a Skill based entirely on bubbles?A joke. A death sentence.Goblins would laugh.The weak would pity him. The strong wouldn’t even bother to look twice.But powers can hide secrets. And some truths are buried in plain sight.When a nameless F-Rank awakens the “Bubble Skill,” no one expects him to survive.Let alone rise.However, the indomitable spirit of River Faelan refused to die.Step by step, he climbed to the top—shattering every limit placed on a “mere” Bubble Mage.He proved them all wrong.And he’ll do it again,Even if it means starting from the very bottom… for one more time.

[Forced Possession Summoning]A technique to forcibly summon a person from another world and defeat a monster sealed within them. It is a forbidden large-scale magic that mankind has devised to defeat an otherwise undefeatable dragon.

Yukihisa Kogure, a black company worker, was summoned to another world with this [Forced Possession Summoning] magic on one day overnight. The dragon, Veno Yveval, was sealed within Yukihisa’s body.

『To subjugate a powerful dragon by using the life of a person from another world? They will come at us with everything they have. Won’t you cooperate with me to survive?』

「Isn’t that an offer I cannot refuse? I do not wish to die.」

Thus, the escape of Yukihisa and the dragon, Veno, began.

An otherworld fugitive drama depicted by extraordinary storyteller Aneko Yusagi, unfolds!