Wait, why is this blond guy a lolicon?

At six o'clock in the morning, the sky was just beginning to lighten.

【drop! 】

Upon hearing the system notification, Jiang Ling couldn't help but rub her temples.

[Seven days have passed. The system has detected that the host has completed the first stage of the "Savior of Villains" mission. The second stage is now open!]

[The Savior of Villains - Phase Two]

[Synopsis]: Decapitate the leader of the Viper Gang, completely destroy his "ice" drug transportation network spanning from Xiri to Nanri, and eradicate this cancer from its roots.

[Difficulty]: High (Warning: The target leader has extremely unique and dangerous abilities)

[Time Limit]: 60 days

[Reward]: Pure Love Heavenly Dao Fragment ×3

[Special Reward for This Stage]: Advancement Card x1

"Advanced Card": Allows you to upgrade system-issued "items" or "permanent buffs" you have already obtained in one go, unlocking more powerful or special effects.

[Currently Available Advanced Options]:

Cardboard Knight Headgear

Unlimited Energy Card

Steel Kidney

Predicting advanced abilities (partial):

1. Cardboard Knight Headgear: Added "Supreme" mode.

2. Unlimited Energy Card: Turn stone into oil.

3. The abundance of steel: able to produce gold.

Jiang Ling did not hesitate and decisively chose one: the cardboard knight headgear.

【Paperbox Knight Headgear (Shining Supreme ver.)】

[Description]: A shining embodiment of justice and faith. In its normal state, it perfectly integrates the power of the original three knights and can further unleash the "Emperor's Five Elements Power". When activating the Supreme Form, it can briefly control one of the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

[Supreme Form]: Duration 30 seconds, cooldown 12 hours.

[Special Binding]: Can be bound to a broadly recognized "vehicle" to establish a "heart-to-heart" connection, gaining incredible synchronization and enhancement.

[Side effect: When you lose "Faith", the Knight's power will leave you.]

A brand-new hood appeared in Jiang Ling's hand.

The original rustic brown kraft paper has been replaced by a dazzling gilded sheen, giving it an extraordinary texture, making it look like a true work of art and instantly elevating its sophistication.

"Wow...so luxurious..." Jiang Ling clicked her tongue, her taste was more than a level above.

Arrived at the restroom.

"Transformation—"

In an instant, a righteous knight appeared in the mirror, wearing a gilded cardboard box hood, a long red cloak, and a suit of armor as bright as stars.

"Is the normal form still available?"

He tried it and found that he could switch back to the normal form.

It's still the same old-fashioned cardboard headgear.

[Vehicles already bound: None]

[Selectable vehicle: biological or non-biological vehicles in the narrow sense]

It's a mouthful, but it actually refers to the "vehicle" that everyone agrees on, such as cars, horses, oxen, and other narrowly defined means of transporting people, rather than the "vehicle" I'm thinking of, such as Jiahao, Jiaxin, houses, concrete ground...

Jiang Ling only has one ideal vehicle for riding – her beloved Honda R.

"Knock knock knock—"

A rapid knocking interrupted his thoughts.

A sleepy yet anxious voice came from outside the door:

"You stinky blondie, people want to play LaNio, you can't hold it in any longer, hurry up and come out!"

She lost a lot of water before going to bed, so she drank a large 2.5L bottle of mineral water.

The physiological reactions are particularly strong in the early morning.

Jiang Ling took off the hood, opened the door, and let her run in.

Wearing loose pajamas and still sleepy-eyed, Li Meiyu burst in like a small cannonball.

■

The three of them ate a quiet breakfast, each lost in their own thoughts.

Jiang Ling and Li Meiyu went downstairs as usual, ready to ride their bikes to school.

We arrived at the parking shed.

The empty space where the sleek Honda R was once parked is now completely empty, with only a section of U-shaped chain that had been violently cut off remaining.

It lay alone on the ground, mocking its owner's lateness.

Jiang Ling: ……

His face instantly darkened, and he gritted his teeth: "Which bastard stole my car?!"

Li Meiyu: Xi Xixi...

Maybe it was some clueless thief...

"Thank goodness there are security cameras in the neighborhood. Damn it, if they find us, you'll be in big trouble!"

Li Meiyu: No, not at all.

Maru-la—

The first step of the planned operation failed because we didn't notice the surveillance cameras!

……

Meanwhile, in the hospital.

"Ah—! Mom! My head hurts so much! It hurts so much! My legs... why can't I feel my legs?!" Chen Yi lay on the hospital bed, his face contorted, letting out a painful wail.

Mrs. Tsuchimoto, who was standing nearby, was annoyed by the noise. She slammed her hand on the bedside table and said angrily:

"Stop howling! It's so noisy! You were out of your mind last night and went to that lousy party! Who knows what kind of filth you inhaled!"

She tossed a diagnosis report at me, her tone sharp: "Look at this yourself! Central nervous system damage, irreversible! You'll be spending the rest of your life in a wheelchair!"

"Mom... I don't want to be disabled... I don't want to..." Chen Yi cried even louder, his despair and pain intertwined.

It was fine when I came back last night.

In the middle of the night, it started making whimpering noises and cried out, "Mom, my head hurts."

Mrs. Tsuchimoto called 120 and was rushed to the hospital for examination that very night.

They said he had inhaled some kind of neurotoxin, but fortunately he was brought in in time and given a special drug, which saved his life.

However, the central nervous system has suffered irreversible damage, and he will be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

"What's the use of crying! I can't care about you!"

Frustrated, Mrs. Tuyuan grabbed her phone and called her husband, Chen Daxiong, ordering him to come back immediately to take care of their son.

Chen Daxiong on the other end of the phone remained silent for a long time, unusually not immediately agreeing, his voice weary:

"I'm swamped with work right now, flying around trying to find ways to get rid of the grain and oil piling up in the warehouse. How can I have time to go back and take care of Xiaoyi?"

Mrs. Tuyuan angrily retorted, "If you don't care about your son, who will?!"

"Isn't he...your son too?" Chen Daxiong muttered to himself.

"You dare talk back to me!" Mrs. Tuyuan's voice was shrill as she yelled, "Chen Daxiong, believe me or not, I'll divorce you right now and give you 80% of my assets?!"

After another long silence, Chen Daxiong compromised and said, "...Let's hire a caregiver."

"No way!" Mrs. Tuyuan refused decisively. "I've seen too many posts on Xiaohongshu! Aren't there enough of those 'paralyzed young master seduced by a scheming caregiver, married to seize the inheritance, and killed his whole family' posts? Absolutely not!"

Chen Daxiong remained silent for a long time before finally speaking:

"Before Ouyang died, he owed our family a loan that he hadn't repaid. Go find Yuan Meizi and ask her or her daughter to come and take care of Xiaoyi. We'll use the market value to offset part of the principal and interest."

The two families are old neighbors, and the mother and her three children are honest and simple people, not cunning at all. Is this alright?

Mrs. Tuyuan thought to herself, "Kexin seems like a very innocent girl."

She most likely wouldn't seduce my eldest son, marry into the Chen family, and then divorce him to take a share of the family property.

After all, Tu Yuan was a five-star general on Little Red Potato, well-versed in "One Hundred Clever Ways for Women to Legally and Reasonably Take Away Their Husbands' Money".

A shrewd woman will nip any potential problem in the bud and eliminate any possibility of losing her interests.

"Okay, then call her and ask her daughter to come and take care of Xiaoyi."

"If you don't come, the interest will double every year!"

……

the other side.

Inside the community's surveillance room.

The surveillance video is being played back at 12x speed.

Time passed second by second.

Jiang Ling's expression was indifferent, and she crossed her arms over her chest.

"Um...you stinky blondie, how about...we stop watching?" Li Meiyu, feeling extremely uncomfortable, tried to salvage the situation.

"Even if we saw who it was, we wouldn't know where they rode off to..."

"Shall we...shall we go look around the neighborhood? Maybe they're just lying in some alley?"

Throughout the journey, Li Meiyu repeatedly used similar arguments to persuade Jiang Ling to stop watching.

Jiang Ling: "Wait until I finish watching the surveillance footage."

"Okay, Miyu, I'll tell you. Actually, last night I saw a man in black picking a lock downstairs and heading northwest. Let's hurry and chase after him..."

Jiang Ling: "Wait until I finish watching the surveillance footage."

"You drank so much water this morning, you must really need to pee. Go ahead, Miyu will keep an eye on things here for you... I'll let you know as soon as I get any updates!"

Jiang Ling: "Wait until I finish watching the surveillance footage."

"Please...please don't look anymore! Please don't look any further..."

"..."

"Miyu told you to stop watching, it's Neil Dorron!!"

Just as she was about to lunge forward to block the screen—

On the surveillance footage.

A petite and familiar figure came into clear view.

She sneaked to the bike shed and deftly cut the lock.

Then I got on that cool Honda R and quickly disappeared into the night.

That figure, who else could it be but Li Meiyu?

Jiang Ling: ……

He slowly turned his head and looked at her expressionlessly.

"I'm...I'm sorry...Miyu just..."

Seeing that her scheme had been exposed, Li Meiyu immediately put on a pitiful expression and tugged at his sleeve, pleading:

"Please, please let Miu explain first, okay...?"

"Left punch deals more damage..."

"Huh?"

"High damage from the right punch!"

Left fist: Ora Ora Ora—Ora!

Right fist: wood big wood big wood big-wood-big!

Of course, there was no real fight; he held back 99% of his strength.

……

"Speak."

Jiang Ling looked down from his high vantage point.

He looked down at Li Meiyu, who was kneeling obediently on the ground, clutching her head, with tears still glistening in the corners of her eyes:

"You have at least three things to say."

"Waaah..."

"Crying counts as time too..."

"My best friend, Kexin-chan."

Li Meiyu stopped crying, first revealing Kexin's mother in hopes of leniency, and obediently said:

"She likes someone named Cardboard Knight."

"Miyu agreed to help her pursue that cardboard knight."

"Then, the plan requires you to play the bad guy... Meiyu was afraid you wouldn't agree, so she hid the car first, and then took you to find it... Along the way, she created an illusion, making you think that Kexin stole the car, and then you went to 'teach Kexin a lesson'..."

Her voice trailed off as she spoke, carefully watching Jiang Ling's expression.

"Where is the car now?" Jiang Ling asked the most crucial question directly.

"The bike shed in the next community is locked, and nothing's stolen! Really!" Li Meiyu quickly assured her.

Jiang Ling finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Alright, get up."

As long as the car is okay, everything else... is negotiable.

"Are you calmed down?" Li Meiyu asked tentatively.

"This is a one-time exception. I'll teach you a lesson tonight..."

"Phew... you stinky blondie! You actually hit Miu! And made her kneel down! I'll bite you to death!!"

Once she was sure she wouldn't get beaten up again, Li Meiyu immediately perked up.

Like Hakimi, he pounced on him, biting and nibbling at his arms and neck—of course, without leaving even a tooth mark.

Jiang Ling let her fuss, but in her mind she was calculating rapidly: "She's completely fallen in love with Kexin's mother."

"Should I just tell her? And say I'm the Cardboard Knight?"

"It was fine before eating Meiyu, but now, what if Kexin's mom and Meiyu start fighting?"

"Whom should I help?"

Jiang Ling was troubled.

At this moment, Li Meiyu seemed to have thought of a persuasion plan and stopped her ineffective biting.

She turned to look at him with her big, watery eyes, her little hands gently clutching the hem of her skirt.

Slowly, slowly, she lifted it up a little, revealing the smooth, jade-like calves that had been carried on her shoulders just yesterday, her voice soft and sweet:

"Hey, you stinky blondie... How about I make you do this for a little while? Be the bad guy this once, okay? Please~ Miyu really doesn't want to break her promise to Kexin..."

"If you just agree to Miu's request..."

She slowly lifted the hem of her skirt, slightly raising her small feet clad in ice-silk white stockings and black leather shoes.

Jiang Ling interrupted her little actions, sighed, and whispered:

"I do have a way to take the relationship between Cardboard Knight and Kexin to the next level."

"For example... let him ride his bicycle to pick up Kexin after school... and take her to the amusement park."

"Huh?"

Li Meiyu instantly let go, her skirt falling down, her eyes shining like stars, and excitedly grabbed Jiang Ling's hand and shook it.

"Really? Doraemon Yellow, can you really make Cardboard Knight and Kexin get intimate?"

Anyway, the original intention of the plan was to promote the relationship between Mr. Knight and Kexin.

As long as the ultimate goal of "promoting the romance between best friends" can be achieved.

A slight deviation in the process is perfectly acceptable!

Looking at her excited little face, Jiang Ling slowly said, word by word:

"However, let's make it clear beforehand."

If something unexpected happens between the two of them because of this contact...

You can't blame me.

"Tch~ They're a perfect match, a match made in heaven. If they actually start dating and something happens between them, I'd be overjoyed. Why are you blaming me?"

Li Meiyu didn't take it seriously, and even jumped up to hug Jiang Ling's neck, giving him a quick "mua" kiss on the cheek, and said with a grin:

"It's a deal then! You have to keep your promise to Miyu! You have to make sure that Cardboard Knight and Kexin get together!"

She had a blind trust in Jiang Ling—that whatever that brat promised, he would definitely do!

Li Meiyu wholeheartedly agreed.

Jiang Ling closed her eyes, unable to help but think to herself, "Does this count as active NTR? I don't think so..."

He turned his head away helplessly, too lazy to investigate further.

Today, I can't just supervise Mom while she does her homework.

Some action needs to be taken.

"You really are Kexin's best friend..." Jiang Ling's tone was somewhat subtle.

"Of course~ We're best friends! The kind who can share anything~"

Li Meiyu stood with her hands on her hips, her chin held high, looking proud.

Suddenly, she remembered something and quickly took out her phone to text Kexin:

[Kexin! Plan A has failed! The hero-saves-the-damsel-in-distress scenario is canceled!]

【Huh? Miu, what happened? (。•́︿•̀。)】

But my blond friend says he knows Cardboard Knight! He can convince your Mr. Knight to pick you up after school and take you to the amusement park!

【Eh~ Really?! That's great! Thank you, Miu! (✧ω✧)】

Jiang Ling looked at the overjoyed Li Meiyu and sighed inwardly:

Sigh... I never imagined I'd become the kind of man my wife would secretly send away...

"Oh, right!"

Li Meiyu put down her phone, her eyes shining as she looked at Jiang Ling with a mischievous smile.

"How about we sneak up behind them after school? Hehe, take some pictures of them interacting intimately, and then use them to tease Kexin. The way she blushes will be so funny!"

Jiang Ling: ……

Okay, not secretly...

The victim even planned to help make a documentary...

Noon, on the rooftop, at the usual spot.

I accompanied Youyou to finish her lovingly prepared bento box.

They exchanged a long, wet kiss, as if it were just a routine.

His fingers lingered on her beautifully curved thighs, encased in thick black stockings.

Although we share lunches, kiss passionately, and explore each other, we still insist that this is a pure, literary, and transcendent friendship~Rooftop Flowers and Dreams, a Literary Girl and Her Cardboard Knight~

"Kana~ A-Ling, I'll make you my signature tonkotsu ramen tomorrow~", her voice as sweet as melting glacial snow.

"Yes, Kana," came the reply, maintaining the knight's cool and concise demeanor.

……

As school let out, the setting sun painted the sky a warm orange hue.

Ouyang Kexin carefully packed her schoolbag and glanced at the clock on the back wall of the classroom.

The once calm lake of my heart was now rippling with anticipation.

She couldn't resist taking out her phone and opening that special chat window.

Mr. Knight: [Wait for me in the classroom after school, I'll pick you up.]

Ouyang Kexin: [Okay... (Kitten nodding.jpg)]

Her classmates had already left, leaving her alone in the empty classroom.

The afterglow of the setting sun shone through the window, casting a long shadow of her slender figure.

She sat in her seat, clutching her schoolbag, closed her eyes, her long eyelashes trembling slightly, and silently recited in her heart:

"So... Sir Knight, when will you appear?"

dong dong.

Just then, I heard the sound of fingers gently tapping on the table behind me.

At the same time, the phone in my hand beeped crisply.

Mr. Knight: [Kexin, look behind you!]

Ouyang Kexin's heart skipped a beat, and she turned her head sharply!

Her high ponytail drew a youthful arc in the air.

"Sir Knight!"

The glow of the setting sun illuminated her delicate face.

She never expected that the person she had been longing for would appear before her in such an unexpected way.

"If you have time, Kexin, would you like to go to the amusement park with me?" Jiang Ling asked with a smile, waving the two tickets in her hand.

"Thank you for the bento last time. Please accept my return gift this time."