Chapter 003

"Red light, man!"

Lin Feng, lost in thought, felt someone tug at his body. As he stopped in his tracks, a car whizzed past, nearly grazing him.

"Thanks..." Lin Feng turned his head and broke out in a cold sweat—there was no one behind him at all?

"I'm up here, man!"

Instinctively looking up, Lin Feng was shocked.

Before Lin Feng, an elderly man with white hair, a youthful face, and flowing whiskers stood suspended in midair. In one hand he held red silk threads, in the other a red wooden staff. Hanging from the staff was a Marriage Registry. At this moment, however, the old man's expression looked quite distressed.

"Who are you?" Lin Feng took two steps back, every hair on his body standing on end.

"I'm the Matchmaker God, man!" The old man lifted the Marriage Registry, casually flipping to the title page, and said in a muffled voice, "If it weren't for me just now, you'd already be dead from a car accident. You've been human for nine lifetimes and remained a virgin for all nine—do you have any respect for yourself?"

Hearing that the old man was actually the legendary Matchmaker God, Lin Feng's fear lessened somewhat, but he was still very suspicious about why the Matchmaker God would save him.

"Go on, go over there and lose your virginity." The Matchmaker God pointed toward the red-light district in the distance.

"I... why should I go?" Lin Feng's face reddened slightly, feeling somewhat annoyed. He had never thought about ending his virginity in that kind of place.

Wait a minute!

Lin Feng suddenly felt something was off.

Supposedly, as an ordinary mortal, whether he was a nine-life virgin or not—what did that have to do with immortals?

Even if it was the Matchmaker God, he shouldn't be kind enough to personally descend to the mortal realm to save his life just to let him taste what a woman was like, right?

Moreover, looking at the Matchmaker God's appearance, he seemed to be acting out of necessity?

"I won't go to that kind of place." If it hadn't been for the Matchmaker God earlier, Lin Feng would already be dead. Being able to stand here and talk was already a bonus. Having nothing to lose, Lin Feng stubbornly retorted—he also wanted to verify whether his speculation was correct.

"Man, do you really want to be a nine-life virgin?"

"I've made it through eight lifetimes already. One more won't make much difference."

Lin Feng had guessed right!

The Matchmaker God was in charge of mortal marriages. Lin Feng had been human for eight previous lifetimes and remained a virgin for all eight—this matter had already alarmed the Heavenly Court. If he became a nine-life virgin, the Matchmaker God wouldn't be able to keep his position. To preserve his immortal rank, the Matchmaker God had personally descended to the mortal realm to save Lin Feng's life, only asking that Lin Feng lose his virginity.

The Matchmaker God glared fiercely at Lin Feng. Seeing Lin Feng's unyielding demeanor, he could only sigh in defeat. Descending to the mortal realm without permission already violated the Heavenly Decree—the Matchmaker God didn't have time to waste arguing with Lin Feng. He pulled a book from his robes, tossed it to Lin Feng, and said, "Fine, fine. Consider this Peach Blossom Manual a bargain for you, kid!"

Screech!

"You got a death wish?" Accompanied by a sharp braking sound, the car that had passed Lin Feng stopped. The driver stuck his head out the window and cursed at Lin Feng.

Lin Feng ignored the driver. Looking at the cold, empty street before him, a self-mocking smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. He had thought he'd actually encountered an immortal—turned out it was just a hallucination!

Feeling something odd in his hand, Lin Feng looked down and saw that he was holding a book filled with a mysterious and dreamlike aura.

Had what happened before actually been real?

Peach Blossom Manual?

What kind of book was this exactly?

Lin Feng's heart began pounding. He felt that his life's trajectory might undergo tremendous changes with the appearance of this book.

Suppressing his inner excitement, Lin Feng turned and quickly headed home.

On his way home, Lin Feng was thinking about how to hide the book when he discovered that the Peach Blossom Manual before his eyes had instantly vanished. At that moment, Lin Feng broke out in a cold sweat. However, when he inwardly desired to see the Peach Blossom Manual, it reappeared in his hand.

This made Lin Feng once again certain that he had experienced something extraordinary.

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Returning home, Lin Feng shut himself in his bedroom. With a single thought, the Peach Blossom Manual reappeared in his hand.

Taking a deep breath, Lin Feng used his slightly trembling hands to open this immortal book.

After flipping through it, Lin Feng's expression became complex—shocked, excited, relieved, suspicious, anxious, with a hint of awkwardness mixed in.

The Peach Blossom Manual was actually tailor-made for picking up girls. The book encompassed everything, containing countless skills Lin Feng knew and didn't know, covering almost all fields related to life—such as sports competition, beauty and skincare, Chinese and Western medicine, astronomy and geography, martial arts and combat, and so on.

Lin Feng had the unique ability to learn from the Peach Blossom Manual. As long as he had Peach Blossom Points, he could effortlessly master any skill within the Peach Blossom Manual.

There were two ways to obtain Peach Blossom Points.

One was to complete randomly triggered missions from the Peach Blossom Manual. Upon completing a mission, he would receive a certain number of Peach Blossom Points.

The other was a fixed mission Lin Feng had to complete. Lin Feng had been human for nine lifetimes and had remained a virgin for eight of them. In this lifetime, he needed to find the nine beauties who belonged to him from his previous eight lives plus this current one. For each one he found and won her heart, Lin Feng would receive a mysterious surprise reward.

If this mission couldn't be completed, Lin Feng would never be able to become human again in future lives.

Was it really this miraculous?

Lin Feng found it hard to believe. However, on his way home earlier, Lin Feng had caught a glimpse of Tian Mengqian's graceful figure through the window. At that moment, the Peach Blossom Manual had triggered its first mission.

Lin Feng checked it.

[Mission: See clearly the color of Tian Mengqian's intimate bra. Mission Grade: Grade-B. Mission Completion Reward: 5 Peach Blossom Points. Mission Status: In Progress.]

Faced with the ambiguous mission triggered by the Peach Blossom Manual, although he felt somewhat awkward, Lin Feng wasn't too surprised. Lin Feng figured that the Matchmaker God had given him the Peach Blossom Manual to help him capture the hearts of more beauties and make up for all the regrets of his previous eight lifetimes.

But the Peach Blossom Manual wouldn't just randomly trigger missions upon seeing any woman, would it?

What if it was some old lady??

Banishing this terrifying thought from his mind, thinking about the first mission triggered by the Peach Blossom Manual, Lin Feng's heartbeat suddenly began to accelerate.

All along, Lin Feng had felt he'd always treated Tian Mengqian as his little sister. Even though Tian Mengqian had blossomed into a stunning beauty, he hadn't had any other thoughts. But after the Peach Blossom Manual triggered this mission, for some reason, Lin Feng discovered that not only did he not reject this mission—thinking of Tian Mengqian's delicate features and full, perky breasts, he actually felt a hint of excitement and anticipation stirring in his heart.

Lin Feng knew that the Peach Blossom Manual had triggered this mission, asking him to see clearly the color of Tian Mengqian's intimate bra, definitely hoping he would find a way to gradually win Tian Mengqian's heart. But right now, Lin Feng urgently wanted to verify whether the Peach Blossom Manual was truly as miraculous as it seemed.

He could only resort to some special methods!

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