Li Tao was scared.
This time, he was truly beaten to the point of fear.
His head had been smashed open, and the hot blood flowed out from the wound.
"Remember, don't let me see any of you in Magic City again, or else--------"
Lin Fan's eyes radiated a cold and deadly intent.
Li Tao covered his head with one hand and pulled up his companion, who was lying on the ground in extreme pain.
"Got it, got it---------"
The situation was beyond their control.
There was no time to wipe the fresh blood streaming down his forehead.
The two of them fled the scene in a disgraceful manner.
Lin Fan smirked with disdain.
Were these trash even worthy of competing with him for a meal?
He didn't pay much attention to those fools.
Instead, he turned his gaze back to Shen Manni's alluring figure.
That ascetic face...
was utterly captivating.
Anyone with even a little weak willpower would have their soul stolen.
Lin Fan swallowed hard and felt a surge of excitement.
This flawless woman.
Soon would be the woman of the Dragon King!
"Shen Manni, what's wrong? You don't look well. Don't worry, those thugs have been driven away by me."
Lin Fan put on what he considered a very gentlemanly smile.
The DJ at the bar was blasting music at an incredibly loud volume.
He didn't think Shen Manni, who had been drugged, could hear his conversation with Li Tao normally.
Even if she hadn't been drugged, in such an environment, unless they were very close and spoke loudly, even a person with sharp hearing wouldn't catch much.
Shen Manni's consciousness returned slightly, but she still hadn't regained her strength. Her whole body felt weak and limp, as if she might collapse at any moment.
She managed to stay standing thanks to her extraordinary willpower.
"G---get lost"
Shen Manni said weakly.
Lin Fan didn't care at all.
Or rather, no matter what Shen Manni said right now, it didn't matter.
This first blood.
He, Lin Fan, was taking it.
"Hahaha-----stand steady, be careful not to fall over."
Lin Fan chuckled as he stepped forward to support Shen Manni.
He allowed the drug to take effect for a while.
It was time.
To reel in the catch.
Lin Fan knew very well.
When Shen Manni recalled what happened tonight later, it would be vague and hazy.
So Lin Fan felt there was no need to continue acting.
"Huh-----------------"
Lin Fan's heart skipped a beat, and his breathing quickened.
His hand was about to touch Shen Manni's soft, delicate body.
At that moment, a thunderous shout.
Came.
"Damn it! It's you again, you filthy security guard! Get away from my sister-in-law, now!!!"
Lin Fan's hand froze.
His face instantly turned cold.
He looked in the direction of the voice.
It would be a miracle if he, a martial artist, had been hearing things.
Xu Mo and Tao Xiaoyi were walking towards them.
Especially Tao Xiaoyi.
That expression.
As if Lin Fan had just assaulted his mother.
He seemed ready to tear Lin Fan apart, limb from limb.
Even clay figurines have some temper.
He, Lin Fan, wasn't made of clay.
Today, Xu Mo had come alone, just as expected.
It was the perfect opportunity to settle old scores and new.
He would beat Xu Mo so badly that even his own mother wouldn't recognize him.
What about Tao Xiaoyi?
Lin Fan just glanced at him.
And completely ignored him.
Xu Mo was slightly stronger than Tao Xiaoyi.
That being said.
In Lin Fan's eyes.
Xu Mo was still trash.
And Tao Xiaoyi was trash among trash.
He could slap him away with just one hand.
"So it's you two playboys."
Xu Mo was momentarily stunned.
He looked at Lin Fan.
Then at Shen Manni beside him.
After recalling.
He quickly understood the situation.
This was the classic hero-saving-the-beauty trope, wasn't it?
Oh my!
It's such an old cliche.
The author was giving the protagonist a chance to boost his charm.
But the problem was.
This was for the protagonist.
Not for him, a villain.
What the hell was the system thinking, dragging him here?!
"Lin Fan, I'm warning you, watch your filthy mouth, or don't blame me for being rude!!!"
Tao Xiaoyi shot Lin Fan a fierce glare.
"Hahaha----------you? Laughable!"
Lin Fan chuckled as if he had heard the funniest joke.
"So you think you're brave?"
Tao Xiaoyi was startled.
But with Xu Mo beside him, what was there to be afraid of?
"What dirty things did you do to my sister-in-law? Confess now!"
Tao Xiaoyi observed Shen Manni slightly.
He knew this was serious.
After all, no one in this world knew better than him about those shady tricks.
Lin Fan was shocked, but he quickly regained his composure.
"You two are accusing me out of nowhere without any grounds. Let me state first that I'm a good person. If not for me, Shen Manni would have been taken advantage of by another man. As you can see, she's been drugged, her condition is very bad, and I need to take her to the hospital as soon as possible."
He paused and continued.
"Every second delayed is bad for her!"
His plan was exposed.
They had encountered someone who knew what he was doing.
As long as the two weren't blind.
If they dug deeper.
They would definitely see that Shen Manni's condition was abnormal.
So Lin Fan decided to come clean.
As long as he could take her away.
He had a thousand lies to cover up tonight's events.
Tao Xiaoyi nodded in agreement and took out a hundred-yuan bill from his pocket, "You did a good job with this matter, now leave it to us to handle, it's a family affair."
"You're an outsider, don't meddle, this hundred is your tip for the trouble."
Though he made logical points.
Tao Xiaoyi's way of speaking was incredibly insulting.
He waved the hundred-yuan bill in Lin Fan's face.
Lin Fan felt he had been greatly humiliated!!!
Just imagine.
If the hundred-yuan bill was replaced with a bone.
Then the Dragon King of the Dragon King Hall would be reduced to a pet dog.
"I think you're asking for death!!!"
Lin Fan roared in fury and was about to take action.
Xu Mo stepped in front of Tao Xiaoyi, "Wait!!"
Lin Fan paused for some reason.
In his mind, he found an excuse for himself.
He valued martial ethics.
Not resorting to sneak attacks.
Anyway, beating Xu Mo was as easy as beating a dog.
He was just an ordinary person.
"You spoiled brat, what do you want to say?"
Xu Mo pointed at Shen Manni and showed a happy smile, "The solution to this is simple!! Let Shen Manni choose for herself, you or me, fair, right?"
Lin Fan frowned, thinking Xu Mo had a point.
After being drugged.
Shen Manni would lose some judgment.
As long as he guided her with a few words.
Ultimately, Shen Manni would still be his woman, right?
"No way!!" Tao Xiaoyi panicked.
This filthy security guard clearly used underhanded methods.
How despicable of him!!!
Xu Mo said coldly, "Shut up!!"
[Oh my!!!]
[Xiaoyi, you almost messed up the main couple's plot]
[Luckily, young master is smart and fixed the story again]
[Using my butt to think, I know that foolish woman would choose the Dragon King with the crooked smile, why? Because she has no other choice----------wait, what's happening?]
[Hey!! Hey!!! Don't lean on me!!!]
[You're covered in alcohol, it stinks]
Xu Mo was shocked.
Tao Xiaoyi was dumbfounded, unexpected but somewhat expected.
Lin Fan was in tears.
To be continued...
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
