"Fruit?" Xu Mo shifted his gaze from the TV.
Queen Lin placed the tray on the coffee table, her face beaming with a smile. "Yeah. Here’s the toothpick, passing it to you."
Xu Mo chuckled and took a couple of symbolic bites.
She’d already brought it over.
It’d be rude not to eat anything, right?
"Sweet?"
"Not bad."
"Good, these are the freshest ones. Have some more~"
"Mm o(￣▽￣)o"
Xu Mo couldn’t think of anything else to say, so he took a few more bites.
After a while, he noticed it was almost ten o’clock.
About twenty minutes left.
So he turned to Lin An'an and said, "It’s getting late. I should head back."
Queen Lin, who had been brainstorming ways to "conquer" Xu Mo, was stunned.
She let out an "Ah!" of surprise.
"So soon?"
Queen Lin sounded utterly bewildered.
Xu Mo pointed at the wall clock. "It’s late."
Lin An'an glanced at the clock dismissively and muttered, "Feels pretty early to me."
Is this the legendary—
I don’t care what you think, it’s what I think that matters?
Xu Mo didn’t know whether to laugh or cry as he picked up his jacket.
Originally, he’d planned to sit around for a bit to digest.
Wait for Lin An'an to finish washing the dishes.
Then make his escape.
At least that way, the timing would make sense.
And he could properly say goodbye to the host before leaving.
Just vanishing would’ve been weird, right?
But Lin An'an didn’t follow the script.
She stayed in there for ages.
Leaving Xu Mo in an awkward spot.
Leaving now felt rude, but staying felt forced.
In the end, he had no choice but to tough it out and wait.
But now, finally—
She was back.
Xu Mo didn’t notice Queen Lin frozen like a statue beside him.
Instead, he went to unplug his phone from the charger.
It had died earlier in the afternoon.
Xu Mo powered it back on.
Entered his lock-screen password after the reboot.
"I’m heading out," Xu Mo said, dropping a classic line straight out of the Playboy Handbook.
Lin An'an was dumbfounded.
Leave?
She hadn’t even gotten on board yet!
Leave?!
And then, as if on cue—
His phone rang.
Right after it turned back on.
It was a call from his old man.
Xu Mo swiped to answer without thinking.
"You little brat! You’ve got some nerve!!! I’ve been calling nonstop, and you only pick up now? Having fun, huh? Living it up, huh? ANSWER ME! Why’d you take so long?!"
Xu Fuqiang’s yelling blasted through the speaker.
Xu Mo held the phone away from his ear.
After the storm passed—
He finally brought it back and explained the situation.
"Where’s your phone?"
"Died."
"Why’d it die?"
"Used it too much this afternoon, nowhere to charge."
"Why’d you use it so much?"
"Killing time."
"·····"
Father and son, question and answer.
Finally, Xu Fuqiang couldn’t take it anymore.
"You think I’d believe that crap?! You were out fooling around again! Didn’t even come back for dinner—cough—didn’t even come back to eat with us! Don’t think just because you’re grown and married now that you can do whatever you want! As long as I’m alive, this family runs the way I say!"
"I don’t care where you are right now—get back here, NOW. And to make sure you don’t keep running wild—"
"Starting tonight, aside from basic living expenses, I’m cutting off ALL your cards!"
Xu Mo was stunned.
Holy crap!!!
The old man was seriously pissed.
Without his dad’s financial support—
Who was gonna fuel his sports cars and yachts?
"Dad, you’re really going this far?"
"Hah! I’m going too far? Brat, you have no idea what you’ve done! Your mom and I thought you’d stopped messing around, but you’re still the same! Ignoring the flower at home to go water the wild ones outside—what the hell is wrong with you?!"
"Fine, I’ll earn my own money then."
"Pfft, what skills do you have? I know you better than that."
Old Xu let out a disdainful snort.
He had zero faith in Little Xu’s ability to stand on his own.
All these years, Xu Mo hadn’t made any major mistakes at the company.
But that was only because—
Xu Fuqiang and Su Ting had anticipated every possible problem.
And nipped them in the bud.
Plus, the people assigned to work with Xu Mo—
Were all top-tier professionals.
The elite of the elite.
Four pros carrying one noob.
Playing in the minor leagues.
Unless the opponents were secretly experts—
Unless someone on their team turned traitor—
Eighteen cards to wipe us out?
I’ll rip your head off.
The truth was laid bare.
Little Xu knew there was no reasoning with Old Xu anymore.
"Dad, let’s leave it at that. I’ve got a multi-million-dollar project to discuss."
"????"
Xu Fuqiang’s face turned green. "How can you even say that with a straight face?! Damn it, get your ass back here! Don’t test me!"
At this point—
Old Xu’s fury was palpable, even cursing outright.
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Little Xu could tell—Old Xu had misunderstood.
"I’m serious. Let’s talk later."
Beep beep beep…
On the other end, Old Xu transformed into an enraged bird.
He called back multiple times.
But Little Xu had already blacklisted him.
To prevent his mom from calling next—
Xu Mo had no choice but to temporarily exile Her Majesty as well.
After handling that—
He finally looked at Lin An'an.
Making money is seriously so easy for me!!!
Literally effortless.
And coincidentally, there was a small project right here.
Feeling Xu Mo’s gaze—
Queen Lin, her cheeks flushed, instinctively took half a step back.
Just now—
She’d heard him say he wanted to discuss a big deal with her!!!
Thanks to the "education" from a certain she-devil—
Queen Lin’s mind had long been corrupted.
And the way Xu Mo said it sounded… suggestive.
Of course her thoughts went somewhere weird.
"Huh? You misunderstood too?"
"No! I didn’t! Don’t accuse me!"
"I really meant a multi-million-dollar business deal."
"Alright, go ahead. What kind of… positions do you like? Oh, and any preferences for outfit colors or materials? If not, I’ll just pick something random."
Xu Mo: "······"
Xu Mo’s face darkened.
After a few seconds of hesitation—
He walked up to Queen Lin.
Under her gaze—30% shock, 30% confusion, 40% anticipation—
He flicked her forehead.
Hard.
"Get your head out of the gutter!"
"I’m serious. I’ll write you a few more hit songs, you handle the promotion, and we split the profits."
Queen Lin clutched her forehead, eyes watery from the pain. "That’s it?"
Xu Mo glared. "That’s it."
She bit her lip, unwilling to accept it. "Really just that?"
"Really just that," Xu Mo confirmed.
(ˉ▽￣～) Whatever~~
You useless little—!!!
That’s ALL you’ve got?!
Waste of my time!!!
Got my hopes up for nothing.
Queen Lin’s gaze grew increasingly mischievous.
A faint smirk curled at her lips.
That expression—
Somehow reminded Xu Mo—
Of a certain smirking dragon king meme.
Isn’t this the classic smirk of the Crooked-Mouth Dragon King?
For no reason at all, Xu Mo raised his hand again.
And gave Queen Lin another knock on the head.
"Ouch… wuwu… what was that for?"
"Nothing. Just felt like teasing you. Got a problem with that?"
"Fine, fine. You’re amazing, you’re noble. You’re my big-shot partner now—whatever you say goes."
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ng to die together with you." Lin Xuan is dead, his body thrown into the river by his scumbag lover and her accomplice. She, the president of the Su Group, is decisive, ruthless, and ice-cold. For three days and three nights, she had his body fished out of the river, and without hesitation, she kissed the bloated corpse of Lin Xuan. She laid down beside him in a cold coffin, their fingers intertwined, a smile lingering on her lips as she closed her eyes. The noble and cold-hearted woman, only bending for one man—Lin Xuan. Lin Xuan, with his golden finger, is reborn and returns to the day of his wedding to the treacherous woman. Su Qiang comes to steal the bride. Lin Xuan's eyes light up, eager to pledge his loyalty on the spot, but instead, her kiss transfers a glass of drugged wine into his mouth, causing him to pass out... 【Male Protagonist with Single Female Lead】【Yandere Tycoon】【Action-Packed】【True vs. Fake Heir】
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
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?!
't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
