"Beep beep beep—"
The alarm clock the next morning shattered Ye Shuang's dream. He slowly opened his eyes only to find a rear end facing him.
"..."
"..."
"Huh?"
Ye Shuang slowly sat up and pushed the fat cat off his chest. "No wonder I was dreaming about having a boulder smashed on my chest. You little rascal..."
"That's strange, I definitely closed the door before sleeping." Ye Shuang looked towards the bedroom door and saw it was slightly ajar.
Clearly, it was Yī Wàn who opened it. After all, Ye Shuang had seen videos online of cats who could open doors.
Jump up, give the handle a pull, and it just opens.
"Alright, Yī Wàn, you go out first."
"Meow."
After Yī Wàn left the room with its tail held high, Ye Shuang looked at the blanket covered in cat hair. He skillfully rummaged in the drawer for a lint roller and meticulously cleaned the bedding.
"Not sure if An Shiyu is up yet. I'll make breakfast first." After washing up, Ye Shuang went downstairs and found An Shiyu was already awake. She was lying upside down on the chaise lounge section of the sofa, playing a handheld game console, her legs even propped high against the wall.
"Yo." Noticing the sound of someone coming downstairs, the girl glanced at Ye Shuang before returning to her game.
"Why are you up so early?"
"Well, unlike some people, I don't sleep in."
"It's only seven o'clock. Saying I sleep in is a bit much." Ye Shuang said helplessly, then asked, "What do you want for breakfast?"
"Tuna sashimi."
"For breakfast."
"A Krabby Patty."
"Don't have that."
"Spicy skewers."
"Where am I supposed to get that for you?"
"Tch. You're no good, uncle. This you can't do, that you can't do." An Shiyu made a deadpan expression with dot eyes.
"How about a sandwich?"
"Fine."
That was a quick agreement.
Ye Shuang took ingredients from the fridge and was surprised to find several extra fish inside, though he didn't pay it much mind.
While heating the milk and simply frying the bread with butter, he assembled the ingredients inside, sliced it up—the benefit of this kind of breakfast is that it's quick to make and nutritious enough. A breakfast like this takes less than ten minutes.
Of course, if we're really talking speed, eating breakfast outside is even faster.
"What's wrong? What are you looking at?"
During breakfast, Ye Shuang noticed An Shiyu's gaze, as if she was sizing something up.
"Nothing." The girl averted her eyes.
Ye Shuang: ?
"Going to the company again today?" Ye Shuang asked, "Isn't it boring? If you find it dull, you really don't have to tag along. Stay home and play games."
"Uncle, you don't understand the joy of slacking off." An Shiyu said.
"..."
Is it really that joyful?
Ye Shuang couldn't quite wrap his head around it.
"Going to the restroom." After finishing the sandwich, perhaps because of last night's juice-based hotpot broth, Ye Shuang felt a slight pain in his abdomen and got up to use the restroom.
When he returned, Ye Shuang noticed An Shiyu had already washed both the bowls and the frying pan.
"Huh?" Ye Shuang seemed a bit surprised, then smiled, "I could have washed them."
"Has nothing to do with me. It was Yī Wàn who climbed up and washed them." An Shiyu made her dot-eyed expression.
Hearing this, Ye Shuang just chuckled and didn't say anything more.
This girl is as unstraightforward as ever.
Since An Shiyu said she wanted to go to the company, Ye Shuang took the girl along to the group's office.
Fortunately, An Shiyu wasn't wearing a maid outfit, so when they took the elevator up, the employees' stares weren't as piercing as yesterday.
"President Ye, these are the documents for the recent projects. Please review them."
Not long after sitting down in his office, Kou Kou presented the documents.
"Hmm..."
Ye Shuang flipped through the documents, then suddenly noticed a goldfish had appeared on his desk.
It swam gently in a small square tank, blowing bubbles.
"Where did this come from?" he asked.
"This... I don't know." Kou Kou was also puzzled about why there was a goldfish on the desk. She had noticed it when she arrived today, but thinking it might be Ye Shuang's, she hadn't paid it much mind.
So when Ye Shuang asked, Kou Kou was momentarily confused.
"I put it there." An Shiyu said from the side.
"When did you buy a goldfish?" Ye Shuang was taken aback, seemingly surprised. After all, this goldfish wasn't there when they left work last night.
She couldn't have possibly run back to the company in the middle of the night just to put a tank of goldfish here, right?
"Well, that's a secret." An Shiyu said with a hint of a smirk.
Ye Shuang then didn't dwell on it and continued reviewing the documents in his hand.
"For this project, what's the situation with the competitors? Do you have their information?"
"Yes, President Ye." Kou Kou tapped on her tablet, then showed Ye Shuang the prepared information.
"Hmm."
Ye Shuang read for a while longer. As he put the tablet down, Kou Kou suddenly spoke up, "President Ye, there's something... I'm not sure if I should mention it."
"What is it?" Ye Shuang instinctively thought it might be another problem with Chen Hai.
"It's like this. Regarding that project, several competing companies had strange incidents happen last night, and it's already spreading around our side."
"Tell me about it." Ye Shuang became rather interested. What kind of strange incidents could have happened last night?
Kou Kou hesitated, then said, "Last night, the door locks to the CEO offices of several companies were mysteriously broken. Not only that, the money trees inside seemed to have been watered with boiling water and died."
"It's also said that all the koi fish in the fountain ponds in front of a few other companies disappeared. The surveillance only caught a shadowy figure, but they couldn't catch the person."
"Such strange things happened?" Ye Shuang was stunned.
Maybe... this is just corporate warfare.
Simple and unadorned—watering someone else's money tree.
"..."
Ye Shuang suddenly sensed something amiss and instinctively glanced at An Shiyu beside him. "You... stayed in your room properly last night, right?"
"Breakfast was pretty good today." An Shiyu answered a different question.
Ye Shuang: "..."
"Kou Kou, could you step out for a moment?"
"Of course, President Ye." Although a bit confused, Kou Kou left the office.
"Those strange incidents... were they your doing last night?" Ye Shuang asked.
"Well, maybe." Ye Shuang knew An Shiyu too well; this phrase was practically an admission.
"You..." For a moment, Ye Shuang didn't even know where to begin.
"The fish in the fridge, they weren't..."
An Shiyu said expressionlessly, "They crawled into the fridge by themselves."
"Aren't you afraid of getting caught?" Ye Shuang was rendered speechless. Just what did An Shiyu do last night?
"A top-tier maid goes on assassination missions against rivals at night." An Shiyu said, pulling out a maid outfit.
"What kind of proper maid goes assassinating money trees?!"
"Tch. It's called sabotaging their fortune."
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】
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
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?!
