Pulling his cotton-padded jacket tighter around himself, Lin Yu stood by the roadside, looking around to see if there were any taxis.
Looking left and right, Lin Yu didn't spot a taxi, but he did see someone he wasn't particularly familiar with.
Watching the man walk toward him step by step, Lin Yu asked jokingly:
"What's up?"
"Where are you heading off to work this time?"
The Super Part-timer, who had once simultaneously juggled jobs as a fried chicken shop prep cook, an underground plaza flyer distributor, and a bartender, shook his head and cut straight to the chase:
"I'm not going to work this time."
"I came specifically to find you."
With that, the Super Part-timer pulled a small jade pendant, two fingers wide and four fingers long, out of his pocket and handed it to Lin Yu, saying:
"This is for you."
Lin Yu took the jade pendant curiously.
Pinching the ends of the jade pendant with two fingers, Lin Yu held it up to the sunlight and turned it over and over to inspect it.
A moment later, Lin Yu came to a conclusion.
This thing looked a lot like a green glass bottle.
When it came to jade, Lin Yu was completely clueless.
Jade worth millions and jade worth a few hundred bucks didn't look much different in his eyes.
Lin Yu still remembered a long time ago, seemingly in his first year after transmigrating here, seeing a jade bracelet in Qingmo's villa.
Having nothing better to do at the time, he had picked it up to play with and casually asked her how much the bracelet cost.
She had replied airily, saying it was over a hundred million.
Lin Yu remembered how his hand had uncontrollably trembled at that moment, almost dropping and smashing half a residential district's worth of money.
"What is this thing?"
Lin Yu withdrew his gaze from the jade pendant, turned his head to look at the Super Part-timer, and asked in confusion.
"Consider it interest."
The Super Part-timer paused for a moment before saying:
"If there's ever a chance, I will pay that money back to you."
The Super Part-timer's words made Lin Yu raise an eyebrow.
As everyone knows.
When someone tells you 'if there's a chance to do so-and-so,' it generally means there won't be a chance.
However, Lin Yu didn't really care.
Because Lin Yu had intended to just give him that money in the first place.
He never expected him to pay it back.
"Alright."
"I'll accept it."
Lin Yu was in a hurry to go home and check on Little Darling, so he had no mind to casually chat with this Super Part-timer.
After casually agreeing, Lin Yu carelessly stuffed the small jade pendant into his pants pocket.
The Super Part-timer watched Lin Yu's nonchalant action, the corner of his mouth twitching imperceptibly, as if that small jade pendant shouldn't be treated that way.
At the same time, an empty taxi saw Lin Yu waving. The driver inside turned on the blinker and began to slow down, pulling over to the side of the road.
"Um..."
Before Lin Yu could get into the car, the Super Part-timer stopped him.
Lin Yu paused his movement of getting in. Keeping one hand on the car door, one foot inside the car, and half-bent over ready to slide in, he turned his head and looked at the Super Part-timer in confusion.
"It's best if you carry that jade pendant close to your body."
"It's quite precious, and it can keep you safe..."
The Super Part-timer reminded him, lacking a bit of confidence.
That jade pendant was relatively expensive to him, but when talking to a super-rich guy who could casually throw around seven-figure sums, he really didn't have the confidence to discuss what was "precious."
As for keeping him safe, that sounded more like something a charlatan would say.
"Ah?"
"Is that so?"
"Alright."
"I got it."
Lin Yu agreed, although he still seemed absent-minded.
Sitting in the backseat of the taxi, Lin Yu gave the address of the villa.
The blue-bodied, white-roofed taxi quickly started up and slowly merged into the flow of traffic.
Sitting in the backseat, Lin Yu took out his phone, just getting ready to scroll through some mindless short videos to kill time, when a call suddenly came in.
Looking at the three characters for Su Yuyao displayed on the phone screen, Lin Yu's heart suddenly tightened, and he inexplicably felt that something was wrong.
Upon answering the call, Su Yuyao's crying poured out almost immediately.
She was crying so hard she could barely catch her breath, and it took a great deal of effort for her to intermittently say what she wanted to say.
"Lin, Lin Yu."
"Come back quickly!"
"Little Darling, Little Darling is in the emergency room!"
"The doctor says her condition is very bad right now."
"Hurry back!"
Although he had vaguely anticipated that Su Yuyao calling would be about Little Darling.
But upon hearing that the situation was so urgent, Lin Yu still felt as if he had been struck by lightning, his heart clenching into a tight knot from anxiety.
"Okay, okay, okay."
"Don't be afraid, I'm right here in City N, I'll be back right away."
While comforting the panicked and crying Su Yuyao over the phone, Lin Yu said to the driver in the front seat:
"I'll give you an extra thousand bucks!"
"Get me there as fast as you possibly can!"
The taxi driver sitting in the driver's seat was an older middle-aged man.
When he heard that Lin Yu seemed to have an emergency, his reaction wasn't huge.
After all, having been a taxi driver for so many years, what day didn't he encounter a few people in a rush?
But when he heard Lin Yu say he'd directly add a thousand bucks to the fare, his spine abruptly straightened, and even his eyes changed.
Determined.
Focused.
He looked like an assassin ready to lay down his life for his boss at any moment!
Lin Yu didn't waste words; he directly scanned the QR code and transferred a thousand bucks.
The moment the payment receipt notification chimed, the driver didn't waste any words either, directly starting to street-race through the city.
With a sudden brake, the taxi stopped outside the villa gates.
Lin Yu couldn't even care about the urge to vomit surging up his throat as he hurriedly opened the door and got out.
Walking briskly into the villa, Lin Yu headed straight for the makeshift emergency room set up inside.
Outside the emergency room door, a crowd of people were gathered noisily.
There was Su Yuyao, the villa's butler, a few close servants, and two medical assistants.
They were gathered around Su Yuyao, in a frantic and flustered state, making it look as though something had gone wrong with Su Yuyao as well.
Lin Yu strode into the crowd and discovered that Su Yuyao was currently slumped on the ground, her face deathly pale, gasping heavily for air, drenched in so much sweat it looked like she had just been fished out of the water.
Upon seeing Lin Yu squeeze into the crowd, a rare glimmer of light gathered in Su Yuyao's nearly unfocused eyes.
She reached out a hand toward Lin Yu, her slender and delicate arm as weak as a fallen leaf in the wind.
Pea-sized teardrops squeezed out of her eyes and slid down her entirely bloodless cheeks.
She opened her mouth, her pale pink lips trembling, and squeezed out an aggrieved and fragile voice from her throat.
"Lin Yu..."
Lin Yu immediately crouched down, pulling Su Yuyao's frail body into his arms, and comforted her in a deep voice:
"Little Darling will be fine."
"Don't worry, I promise you."
"She will definitely be fine."
Su Yuyao's petite body was currently as soft as if she had no bones. She used all her remaining strength to lean against Lin Yu's shoulder, squeezed her eyes shut tightly, and let out a tearful mhm.
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?!
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!
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
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."
