"Your Majesty... Your Majesty seems to have changed?"
Lu Fengxian gazed at Qin Xiao's retreating figure.
In a daze, he seemed to see a sovereign standing proudly between heaven and earth, one who lords over the nine heavens!
"I feel His Majesty is different from before."
Jia Xu nodded earnestly.
Although Qin Xiao's appearance hadn't changed, he sensed that the current Qin Xiao was even more terrifying than before!
"Qin Xiao! You owe me your life!"
Qin Rushuang, who had remained silent until now, rushed forward.
She confronted Qin Xiao.
She lowered her head, scanning the scene.
Seeing her father, mother, and younger sister lying in pools of blood, tears streamed down her face uncontrollably.
"Qin Xiao! Look! Look at what you have done!"
"They were your closest family!"
Qin Rushuang questioned him angrily.
"You've changed! You've become so unfamiliar! You are no longer the Qin Xiao I once knew!"
Qin Xiao's expression was cold and detached.
"Yes, you are right. This emperor is no longer the Qin Xiao who allowed himself to be bullied and humiliated!"
"You can no longer lord over me!"
"What? Can't handle the truth?"
"Enough! Qin Xiao! Say no more! If it weren't for me, you would have died long ago! You owe me your life!"
Qin Rushuang screamed hysterically, tears cascading down her cheeks.
Drop by drop, the tears fell to the ground, freezing into ice upon impact.
She could never have imagined things would turn out like this.
That young boy from the past, the one who admired and respected her, had turned into such a vicious-hearted person!
In the past, she and Qin Xiao were very close. One could say she was the person Qin Xiao cared about most!
Moreover, she had once saved Qin Xiao's life!
If not for her, Qin Xiao would have long since succumbed to his injuries and illness!
At this moment, Qin Rushuang's cold poison erupted.
Her face gradually paled, ice crystals forming on her skin, emitting a bone-chilling, piercing cold!
"Rushuang! What's wrong with you?"
Empress Dowager Wen, ignoring the pain in her own body, struggled to rise from the ground and ran to Qin Rushuang's side.
She reached out to touch Qin Rushuang, but the piercing cold invaded her body, making her shiver uncontrollably.
"Qin Xiao! Can't you stop being so willful!"
"Come and save Rushuang now!"
Empress Dowager Wen shouted loudly, her tone filled with urgency.
Qin Xiao narrowed his eyes slightly, a flash of satisfaction appearing within them.
"Save her? This emperor would sooner save a dog than save her!"
"You!"
Upon hearing this, Empress Dowager Wen was so angry her body swayed.
Qin Xiao's words were simply too harsh!
It made her lose her composure in an instant.
"Mother Empress, don't beg this malicious person!"
Qin Rushuang looked at Qin Xiao, her eyes filled with alienation and hatred!
"Qin Xiao, ever since you were found and brought back to the palace, I have not wronged you in the slightest!"
"Knowing you grew up outside, I showed you extra care and consideration!"
"When you were severely injured and waiting for death, it was I who paid any price to move the Divine Physician to save you!"
"But you... but how have you treated me!"
Qin Rushuang's face was full of sorrow and despair, her eyes roiling with fury!
"You actually ruined my marriage!"
"If not for you, I would have long been married to Brother Shen! This cold poison would have been cured!"
"But you stopped me, using force to oppress Brother Shen, subjecting him to all kinds of humiliation!"
"Qin Xiao, I hate you! I hate you so much I could eat your flesh and skin you alive!"
Qin Rushuang shrieked, her voice desolate, utterly heartbroken!
Hearing this, Qin Xiao was slightly taken aback.
It wasn't out of guilt.
But because he remembered the incident.
This so-called 'Brother Shen' was named Shen Han, a disciple of the Buddhist sect.
Known as the 'Buddhist Prince of the Capital Circle,' countless noblewomen and young ladies were infatuated with him.
Of course, this guy was no good person either.
He cultivated sinister arts and had drained who knows how many women through his practices.
Upon learning of Qin Rushuang's unique constitution, Shen Han set his sights on her.
He deliberately engineered chance encounters, getting along famously with Qin Rushuang.
Qin Rushuang's heart was completely lost to him.
Over time, their affection grew, and they pledged vows of eternal love.
Just as they were about to marry,
Qin Xiao, who was campaigning abroad at the time, suddenly returned.
Without a word, he grabbed Shen Han and gave him a severe beating.
After causing a major scene at the Buddhist temple,
the wedding was called off amidst discord.
Ever since that incident, Qin Rushuang began to hold a grudge against Qin Xiao.
Their relationship gradually grew distant.
Even though Qin Xiao later explained what kind of person Shen Han truly was, Qin Rushuang simply refused to believe it, even going so far as to curse Qin Xiao for being vicious and unworthy of being human.
"If you, Qin Xiao, have any conscience left at all, then you should exhaust your cultivation to cure me, transferring the cold poison into your own body!"
Qin Rushuang's face grew paler and paler. Hugging her shoulders, her body trembled incessantly, and even the mist from her breath crystallized into ice.
Yet the look in her eyes remained as venomous as ever.
Hearing this, Qin Xiao felt like laughing.
Really?
How could Qin Rushuang be so confident?
Was it all because of that one act of saving his life?
He had long since repaid that debt of gratitude through years of servitude and loyalty.
Just as Qin Xiao was about to speak,
the System's voice rang out.
[Ding! Congratulations, Host, for triggering the Divine Emperor's Choice!]
[Choice One: Kneel and apologize, admit your mistakes, transfer all your cultivation into Qin Rushuang's body, and willingly endure the pain of the cold poison! Reward: Title of 'Good-for-Nothing'!]
[Choice Two: Qin Rushuang seeks death, so send her to her doom! Betroth her to the Buddhist Prince of the Capital Circle, Shen Han, and let her know how painful her past choice truly was! Reward: One year's worth of provisions for a million-strong army! One ton of Sage Yuan seeds! Ten tons of various fruit and vegetable seeds!]
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?!
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
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!
