"Father, you... I am already like this, and you still want me to marry?"
Qin Rushuang stood frozen in place, biting her lower lip tightly as tears swelled in her eyes.
Emperor Qinwu's gaze carried a scrutinizing intent as he looked Qin Rushuang up and down.
That filthy appearance made it obvious at a single glance exactly what Qin Rushuang had just been through.
This daughter of his was already ruined.
A royal eldest princess, her vermilion lips tasted by ten thousand men—what a bitter irony!
Regarding everything Qin Rushuang had suffered today, Emperor Qinwu only felt that his own face was being dragged through the mud. It was humiliating to the extreme!
"What else do you want! Looking at you now, marrying someone is your best choice. If word of today's events leaks out, where will my royal dignity be?"
"You are fully grown, can't you be a bit more sensible!"
Seeing that his daughter actually dared to talk back to him, Emperor Qinwu's majestic voice was laced with anger.
Even the slight heartache and guilt he had felt for Qin Rushuang vanished without a trace in an instant.
At this moment, Qin Rushuang's heart turned completely to dead ashes!
She stood stunned, her tears flowing uncontrollably, her heart aching as if it were being sliced by a knife!
Her dignity and pride were utterly crushed by Emperor Qinwu!
She had never imagined that one day, she would fall to such a pathetic state.
In the eyes of everyone, she was already damaged goods, a filthy and unbearable woman!
"Father, why... why would you treat me like this..."
Clutching her chest, Qin Rushuang felt a wave of severe dizziness. The world spun around her as she collapsed to her knees.
The father before her, wearing an impatient expression and teetering on the edge of fury, seemed so unfamiliar.
From childhood, her parents had showered her with love and affection. Why had it turned out like this today!
Just because she had been defiled, did she become a discarded pawn that could be thrown away at will?
This hypocritical familial love made Qin Rushuang's heart twist in agony!
Qin Rushuang's red and swollen eyes turned toward Qin Xiao. Her mouth opened slightly, the bitterness in her heart threatening to drown everything.
She recalled the events of three years ago.
Back then, everyone praised Shen Han's virtues, but only Qin Xiao was dismissive of him, even going to confront Shen Han despite her anger.
It was also after that day that Shen Han cut off all contact with her.
When everyone found out, they furiously cursed Qin Xiao for being selfish!
But the truth... was that really the truth?
Although she was the older sister, it had always been Qin Xiao who protected her, giving her the best things in the world.
But what had she done?
She had personally pushed away the person who loved her and gave everything to care for her!
"Qin Xiao, I was wrong. Your sister blamed you wrongly. Can you forgive me..."
She cried out in an almost begging tone.
Qin Xiao looked down coldly at Qin Rushuang, a playful smile hooking the corner of his mouth.
"Wasn't this your own choice? Since it is the path you chose, you must finish walking it, even if you have to do it on your knees!"
At this time, Empress Dowager Wen scrambled up from the ground and rushed forward to embrace Qin Rushuang.
"Shuang'er, don't be like this! Your parents would never harm you!"
Saying this, she glared fiercely at Qin Xiao with venomous eyes.
"It's all Qin Xiao's fault! Blame him! If he hadn't betrothed you to Shen Han, how could you have suffered such a catastrophe!"
Qin Rumeng wiped the tears from her face and chimed in, "Sister, don't go begging Qin Xiao. He is not a good person! He made you marry Shen Han just to deliberately take revenge on you!"
"I saw long ago that Shen Han was no good, yet Qin Xiao still did it. He was completely trying to ruin you! His heart is truly so vicious!"
Hearing their words, Qin Rushuang just looked at the two of them quietly.
Her eyes widened, and her whole body trembled uncontrollably!
Seeing Qin Rushuang's gaze, Qin Rumeng couldn't help but feel afraid. She subconsciously pulled her hand back and took a step in retreat.
That gaze was too icy, like a desperate beast ready to devour someone.
Qin Rumeng felt a chill in her heart.
"You two... knew long ago that Shen Han was not a good person..."
A hoarse voice squeezed out from Qin Rushuang's throat.
Empress Dowager Wen and Qin Rumeng both stopped crying.
Neither of them dared to meet Qin Rushuang's eyes, stammering and not knowing how to speak.
"But... but, even if we knew, this is still Qin Xiao's fault..."
Qin Rumeng still wanted to push all the blame onto Qin Xiao.
Slap!
Qin Rushuang raised her hand and delivered a resounding slap, knocking Qin Rumeng to the ground.
Qin Rushuang's strength was immense. This slap left Qin Rumeng completely dazed, blood seeping from the corner of her mouth as she stared at Qin Rushuang in terror.
"Since you knew Shen Han was a bad person, then why didn't you stop me three years ago!"
"Instead, it was Qin Xiao who stood against everyone, suffering three years of innocent disdain!"
"Now that something has happened, you run out pretending to be the good guys. Have you done right by me? Have you done right by Qin Xiao?!"
"If you hadn't praised Shen Han and had stopped me back then, I wouldn't have... wouldn't have..."
By the end of her words, Qin Rushuang had completely lost her mind.
Without another word, she raised her hands and began slapping Empress Dowager Wen and Qin Rumeng across the face.
Empress Dowager Wen was slapped silly. With dull eyes, she looked at the terrifyingly savage face of Qin Rushuang, trembling all over, her face burning with pain.
She never expected that the daughter she had painstakingly raised for so many years would treat her like this!
She wanted to resist, but how could she be a match for Qin Rushuang, who had practiced martial arts for years?
The three of them scuffled intensely.
To be accurate, it was Qin Rushuang pinning the two of them down and slapping them half to death!
Slap! Slap! Slap!
The crisp sound of slaps accompanied by wailing resounded through the skies.
Before long, the faces of Empress Dowager Wen and Qin Rumeng had swollen into pig heads, the slap marks clearly visible.
There were even a few shattered, bloody teeth on the ground.
"Enough!"
Seeing this scene, Emperor Qinwu's fury soared to the heavens, his beard practically trembling with rage.
But Qin Rushuang acted as if she hadn't heard him, the movements of her hands never stopping.
"Rebellious daughter! You dare disobey my words!"
Emperor Qinwu wasted no more breath. He raised his hand and blasted out a palm strike!
A palm print formed of true qi tore through the air and slammed into Qin Rushuang's body!
Qin Rushuang's body was sent flying, crashing heavily to the ground as she spat out fresh blood!
"Rebellious daughter, your heart is malicious. Beating your own mother and sister,
and treating me like an enemy—simply outrageous!"
Emperor Qinwu's face was ashen, his eyes bloodshot, glaring at Qin Rushuang as if he wanted to kill her.
Qin Xiao had challenged his authority and he couldn't defeat him, and now Qin Rushuang dared to challenge him too?
Did they really think he had no temper!
Qin Rushuang ignored the enraged Emperor Qinwu. Instead, she looked toward Qin Xiao through a haze of tears.
"Little brother, your sister was wrong, so terribly wrong. It was your sister who wrongly blamed and falsely accused you."
"Now that the whole truth is out, we can still be as close as we used to be."
Qin Rushuang struggled to stand up. The severe pain in her body made her draw in sharp breaths of cold air. Sweat beaded on her forehead, her cheeks were pale as a ghost, and her entire body swayed unsteadily.
But even so, she kept crawling all the way toward Qin Xiao.
Behind her, a bloody trail was dragged out.
"Little brother, forgive your sister. Your sister really knows she was wrong."
Qin Rushuang crawled in front of Qin Xiao. Her wounds split open, fresh blood constantly surging out, dyeing the grass on the ground red like blooming flowers.
She tilted her head up, tears shimmering in her eyes, her smile incomparably pale.
To an outsider, this appearance was indeed incredibly pitiful.
But as Qin Xiao looked down at her, for some inexplicable reason, he just wanted to laugh.
Now she knows she was wrong?
What was she doing before!
Why should a simple "I am sorry" easily earn her forgiveness!
Right at this moment.
The system's voice suddenly rang out.
Ding! Divine Emperor Choice System triggered!
Choice 1: Kneel on the ground and weep bitterly in each other's arms with Qin Rushuang, forgive all the harm she has done to you, and finally make dumplings together for a forced happy family ending. Reward: Title - Bleeding Heart Bitch!
Choice 2: A person who has been hurt to the core will not easily choose to forgive, but family comes first; you will observe Qin Rushuang's behavior in the future. Reward: Confucian Cultivation Method - Mantra of the Vast and Righteous Aura.
Choice 3: To hell with that! Like hell I will forgive you! I walk the path of the Emperor, and beneath my feet lie only corpses! An Emperor does not need the love of a traitor! Reward: Imperial Holy Physique (Description: A born Emperor's physique, cultivation advances a thousand miles in a single day, imperial coercion shakes the heavens, and pleasure is doubled!)
] [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!"
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
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.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
