"Ouch, it hurts! Father, it hurts so much..."
"Mother, you must severely punish that thug Qin Xiao for me!"
From deep within the inner palace, a woman's agonizing cries and venomous curses echoed.
"This little bastard has turned the world upside down! How dare he strike my daughter!"
An elegant and luxurious woman, draped in a phoenix robe, her face contorted with rage, fiercely smashed the jade cup in her hand to the ground. Shards of porcelain scattered everywhere.
Seeing Qin Ruyan on the bed, her face swollen like a pig's head and blood seeping from her forehead, her heart ached terribly. She hurriedly stepped forward and reached out to gently stroke her.
"Yan'er, my poor Yan'er. Mother will definitely punish that little beast Qin Xiao severely and give you justice!"
To the side, the Eldest Princess Qin Rushuang and the Second Princess Qin Rumeng both wore furious expressions. Stroking Qin Ruyan's head, they spoke up in her defense.
"Rest assured, Ruyan, we will absolutely not forgive Qin Xiao!"
"Qin Xiao has gone too far this time! Even if he kneels before us, we will never forgive him!"
Seeing their younger sister in such a miserable state, the anger in their hearts skyrocketed, and their eyes practically spewed flames.
In the past, Qin Xiao had always been deeply respectful to them. How would he dare to disobey them?
Now, not only had he rebelled, but he had also laid a hand on Qin Ruyan!
Hadn't they merely thrown Qin Xiao into the heavenly prison and ordered him to commit suicide by drinking poisoned wine?
How could he resist over such a trivial matter?
He was truly worse than a dog!
Qin Xiao's past kindness to them and his complete obedience had now become the sharp blades they thrust into his heart!
Their eyes shot forth resentment and murderous intent, as if only Qin Xiao's death could relieve the hatred in their hearts.
Hearing her sisters' words, Qin Ruyan's tears instantly surged down.
"Sob... The imperial physician said... my face... my face is ruined..."
Her face had been slapped dozens of times by Qin Xiao, followed by over a dozen frantic punches. It was beaten into a swollen pig's head. Even if it healed, it would be permanently affected for the rest of her life.
"Now that I've become like this, how will Yu'er look at me?"
At the thought of Qin Yu, her tears became even more torrential. She covered her face and wept bitterly.
The three of them suddenly became flustered and began to comfort Qin Ruyan incessantly.
Even late into the night, Qin Ruyan's shrill cries still drifted out from the deep palace from time to time, sounding like the weeping of evil spirits, making one's hair stand on end.
Just as the three women were exhausted from the ordeal.
"Ruyan! What happened to you!"
A tall and burly figure wearing a dragon robe appeared at the entrance of the grand hall.
He rushed in desperately and pulled Qin Ruyan into a tight embrace.
"Ruyan, who exactly bullied you?! Tell Father, and Father will definitely kill him!"
His voice was both domineering and gentle, his eyes full of tender affection for his daughter.
Qin Ruyan slowly raised her head, her gaze fragile, wearing a pitiful look that would make anyone's heart ache.
But in this very instant.
Emperor Qinwu's eyes suddenly widened.
"Pig demon! Eat my fist!"
Hearing this, Qin Ruyan didn't even have time to cry.
Boom!
A ferocious fist smashed right into her face!
Ah!
A shrill scream pierced the night sky!
Everyone froze in place.
They watched as Qin Ruyan's body flew high into the air, crashed heavily onto the ground, and bounced twice.
After a long while.
"Daughter!"
The three hurriedly rushed forward.
A good while later.
Emperor Qinwu sat on the bed with an awkward expression.
"Ruyan, Father really didn't mean it... I just saw a pig's head... Father was also trying to protect you all, it was a subconscious reaction..."
Qin Ruyan kept her head buried tightly under the gold-embroidered quilt, her body twitching as she cried. Upon hearing these words, she sobbed so hard she couldn't catch her breath and directly fainted.
She had originally wanted to seek comfort from her father, but she never expected that her father would mistake her for a pig demon and even send her flying with a single punch.
This dealt a massive blow to her fragile heart.
This punch had literally traumatized her.
Seeing Qin Ruyan pass out, Emperor Qinwu sighed and turned to look at Empress Dowager Wen.
"I already know what happened. This Qin Xiao is truly a piece of trash; he even beats his own sister! Does he really think he is the emperor?!"
As he spoke, his temper flared up. His eyes turned icy, and the veins on his forehead bulged.
"If Yu'er hadn't told me that Qin Xiao was colluding with the enemy and committing treason, I wouldn't even have known that he harbored such wild ambitions!"
Empress Dowager Wen wiped away her tears and spoke with a chest full of resentment.
"How did we not realize before that Qin Xiao was such an animal? He even dared to force you to abdicate so he could be emperor! Had I known he was this kind of person, I should have smothered him to death in his cradle!"
Her voice was filled with venom, not at all resembling how a mother should sound.
No one refuted this statement.
Everyone believed that Qin Xiao was a despicable and shameless traitor who forced his father to abdicate and usurped the throne.
However, they had forgotten who it was that had secured the Great Qin empire, and who had listened to slander to throw Qin Xiao into the death cell!
"This little beast Qin Xiao completely disregards us. Even if he commits suicide, we will not forgive him!"
Empress Dowager Wen's eyes were full of spite, her teeth tightly clenched.
Emperor Qinwu rolled his eyes at her and said crossly, "Isn't he the vile spawn you gave birth to? If anything, we shouldn't have let him return to his ancestors and acknowledge his roots back then!"
Empress Dowager Wen's momentum weakened slightly. "Letting Qin Xiao come back was all to shield Yu'er from disaster..."
"Besides, Yu'er has been with us day and night. We have long treated him as our biological child. How could we bear to see him suffer?"
The Eldest Princess Qin Rushuang also chimed in from the side, "Father, please do not be angry. Back then, the Divine Fortune Teller said that Qin Xiao is the disaster star of our Great Qin. Otherwise, we wouldn't have..."
"Enough!" Emperor Qinwu waved his hand, his voice chilling.
"I will resolve this matter concerning Qin Xiao myself. For these three days, none of you are to act rashly. Wait patiently for Yu'er to return to the court."
As if thinking of something, his expression turned from cloudy to clear.
"I heard that the little beast Qin Xiao ordered the families of the half-million strong Blazing Army to be brought to the capital. That little beast has ultimately chosen to surrender. I actually thought he had grown some guts."
Saying this, he shook his head mockingly.
Empress Dowager Wen's expression lit up with joy, but then she hesitated. "Could it be that Qin Xiao is playing some sort of trick again?"
Emperor Qinwu sneered, looking down his nose at Empress Dowager Wen.
"You think too highly of Qin Xiao. He chose to rebel this time just to get our attention, didn't he?"
"In the end, he will still obediently surrender and become a stepping stone for my son, Qin Yu."
Qin Rushuang and Qin Rumeng exchanged a glance and also began to laugh, feeling that this was indeed Qin Xiao's style.
"Alright, I'll be taking my leave first." Emperor Qinwu waved his sleeves and stood up to leave.
Just as he reached the palace gates, Qin Rushuang called out to him.
"Father, why did you pass the throne to Qin Xiao so easily?"
Her tone carried a sense of bewilderment.
This was a mystery she had pondered for a long time but could not unravel.
Her father was the Martial Emperor, whose martial arts were unparalleled in the world. How could he possibly abdicate the throne to Qin Xiao?
If Qin Xiao dared to harbor disloyal thoughts, her father could kill him as easily as flipping his hand.
Why did he abdicate?
Emperor Qinwu's body stiffened, and unpleasant memories flashed through his eyes.
"This is all part of my grand plan. Do not ask any more questions!"
His voice carried an unquestionable tone of command.
Then, he strode away quickly, almost as if he were fleeing.
That day was an immense humiliation for him!
He prided himself on being the foremost figure in the Great Qin, possessing the might of a Supreme Grandmaster.
Yet, as it turned out, he could not even last three rounds against Qin Xiao.
A trace of humiliation surfaced on the majestic face of Emperor Qinwu, and in that very instant, his eyes grew much clearer.
"Qin Xiao... he seems to have changed..."
But this thought vanished in a flash.
"No, it is impossible. He has been a coward since he was a child, always hovering around his family."
"This time, he was probably just emotionally agitated over the decree of his execution. By now, he is likely terrified and filled with regret."
A hint of mockery and disdain flashed through the depths of Emperor Qinwu's eyes.
"Yu'er is still the better one, far superior to Qin Xiao!"
.....
Watching Emperor Qinwu depart, the three of them exchanged glances.
"Mother, Qin Xiao has gone too far. I have decided to teach him a lesson!"
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."
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
lities. One day, Qi Yuan was buying groceries when he unfortunately came face-to-face with a monster. Just when he thought he was going to die on the spot, he suddenly heard the monster's thoughts... "This aura, he's definitely not an ordinary master!" "So terrifying, so terrifying." "A fight with my back against the wall, I can't take it anymore." Qi Yuan: Ah, no one told me that my awakened ability isn't telepathy, but rather the stronger my enemies imagine me to be, the stronger I truly become. PS: Zhou Hai in the first chapter is not the protagonist.
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
