On the left stood a hundred thousand Great Snow Dragon Cavalry. Their silver-white armor reflected a cold, piercing gleam in the sunlight, exuding an imposing aura!
On the right were rows upon rows of Iron Pagoda heavy cavalry. The densely packed mass looked like a black cloud threatening to swallow the city, striking fear into the hearts of all who saw them!
"This... how is this possible?!"
Wu Yan'er stared at the scene in sheer disbelief!
Such an elite force, and heavy cavalry at that, had actually submitted to Qin Xiao!
She was not the only one shocked.
All the civil and military officials of the Great Qin Dynasty stood frozen in place.
Their mouths were wide open, jaws practically hitting the floor!
"So that's it! So that's how it is!"
Cai Kun trembled all over, his mind buzzing and exploding with realization!
A whole series of events suddenly made perfect sense to him!
"It would be child's play for His Majesty to slaughter this five-hundred-thousand-strong army!"
"The only reason he brought the families of these five hundred thousand soldiers here was simply to give them one last chance."
At this moment, an old official spoke up with a trembling voice, "What if the five hundred thousand soldiers had insisted on rebelling against His Majesty?"
Cai Kun's face turned deathly pale. Shivering uncontrollably, he looked at the five-hundred-thousand-strong army as if he were looking at a pile of corpses.
"Given His Majesty's temperament, I'm afraid rivers of blood would flow, and the fields would be strewn with corpses!"
These words sent a chill down everyone's spine, making their blood run cold!
Their eyes were filled with absolute terror!
So that was the truth!
They had been kept in the dark by Qin Xiao this entire time!
Qin Xiao had never compromised.
He had merely handed the choice of survival over to them.
Submit, and live.
Betray, and die!
Beneath the city walls, a collective tremor ran through the hearts of the five hundred thousand soldiers!
"So we were all wrong."
"His Majesty could have easily slaughtered us all! He didn't need to use our parents as leverage at all."
"Thank goodness we surrendered early, otherwise we would have definitely been trampled into mush by this heavy cavalry!"
"His Majesty gave us a chance to repent, we must remain absolutely loyal to him!"
....
The five hundred thousand soldiers looked up at the figure towering like a majestic mountain.
Sunlight fell upon Qin Xiao's dark dragon robe, refracting a dazzling brilliance. It was as if he were draped in a sacred cloak, exuding an awe-inspiring, domineering presence!
At this moment, a profound sense of reverence welled up in the hearts of everyone present!
The gazes they directed at Qin Xiao were fervent and full of worship!
Only an emperor like this could lead them to unify the world and establish an immortal hegemony!
Qin Xiao hadn't expected that merely having his cavalry make an appearance would completely win over their hearts.
However, one person alone descended into complete madness!
"No! Impossible!"
Qin Yu roared in agony.
He knelt on the ground, his hair disheveled, desperately pounding his fists against the earth.
Punch after punch, until his knuckles were a bloody mess.
"No! How could this happen!"
"How could Qin Xiao possibly have so many heavy cavalrymen!"
"Then what was the point of my rebellion? I am nothing but a joke! The biggest joke of all!"
"Hahaha!"
Qin Yu suddenly threw his head back and burst into maniacal laughter!
His smile was so hideous and twisted that it made one's hair stand on end!
All his hopes were thoroughly shattered!
Everything he possessed, everything he had poured all his effort into obtaining, had been effortlessly crushed into dust by Qin Xiao!
His struggles made him look like a mere clown, leaving him with no dignity left in front of Qin Xiao!
At this time, Cai Suwan also came to her senses. Seeing the crazed Qin Yu, she knew his momentum was completely gone.
The true ruler now was still Qin Xiao.
In an instant, she knew exactly what she had to do.
"Brother Qin Xiao, I'm sorry. I only feigned surrender to Qin Yu just now in order to protect you."
Cai Suwan's eyes were misty with tears, her watery gaze brimming with sorrow. She looked so pitiful and delicate that one couldn't help but want to cradle her in their hands and cherish her.
She threw herself toward Qin Xiao, attempting to use her most vulnerable side to win his forgiveness.
"Heh!" Qin Xiao sneered coldly. He raised his hand and firmly clamped his fingers around Cai Suwan's throat.
"How much longer are you going to keep up this act? Do you really think I am as foolish as that idiot Qin Yu?"
His five fingers closed together, applying slight pressure.
"Urgh!"
Cai Suwan's toes left the ground as Qin Xiao lifted her entirely with one hand. Her face flushed red, and the veins on her forehead bulged.
"Brother Qin Xiao, I didn't do anything wrong. Why are you treating me like this?"
"I did everything for you."
"Have you forgotten the days we spent together?"
Qin Xiao's words made her gaze dart away, a guilty conscience gnawing at her heart.
"If you kill me, who else in this world will love you as much as I do!"
Qin Xiao was utterly dismissive.
"I am the Emperor. I do not need a woman's love! Because any woman I set my sights on will enter my harem."
Qin Xiao scoffed at romantic love. Moreover, with his exceptionally high standards, how could he possibly stoop to chasing after a woman?
As the grip on her neck tightened continuously.
Cai Suwan's throat constricted. Blood trickled from the corner of her mouth, and her vision began to darken in waves.
Her heart shattered into pieces.
As it turned out, in front of Qin Xiao, she was nothing but a clown!
She had actually thought Qin Xiao was hopelessly in love with her.
"Father! Save... save me..."
Cai Suwan looked toward Cai Kun.
Hoping that her Prime Minister father would put in a good word for her.
Hearing this, Cai Kun subconsciously looked at Qin Xiao.
The moment their eyes met.
Thud.
Cai Kun dropped to his knees, burying his head firmly against the ground.
"Your Majesty, this girl is merely my adopted daughter. I signed a severance of kinship agreement with her a long time ago. Even if you were to decree the execution of her nine familial generations, it wouldn't involve me!"
Before Qin Xiao could even open his mouth, Cai Kun had already slid to his knees to beg for mercy.
Everyone present was dumbfounded!
Damn, he dropped to his knees way too fast!
And his posture was so textbook perfect.
Furthermore, his words instantly removed his entire extended family from the line of fire.
Qin Xiao looked down at Cai Kun as memories regarding the man scrolled through his mind.
Cai Kun, the Great Qin's most colossal corrupt official. He was a man who dared to mix sand into disaster relief porridge. A veteran minister of three reigns, it was rumored he was infertile.
In order to continue the Cai family bloodline, he had outright adopted one hundred and eight daughters.
He only recruited live-in sons-in-law.
And for every single daughter, he had them sign a severance of kinship agreement in advance.
Seriously, isn't this playing it a bit too safe?
Qin Xiao was somewhat speechless.
It was as if this Cai Kun had perfectly dodged every single guaranteed-death flag.
"Very well. However, since she is a daughter you raised after all, I shall give you a minor punishment as a major warning. You are fined one hundred million taels of silver."
Cai Kun's breath hitched. His face contorted with the pain of parting with his wealth, and he wanted to refuse Qin Xiao.
But the moment he saw Qin Xiao's eyes, they seemed to be saying: If you dare refuse, I will execute your nine generations.
Cai Kun forcefully swallowed back the words that were about to burst from his mouth.
He wanted to cry but had no tears left.
As for Cai Suwan, she was already dumbstruck.
"No! Don't! Don't kill me..."
She begged desperately for mercy, her legs kicking wildly.
However, Qin Xiao possessed absolutely no tender feelings for the fairer sex.
With a forceful twist of his hand, a sharp crack echoed, and Cai Suwan's neck was brutally snapped!
Her eyes stared wide open, her face deathly pale, and her lips turned a dark purple.
Qin Xiao casually flicked his wrist, sending Cai Suwan's corpse flying several meters away before it crashed heavily onto the ground.
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."
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
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.
