Qin Rumeng's eyes blazed with towering anger, her chest heaving heavily.
"Qin Xiao, even if you kneel and apologize, I will absolutely never forgive you!"
"Today, I will punish you severely!"
With that said, she lashed the purple whip right at Qin Xiao's face!
Qin Xiao neither hid nor dodged, allowing the long purple whip to strike him.
There was even a faint, mocking smile on his face.
That smile inexplicably made Qin Rumeng's blood run cold.
Crack!
Qin Xiao grabbed the long whip with one hand and gave it a vicious pull!
Qin Rumeng was jerked forward, stumbling right toward him!
Then, Qin Xiao took a half-step back and gathered strength in his fist!
Bang!
He punched Qin Rumeng squarely in the abdomen!
Qin Rumeng let out a miserable shriek. Clutching her stomach, her body flew through the air in an arc before crashing heavily onto the ground!
"Pfft..."
She spewed a large mouthful of blood, dyeing her robes red. Her face turned deathly pale; clearly, she was severely injured!
"I need your forgiveness? What the hell do you think you are!"
Qin Xiao looked down condescendingly at Qin Rumeng on the ground.
His cold, stern face revealed a playful smile.
Lying on the ground and spitting blood, Qin Rumeng met Qin Xiao's gaze and completely froze, as if forgetting the pain in her body.
How dare he!
How dare Qin Xiao hit her!
Normally, she was the only one who got to bully Qin Xiao.
Whip after whip, she would lash Qin Xiao until he was forced to admit his mistakes and apologize.
Even if she was in the wrong, even if she was being unreasonable, she would still whip him to vent her anger.
But now?
How had everything completely changed!
Meeting his gaze, Qin Rumeng felt that his eyes were incredibly unfamiliar.
It seemed... he lacked the usual caution he had when facing her, as well as the bond of familial affection...
"Argh!"
The physical pain quickly swept through her entire body.
Qin Rumeng groaned in agony, her eyes brimming with fury.
She looked at Qin Xiao in disbelief, wanting to see a hint of guilt or remorse in his eyes.
Unfortunately... there was none!
Qin Xiao's gaze remained ice-cold, completely undisturbed.
It was as if he were looking at a dog, a stray dog that had lost its home.
This version of Qin Xiao made her heart tremble.
It felt as though she was about to lose her most precious possession.
To cover up the unease in her heart.
"Qin Xiao!"
She roared hysterically, her voice hoarse.
"I am your older sister! How dare you hit me!"
"A wild dog like you deserved to be abandoned by our mother! You deserved to fight for food with stray dogs and beggars!"
"We never should have recognized you and brought you back. You only deserve to be left outside to fend for yourself and die!"
With red eyes, she screamed and cursed at Qin Xiao with all her might.
Expressionless, Qin Xiao cracked his wrists, bent down slightly, and grabbed Qin Rumeng by her hair.
"Screw you!"
He raised his hand and, with a loud smack, viciously slapped Qin Rumeng across the face.
Qin Rumeng's cheek immediately swelled up red, five finger marks clearly visible.
"You think I wanted to come back? What a load of bullshit!"
"I conquered this Great Qin empire myself! If it weren't for me, you'd fucking still be the princess of a fallen nation!"
"Anyone else can disrespect me! But when you see me, you must speak to me with your head bowed!"
With one hand gripping Qin Rumeng's hair, Qin Xiao used his other hand to wildly slap her across the mouth!
"If you don't know how to speak, I will teach you!"
Smack! Smack! Smack!
Qin Xiao moved so fast that his swings practically generated gusts of wind. After several heavy slaps, Qin Rumeng's head instantly swelled up, and blood seeped from the corners of her mouth.
Qin Rumeng struggled painfully, trying to break free from Qin Xiao's iron grip.
Unfortunately, her struggles were futile.
Qin Xiao kept hitting and hitting, slapping Qin Rumeng until she saw stars and her head spun.
"Pfft!"
A mouthful of blood sprayed out.
Teeth fell to the ground along with the blood.
Beaten until she vomited blood, Qin Rumeng let out whimpering sounds.
"Wu wu wu..."
A line of humiliating, clear tears slid from the corner of her eyes.
One tooth, two teeth, eight teeth...
Until every single tooth in her mouth had been knocked out!
Qin Rumeng's mouth swelled up enormously, turning into sausage lips.
She passed out, only to be slapped awake no less than ten times.
The more Qin Xiao slapped her, the better he felt.
He simply couldn't stop.
Fam, who gets it!
Who wants to play some regret game with you?
Isn't it incredibly satisfying to just throw hands directly?
Off to the side.
Jia Xu, Lu Fengxian, and the others watched, absolutely dumbfounded.
"I ran through many scenarios... His Majesty might have apologized, or used some compromise, but I never expected His Majesty to just directly attack her!"
Jia Xu clutched his frightened little heart, a look of utter shock on his face.
The crowd nodded in unison, swallowing hard.
Seeing such a crazed scene of Qin Xiao, Lu Fengxian imagined himself being beaten by Qin Xiao like that, and immediately broke out in a cold sweat.
"Brutal! Too brutal!"
"Looks like I can't spar with His Majesty anymore. I definitely don't want to get beaten like that!"
Smack! Smack! Smack!
The sound of slapping was endless; Qin Rumeng was already on the verge of death.
Blood constantly flowed from her mouth and nose, leaving her as wretched and pathetic as a dead dog.
Right at this moment.
"Qin Xiao, you unfilial son, stop right now!"
Empress Dowager Wen rushed over with a group of people.
When she saw her daughter's miserable state, she instantly flew into a rage, striding forward to help Qin Rumeng up.
"Second Sister!"
Wrapped in thick blankets, Qin Rushuang endured the ravages of the cold poison in her body. Looking at Qin Rumeng's sausage lips, she stood completely frozen in place.
Was this still her second sister?
She was beaten so badly she hardly looked human.
She looked exactly like a platypus.
"Second Sister, what happened to you? How did you end up like this?"
Qin Rushuang looked at her second sister in disbelief.
"Wu wu wu..."
A whimpering sound came from Qin Rumeng's throat.
Qin Rumeng wanted to speak, but because all her teeth had been knocked out, she couldn't utter a single word.
Seeing her second sister's tragic appearance, a surge of grief and indignation welled up in Qin Rushuang's heart. She turned her head and glared deathly at Qin Xiao.
"You really are a menace! You've only been back in the capital for a few days, and you've already thrown our home into chaos!"
"A person like you doesn't deserve our forgiveness!"
Remembering her third sister being beaten into a pig's head, and her second sister being beaten into a platypus, the fury in her heart burned fiercely.
If the commotion here hadn't prompted the servants to report it, her second sister probably would have been beaten to death!
"Qin Xiao, weren't you just asked to kneel and apologize? How dare you hit your older sister!"
"Exactly!" Empress Dowager Wen also stepped forward, sizing up Qin Xiao with eyes full of disgust.
"Qin Xiao, you aren't even half as sensible as Yu'er. Not only did you force your imperial father to abdicate, but you also brutally beat your own sister!"
"If we had known you had such a despicable character back then, we should have strangled you in your cradle!"
"Hurry up and crawl over here to kowtow and apologize to your second sister!"
The sharp roar echoed.
Qin Rumeng stared at Qin Xiao with venomous eyes, pointing her finger at him while babbling incoherently.
It was as if she were saying: Now that Big Sister and Mother are here, I'm not afraid of you anymore!
Qin Xiao walked step by step toward Empress Dowager Wen.
That originally cold heart couldn't help but twitch slightly at this moment.
"Original host, this is the family you risked your life to protect... How truly ridiculous!"
"It's better to have no family at all than to have a family like this!"
He clutched his chest, enduring the agonizing, heart-rending pain as his eyes gradually turned crimson.
Behind him, a group of soldiers clenched their teeth, consumed by unbridled fury.
How dare they treat the Great General like this!
However, the Great Qin Empire prized filial piety above all else.
No matter what, Empress Dowager Wen was still Qin Xiao's mother.
They could not intervene.
Seeing Qin Xiao approach, the corners of Empress Dowager Wen's lips curled into a faint, contemptuous sneer.
See?
Qin Xiao still obeyed her.
After all, she was Qin Xiao's mother.
The Great Qin governed the nation through filial piety.
Would Qin Xiao dare to be unfilial to her?
She harbored a twisted kind of feeling toward Qin Xiao.
He was the child she had carried for ten months, yet she felt not a single shred of maternal love for him.
Instead, she showed every possible care and consideration to Qin Yu, an adopted child.
She hated Qin Xiao!
She hated him for tormenting her during his birth, causing a difficult labor and severe hemorrhage that left her barren for the rest of her life.
Making her despised by her own husband!
A hen that could not lay eggs.
Even though she was the Empress Dowager, the supreme phoenix of the world, this remained a thorn buried deep in her heart, one that could never be pulled out!
Back then, she had personally taken Qin Xiao to the countryside and watched with her own eyes as the wet nurse swapped her own child with Qin Xiao, yet she kept it a secret from everyone.
She even treated Qin Yu as her own flesh and blood.
Everything she did was to leave Qin Xiao to rot in the mud!
In this family, her status was extremely low; only when facing Qin Xiao did she possess an air of superiority.
Because of this, her sick and twisted mentality only worsened.
"Qin Xiao, cripple one of your arms as an apology to your older sister. Otherwise, Mother will never forgive you in this lifetime!"
"You are the younger brother, and you must respect your older sister. If you were as sensible as Yu'er, Mother would not be punishing you today."
"Mother is punishing you, but it is all for your own good!"
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!
] [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!"
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.
