"In the sect, everyone said he was my dog, a piece of trash who climbed up the ranks relying on my connections."
"But I told them he was my younger brother, my most trusted right-hand man."
At this point, the mockery in Lan Caidie's eyes grew even more intense; it was a ruthless dissection of her own past foolishness.
She crouched down, her fingertips tracing across Li Qingzhe's face, which was twisted in fear, before finally stopping on his bobbing Adam's apple.
"But alas... Young Master."
"An ingrate is an ingrate, no matter how much you feed them."
"He didn't just want to be treated as a human; he wanted to be the master. He even wanted to... ride on his master's head."
Lan Caidie's fingers applied a slight pressure, her long, slender nails piercing the skin of Li Qingzhe's neck until beads of blood seeped out.
"Three days ago, he said he had found a 'Seven-Star Begonia' and invited me to harvest it with him. I believed him."
"And the result?"
Lan Caidie's voice abruptly turned cold, carrying a chilling hostility—the monstrous hatred born from betrayal.
"There was no begonia at all. There was only a pre-arranged 'Spirit-Scattering Array' and a cup of spirit wine laced with 'Muscle-Softening Powder'!"
"Even at that moment, when all my spiritual energy had dissipated and I was paralyzed on the ground like a dead dog, I was still asking him why."
"Young Master, what do you think he said?"
She took a deep breath, her voice trembling and carrying a hint of a sob, yet remaining incomparably ruthless:
"He said... I shouldn't have been so good to him."
"He said that every time I rewarded him, it looked like charity to him; every time I protected him, it felt like humiliation!"
"He said he was sick of looking up to me, sick of being the shadow that could only stand behind the Holy Maiden."
"He said..."
Lan Caidie closed her eyes, and two lines of clear tears rolled down, dropping onto Li Qingzhe's contorted face.
"He said that only by turning me into a mindless, obedient puppet..."
"Only then would I truly belong to him forever. I would never look down on him again, and I would forever have to rely on him to live."
"How ridiculous..."
In the corner, Gu Yang listened to this melodramatic yet incredibly real tale of betrayal, his face as placid as an ancient well.
Give a bowl of rice and make a friend; give a bushel and make an enemy.
This kind of thing was far too common in the cultivation world.
Inferiority taken to the extreme often twisted into a sick sense of pride.
People like Li Qingzhe were typical rats in the gutter; they couldn't stand the sunlight, nor could they bear even the slightest bit of "charity."
Because the light was too bright and would scorch his moldy heart.
Lan Caidie opened her eyes.
In that instant, all her weakness, sentimentality, and tears were completely withdrawn.
Replacing them was the ruthlessness and decisiveness befitting the Holy Maiden of the Southern Frontier.
She stood up and raised her long, beautiful leg high into the air.
The crimson snake tattoo on her leg seemed to come alive in the dim light, flicking its tongue.
There was no flashy Gu magic.
Nor did she use any spiritual energy.
It was just the most primitive, most pure form of action—trampling.
"I am your master."
Lan Caidie's voice was bone-chillingly cold, like a judgment from the Nine Netherworlds.
"I was in the past, I am now, and in the future... you have no future."
"Squelch!"
That foot stomped down viciously.
It was the sound of a bare foot ruthlessly crushing a throat bone—crisp, muffled, and teeth-grindingly gruesome.
"Hrk... hrk..."
Li Qingzhe's eyes bulged, bloodshot and nearly popping out of their sockets.
His charred hands desperately gripped Lan Caidie's ankle in a final attempt to struggle.
But he could only open his mouth in despair, letting out a sound like a leaking bellows, mixed with the gurgling of blood bubbles.
Blood gushed wildly from his mouth and nose, staining Lan Caidie's snow-white jade foot red.
At this moment, the fear in his eyes finally froze.
Remaining within them was the last trace of regret from his life, and... a hint of a twisted sense of release.
...
Lan Caidie turned around to face Gu Yang.
Tear stains still hung on her stunningly beautiful face, while her foot was stained with warm blood. This extreme contrast gave her a breathtaking, bewitching beauty.
"Thud."
Lan Caidie dropped to her knees and kowtowed heavily to Gu Yang.
The sound of her forehead hitting the ground was exceptionally clear in the silent tomb.
"My great vengeance is exacted, and my inner demon is eradicated."
"From this day forth, Caidie's life belongs to you, Young Master."
Gu Yang looked at the woman kneeling before him.
A scorching hot figure, peerless looks, and a temperament... that could be considered decisive.
A pretty good seedling.
What a pity.
"What do I want your life for?"
Gu Yang's voice remained flat, betraying neither joy nor anger.
He turned around, picked up Li Qingzhe's storage bag from the ground, casually wiped away the spiritual sense imprint on it, and hung it at his own waist.
This was the spoils of war; it couldn't be wasted.
"I'm taking the storage bag. You can leave."
"We are even."
Gu Yang waved his hand, turning to walk out of the tomb.
Karma, it's all karma.
Right now, there was still a serendipitous encounter he needed to intercept.
He had to go.
He had to go quickly.
He left very decisively.
Without the slightest bit of lingering attachment, nor a shred of hesitation just because the other party was a peerless beauty.
Lan Caidie, kneeling on the ground, was stunned.
She snapped her head up, staring in disbelief at the fading gray silhouette.
Even?
How could they possibly be even?!
In the Southern Frontier, the grace of saving a life was greater than the heavens, let alone this kind of life-rebuilding grace.
She pressed her hand against her chest.
There, her heart was beating thump by thump in rhythm with that man's footsteps.
That was the bond of the Heart-Binding Gu, a resonance on the level of life itself.
Ever since she was betrayed by Li Qingzhe, her world had long since collapsed.
She no longer believed in anyone, no longer believed in so-called "feelings."
But this man before her.
He clearly possessed absolute power. He clearly could have easily turned her into his captive plaything, just as Li Qingzhe had intended.
But he didn't.
There was no greed in his eyes, no lust, only that kind of indifference that treated all things as straw dogs.
This "disregard," to Lan Caidie who had just experienced betrayal and objectification, was actually a fatal temptation.
He doesn't think much of me.
He disdains to use me.
This realization made an inexplicable sense of unwillingness surge in Lan Caidie's heart, along with a... crazy desire to be "looked favorably upon" by him.
"Young Master!"
Lan Caidie suddenly stood up, ignoring the blood beneath her feet, and stumbled after him.
"I'm not leaving!"
She rushed behind Gu Yang, wanting to reach out and pull his sleeve, but in the instant she was about to touch it, she retracted her hand as if afraid of profaning something.
"Young Master... Caidie has nowhere else to go."
Lan Caidie's voice carried a hint of a tremble, but her gaze was terrifyingly persistent.
"Li Qingzhe is dead; the Eastern Gu Sect will definitely investigate."
"Furthermore... furthermore, although Caidie's cultivation is low, I am proficient in Gu arts and also know a little about the charm arts of the Southern Frontier."
She bit her lower lip, took a step forward, and thrust out her proud chest, seeming to want to display her final worth.
"I can kill for you, scout the way for you, and even..."
Her voice lowered, a shameful yet resolute blush spreading across her cheeks.
"If Young Master needs it... Caidie's body is still clean."
Gu Yang stopped in his tracks.
He turned around, his gaze sweeping up and down Lan Caidie.
He had to admit, she was quite the stunner.
But Gu Yang merely frowned.
"Women will only slow down my blade."
With that said.
Gu Yang did not look back again. His figure flashed, and he disappeared into the depths of the gloomy corridor.
He left Lan Caidie all alone, standing blankly on the spot.
She had been rejected.
A complete, merciless rejection.
But strangely enough, Lan Caidie did not feel angry; instead... she began to smile.
Leaning against the cold wall, she felt the faint, gradually fading sensation of the heartbeat transmitted by the child Gu insect inside her body.
"Does he find me troublesome..."
"Young Master..."
"The more you act like this, the more Caidie... wants to tear out her heart to show you."
...
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
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.
agon king storylines. At the start, I obtained the "Ultimate Lackey System" - the more I act as a lackey, the stronger I become. What else could I do? I chose to become the personal henchman of the ultimate villain, Su Muwan. I provoke all sorts of chosen ones, snatch away their opportunities, and commit every evil deed imaginable. You ask who's behind me? Hmph! You're not worthy of knowing my lady's name! ...... ....... I am Su Muwan, the eldest daughter of the Su family. Since childhood, I've possessed extraordinary talent in martial arts, which led to my arrogant and domineering personality in my past life. I was even foolish enough to repeatedly challenge those favored by heaven, ultimately resulting in a tragic death. In this life, I must behave and absolutely cannot walk the same path again!! However... SLAP!! "So you're the Dragon King, huh?!" When I saw my little lackey swagger over and viciously slap the Dragon King who was hiding his identity, I felt my heart sink. Su Muwan's suspended heart finally died as she watched Qin Luo, her utterly loyal lackey, standing before her. She fainted on the spot from shock. Heaven is determined to destroy me!! (Pure love 1v1, light-hearted, no angst, single female lead, villain, reincarnation, lackey)
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
