Pei Dongcheng was about to pass out from anger. He turned to look at his daughter, who was holding the arm of that modified scooter punk: "Xiaoxue, are you crazy? This is the boyfriend you found? What is wrong with him? Aren't you usually with that Chen Zhi?"
You couldn't blame Pei Dongcheng for not recognizing him.
Chen Zhi's current look was just too shocking.
Let alone Pei Dongcheng, even if Chen Zhi's own mother Zhang Guifang came, she would have kicked him out.
Pei Ningxue tried hard to make her voice sound calm: "Dad, that was in middle school."
"Middle school?!"
Pei Dongcheng was so angry he almost couldn't catch his breath.
"You'd be better off with that Chen Zhi. What kind of thing is this Chen Hansheng?"
"I won't allow you to talk about him like that!"
Pei Dongcheng looked at Pei Ningxue, trying to awaken his daughter's reason: "Xiaoxue, of all the people Dad introduced to you, which one didn't graduate from an Ivy League school? Which one doesn't have a prominent family background? Even if you don't like those second-generation rich kids, what about that Chen Zhi who got the highest score in the provincial exam? Isn't the Chen Zhi you met in middle school better than him?"
"You cast aside a perfectly good top scholar, and insist on finding such a... such a..." Pei Dongcheng really couldn't find an adjective to describe the creature in front of him, "such a thing?"
Pei Ningxue raised her head, looking at her father with a firm gaze, and then cast a loving glance at Chen Zhi, who was still shaking his leg.
"Dad, you don't understand him."
Pei Ningxue took a deep breath, as if she had made a great resolution: "He is different from others."
Pei Dongcheng only felt his vision go dark, and his body swayed twice.
Pei Dongcheng held onto the armrest of the sofa and took a long time to catch his breath.
He stared at Pei Ningxue, his eyes turning cold and stern: "Good, good, good. Pei Ningxue, I'm putting my words right here today. If you dare to have any more contact with him today, don't ever think about getting a single penny from me in the future! If you want to go starve on the streets with him, I won't stop you!"
Chen Zhi took a step forward, blocking Pei Ningxue behind him.
"Old geezer, talking about money is tacky."
Pei Dongcheng sneered: "Not talk about money? What are you going to use to support her?"
Many young friends might ask at this point, hey streamer, what is a good gift to bring when meeting your father-in-law for the first time.
Some say it's best to cater to his tastes by bringing Feitian Moutai and two cartons of Chunghwa cigarettes, while others say bringing property deeds and car keys is the most prestigious.
But in Chen Zhi's eyes, these were all incredibly weak.
Chen Zhi reached into his pants pocket and dug around.
"How do you know I can't support Xiaoxue?"
Chen Zhi pulled out a few folded pieces of paper from his pocket.
He unfolded the papers on the coffee table and pushed them in front of Pei Dongcheng.
"Come on, Old geezer, let's test your eyesight."
Chen Zhi pointed at the three black-and-white ultrasound images, smiling brightly, "Here are three ultrasound reports. Guess which one is your grandson's?"
Pei Dongcheng froze.
Even Pei Ningxue behind him froze. She only asked Chen Zhi to come and cause trouble, she didn't tell him to bring this kind of prop!
Pei Dongcheng felt the blood vessels in his brain throbbing. He looked at the three reports in disbelief, and then looked at Pei Ningxue's flat stomach.
Seeing that Pei Dongcheng didn't speak, Chen Zhi thought he couldn't see clearly, and very considerately pulled one out from the middle and handed it right under Pei Dongcheng's nose.
"Here, this one is from today."
Chen Zhi grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, and said the words that would be enough to give any father a heart attack: "The remaining two are from the previous two times. Hahaha."
Pei Dongcheng felt like the sky was falling.
The previous two times?!
There were a fucking previous two times?!
Pei Dongcheng's face instantly turned totally red.
Pei Ningxue was now so shocked she couldn't speak. She stared wide-eyed at Chen Zhi, wondering if this script had gone off the rails.
Pei Dongcheng pointed at Chen Zhi, then at Pei Ningxue, his eyes practically bulging out of their sockets.
"You have no car and no house, what are you going to use to support my daughter?!"
"One of her dresses is enough to cost a year of your factory wages! What are you going to use to give her happiness?!"
Chen Zhi calmly pointed at the coffee table: "I have the ultrasound reports."
"My daughter is about to go to Peking University! She is the proud daughter of heaven! Do you think you have a future with her? Are you worthy of her?"
Chen Zhi, unhurried, reached into his pocket again.
This time, he pulled out a pregnancy test showing two red lines.
Chen Zhi slapped the pregnancy test on the coffee table, "I have this with her."
Pei Dongcheng looked at the pregnancy test, only feeling the world spinning.
He turned to look at Pei Ningxue, his eyes filled with despair: "Xiaoxue... you... how on earth did you two meet? How could you... how could you be so foolish!"
He didn't understand.
He truly didn't understand.
How could his daughter, who had been well-behaved and sensible since childhood, and even a bit aloof and arrogant, get involved with this kind of street hooligan? And even create a life?
And three times at that?!
Pei Ningxue was completely petrified at this point.
She looked at Chen Zhi, asking him with her eyes, Are you a devil?
This joke has gone too far, hasn't it?
Chen Zhi, however, was completely immersed in his character.
He looked up at the ceiling at a 45-degree angle, his eyes becoming deep and sorrowful, as if recalling an unforgettable past.
"That night, we were both drunk..."
Chen Zhi's tone became low and raspy, "In the private room of the KTV, the lights were dim. I only remember the nonsense words I said at the time, and the suppressed thoughts in my heart, frantically expressed..."
"That night, she was no longer the aloof rich young lady, and I was no longer the street punk looked down upon by others."
"We were just two lonely souls, under the influence of alcohol, colliding to create the spark of life..."
"Enough!!!"
This old father's fragile heart finally couldn't take it anymore.
His eyes rolled back, and his body fell straight backward.
"Lao Pei!" Liu Yi screamed.
"Dad!" Pei Ningxue was also startled, truly panicking now, and hurriedly rushed over.
Seeing this situation, Chen Zhi's heart also skipped a beat.
Holy crap, I overdid it!
The task progress should be maxed out by now. If I stay any longer, when this Old geezer wakes up, he'll probably call the police to arrest me.
"Um... I see that my father-in-law might need some rest, so I won't disturb him."
Chen Zhi muttered softly while backing away, "What Chen Hansheng did shouldn't have anything to do with me, Chen Zhi, right?"
Of the thirty-six stratagems, fleeing is the best.
Chen Zhi turned around and ran. He rushed out of the villa gate and straddled that colorful modified scooter.
If not running now, then when?
If he waited for Pei Dongcheng to wake up and call the police, and his alias of Chen Hansheng was blown, he would be doomed.
Chen Zhi frantically turned the key and started the scooter.
"Vroom—"
The engine sound of the modified scooter once again echoed through the villa area.
Right at this moment, in the living room, under the joint rescue efforts of Liu Yi and Pei Ningxue, Pei Dongcheng slowly woke up.
He groggily opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw was his daughter's anxious face.
"Xiaoxue..." Pei Dongcheng called out weakly, "Break it off with that hooligan, you must break it off..."
Before his voice died away.
A burst of dynamic DJ music suddenly came from outside the door.
That was the speaker that Chen Zhi had forgotten to turn off in his frantic rush to escape.
"Girl~ for you I dare not slack off~"
"No matter how tired, I still put on a disguise~"
Pei Dongcheng had barely caught his breath before it hitched in his throat once again.
The image of that pompadour with the drawn-on third eye, along with the pregnancy test showing two distinct lines, flashed through his mind once more.
Pei Dongcheng's head lolled to the side, and he passed out yet again.
"Dad!!!"
"Lao Pei!!!"
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.
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.”
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
nto another world, I bought a slave for the first time, never expecting the silver wolf girl to be so cute... Lin Feng: I know it's cold, but you don't have to sneak into my bed! Yuna: Just sharing body warmth, if you dare do anything naughty, I'll definitely...
