Liu Dewang opened the wooden box and took out the check inside.
"Wu Butler, take this check. You have served me diligently for over twenty years. It's time for you to leave this family and live your own life."
Instead of taking the check, the butler bowed deeply to Liu Dewang.
"You saved my life, and for over twenty years I have been repaying you for that kindness. I have no regrets. I won't take the money, as I have earned plenty from investing with you over the years. Take care, sir."
Wu Butler knew that his master was in peril and wanted him to go on living.
Though loyal, when faced with death, he chose to live.
"Hahaha, old Wu, you're still the same man I knew all those years ago. Go on, go ahead," Liu Dewang waved his hand, feeling a fleeting moment of nostalgia for his youth.
But times had changed, new replacing old, and those days were gone forever.
Yan Dongxu left and used his phone to locate Yuehe Hotel, then teleported there instantly with his spatial superpowers.
He arrived on the hotel's rooftop and used his spatial abilities to search for Liu Xinyu.
Soon, he located the car she was in on the street below.
In an instant, he appeared inside the vehicle.
The two men beside her were startled and about to attack him.
But in the blink of an eye, they found themselves in a nearby cafe instead.
Seeing that Liu Xinyu was only unconscious, Yan Dongxu carried her away and appeared in an empty hotel room.
"Sleep for now, you're safe here. No one will harm you," he muttered to the unconscious woman.
His gaze then turned icy cold as he teleported into the presidential suite at Yuehe Hotel.
The iron-faced gentleman, Bei Xiao, had not arrived yet, so Yan Dongxu opened a bottle of red wine and waited on the couch.
He called Ye Qingya, who answered quickly.
"What's the busy person doing calling me?" she said.
"I'm in the capital. Send me the information on The iron-faced gentleman, Bei Xiao."
"Sure!"
Before Ye Qingya could even finish, Yan Dongxu had already received the information - her speed was incredible.
"You're not surveilling me, are you?" he asked.
"Of course not! Why don't you trust my integrity?" Ye Qingya laughed.
"I trust you."
"That's good. Since you're in the capital, I should play the gracious host. When you have time, let me take you out for a meal."
"Mmm, after I finish my business. Goodbye for now."
"Wait! Need any help?" Ye Qingya asked.
"You already helped by giving me his information. That's enough. Bye."
Hanging up, he examined the file on Bei Xiao.
"Superpowers... beast transformation... werewolf?"
He had encountered beast transformation abilities before, like Violent Ape Gu Bei.
Their destructive power was extraordinarily fearsome.
According to Zhou Quan, such abilities came from possession by demons and monsters.
He suddenly realized that his brother Zhou Quan was also in the capital.
Zhou Quan was an expert on dealing with that type of ability.
He called Zhou Quan, who was tutoring his child in math.
"Your grades were so poor, yet you're tutoring a kid? Aren't you worried about teaching him the wrong things?" Yan Dongxu joked.
"Hah, look who's talking! Maybe I can't teach other subjects, but I can definitely teach addition. Don't underestimate me - my son already knows how to add and subtract," Zhou Quan bragged proudly.
"Is that right? His intelligence must come from his mother's side then," Yan Dongxu teased.
He was about to get to the main point when Zhou Quan insisted on showing off his son's math skills.
"Come on, let me show you. Tell your godfather what one plus one equals!"
Yan Dongxu's eyelid twitched - that kind of question counted as a demonstration?
"Four!" the child answered.
Yan Dongxu was speechless. "There you have it, I don't think my godson will turn out to be a genius. Don't push him too hard."
Embarrassed, Zhou Quan changed the subject. "You haven't called me for days. What's going on, did the sun rise from the west today?"
"I'm in the capital, about to make a move against The iron-faced gentleman, Bei Xiao. Want to come give me a hand?"
"What the hell! Why didn't you tell me about something so major sooner? Hurry up and come get me! I'll send you my location!"
"No need, I'll handle it myself. Don't worry, I'll be fine. If I can't win, I'll just run!" Yan Dongxu didn't want to put Zhou Quan at risk, now that he had a child.
"Stop talking nonsense, just give me the location. If you keep stalling, I'll have to cut ties with you."
Touched, Yan Dongxu gave Zhou Quan his location at the presidential suite of Yuehe Hotel.
He decided to never involve Zhou Quan in something like this again if he could help it.
Footsteps approached from the hallway outside.
Using his spatial power, Yan Dongxu saw a provocatively dressed woman walking arm-in-arm with Bei Xiao toward the room.
He considered teleporting away to wait for Zhou Quan, but was stunned to find the entire room sealed off by a black energy barrier, trapping him inside.
Worse, he had not detected it at all before.
"No need to leave when you just arrived," The iron-faced gentleman, Bei Xiao said as he entered, smiling.
Yan Dongxu felt a chill - the other man knew he was there!
"Bei Xiao! You did this?" he asked coldly.
"Hahaha, he doesn't have that kind of power. I'm the one who did it," the alluring woman laughed.
Yan Dongxu's pupils contracted in shock. He thought this woman was just Bei Xiao's girlfriend, but she was actually a formidable supernatural too.
"My lady, Coffin Master, you two talk. I'll step out," Bei Xiao said respectfully with a bow before leaving.
Coffin Master?!
Yan Dongxu was stunned. This stylishly dressed person was one of the three Coffin Masters of the Death Coffin?
"So surprised I'm a Coffin Master?" the woman asked, smiling.
"Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Cheng Xin, only five years older than you. But I've killed far more people."
Cheng Xin walked over and poured herself a glass of the red wine.
"Ah, this wine has breathed nicely - perfect flavor." She sat beside him on the couch, her pale arm draped around his neck as she gazed into his eyes.
Yan Dongxu tried to break free, but his body was bound by the black energy, immobilizing him.
So this was the power of a Coffin Master? Terrifying!
"What do you want?" he demanded.
"What do I want? Aren't you satisfied with the gift I gave you? I had to go against many objections to secure the final position among The Ten Generals for you. Don't you owe me some gratitude?"
Cheng Xin inhaled Yan Dongxu's scent like a bloodthirsty beast savoring its prey, sending a chill down his spine.
Heart] Chen Yi traversed the cultivation world for eight hundred years, charging his way to the Tribulation Transcendence stage. Just as he was outwitting his 81st Heavenly Tribulation to ascend to immortality, he was suddenly pulled into a chat group called the "Multiverse Transmigrators Support Group." To his surprise, the group was filled with nothing but fresh-faced newbies who had just transmigrated. [Help! I transmigrated into a disgraced concubine in the cold palace, and the tyrant emperor is about to execute me!] [I ended up as a cannon-fodder villain, and the protagonist is still chasing me—WTF!] [I woke up as the protagonist’s father, but I’m about to be sacrificed in a ritual! What do I do? Urgent!!!] Chen Yi stared at the chaotic flood of desperate pleas in the group and fell into deep thought. "Seriously? You drag me into a newbie transmigrator chat group… only after I’m one step away from becoming an immortal?"
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
] This is a dark fantasy-themed dating simulation game. The main gameplay involves containing various monster girls and investigating the truth of a world shrouded in mist alongside your companions. However, due to his love for the dark and bizarre atmosphere, Luo Wei ended up turning a dating game into a detective mystery game. Women? Women only slow down his quickdraw! To Luo Wei, the female leads in the game are more like tools to perfectly clear levels and squeeze out rewards. For Luo Wei, flirting with every girl he meets and then discarding them is standard procedure. Worried about characters losing affection points? No need. With his maxed-out charm stat, Luo Wei is practically a "human incubus." A little psychological manipulation and those points come right back. It's a bit scummy, but the paper cutout heroines in the game won't actually come at him with real cleavers. However... Luo Wei has transmigrated. He's accidentally entered the second playthrough of this game. His past actions have caused all the girls to transform into terrifying yanderes. Due to the game's setting, most of the heroines he once contained are "troubled girls." Obsessive, twisted, mentally unstable, all aggressive yanderes... The type who will kill you if they can't have you... Luo Wei wants to cry but has no tears left. "I really just want to survive..." In short, this is a story of battling wits and engaging in a love-hate relationship with yanderes.
Cheng's father told him he was getting remarried—to a wealthy woman. Cao Cheng realized his time had finally come: he was about to become a second-generation rich kid. Sure, it might be a watered-down version, but hey, at least he'd have status now, right? The wealthy woman also had four daughters!! Which meant, starting today, Cao Cheng gained four stunning older sisters?? But that wasn't even the whole story... "My name is Cao Cheng—'Cheng' as in 'honest, smooth-talking gentleman'!"
