Xu Da snatched the bag, pouring out the bits of silver in his palm and weighing them. He was clearly dissatisfied, but he had no time to dwell on it. He turned and left, then took two steps before looking back.
"My good daughter, if you ask me, you should find a way to trick that silly girl out of all her money. When that's done, your father can come live with you."
Xu Xiaocao said nothing, but Xu Da's words kept echoing in her mind.
Yeah, why did Xu Xiaoya get to live so well? She must have been up to something shady! When Xu Xiaocao had asked her what exactly she had done for the Huang family, she just looked mysterious and refused to say a thing.
Xu Xiaocao's eyes gradually turned ruthless.
She needed money too!
She slipped through the door, deep in thought. Just as she was about to go upstairs, she heard something hit the floor. It startled her. When she focused, she saw the boy with the broken leg sitting in the corner, staring at her, his face full of panic.
Had he seen her go out? Had he seen her give the money to Xu Da?
No, he couldn't walk. He must not have seen anything.
But what if he told Xu Xiaoya about her sneaking out? What if Xu Xiaoya started to suspect her? If it were her, she would definitely kick Xu Xiaoya out...
She stared blankly at the boy, then suddenly walked over.
The boy, thinking he was about to be beaten again, curled up and covered his head.
"Don't worry, big sister isn't going to hit you today. I'll take you out to buy some treats..." Xu Xiaoca squeezed out a stiff smile.
The next morning at breakfast, Xu Xiaoya noticed someone was missing. She asked around, but none of the children had seen their companion.
"He probably ran off. Don't worry, sister. I'll go look for him later," Xu Xiaocao said, her face relaxed.
"His leg is broken. How could he run? Is he trapped somewhere?" Xu Xiaoya wanted to search the house. These children had suffered enough already.
But a shout from outside stopped her in her tracks.
"A child drowned in the river! Come see whose it is! Get him fished out!"
The voice carried no emotion—floating a few dead bodies in the river was all too common.
Xu Xiaoya was terrified and dashed outside. Xu Xiaocao curled her lips and followed behind.
To bury the child, Xu Xiaoya spent a fair amount of money and even bought him a thin coffin. A neighbor said that someone who drowned needed to lie in state for a day before burial. Xu Xiaoya listened and hired people to carry the coffin into the yard. She sat there, dazed, keeping vigil.
Xu Xiaocao frowned. "Sister, this is so unlucky!"
"I brought them out... and now he's dead..." Xu Xiaoya murmured.
"It just wasn't his fate. He probably jumped into the river because he didn't want to be a burden to you," Xu Xiaocao said.
Xu Xiaoya suddenly turned to her. "No, that can't be. When those beggars tormented him, he never tried to kill himself..."
Xu Xiaocoa felt uneasy under her gaze. She hadn't bothered to ask about the children's backgrounds—she just saw them as invaders on her turf.
Luckily, Xu Xiaoya quickly turned back and stared straight at the coffin.
"Could it be that the beggars' gang came back for revenge?" she muttered. "Because Gousheng killed one of their own, they came for revenge..."
Xu Xiaocoa's heart leaped. Fang Zhiyi had killed someone???
Night slowly fell. She urged Xu Xiaoya to go to sleep, but Xu Xiaoya wouldn't listen. To keep up appearances, Xu Xiaocao had to lean against the wall and pretend to doze, her mind full of resentment—but mostly guilt.
After all, no one wanted to spend the night with a dead person she had drowned herself.
Luckily, Xu Xiaoya told her to go to bed. After a bit of fake protest, she went.
Xu Xiaoya glanced back, slowly reached her hand toward the bell Fang Zhiyi had left her, and lightly tapped it with two fingers. A tall, dark figure shot out from the bell.
Looking at the face she once feared, Xu Xiaoya said, "Do you know why this happened? I was trying to help him..."
Gao Mingzhi couldn't understand her words and had no thoughts. It only knew that this person could control it. But when it turned, it saw the coffin and reached inside.
"What are you doing?"
Xu Xiaoya was shocked. She had forgotten that the dark soul’s instinct was to feed. She had summoned Gao Mingzhi just to talk, but now it started devouring the child’s soul!
Just as she was about to forcibly recall Gao Mingzhi, her gaze froze.
"Big sister going to take you to buy some treats."
A girl was struggling to carry a boy with both legs broken. Her face bore a nearly twisted smile, making her look like a madwoman. The boy was too terrified to move. When the girl reached the river, she suddenly threw him in. The boy thrashed desperately, but she knelt by the bank and pressed his head down firmly...
Gao Mingzhi patted its chest contentedly, clearly satisfied with its meal.
As it consumed the child's soul, Xu Xiaoya saw in her mind the truth of his death.
"Why... Xiaocao wouldn't do this..."
Gao Mingzhi still said nothing. Full, it stood quietly, waiting for orders.
The next few days passed as usual. Xu Xiaoya seemed to give up on finding Fang Zhiyi and instead focused on the disabled children's daily needs. The Huang family’s gratitude gift was enough to support them for a long time.
To keep her deeds from being exposed, Xu Xiaocao often volunteered to care for the children, then turned around to threaten and intimidate them. The children, already traumatized by the beggars, cowered whenever they saw her and dared not say a word.
Xu Da came to ask for money a few more times, each time greedier than the last.
Xu Xiaocao played the dutiful daughter.
Finally, when Xu Da complained about only getting some small bits of silver, she suggested he sneak in at night.
"Xu Xiaoya has a lot of money. I can't handle it alone. How about you come with me, Father..."
Xu Da hesitated only a moment before Xu Xiaocao’s persuasion won him over. He nodded on the spot.
That night, he came to the courtyard door. He gave one cough, and the door creaked open. Behind it, Xu Xiaocoa looked both excited and nervous.
They went upstairs, one after the other.
"Father, she's inside."
Xu Da nodded, having no suspicion of his daughter. He tiptoed in through the door.
The person on the bed was sleeping soundly, steady breaths making him nervous. But when he saw the small chest on the cabinet, greed surged in his heart.
Just as he turned to urge his daughter for help, he saw Xu Xiaoca’s eerie smile. It made him freeze.
"You..."
"Thief!!! A thief!!!"
Xu Da's scalp went numb. What the hell was happening?
lan, the Luo family, tracked him down - along with the babies in their arms. Mo Xuan stared pensively at the paternity test results from over a dozen top institutions, both domestic and international, showing a 99.99% match between himself and the two baby girls. At 23, Mo Xuan, a doctoral student, had become the father of two three-year-old children. The kicker? The mothers weren't even the same person! He gradually realized he was being lured step by step into an elaborate trap designed by these two yandere sisters. "Be good, little Xuan. Sister's life belongs to you entirely." "Brother, if you try to run away, I'll have no choice but to tie you up." Mo Xuan: "Do whatever you want, ladies. I give up."
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
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!
