"So you're saying that even as the top leader, I still have to do the grunt work myself?" Fang Zhiyi clicked his tongue, his face etched with utter despair.
Little Hei stayed close by his side: "Count your blessings. Haven't you noticed I've been kicked out too?" It paused, then added, "And what kind of top leader are you anyway? The real power right now is in Yue Anyao's hands."
The two exchanged a glance and let out a synchronized sigh.
"It's all your fault—that ridiculous idea you came up with back then! And now we've ended up stuck with this mess for no good reason."
"Bah! Without that approach, would you ever have beaten that 'father' of yours?"
"Whose father? I'm just something derived from that thing!"
"You—"
Suddenly, a timid voice interrupted them.
"Um, you two leaders, are you done arguing?"
Fang Zhiyi turned around and saw a mini version of Little Hei, nervously hopping in place.
"Uh, Boss Yue said that this world needs to be resolved perfectly. If you're done arguing, maybe you could get down to business..."
Fang Zhiyi and Little Hei exchanged another glance.
"What's going on?"
"Well… how about you check out the storyline first?" Mini Little Black opened its mouth, and a tentacle pulled out a faint, glowing orb from its throat.
"See? The little pieces you split off from yourself are just as disrespectful as you are."
"Hey, I used to throw things straight into your head back then!"
Even as they bickered, Fang Zhiyi still reached out toward the glowing orb.
But the moment he saw the storyline, Fang Zhiyi felt as if his very soul had taken a heavy blow.
It was a sweet romantic love story—so sweet it was practically brain-dead.
The story began with a girl named He Yinqing.
The heroine, He Yinqing, was the adopted daughter of a household. By a twist of fate, she once saved a handsome young man, and after being rescued, he swore to repay her kindness. He Yinqing merely smiled and sent the young man on his way. But not long after, something happened to her—she fell into water and was rescued, and afterwards, she seemed to become a different person, constantly doing strange things.
Because she kept causing trouble, her adoptive parents discussed marrying her off. In those times, being able to settle down and live a comfortable life was considered decent enough, so they deliberately found a well-off family for her.
But He Yinqing refused to marry and caused a huge scene over it. That was when a squad of soldiers arrived and forcibly dispersed the crowd.
The young man leading them was none other than the boy she had saved back then. It was only then that He Yinqing learned he was Wei An, the youngest son of the Marquis of Ding'an's household. Wei An was handsome, and at first glance, He Yinqing thought he was devastatingly gorgeous.
To vent her anger, Wei An ordered his men to whip her adoptive parents for forcing her into marriage, confiscated the property of the family that had sought to marry her, and finally brought her back to the capital.
And so, He Yinqing's story began. Though she was prone to causing trouble, she was remarkably lucky—every time she stirred up trouble, someone always cleaned up after her. One day it was the Marquis of Ding'an's household, the next it was Prince Min.
He Yinqing continued her antics. She was determined to make money, so through Wei An's connections she acquired tools and raw materials, produced things like soap, and then opened a cosmetics shop. Logically, such a venture should have been a total loss in that era, but since everyone was afraid of the backing of the Marquis of Ding'an's household, her business managed to thrive.
Even the emperor, traveling in disguise, noticed her shop and paid a visit. He quickly grew familiar with the outspoken He Yinqing, and then all sorts of melodramatic plotlines unfolded.
The emperor, a prince, and the Marquis of Ding'an all fell in love with the same woman.
They even made a "gentlemen's agreement" behind He Yinqing's back.
But someone in the palace was not pleased—namely, the current imperial consort, Fang Yunlan.
Fang Yunlan was Fang Zhiyi's younger sister. Their father had earned the deep trust of the previous emperor, but he died of severe wounds while leading troops to put down a rebellion at the border. The previous emperor therefore appointed Fang Zhiyi to take his father's place and guard the frontier. It was also because of this that Fang Yunlan was taken into the palace as an imperial consort. Leaning on her brother's position, she carried a certain air of arrogance. When she learned that a common woman had dared to speak such rebellious words about "freedom of love" in public, she sent people to teach her a lesson.
But instead of He Yinqing getting punished, the people she sent were soundly beaten by Wei An.
From then on, He Yinqing's life went into full cheat mode. When she discovered that her good friend was actually the emperor, she was thrilled, and the princess also became her close confidante.
Only Fang Yunlan kept suffering misfortunes—whether it was her face being ruined by skin care products He Yinqing had secretly tampered with, or her attempts to threaten He Yinqing being overheard by the emperor at the worst possible moment, or being ganged up on by the princess and He Yinqing. Nothing went right for her.
So Fang Yunlan wrote a letter to her brother to inform him.
When Fang Zhiyi received the letter, he flew into a rage. He was straightforward by nature, ignorant of court politics, and doted on his sister. Relying on his military merits, he didn't hold back and directly admonished the emperor, urging him to prioritize matters of state and not be blinded by a bewitching woman. But the emperor was furious.
"He guards his border, so what's the meaning of writing a letter to me? Is he threatening me?"
Fang Zhiyi was simple-minded. Though he was devoted and diligent, he never knew how to curry favor with the emperor. Nominally a great general, he actually didn't command the loyalty of the border troops, especially given his Han identity. The emperor, encouraged by his courtiers, had long been planning to remove him from his post, but had never found a good excuse—he couldn't very well let people accuse him of suppressing a minister who served the late emperor.
When he poured out this worry to his confidante, He Yinqing, she came up with a clever idea.
"If it's hard to move against Fang Zhiyi, then strike at Fang Yunlan instead."
And so a conspiracy against the Fang family quietly unfolded. Provoked repeatedly by He Yinqing and the princess, Fang Yunlan lost her composure multiple times, even doing something extreme. This gave the emperor his opportunity. He threw Fang Yunlan into the cold palace but deliberately allowed her the chance to write to her brother for help.
Sure enough, Fang Zhiyi received his sister's letter and flew into a rage. He immediately rushed back with his personal guards, only to be surrounded by the capital garrison the moment he set foot in the capital city.
They accused him of abandoning his post and leading troops with malicious intent.
Fang Zhiyi was thrown into prison for no clear reason.
And his position was taken over by the Marquis of Ding'an, Wei An.
The Fang siblings' story was merely a side note. The main plot continued revolving around the heroine's romance.
In short, the emperor and the Marquis of Ding'an made bets to compete for the heroine, the prince turned into a shameless dog-like simp, and eventually, because the emperor had too many women around him and the heroine refused, she instead favored the better-looking Wei An. But then the princess also fell for Wei An, and another bout of melodrama ensued. Ultimately, the emperor's authority ruled supreme, and she grudgingly married him, though she never forgot Wei An deep in her heart. That eventually led to Wei An leading a rebellion with his troops.
In the end, Wei An traded his military power for the chance to retire with the heroine, and they lived happily ever after.
Having read all of that, Fang Zhiyi could no longer take it.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
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.
transmigrates into the role of a villainous rich second-generation kid in an urban fantasy novel, and gets bound to a god-tier choice system. Right at the start, he catches the female lead stealing exam papers! This triggers the villain's choice options! [Choice 1: Pretend you didn't see anything] [Choice 2: Loudly call her out, drawing everyone's attention] [Choice 3: ...] And thus, a twisted villain is born. To avoid getting killed by the protagonist, he has no choice but to take down all the protagonists first. Jiang Che: Nobody understands being twisted better than me!
