A hand lightly rested on Wu Yu's shoulder, and Wu Yu's entire body stiffened.
Liu Shishi affectionately patted her head again.
"You're a good girl."
Wu Yu's eyes lit up.
She had succeeded?
At this time, Wu Yu was still a child and didn't yet have the calculating mind she would later develop.
So she didn't notice the looks in the eyes of the classmates not far away.
Naturally, there were those who knew it was she who had spoken ill of Liu Shishi—but now what was happening?
"Would you mind having a little chat with Aunt Liu?" Liu Shishi said with a squinting smile.
"Mm! I don't mind!"
The classmates couldn't hear what Wu Yu was saying; they only saw her gesturing excitedly, looking very pleased.
"Traitor," someone muttered.
But there were also some who felt a hint of envy. They all knew Liu Shishi was wealthy, and if she took a liking to them, they might just be able to go to the big city.
Liu Shishi listened quietly to Wu Yu talk about topics she had no interest in at all, occasionally playing along with a smile.
"In a bit, Aunt Liu will come to your house for a visit—is that alright?"
Liu Shishi's life motto was simple: If you don't provoke me, fine. But if you insist on provoking me, then I won't hold back.
Wu Yu agreed excitedly.
What mattered now was getting Liu Shishi to hand over the money!
She even got into that car she had dreamed of, rolling down the rear window to wave triumphantly at her co-conspirators.
To her, these people were nothing but tools to be used.
Besides, Aunt Liu had just said she was leaving tomorrow, so even if they tried to tattle, they wouldn't find her!
This was indeed Liu Shishi's first time at Wu Yu's home.
She also saw the parents and older brother mentioned in the letter. Just by looking at their faces, Liu Shishi could tell why Wu Yu had done what she did—all four members of the Wu family wore expressions of sheer mean-spiritedness.
"So you're Boss Liu, huh? Why haven't you sent the money yet?" Wu Dagou's greed was barely concealed.
Liu Shishi hadn't expected them to be this direct.
"The money is sent in order."
"I don't care about that—the deadline's passed, and the money still hasn't arrived. Didn't you say you'd pay for her schooling?" Wu Dagou looked like a proper deadbeat.
Wu Yu wanted to say something, but seeing her father's warning glare, she could only lower her head.
"Also, eight hundred a month—what can eight hundred even do?" Wu Dagou went on. "Which student survives on eight hundred? Even if she doesn't need it, our family does."
Liu Shishi was truly speechless. The last time she'd met someone like this was... the last time.
But she glanced at Wu Yu, who nervously lowered her head. The amount she had been giving was twelve hundred a month, yet Wu Dagou said eight hundred. So this girl had learned to lie about numbers at such a young age.
"Mm... eight hundred? What eight hundred?"
Wu Dagou looked confusedly at the beautiful woman in front of him, then at Wu Yu.
Wu Yu stammered nervously: "Aunt Liu, how about... how about we eat first? I'll go get you a stool."
"Don't you move!" Wu Dagou shouted.
Liu Shishi frowned. "Eight hundred? Isn't it two thousand?"
The moment those words were out, Wu Yu's mind went blank. Where did two thousand come from?? She had been secretly stashing some of the money after receiving it from the teacher, but it was nowhere near two thousand!
"Two thousand!!!" Wu Dagou turned to his daughter. "Fine! You little wretch!"
He didn't care that there was an outsider present—he raised his hand to hit her, and Wu Yu immediately dodged behind Liu Shishi, using her as a human shield.
Luckily, Liu Shishi's assistant and driver heard the commotion and rushed in. With the two of them holding back the others, Liu Shishi managed to escape.
"It's not two thousand, it's not! It's twelve hundred! Only twelve hundred! Say it, Aunt Liu!"
Watching Liu Shishi beat a hasty retreat, Wu Yu tried to chase after her but was grabbed firmly by her mother.
"You child—how could you lie to your own parents!" Liu Shishi said one line before getting into the car and driving off without looking back.
Wu Yu watched her father close in on her, her heart filled with despair.
Liu Shishi had lied to frame her! She was spreading rumors!
Whether it was two thousand or twelve hundred, Wu Yu got a beating either way. Then Wu Dagou decided to go to the school and ask the teacher directly—in his view, that city woman had no reason to deceive them.
If Wu Yu insisted it was twelve hundred, then the school must have secretly pocketed the other eight hundred!
Wu Dagou stormed the school once again, smashing the office door in the process.
But he forgot one thing—people could call the police. The police came and took him away. Never mind the funding issue; with two incidents of causing a scene at the school and damaging property, he was detained for ten days.
And during those ten days while Wu Dagou was locked up, another bombshell dropped.
Due to the Wu family's rude attitude, their deception of Liu Shishi, and their attempt to demand even more money, Liu Shishi, after weighing the matter, decided to suspend all funding for the students in that area!
The news spread. Short videos weren't popular yet, but plenty of people were online, and accompanied by a secretly recorded clip of Wu Dagou's greedy face, it became crystal clear.
As a result, Liu Shishi's decision to stop funding won widespread public support.
"She's donating money, not doing it for repayment! And they smear her?"
"Wow, her own father goes crazy and starts hitting people, and she shoves the benefactor in front as a shield?"
"There's more—someone revealed that this girl has done even worse things! Go check it out!"
The online backlash didn't reach that remote little village.
But life for the Wu family was clearly getting harder. Because of the trouble they caused, other sponsored families stopped receiving their funds, and the Wu family became a target of everyone's anger.
Even at school, no one wanted to talk to Wu Yu anymore. The teachers said she was full of lies, and the classmates thought she was nothing but a troublemaker.
The Wu family was ostracized by the whole village—because Liu Shishi had originally planned to invest in the village, but after Wu Dagou's attack, those plans fell through.
The Wu family blamed everything on Wu Yu. They forced her to drop out of school, made her work, and planned to marry her off once she came of age.
Her life was nailed shut inside that little mountain village.
Only a few households continued to receive funding from Liu Shishi on a regular basis, though they never spoke of it or mentioned it—they simply kept it quietly in their hearts.
"It was all my fault. I never imagined the child would turn out that way, but I was terrified. If only I had paid more attention to her back then," Liu Shishi said in an interview, her face full of guilt.
She gained another wave of attention.
More and more people dug up her past charity work, and with company employees coming forward to speak on her behalf, Liu Shishi had become a model citizen.
And then, Li Yinyin—who had no real cunning to speak of—was also quietly thrown back into her own environment, completely unable to fight back.
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.
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.
ver to a world of cultivation and returned invincible. Modern medicine is child's play compared to elixirs; technological might crumbles before true cultivation. My name is Qin Ning, Earth's sole cultivator!
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."
