Li Liwei failed to get into college. His grades had always been poor, and he had spent his days living in Huang Weiye’s shadow. He became increasingly listless, spoke less and less, and grew more timid by the day. After finishing high school, he had no idea what to do next. Li Daneng didn’t dare vent his anger on Huang Weiye, so he took it out on Li Liwei instead. After beating him for the first time in his life, he kicked him into a factory.
Mrs. Huang had become practically invisible in that household. Because Li Daneng and his son were afraid of Huang Weiye, they didn’t dare hit or scold her—but they didn’t speak to her either.
Mrs. Huang often sat alone in some deserted place, muttering to herself as though she were talking to the young son she had once had.
Even after leaving home to attend college, Huang Weiye maintained his excellent tradition. At school, he played the part of a model student; whenever vacation came, he immediately returned home to reign as a local tyrant. Most of the income earned by Li Daneng and his son was forcibly taken by him, yet neither of them dared say a word.
After all, this local tyrant didn’t bother with schemes or tricks. Whenever he wanted money, he simply held out his hand. If they refused, he started causing trouble. He didn’t care about his reputation in the slightest, and Li Daneng had absolutely no way to deal with him. All he could do was grit his teeth and endure.
At last, Huang Weiye graduated from college. While his classmates began entering companies as interns, he went straight home and started lazing around, living a life where food was brought to him and clothes were laid out for him. Whenever anything displeased him, he overturned the table, once again throwing the Li household into chaos.
After Huang Weiye caused another scene, Li Daneng finally broke down. Faced with the demands of this Demon King of Chaos, he gritted his teeth and agreed to the conditions. First, he borrowed money from others. Then he took out several loans. Finally, he swallowed his pain and signed an agreement severing all ties with Huang Weiye.
As Huang Weiye walked out of the residential compound, he surprisingly greeted the neighbors sitting in the courtyard.
“Isn’t that the kid who used to cause trouble every day?”
“I heard he graduated from a prestigious university. Children all go through a rebellious phase.”
“That couple from the Li family sure is lucky. They’re about to enjoy the good life.”
“Enjoy the good life? Those two are absolute monsters. They abused Weiye when he was little. Tsk, tsk—you should’ve seen it. It was awful.”
“Brother Huang! My grandpa wants you to modify his wheelchair! A few days ago, he couldn’t outrun Old Man Li, so he threw a fit and stopped eating!” A young man happened to run into Huang Weiye as he was leaving and hurriedly called out to him.
Huang Weiye turned around from a distance and waved with a smile. “I’m not modifying it!”
He turned back, took out his phone, and glanced at the date. Then he muttered to himself, “It’s still a little early, but I think this debt is about to be settled. What do you say, kid?”
The Original Host inside him said nothing.
“Kid, I’m keeping an eye on you. If you go back and start pulling that same nonsense again, you’re going to suffer. Got it?”
“Thank you, Third Prince.” The Original Host’s voice was solemn.
Nezha snorted. “Just looking at you makes me feel stifled. If they hadn’t forbidden me from beating you, I would’ve beaten you too!”
The Original Host stiffened and gave an awkward chuckle.
A few years later, an intern walked into the company.
“Boss Huang, this intern doesn’t have anyone to mentor him. What do you think...?”
Huang Weiye had just said goodbye to his girlfriend on the phone. He looked up at the intern, whose face appeared honest and simple.
“It’s fine. I’ll mentor him.”
A strange smile appeared on his face.
The intern looked him up and down. Though Huang Weiye was only a few years older than him, he was already the company’s boss. A flash of envy crossed the intern’s eyes, but he quickly put on a cheerful smile and looked utterly sincere.
“Boss Huang, can I call you Brother Huang? I can do any kind of work...”
“Sure, sure, sure. The company is in desperate need of talent like you. Go unclog the toilet upstairs in a little while, okay?” Huang Weiye solemnly patted him on the shoulder. As he watched the smile gradually disappear from the man’s face, an inexplicable sense of satisfaction welled up inside him.
This time, I’ll definitely make you understand what it means to wish you were dead!
Li Daneng had developed an addiction to alcohol. Mrs. Huang was the one who called to tell Huang Weiye, but remembering Third Prince’s instructions, Huang Weiye didn’t listen to the end. Instead, he said coldly, “We’re no longer related. Please don’t call me again.”
Mrs. Huang stared in disbelief at the dead tone on the other end of the line.
She had heard that Huang Weiye had made something of himself, so she had called to ask him to help the family—especially to help his younger brother. But he...
Li Daneng staggered through the door with a liquor bottle in hand. The moment he saw her, he began cursing.
“You jinx! Get out of my way! Get out!”
Mrs. Huang moved aside resentfully.
Li Daneng refused to let up. He continued shouting abuse until he grew tired, then collapsed onto the sofa and began snoring. Before long, Li Liwei returned as well. His eyes were filled with wariness, like a mouse that had just stolen a kernel of corn.
“Xiaowei, you’re back. Are you tired today?” Mrs. Huang forced a smile.
Li Liwei glanced at her. “I got fired.”
“What? Fired again? Weren’t you...?”
Li Liwei ignored her. With his neck hunched, he scurried into his room.
That evening, Mrs. Huang shared her idea. No matter what, Huang Weiye was still her son and had a responsibility to help the family. If it hadn’t been for him, she insisted, the family wouldn’t have ended up in its current state!
But Li Daneng kept his head lowered, as though he were still drunk. Li Liwei’s eyes darted evasively. Provoke that plague god? He hadn’t lived long enough to throw his life away!
“He wasn’t an adult before, but things are different now. I heard he’s become rich, and that he even brought that old man over to live with him.” Mrs. Huang gritted her teeth. “If he refuses to acknowledge us, we’ll expose him to the media!”
The result was predictable. Not only did Huang Weiye refuse to pay them any attention, he even took the initiative to call in the media. In front of the cameras, he threw out the agreement severing ties with his family and even showed the scars left on his body from his childhood.
Finding witnesses was easy. Those old neighbors were willing to come forward and tell the truth as soon as they received an envelope of cash.
“What a poor child. They made him kneel in the snow in the dead of winter!”
“I heard Huang Weiye became a delinquent later. Is that true?”
“Became a delinquent? If he hadn’t done those things, would he even have survived? You have no idea how cruel that family was...”
Mrs. Huang’s so-called exposé only dragged the family into an even deeper hell. Many factories refused to hire the men of the Li family, which led to a complete breakdown within the household. Once again, the sounds of smashing and banging rang out, accompanied by a woman’s screams and a man’s furious roars.
Drunk and out of control, Li Daneng not only beat Mrs. Huang but also vented all the anger he had accumulated over the years on his spineless son. Li Liwei could only clutch his head and grit his teeth as he endured the blows. At that moment, he finally began to understand how much the young Huang Weiye had suffered all those years ago.
But it was already too late.
Far too late.
Nezha floated in the air, whistling leisurely as he watched the family meet its end. He was quite satisfied with the outcome.
Then he glanced at the radiant Huang Weiye, who was tormenting the murderer from his previous life. Nezha spread his hands.
“Let’s go, let’s go. I’m starting to look forward to the next world. The Monkey was right—this really is much more interesting than staying in Heaven.”
“Third Prince, next time, could you try using your brain a little more? The Original Host’s methods were pretty good, you know...”
“No, that’s not what I meant. I didn’t mean using your head to ram into other people. What I meant was… Never mind. As long as you’re happy, Third Prince.”
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.
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."
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.
【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.)
