“F-Fang-ge, a-aren’t you going in?”
The voice behind him made Fang Zhiyi turn around. Looking at the strange girl’s cautious expression, he silently rolled his eyes. “I am.”
The moment Fang Zhiyi stepped through the door, he was stunned by what he saw. It wasn’t because of anything else—the living room was plastered with posters from quite a few short dramas! (Back then, he had expanded his short-drama business into this strange world.)
Since they hadn’t had suitable actors at the time, he had personally made cameo appearances in several productions. The strange girl had clipped out every scene he appeared in and stuck them all over the walls.
“Um, um…”
Fang Zhiyi turned back toward the shy strange girl, and quickly understood. This was the power of a hardcore fan! Although he had changed his appearance and was even disguised as a human, the strange girl had clearly recognized the scent of his soul.
“I-I’ll go cook for you!” After fidgeting awkwardly for a long while without managing to say anything, the strange girl spun around and ran into the kitchen.
“Wow, after all this time, you still have fans.” Little Hei sighed. “Humans have forgotten you, but who would’ve thought the strange creatures would still remember you?”
Fang Zhiyi shook his head. “I never thought I’d have anything to do with them again.”
Unlike the peaceful scene at Fang Zhiyi’s location, the other participants were already facing life-or-death choices.
“Why won’t you eat the meat? Are you a picky eater?”
“Big sister, will you play with me?”
The sky grew completely dark, which meant that the first night of the instance had begun. Almost every participant faced the same kind of choice. Some used the talents they had drawn to survive by the skin of their teeth. Others relied on their powers of observation. Still others made mistakes because they were too nervous and lost their lives on the spot.
Perhaps because it was only the first night, the difficulty wasn’t particularly high. Most of the participants were still alive.
At that moment, Fang Zhiyi was watching as two strange creatures pushed open the door and entered. The atmosphere instantly grew tense. Hongling, who had finished cooking, hurried out in her red clothes.
“Mom, Dad! You’re back?”
The two strange creatures stared blankly at their apron-wearing daughter, then turned hostile gazes toward Fang Zhiyi.
“Why is there a human in our home?”
They couldn’t understand it. In this instance, they weren’t one of the families assigned to foster a human.
The next moment, their daughter stepped in front of Fang Zhiyi. “I-I invited him over!”
“Hongling, didn’t you say you didn’t want to participate…” Her father looked puzzled.
Hongling hesitated. “He… he’s different.”
“What’s so different about him?”
“He, he’s… Ah!”
Hongling grabbed both of her parents and dragged them onto the balcony, then turned around and smiled at Fang Zhiyi.
As the family of strange creatures huddled together and whispered, the viewers in the livestream exploded with excitement.
Does Fang Zhiyi really know strange creatures?
No, wait. The strange creatures know Fang Zhiyi? Who exactly is he?
When the two strange creatures returned, their expressions had completely changed. The male host even excitedly grabbed Fang Zhiyi’s hand.
“Pleased to meet you, pleased to meet you.”
“Likewise,” Fang Zhiyi replied politely.
“Our whole family are your fans. This girl used to love watching your works. She even went to one of your auditions…”
At that, Fang Zhiyi glanced at Hongling. He hadn’t remembered her at all. Back when he was building his short-drama business in this world, he had interviewed eight hundred actors a day. It would’ve been a miracle if he could remember her.
“But why did you…” The male host looked Fang Zhiyi up and down, clearly puzzled. A famous strange creature had disappeared for several hundred years, only to reappear as a human. What was going on?
“That’s not important. I need to ask you something.” Fang Zhiyi waved a hand. “Who’s in charge of this residential complex?”
Silence filled the living room.
The three strange creatures looked at one another. In the end, Hongling was the one who spoke.
“It’s… it’s the property manager…”
Fang Zhiyi nodded, stood up, and left.
“You’ve already got dinner ready! Where are you going?” Hongling asked anxiously.
Fang Zhiyi smiled. “I have something to take care of.”
“I’ll go with you…” Hongling tried to follow him, but her parents held her back. They gave Fang Zhiyi an awkward smile. Fang Zhiyi didn’t pay them any mind and simply headed out the door.
“The residential complex rules say you can’t go outside at night!” Hongling hurriedly called after him.
Fang Zhiyi raised a hand and waved. “It’s fine.”
“Mom, Dad, why won’t you let me go with Fang-ge? It’s dangerous for him to go alone!”
The male host glanced at his daughter and shook his head. “It’s more dangerous if you go with him.” He paused. “If he really is that Fang Zhiyi, then there’s nothing in this place more dangerous than him.”
Hongling still looked worried.
“What exactly does this Fang Zhiyi do?”
“Could he be an undercover agent?”
“Stop guessing. I’m sure it has something to do with the talent he drew.”
“Who cares how powerful his talent is? He’s blatantly violating the rules. He’s doomed!”
“You should look at our Lin Wei. He’s already coaxed that little ghost into turning into a fetus.”
“Ruoyu isn’t bad either. That pair of strange parents really likes her. I like her too!”
On-screen, Fang Zhiyi hummed as he walked into the elevator. A figure standing with its face toward the corner made everyone’s blood run cold.
“Oh man, this guy is dead.”
Fang Zhiyi glanced at the hunched back but continued humming as he pressed the button for the first floor.
“The rules of the residential complex state that, at night, no one except security guards is allowed to leave…”
An eerie voice echoed through the elevator. The strange creature standing with its back to Fang Zhiyi let out a series of crackling sounds from its neck. Then its head turned around, dripping wet, revealing a twisted smile.
“Fresh huma—ouch!”
Fang Zhiyi’s response was a slap. The blow spun the creature’s head around once. With a backhanded slap, he spun it back in the opposite direction.
“Are you seriously wandering around an elevator in the middle of the night, acting out some elevator horror movie?” Fang Zhiyi cursed.
The strange creature clearly hadn’t expected a human to dare hit it. It instantly flew into a rage—only to be grabbed by the hair and kicked repeatedly by Fang Zhiyi.
“Holy crap, he’s brutal!”
“What the hell is his talent? This doesn’t make sense!”
“Did he draw a Superhuman Experience Card?”
The livestream erupted. For a time, its popularity even surpassed the livestreams of Ye Ruoyu and Lin Wei.
As the elevator slowly came to a stop on the first floor, the doors slid open. A security guard with an ashen face stood outside.
“Violation of the residential complex rules. Die!”
“I don’t believe he can still get away.”
“He’s done for.”
“Wait, what’s the security guard doing?”
In the eyes of the countless viewers, the terrifying security guard reached into the elevator, grabbed the hair of the strange creature Fang Zhiyi had just beaten, and dragged it away.
“Why are you arresting me? It was him! He violated the rules!” The strange creature was practically in tears.
The security guard, Huang Si, immediately brought his baton down on its head.
“What human? You’re the one wandering around outside!”
As if! The moment the elevator doors opened, Huang Si had seen that vicious human. He wasn’t stupid. If that man could beat one strange creature, couldn’t he beat two?
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."
uld barely embark on the path to immortality. Just as he was on the verge of death, his golden finger awakened. No matter whether it was poison, drained blood and vital energy, diminished lifespan, or any other physical debuff caused by paying a price—once midnight passed, everything would be refreshed. From then on, whenever someone asked what kind of person Chu Ran was, the answer was simple: Forbidden arts that other cultivators dared not learn? Chu Ran would learn them. Prices that even demonic cultivators dared not pay? Chu Ran would pay them. Lifespan that even righteous cultivators dared not burn? Chu Ran would burn it. All the blood essence in his body? Take it. Want both his hands and feet? He would cut them off and send them to you. You say he’s finished? He wasn’t built to sit idle. You think he’s gone mad? No—he was simply waiting for midnight. From that day onward, Chu Ran would respect neither Heaven nor Earth, bow to neither gods nor ghosts. He had only one wish: For midnight to arrive a little sooner.
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!
