The next day, the Chen family welcomed a man dressed in extravagant clothing, with Xue following behind him. The Chens received him with nervous deference.
The man declared that his daughter was grown and beyond his control, then proceeded to discuss the wedding arrangements. Upon learning that the Chen family couldn’t produce the money at the moment, his expression darkened.
"What kind of joke is this?!" he snapped, dragging his daughter away in anger.
This outburst finally convinced the Chen family of the situation’s legitimacy.
So the entire family mobilized and tracked down Chen Xiaoxiao at the hospital.
Gu Panxi knocked Xiao Jingran flat with a single punch before answering her phone.
"Come to Central Hospital, quick! Your father’s dying!"
Gu Panxi hung up, glanced at Xiao Jingran struggling to get up, and delivered another punch for good measure. A trainee who had been waiting nearby stepped forward and carried Xiao Jingran to his designated cot—everyone knew it was reserved for him.
She rushed to the hospital but arrived a step too late. The scene before her was chaotic: Chen Xiaoxiao’s mother was yanking her hair while beating her, Gu Xiuyuan had Chen Azhi pinned to the ground, Chen's Father was perched on Gu Xiuyuan’s back, pulling his hair, and Gu's Mother wailed on the sidelines.
It was more chaotic than a world war.
"Enough!" Gu Panxi took a deep breath.
Her roar instantly silenced the room, and everyone turned to look at her.
"You… you’re that wretched girl?" Chen's Mother blurted after squinting at her for a moment.
Gu Panxi cracked her knuckles, the sound like popping beans. "What did you say?"
Chen's Mother shrank back. "N-no, Miss Gu." She muttered to herself, How did this girl turn out like this? I remember her being tiny and short before!
"Panxi! Hurry! They—they drove your father to his death!" Gu's Mother cried, seeing her as a savior.
Gu Panxi scanned the room, and whoever her gaze landed on immediately lowered their head in discomfort.
After surveying the scene, she strode into the back room and saw her father, who had died from sheer rage.
"Panxi… what do we do now?" Gu's Mother sobbed behind her, utterly distraught.
Gu Panxi sighed. "Give him a grand funeral."
Gu's Mother froze, but as she stared at her daughter’s figure, an inexplicable sense of security washed over her.
"Listen up. My father is dead, so whatever grudges you have, settle them outside. If any of you get in my way—" She gripped the armrest of a chair, veins bulging in her arm, and crushed it until the metal bent.
"Understood, understood. The deceased must be respected," Chen's Mother said quickly, eager to placate her. She vividly remembered how she used to abuse "that wretched girl" and feared retaliation. She immediately dragged a reluctant Chen Azhi out.
Gu Panxi then turned to Gu Xiuyuan, whose face was scratched up, looking utterly pathetic.
"You two—get out too."
"What?!" Gu Xiuyuan flared up, ready to argue, but then felt his collar seized as he was lifted into the air. Gu Panxi glanced at Chen Xiaoxiao, who shuddered. "I’ll leave on my own."
Gu Panxi was satisfied. The training Fang Zhiyi had put her through hadn’t just strengthened her body—it had forged her will into steel.
As she left with Gu's Mother, she saw the Chen family still brawling with her brother and his wife outside the hospital. She spared them only a glance before looking away.
After her father’s funeral, Gu Panxi hurried back to the training grounds.
The competition was approaching, and she refused to let trivial matters disrupt her progress.
Meanwhile, the feud between the Chen and Gu families deepened. On the day of Gu's Father’s funeral, Xue and her father returned to the Chens, demanding an answer. Since the Chens still had no money, Xue’s father forcibly separated the couple, dragging Xue away as she kept looking back.
Chen Azhi lost his mind. Xue’s phone was disconnected, and he spent his days staring blankly at the front door.
The Chen parents, agonizing over the lost dowry and their son’s misery, redirected all their resentment toward Chen Xiaoxiao.
After the incident, Gu's Mother moved out, too heartbroken to acknowledge her son and daughter-in-law.
Thus began Gu Xiuyuan and Chen Xiaoxiao’s "blissful" married life—interrupted every few days by the Chen family barging in to cause trouble.
Chen Azhi even went to Gu Xiuyuan’s workplace to make a scene, costing him his job.
Exhausted physically and mentally, the couple lived in misery. This time, Chen Xiaoxiao lacked the cunning she had in the original storyline—too drained by the Chen family’s harassment to scheme against others. The constant strife also drove a wedge between her and Gu Xiuyuan. They went from supporting each other to despising each other, arguing daily until Chen Xiaoxiao smashed everything left in the house.
Finally, she snapped. After a drunken Chen Azhi stormed in again, she grabbed a knife and chased him down, while Gu Xiuyuan stood by, watching coldly.
Chen Xiaoxiao was sent to prison, and Chen Azhi fell into a coma.
Gu Xiuyuan packed his bags to leave, but Chen's parents cornered him at home, demanding compensation for their son.
With no options left, he tried to sell the house—only to realize it was under his parents’ name. In a scuffle with Chen's Father, he fought back, and with one shove, Chen's Father hit his head on the steps, blood pooling beneath him. Terrified, Gu Xiuyuan pushed Chen's Mother away and fled.
But a tip from a bystander led the police straight to him.
Now, Gu Xiuyuan was behind bars too.
Chen's Mother, left to care for two injured men, spent her days shuttling between the hospital and searching for Gu's Mother, demanding compensation.
"Host, the situation is spiraling out of control," the system said uneasily. "The original villains, the Chens, are crippled, the Gu family is in ruins… except for Gu Panxi."
"Do you think Gu Panxi is a reincarnator?" Xiao Jingran asked.
The system denied it. "No, she isn’t… I detected nothing."
"Then where did things go wrong?" Xiao Jingran pondered.
"Host—"
"Quiet. I think someone’s pulling strings behind the scenes—probably another transmigrator!" he mused.
"Host—"
"First, I need to analyze everyone and see who else is acting suspicious besides Gu Panxi…"
"Host—"
"Stop calling me, it’s annoying—" Xiao Jingran looked up and met a pair of smiling eyes.
"Uh… who are you?" He didn’t recognize the man.
Only the system sensed something amiss.
"Host, I can’t scan him…"
"What?"
"That means he’s either a transmigrator of a higher rank than you… or…"
The man sighed. "No need to guess. My name is Fang Zhiyi."
【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.)
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!
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
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...
