Fang Zhiyi walked over and stretched out his hand. "Sis, give me some money."
Fang Wanyun, holding a handful of loose change and feeling excited, instinctively took a step back. "What do you need money for?"
Fang Zhiyi smiled wryly and pointed to a few small-time thugs not far away. "To pay these guys their wages."
Fang Wanyun glanced over. Indeed, they owed a lot to those guys today. When there were many people around, they would boast loudly in the crowd; when it was just a few, they’d gather around pretending to browse. Thinking about her earlier reaction, Fang Wanyun smiled sheepishly and stuffed all the money into Fang Zhiyi’s hand.
"You keep it all. I’m just here to help you out today." She paused, "Don’t laugh at me, but I actually thought you were..."
Fang Zhiyi chuckled, "You thought I was going gambling, right?"
Fang Wanyun blushed and looked down.
Fang Zhiyi stopped joking and waved his hand. A few of the small-time thugs came running over eagerly.
"Brother Fang!"
Fang Zhiyi praised them, "Not bad! Not bad at all! You’ve got potential! Stick with me, and I promise you’ll have enough to eat and drink!"
The group grinned foolishly. Honestly, after following Fang Zhiyi for the past two or three days, they had managed to earn a bit of pocket money—not much, but still something.
"Keep going and collect scraps of thread, bits of fabric, buttons, that kind of stuff. Remember, collect, not rob or steal!" Fang Zhiyi’s expression turned serious.
The others nodded.
Little Shanzi, the leader, looked at Fang Zhiyi as he walked away, then turned to his friends. "Let’s go, get to work!"
"Shanzi, work again? So tiring..." someone groaned.
Little Shanzi shot him a glance. "If you don’t want to work, fine, but don’t expect to get paid tomorrow." He paused, "And don’t scream when you get beaten up."
On the way back, Fang Wanyun looked at her younger brother with curiosity. She always thought he bullied her and never really had his act together. But today... maybe she had misunderstood him?
"Little brother, I haven’t seen those friends of yours before..." Fang Wanyun tried to make conversation.
Fang Zhiyi waved his hand dismissively. "Those guys? I just met them a couple of days ago."
"Huh?"
"When I came out of the scrap yard, those guys blocked me. Could I just let them boss me around?" Fang Zhiyi said casually. "I gave them a little talk about the bright future ahead, and they decided to follow me."
Fang Wanyun seemed to half-understand. After a moment, she said, "Little brother, don’t get mixed up with that. You still need to keep your feet on the ground."
Fang Zhiyi nodded. "Of course, you have to keep your feet on the ground!" he muttered to himself, *but not me.*
At dinner, the Fang family looked at the two large bags of scraps Fang Zhiyi had dragged home.
Old Fang stood up and walked over, opened one of the bags, and examined the contents. He tilted his head, thinking for a while, then glanced at his two younger children whispering together. In the end, he didn’t say anything. As long as this kid didn’t go gambling, that was enough.
Li Cuixia, still sarcastic, said, "Oh, making big money now, huh?"
Fang Zhiyi looked up at her.
Li Cuixia was still quite young, with striking features, but her personality was off-putting. In the original storyline, after her eldest brother broke his leg, Li Cuixia, though grumbling constantly, still shouldered the family’s heavy burdens. However, she aged rapidly from the stress.
“Sister-in-law.”
Li Cuixia was taken aback.
“W-what did you just call me?”
“Sister-in-law?” Fang Zhiyi’s face lit up with a broad smile, her eyes nearly closed in delight.
Li Cuixia jolted. “Fang Dingbang, Fang Dingbang!”
Eldest Brother Fang snapped back to his senses. “If you have something to say, just say it!”
“Your brother is possessed!”
“Pah, pah, pah!” Fang’s Mother hurried over. “Don’t say such nonsense! No one’s possessed!”
Li Cuixia looked frightened. “He called me sister-in-law!”
Fang Zhiyi shrugged. “What’s the problem? Sister-in-law.”
A collective gasp swept through the Fang family.
Fang’s Mother even reached out to grab Fang Zhiyi’s chin, turning her face over and over in disbelief.
Fang Zhiyi smiled wryly, understanding their reaction. Ever since Li Cuixia married into the Fang family, Fang Zhiyi had never treated her kindly. Unlike the others who indulged her, Li Cuixia never coddled her, so she never called her “sister-in-law.” Even when asking her for money, she’d only say “hey.”
“That’s definitely the third brother,” Fang Zhiyi said.
“I was too reckless before,” she continued, “but I promise I’ll change. You’ve all seen it—I haven’t been idle these past few days.”
The Fang family members all nodded; they had noticed Fang Zhiyi’s efforts recently.
What she did next surprised them even more. She pulled out a handful of coins from her pocket and slapped them down on the table.
“Wow, a pile of coins and you’re acting like it’s a fortune,” Little Hei teased.
Fang Zhiyi wasn’t embarrassed in the slightest.
“This is the money I earned from selling handmade goods yesterday, plus what Second Sister made from those little crafts today.”
Old Fang looked up at his daughter, understanding Fang Wanyun’s honesty. Fang Wanyun nodded repeatedly.
“After paying a few helpers and accounting for these small sums collected today, the rest is pure profit. Count it yourselves.”
Fang’s Mother hesitated for a moment, then began to count the money.
Fang Zhiyi smiled and looked at her sister-in-law. “Sister-in-law?”
Li Cuixia snapped back to reality, answering awkwardly, “Uh-huh.”
“Relying on just Second Sister to do this is too slow. Could you help out? I remember you’re pretty good at knitting.”
Li Cuixia was stunned. “Me?”
Fang Zhiyi nodded. “Yes, fifty yuan?”
Li Cuixia’s expression grew strange; she still doubted Fang Zhiyi’s motives, especially hearing how accurately he quoted her wages. She couldn’t help but feel suspicious.
Fang Zhiyi ignored this. “Here’s today’s profit. Take a look and see how much there is.”
Everyone waited as Fang’s Mother finished counting.
“Thirty-four!” The amount wasn’t large, but it was quickly counted.
Fang Zhiyi stood up. “See? Thirty-four in one day, and that’s with only Second Sister working. If someone helps out, tomorrow it’ll be sixty. Sixty in one day!”
At these words, the Fang family was stunned. Sixty a day? That’s over a thousand a month!
Seeing their expressions, Fang Zhiyi smiled and said, "We'll sell here for two days, then move to places with more foot traffic. After that, we'll hire people to work on a piece-rate basis, then distribute our products to various shops. Next, we'll recruit more workers, collect materials, build a factory, and eventually, start our own company!"
He waved his hand with a commanding air.
The Fang family stared at him in a daze.
After a long moment, Fang Dingbang stood up and reached out to touch Fang Zhiyi's forehead. "Third brother, you’re not running a fever, are you?"
"I think it’s doable," said Fang's Mother, who had always supported Fang Zhiyi. Now, seeing her son quit gambling and show the ability to make money, she didn’t ask for much—just that he live a decent life. "Mom’s got your back!"
Old Fang and the eldest brother still hadn’t voiced their opinions, but Fang Wanyun hesitated. "Little brother, I... I still have to work."
Fang Zhiyi looked at her and said, "Second sister, you should quit that job. You work yourself to the bone and barely make thirty bucks a month."
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
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.
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
villain is the number one simp for the book's leading female protagonist, Shen Wan'er. As expected, he later becomes a tool for the main character to show off and slap faces, ultimately meeting a tragic end with his family ruined and his life in shambles. Fortunately, he awakens the [Universal Pure Love System], which allows him to earn points by performing acts of pure love. To change his fate, Gu Yan makes a decisive choice to seek warmth and companionship with the book's biggest villain—Cold Qingqiu. ........... My name is Leng Qingqiu. To find the murderer who killed my parents years ago, I deliberately blinded myself so that everyone would lower their guard around me. Just as I was secretly accumulating power and capital according to my initial plan, a man walked into my world. "Lengleng, Qingqing, Qiuqiu, which nickname do you prefer?" I don't like any of them. You'd better leave quickly! "Why aren't you saying anything? How about I call you my baby wife?" Leng Qingqiu thinks to herself, this man is truly annoying! (Stubborn pure love warrior + single female lead + true pure love + 1v1)
