The person who hit her seemed unsatisfied and was about to strike again when someone stopped him.
"Enough already. We still need her to take care of us," another old man said, his face showing a hint of fear. "Have you forgotten Old Fang's words?"
Fang Zhiyi had left this unconscious girl here, telling them not to abuse her but to let her care for them in their old age. These elderly folks had been treated and then sent back because they were too old and disabled to be held accountable. Instead, the authorities had rounded up the able-bodied young men from the village.
Bai Xue felt as if the sky had collapsed, but she was powerless. To prevent her from escaping, they had shackled her with heavy chains. Wherever she went, an elderly man with intact legs would follow, tied to her by the same rope.
"No, this isn’t how it should be!" Bai Xue jolted awake from her dream. In it, she had been with the handsome and young Fang Xiaojun, persuading him to turn away from his wicked ways and rescue the village girls. Those girls had been endlessly grateful to her, and in the end, Fang Xiaojun had taken the money and fled abroad with her, living a loving life together. But now—
She lifted her hands, staring at the unremovable chains even in sleep, tears streaming down her cheeks.
On the other side of a screen, Mei Lanju watched with satisfaction. "Screw your 'turning away from wickedness.' Pah! A villain does evil his whole life, runs off with dirty money, and suddenly he's redeemed? And let’s not forget—he even betrayed his own men."
Her gaze shifted to the side, where a mining tunnel at the foot of a mountain came into view. The people she and Fang Zhiyi had tricked out of Kaoshan Village were there, driven by whips to labor in darkness. Earlier, she had sent Fang Xiaojun there too.
Fang Xiaojun was utterly bewildered. First, he was beaten by the enforcers. Then, at the entrance of the tunnel, he saw the grimy, hate-filled eyes of the others fixed on him.
"Damn you! It was your Fang family that tricked us!" someone shouted.
"Son of a bitch!" A scrawny man leaped forward.
Mei Lanju explained, "This one was hard to fool, so I just kidnapped him outright."
"Who is he?"
"That driver—the one who tricked Shen Ni."
A brawl broke out. Fang Xiaojun took several hits and would have died if the overseers hadn’t intervened. As it was, his leg was likely broken.
"By the way," Mei Lanju teased Fang Zhiyi, "aren’t you curious about your eldest son?"
Fang Zhiyi simply stared down the mountain, emotionless. "No need. I’m sure you handled it well." With that, he stood and bid Mei Lanju farewell.
"See you around," Mei Lanju waved, though both knew the chances were slim. In so many worlds, who could say whom they’d meet next?
Fang Zhiyi turned to his system, annoyed. "Why don’t you have the same functions as hers? Look at her—sleep charms, spatial abilities, whatever she wants. And me? Huh? What do I get?"
The system chuckled awkwardly. "Different systems. Hers is mechanical... mine’s biological. Different functions."
"Then what can you actually do?"
"I can remind you of things."
"So you’re just an alarm clock?"
Fang Zhiyi turned himself in, causing quite a stir. After confessing and being imprisoned, he nodded to the system.
"Understood. Host disengaging!"
The original host returned to his body—only to find himself in prison garb, surrounded by vicious cellmates. He was stunned.
"Hey, old man! What’d you do?"
"Huh? I—I don’t know."
"Playing dumb? Beat him!"
"No, no—ahhh!!!"
After six months in prison, he was told his son had come to visit.
Seeing his eldest, Fang Dagang, on the other side of the glass, the man was overjoyed. He still had no clue what had happened to him. "Dagang, Dagang, get me out of here!"
Fang Dagang looked disgusted. He pointed to the muscular woman behind him. "Dad, I came to tell you I got married. Saved up for a house too."
The man was baffled.
Fang Dagang hesitated, glancing at his wife. The woman glared, and he shrank back. "Also, Mom asked me to tell you—she filed for divorce."
"What?! That bitch! How dare she!" The man raged, but his son was already being dragged away by the ear, meek as a quail. He couldn’t understand any of it.
Floating midair with the system, Fang Zhiyi was asked, "Host, reluctant to leave?"
He shook his head. "Just wanted to see what this task-taker would do. Learn something."
Back in Kaoshan Village, Bai Xue had aged terribly. Forced to care for the disabled elderly—washing them, emptying bedpans—she withered away until years later, when a visitor noticed something amiss and called the police. She was rescued, but the remaining elders lived in misery, cursing the Fang family daily.
As for Fang Xiaojun, his untreated leg injury left him crippled. The overseers sold him to an organ-harvesting ring, terrifying him out of his wits.
Just as a kidney was being removed, police stormed in, busting the ring and saving him—only to realize he was the wanted trafficker kingpin. They tossed him into prison with his father.
The two could only stare at each other in their shared cell.
Mei Lanju, meanwhile, shone brightest. She reinvented herself as the head of a women’s mutual aid society, founded a charity for women and children, and a year later, won a seat in parliament.
Five years on, her bill passed—classifying human trafficking as a severe crime, with buyers and sellers punished equally.
"Not bad," Fang Zhiyi scratched his head. He hadn’t expected that.
When Mei Lanju began campaigning to criminalize domestic violence, the most enthusiastic supporter was Fang Dagang. Since marrying, he’d been beaten daily by his wife, who was close with Mei Lanju. Over time, he’d been reformed into a meek, cowering figure.
Hearing his mother’s new cause, Fang Dagang even volunteered to rally support for her.
Fang Zhiyi laughed. "Well, at least this idiot’s salvageable." Noticing his system had taken humanoid form, he asked, "What’s the next world?"
The system hesitated. "Uh... spoilers?"
"Fine. Let’s go."
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."
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.
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?!
] This is a dark fantasy-themed dating simulation game. The main gameplay involves containing various monster girls and investigating the truth of a world shrouded in mist alongside your companions. However, due to his love for the dark and bizarre atmosphere, Luo Wei ended up turning a dating game into a detective mystery game. Women? Women only slow down his quickdraw! To Luo Wei, the female leads in the game are more like tools to perfectly clear levels and squeeze out rewards. For Luo Wei, flirting with every girl he meets and then discarding them is standard procedure. Worried about characters losing affection points? No need. With his maxed-out charm stat, Luo Wei is practically a "human incubus." A little psychological manipulation and those points come right back. It's a bit scummy, but the paper cutout heroines in the game won't actually come at him with real cleavers. However... Luo Wei has transmigrated. He's accidentally entered the second playthrough of this game. His past actions have caused all the girls to transform into terrifying yanderes. Due to the game's setting, most of the heroines he once contained are "troubled girls." Obsessive, twisted, mentally unstable, all aggressive yanderes... The type who will kill you if they can't have you... Luo Wei wants to cry but has no tears left. "I really just want to survive..." In short, this is a story of battling wits and engaging in a love-hate relationship with yanderes.
