"You dare!" The man's words had barely left his mouth when Little Shanzi and the other two pinned him down.
"My son! No!" Fang's Mother panicked. She did dislike these two people, but they couldn't do something illegal!
Fang Zhiyi gently put his arm around her and led her towards the house: "Mom, don't worry about it. I have a way."
Little Shanzi's execution was extremely efficient. Fang Zhiyi had only taken two steps when a miserable scream came from the man, and the old woman was so frightened she fell on her backside.
Fang Zhiyi suddenly turned back: "Beat him until the medical bills would come to two thousand yuan."
"Got it, Brother Fang!" Little Shanzi shot a look, and his two lackeys immediately started, while he blocked the old woman who tried to intervene.
Although he didn't know why they were beating this piece of trash, if Brother Fang said so, there was a reason for it.
It had always been that way.
While the man was being beaten, Old Fang returned home. Seeing a stranger being beaten up in his house, and recognizing Little Shanzi and the others, he instinctively thought it was a thief and stepped forward to deliver a few kicks himself.
Shortly after, Fang Dingbang and his wife also returned, utterly confused by the scene.
"Brother Fang! That's enough!" Little Shanzi called out.
Fang Zhiyi answered and strode out, squatting in front of the man. He took out the two thousand yuan he had just fetched and threw it in the man's face: "Enough?"
The man was barely conscious, mumbling incoherently.
"Fine! You Fang family, bullying others with your power! I'm reporting you to the police!" The old woman finally managed to get a word in.
The Fang family looked at her, baffled.
"Brother Fang, should we beat her up too?" Little Shanzi cracked his knuckles.
"Are you crazy?" Fang Zhiyi stopped him helplessly, then simply sat by the door waiting for the police.
The moment the police arrived, Fang Zhiyi immediately stood up: "Officers! I want to report! There's a murderer inside!"
The police were stunned. Everyone was stunned.
"That man! He said it himself! He beat his wife to death and buried her under the floorboards in his room!"
The police officers' expressions turned serious. They had thought it was just an assault case, but it seemed a murder was involved!
"He's lying! He's the one who beat people!" the old woman shrieked.
But seeing Fang Zhiyi's resolute expression, the two officers chose to believe him.
Following his lead, they dug up a highly decomposed female corpse from the man's house. It was his long-missing ex-wife. He had severe domestic violence tendencies and, after killing his wife, had been looking for another one!
The Fang family was filled with dread, especially Fang's Mother, who pointed at the old woman's nose and cursed out eighteen generations of her ancestors. The eldest sister-in-law joined in, and the old woman was directly cursed into unconsciousness.
"What a pity, I couldn't save you." Fang Zhiyi murmured to the sky, his voice full of regret.
But just after leaving the police station, Fang Zhiyi didn't expect his own home to be "stolen" from him.
Xu Nian, holding Fang Wanyun's hand, publicly announced their relationship.
Fang Zhiyi was dumbfounded.
"Hey, man, weren't you pretty close with that so-and-so's daughter?"
Xu Nian repeatedly denied it: "That's my sworn sister! Sworn sister!"
"You motherf..."
"Brother Fang!" Xu Nian directly hugged his leg. Fang Zhiyi was taken aback. "From now on, let's address each other separately. I'll call you Brother Fang, you call me brother-in-law!"
Time passed in the blink of an eye, and the Fang family's old house was slated for demolition.
The Fang family members all felt, to varying degrees, that Fang Zhiyi was a bit uncanny. How did he think to build a few extra rooms?
Little did they know, Fang Zhiyi was currently feeling a headache. Standing before him was a girl with straight bangs.
"You owe me an ice cream!"
"Miss, you bumped into me. My clothes are all dirty, and you want me to buy you ice cream?"
The girl glared: "Who are you calling 'miss'? How can a super invincible cute beauty like me be a 'miss'? Listen up! My name is Wang Qianqian!"
Fang Zhiyi immediately jumped back, brushing off his clothes as if he had touched something dirty.
Wang Qianqian was so angry her nose seemed to twist: "What do you mean?"
"The original host's taste was pretty heavy too. How could he fall for such a weirdo?"
But then Fang Zhiyi spotted a figure not far away and found his answer.
A foolish woman plus a toxic best friend. A deadly combination? Interesting.
"My mistake, let me buy you that ice cream." Fang Zhiyi's sudden change of tune made Wang Qianqian pause, but she happily agreed.
Watching Wang Qianqian happily walk towards her best friend with the ice cream, Fang Zhiyi chuckled to himself.
From that day on, Fang Zhiyi seemed to become very busy. The Fang family got used to it and didn't ask what he was up to. Only the more observant sister-in-law, Li Cuixia, noticed that Fang Zhiyi seemed to be frequently buying things for girls lately, and always in pairs.
"Just because you have money now doesn't mean you can squander it like this!" Adopting the attitude of the eldest sister-in-law, after secretly following him a few times, she reached a conclusion: Fang Zhiyi was in love! With two girls!
This news dropped like a depth charge in the Fang household.
Facing his family's inquiries, Fang Zhiyi just waved his hand: "Nothing like that, just ordinary friends."
But that didn't stop his family from taking turns talking to him all evening. First his parents, then his sister-in-law, then his second sister. Each adopted the posture of someone with experience, ostensibly offering advice, but actually just wanting to get the gossip on Fang Zhiyi.
Having two girlfriends in this era? It was indeed outrageous.
Finally managing to deal with his family, Fang Zhiyi hurried out the door again.
Little Hei was puzzled: "Seriously, what's your plan this time? Just spending money?"
Fang Zhiyi smiled: "Don't rush... let the bullet fly for a while."
"Zhiyi, you're here!" Wang Qianqian opened the door, her eyes crinkling into smiles at the sight of Fang Zhiyi on her doorstep. She hadn't expected this man to be so simple and sincere. Ever since he bought her that ice cream, he had been almost unable to refuse any of her requests.
"Hey, they brought back some local specialties from their business trip today. I said I'd bring you a share." Wang Qianqian happily reached out to take it.
Fang Zhiyi's gaze shifted behind her: "Gao Jie's here too. Look at me, this time there's only one portion of the specialty, I didn't bring any for you."
Suppressing the jealousy in her heart, Gao Jie replied with a hint of sarcasm: "It's fine. I'm not as important as our Qianqian here."
Wang Qianqian giggled foolishly.
Fang Zhiyi scratched his head awkwardly: "They also brought me back a silk scarf, told me to give it to someone. I think it suits you quite well, take it." He pulled out a brightly colored silk scarf. As expected, this would become popular in a couple of years. He had specifically asked someone to bring it back from the coast.
Wang Qianqian accepted it with delight, praising it incessantly.
Fang Zhiyi watched Gao Jie's expression. Sure enough, a clear wave of envy washed over Gao Jie's face.
"Well, I have things to do, so I'll head off now." Fang Zhiyi suddenly lowered his voice, "You better keep it safe, that scarf is really expensive."
Wang Qianqian nodded repeatedly, her face slightly flushed.
Fang Zhiyi left.
Little Hei's face was still full of incomprehension.
"It's not the lack that troubles people, but the inequality. Study hard, the culture of female friendships will take you centuries to learn." Fang Zhiyi smiled, a very sly smile.
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.
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."
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
