"How does it look? Xiao Jie, quick, take a look." Wang Qianqian twisted and turned in front of the mirror, trying out her new silk scarf, completely oblivious to her best friend's expression behind her.
Gao Jie was feeling some regret at that moment. It was just a spur-of-the-moment idea to trick Wang Qianqian into that 'accident' scheme. Who knew the handsome guy would turn out to be a shareholder of the biggest home appliance company now! If she had known earlier, she would have gone for it herself.
Thinking this, she started blaming Fang Zhiyi again. Before, he remembered to bring her a share of everything, but now he just gave something directly only to Wang Qianqian. Pretty? Pah! She looks like a pig demon that just gained human form!
Cursing inwardly, her words were still sweet: "It looks beautiful. Oh, I'm so jealous of you~"
Hearing this, Wang Qianqian blushed: "Jealous of what? We haven't even defined the relationship yet."
"Still playing shy. Don't you owe me some thanks?" Gao Jie walked up, looking at her friend in the mirror, at that silk scarf. She reached out to touch it. Wang Qianqian, remembering Fang Zhiyi's words "it's very expensive," instinctively moved away.
Gao Jie's heart sank.
"Thank you... I'll definitely thank you properly once our relationship is official!" Wang Qianqian continued.
Gao Jie's eyes shifted craftily. "You better be careful. With rich guys like him, he might just be playing with you. Who knows, he might be stringing other women along too."
Wang Qianqian, being rather simple-minded, was taken aback. "He wouldn't, would he?"
"Why wouldn't he? Are you officially together?" Gao Jie pressed.
Worry began to cloud Wang Qianqian's eyes. "Then what should I do?"
"Follow him." After saying this, a flash of malicious satisfaction crossed Gao Jie's eyes. This Wang Qianqian was truly foolish.
"Okay!"
At a newly opened beverage shop—the first of its kind in this district, proposed by Fang Zhiyi and spearheaded by his sister-in-law—Fang Zhiyi sat casually. Across from him was a woman with permed hair and sunglasses, an outfit considered extremely trendy for the era.
"So, have you considered my proposal?"
Fang Zhiyi smiled. "Don't be in such a hurry, Miss Yang." The woman before him was Yang Huan, returned from abroad, a competitor of Xu Nian's. To put it simply, she was the antagonist.
Yang Huan looked at Fang Zhiyi, having formed a comprehensive assessment of him. Her investigations revealed that behind Xu Nian's success, there was always a shadow most people overlooked: this Fang Zhiyi. Digging further, she found Fang Zhiyi had a background as a small-time hoodlum, a former gambler who had only recently toned it down. But people like him never truly change, making him the perfect candidate to be bought.
Fang Zhiyi hadn't expected to catch the antagonist's eye, but the antagonist was exactly who he wanted!
This Yang Huan was ruthless. In the original storyline, she ended up kidnapping Xu Nian's wife, pushing the story's climax. If left to her devices, his own second sister would likely be the one to suffer. Thinking of this, Fang Zhiyi cursed Xu Nian eight hundred times and the Heavenly Way another two hundred.
Little Hei said this was due to the male lead's overwhelming protagonist aura, and the Heavenly Way wouldn't interfere.
"Name your price." Yang Huan suddenly smiled. She was confident. For someone who only knew how to eat, drink, and have fun, she didn't believe money wouldn't move him.
Fang Zhiyi sighed but said nothing.
Yang Huan grew impatient. "I guarantee this won't harm you. I'll even cut you in on future profits. All you need to do is provide me with Xu Nian's core technical data..."
Fang Zhiyi remained silent until he caught sight of two sneaky figures.
Yang Huan was taken aback. One moment Fang Zhiyi seemed unwilling to cooperate, the next he placed his hand on top of hers.
"It's not easy to arrange."
Yang Huan was surprised, but then it made sense—this guy didn't seem to have a girlfriend.
She didn't pull away. Instead, she placed her other hand on top of his. "We can discuss the terms slowly."
"In that case! Let's change locations to talk!" Fang Zhiyi stood up. Somewhat bewildered, Yang Huan followed him out and got into his car.
In the corner, Wang Qianqian was frantic. "How dare that woman be so handsy?" She wanted to charge over, but Gao Jie held her back, her eyes full of glee though her words were cautionary. "No, don't be impulsive. What would you even do if you went over?"
Watching the two get into the car intimately, Wang Qianqian couldn't hold back any longer and rushed out. But how could she match the speed of a car? She was left behind in the blink of an eye.
"See. I told you so." Gao Jie's eyes shifted again. "But Fang Zhiyi doesn't seem like that type to me. That woman, however... tsk."
With just that one remark, she successfully made Wang Qianqian resent that woman.
Yang Huan also hadn't expected Fang Zhiyi's condition to be so simple: he had a friend who needed a job arranged. Yang Huan agreed without a second thought. As long as he had demands, things were manageable.
Wang Qianqian saw Fang Zhiyi again that evening. Before she could angrily confront him, Fang Zhiyi smiled and said, "Didn't you say last time you were looking for a job? Our company isn't hiring right now, so I found you a position at a pretty good company."
With that, Wang Qianqian's attention was diverted.
"Really?"
"Really. Here's the address. Go directly tomorrow." Fang Zhiyi handed her a slip of paper, flashing a smile at Gao Jie as well.
Gao Jie felt a sour taste in her heart. Buying silk scarves, arranging jobs... then what about her?
But Fang Zhiyi didn't give her a chance to speak. After a few words of instruction, he turned and left.
Watching the happy Wang Qianqian, Gao Jie's heart churned with venom.
Yang Huan looked into Wang Qianqian's background and found she was just an outsider, so she didn't pay much mind. Probably that good-for-nothing Fang Zhiyi was trying to woo her. Since the local branch was just established and needed staff anyway, she had someone arrange Wang Qianqian's onboarding. She had urgent business to attend to out of town.
She had underestimated the destructive power of a fool.
The person assigned to train Wang Qianqian was a girl surnamed Wei. She explained many things to Wang Qianqian and, knowing she was arranged by the boss, was quite polite. But Wang Qianqian gave her a surprise the very next moment.
Wang Qianqian's assigned tasks were simple office work.
Wang Qianqian cherished this job. On her first day, to save the company money, she turned off the aerator for the Arowana fish tank that Yang Huan had specially had transported in.
"Leaving this on all the time wastes so much electricity," Wang Qianqian thought, proud of her thriftiness, as she unplugged it and left.
The next day, everyone was shocked. The golden, shimmering Arowana was already swimming belly-up.
"Who was the last to leave yesterday?" the manager asked.
Wang Qianqian eagerly raised her hand.
"This plug..."
"I unplugged it! Running it all night is so expensive! Sister Wei even told me yesterday to conserve company resources." Wang Qianqian said with a proud expression.
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
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."
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.
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.
