But when he mentioned the loan companies and the few casinos he knew about, the investigator looked impatient. "Is that all?"
"What do you mean 'is that all'? Also, you arrest gamblers too, right? Fang Zhiyi, my friend, he was the one who took me gambling. He goes to those casinos all the time. I suspect he's involved with those people."
The investigator snapped the notebook shut with a smack and glared sternly at the prisoner before him.
"If there's a next time, I'll charge you with defamation!"
Lin Zhou didn't understand what he had said wrong.
It wasn't until he saw his childhood friend Fang Zhiyi on TV again, giving a speech under a banner that read Outstanding Young Entrepreneur, that he was completely dumbfounded.
"That's my childhood friend, my good brother!" he exclaimed, waving his arms excitedly.
The inmates in the same cell burst into laughter.
"You don't even pick the right person to brag about."
"Get lost! Don't block the screen!"
"Why don't you take a look in the mirror? Who are you, and who is he?"
"Even if he really was your brother, look at how well he's doing, and look at you. Tsk tsk."
The inmates' words were like sharp knives stabbing into Lin Zhou's heart.
And at this moment, he suddenly began to realize the problem. If Fang Zhiyi was now an entrepreneur, then the image he presented before him, the things he said... Lin Zhou's eyes widened. He was tricking him! He had lured him into a trap step by step!
It started a long time ago! From... the first free investment... even that woman was deliberately brought to him by Fang Zhiyi!
Even Lin Zhou felt a bone-chilling cold rush from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head.
Fang Zhiyi... had actually plotted against him like this? He rushed to the door in a few steps, wanting to cry foul, but he opened his mouth and stopped. Who would believe him if he spoke out? Every step Fang Zhiyi took left no trace... He had jumped down himself, and even covered himself with dirt after jumping.
Only he knew the truth best. Fang Zhiyi didn't ask him to mortgage his house; he only said that he had mortgaged his own house. Fang Zhiyi didn't ask him to borrow money; he only showed him the platform he used to borrow money. Even... after bringing Sun Xiaomei, Fang Zhiyi quickly left. Such a huge trap, and he hadn't noticed it at all! Thinking about it now, Fang Zhiyi didn't gamble at all... He just deliberately brought him to those places...
The more Lin Zhou thought about it, the more terrified he became. Now, even if he still wanted to shirk responsibility, would people believe him or that infinitely glamorous young entrepreneur?
Fang Zhiyi's face appeared before his eyes, and he also remembered the scenes of pulling Fang Zhiyi out as a shield time and time again after causing trouble. That loyal fool. His definition of Fang Zhiyi was a fool. He clearly remembered that when he was young, he stole five yuan from home, and after getting slapped twice by his father, he immediately said that Fang Zhiyi, who had come to the house that day, took it. After hearing this, Father Lin stopped beating him and immediately went to knock on the door opposite them to make a scene. To settle the matter, Fang's parents actually paid his father five yuan.
Perhaps it was from that day on that he learned how to protect himself.
That night, Lin Zhou stared blankly with wide eyes. He wasn't repenting; he just didn't understand why that fool would suddenly treat him this way. He clearly didn't have any bad intentions!
"Don't worry, he won't die. People like him are more afraid of death than anyone else. Just like his wife, he definitely won't die." Fang Zhiyi looked leisurely at the clouds in the sky.
"It's just that after he comes out, we still have to let him rekindle his relationship with that woman, right? I'm really afraid of these two separating and harming other people."
Little Hei also nodded in agreement.
"Say, does that face-slapping system have any similar items? Let me enjoy some high-tech stuff once in a while too!"
Little Hei's face was already dark, but it instantly grew even darker. "Are you looking down on me?"
"No, no, you're so amazing..."
That afternoon, outside a certain university.
"Kid, long time no see..."
The Male Lead looked at the face in front of him. He had seen him before, that baffling man. After he left that day, the system had disappeared. Later, the system suddenly came back, but at that time, he was sticking his fingers down his throat to induce vomiting... (afraid of hallucinating from jianshouqing mushroom poisoning), making the scene very awkward.
"What, what do you want?"
"Well, let's step aside and talk." Fang Zhiyi rubbed his hands together, but his eyes were looking at the system.
The face-slapping system tried its best to hide behind the Male Lead, but a tentacle suddenly wrapped around it.
"I'll return it to you in a bit!" Fang Zhiyi walked away again.
The Male Lead looked dumbfounded. "No, is a system such a lame thing? It gets taken away just like that? Then what about my mission? I was supposed to slap my ex-girlfriend's face today!"
In a narrow alley.
"You don't have it?" Fang Zhiyi and Little Hei said in unison. "Then what use are you!"
The face-slapping system was almost crying. "I really don't have that kind of function... That kind of thing can't be used, it can't be used..."
Seeing how pitiful it was, Fang Zhiyi shook his head. "Forget it, you can go."
The Male Lead was still anxious about his mission when the system returned again.
He was a little uncertain. "System?"
"I'm here."
"Who was that person?"
The system trembled. "I don't know, but it's best you don't mess with him..." There were some things it couldn't say and didn't want to say.
"Hey, kid." Fang Zhiyi suddenly appeared again, startling the Male Lead.
"I have a task for you... In about ten years or so, an annoying guy will be released from prison... When the time comes, go help me get rid of him. His name is... Lin Zhou."
The Male Lead blinked, looking completely harmless.
"Then it's settled. You'll get rid of him sooner or later anyway... I'm just cutting in line..."
Fang Zhiyi was about to leave when he suddenly felt the space around him distort. Then, everything nearby came to a standstill, and a chill that gave him goosebumps instantly enveloped him.
He immediately had a bad feeling.
"Little Hei!"
There was no answer.
Fang Zhiyi instantly became alert. Could it be a quick-transmigration tasker ambushing him? And he hadn't even noticed? No, even Little Hei hadn't noticed. It seemed to be an expert.
Suddenly, black smoke wafting up not far away caught his attention.
He just took a few steps forward and saw a person sitting on the side of the street, seemingly burning something.
"Hey, stop playing tricks and make your move." Fang Zhiyi rolled his wrists. Well, it had been a long time since he'd gotten into a fight anyway. Compared to this, he was actually more worried about Little Hei right now. If the other party could even freeze Little Hei... the guy in front of him was strong, perhaps absurdly strong. But why didn't he just freeze him as well?
The person's head turned a full one hundred and eighty degrees. Fang Zhiyi was instantly shocked. You can't be this absurd, right?
The man seemed to realize this as well. He immediately snapped his head back, and then turned his entire body around. In that split second, Fang Zhiyi felt the air around him suddenly grow unbearably heavy. It was as if invisible hands were pressing down on his body; an immense pressure cascaded over him, as though trying to force Fang Zhiyi straight into the ground.
lanned to earn money steadily and take life at a slower pace. But he never expected... his father's remarriage, and the stepmother bringing along a dependent, would completely disrupt his life's plans...
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.
with countless casualties. As a top-tier gamer, Liu Xuan volunteered to join the fight, intending to dominate with his skills, but instead he obtained the hidden class: [Pacifist]. Unable to attack. Unable to use active skills. Fortunately, with each level gained, he acquired a new passive skill. And so, armed with a body full of passives, Liu Xuan slaughtered his way through the battlefield of ten thousand races! [You attacked Liu Xuan] [You gained the debuffs: 'Poison', 'Fear', 'Burning', 'Bleeding', 'Freeze', 'Silence', etc.] [Your attack speed has been reduced by 99%] [Your armor and magic resistance have been reduced by 99%] Warriors of the Ten Thousand Races: How the hell am I supposed to fight this?!
