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.
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.
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
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!
