"Get lost!"
"Hey, you're itching for a beating, aren't you?"
"Brother Ning, should I beat him up?" The big guy behind Fang Ning took a step forward.
"Mind your own business." Fang Ning pushed his lackey aside. Shao Zhijie looked the big guy up and down: "Where did you find him? He looks pretty intimidating."
"It's all because of my dad. He said I never use my brain when I do things, so didn't I just go and find someone who uses his brain?"
"Uncle Fang, huh... No, wait, this brother here doesn't exactly look like he... you know?"
"Datou, give him a demonstration!"
The big guy didn't hesitate at all. He casually dug a brick out of the flowerbed and smashed it over his own head. The red brick shattered on the spot.
Shao Zhijie was a bit dumbfounded: "Brother, I really don't think that's what Uncle Fang meant by using a brain."
"Like I need you to tell me!" Fang Ning scolded with a laugh. Suddenly, he caught sight of a familiar figure not far away. The person approached with a limp. Seeing that the man wanted to greet him, Fang Ning let out a disdainful scoff, threw his arm around Shao Zhijie's shoulders, and walked away.
"You know him? Is he a creditor?" Shao Zhijie's mouth was always quite wicked.
"Not really. I think he's my cousin. God knows how he ended up like that."
"I actually know. I heard it's a lingering injury from a brawl. He could have recovered, but his dad dragged him along to collect debts, and as a result, he ended up crippled," Shao Zhijie said. "That guy acted all tough relying on the dirty money his dad scrounged up, and he got beaten for it."
As he spoke, Shao Zhijie suddenly saw something. He immediately ditched Fang Ning and buzzed over like a fly: "Tingting, you're here too? Did you know your Brother Zhijie was coming to register? Come on, let me carry your bag."
"Shao Zhijie! Screw you! Stay away from my sister!" Fang Ning roared.
"Screw you! She's my sister too!" Shao Zhijie didn't even turn his head.
Fang Huohua watched Fang Ning walk away, then looked at the graceful and elegant Fang Ting, a flash of jealousy crossing his eyes. Those two from his eldest uncle's family used to be at the very bottom of the Fang family. How were they living so well now?
It was all that eldest uncle's fault, borrowing money from their family and never paying it back!
He gritted his teeth, muttering something under his breath. Suddenly, Fang Ning, who was walking ahead, turned his head with a threatening look. Fang Huohua could read his lips.
"Stay the hell away."
Fang Zhiming had also sought out Fang Zhiyi to ask for money, but Fang Zhiyi would just cry poverty the moment they met. He spoke very nicely, calling him his dear brother with every breath, but the moment money was mentioned, Fang Zhiyi would start playing the victim.
"Not only am I divorced from your sister-in-law, but I also have to raise two kids all by myself. It's so hard for me!"
After hearing it so many times, Fang Zhiming suddenly realized: weren't these the exact same excuses he used to make?
He was completely helpless against Fang Zhiyi's blatant shamelessness. If he tried to act like a thug, Fang Zhiyi wouldn't indulge him and would just raise a hand to beat him. Even if others saw it, no one would say anything. Everyone knew he was Fang Zhiyi's biological younger brother, and what was wrong with an older brother teaching his younger brother a lesson?
Furthermore, Fang Zhiming's reputation was already terrible, as he was dragging out debts he owed to quite a few people.
Because of this, Fang Zhiming knew he wasn't getting his money back. Although he was unwilling to accept it, the current situation was that ever since his divorce, Fang Zhiyi acted completely different from before. He was no longer generous to a fault and behaved even more outrageously than Fang Zhiming himself.
To pay for the trouble his son caused, Lin Jianguo not only sold their newly bought house but also failed to keep their old one. He could only vent all his anger on his wife and son. Unable to take it anymore, Fang Wenxia asked for a divorce. A drunk Lin Jianguo got furious just seeing Lin Xiaojun and hit him a bit too hard, turning Lin Xiaojun deaf. As a result, he was arrested.
Fang Wenxia wanted to complain about her eldest brother's faults, but no matter how much she talked, the listeners couldn't find anything wrong with Fang Zhiyi. After all, they all somewhat knew how Fang Zhiyi usually helped his younger siblings.
"When he helped her, she didn't say a word about it, and now that he stopped helping, she starts biting people. Stay away from someone like that."
"Brother, did you go see Mom?" Fang Ting suddenly asked while they were eating.
Fang Ning nodded: "She's something else. She gave all her money to our uncle, and when she wanted it back, they wouldn't give her a single cent." He paused for a moment, "I left her a little money."
"Aren't you afraid Dad will scold you?"
"Let him scold me. It's not like he's only beaten me once or twice," Fang Ning said nonchalantly. "Back then, Dad even wanted her to pay child support for the two of us..." He remembered that time when Fang Zhiyi left the choice to him, and he ultimately couldn't bring himself to be that cruel.
That allowed Liu Mei to escape a disaster, otherwise Fang Zhiyi had plenty of ways to torment her. Although she was living a miserable life now and had completely fallen out with her eldest brother and sister-in-law over money, spouting venom at anyone she saw, Fang Ning and Fang Ting rarely visited her. No one wanted to be polluted by her negative energy.
Under Fang Zhiyi's guidance, Fang Ting completely strayed from her original path. She got into a top-tier university with excellent grades, but later felt it wasn't what she liked. When she told Fang Zhiyi about this, he didn't object. He just smiled and said she could decide her own life.
"If you can't make money, just come back and I'll support you... No, your brother will support you!" Fang Zhiyi patted his chest.
Fang Ting giggled, looking just like the innocent little girl she was in her childhood.
Fang Ning had also used the startup capital provided by Fang Zhiyi to launch his own business. Although he wasn't incredibly wealthy, he was doing much better than the average person.
The key was that Fang Zhiyi could always point out the way out of his predicament with a single sentence whenever he felt lost.
"Fang Ning, wait!" A girl seemed to have made up her mind, jogging back to Fang Ning's side.
Originally reluctant to come to the blind date, she found that the other party was a great guy. He had a career, good looks, and manners—he was simply top-notch.
"That's right, that's right." A disguised Fang Zhiyi watched from afar, and Fang Ting also peeked over: "Dad, do you think Big Brother will succeed this time?"
"If he succeeds, I'll do a handstand and have diarrhea!" Shao Zhijie hollered, only to be slapped on the back of the head by his dad the next second.
Fang Ning frowned slightly. Coming out today had already taken up a lot of his time, but he still held onto his patience: "Is there something else?"
The girl was a bit shy: "You treated me to dinner, watched a movie with me, and even bought me milk tea... It feels a bit inappropriate for me to just leave like this."
Fang Ning was somewhat taken aback.
Not far away, his cheering squad all looked tense.
"How about we walk around a bit more and do something else..."
Fang Ning suddenly took a step back: "Are you never going to end this? I've already spent a lot today, and I paid for all of it. Do you still want me to buy you a late-night supper or something?"
Fang Zhiyi slapped a hand over his own face: "It's over."
Fang Ting shook her head: "It's over."
Only Shao Zhijie gloated: "Look at that, look at that! I told you so! There's no way he's getting a girlfriend!"
Noticing the girl storming off in a huff, Fang Ning also spotted them over there. He looked confused at first, then trotted over with a face full of smiles.
"Dad, treat me to a meal!"
"Eat, eat, eat! Just how stingy can you get!"
"Hey? Why are you leaving? Hey? Sister? Uncle Shao?" Fang Ning looked in bewilderment at Shao Zhijie, who was wearing a cheeky grin. "What are they doing?"
"Brother, you are truly something." Shao Zhijie gave him a thumbs-up.
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."
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
