From the Fang family's carriage came the scolding voice of Fang's Mother.
"Look at that expression on your face! You jinx! What? Are you defiant?"
Jian Xiaoyu lowered her head bitterly.
But her submission only made Fang's Mother even angrier. The Fang family had suddenly fallen from the heavens into the mud, and everyone's state of mind was no longer what it used to be. Fang's Mother's scolding continued. Sitting at the front of the carriage, Fang Congyun frowned, and finally, Fang Kui spoke up: "Shut up! You are too noisy!"
His mood was also terrible. Because of the mess Fang Zhiyi had caused, all the branch families of the Fang clan had been implicated.
As the head of the family, Fang Kui had to endure sarcastic remarks from the other Fang family members every day. If they had not feared his strength, they might have swarmed up and beaten him to death long ago.
They say a starved camel is still bigger than a horse, but the Fang family, having been ruined by Fang Zhiyi, was not only driven out of the capital but also left with very little money.
Fang Congyun's battle aura had been stuck at the fifth tier, unable to advance, which made him feel extremely frustrated.
In his frustration, he had grown accustomed to taking it out physically on his wife.
The humiliation from her mother-in-law and the violent treatment from her husband left Jian Xiaoyu's heart dead as ashes.
Her former love for Fang Congyun had entirely turned into hatred.
She hated herself for not seeing through this hypocrite sooner, hated herself for bravely pursuing love back then, and even more so, hated that she had believed Fang Zhiyi's words. But speaking of that, if it were not for Fang Kui, her money would not have vanished into thin air!
Even though Fang Congyun had tried to examine Fang Zhiyi's corpse, just as Fang Zhiyi had guessed, someone had already cleaned up everything for him. At the bottom of the cliff, apart from some broken wood, there was nothing else.
The fact that Fang Kui killed his son was confirmed; he would never be able to wash away this crime in his lifetime.
Of course, given the current situation, whether he washed it away or not was no longer necessary.
At dinner, Jian Xiaoyu still had to do the cooking. This young lady, whose fingers had never done chores, had now become like a servant of the Fang family. As she mixed rice into the water, she also had to endure Fang's Mother's verbal attacks.
Her eyes gradually grew ruthless, and the medicinal powder hidden in her sleeve was poured into the pot along with the ingredients.
Although Jian Xiaoyu was at fault, her mother was still her mother. When the Fang family was leaving, she rushed over to see Jian Xiaoyu one last time. Despite constantly complaining about debts, she still slipped something to her.
Besides a one-thousand-tael silver note, it was this packet of poison.
Obviously, Madam Jian had to stand on her family's side to protect them, but her heart also ached for her daughter. She knew well that Jian Xiaoyu's life would not be easy, but she was entirely helpless.
Fortunately, Jian Xiaoyu was always the last to eat; she could only eat whatever was left over.
So when Fang's Mother felt something was wrong, Jian Xiaoyu had already raised her hand.
She slapped her mother-in-law's pale face, her own face full of malicious delight: "Old hag! Keep scolding me now!"
"You bitch, you..." Jian Xiaoyu turned around and kicked Fang Congyun in the chest. "Do not think I forgot about you! Just you wait!"
"You actually poisoned us... What is this..."
"This is the Aura-Dissolving Powder!" Jian Xiaoyu gritted her teeth. "You blamed everything on me. If it were not for your Fang family, would I have ended up like this? You damn old woman!"
She did not use any battle aura, but simply sat on Fang's Mother like an ordinary woman, slapping her face one strike after another.
Fang's Mother let out agonizing wails.
At this moment, Fang Kui suddenly shouted, "What are you all standing around for! Your sister-in-law is about to be beaten to death!"
Not far from them were the other Fang branch families. Each family ate separately, and seeing the scene here, they slowly gathered around.
Jian Xiaoyu suddenly turned her head. "What? Do all of you Fang family members want to bully me?"
The Fang family members looked at each other, somewhat at a loss.
Fang Kui shouted, "Have you no rules? You see a junior beating your sister-in-law and you do not help?"
Jian Xiaoyu was suddenly enraged. She raised her hand, this time using all the battle aura in her body. With just one slap, Fang's Mother's face twisted to the side, and a mouthful of blood immediately spewed out.
Seeing the Fang family members approaching, Jian Xiaoyu cast a resentful glance at Fang Congyun, who was staring fixedly at her, and took to her heels.
"You are still looking! Chase her!" Fang Kui said with great effort.
However, the Fang family members, led by the second branch, just watched Jian Xiaoyu run away. The middle-aged man standing at the front looked at Fang Kui. "Brother, you caused us to be implicated. It is time... to settle this score."
"You, what are you going to do? Are you rebelling?" Fang Kui realized what was happening, and sudden fear gripped his heart. He wanted to resist, but he had ingested a lot of the Aura-Dissolving Powder just now and was completely powerless.
"Do not think I do not know that you are still hiding a massive sum of money, right?" The man narrowed his eyes.
Fang Congyun looked at his father in shock. With just one glance, he understood that what his second uncle said was true. His father's expression was clearly somewhat panicked.
This night was very long.
But Fang Kui did not live to see the dawn.
Fang Congyun, who had despised Jian Xiaoyu's bad cooking and thus ate less, immediately fled for his life after recovering slightly. Listening to his father's screams and pleas for help behind him, he did not dare to stop at all. He even heard footsteps closely following him.
He ran until there was no road ahead, and Fang Congyun jumped straight down, which made his pursuers return in disappointment.
Floating up from the deep pool, Fang Congyun's eyes were filled with hatred.
"Jian! Xiao! Yu!"
"Wow, so thrilling. It is a pity you did not see it," Little Hei, having finished watching the spectacle, ran swiftly back to Fang Zhiyi, gesturing wildly as he recounted the events. "How did you know they would fall out?"
"It was only a matter of time. I just gave them a push and sped up the process." Fang Zhiyi busied himself with the parts in his hands. "I even suspect that Fang Congyun has some special preferences. Between a properly married wife and a stolen lover, he clearly prefers the one he does not have to take responsibility for."
"But he did not die... Hmm?" Little Hei suddenly turned his head.
Fang Zhiyi was still busy installing the last part, and then he picked up the jade pendant and gestured with it.
"I also ask Your Majesty not to make things difficult for the common people."
A person wrapped up tightly suddenly walked in. He was clearly taken aback for a moment, then burst into loud laughter and reached out to take off his mask. "You really are not a fool. I felt back then that a fool would not have as much courage as you."
Fang Zhiyi turned his head slightly. "Your Majesty, this humble subject did not intend to deceive you, I was just seeking a way out for myself."
Outside the door, Fang Zhiyi's subordinates were all surrounded by four imperial guards. Li San and the others clutched their chests, their faces full of terror. Were these the imperial guards? Were Dou Zong experts this terrifying?
"I just wanted to see what kind of tricks you were playing." The Emperor casually picked up a glass vessel nearby, a hint of admiration flashing in his eyes, and then carefully put it back.
"Speaking of which, you should thank me for cleaning up your mess," he said, reaching out to stroke the sturdy wall. "With your father's abilities, you would not have been spotted by a few street beggars just by leaving the city. Did you take me for a fool like those noble families?"
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.
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.
shall grant"] ["Inscribing the glory of our race upon tombstones"] ["All that is threatened, I shall protect"] How his younger sister sees her brother: A brother who only makes eye contact once a day, mostly fading into the background as he tinkers with who-knows-what in his room all day. Their life paths should have remained largely separate. Until one day. Su Qi created an equipment card for his never-met "online girlfriend." His sister fell into silent contemplation upon receiving the "white stockings." [Card can be upgraded] [Upgrade by fulfilling any of the following conditions] [Condition ①: Consume one hundred higher-tier cards] [Condition ②: Complete one 'Heart-Pounding Adventure'] What constitutes a Heart-Pounding Adventure? [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Beginner Level): Equip the card and invite 'Su Qi' to admire it.] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Easy Level): Equip the card, invite 'Su Qi' to touch it, and analyze the equipment's texture.] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Entry Level): Equip the card and invite 'Su Qi' to...] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Challenge Level): Freely combine the words 'Brother' 'Out' 'Brother' 'Me' 'Please' into a complete sentence...] "Please help me analyze both teams' mistakes in this match, brother..." His sister exhaled in relief—surely... surely there couldn't be anything more difficult? [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Suicide Mission Level): Sneak a peek at the names of the galgames in 'Su Qi's' hidden E-drive folder]
