Hu Yuqian looked at the hung-up phone, cursed indignantly, then turned and smiled at the boy beside her who had just invited her out: "Sure, let's go sing karaoke after school!"
She did like Fang Zhiyi, but that was only because he was great at taking care of people and could help her with her homework. It was just a pity that Fang Zhiyi had no money.
Aside from Hu Yuqian, the Fang family hadn't been having a peaceful time recently either.
Without Fang Zhiyi at home, Fang Jianshu always felt like something was missing. However, upon seeing his adorable younger son, he brushed those thoughts aside. But soon enough, they discovered a problem.
In the past, when Fang Zhiyi was home, he was either cleaning the house or running errands to buy things. Sometimes he even had to deliver this and that to Fang Chengci, never uttering a single complaint.
Now that Fang Zhiyi was gone, all of Fang Chengci's demands fell onto Fang's Mother.
"Mom, I forgot my pen, bring it to me."
"Mom, when you come to pick me up later, buy me the fried skewers from that place I like."
"Mom..."
After cleaning the house, Fang's Mother had to rush to cook. Whenever she finally got a moment to rest, she still had to cater to Fang Chengci's demands, leaving her completely exhausted. Every time she went out, the neighbors would point and gossip about her. Everyone knew they had forced their own son away. Even if she wanted to explain, no one would listen, causing her to constantly suppress a great deal of negative energy.
Because of this, for the first time, she realized that this younger son was a bit high-maintenance and demanding.
"It's cold! I'm not eating it!" Fang Chengci threw the fried skewers straight onto the ground. In the past, his older brother would have silently picked them up and thrown them in the trash, but Fang's Mother's expression was noticeably dark.
"Let's go!" Without Fang Zhiyi there to keep him in check, Fang Chengci's true nature gradually revealed itself.
Fang's Mother got on her bike without a word. Fang Chengci hopped on the back, constantly chattering about what new things this classmate or that classmate had bought, making Fang's Mother frown incessantly.
Not to mention the fact that the trouble Fang Zhiyi caused earlier made them pay a lot of compensation, he had also taken some money when he left. The family's financial situation was not optimistic lately, so they temporarily hadn't bought anything new for Fang Chengci.
This led to Fang Chengci's endless complaining.
Fang's Mother felt an immense amount of pressure. That very night, a huge argument broke out between her and Fang Jianshu.
Their quarrel initially revolved around Fang Zhiyi, with both accusing the other of not raising him properly. Fang Chengci just watched from the side, occasionally giggling foolishly. His behavior ended up triggering Fang's Mother. In the heat of the moment, she immediately turned her anger toward Fang Chengci.
"You're still laughing! Still eating! Look at how fat you've gotten! Do you know how much your dad and I even make? We buy you fried skewers and you just throw them away? You're not even as good as your brother!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the house fell silent.
"Don't compare Xiao Ci to that rebellious son!" Fang Jianshu shouted angrily.
Fang's Mother also felt she had been too impulsive, but before she could even defend herself, Fang Chengci jumped up, ran straight back to his room, and slammed the door shut: "If you like my brother so much, go tell him to come back! He wouldn't put up with you guys anyway!"
Mr. and Mrs. Fang looked at each other in dismay.
"Are you happy now!" Fang Jianshu scolded, hurriedly going to coax his son.
Fang's Mother's eyes filled with hot tears: "Right, right, right, you guys are always right, I'm the only one who's wrong!"
In the past, she always thought Fang Jianshu's ideas were right, but now that she was the one bearing all this pressure, she started to feel that something was off.
Having figured things out, Fang's Mother gritted her teeth and quit doing all the work. She left the house cleaning for Fang Jianshu to do himself when he got off work. She cooked when she felt like it, and ignored it when she didn't. But even so, she still habitually satisfied Fang Chengci's demands.
However, the family's finances were indeed poor right now. They hadn't bought the shoes Fang Chengci wanted, so he refused to go to school and threw massive tantrums at home. Fang Jianshu tried coaxing him for a long time to no avail, so he finally gritted his teeth and forced himself to buy them.
The consequence was that the family's meals became very poor for the next half month.
Fang Chengci was naturally unhappy, either throwing his chopsticks or wearing a dark scowl.
After the umpteenth time he threw his chopsticks, an exhausted Fang Jianshu yelled at him for the first time: "Are you going to eat or not? If not, get back to your room!"
"Dad, you're scolding me too?" Fang Chengci looked at his father in disbelief.
Fang's Mother pretended not to see anything.
With Fang Zhiyi gone, they had to face Fang Chengci's tantrums directly. Coupled with the financial pressure and the neighbors' disdain, these long-suppressed emotions finally erupted.
"So what if I scold you? You still have the nerve to throw your chopsticks! Look at your mother and me, we skimp on food and clothes so we can buy you whatever you want. What are you still dissatisfied with? Are your grades even good? You're at the bottom of the class every single time!" Fang Jianshu also let out everything he had been holding in.
Fang Chengci's face was full of disbelief. He abruptly stood up and ran toward the door: "If that's how it is, I'm leaving too! Are you happy now!"
Of course, he didn't run far, only making it to the neighborhood gate. Sure enough, his parents, having cooled down, hurried over. After lots of apologies and coaxing, Fang Chengci finally wiped his tears and went home.
Little Hei told Fang Zhiyi about this, but Fang Zhiyi didn't really care.
"Did you think their bias would be cured that easily? Some people are just born biased, biased all the way out of their asses."
Just as he was speaking, his phone rang.
Looking at the caller ID, he was a bit puzzled, but he picked it up anyway.
"Um, son, are you still mad at Mom and Dad?" It was Fang Jianshu's voice on the other end.
"Who are you calling son? I'm your daddy!" Fang Zhiyi cursed right off the bat.
Fang Jianshu was so angry he almost smashed his phone, but he couldn't bear to do it: "It's me, it's me!"
Fang Zhiyi just said, "Oh. I thought some blind fool was making a tasteless joke. Don't they know I'm an orphan?"
"You..." Fang Jianshu wanted to explode, but looking at the eyes of his wife and younger son, he forcefully suppressed his anger. "Come back, you have exams coming up, right?"
"I'm not going back. Exams? Didn't you know I already finished them?"
"Ah? You finished them?" Fang Jianshu was a bit stunned.
But Fang Zhiyi wasn't lying. He really had gone and taken the exams. With the accumulated knowledge of multiple worlds, handling a test was simple enough.
"You can't even remember when my exams are. What kind of father are you?"
"Your mom misses you. We're a family, and families don't hold grudges overnight," Fang Jianshu continued.
But Fang Zhiyi directly punctured his facade: "Cut the crap. Just say it—do you want me to go back to do chores, or tutor that retard? If you didn't need something, you'd never think of me."
"Uh... your little brother has exams coming up too. Your mom and I are both busy, so we thought you could come back and help take care of him. How about it?"
"Get lost."
Listening to the busy tone on the phone, Fang Jianshu gritted his teeth. "I've raised an ungrateful wretch!" His hands trembled with anger. Fang's Mother had no other choice either, only able to sigh: "If it doesn't work out, I guess I'll just keep taking care of Xiao Ci for now."
Fang Chengci, on the other hand, was quite happy. It was best if that fierce and intimidating Fang Zhiyi never came back!
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!
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
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...
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
