"When you drove me out, we had already split the family. Have you forgotten?" Fang Zhiyi tilted his head.
The villagers standing by also recalled this incident and chimed in, "Exactly!"
"I remember it was a huge scene back then."
"Fang Zhiyi and his wife were really miserable at that time..."
Thinking back to that time, Fang Zhiyi's current attitude towards these people was absolutely justified!
It was unclear who started it: "Get lost! Fang Mingshan, hurry up and go home! Making a scene here in the middle of the night, aren't you ashamed?"
The crowd joined in the jeering, carrying a hint of wanting to curry favor.
"You, you bunch of wretches!" Liu Wenxia was anxious. She could tell that Fang Zhiyi had somehow stumbled into dumb luck and really made it big. This made her even more uncomfortable. Not to mention Fang Zhiyi tricking that dead old woman into stating the wrong amount of money, if she had known earlier, she would have asked him for another hundred thousand!
She also saw that wretched girl wearing new clothes, her eyes full of resentment. "Fang Zhaodi! Are you just going to watch your parents get bullied? He's not your biological father! Come back! Go home with me!"
Xiao Wu, tilting his neck with a punchable look on his face, wanted to step forward but was stopped by Fang Zhiyi's outstretched hand.
Fang Qingci somewhat regretted her curiosity, or rather, her worry. Seeing so many people looking at her, she felt incredibly nervous.
"Hurry up! Are you disowning your parents? I think you're itching for a beating again, aren't you?" Liu Wenxia habitually began to threaten her.
Fang Qingci started to tremble. She suddenly remembered the times she was beaten in that house: her grandmother's curses, her grandfather's cold stares, her younger brother's gloating, and her father adding fuel to the fire...
"No! I won't go back with you! This is my home!" Fang Qingci almost cried out these words, then turned around and rushed into the courtyard.
"Hey! You money-losing wretch, have you eaten a bear's heart and a leopard's gall?" Stunned for a moment, Liu Wenxia immediately tried to follow her. Before Xiao Wu could block her, Boss Wu stepped in front of her first. "Liu Wenxia! Aren't you going too far? You were the ones who didn't want Fang... Fang Qingci, and even adopted her out to Fang Zhiyi. Everyone here knows this. What? Are you going back on your word now?"
"What does it have to do with you? Get lost!" Fang Mingshan, who had taken two kicks today, was exceptionally furious. He was always the one beating Fang Zhiyi; he never expected to be beaten by Fang Zhiyi today.
Boss Wu rolled up his sleeves. "Fang Mingshan, are you fucking itching for a beating?"
Facing Fang Mingshan, his originally ferocious appearance was revealed. It was also this sentence that reminded Fang Mingshan of this neighbor's ferocity. He swallowed hard, pulled his wife, and said, "Fang Zhiyi! Just you wait! This isn't over!"
Seeing her son run away, Old Mrs. Fang stopped making a scene, merely cursed a few times, and hurriedly left.
The villagers dispersed one after another, and quite a few people sought out Xiao Wu, asking questions all at once.
Boss Wu rubbed his hands together and walked up to Fang Zhiyi. "Boss Fang, I know where I went wrong. Please be the bigger person and forgive my mistakes. Let me off this time..."
Fang Zhiyi glanced at him. He had to admit, this guy named Wu had some brains. In the original plot, he eventually made it very big. "Boss Wu, I don't have the final say in this matter."
Boss Wu craned his neck to look at the gate behind Fang Zhiyi and nodded repeatedly. "I understand! I understand! I'll go take care of it right away!"
Fang Zhiyi returned home, looked at Fang Qingci wiping her tears, tore off two pieces of tissue paper, and handed them to her.
"Weren't you afraid she would go back with her mother just now?" Little Hei asked.
"If she was still so confused and wanted to go back just now, then that would be her fate..." Fang Zhiyi said very easily. "A Heavenly Dao once told me that everyone's life is destined. Even if I forcibly altered her life, she would ultimately end up with the same tragic conclusion. I can easily imagine leaving a company to her, only for her to be harassed by these bloodsuckers, the company seized, the money stripped away, and they would even force her to marry someone..."
Little Hei felt a wave of lingering fear listening to this. "It's not impossible."
"But after meeting Sun Wukong, I suddenly realized that in some worlds, it's not like that at all. Didn't that Black Bear Demon's senior brother say something?"
"Huh?" Little Hei hadn't paid attention. It really disliked listening to those Daoist priests discussing the Dao; it was very boring.
"The Black Bear Demon said it wanted to calculate its future. Its senior brother told it... whether human or demon, or even all things in the world, there are actually millions of trajectories. But once the thought of observing them arises, the other trajectories will come crashing down, and ultimately only the one it focused on will remain."
"I don't understand." Little Hei shook its head.
Fang Zhiyi rolled his eyes. "The original words were even more obscure than this. I broke it down because I was afraid you wouldn't understand. I didn't expect your brain... is it completely filled with melodramatic plots?"
Just as they were talking, Fang Qingci suddenly spoke up, "Uncle... why are you so amazing?"
Fang Zhiyi looked at her. "Am I?"
Fang Qingci nodded. She had seen with her own eyes how Fang Zhiyi had someone make a few phone calls to shut up those villagers who liked to join in the fun, and even got Boss Wu to speak up for him.
Fang Zhiyi tore off two more pieces of tissue for her. "Some things aren't because I'm amazing, but because I was prepared in advance." Saying this, he took out a notebook from his pocket. Fang Qingci took it and flipped through it. Her uncle's handwriting was beautiful, and every page of the notebook contained information about each villager's family relationships, occupations, and so on.
"Uncle, you didn't..."
"From the day they adopted you out to me, I knew this would happen. After all, I know exactly what kind of people they are... If you want to succeed, you can't wait for things to happen before figuring out a solution. You have to anticipate what might happen... and then prescribe the right medicine for the problem."
Fang Qingci nodded.
"By the way, there's one more thing... you need to decide for yourself."
The next day, Fang Qingci still went to school, but this time Xiao Wu escorted her to the school gate.
When Fang Qingci walked into the classroom, a person suddenly springing out in front of her almost made her scream. When she looked closely, she almost didn't recognize him. Although Wu Xiaohu had been beaten quite miserably by those people a few days ago, today was much more exaggerated. Both sides of his face were swollen high, and he even limped a little when he walked.
Did those thugs strike too heavily yesterday?
Wu Xiaohu looked at Fang Qingci, then directly opened his mouth and shouted, "Fang Zhaodi, bah, Fang Qingci! I'm not spitting at you, I, I'm sorry! I was wrong! Please forgive me!"
His eyes were full of pleading, ignoring the strange looks from his classmates.
"Please tell your uncle that you forgive me, okay? Otherwise, I'll be beaten to death by my dad!"
Fang Qingci looked at Wu Xiaohu in front of her, the arrogance he displayed when bullying her flashing through her mind. After a moment, she shook her head. "You don't know you were wrong; you're just scared."
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.
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
] [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!"
