Liu Ruyan turned her head to look at Qin Hao, a certain inscrutable meaning flickering in her eyes.
A chill ran straight up Qin Hao’s spine.
Liu Ruyan’s lips curled slightly. That half-smile, half-not expression was far more unsettling than a stern face.
Qin Hao forced a smile.
“Darling, you know that was just a business necessity. Renting a cultivation partner—it’s work.”
Liu Ruyan nodded.
“I know. Of course I know!”
She walked up to Qin Hao, raised her hand, and hooked her fingers into the collar of his robes.
The pressure was light, yet Qin Hao felt himself uncontrollably leaning toward her.
Liu Ruyan leaned close to his ear, her voice dropping very low:
“You’ve finished your work outside—don’t forget the work at home!!!”
The moment the words left her mouth, Qin Hao saw everything blur. An irresistible force swept him up.
Liu Ruyan wrapped one arm around Qin Hao’s waist and casually waved the other hand toward Qin Wuya and the assembly of ancestors.
“Father, I’m taking my husband away now. Handle the rest yourselves.”
With that, she vanished, taking Qin Hao with her.
The next second, they were back at the Qin family estate.
Liu Ruyan tossed Qin Hao onto a white jade chair.
“Sisters, time to collect the debt!”
She pulled out a communication jade slip and sent a message to the others. Moments later, Su Qingyue, Jiang Xinyao, and the others entered the room.
……
A month passed in the blink of an eye.
Qin Hao emerged from his room with a lingering look of fear on his face.
“Gulp… So this is what they call bittersweet pleasure?”
He clenched his fists. After a month of dual cultivation, his cultivation base had successfully broken through to the Immortal realm.
The realms after Immortal were Earth Immortal, Heaven Immortal, Golden Immortal, Taiyi Golden Immortal, Daluo Golden Immortal, Immortal Lord, Immortal King, and Immortal Emperor.
Though he only had the cultivation of an Immortal, Qin Hao felt he could easily defeat even a Heaven Immortal.
Even if he faced a Taiyi Golden Immortal, he believed he could put up a fight.
“I hope I can keep this combat power,” he mused. “If I can maintain four major realms’ worth of gap-climbing battle strength, then as a Taiyi Golden Immortal, I’d have power rivaling an Immortal Emperor.”
[Ding! You have a new rental order. Please check it.]
[Customer Name: Zhao Pojun]
[Order Request: Come on, let’s have some fun.]
[Customer Rating: Ten-star potential. Fortune: Three Stones.]
Looking at the system control panel before him, Qin Hao couldn’t hold it together.
Seriously—what the hell was that order request?
And the customer’s name didn’t seem right either.
What decent girl would be named Zhao Pojun?
Qin Hao stared at the name on the system panel, reading it three times over to confirm he wasn’t seeing things.
Zhao Pojun.
That name sounded like some battle-hardened frontier general. And then there was the order request—
“Come on, let’s have some fun.”
That phrase sounded like something a bandit chief would say when robbing a bride.
Qin Hao scratched his head and asked uncertainly,
“Hey… system, are you sure the customer isn’t a mistake?”
[Ding, please don’t groundlessly doubt this system. So, are you taking this order or not?]
Qin Hao pouted but still pressed the accept button on the order.
[Ding, congratulations, host—you have obtained a physique identical to Zhao Pojun’s: the Ten Thousand War God Body.]
[Ten Thousand War God Body: Fight stronger the more you fight. War without end.]
“Go ahead and teleport me. I want to see for myself what kind of woman can carry the name Zhao Pojun.”
Lingyao Heaven, one of the Middle Three Heavens. The Great Zhao Immortal Dynasty.
As the golden light faded, Qin Hao found himself standing in a resplendent palace.
Behind the imperial desk directly opposite the hall sat a young man.
He wore a dark brocade robe, cinched at the waist with a jade belt trimmed with gold thread, and a white jade crown on his head.
His face was delicate yet carried a hint of valiance.
Sensing someone approaching, Zhao Pojun immediately drew the sword at his waist and stared at Qin Hao warily.
“Who are you? How dare you break into my residence!”
Qin Hao’s mind went blank. It’s a man! A real man!!!
He cursed the system over a thousand times under his breath.
“Damned system, we’re a rental cultivation companion service, not a rental soulmate matchmaker!”
This time, the system gave no reply.
Qin Hao covered his face and shook his head in resignation.
“Don’t misunderstand. I’m just here to fill the order. You requested my rental cultivation companion service.”
He stared at the man before him, clinging to one last shred of hope.
What if—just what if—this person was actually a woman disguised as a man?
With that thought, Qin Hao activated his dual-pupil ability.
A flash of purple-gold light flickered in his eyes.
Under his gaze, Zhao Pojun was peeled open layer by layer, all secrets laid bare before him.
Qin Hao scrutinized every detail from head to toe and finally reached a conclusion.
The person in front of him—genuine, authentic, no doubt about it—was male.
He slowly closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and mentally cursed the system up and down again.
“Damned system! What are you playing at? It’s a man?!”
When Zhao Pojun heard Qin Hao say he was the one who ordered the rental cultivation companion, his eyes lit up.
He strode quickly to Qin Hao and studied Qin Hao’s handsome face. He gave an earnest compliment:
“So you’re the rental cultivation partner I ordered a month ago? You’re really handsome.”
When “you’re really handsome” came out of Zhao Pojun’s mouth,
A chill shot from Qin Hao’s tailbone straight to the top of his head.
Looking at Zhao Pojun again, the man’s eyes held an undisguised appreciation.
Qin Hao felt a wave of revulsion.
And when he recalled Zhao Pojun’s order request being “Come on, let’s have some fun,”
He wanted to get out of there that instant. Turning, he prepared to leave.
“Look, I think there’s been some kind of mistake. My orders only ever accept the opposite sex—never the same sex. You’ll have to cancel the order.”
After saying that, Qin Hao turned to leave.
“Hey hey hey! Don’t go! What gives you the right to leave?”
Zhao Pojun rushed over in three quick strides and grabbed Qin Hao’s sleeve.
Seeing Zhao Pojun’s hand on his sleeve, Qin Hao panicked. He leaped away and flung the hand off.
“Talk with words—don’t get handsy with me!”
Qin Hao jabbed a finger at Zhao Pojun’s nose and shouted. In his mind, he had already classified Zhao Pojun as that kind of man.
He didn’t want to be associated with the other for even one second more.
Zhao Pojun was shoved hard and fell to the ground.
After all, as a prince of an immortal dynasty, he had never been treated like this before.
“How dare you treat me like this? If I get hurt, can you afford it?”
Qin Hao sneered repeatedly:
“Don’t act all snide with me! If you really piss me off, can you win a fight?”
As he spoke, Qin Hao made a threatening gesture, as if about to strike.
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ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
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!
