Liu Ruyan's eyes darted away evasively, her fingers anxiously twisting her tattered hem. She had never entered such a grand place before. The shimmering, colorful dresses inside were not something she could ever hope for.
Qin Hao stopped and looked at her quietly. The young girl had her head lowered. Her frail figure and cautious demeanor, as if terrified of becoming a burden to him, made his heart ache with a soft and bitter pang.
Qin Hao walked up to her, gently cupping her face with both hands to force her to meet his gaze.
"Whether it is expensive or not is not for you to consider. In my eyes, you deserve the most beautiful things in this world."
With that, Qin Hao took her hand and led her into the Nishang Pavilion.
The moment they stepped through the door, the originally harmonious atmosphere suddenly froze. A shop assistant, who was introducing clothes to a customer, caught a glimpse of Liu Ruyan out of the corner of his eye. With a clatter, the measuring ruler in his hand dropped to the floor.
His eyes widened as if he had seen something absolutely terrifying. After a long moment, he pointed a trembling finger at Liu Ruyan, his shrill voice piercing the tranquility of the shop:
"The... the Jinx! It is that Jinx from the Liu family! Why did she come to our Nishang Pavilion?!"
This exclamation was like a drop of cold water falling into boiling oil, instantly causing an uproar.
The gazes of everyone in the shop immediately zeroed in on Liu Ruyan, filled with undisguised disgust, fear, and rejection.
"Heavens! It really is her. Did they not say the Liu family was going to execute her in public today?"
"What the hell is the Liu family doing? How did they let this scourge out?"
"Stay away from her. Whoever gets close to this Jinx is going to have bad luck."
"Look at the guy next to her. He looks decent enough, so why is he hanging around such an ominous person? Is his brain broken?"
"Quick, kick her out! We cannot let her stay in our shop. If we get tainted by her bad luck, how are we going to do business?"
"And that guy beside her, he might be some kind of evil fiend too. Throw them both out."
Insults and demands for them to leave rose one after another. Several noblewomen who were picking out clothes turned pale with fright, stumbling backward and tightly covering their noses and mouths with their handkerchiefs, as if Liu Ruyan carried a deadly plague.
Qin Hao's face completely darkened. He pulled the cowering Liu Ruyan close to his side. Sweeping his gaze around, his eyes were calm. There was no anger, but rather an indifference that was far more chilling than any fury.
The moment these people opened their mouths, they were already nothing but a pile of corpses in his eyes.
"Soul-Devouring Banner!"
Qin Hao opened his hand, and the wickedly aura-infused Soul-Devouring Banner appeared in his grasp. Feeling the ominous aura radiating from it, the customers and staff in the shop instantly turned pale with terror:
"What an evil power! This guy really is not anything good either!"
"Quick, notify the shopkeeper! The shopkeeper is a mighty Golden Core Realm cultivator. Ask him to take action and obliterate these two evil fiends."
Qin Hao sneered. He had not even done anything yet, and he was already branded an evil fiend?
He smiled and nodded. "Haha, calling me an evil fiend? Fine, today I will play the part of an evil fiend!"
Saying that, Qin Hao forcefully waved the Soul-Devouring Banner.
The thousands of agonizing, wailing ghost faces on the banner let out a collective shriek. Countless blood-red soul threads shot out like living venomous snakes, carrying ear-piercing shrieks as they accurately struck everyone in the shop.
They could feel their own souls being pulled out of their bodies by these threads.
"No, I do not want to die! Spare my life!"
"No, please, I was wrong! You are not an evil fiend, you are a good person, the best person in the world!"
Miserable and desperate pleas for mercy echoed endlessly. However, Qin Hao was not going to let them off just because they begged. With a flick of his wrist, he violently swung the banner, yanking their souls straight out of their bodies like he was fishing.
Over a hundred wailing souls were sucked into the Soul-Devouring Banner by Qin Hao. The soulless bodies collapsed to the ground with heavy thuds. In an instant, the previously bustling shop fell dead silent.
Qin Hao put away the banner without changing his expression, and the spine-chilling evil aura dissipated with it.
"Tell me, why do you act so tough when you have no strength? You dare to insult my person, do you not know how the word death is written?"
Liu Ruyan stared blankly at Qin Hao. Her previously empty and dead eyes were now surging with intense emotion, an unprecedented, almost burning touch.
This unreasonable, absolutely biased protection was like a violent yet warm thunderbolt that ruthlessly shattered her frozen heart.
Qin Hao did not notice the change in her expression. Instead, he pointed to the clothes inside the Nishang Pavilion and smiled at her:
"Haha, Ruyan, were you not worried that the things here were too expensive? Well, now that everyone is dead, we could not pay even if we wanted to. Pick out whatever clothes catch your eye."
Just as his words fell, a furious and tyrannical aura erupted from outside the shop.
"Vile spawn! You dare to slaughter my entire shop, and now you plan to commit theft within my walls! Today, this old master will obliterate your soul and ensure you never reincarnate!"
A gray silhouette charged at Qin Hao with astonishing momentum. The newcomer was none other than the shopkeeper of the Nishang Pavilion. He had just received a message from his staff saying someone was causing trouble.
He had rushed over immediately, only to be greeted by a shop filled with corpses. The dead bodies of his staff and customers were a shocking sight.
The scene before him made the veins on his forehead bulge with anger. He stared fixedly at Qin Hao, his eyes as venomous as a viper's.
Frightened by the shopkeeper's imposing aura, Liu Ruyan hurriedly hid behind Qin Hao.
Qin Hao patted her shoulder, comforting her that with him around, she would be fine.
"I am a peace-loving person who dislikes killing. However, it is a fact that you frightened my Ruyan. Kneel down, kowtow to Ruyan a hundred times to apologize, and I will spare your life."
The shopkeeper was almost driven to laughter by Qin Hao's shameless remarks. Dislikes killing? It had been less than five minutes since his staff sent the message to his arrival.
He arrived to see a field of corpses, and this guy was claiming he disliked killing? He must have sensed my peak Golden Core Realm cultivation and was forced to retract his murderous intent!
Moreover, was that girl not the Jinx of the Liu family? This bully who only picked on the weak was actually demanding he kneel to a Jinx? How could that be possible?
"Bastard! Who do you think you are! How dare you act so insolently in front of this old master! Today, I will take your life to pay tribute to the people of my Nishang Pavilion."
Qin Hao curled his lips. "I really do not like to fight, I only like to resolve fights. Why do all of you insist on forcing my hand?"
Under the shopkeeper's horrified gaze, a sudden phenomenon occurred within Qin Hao's eyes.
Qin Hao's pupils split into two. Deep within his left eye, primordial chaos bloomed, nebulas swirled, and universes were born and destroyed.
Within his right eye, thousands of Dao patterns intertwined, and chains of universal laws rose and fell.
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
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)
ose... to cooperate with the protagonist! Shen Yuan: I have a system! Protagonist: What? System: Holy crap, you're just spilling it out like that? Shen Yuan: Let's team up, we'll split the system rewards! Protagonist: Fifty-fifty split? Shen Yuan: No way! Protagonist: What!? I'm the one getting beaten up, and I don't get half? Shen Yuan: Forty-sixty split, I get forty, you get sixty! Protagonist: Deal! Big brother, come on, hit me! As long as it doesn't kill me, beat me like you mean it! Shen Yuan: Don't worry... I will definitely protect all of you! No one but me can lay a finger on you! Guard our Heaven's Chosen Ones! I'm the only one allowed to bully them!
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
