Until his own death, Wu Zhishang got drunk and got into a car accident, which broke his legs and left him wheelchair-bound thereafter.
This would be considered tragic in any story.
Now, speaking of Wu Zhishang at this moment, he liked to squat on the toilet seat to relieve himself, but at a crucial moment, his phone slipped out of his hand.
After thinking about it, he actually went and grabbed a pair of chopsticks, enduring the disgust, to pick it up.
Not because the phone was too important, but because it contained important data.
“Lao Wu, what’s on your mind? Why would you… eat that?”
Wu Zhishang turned his head in a daze and saw his good friend Lin Ran arriving for their appointment. Immediately, his hand trembled, and the phone he had just picked up fell back down again.
Lin Ran naturally noticed Wu Zhishang’s awkwardness and burst into laughter that echoed throughout the dorm.
“Lin Ge, it’s not what you think! My phone fell down!”
Lin Ran: “Right, right, that’s exactly what happened!”
“You’re really misunderstanding! I was just picking up my phone!”
“Right, right! Picking up a phone… and well, while you’re at it!”
Damn it!
Wu Zhishang wanted to curse.
When the phone finally returned to his hands, he washed it over and over, wiping it clean. Lin Ran nearly threw up from the sight, keeping his distance the entire time.
“Lao Wu, you’re really something! No matter how down on your luck, you shouldn’t be eating that stuff! I’m in awe… ugh!”
With the phone “recovered,” Wu Zhishang wasn’t as upset anymore and decided to ask.
“Come on, what’s really going on with you, old man?”
Lin Ran asked something totally unrelated: “Did you get your internship certificate?”
Wu Zhishang shook his head: “I’ve been working odd jobs all summer; I didn’t go for an internship at all!”
Lin Ran: “Well, I’m planning to start a media company, and I want you to be a blogger.”
Wu Zhishang couldn’t believe it: “Are you kidding? Me being a blogger or just an investor?”
Lin Ran nodded: “Blogging.”
Wu Zhishang’s eyes widened: “C’mon, bro! Are you crazy? You’re not doing any better than me as a regular student at the Lin family. Where are you getting money to start a company?”
“My wife has money!”
“Even if your wife does… by the way, who exactly is your wife?”
It seemed like Wu Zhishang just remembered why he had invited Lin Ran today. He was too curious.
Lin Ran: “That’s a secret!”
Wu Zhishang: “So I figured you were lying! I mean, I know you’re kinda handsome, but you couldn’t even get Liu Ruxue, so how could you…”
Lin Ran pulled out his phone and shoved a photo of their marriage certificate in Wu Zhishang’s face.
“My wife’s a rich beauty, three years older than me, and hey, there’s an old saying: a woman three years older is like holding a gold brick. For me, it’s more like a gold mountain…”
After Lin Ran explained for a few minutes, Wu Zhishang was fuming.
“You should die! This is worse than killing me, aaaaaahhhh!”
After crying for a while, he finally asked: “Fine! Even if you’re starting a company, why would you pick me to be a blogger?”
Lin Ran glanced at Wu Zhishang: “Because you’re dumb enough to attract traffic, and, uh, can you stop waving that filthy phone in front of me… ugh!”
Wu Zhishang: Damn it!
“Is there no justice? No law?!”
However, Wu Zhishang was genuinely happy for Lin Ran. First, Lin Ran had gotten over Liu Ruxue.
Second, Lin Ran had found what he called “true love,” and as a buddy, he was overjoyed.
“Lin Ge! Now that you’re married, take good care of your wife’s life! Liu Ruxue doesn’t deserve you; if it weren’t for fearing how angry you’d get, I would’ve already persuaded you!”
“Also, I don’t want to be a blogger. I want to be a manager.”
In fact, Wu Zhishang had tried to persuade Lin Ran before, but after one failure, he stopped.
If Lin Ran got hurt by Liu Ruxue, Wu Zhishang would be there with him, drinking, eating, and playing around; if Liu Ruxue ever changed, he would send sincere blessings.
These were bros who had grown up together, wearing the same pants from childhood. They had fought together, skipped classes, been punished, and went to college together…
“What are you saying? I of course have to live well with my wife!”
“When it comes to being a manager, I’ll consider it, but can you take that phone away from me first… damn it!”
“You agree, and I’ll take it away.”
“I’m defeated by you… of course, you’ll be the manager, how could I… ugh!”
In the end, Lin Ran reluctantly gave in to Wu Zhishang’s phone attack.
Having settled the matter, the two headed downstairs to rent an office directly.
On the way to the parking lot, Lin Ran also told Wu Zhishang about cutting ties with the Lin family, which caused another outburst from Wu Zhishang, who praised Lin Ran’s guts.
At this time, in the parking lot, a group of people surrounded a car.
“I just found out, this is a Koenigsegg One:1, only six units were ever made, and the price has been skyrocketing to over 100 million yuan!”
“Whose car is this? Is there a billionaire of this level at our school?”
“If this were my car, I’d be happy living in luxury and even taking eight wives!”
“I’m taking a photo. Everyone, move aside! Ruxue, hurry up, let’s take one together!”
With the semester about to start, Liu Ruxue, as the school flower, was selected to participate in the orientation gala performance. Today, she was coming to report her program, something she thoroughly enjoyed, and Huo Haini accompanied her.
Seeing Huo Haini calling her, Liu Ruxue slightly shyly moved with an elegant gait.
“Would this be a bit inappropriate?”
Huo Haini pulled Liu Ruxue over: “What’s the problem? We’re just taking a photo to post on Moments!”
Seeing Liu Ruxue and Huo Haini posing by the car, some classmates kindly reminded them.
“That’s a 100 million yuan hypercar. Be careful.”
“Exactly! If you break it, even if you’re the school flower, you won’t make enough to pay for it!”
“I’m staying here and waiting. I want to see who is driving this Koenigsegg to school.”
“Look at how Liu Ruxue and Huo Haini are posing–they look like a pair of chickens!”
Of course, not all students liked Liu Ruxue, especially some girls who secretly despised her seemingly pure white lotus act.
They looked down on Huo Haini even more–someone who lived off of Liu Ruxue’s fame.
Huo Haini: “What’s there to be afraid of? Even if the owner shows up, he’ll be captivated by our looks, alright!”
“Besides, we’re just taking a couple of photos. What could happen?”
Saying that, she pulled Liu Ruxue and both of them leaned halfway onto the silver-gray engine hood for some nice selfies.
This scene was just spotted by Lin Ran as he arrived.
“Who allowed you to take photos?”
Hearing this familiar voice, Liu Ruxue’s hand trembled, and her phone “clang” fell onto the hood.
“Damn it!”
Lin Ran was furious. That was one of the gifts that Luo Yao had given him, and this bitch had just smashed her phone into it?
Lin Ran quickly went to check the hood, and sure enough, there was a tiny dent, about the size of a grain of rice.
Liu Ruxue also spotted the tiny dent but didn’t think much of it.
Huo Haini, on the other hand, wasn’t going to humor Lin Ran; she still remembered how he had humiliated them last time.
“Lin Ran? What are you doing here? And don’t touch that car. Do you even know what it is? If you break it, could you even afford it?”
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.
world slacker. But a genius female disciple just had to get clingy, insisting that he take her as a disciple. Not only that, she was always making advances on him, thoroughly disrupting his peaceful slacker life...
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
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.
