After seeing Su Jianguo off, Lin Ran also left the company directly.
In less than an hour, the online narrative took a sharp turn—the revelation that Lin Ran and Chen Qingtian were cousins caught everyone off guard.
Meanwhile, Lin Jian was stunned.
Lin Ran and Chen Qingtian were cousins? Who would believe something so absurd?
But before he could post another rebuttal, he received a message:
[Didn’t see that coming, did you, you little punk? Lin Ran and Chen Qingtian are cousins, but you and Liu Ruxue? Not so sure about that, huh? Haha.]
Lin Jian jumped in fright.
Liu Yuemei: "Xiao Jian, what’s wrong?"
"N-nothing."
His eyes darkened with malice—he was ready to kill.
The feeling of having his secret exposed left him completely unprepared.
[Who are you?]
[Your granddaddy!]
"Damn it!" Lin Jian’s composure shattered. Since when did people just start cursing like that?
The message, of course, had been sent by Lin Ran’s doing. He wanted Lin Jian to live in constant fear, drowning in paranoia.
With that matter settled, Lin Ran picked up Luo Yao, and the two headed back to the estate.
In the car, Lin Ran noticed Luo Yao’s sour mood and immediately understood why.
"Yao Yao, you’re upset."
Luo Yao stayed silent.
"Yao Yao, are you jealous?"
She nodded.
"I am jealous, and I’m angry. Not at you, and not at Chen Qingtian. I’m angry that before our relationship could even be made public, people started spreading rumors about you and her. How ridiculous."
Lin Ran: "..."
"Yao Yao, I’ll announce our relationship to the whole world."
He dropped the bombshell.
Luo Yao’s eyes instantly sparkled.
"Really?"
"Of course. Have I ever lied to you?"
"I remember once, you tricked me into—"
"Stop right there. Back then, I was a dog. Now, I want to be a man—your man."
Luo Yao finally broke into a smile.
She had almost lost her temper earlier.
While Lin Ran was busy making grand promises to Luo Yao, Liu Yuemei quietly left the temporary apartment the Lin family had rented.
Normally, Liu Yuemei wouldn’t have planned to meet with her family at this time.
It wasn’t that Lin Tianba refused to repay the debt—she wanted him to give her the money first so she could return it to her family herself.
This, however, had made Lin Tianba suspicious, so Liu Yuemei decided to coordinate with the Liu family in advance.
That’s why she unexpectedly showed up at her parents’ home today.
The Liu family had been fuming over Lin Tianba lately, ready to kill him, but after hearing Liu Yuemei’s explanation, they all fell into deep thought.
"Yuemei, my dear daughter, we can help you with this, but on one condition—we get at least half of the money."
Liu Yuemei frowned.
Even she thought her family’s greed was shameless.
"Not a chance. At most, you’ll get a million. If that’s not enough, then I won’t make Lin Tianba pay at all. Do whatever you want."
Liu Ritian immediately flew into a rage, grabbing a nearby broom to swing at Liu Yuemei, but Liu’s mother stopped him.
"What? You want to hit me?" Liu Yuemei narrowed her eyes.
Liu’s mother quickly intervened, "Ritian was just cleaning up. What nonsense are you talking about? Fine, a million it is."
"Mom—" Liu Ritian started, but Liu’s mother cut him off.
"Son, we’re family. Let’s just help Yuemei out."
Liu Ritian caught his mother’s meaning and reluctantly agreed.
With that settled, Liu Yuemei immediately arranged to meet Lin Tianba.
Despite being shameless, Lin Tianba loved Liu Yuemei too much to let her suffer in her family’s eyes, so he agreed to repay the debt.
Lin Tianba handed over the money to the Liu family and left with Liu Yuemei. But something felt off—the Lius showed no sign of returning her share.
Back at the apartment, Lin Jian grew anxious.
[Texting: "Mom, why hasn’t Grandma sent the money yet? You said once they transferred it, you’d give it to me so we could prepare for the next steps."]
His words sent a chill down Liu Yuemei’s spine.
Remembering her family’s greed, she broke into a cold sweat.
"Wait here, son. I’m going back."
Just as she was about to leave, she ran into Lin Tianba, who returned looking exhausted.
Lately, he seemed to have aged years in days.
"Where are you going?"
"To my parents’ place."
Lin Tianba didn’t question her further and let her go.
Maintaining good relations with the Liu family might prove useful later.
But when Liu Yuemei arrived, she was stunned.
The person who opened the door wasn’t a Liu family member—it was a stranger.
"Who are you looking for?"
"Who are you? Why are you here? Where’s Liu Ritian?"
"Oh, Liu Ritian? His mother sold the house to me."
Liu Yuemei froze.
It felt like the world was crumbling around her.
Had her own mother and brother really abandoned her for a bit of money?
Just then, her phone rang—it was Liu Ruxue.
She answered immediately.
"Ruxue, where are you?"
"Auntie, Dad has me locked up. Listen, Grandma and Dad aren’t living there anymore. They don’t plan to give you the money back."
Liu Yuemei was devastated. She knew her family was capable of this.
"Ruxue, where are you? I’ll come find you."
"You won’t be able to, Auntie. But I know a way you can get the money—hire a debt collector."
"Ruxue… why are you helping me?"
"Because you’re my aunt. Seeing how Grandma and Dad are treating you breaks my heart. You’ve always been so good to me—how could they do this?"
Liu Yuemei took a deep breath. At least she hadn’t wasted her affection on this niece.
After hanging up, she pondered.
Liu Ruxue’s suggestion made sense.
If it had come from anyone else, she might’ve hesitated. But from her most trusted niece? There was no need to second-guess.
Liu Ruxue had proven herself more loyal than the rest of the Liu family. Touched by her concern, Liu Yuemei decided to follow her advice.
Now, who would be best at collecting debts?
Wait—wasn’t that Brother Dao into loans and debt collection?
After pulling some strings, Liu Yuemei finally contacted Brother Dao and arranged a meeting.
What she didn’t know was that hell awaited her.
And she would never guess that the person who pushed her into this abyss was the very niece she trusted most.
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!
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
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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.
