Liu Ruxue’s face turned pale. The woman she had met twice left an indelible impression on her. Every time they met, Liu Ruxue felt as if she was about to be slaughtered by this woman.
"Dad! Brother actually kissed that beauty in public. Isn’t this damaging the reputation of our Lin Family?"
Lin Tianba glanced at Lin Jian but said nothing. Sensing Lin Tianba’s mood, Lin Jian quickly changed his tone.
"It’s all my fault. I haven’t been paying enough attention to my brother, so I didn’t notice how he’s been tarnishing our family’s reputation. This is on me!"
"Dad, don’t be too hard on him. Just let him kneel and apologize, and then forgive him!"
"Don’t hit him either. If you hit him, it’ll hurt me too!"
Lin Tianba sighed.
"Xiao Jian, you’re just too kind, which is why he keeps taking advantage of you."
"Now he’s even pressuring me to hand over my dividends. Even if this unfilial son kneels and apologizes, I’ll never forgive him. He’s lost me as his father forever."
Lin Jian: "Dad, don’t blame Brother. I wonder who that woman in the car was?"
Suddenly, a thought flashed through Lin Tianba’s mind.
"Xiao Jian, I have something to tell you!"
He leaned close to Lin Jian’s ear and whispered something. As he spoke, Lin Jian’s eyes widened in shock, then gradually filled with excitement.
Lin Tianba naturally wanted Lin Jian to get close to Lin Ran and, through Lin Ran, get closer to Luo Yao. Ideally, he could gain Luo Yao’s attention, or even stay by her side.
That scoundrel Lin Ran was only a little handsome. Even if Luo Yao had some interest in him, it was probably just because of his looks. When it came to talent, his younger son, Lin Jian, was his pride and joy.
Even if things didn’t work out, he could always go to Lin Ran and squeeze some benefits out of him. After all, he was Lin Ran’s biological father. What could Lin Ran possibly do to him?
Wasn’t it only fair that he, as the father, got a share of the benefits from the Luo Family? He had brought Lin Ran into this world, so Lin Ran owed him everything. Even a dog understood this basic principle, and Lin Tianba certainly did.
After receiving his father’s instructions, Lin Jian thought of something else. He and Liu Ruxue walked into the campus together, whispering to each other.
Soon, Liu Ruxue’s eyes also widened in shock, then slowly filled with excitement.
Lin Jian sneakily pinched Liu Ruxue’s butt: "Oh, not bad. I’ll have to give you a ‘health check’ sometime."
Liu Ruxue blushed: "Lin Jian! You’re so bad. You’re asking me to go after Lin Ran? Aren’t you jealous?"
Lin Jian: "Go ahead. I trust you can protect yourself. As long as Lin Ran is with you, I’m sure that young lady won’t let him off easily."
Liu Ruxue: "So… you’re not jealous?"
She knew that her relationship with Lin Jian could never be made public. Lin Ran, on the other hand, was a perfect cover. Besides, Lin Ran had become more handsome and wealthy. Being with him didn’t seem like a bad idea.
The thought of managing both brothers was thrilling.
It wasn’t so much that Lin Jian was asking her to seduce Lin Ran, but rather that she had already wanted to get close to him.
On the first day of the semester, many senior students were busy as volunteers, helping with orientation and club recruitment. But Lin Ran had no intention of wasting his time on such things. He went straight to find his best friend.
Opening the long-unseen dormitory door, he found Wu Zhishang still asleep. The other two roommates hadn’t returned to school yet.
"Old Wu! Old Wu!"
No response.
"Son! Son?"
Still no response.
The entire campus was bustling with activity on the first day of school, yet this guy remained completely unfazed. What impressive sleep quality!
Lin Ran grabbed a handful of his friend’s hair and yanked him up. The pain immediately woke Wu Zhishang.
Wu Zhishang looked dazed, staring at the clump of hair in Lin Ran’s hand. He reached up and touched his head.
He was bald.
"Sorry, Old Wu! You were sleeping too deeply!"
Wu Zhishang took a deep breath, shook his now-nonexistent bangs, and suppressed his anger.
"Brothers! Brothers! We’ve been through thick and thin together. I’ll let this slide!"
"You handsome devil, I’m warning you. You’d better have a good reason for this, or else I’ll pretend you never said anything!"
Lin Ran felt a little awkward. He hadn’t meant to make Wu Zhishang’s already thinning hair even worse.
"Old Wu! How’s the company doing?"
Wu Zhishang smirked proudly: "It’s all set up. We’re just short on staff now. Being on campus is perfect—we can recruit directly from here. Both the students and the school will support us. After all, everyone wants an internship certificate."
Lin Ran nodded: "Let’s find an opportunity to talk to the dean. Of course, we won’t take just anyone. People like Liu Ruxue, for example, are out of the question."
Wu Zhishang gave a thumbs-up: "Got it! I heard Liu Ruxue interned all summer but didn’t get her certificate. Hilarious!"
"Apparently, she tried to seduce her boss and got fired on the spot."
Lin Ran was stunned. That was quite the scandal.
Wu Zhishang: "It’s annoying to think we’ll have to see that trashy woman around."
Lin Ran: "After today, she won’t be in our class anymore!"
Wu Zhishang: "...???"
Meanwhile, in the dean’s office, Liu Ruxue was in shock.
"Why?"
"No reason. Starting today, you’re no longer a student in the Finance Department. The dean has arranged for you to transfer to the Foreign Languages Department to study Burmese."
Liu Ruxue couldn’t believe it: "Are you kidding me? What right do you have to change my major? This is tyranny! I’ll report this to the education bureau!"
The dean looked at her with disdain. He despised students who got in through connections.
"Go ahead! But before you do, I’ll have the education bureau investigate how someone like you, with such poor academic performance, got into Capital University in the first place!"
"Wait… you can’t do this…"
The dean: "Don’t act innocent. The Luo Corporation has already informed the school about your attempt to seduce a married man. The fact that you’re not being expelled is already a mercy."
"If you don’t want to change your major, I’ll have to ask the dean to expel you instead."
Liu Ruxue: "I was framed! You’re so unreasonable… Fine, I’ll study Burmese."
Seeing the dean’s cold expression, Liu Ruxue gave up resisting.
She walked out of the office in a daze, and soon her phone buzzed.
Looking at it, she saw a message from the dean. A flicker of hope rose in her.
Had the school changed its mind?
Dean: [I forgot to mention earlier. Your performance at the orientation party has been canceled. The student council said your dance looked like a squirming worm and isn’t suitable for the stage.]
Liu Ruxue stood frozen in place, unable to move for a long time.
Why had she been so unlucky lately?
First, Lin Ran left her. Then she was inexplicably saddled with a million-yuan debt. And now, even her best friend had abandoned her.
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.
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
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)
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."
