Chen Buhui was so furious she nearly keeled over.
"Quite the little capitalist at such a young age, aren’t you?"
"Tell them Chen Buhui is here to visit, and they’d better come out to greet me personally." Chen Buhui jabbed her thumb backward at her own face, as if it were some kind of VIP pass valid across all of China.
The security guard frowned. He hated that gesture, but since it was Chen Buhui, he held his tongue and relayed the message over his walkie-talkie.
They waited, but no response came.
"Base to HQ, come in."
"Miss Luo and Young Master Lin are... busy bonding. Whatever it is, it can wait."
The reply crackled through the earpiece, leaving the guard no choice but to relay the message to Chen Buhui.
"Our young lady and Young Master Lin are occupied at the moment. We can’t interrupt. Would you like to wait or come back another time?"
Chen Buhui took a deep breath.
"I, Chen Buhui, demand to see them, and instead of rushing out to greet me, they make me wait? Who do they think I am?"
The guard offered an apologetic smile. "Sorry, but without permission, I really can’t let you in."
Chen Buhui’s patience had run out.
"Liu! We’re barging in. Let’s see what’s so important they can’t be bothered."
The guard narrowed his eyes and spoke into his earpiece.
"Intruder attempting to breach the estate. All units, stand by."
He drew his weapon, and within moments, over a dozen guards assembled, forming a human barricade at the entrance.
Chen Buhui froze at the sight.
"This is China, not some playground for reckless youngsters. I advise you to lower your weapons and not stray onto the path of crime. What you’re doing is illegal."
The guard dropped the polite act.
"We haven’t done anything. And even if we did, you’d be the one at fault. This is private property. Forcing your way in counts as trespassing—so who’s breaking the law here?"
It baffled the guard that someone as high-profile as Chen Buhui could be so legally clueless.
Chen Buhui’s face darkened. She never expected Luo Yao’s people to be this bold.
"Do you even know who I am?"
"Yes, Chen Buhui. You’ve mentioned."
"I’m an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. You dare block me?" Chen Buhui had no choice but to pull rank.
The guard didn’t budge.
"Are you here on official business? If not, even the president of your academy would need permission to enter. Those are the rules."
Chen Buhui let out a bitter laugh at the guard’s audacity.
"Fine. What a Luo Yao, what a Lin Ran, what a Luo Corporation—so arrogant in China, showing zero respect for their elders."
"Let’s see if you actually dare lay a hand on me."
Liu, her assistant, looked uneasy. "Ms. Chen, maybe we should just leave it."
"Leave it? If you’re spineless, go ahead and leave. What kind of young person has no fire in them? I’m going in."
With that, Chen Buhui stepped out of the car, ready to force her way through.
The guards tensed, poised to act.
At the critical moment, a voice came through the earpiece—Little Tong’s.
"Uncle Fu says she can come in now."
The guard exhaled quietly. He really hadn’t wanted to rough up an old lady.
"Our young lady is free now. You may enter."
Chen Buhui snorted.
"Hmph! Knew you wouldn’t dare stop me."
She climbed back into the car while the guard stayed silent, thinking to himself: If that call had come a few seconds later, you’d already be on the ground.
The other guards exchanged frowns.
"That’s Chen Buhui? She acts more like my elementary school teacher."
Meanwhile, inside the villa...
"Yao, Chen Buhui actually showed up. Interesting. What do you think she’s here for?"
Even Luo Yao couldn’t quite decipher Chen Buhui’s motives.
Given her official ties, visiting during such a sensitive period was... unusual.
During a government project bidding phase, a representative meeting privately with a competing company was already against protocol.
It was like the police, prosecutors, and judges jointly investigating a case—a big no-no. If no one followed the rules, chaos would reign.
Of course, Luo Yao was the exception. Rules didn’t apply to her.
"No idea."
Lin Ran wasn’t the sharpest, but he wasn’t stupid either. Yet he couldn’t figure out why Chen Buhui had come.
"She can’t seriously be here just to lecture us and leave. If so, I’d actually respect her for it."
Just then, the door swung open.
"Lin Ran, you’ve got some nerve, making an elder come to you like this?"
Lin Ran hadn’t expected Chen Buhui’s first words to be so confrontational—no greeting, nothing.
He frowned.
"Did I force you?"
If she wanted to be rude, he’d match her energy.
He’d been willing to show respect, but she clearly wasn’t interested.
Chen Buhui blinked, taken aback by Lin Ran’s sharp tone.
She then turned to Luo Yao.
"CEO Luo, let me clarify—I’m not here in any official capacity today."
Luo Yao nodded, "Naturally, if you were representing the authorities, I’d have sent you straight in for investigation."
Chen Buhui was taken aback again—he hadn’t expected Luo Yao to be so blunt either.
"Aren’t you going to invite me to sit?" Lin Ran gestured toward the sofa with his chin.
"You’re a grown adult. Is anyone stopping you?"
Chen Buhui’s face darkened slightly. After all these years, she had grown accustomed to being surrounded by flattery. Running into such disrespectful youngsters was a first for her.
"Fine. I won’t hold your lack of respect against you. After all, you don’t know who I am."
Lin Ran said, "I know you—Chen Buhui, one of the chief academicians at the Chinese Academy of Sciences."
Chen Buhui shook her head, glaring at Lin Ran in anger.
"To be precise, I’m your grandaunt."
Lin Ran replied, "I know."
"You know?"
"Yeah."
Chen Buhui let out a bitter laugh.
"If you knew I was your elder, how dare you treat me with such disrespect? You’ve been in Shanghai for days and didn’t even visit me. Young people these days have no sense of propriety."
Lin Ran glanced at Luo Yao, thinking to himself, Did I actually guess right?
"So, Grandaunt, what brings you here?"
"What brings me here? I’m here to teach you how to respect your elders. Not even your grandfather would dare treat me this way."
"No one has ever kept me waiting outside the door—you’re the first. No junior has ever failed to greet me properly—you’re the first. No one has ever—"
Lin Ran cut her off. "Hold on, hold on. No elder has ever dared to boss me around like this—you’re the first."
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!
lities. One day, Qi Yuan was buying groceries when he unfortunately came face-to-face with a monster. Just when he thought he was going to die on the spot, he suddenly heard the monster's thoughts... "This aura, he's definitely not an ordinary master!" "So terrifying, so terrifying." "A fight with my back against the wall, I can't take it anymore." Qi Yuan: Ah, no one told me that my awakened ability isn't telepathy, but rather the stronger my enemies imagine me to be, the stronger I truly become. PS: Zhou Hai in the first chapter is not the protagonist.
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.
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
