"I thought I could finally have a satisfying fight, but it turns out you haven’t improved at all after all these years. What a waste."
Hearing Luo Yao’s taunt at Luo Bangsheng, Lin Ran wore a bitter expression.
If Luo Bangsheng was a waste, then what did that make him?
Luo Bangsheng couldn’t understand—no matter how hard he had tried, why did he still lose to Luo Yao?
Luo Yao stared down at Luo Bangsheng beneath her dagger.
"Speaking of which, you’re a traitor to the Luo family. As the current head, I have the right to deal with you—Liu Meng."
Liu Meng immediately restrained Luo Bangsheng.
"Take him back to the estate and hand him over to Uncle Fu for custody."
"Got it."
Luo Bangsheng sighed.
"Luo Yao, I admit defeat. But can you at least make it quick?"
Luo Yao didn’t respond. Instead, she turned her gaze to the stunned group led by Lu Lutong.
"Just now, you said I was acting lawlessly?"
Lu Youhu was too terrified to speak, but Lu Ludu quickly defused the tension.
"What my uncle meant was that you, Chief Luo, are the sky over the Luo family. Honestly, we have no real grievances with you."
Luo Yao’s expression turned icy.
"You once dared to lay a hand on me—how can you claim there’s no grudge? Your brother offended Ah Ran, your nephew crossed me, and as for your niece… I won’t even bother mentioning her. She deserved what she got."
At that moment, Lu Youqi stepped forward.
"Lu Ludu, never thought I’d be the last one standing, did you? Do you know why Chief Luo sided with me instead of you?"
"Because I can offer better terms. The Lu family’s external affiliates will listen to me, not you."
Liu Meng rolled her eyes. "Who said you won?"
Lu Youqi: "...???"
By then, Lin Ran had already positioned himself beside Luo Yao.
Luo Yao cast a sidelong glance at Lu Youqi.
"By harboring a traitor of the Luo family, are you trying to oppose me, Luo Yao?"
Lu Youqi’s face fell, his dignity as a family head completely shattered.
By now, he fully understood Luo Yao’s power.
The Lu family wasn’t even in the same league—she dominated not just the business world but was also terrifyingly formidable in combat.
"Chief Luo, I swear I had no idea Ah San was your family’s traitor! If I’d known, I would’ve handed him over for benefits long ago."
He wasn’t lying.
"Good. Remember this—today I can save you, and tomorrow I can wipe you out completely."
Lu Youqi let out a relieved breath.
Those words were his reassurance—though he knew it would come at a steep price.
But he had already accepted that outcome.
Just then, a young girl burst in from outside.
"Are Luo Yao and Lin Ran here? Move aside!"
The girl was none other than Lu Xiangshi, an avid shipper of Luo Yao and Lin Ran’s "Luo Shen Jiang Lin" pairing.
Freshly 18 and full of mischief, she was a beloved but politically irrelevant figure in the Lu family.
Having just returned from a wild outing, she saw the crowd and heard Luo Yao and Lin Ran were inside—so she charged in without hesitation.
As a favored granddaughter with a cheerful personality, no one stopped her.
"Oh my god, it really is Luo Yao and Lin Ran! Can I get your autographs? I’m a huge fan of your CP!"
Both Luo Yao and Lin Ran were stunned.
They had shippers now?
And what the hell was "Luo Shen Jiang Lin"?
Lu Youqi: "Ridiculous."
Lu Ludu: "Absurd."
Lu Lutong: "Insane."
Lu Xiangshi: "I love it."
Luo Yao ignored the girl, her disgust barely concealed.
"Liu Meng, bring out the contract."
At this point, Lu Ludu finally snapped.
"Chief Luo, this is a private matter of the Lu family. Isn’t this overstepping?"
"Don’t ask me. Ask the ones who’ll judge you."
???
Suddenly, the blaring sirens of police cars pierced the air as a fleet of vehicles swarmed the scene.
"You called the cops?"
Luo Yao looked at him like he was already dead.
"You should know I was the one who reported the Lu family’s drug trafficking. And you should also know the evidence I have is enough to bury you. Even I wouldn’t dare touch that filth in China—yet you did. How many bullets do you think you’ll get?"
Lu Xiangshi gasped. "Eighth Uncle, you’re that hardcore? You dealt drugs?"
Lu Ludu glared at Luo Yao. "Why?"
"I just love watching you despair."
Lu Ludu’s eyes darkened. "So you’ve never let go of that incident where I offended you years ago? I apologized, explained it was the old man’s orders, and you even broke my bones. Wasn’t that enough?"
Luo Yao smirked. "If apologies worked, we wouldn’t need police. Besides, I hold grudges."
A chill ran down Lu Youqi’s spine.
That unfilial son had pinned the blame on him, and Luo Yao just admitted she never forgets.
So what did that mean for him?
Suddenly, Lu Ludu burst into manic laughter.
"Hahahaha! You think it’s over this easily? Did you really think I had no backup plan?"
"This was meant as a last resort to take the old man down with me. Never thought I’d use it now."
Luo Yao’s pupils contracted—she sensed an unprecedented threat.
Police officers stormed in, their numbers overwhelming. Given the Lu family’s influence, the armed response was justified.
"Protect Ah Ran!"
Luo Yao’s bodyguards encircled the two, while she threw herself over Lin Ran.
Lu Ludu slapped his wheelchair three times.
A series of deafening explosions erupted across the Lu estate.
"If I can’t have it, no one will! Hahaha—let’s all die together!"
Lu Ludu descended into madness. Even his own allies stared at him in horror.
The newly arrived officers dropped to the ground in trained unison.
Lu Youhu, caught off-guard, was blasted away like a cannonball, landing motionless.
The bodyguards tightened their formation around Lin Ran and Luo Yao.
Liu Meng yanked Chen Qingtian behind a table, shielding them from debris.
In a flash, Lin Ran pulled Luo Yao aside—a sharp stone grazed his cheek, drawing blood, but he didn’t flinch.
He had protected her.
"Ah Ran… are you okay?"
"I’m fine. Don’t worry."
Before anyone could recover from the first blast—
"You thought that was it? Not a chance!"
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...
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.
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
