"Smash!" With a sound, Yu Taiduo's phone hit the ground, shattered beyond repair, a testament to his fury.
He panted heavily, gasping for breath.
"Someone, go castrate the old man."
The bodyguard was baffled but didn't ask questions, heading straight out to carry out the order.
After finishing lunch, Luo Yao rested for a while with Lin Ran by her side.
"I wish I could stick to my wife forever."
"I want to stick to you too, A'Ran. Believe me, that day isn't far off."
Lin Ran held Luo Yao in his arms, doting on her. "I have a... not very important friend. When it shows up next time, I'll introduce you to it, okay?"
Luo Yao raised an eyebrow, sensing a trace of nervousness in Lin Ran.
"Okay."
"But you have to promise not to kill it."
"Okay," Luo Yao replied softly.
It was about time to meet that black cat.
Let me see just what kind of cat you are, to make even A'Ran care about you.
Lin Ran breathed a sigh of relief. He knew Luo Yao would keep her promises to him.
Little Black's life was spared.
"A'Ran, stay with me here this afternoon. Don't leave."
"But you said I'd distract you if I stayed?"
Lin Ran was a bit puzzled. Had the business war already ended?
Luo Yao's eyes held a smile. "It's not much of a distraction now."
"Have I become less important in your heart?" Lin Ran immediately felt wronged.
Luo Yao quickly explained, "Your importance in my heart is irreplaceable. It's because the work isn't as hectic now. From now on, I'll only work half-days. I'll spend every afternoon stuck to you, okay?"
Lin Ran thought the business war must be entering its final stages, suddenly feeling much more at ease.
"Okay, I'll spend every afternoon with you. Once this current problem is resolved, we'll be together 24/7."
They spent the entire afternoon being lovey-dovey together, and nothing else happened for the rest of the evening.
Returning home, they finally settled back into their ordinary married life.
Glancing at a certain corner of the room, Luo Yao suddenly posed a question.
"A'Ran, do you want Liu Yuemei and Lin Jian to be punished?"
Did he?
Of course he did.
He'd wanted it for a lifetime.
That mother and son had emotionally manipulated him since childhood, exploited him when he grew up, and even killed him after he lost his value to them.
And what had he done wrong?
His biggest mistake was being born into the Lin family.
I treated you as family, and you treated me as dead?
Actually, Lin Ran had pondered one question.
If, in his previous life, they hadn't killed him but merely kicked him out of the Lin family, would he have forgiven them?
Later, he found his answer.
Given how much he valued family ties in his past life, he likely would have let them have their way.
But in the end, after getting the share transfer agreement, they still pushed him off the rooftop.
Just how evil does a person have to be to deal such a cruel blow to someone who only ever wanted familial love?
"Let's wait. After you finish your work, I'll settle accounts with them."
"Okay."
The nights passed swiftly. Early the next morning, Lin Ran saw Luo Yao off to Luo Corporation before leaving himself.
As the car drove down the street, Lin Ran's frown deepened more and more.
He had a strong feeling something was about to go wrong.
And since his rebirth, his intuition had been sharp.
Shenhe Road.
This was a shortcut from Luo Corporation back to the estate, lined with some private factories.
Lin Ran had discovered this road by chance. It not only had little traffic but was also much closer.
"Brother Wang, let's turn around and take the main road."
"Okay."
But just then, Abu spoke up.
"Don't turn around. They're already here."
Luo Corporation office.
"You said before the Zhang family was pulling out?" These past two days, Luo Yao had been preoccupied with other urges and hadn't given it much thought. Now, pondering it, something felt off.
Liu Meng looked serious. "That's right. And starting yesterday, I noticed the Yu and Ai families also seem to be preparing to give up their fight against us."
"According to intelligence, Ai Renqi is already under Yu Taiduo's control. But the strange thing is, the Ai family doesn't seem to have reacted at all."
Luo Yao frowned, sensing something amiss. Even Liu Meng found it odd.
The three major families seemed to be passively enduring Luo Corporation's business attacks, yet they also didn't seem to be fighting with their full strength.
"Although their liquid funds are depleted, they haven't sold off any shares or assets. President Luo, do you think they're plotting something bad?"
Luo Yao narrowed her eyes. "You think?"
What could it be?
Suddenly, Luo Yao's eyes widened. Liu Meng seemed to realize the same thing at the same moment. They looked at each other and simultaneously pulled out their phones.
Liu Meng contacted Brother Dao, while Luo Yao called Lin Ran.
The call connected. "A'Ran, where are you?"
"I'm... I'm at..."
Luo Yao heard Lin Ran's voice on the phone suddenly become fragmented and chaotic, sparking a flicker of panic in her, but she quickly calmed down.
"A'Ran?"
"A'Ran, what's wrong? Where are you?"
Lin Ran cursed under his breath. "Damn it! We're surrounded. On Shenhe Road."
Without another word, Luo Yao strode out of her office, running into Liu Meng right at the door.
"I've already contacted Brother Dao. He's gathering men."
Luo Yao: "Tell them to head straight to Shenhe Road."
Dare to touch A'Ran? You're seeking death.
What was Luo Yao's one true taboo?
Not Luo Corporation, not the Luo family, not even Ai Ran Capital.
It was her man.
If this world were a transaction, she would trade it all for Lin Ran's love.
That was Luo Yao.
Entering the elevator, her phone lost signal. Luo Yao cursed herself for not having developed a phone that worked everywhere.
She headed to the rooftop, opened a tracking app, and set off with Liu Meng and the company's security team.
Damn it. She should have kept A'Ran by her side.
She never should have let him leave.
Shenhe Road. A line of luxury cars was putting on the year's best chase scene, with the most eye-catching being a limited edition Rolls-Royce.
Wang Bao drove as if they were filming a movie, weaving and dodging to avoid collisions from other cars. Meanwhile, Lin Ran's convoy of bodyguard vehicles fought desperately to block the cars attempting to encircle them.
If any vehicle got too close to Lin Ran's car, the bodyguard team wouldn't hesitate to ram it, even if it meant mutual destruction.
This was the caliber of professional bodyguards Luo Yao had trained. Their quality was unquestionable.
Faced with this scene, the opposing vehicles all instinctively gave way, afraid of getting caught in the crossfire, which gave Wang Bao even more room to maneuver.
Lin Ran hung up the phone. If not for the seatbelt, he would have been thrown from his seat.
"Brother Wang, you're amazing! All that driving practice really paid off."
Though tossed around in the car like he was at a rave, Lin Ran didn't stop his stream of praise.
Empowered by Lin Ran's constant compliments, Wang Bao found his groove, driving the car like a race car.
Suddenly, a strip of spike strips was thrown onto the road ahead. Wang Bao's eyes widened instantly.
Hey, I'm playing a game of skill here, and you resort to tricks?
At this speed, a blowout would mean no one in the car would survive.
Realizing this, Wang Bao immediately executed a drift.
He even added a fishtail.
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!
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.
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.
Cheng's father told him he was getting remarried—to a wealthy woman. Cao Cheng realized his time had finally come: he was about to become a second-generation rich kid. Sure, it might be a watered-down version, but hey, at least he'd have status now, right? The wealthy woman also had four daughters!! Which meant, starting today, Cao Cheng gained four stunning older sisters?? But that wasn't even the whole story... "My name is Cao Cheng—'Cheng' as in 'honest, smooth-talking gentleman'!"
