Su Hua stepped into the basement in her high heels.
Chen Ling was tied to a rack, her limbs spread wide in a spread-eagle position.
Even though it was already the early hours of the morning, Chen Ling didn't feel the slightest bit sleepy.
Her face was filled with terror as she looked at the torture instruments arranged all around her.
It was Chen Ling's first time seeing such a scene, and her legs couldn't stop trembling.
Su Hua walked in.
Seeing Su Hua, a chill ran through Chen Ling's entire body.
As expected!
It was the doing of this vixen, Su Hua!
She knew it; this vixen Su Hua wouldn't let her off easily.
And to think Brother Lin Xuan actually thought this woman was gentle and kind!
Just how much magic potion had this vixen fed Brother Lin Xuan!
Su Hua stood a short distance in front of Chen Ling.
Her face was filled with coldness.
"Chen Ling, heh, you really have some nerve, daring to stand naked in front of my Xuan."
Chen Ling gritted her teeth and yelled at Su Hua, "You're obviously the other woman! Brother Lin Xuan and I are childhood sweethearts; you're the one who seduced him."
"If it weren't for you, Brother Lin Xuan and I would definitely be together, deeply in love and happy right now."
Yes.
It was all this vixen's fault!
Chen Ling had brainwashed herself day by day until even she believed that she and Lin Xuan were meant to be a true couple.
Su Hua's gaze grew colder and colder.
She used a knife to lift Chen Ling's chin.
"Originally, with the gratitude Xuan owed your father, you could have lived a very good life. But who told you to try and steal Xuan away?"
A bloodthirsty smile curled the corners of Su Hua's lips.
"Do you know? I won't spare any woman who tries to seduce Xuan."
In the past, she was afraid Xuan would find out, so she didn't dare make a move against Chen Ling.
Now...
Heh.
Xuan clearly didn't want to see any more news about Chen Ling.
As for her, no matter what she wanted to do to Chen Ling, Xuan would never find out.
A surge of fear shot up from the bottom of Chen Ling's heart.
"Su Hua, what exactly are you going to do to me?"
Su Hua curled her lips, "Don't worry, I won't do anything too extreme to you, because I will keep you alive to torture you slowly."
Su Hua dropped the knife in her hand.
"Gloves," Su Hua ordered expressionlessly.
"Boss Su, here you go."
A subordinate handed Su Hua a pair of white gloves.
Su Hua slowly and methodically put the gloves on her hands.
Following that, a whip was also delivered into Su Hua's hands.
The whip was still dripping with water.
Su Hua curled her lips and said, "This whip was just soaked in saltwater."
"Very, very salty."
"Chen Ling, tell me, what kind of taste will it be when this whip strikes your body?"
Chen Ling's legs were trembling, and she looked at the whip with a face full of terror.
However.
She still didn't want to beg this vixen for mercy.
If it weren't for this vixen using some sort of trick to completely bewitch Brother Lin Xuan, she wouldn't have been discarded by him.
"Su Hua, no matter what I did, you can't treat me like this. What you're doing is breaking the law, do you know that?" Chen Ling roared loudly.
"The law?" Su Hua curled her lips. "I'm torturing you on my own turf. Who will know?"
"Chen Ling, from now on, just enjoy all of this."
Su Hua raised the whip, and a heavy lash fell upon Chen Ling's body.
"Ah—"
Chen Ling screamed miserably in pain.
"Crack! Crack! Crack!"
One lash after another from the saltwater-soaked whip struck Chen Ling's body.
Unbearable pain radiated from her body.
Finally.
Chen Ling couldn't hold on any longer. She cried out for mercy, "Su Hua, I'm sorry. I will never dare to seduce Brother Lin Xuan again."
"Please stop hitting me."
It really hurt.
Chen Ling felt waves of fiery, stinging pain all over her body.
Even though Dean Chen didn't have much money, he had always pampered and spoiled Chen Ling as she grew up.
He could never bear to hit or scold her.
This was the first time Chen Ling had ever been beaten like this.
She couldn't help but feel wronged in her heart.
How dare this Su Hua treat her like this!
But.
She was now just a fish on the chopping block in front of Su Hua; she couldn't resist her at all.
"Now you know how to regret," Su Hua's face was full of mockery, "It's too late."
Chen Ling's mistake lay in treating Dean Chen the way she did.
It caused all the affection Xuan had for her to completely vanish.
From now on, it was likely that Xuan would never pay attention to any news about Chen Ling again.
"Crack! Crack! Crack!"
Su Hua continued to whip Chen Ling.
Chen Ling's body was covered in blood, and her clothes were torn to shreds.
Chen Ling hung weakly on the cross-shaped rack.
"Smack—"
Su Hua tossed the whip onto the ground.
She ordered expressionlessly:
"Have a doctor come over and treat her properly."
"Then send her to the Black Triangle. Doesn't she like seducing men? Then let Chen Ling continue to serve men."
Chen Ling, whose mind had been a bit muddled from the beating, instantly sobered up when she heard the words 'Black Triangle'.
"No, you can't, Su Hua! You can't send me to the Black Triangle!"
She had often seen the Black Triangle on TV.
It was a completely lawless place.
Power was king.
There were also many underground mafia organizations.
The people in the Black Triangle loved keeping sex slaves and enjoyed using especially perverted methods on them. If she were sent there, she would definitely wish she were dead!
Chen Ling finally realized how terrifying Su Hua was.
For Su Hua to strangle her to death would be as easy as crushing an ant.
And to think she had actually fantasized about fighting over a man with a woman like Su Hua.
Su Hua curled her bright red lips. "Don't worry, Xuan won't pay attention to your news anymore. Naturally, he won't know that you've been sent to the Black Triangle."
With that said.
Su Hua pulled off the gloves on her hands and casually tossed them onto the ground.
Then, she returned to the bedroom.
Worried that Lin Xuan might smell the blood on her, Su Hua specifically went to take a shower first.
Only then did she return to bed.
In his daze, Lin Xuan felt a soft body roll into his embrace.
Lin Xuan's arms tightly wrapped around the slender waist of the woman in his arms.
"Hua, where did you go?"
Su Hua replied, "Nowhere, I just went to the bathroom."
"Mhm."
"Hua, go to sleep," Lin Xuan mumbled drowsily.
"Mhm."
Feeling Lin Xuan's steady, strong breathing, Su Hua closed her eyes in satisfaction.
When he woke up the next morning.
Su Hua was no longer by Lin Xuan's side.
Lin Xuan sighed with admiration in his heart once again.
Hua was simply too disciplined.
She went to work this early every single day.
Unlike him; he couldn't even drag himself out of bed before nine o'clock.
After eating breakfast, Lin Xuan sat on the sofa in the living room and started watching TV.
Suddenly, a group of people walked into the living room.
They were all holding gift boxes in their hands.
"Secretary Jiang, what is all this..." Lin Xuan looked at the items, his face full of confusion.
"Young Master Lin," Jiang Qing said respectfully. "These were all personally selected for you by the Miss."
"These are all gifts from Boss Su, one for every birthday from the year you were born until now."
"Also, Boss Su is gifting you twenty percent of the shares in the Su Corporation."
"And, the Haili Villa Vacation Resort."
ver to a world of cultivation and returned invincible. Modern medicine is child's play compared to elixirs; technological might crumbles before true cultivation. My name is Qin Ning, Earth's sole cultivator!
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
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.
