Huo Shen’s eyes bulged as he glared at them.
“How dare you betray me!”
One of Huo Shen’s subordinates said coldly, “Huo Shen, the only reason I followed you faithfully before was because you treated us well and we thought we’d have a bright future with you.”
“But you turned out to be a scheming man. Hong Yuanjie did so much for you, and you still treated him like this—even wanted him dead. Won’t we one day offend you over something and end up killed by you too?”
“Also, Huo Shen, the only reason you are where you are today is because of the Su family. Now that the Su family knows your true face, without their support, what future do you think you have left? If I stay with you…”
Huo Shen gritted his teeth and snarled, “What are you all talking about? ‘Only because of the Su family’? I made it all happen through my own hard work!”
The Su family. The Su family.
He hated nothing more than people saying he depended on the Su family, as if he were just living off their charity.
He had put in so much effort too.
The subordinate sneered, “Huo Shen, do you think we don’t know what you’re really capable of?”
“You’re a useless loser. You can’t hold a candle to Lin Xuan! And you actually thought you could compete with Lin Xuan for Miss Su? That’s nothing but a pipe dream.”
“Huo Shen, if we stick with you, we’re heading straight to our deaths. Between living and dying, we know which to choose.”
The other subordinates chimed in.
“That’s right, we all choose to live!”
“Huo Shen, we’re not going down with you!”
Huo Shen had been completely backstabbed by all of his men.
“You… all of you.”
Huo Shen growled through clenched teeth, “A pack of ungrateful rats! I treated you so well, and this is how you repay me—by betraying me just like that?”
“Fine. Just fine!”
His chest heaved violently.
Huo Shen’s subordinates turned to Lin Xuan.
“Mr. Lin, we are at your mercy,” they said respectfully.
The Golden Dragon Gang members also approached. Seeing this, they were filled with admiration.
Their leader had once again subdued the enemy without suffering a single casualty.
Their leader was simply incredible!
The Golden Dragon Gang members were now in complete awe of Lin Xuan.
But then they sighed.
It had been several months since their leader last came to the Golden Dragon Gang. Every time the vice-leader asked him to come, he’d say he was focusing on his family.
Unless the gang faced a life-or-death crisis, not to bother him.
If only their leader could spend more time on the Golden Dragon Gang—how great would that be?
But their leader was busy leading the chip lithography project and pharmaceutical project at Shangqing University, as well as developing the Sky Curtain Group.
He was just too busy.
That was why he had so little time for the Golden Dragon Gang.
Huo Shen watched his subordinates kneeling and pledging loyalty to Lin Xuan.
For the first time, he fully realized he had no way out. He had lost completely to Lin Xuan.
Huo Shen clenched his fists.
He couldn’t accept it. He couldn’t accept ending up like this!
His eyes turned savage as he looked at Lin Xuan.
It was all Lin Xuan’s fault.
Lin Xuan had stolen Hua’er from him.
If it weren’t for Lin Xuan, he would have married Hua’er by now. He would be her husband, gaining access to the Su Group’s core operations.
The entire Su Group would have been his.
Lin Xuan had ruined years of his hard work!
Even if he was going to fail now, he would drag Lin Xuan down with him!
“Lin Xuan, die!”
Huo Shen pulled out a knife from somewhere and charged at Lin Xuan.
Lin Xuan watched him calmly, his eyes steady.
Someone like Huo Shen couldn’t possibly hurt him.
Just as Lin Xuan was about to strike, Su Hua moved swiftly to stand in front of him.
She raised her foot and kicked Huo Shen square in the chest.
Huo Shen flew back like a kite with a broken string.
His back slammed into a table.
“Pfft—”
Blood sprayed from Huo Shen’s mouth.
With a clatter, the knife in his hand fell to the floor, ringing sharply.
Lin Xuan looked at Su Hua with surprise.
Was he being protected by Hua Bao again?
He had to admit, being protected by Hua Bao felt pretty good.
“Cough, cough.”
Huo Shen clutched his chest, coughing several times.
He looked up at Su Hua with wounded eyes.
He had loved Hua’er for so many years.
Hua’er must have known how he felt about her.
Why did she treat him like this?
Huo Shen turned his hopeful gaze to Old Master Su.
Old Man Su had always doted on him.
If Old Master Su helped him, he might still have a chance to survive.
“Grandpa Su,” Huo Shen said, crawling on his knees to Old Master Su.
Old Master Su looked at him with deep disappointment.
He had warned Huo Shen so many times, and yet Huo Shen had still tried to harm Xuan’er.
Besides, Huo Shen had always acted polite and refined in front of him.
He had thought that even if Huo Shen still had feelings for Hua’er, he wouldn’t do anything drastic.
He never imagined Huo Shen could be such a malicious person.
He had misjudged him.
Huo Shen’s eyes reddened as he spoke, “Grandpa Su, I never meant any real harm. I just love Hua’er too much. I wanted to be with her, that’s why I went after Lin Xuan.”
“I didn’t plan to do anything serious—just hypnotize Lin Xuan into breaking up with Hua’er willingly. I thought if Lin Xuan left, I could be with Hua’er.”
“Grandpa Su, please give me one more chance. I promise I won’t bother Hua’er and Lin Xuan ever again.”
Old Master Su’s eyes were full of disappointment.
“Huo Shen.”
He no longer called him affectionately by his nickname “Shen.” He used his full name.
“Do you think your words can be trusted? You made the same promise to me before. You said you would let go of Hua’er. You said even if you couldn’t let go, you would only watch over her from the shadows and do nothing to her or Xuan. But what did you do?”
“You stooped to such a despicable method as hypnosis, making Xuan believe he loved another woman so he’d leave Hua’er.”
“Do you have any idea that what you did would have pushed Hua’er into an abyss?”
Xuan was a stubborn man.
And Hua’er’s heart belonged only to Xuan.
If Huo Shen had succeeded in hypnotizing him, Xuan would never have agreed to stay with Hua’er.
Hua’er loved Xuan so much that in this life, she had only ever chosen him.
How could she let him walk away from her?
One determined to leave, the other forcing him to stay—it would only make both of them suffer.
If Hua’er became extreme, she might even kill Xuan and then herself, dying together with him.
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…
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.”
e school belle recognized by the whole school, a genius girl from the kendo club. She also has a hidden identity, the youngest legendary demon hunter. Chen Shuo just transmigrated and found himself turned into a weak, helpless little vampire. He was caught by Su Xiyen and taken home at the very beginning. Since then, Chen Shuo's life creed only had two items. "First, classmate Su Xiyen is always right." "Second, if classmate Su Xiyen is wrong, please refer back to item one." Many years later, Chen Shuo, who had turned back into a human, led a pair of twins to appear in front of all the vampires to share the secret of how he turned back into a human. "It's simple, I tricked a female demon hunter into becoming my wife!"
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.”
