"Uncle." Su Hua crouched in front of Su Hai.
Her eyes curved gently as she smiled warmly, "I was planning to keep you around for a while longer, but who told you to dare harm my Ah Xuan?"
"Uncle, since you dared to send people to capture him, you must now enjoy the fate of being cut into a thousand pieces." Su Hua used the knife in her hand to lift Su Hai's chin.
The cold blade touched Su Hai's chin, causing his body to tremble uncontrollably.
"Su Hua, I'm your uncle! Let me go, and I promise I'll never oppose you again," Su Hai pleaded.
After entering the Night Garden, his limbs had gone weak. Compared to death, he was more terrified of being tortured by Su Hua.
"Uncle, it's too late for that."
Su Hua's face still wore a smile, her beauty dazzling. Any man who saw her would be tempted to keep her for himself.
But to Su Hai, her current appearance was like a devil returned from hell.
Beside them, a black tiger was held on a leash by a bodyguard, staring at Su Hai with predatory eyes.
"My dear uncle, just enjoy this moment of being tortured by me." The tip of the knife lightly traced Su Hai's face, drawing beads of blood.
"Su Hua, please spare me, please spare me," Su Hai begged incessantly.
Su Hua licked her lips, her eyes filled with excitement.
She loved tormenting people.
The more afraid they were, the more thrilled she became.
She loved blood and adored watching her victims struggle in their final moments.
Su Hua's face twisted into a sinister smile as she continued to carve into Su Hai's face, one cut after another. Su Hai, held down by two bodyguards, couldn't break free and could only stare at Su Hua in terror.
The stinging pain on his face and the bullet wound on his wrist made his entire body shake with agony.
At one point, the pain became so unbearable that he passed out.
"Wake him up," Su Hua ordered coldly.
"Splash." The prepared ice-cold saltwater was poured over Su Hai's body.
By now, Su Hai's face was covered in cuts from Su Hua's knife, completely unrecognizable from his original appearance.
Su Hai was tortured to the brink of despair.
"Su Hua, your uncle admits his mistakes. I don’t beg for my life anymore," Su Hai stammered, his lips trembling as he struggled to speak. "I only beg you, Hua'er, to give me a quick death."
There was nothing more painful than being tortured endlessly while awaiting death.
"Uncle, why the rush? This is just the beginning."
Su Hua curled her lips into a smile. Since Ah Xuan wasn’t coming home for dinner tonight, she had all the time in the world to torment him.
Under Su Hai's horrified gaze, Su Hua continued to carve into his body, one cut after another.
Lin Xuan stepped out of the cake shop, holding a cake he had put a lot of effort into. He had even crafted a little figurine of Su Hua.
On his way back, he stopped to buy a bouquet of roses.
As he left the flower shop and was about to get into his car, he ran into Qin Ruoyao.
Qin Ruoyao looked at him with the eyes of a betrayed lover.
Lin Xuan cursed inwardly, thinking how unlucky he was.
He tried to leave, but Qin Ruoyao blocked his path.
"Lin Xuan, why are you treating me like this? You used to love me so much. Why are you with another woman now?"
"Is this cake for her?" Qin Ruoyao's face was filled with hurt.
"Lin Xuan, I’ve fallen for you now. Be with me, okay?" Qin Ruoyao grabbed Lin Xuan's hand, pleading desperately.
Lin Xuan instinctively shook off her hand. He knew Su Hua's bodyguards were nearby, and he was worried that this scene might be captured and sent to Su Hua.
"Miss Qin, please respect yourself. I have a girlfriend," Lin Xuan said coldly.
"Lin Xuan, do you have to speak to me like this?" Qin Ruoyao bit her lip, her voice filled with grievance.
These days, she had been following the news on Weibo. The Palm Novel website had been trending multiple times, and its development was booming.
Qin Ruoyao knew that Lin Xuan had succeeded in his entrepreneurial venture, which only strengthened her desire to be with him.
"What else should I say?" Lin Xuan retorted.
"Qin Ruoyao, don’t you think you’re being shameless? When I liked you, I chased after you like a lovesick fool, and you always looked down on me. Now that I don’t like you anymore, you’re chasing after me."
Lin Xuan, I just didn’t understand my feelings before. It’s only now that I’ve realized I like you, Qin Ruoyao said with a deeply emotional and affectionate expression.
Lin Xuan’s lips curled into a cold smile. "Qin Ruoyao, compared to me, you love money more. Stop pretending here. Don’t think I don’t know about your affair with Lin Li. On the day of our wedding, you two went to a hotel and slept together, didn’t you?"
Qin Ruoyao’s eyes widened in shock.
How did he know? When did he find out?
Her face turned pale in an instant.
"Lin Xuan, don’t misunderstand," Qin Ruoyao said nervously. "I like you more. I just took a wrong turn back then. If you don’t want me to be involved with him, I’m willing to cut ties with Lin Li for you."
Lin Xuan raised an eyebrow as he noticed a man approaching them.
"Well, isn’t this my dear brother, Lin Li? Qin Ruoyao, why don’t you go and make things clear with him right now?"
Qin Ruoyao stiffly turned her head and saw Lin Li standing there.
She liked Lin Xuan, but Lin Li was the future heir to the Lin Group, which promised her a life of wealth. She didn’t want to let go of Lin Li either.
“Since you can’t bring yourself to cut ties with Lin Li, stop putting on this act of deep affection in front of me. It disgusts me.”
Lin Xuan pushed Qin Ruoyao aside, got into his car, and stepped on the gas, heading straight for the Night Garden.
Lin Li walked over to Qin Ruoyao.
"Ruoyao, was that Lin Xuan just now?" Lin Li asked.
"Yes," Qin Ruoyao replied, pretending to be nonchalant. "I just had a chat with him."
Lin Li wrapped his arm around Qin Ruoyao. "Ruoyao, do you like Lin Xuan?"
"No, I don’t, Brother Li. Don’t misunderstand," Qin Ruoyao quickly denied.
"Silly girl, I like you. How could I not know what’s on your mind?" Lin Li smiled dotingly. "If you like him, go ahead and chase him. No matter what, I’ll always be here for you."
Only if Qin Ruoyao got together with Lin Xuan would that woman abandon him. And once Lin Xuan lost his wealthy patron, he would be left in poverty.
"Brother Li, you’re so good to me," Qin Ruoyao said, moved, as she hugged Lin Li tightly.
A hint of disgust flashed in Lin Li’s eyes.
Lin Xuan returned to the Night Garden.
The living room was filled with the pungent smell of blood.
Su Hai lay on the ground, barely alive after being tortured.
"Su Hua, even as a ghost… I won’t let you go…" Su Hai gritted his teeth.
Su Hua, now bored, plunged the knife into Su Hai’s chest. Blood splattered, staining Su Hua’s face.
With a smile on her lips and her face covered in blood, Su Hua looked like a blooming 'Mandragora'— dangerous and mesmerizing.
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, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
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…
d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!
