Wang Ming chuckled, sharing in the joy of the inheritance the Great General was about to receive. He immediately accepted the order and headed straight for the Young Duke.
Young Duke Lu Jun was completely bewildered at this moment.
This is not right!
This is not right at all!
He had clearly come to show Ren Tianye who was boss, so how did it turn into Ren Tianye demanding an inheritance from him?
Seriously, how could someone be so shameless? His father had only been Ren Tianye's mentor for a mere two or three days. How could Ren Tianye use that to snatch the inheritance?
Was he insane?!
But the next moment, Wang Ming's face appeared before him.
He remembered this face all too well. Back in Yunji City, it was Wang Ming who had physically dealt with him. Those scenes were etched deeply into his memory, and now, overlapping with the figure before him, they instantly turned into a nightmare that violently struck his soul.
Young Duke Lu Jun let out a loud yell.
"No!"
Unfortunately, it was too late!
Wang Ming had already leaned over, grabbed him, and thrown him horizontally across the back of his horse, much like capturing an enemy general alive on the battlefield!
"Alright, everyone..."
Seeing that the matter was settled, Ren Tianye looked at the funeral procession before him and said, "Go on back!"
"What remains is an inheritance issue concerning our Duke of Fuguo's estate."
"Don't stay here to watch the show."
With a faint smile, Ren Tianye turned his horse around and headed back.
His heart was filled with joy.
Last time in Yunji City, because he had captured the Young Duke, he had managed to extort seventy thousand sets of equipment from Lu Qing. Today, the strongest forces in his Northern Frontier Army still relied on that very equipment.
This time, having captured the Young Duke again with such a convenient excuse, he wondered how much more Lu Qing would deliver to him.
He could hardly wait!
However, in this world, one person's joy is often another's sorrow. The instigator and mastermind behind this entire incident, Gu Qingyue, was absolutely dumbfounded when she heard the news.
"How could this happen?"
"This is not right!"
"Should not Ren Tianye have obediently knelt down and kowtowed, or else bear the infamy of the whole world? How..."
"How did he end up fighting for an inheritance?"
"What the hell kind of inheritance is he fighting for!"
Gu Qingyue was going crazy, and what drove her even crazier was the news that Young Duke Lu Jun was currently being brutally beaten by Ren Tianye's subordinates, his miserable screams echoing endlessly!
Gu Qingyue shivered.
After all, she and the Young Duke had known each other since childhood. How could she sit back and watch the Young Duke suffer like this?
She immediately sent someone to bring the Young Duke back.
The messenger returned in less than an hour, but there was no sign of the Young Duke.
"Miss, Ren Tianye said that this is a private matter of the Duke of Fuguo's estate and no one else's business. He would not give face even if the Emperor of Heaven himself came!"
Gu Qingyue asked anxiously, "Did you not tell Ren Tianye what I instructed you to say?"
"I did. I warned Ren Tianye that whatever torture he inflicted on the Young Duke, you would replicate exactly on Duke Ren. But... after hearing that, Ren Tianye actually had the Young Duke beaten even harder!"
Gu Qingyue was speechless.
Harder?
Wait, how did it get even harder?
She could not help but frown. After a moment, she finally figured it out: "So that is how it is!"
"So that is how it is!"
"Duke Ren, oh Duke Ren. I did not expect that despite your cowardly appearance, you are actually a true hero, willing to pay such a heavy price to support your son!"
Having thought it through completely, Gu Qingyue knew she could not just sit and wait. She had to find a way to rescue the Young Duke from Ren Tianye's hands.
Since Ren Tianye would not give any of them face, he probably would not even heed a request from the Prime Minister.
In that case...
There was only one person Ren Tianye could not afford to ignore!
That was Lu Qing!
Lu Qing was the Great General of the capital, commanding two hundred thousand troops inside and outside the city. Ren Tianye had come by imperial decree; he might ignore others, but he had to give face to Lu Qing!
And Lu Qing...
Would be more than willing to save the Young Duke.
Without delay, she set off immediately and hurried to the Duke of Fuguo's estate. Just as she entered the gates, she saw the old steward of the Duke of Fuguo's estate walking out, covering his bleeding face!
"What happened?"
Gu Qingyue stopped the old steward and asked.
"No, it is nothing!"
"What exactly happened?"
"It is just that Madam and Master had a little disagreement. Madam accidentally shattered a vase, and this old servant's face was scratched by the flying shards."
Gu Qingyue's brow furrowed immediately.
The Master the old steward referred to was naturally the current de facto ruler of the Duke of Fuguo's estate, Lu Qing, and the Madam was, of course, the original Madam, Ruyue.
But...
Everyone knew that Lu Qing loved Ruyue deeply. He cherished her so much that he feared dropping her if he held her in his hands, and feared melting her if he held her in his mouth. How... how could they have a little disagreement?
From the looks of it, the two of them must have had a quarrel, right?!
When she questioned the old steward further, he only gave vague answers and brushed it off, though he was sighing inwardly.
What you cannot have is always the best.
Once you get it, it might not be the best anymore.
Besides, with such an intense level of passionate love, as soon as it cooled down even slightly, how could conflicts not arise?
Since the old steward would not say, Gu Qingyue did not press the matter. She headed straight for Ruyue's boudoir. After all, as a junior and a fellow woman, she had visited countless times before.
Before she even arrived, she heard a noise coming from the room.
Crash!
It sounded like a vase smashing onto the floor!
Gu Qingyue jumped in fright and quickly stopped in her tracks.
Lu Qing's voice then drifted out from the room.
"Ruyue, what are you doing?"
Ruyue's voice was as gentle as ever, but her reply was filled with sorrow. "You brought the sea of stars and crossed mountains and rivers to rush to me. I thought I had finally found the love of my life. Hah, only now do I realize that you do not understand me at all!"
Lu Qing's voice was clearly breaking down, his tone growing anxious. "Then tell me! If you do not tell me, how am I supposed to understand you?"
"True understanding requires no words!"
"If you just tell me, will I not understand?"
"What is the point of saying it out loud? You should understand even if I do not say it!"
Lu Qing was obviously even more exasperated. "Ruyue, I am not a fortune teller! How am I supposed to know what you mean!"
Ruyue's tone instantly flattened. "I do not mean anything!"
Lu Qing also completely lost his patience and said dejectedly, "This is really meaningless!"
But Ruyue's pitch instantly soared. "Right, so now when I speak, you think it is meaningless, is that it?"
Lu Qing continued to crumble. "Did I say it was meaningless?"
Ruyue retorted, "So if I say it is meaningless, it is meaningless?"
"Then why do you not tell me, what exactly do you mean?"
"Fine!" Ruyue's tone instantly went up an octave. "Then I will tell you right now what I mean..."
"This is exactly what I mean!"
...
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 vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
