Bai Zixuan's words brought Bai Hu immense comfort.
Almost subconsciously, he gathered his emotions and murmured, Yes, Sister Li'er has always treated me differently than others.
She was only willing to let me change her son's surname.
Yet she refused to let anyone else do it.
She does have me in her heart.
Seeing his receptive demeanor, Bai Zixuan smiled and said, Exactly. Such favor is something only you, the Right Protector, can receive. Others could not beg for it even if they tried.
Now that you know the Third Palace Master's entire plan, it is time for you to contribute to it.
If my expectations are correct, the Third Palace Master will undoubtedly succeed in everything. Then, our army of two hundred thousand should surrender to Ren Tianye to make him lower his guard.
You need to pay more attention to these military affairs.
Bai Hu's spirits lifted as he replied, That is a given.
Especially those ten thousand men of the Divine Machine Battalion. I will definitely organize them well. As soon as I receive word from Sister Li'er, I will immediately deliver them to Ren Tianye!
...
In the blink of an eye, three days passed.
The sky was bright with daylight.
Bright light cast a glowing square into the room, illuminating the scattered mess on the floor in minute detail.
However, the mess in the room no longer contained any of Ren Tianye's belongings.
Ren Tianye had already left.
Only Bai Li remained.
Bai Li struggled to prop herself up on her arms, barely managing to sit up in bed. Her entire body ached so much she felt like she was dying!
Three days!
She had not treated herself like a human being!
And Ren Tianye had not treated her like one either!
She was almost dead!
Fortunately, the first step was complete!
Although it is painful, what does this suffering matter if it means avenging Brother Ye Fan?
Bai Li cheered herself on in her heart.
She struggled to her feet and dressed herself.
She walked out into the courtyard.
Having not seen the sun for three days, she only now realized how beautiful and clear the sunlight was as it met her eyes.
Her mood also lightened a bit.
However, her obsession with taking revenge on Ren Tianye deepened even further.
Next, it is time for the second step!
A maid walked over carrying new clothes. After bowing, she said, Madam, the Duke asks that you change into these clothes and proceed to the main hall for a meal.
Bai Li narrowed her eyes slightly.
She looked at the garments, which were clearly made of the finest materials.
Did Ren Tianye have these specially made day and night just to please me?
Hmph!
Snorting coldly in her heart, Bai Li took the clothes and then, under the maid's shocked gaze, threw them fiercely to the side.
Ma... Madam...
Tell Ren Tianye that I married him because I chose to, but it was not for these clothes. I do not care for them at all!
The maid's eyes widened even more.
She did not quite understand these words, and what she understood even less was...
They were newly married, yet she threw away the clothes the Duke sent right on the spot?
No, that was the Duke!
He controlled the military power both inside and outside the capital, second only to one man and above ten thousand. Was this not... simply courting death?
But what the maid expected even less were Bai Li's next words.
Go, tell Ren Tianye not to put on airs with me!
If he wants to see me, he can come in person.
I, Bai Li, will not submit to him, and I will not go to see him!
I do not have the time for that!
Terrified, the maid did not dare delay and immediately went to report.
Bai Li's mood instantly improved a bit.
By taking this step, Ren Tianye would surely feel a sense of losing control. He would definitely come to see her and try to figure out her thoughts.
Then she could plant an even deeper thorn in Ren Tianye's heart.
However...
Bai Li guessed the beginning correctly, but she guessed the ending wrong.
Ren Tianye did indeed come.
He did not come alone, but with a grand procession of maids and older female servants.
Moreover, Ren Tianye's eyes were cold.
His tone was even colder.
You refuse to wear the clothes?
Completely unaware that something was wrong, Bai Li retorted directly, What business is it of yours whether I like to wear those clothes or not?
Do not think you can take it upon yourself to arrange everything for me!
As soon as these words were spoken, the atmosphere in the room instantly plummeted.
However, a smile appeared on Ren Tianye's face.
Not bad, not bad at all. Quite the personality.
It is just a pity that the Duke's estate does not need a woman with personality.
Someone, teach her the rules of the Duke's estate!
Two older female servants immediately stepped forward.
They raised their hands to slap her.
The Duke's estate was not a military camp, so military law was not easily applied, but there were family rules. For behavior like Bai Li's, the family punishment was slapping.
Thus, the two older servants positioned themselves, one holding Bai Li down while the other swung her palm with full force.
Smack!
Smack!
Smack!
After three slaps, Bai Li's tears burst out from the pain, but her eyes also widened in shock.
This was wrong.
This was all wrong!
Why was she being slapped?
At a time like this, should not Ren Tianye be feeling a sense of losing control, thereby feeling even more that she was different from others?
Why...
Why were they hitting her?
This was completely different from what she had imagined!
While Bai Li was being beaten, Ren Tianye turned and walked away. He had lost most of his interest in Bai Li. After all, during those three days of not treating her like a human, he had already coaxed everything he wanted to know out of her mouth.
He had roughly figured out the situation of the Lin Family Army.
He could only say that each detail was more absurd than the last.
And in the end, they had actually let Bai Li take power!
All because Bai Li had obtained the token outside the capital.
It truly astounded him.
Now that he understood the situation with the Lin Family Army, Ren Tianye knew exactly how to handle things. As long as Bai Li did not die, and as long as she could write a letter to the Lin Family Army outside the city according to his demands, those two hundred thousand troops, especially the ten thousand men of the Divine Machine Battalion, would be his!
That was enough!
If Bai Li cooperated properly, he would not mind keeping a beautiful flower in his estate. After all, not just anyone could give him an experience where he did not need to treat them like a human.
But Bai Li was not cooperating!
Then he would make her cooperate!
Thus, as he left, Ren Tianye added one more instruction.
Make sure this woman properly learns the rules of my Duke Ren's estate!
Yes, Your Grace!
Having received their orders, the two older servants struck with even more vigor.
Slap after slap fell, and Bai Li's cheeks swelled up high.
She grimaced in agony, feeling pain that pierced her to the core.
But what hurt more than her body was her heart.
She could not figure it out. Why did it not work?
When she tested it on the Right Protector Bai Hu, the results were excellent!
Why... did it not work on Ren Tianye?
It seems I can only skip this first step and proceed directly to the next ones!
Bai Li made up her mind!
And the next step was...
Treating everyone else with gentleness, but remaining as cold as frost only to Ren Tianye!
Therefore, Bai Li forced a smile and, looking at the two older servants who had just been slapping her, asked with a face full of gentleness, Do your hands hurt?
...
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
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!
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, 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?"
