Ke Xunfang got angry. "Then if you think it's so good, why have you been egging me on to get a divorce?"
Gao Ning argued plausibly, "What good does it do that I think it's good? You don't think so. You keep complaining about his low salary..."
"His salary is really low. He only gets twenty - five taels of silver a month. It's not even enough for me to buy some rouge and powder..."
"Well, it may not be enough for you, but it's enough for me. The two of us together earn thirty taels of silver a month. We simply can't spend it all. Now that we've taken refuge with General Zhang Shi, he's clearly said that he'll raise Liu Xu's salary. In the future, our income will be even higher, and there'll be even more left over..."
Ke Xunfang was confused again.
"Hey, that's not what you told me back then. You said that with less than thirty taels of silver a month, how could we make a living?"
"Right. You stay at home all day. You have no income except for eating, shopping, and buying jewelry. But I do. I earn five taels of silver a month. Together, we can make thirty taels, and that's enough to live on!"
Ke Xunfang understood, but her anger flared up even more.
"Look, after he gets off work, he just goes hunting. He doesn't care about anything at home and never spends time with me."
"That's great! After work, he goes hunting. It not only keeps him fit and improves his archery skills but also keeps him from going out and getting into trouble. There are so many alluring women in Yunjing. If he were seduced, it would be a big problem!"
Ke Xunfang's anger shot through the roof.
"Hey, that's not what you said back then!"
"Then what did I say?"
"You said that after getting off work and going home to hunt, it would be better for him to network in the officialdom. He has no ambition at all. He'll never get promoted or make a fortune."
Gao Ning smiled. "Liu Xu really has no ambition. But in these times, ambition isn't that important. Look at Zhou Xiong. He has ambition, but who knows how much trouble he'll get into in the future?"
"As long as we follow Duke Xin and work for him."
"In the future, the salary will go up, and the official position will be promoted."
"If we just stay down - to - earth and help Duke Xin guard Fanshan Fort, and reject the people from the Tongxin Alliance and those alluring women, why should we worry about not having a good life?"
"But you didn't let him surrender to Duke Xin."
"I totally agree with that!"
"Not only did I agree, but I also came up with strategies myself!"
Ke Xunfang: "..."
"But, but... But Liu Xu doesn't care about anything at home. He doesn't have me in his heart at all!"
"That's okay!" Gao Ning smiled. "We're both busy. We don't have time to take care of household chores anyway. So we hired a nanny to do those things."
"No..." Ke Xunfang was confused. "Then why didn't you let me hire a nanny back then?"
"Because we're different. I'm busy with things, so I don't have time to take care of the house. You don't have kids and you don't have any serious business. What's wrong with you taking care of the household?"
Ke Xunfang: "Hey, that's not what you said back then!"
Gao Ning: "Then what did I say?"
Ke Xunfang: "You said that since he doesn't have time to take care of the house, how could he have the time and energy to love you?"
Gao Ning: "It's still the same thing. We're different. I don't need him to take care of the house. We don't have much to do after work. Besides, I really like going hunting with him. So, he can only accompany me and love me!"
Ke Xunfang understood, completely understood.
She heard clearly and sorted it all out in her mind.
But her heart was in a mess.
"Is Liu Xu really that good?"
"No, if Liu Xu is so good, why did you try so hard to persuade me to get a divorce from him?"
Gao Ning smiled, a smile full of the joy of a victor. "Well, you're wrong. What's the relationship between us?"
"I'm your best friend!"
"You're also my best friend!"
"We're best friends for life!"
"As your best friend for life, how could I persuade you to get a divorce? I just couldn't bear to see you unhappy!"
Ke Xunfang, who had just sorted things out in her mind, was confused again. She covered her head and said, "No, if you couldn't bear to see me unhappy, then why did you marry him?"
"Oh..." Gao Ning smiled again, still with the smile of a victor. "Well, you're wrong again. You think this way of life is unhappy, but I think it's very happy!"
"No, then you, then me, then... " Ke Xunfang now not only felt confused but also extremely angry. A fire of anger surged in her heart, like being deceived by her husband and best friend. She could hardly speak clearly.
But an idea involuntarily welled up in her heart.
To break up this couple.
She immediately said, "Hey, aren't you ashamed? Aren't you disgusted with using my cast - off husband?"
Gao Ning remained calm, smiling. "Well, you're wrong again!"
"What's our relationship?"
"We're best friends for life!"
"What's yours is mine!"
"Your husband is my husband!"
"My husband... "
"Of course, is still my husband!"
Ke Xunfang resisted the urge to strangle Gao Ning and continued to stir up trouble. "I'm telling you, you've just gotten married to him. Liu Xu has a lot of problems..."
"Well, you're wrong again!" Gao Ning looked non -chalant. "Can anyone live in this world without problems?
"Isn't that what married couples do? They tolerate each other.
"If I tolerate him, he'll tolerate me!
"Moreover... Now that we're following Duke Xin, there's the Demon - Suppressing Department under the Duke, which maintains normal love in the world. He doesn't dare to mess around. Where else can you find such a promising and peaceful life?
"I'm not a member of the Tongxin Alliance. I don't believe those heretical and strange ideas of theirs. I know exactly what I'm doing.
"So, Liu Xu and I will have a good life together forever!
"I don't dare to pursue a passionate love, but I think a peaceful life is quite achievable!"
By this time, Ke Xunfang finally understood everything clearly.
All of this was the scheme of her so - called best friend for life, Gao Ning. She had strongly advised her to get a divorce, and as soon as she did, she snatched Liu Xu away!
And made Liu Xu her husband?
Now that she thought about it, Liu Xu seemed to be quite a good catch.
He was good - looking. His official position wasn't very high, but he was still a notable figure in Fanshan Fort. It was true that he didn't do much at home after work, but she herself didn't have much to do either.
What a great match it was!
And it was just broken up like this?
And her best friend had taken her place!
So, her desire to strangle Gao Ning reached its peak. Taking advantage of Gao Ning's inattention, she rushed forward suddenly.
"Gao Ning, I'll strangle you!"
She grabbed Gao Ning by the neck.
The soldiers standing nearby were all stunned.
What the hell? Who are you, lady? You're so bold!
How dare you be disrespectful to the guest of General Zhang Shi?
Are you crazy?
Two soldiers immediately surrounded her from left and right...
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.
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
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."
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?”
