"Take this."
"What is it?"
Before Dongfang Zhixia could respond, Ye Cheng had already tossed the item over—something limp, cold, and squirming.
A snake.
Dongfang Zhixia: "???"
"Ah—!"
The moment Dongfang Zhixia caught the snake, she flung it away. Ye Cheng reacted swiftly and snatched it mid-air.
"President, what are you doing? If this thing bites you, we’ll need this 'spicy strip' to find the antivenom later. Neither of us knows what kind of snake this is. If it slithers away, do you really think we’ll have the luck to catch it again?"
Ye Cheng’s tone was exasperated.
Dongfang Zhixia knew all this, of course. But knowing and acting were two entirely different things.
Snakes were something most people feared.
Only a weirdo like Ye Cheng could casually refer to it as a "spicy strip" without a hint of fear. He even tied the snake in an artistic knot—one with a distinctly Japanese flair.
Frankly, the snake now looked somewhat indecent.
Strangely suggestive, even.
Dongfang Zhixia knew she was in the wrong but refused to let Ye Cheng have the upper hand. She muttered defensively,
"Of course I know that! But you threw it at me out of nowhere—anyone would be startled!"
"Alright, then hold it properly, President. I need to carry you now and don’t have any free hands."
Ye Cheng wasn’t lying.
He had briefly considered draping the snake around his neck but quickly dismissed the idea, fearing he might experience a "boa constrictor’s embrace."
So, the task fell to the president.
Seeing the neatly tied "spicy strip" Ye Cheng handed over, Dongfang Zhixia’s eyes flashed with terror.
"Oh no, oh no. Could it be that our mighty president is scared of snakes?" Ye Cheng feigned shock.
Dongfang Zhixia: "..."
"Shut up! Who’s scared? Not me!"
Dongfang Zhixia was stubborn by nature. Losing face, especially to Ye Cheng, was out of the question.
She grabbed the snake firmly, its cold, slithering body coiling around her wrist the moment she touched it. The eerie sensation sent shivers down her spine, but she clenched her teeth and held on.
"Is that all? Let’s go. We’re wasting time."
Her voice trembled, as did her body.
The only thing still firm was her mouth.
Exactly the reaction Ye Cheng wanted. He hoisted her onto his back and began descending the mountain.
......
"Miss! Miss, where are you?"
The petite secretary panted heavily, exhausted after just a few steps.
In a way, she was "carrying extra weight" uphill, so her fatigue was understandable.
But in Dongfang Zhixia’s eyes, it was just useless flab!
Suddenly, the secretary squinted, spotting something in the distance. After a moment of scrutiny, her face lit up with joy.
"Miss!"
But her delight was short-lived.
Her expression froze as she saw her young mistress being carried down the mountain by a shirtless man.
The secretary’s pupils shrank.
Her mind instantly conjured a series of scandalous, pixelated scenes—none of them appropriate for public viewing.
Her face paled. "Will Miss silence me to keep this secret?"
Panicked, she clapped a hand over her mouth, then switched to covering her eyes, muttering under her breath.
"I didn’t see anything. I know nothing. Wuwuwu..."
From Ye Cheng’s back, Dongfang Zhixia glared at her airheaded secretary, irritation flaring.
"Get over here! What are you standing around for?"
"Ah? Oh..."
The secretary flinched at her mistress’s sharp tone, turning around but keeping both hands firmly over her eyes.
"What are you doing?" Dongfang Zhixia frowned, a question mark practically floating above her head.
The secretary stammered, "I—I didn’t see anything, Miss."
Dongfang Zhixia: "???"
"President, your secretary must’ve funneled all her meals straight to her chest. How is she all body and no brain?"
Ye Cheng shook his head and nudged the eye-covering secretary.
"Your Miss got bitten by a snake. Her foot’s swollen like a pig’s trotter, and you’re pretending not to see it?"
"Huh?"
Confused, the secretary lowered her hands and finally noticed the dark, swollen bite marks on Dongfang Zhixia’s foot.
"AHHH!!"
"Miss! Wuwuwu... What happened?!" Her eyes welled up instantly, her face a picture of distress.
Dongfang Zhixia: "..."
This idiot.
"Stop crying and get your Miss to a hospital. You’ll have plenty to cry about if she kicks the bucket." Ye Cheng sighed.
Fortunately, the secretary wasn’t completely hopeless.
A quick call on her emergency line summoned a swarm of doctors and bodyguards—along with a stretcher—within five minutes.
Ye Cheng handed the prickly young mistress over to the medics, swiped a jacket from a bodyguard, and slipped away unnoticed.
A true unsung hero!
Doing good deeds without expecting rewards—society needed more positive role models like Ye Cheng!
...Or so he’d like to say.
In reality, he was afraid the president might come to her senses and have him detained if he lingered. Then he’d really be stuck.
Ye Cheng wasn’t naive enough to think today’s incident would magically warm her up to him.
Come on, this wasn’t some cheesy novel where rich heiresses fell for nobodies after one rescue.
That was just delusional wishful thinking—the kind that got you chopped into mincemeat.
Tonight’s mess was technically his fault, even if it was an accident. Still, he’d sucked out the venom and carried her down. That should balance the scales, right?
Surely the president wouldn’t hold a grudge over this?
...Right?
Ye Cheng stretched, humming a tune as he strolled back to his dorm.
Exhausted. Time to sleep!
......
Meanwhile, in the girls’ dormitory.
"Miss, I’ve sent you the files." A pleasant female voice came through the phone.
"Mm. Got it. Rest early." Shen Qinghan was about to hang up.
"Miss... the family head hopes you’ll visit home..." The voice hesitated, laced with unease, as if bracing for rejection.
Shen Qinghan sighed. "I know. I’ll go back in a couple of days. I’m busy now."
"Thank you, Miss!" The voice brightened instantly.
After hanging up, Shen Qinghan opened the files on her phone.
"Ye Cheng, eighteen years old..."
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."
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?!
lities. One day, Qi Yuan was buying groceries when he unfortunately came face-to-face with a monster. Just when he thought he was going to die on the spot, he suddenly heard the monster's thoughts... "This aura, he's definitely not an ordinary master!" "So terrifying, so terrifying." "A fight with my back against the wall, I can't take it anymore." Qi Yuan: Ah, no one told me that my awakened ability isn't telepathy, but rather the stronger my enemies imagine me to be, the stronger I truly become. PS: Zhou Hai in the first chapter is not the protagonist.
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
