"Here you go, one hundred... of these."
The head maid fell silent for a moment before handing the hundred-yuan bills in her hand to Ye Cheng, who stood before her with a fierce and intimidating expression.
Upon receiving his "one hundred," Ye Cheng was as happy as a child with a learning disability, excitedly celebrating for quite a while. Seeing this, the head maid grew even more silent.
This strange guy definitely has something wrong with his head.
After settling the compensation matter, the situation seemed to have reached another stalemate. She had to think of a solution, otherwise, when their Madam arrived soon and saw this scene, how could she possibly explain it?
She couldn't very well say the young lady was cosplaying a sloth, could she?
Thinking this, the head maid fell somewhat silent. She looked down at her own pink-haired, pink-brained young lady, who was currently clinging to Ye Cheng's leg, cosplaying a sloth with a startling accuracy of over ninety percent!
It's just a pity there aren't any pink, mutant sloths in this world, otherwise, it might have been a perfect one hundred percent match. It's just too similar!
Head maid: "..."
nO!!!
The head maid's heart sank. She quickly pinched herself... Forget it, forget it, the young lady is not a sloth!
Huh? Why doesn't it hurt? Did I not use enough force?
A flicker of confusion appeared in the head maid's eyes, and she pinched "herself" again, harder this time.
"OW!!!" Ye Cheng's scream rang out.
The head maid snapped back to reality. Ye Cheng was screaming because they were standing too close, and she was holding him too tightly, making it hard to tell whose flesh she was pinching.
That pinch had landed on Ye Cheng, no wonder it didn't hurt.
"You son of a bi—" Ye Cheng began to curse but stopped himself, preparing to give the head maid in front of him a piece of his mind, ready to recount his entire family tree—his mom, dad, grandfather, grandmother, maternal grandfather...
Before he could get the words out, a hundred-yuan bill appeared before his eyes, held by the head maid. The fierce, intimidating look in Ye Cheng's eyes instantly cleared, becoming pure and simple.
He snatched the hundred-yuan note at lightning speed and stuffed it into his little frog-shaped wallet.
Click.
The wallet closed and was tucked into his pocket. Only then did Ye Cheng look back at the head maid who had pinched him, but this time his expression was much friendlier.
"We're all buddies here, what's with this, haha. Oh, by the way, got any more?" Ye Cheng blinked.
Head maid: "..."
Silently, the head maid tightened her grip on the money she had just borrowed from the other maids.
In this digital age, few people carry cash when they go out. The head maid had saved up her dowry for years, all safely in her bank card—or so she thought... It was just wishful thinking.
In less than three minutes, her young lady had maxed it out, boohoo...
Cash was much more reliable. She had scraped together a bit from each of the dozen or so junior maids outside, amounting to a few thousand yuan. With Ye Cheng, these few thousand could buy dozens of "take-backs," which was quite a bargain.
Each "take-back" would cost one bill. The head maid silently decided that from now on, no matter the situation, she would carry a few thousand in cash when going out. Otherwise, there really was no way to deal with a "strange guy" like Ye Cheng.
Swish!
The head maid pulled another hundred-yuan bill from her wallet, waving it in front of Ye Cheng.
"Do you want more?" the head maid asked calmly.
Ye Cheng sneered, "Who do you think you're looking down on? Trying to humiliate me with money?" Then... he nodded.
Head maid: "..."
Is this guy... even human?
Tsundere, much?
The result was that Ye Cheng ended up receiving another crisp hundred-yuan bill from the head maid. He happily opened his little frog wallet to deposit it, while listening to the head maid explain the situation beside him.
"You'll need to cooperate with me later. This is the deposit. There's more after the job is done," the head maid said.
"Hah, what kind of person do you take me for? You think I'll just cooperate because you say so?"
Watching Ye Cheng spout these seemingly tough, resolute, and cold words while simultaneously nodding his head, the head maid fell silent again.
Whatever, if he's not human, then he's not human...
The head maid was gradually getting used to Ye Cheng's inhuman way of speaking and behaving. As long as it didn't affect the upcoming task, it didn't matter.
Besides, given their current situation... things couldn't possibly get any more outrageous, right?
The head maid glanced surreptitiously at her own chest. Unconsciously, a faint, unnatural blush crept onto her face, flashing by before quickly disappearing, her expression returning to its usual cool, composed head maid demeanor.
"It's rest time now. I need you to help me get the young lady back to her room to sleep..."
"That's simple! Watch me!"
Thwack!
Before the head maid could finish, Ye Cheng moved, reaching with his free hand towards the little thing clinging to his leg. Unfortunately, the head maid intercepted him.
"Do not be rough with the young lady! Just walk slowly to the elevator like this. I'll handle the rest!" The head maid glared at Ye Cheng, who was now blowing on his slapped hand.
"You could have just said so, why resort to violence? You didn't explain clearly, and now you blame me? You really..." Ye Cheng muttered under his breath.
Swish! Silently, the head maid reached into her wallet.
Another hundred-yuan bill appeared before Ye Cheng.
"You are absolutely right, my actions were very rude and would surely make our young lady uncomfortable. I definitely deserved that!" Ye Cheng changed his tune at lightning speed.
Head maid: "..."
With the support of "money power," the two quickly agreed on the specifics and soon began to put the plan into action.
"You'd better not try any tricks, otherwise..." The head maid trailed off, stunned.
Something felt off. Even if Ye Cheng did try something, what could she actually do to him? Thinking this, the head maid fell silent. But she couldn't just swallow her pride, so she hugged Ye Cheng tightly again, delivering a fierce "threat."
It seemed to convey to Ye Cheng that this would be the consequence if he dared to try anything.
Ye Cheng: "..."
Buddy, where did you learn this technique of offering yourself up on a silver platter?
Ye Cheng could see it now. This pink-brained little creature seemed to have a negative buff that could infect people around her, making them all act dopey and not very bright. Clearly, this head maid in front of him was the one most deeply affected by the negative buff.
Kid, you know this is called 'giving yourself away,' not 'making a threat,' right?
Ye Cheng's mouth twitched. But then... he suddenly remembered something and glanced towards the front desk camera. Hmm... it was positioned perfectly to capture the head maid "threatening" him right here.
If the young lady and the president saw this surveillance footage, he'd probably be beaten into minced beef, wouldn't he?
Chewy and bouncy, hmm, not bad... Damn!!!
By pure accident, he really had been threatened by the head maid!
"Alright, alright, I get it. You've been taking advantage of me for so long, aren't you going to let go?" Ye Cheng said with an impatient look.
Head Maid: "???"
The head maid's face stiffened. She... she was taking advantage of this weird guy in front of her?
Having lived for over twenty years, the head maid felt what "humiliation" was for the first time. Her chest heaved with emotion as she grew furious. She originally wanted to say something like, "Have you even looked at yourself? Why would I take advantage of you?" to Ye Cheng.
However, after getting a clear look at Ye Cheng's appearance, the head maid fell silent. It seemed... he might have a point.
Silence was the Bridge of Sighs tonight, and the head maid was feeling particularly bridge-like.
Finally, the head maid released Ye Cheng, which also meant the half-hour-long stalemate between the two came to an end, drawing to a close.
Ye Cheng flexed his hand. Hmm... felt like something was missing. Whatever, never mind.
Ye Cheng looked down at the pink-haired little thing clinging to him, still cosplaying a sloth, and sighed helplessly before heading towards the elevator ahead.
Gotta say, it was strangely light, almost as if he couldn't feel any weight at all.
Coupled with Ye Cheng's own considerable strength, even with this extra "little thing" on his leg, it didn't affect his normal walking speed or stride. Plus, it was soft and squishy. It would have been even better if it weren't for the teeth gnawing on him.
Xia Tongxin, in her dazed, half-asleep state, seemed to be using Ye Cheng's leg as a teething ring...
Ye Cheng walked ahead. After letting go of Ye Cheng, the head maid was momentarily distracted. Seeing the two moving away, she hurriedly snapped back to reality and followed behind.
"Be more careful! The young lady is about to fall! Slow down, slow down, you're going too fast..." the head maid said with a worried expression.
Ye Cheng: "..."
That phrasing... why did it sound so wrong? Was this person doing it on purpose, trying to frame him?
Just like that, the three of them got into the elevator. The doors closed with a ding!
Going up!
The hotel lobby returned to the quiet it should have at night, as if everything that had happened there earlier was an illusion. The only proof of the previous argument was the hotel front desk's security camera.
The camera flickered with a faint red light, recording everything that had transpired, uploading it all to the cloud and databases, and finally... successfully intercepted by the hacker arranged by Lin Baizhi, who transcribed it all and sent it to her boss, Ms. Lin!
At the same time.
In Lin Baizhi's villa.
Buzz! Buzz!
Her phone vibrated; Lin Baizhi had received a new message.
The room faintly echoed with the sound of sobs, inexplicably sad, mixed with a sense of gritted teeth. She seemed to be muttering something like, "You wretched old maid, just you wait..."
"Wahhh..."
After who knows how long, Lin Baizhi finally stopped. Her eyes were red and swollen from crying. It was only then she noticed her phone seemed to have received another new message?
Lin Baizhi sniffled, the tear tracks on both cheeks still un-wiped. She got up from the floor, even swaying a bit as if a gust of wind could blow her over, and walked towards the bed. Picking up her phone, she took a look.
"Huh?" Lin Baizhi was taken aback. How come there was new surveillance footage again?
With a somewhat puzzled look, Lin Baizhi clicked on yet another surveillance video clip sent by the other party...
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
