After Jiang Yunli and the others left, Chen Ningshuang's mood remained low.
Her head hung down, and her delicate body trembled uncontrollably.
It seemed like she was about to shed tears, feeling utterly wronged.
If it were before, she might have felt some guilt for injuring Jiang Che, but now... she knew it was all a trap he had set for her!
Jiang Che's ancient martial arts skills had always been stronger than hers, and her instincts hadn't been wrong back then.
There was no way she could have injured him; he had been faking it all along.
But now... it was too late. She had already been forced onto Jiang Che's pirate ship.
"Shuang'er, you hit me back then... can't you let my mom say a few words? You know how protective she is of me," Jiang Che said as his large hand wrapped around Chen Ningshuang's shoulder, pulling her into his embrace.
"You're lying! It was all your plan. Don't think I don't know... you set this trap and waited for me to fall into it!" Chen Ningshuang retorted, her eyes red as she glared at Jiang Che's smirking face.
His smile was so infuriating; it made her want to punch him!
"What? You want to hit me? If you break me, who's going to help you improve your skills? That rocket-speed cultivation progress... you can't forget that, can you?"
Chen Ningshuang fell silent. She really couldn't bring herself to hit him now.
She could overpower him, but she didn't want to!
"Tsk tsk tsk, Shuang'er, could it be... you've fallen for me?" Jiang Che suddenly blurted out, throwing Chen Ningshuang into disarray, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.
"Who would fall for you? I'd rather jump off a building than fall for you!"
Jiang Che kindly reminded her, "This is the first floor. Go ahead and jump."
Chen Ningshuang: "......"
She was scared. If she truly had nothing to feel guilty about... why would she be so flustered?
Had she really grown accustomed to this scoundrel's presence?
Or had she actually fallen for him?
No... she had been coerced and tempted. How could she have developed feelings?
......
"No!!! Let go of me! Let go! You're trespassing, you know that?"
Qin Tian was utterly distraught, struggling incessantly. Ever since he decided not to repay his online loan, he had even fled to another city to live.
But the loan company's people had still found him!
And this time, the person who came for him... was none other than Brother Qiang, the man who had brought endless psychological trauma to Qin Tian.
"It's you!!!"
Qin Tian almost wet himself when he saw the outline of the bald-headed Brother Qiang.
This bald man was the shame of his life.
"You little brat, you ran all the way here to avoid paying your debt?"
Qin Tian panicked completely. "I'll pay! I'll pay! I'll pay back the principal and interest in full! Just let me go!"
But clearly, Brother Qiang wasn't about to let go of his prey so easily.
"Lin Yu, Liangchen, grab him."
That's right, after Lin Yu, Ye Liangchen had also completely submitted to Brother Qiang's authority!
Under the torment of Brother Qiang and Lin Yu, he had come to terms with reality.
"You— Ah!"
Qin Tian screamed as Ye Liangchen's fists rained down on his face, seemingly venting all his pent-up anger.
[Ding! Host has successfully acted like a lunatic. Reward: 3 days of cultivation progress.]
"Alright, alright, Liangchen, take it easy... this guy is still useful!"
Brother Qiang still held some authority, and with just one word, Ye Liangchen stopped.
"Qin Tian, Jiang Che mentioned... you're quite skilled at stock trading. Coincidentally, I'm also pretty good at it!"
Qin Tian's eyes widened. "Forget it! I'd rather die than work for you!"
Though he was a bit foolish, he wasn't completely stupid. It was likely that Jiang Che had noticed his stock trading skills and wanted to exploit him to make a fortune!
Brother Qiang wasn't angry. Instead, he chuckled.
"So, you don't understand anything, huh?"
Then, he turned to Lin Yu and Ye Liangchen and said, "Take him away!"
Qin Tian panicked. "What are you doing? This is kidnapping! This is illegal!"
But his protests clearly had little effect. Soon, a pair of underwear was stuffed into his mouth.
"Mmmph—"
Qin Tian, the stock trading prodigy, was really about to become a "stock"-trading prodigy.
......
"Tsk tsk tsk, this Brother Qiang is something else. His brainwashing skills are top-notch!"
Jiang Che looked at the photos Brother Qiang had sent him, showing Qin Tian tied up in a dark room. The scene was enough to make anyone clench their buttocks in fear.
Moreover, they had also extracted some valuable information from him: a certain stock would experience continuous price surges in the future.
This ability to foresee the future was completely wasted on Qin Tian. The guy only dared to make small profits, but with Jiang Che's business team handling it, things would be different!
Making hundreds of millions would be no problem!
"This Brother Qiang is a talent. Can't let him go to waste."
Who could resist such a guy? He's practically a factory for refining protagonists!
Once those arrogant protagonists entered Brother Qiang's dark room, they would become as docile as lambs in just over half a month.
"Though Brother Qiang is quite loyal, his loyalty to me is at 85. A few small favors should bring it up to 90."
While he couldn't make the protagonists genuinely obey him, having Brother Qiang obey him was just as effective.
My vassal's vassal is still my vassal!
"You've done well. From now on, if I encounter any unruly individuals... I'll leave them to you."
Brother Qiang on the other end was immediately thrilled. "Young Master Jiang... your kindness to me is as vast as the flowing river..."
As Brother Qiang showered him with flattery, his loyalty rose to 90 points.
Jiang Che shuddered. A loyalty of 90 was just right; any higher would be terrifying!
He quickly hung up the phone.
Damn, those photos from Brother Qiang had really grossed him out.
He desperately needed to cleanse his eyes.
[I'm hungry...]
Jiang Che glanced over and saw a small silver figure sitting by the floor-to-ceiling window. It was none other than Dong'er.
Dong'er seemed different from before. In the past, Jiang Che had never been able to hear her thoughts, but recently, he could.
Though all he heard was... hunger!
"Little glutton!"
Jiang Che smirked, walking over to Dong'er and effortlessly scooping her up with one hand. The height difference made it look like he was carrying his own daughter.
"My Dong'er is so adorable."
Jiang Che pinched Dong'er's cheek and planted a big kiss on her face.
Dong'er tilted her head, looking at Jiang Che, and opened her tiny mouth. "Hungry—"
Jiang Che: "......"
A true glutton, no doubt about it!
After being grossed out by Qin Tian's photos, he desperately needed a cute little girl to cleanse his eyes.
As Jiang Che held Dong'er in his arms, a wildly improbable thought crossed his mind: he wanted Dong'er, the system puppet, to fall in love with him!
After all, Dong'er had no soul. No soul meant no thoughts, but now... he could hear her thoughts.
Making Dong'er develop feelings for him would be as difficult as giving an AI robot consciousness.
But Jiang Che loved challenging his own limits.
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!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
【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.)
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
