Chu Tao's system was utterly dumbfounded. It couldn't believe that this spineless coward in front of it was actually its host?
How the hell could someone be this cowardly?
It had never had such a timid host before!
Throughout its history, the Prodigal Son System had always been paired with arrogant and unruly super spendthrifts. Spending billions overnight? That was just an appetizer for them.
In comparison, it genuinely looked down on its current host.
【Host, you need to stand up! How can you surrender to your enemies? You should be at the pinnacle of this world's wealth!】
【You shouldn't bow to anyone.】
Listening to the system's provocation, Chu Tao's lips twitched.
"Then tell me, what the hell should I do now? I'm already wanted by the authorities!"
"Aren't you supposed to be amazing? You said you could handle the national fortune, but you can't even handle a damn thing!"
Chu Tao didn't hold back either, venting his frustration on the system, as it was the only thing he could take it out on.
The system was left speechless.
It had just been boasting. The Dragon Country's 5,000-year national fortune was more than enough to crush a small system like it. There were probably plenty of chosen ones who could easily deal with it.
A rare silence filled the air. After a while, Chu Tao lit another cigarette.
"System, who is the chosen one targeting me? Maybe I'll just go and join them."
【I don't know...】
Chu Tao cursed under his breath, then pulled out his phone and started searching.
【Host... what are you looking at?】 The Prodigal Son System, knowing it was at fault, spoke in a softer tone.
"The Criminal Law!" Chu Tao snapped.
Soon, an excited expression spread across his face.
"My situation doesn't count as violent prison escape. It should be classified as evasion, punishable by up to five years in prison or detention. Plus, since I turned myself in and no one was hurt, I should get a lighter sentence, right?"
"But my previous money laundering charges are gonna be tricky..."
"Maybe—"
Chu Tao's gaze shifted to his Prodigal Son System, sending a chill down its spine.
【H-Host, what are you planning?】
"Maybe I'll sell you? Didn't you say the chosen ones have already formed an organization? The Dragon Country's higher-ups must know about them by now. Maybe I can even get a government job."
【......】
The system trembled with rage. Was its host really this shameless?
First, he wanted to join the enemy, and now he wanted to join the Dragon Country and get a government position?
【Aren't you afraid of being dissected for research?】
Chu Tao picked his nose nonchalantly. "There are so many chosen ones. Do you think they're all being dissected? Surely, I have some value, right? If used correctly, I could probably trigger a financial crisis."
【......】
Oh no, it was over. Its host had actually learned to think independently?
Back in the day, its previous hosts were all arrogant and unruly, each more prodigal than the last.
Chu Tao slapped his thigh.
"I'll turn myself in first."
The system panicked. 【H-Host, don't sell me out!】
Chu Tao grinned. "Don't worry, you're my brother, my closest companion!"
...
After Chu Tao's escape, the entire police station was searching for him.
But less than an hour after his escape, Chu Tao showed up back at the police station entrance, holding two starch sausages.
As soon as he appeared, officers swarmed around him.
"Don't move! Hands up!"
The officers were baffled. How could this guy dare to come back?
"Wait, wait, I just went out to grab some starch sausages. Let me off the hook."
"Hey, my sausage fell... it cost two bucks each!"
Chu Tao had figured it out. He might as well just give up. All that talk about defying fate and showing off... forget it!
Although he once wanted to show off, after so many setbacks, he had reverted to being a timid and cowardly loser.
...
"Huh, this Chu Tao is quite interesting? Turning himself in voluntarily?"
Jiang Che glanced at the report, a faint smile curling on his lips. This Chu Tao was different from the other chosen ones he had encountered before.
He seemed to have some brains, but not too many.
Jiang Che didn't dwell on it too much and soon left the Jiang family.
...
Jiang Che drove to a small two-story house. According to his knowledge, this was Shen Yu's home.
Shen Yu wasn't from an ultra-wealthy family, just middle-class. What's more, she had lost both her parents, leaving her with a car, a house, and a sizable inheritance.
"What do you want?"
Shen Yu looked at Jiang Che with a calm expression. The girl was wearing a gray set of home pajamas, holding a pen in her hand, her hair messy as if she had just woken up.
"Nothing much, just checking if you've finished your system tasks."
Shen Yu: "..."
The mention of system tasks made her furious!
Her system tasks had been going smoothly. The long-term main mission was to win a Nobel Prize and a Fields Medal. Completing the first phase of the main mission would directly reward her with 10 million Scholar Points.
She was good at physics and math, and with the system's help, she should have been able to complete the main mission within ten years.
But then Jiang Che had to interfere, completely changing her main mission.
Now she had to solve the Langlands Program, unifying number theory, group theory, and analytic geometry into a grand unified theory of mathematics. If she pulled that off, it would be worth more than ten Fields Medals.
And her daily side tasks had also been changed to things like the Poincaré Conjecture and Goldbach's Conjecture... just thinking about them made her head spin!
"You... my home isn't open to you. Please leave."
Shen Yu slammed the iron gate shut, but Jiang Che stuck his arm in.
"Ah~~~ my arm!"
His arm got caught in the gate.
Hearing Jiang Che's cry, Shen Yu quickly opened the gate, and Jiang Che took the opportunity to slip inside.
Shen Yu: "..."
"What a ridiculous man."
Shen Yu didn't even bother to check if Jiang Che was hurt. From the mischievous grin on his face, she could tell he was perfectly fine.
Shen Yu calmly stared at Jiang Che.
They were alone in the house, and she was wearing an incredibly tempting set of pajamas. If Jiang Che decided to turn into a beast, she wouldn't stand a chance.
Jiang Che wore a cheeky smile. Of course, he wasn't hurt—if a grandmaster could get injured by a gate, that would be the joke of the century.
"What exactly are you here for?"
Shen Yu's face showed a hint of displeasure. Her life should have had nothing to do with this troublemaker, but Jiang Che had forcefully intruded, throwing her once orderly life into chaos.
"What am I here for? Hehehe—"
Jiang Che's laugh was downright sinister.
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?!
lan, the Luo family, tracked him down - along with the babies in their arms. Mo Xuan stared pensively at the paternity test results from over a dozen top institutions, both domestic and international, showing a 99.99% match between himself and the two baby girls. At 23, Mo Xuan, a doctoral student, had become the father of two three-year-old children. The kicker? The mothers weren't even the same person! He gradually realized he was being lured step by step into an elaborate trap designed by these two yandere sisters. "Be good, little Xuan. Sister's life belongs to you entirely." "Brother, if you try to run away, I'll have no choice but to tie you up." Mo Xuan: "Do whatever you want, ladies. I give up."
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.
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!
