Outside the hotel.
Ye Mengyao glanced at her phone, closed her eyes gently, and took a few deep breaths.
According to the script Jiang Che had given her, she was responsible for catching him in the act.
"Jiang Che, you’re such a jerk. If you dare treat Wan'er badly... I swear... I’ll bite you to death!"
The thought of her innocent and adorable best friend being deceived and mistreated by Jiang Che made her heart ache.
And now she had to be the one to catch him in the act? Wasn’t that too cruel to Wan'er?
On one side was her best friend, and on the other was her man...
In the end, Miss Ye stood firmly on Jiang Che’s side.
"Wan'er... I’m sorry!"
......
"Jiang... Jiang Che, I’m scared..."
Yu Wan'er was genuinely frightened.
Jiang Che licked his lips and smiled.
"I’ve already asked for three days off for you at school, so don’t worry about that."
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......
Yu Wan'er had a fever.
Her constitution was weak, and she often fell ill.
Her face was flushed red, like a little furnace, and the heat rising from the blankets carried the scent of the young girl.
Jiang Che sighed inwardly. He hadn’t expected Yu Wan'er to get a fever, but now he had to take care of her.
After spending most of the night tending to her—wiping her down with alcohol and feeding her medicine—he finally managed to bring her high fever down.
"I’m really at my wit’s end with you!"
Jiang Che leaned against the headboard, watching as Yu Wan'er fell into a deep sleep, then rubbed his temples in frustration.
......
The next day.
Yu Wan'er woke up early. Her fever had subsided, but she still felt awful, curled up in bed, not wanting to move a single finger.
Her face was slightly pale.
Her rational side told her... she should get up immediately and cut ties with Jiang Che, but another part of her... didn’t want to move, wanting to stay by Jiang Che’s side... forever.
Because once she left, she would have to sever all ties with him.
Though she had been delirious with fever last night, Jiang Che’s care had been meticulous, almost motherly.
Since she could remember, aside from her mother... Jiang Che was the only one who had treated her so well.
Now... she felt a pang of reluctance!
But just then, the hotel room door opened.
"Jiang Che, you two—"
Ye Mengyao braced herself and opened the door. It was time to put on her acting skills.
Hearing the familiar voice, Yu Wan'er was momentarily stunned, but her heart quickly sank to the depths.
Mengyao... sister?
Why was she here?
Her current situation with Jiang Che... no, this couldn’t be happening!
Just yesterday, she had solemnly promised Ye Mengyao that she would never steal her best friend’s man.
Yu Wan'er desperately curled up into a ball, hiding under the blankets and clinging to Jiang Che, as if that would make her invisible to Ye Mengyao.
...
"Jiang Che... Wan'er? What are you two doing together?"
Ye Mengyao covered her mouth, feigning shock.
Jiang Che groggily opened his eyes. Who the hell was disturbing his sleep?
But soon, he remembered... oh right, it was part of the script he had arranged. No problem then.
The show was about to begin!
Ye Mengyao was the ultimate love-struck fool, already brainwashed by his manipulation, and now she had even turned dark. Otherwise, how could she follow his orders and betray her best friend like this?
As for Yu Wan'er... she had always been lively, secretly calling him a pervert in her heart. If he didn’t teach her a lesson... wouldn’t that make him a failure as a villain?
"Ye Mengyao, who told you to come in?"
"Jiang Che, Wan'er... Wan'er, didn’t you say yesterday..."
What followed was a series of awkward performances, and Ye Mengyao’s acting wasn’t exactly top-notch.
But it didn’t matter. Yu Wan'er was already in a daze, and she wouldn’t notice the minor flaws.
The fact that she had stolen her best friend’s man was now undeniable. If there had been a crack in the wall... she would have wanted to crawl into it.
She was mentally shattered!
All she wanted was to hide away.
"Mengyao sister, I didn’t mean to, I didn’t mean to steal your man,"
The girl, unable to bear the pressure, poked her head out from under the blankets, tears streaming down her face, looking utterly pitiful.
Everyone was putting on a show, and only Wan'er was being fooled.
Jiang Che pulled Yu Wan'er into his arms. "Mengyao, you should leave first..."
Ye Mengyao: "..."
Well, her role as a tool was over. Could she at least get some payment for her performance?
Ye Mengyao turned and left, seemingly angry.
Yu Wan'er was now sobbing uncontrollably. "Mengyao sister, it’s not what you think."
Though she was a bit of a freeloader in Ye Mengyao’s life, their sisterly bond was genuine.
Watching Ye Mengyao walk away, Yu Wan'er felt as if her only best friend had completely abandoned her.
She broke down into loud, heart-wrenching sobs.
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!
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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."
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.
