The expression on Zhong Yi’s face was a complicated mix of emotions.
He had been listening to the line “At most, you’re just a little dog, aren’t you?” for two whole hours.
This was no longer mere physical torture. It was a full-on assault on his spirit.
What an absolute roast!
At that moment, the livestream chat exploded with comments.
[Bro, just change your name already. “That Dog” suits you perfectly.]
[Other people are wolves. Old Zhong is just a dog.]
[“That Dog: Die Twice Again”]
[He really has become just some stray dog by the roadside…]
…
“Damn it! Who do you think you’re looking down on?!”
Under the combined taunting of Lady Butterfly and the livestream chat, Zhong Yi finally snapped.
He returned to the basement door, kicked it open, and glared at Lady Butterfly with a murderous look.
“You old hag! I’m not someone you can bully so easily!”
…
Three minutes later.
“Ow…”
“Ow!”
“I was wrong, I was wrong! Stop hitting me!”
“Stop hitting me, woof woof woof!!!”
Zhong Yi’s miserable screams rang out once again.
He had already lost count of how many times that night he had made it to Lady Butterfly’s second phase.
In her first phase, Lady Butterfly was hyperactive, combining close-quarters combat with volleys of kunai. Her attacks often caught players completely off guard.
And this was still the form in which Lady Butterfly was holding back.
It was only in her second phase that she truly began to display her abilities as an illusionist. She would unleash illusions from time to time, making her extremely difficult to deal with.
The Snap Seeds he had used to dispel the illusions had long since been exhausted during his previous deaths. At this point, Zhong Yi could only grit his teeth and endure the mental attacks of the illusions.
Everything around him became bizarre and distorted. Beaten senseless by the phantasms, Zhong Yi ran around in a panic before tripping and crashing to the ground.
“What the hell… Where is this? Is this still the basement of Hirata Estate?”
Zhong Yi rubbed his eyes.
In the brief moment it had taken him to fall, the surroundings had suddenly transformed into row upon row of graves.
“Hmph. I’m famous for my courage. A few measly graves aren’t enough to scare me—uh?”
Before Zhong Yi could finish speaking, he suddenly noticed several unmistakable characters carved into the tombstones:
[Git] [Gud]
“…”
Zhong Yi drew a deep breath. His fists clenched involuntarily, and he couldn’t help throwing his head back and roaring:
“Junior Brother Lu, I’m going to beat you to death!”
The next moment, Lady Butterfly’s butterflies pierced through his chest, killing him on the spot.
[DEATH]!
“At most, you’re just a little dog, aren’t you?”
As the iconic line came to an end, the livestream chat erupted with laughter.
[Hahahaha, “Git Gud” on the tombstones. Perfect.]
[Zhong and Old Zhou really are kindred spirits. They got “Git Gud”ed into the ground, hahaha.]
[The problem is, Zhong is genuinely terrible!]
[Don’t you know? The worse he plays, the more fun it is to watch!]
…
[“Unbreakable Before Rebirth” sent 999 Woof Woof Woofs in the livestream and added: Zhong, stop playing. Watching you has completely ruined my muscle memory.]
Each “Woof Woof Woof” was worth only one spirit stone, but sending 999 of them at once immediately triggered a whole barrage of barking sound effects.
Only after watching Zhong Yi point furiously at the sky and curse in complete meltdown did Zhou Yue finally feel satisfied and leave.
“Ah, that feels much better!”
Zhou Yue let out a satisfied sigh.
The frustration he had felt after being beaten nearly to the point of losing his composure by the Headless had vanished completely. He hefted Kusabimaru and also made his way to Hirata Estate three years in the past.
“I’ve already seen through Lady Butterfly’s attacks…”
After enduring a brutal beating from the Headless, Zhou Yue could clearly feel that both his gameplay and his awareness had improved by an entire tier. He approached Hirata Estate brimming with confidence.
“At my current level, I should be able to clear this in one life…”
“Clack!”
“Holy crap! Even the grappling hook can miss?!”
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.
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.
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."
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
