After leaving the area, Xu Mu used his perception to check and noticed that Li Zizai wasn’t chasing after him but was instead heading toward the residential complex.
Clearly, he was looking for Dai Xingluo.
Xu Mu stuffed his hands into his pockets and strolled leisurely to his car.
Today’s mission was more or less complete. Through his perception earlier, he could tell Dai Xingluo’s favorability toward him had increased significantly.
It counted as a pleasant encounter.
Just as he drove off, a young man wearing a baseball cap happened to pass by.
Xu Mu might have already forgotten this person, but the young man remembered him clearly.
He was the same person who had installed the router at Xu Mu’s villa back then.
Watching Xu Mu drive away, he took out his phone and made a call.
Soon, a voice came through—it was Lin Yang. “What’s up?”
“Boss, guess who I just saw? Xu Mu. He’s appeared in Yang City,” the young man said with a faint smile.
As the young man was on the phone, two people happened to walk past him.
Such an elegant, classically beautiful woman made him unable to resist stealing a few extra glances.
The two who had just passed by were none other than Dai Xingluo and Li Zizai.
They entered the antique market and returned to the antique shop.
Dai Xingluo reclined on a long chair, placing the bronze fragment Xu Mu had given her on the nearby table.
Li Zizai picked it up, his eyes filled with astonishment. “An Earth-grade cultivation technique! We’ve really struck gold this time!”
Dai Xingluo didn’t respond. Instead, a faint smile curled at the corners of her lips as she continued gazing at the jade pendant in her hand.
“Miss, what’s on your mind?”
Noticing her distracted state, Li Zizai spoke up to bring her back.
“Oh, I was just wondering… why would he choose to give something so valuable to me?”
Dai Xingluo turned her smiling eyes toward Li Zizai.
“Isn’t it obvious? Most people wouldn’t even recognize the worth of an Earth-grade technique.”
Li Zizai waved his hand dismissively.
“He knew. He even specifically told me it was an Earth-grade technique.”
Dai Xingluo lay back again, still holding the jade pendant. “He’s quite interesting.”
……
Xu Mu’s affairs in Yang City were nearly settled, and he was preparing to return to Jiang City.
Based on his understanding of Chen Cai, this woman probably wouldn’t obediently work for him without a hitch.
Her ambitions were far too great.
But aside from the video, Xu Mu had another leverage over her—Feng Jian.
As Chen Cai’s only son, she doted on him immensely.
The antidote Xu Mu had concocted only restored the body’s condition for a few short hours.
Once Feng Jian got a taste of relief, he would only grow more dependent on Xu Mu.
With this external support, Chen Cai had no choice but to comply.
Just as Xu Mu was about to leave Yang City, he received a call from Feng Yue.
“Young Master Xu, my preparations are complete. The company is officially registered.”
Feng Yue’s voice carried a seductive lilt.
“How do you plan to sell? If you need advertising, I can provide the funds.”
Xu Mu responded matter-of-factly.
“No need for ads. I have my own methods. It’s not convenient to discuss over the phone. I’ll find time to meet you and explain in detail.”
“I’m actually in Yang City right now,” Xu Mu said.
“Really? Then I’ll send you an address. You won’t blame me for making you come over, will you?”
Feng Yue’s tone took on a pitiful, pleading note.
“Enough nonsense. Just send it.”
Xu Mu hung up without another word.
Moments later, Feng Yue sent the location. Following the map, Xu Mu drove toward the area where she was currently stationed.
It was another suburban district, and the factory wasn’t particularly large.
When Xu Mu arrived, he saw Feng Yue waiting at the entrance, dressed in casual wear, her hair tied in a ponytail, sunglasses perched on her nose.
Spotting his car, she waved with a smile.
Xu Mu pulled up beside her, and Feng Yue slid into the passenger seat.
As she got in, whether intentionally or not, her hips settled onto the seat first, the curve of her pants leaving little to the imagination.
She fastened her seatbelt and closed the door with a playful grin.
“I thought you’d have me tour the factory,” Xu Mu remarked, glancing at her.
“What’s so interesting about a factory? Land is cheap in these remote suburbs anyway.”
Feng Yue chuckled as she removed her sunglasses and tucked them into her bag.
“Why set up here?” Xu Mu asked curiously. “Don’t you know the more secluded a place is, the more dangerous it gets?”
“Keep driving forward, and you’ll see why.”
Feng Yue’s alluring peach-blossom eyes curved into crescents.
Xu Mu was puzzled but continued down the road.
When he spotted several figures in black sanitation uniforms moving in the distance, realization dawned on him.
“As a martial artist yourself, Young Master Xu, you should recognize this place, right?”
Feng Yue smiled knowingly beside him.
“The Sanitation Department.”
Xu Mu’s expression remained calm as he observed the workers—most dressed in solid black uniforms.
According to the setting, these were mostly low-level enforcers, skilled in basic combat but nothing extraordinary.
A few with a single white stripe on their uniforms were junior-level enforcers.
Xu Mu scanned the area but saw no intermediate-level enforcers, let alone senior ones.
"My company is just separated from the Environmental Sanitation Department by a wall. Now do you understand why I chose this place?"
Feng Yue said with a smiling face.
Xu Mu nodded secretly. Feng Yue had really thought things through.
For someone like Lin Yang, if he sneaked in to arrest Feng Yue, it would be a complete slap in the face of the Environmental Sanitation Department.
"How are you going to sell this beauty pill?"
Xu Mu looked at Feng Yue and asked.
"To be honest, I've been operating in Yang City for many years. I started my business with beauty salons."
Feng Yue smiled and looked out of the window. "I know quite a few noble ladies, and I'm good friends with many of them. I just need to do a little promotion in front of them."
She had tested this medicine in advance, and it was simply amazing.
For a young man with a face full of acne, after taking one pill, nearly half of the acne was repaired overnight.
After taking two or three pills continuously, the acne completely disappeared.
If someone just had one or two pimples due to staying up late and getting angry.
After taking one pill, the pimples would be gone in two hours.
She knew what this meant.
Not to mention ordinary people, those female celebrities were in great need of it.
One day before filming or going on a show, if they got a pimple, especially on a prominent place like the nose.
They would be very scared, especially big pimples that couldn't be covered with makeup.
They might be screenshot by black fans and spread widely.
But after taking this medicine, the pimples would disappear in two hours.
Feng Yue could already envision the future. In the future, those female celebrities would definitely carry one pill with them whenever they went out for work.
"Okay, then I won't help you with the advertising."
Xu Mu nodded slightly, and then asked, "Where do you want to go? I'll take you back."
"Alas."
Feng Yue let out a soft sigh.
"What's wrong?" Xu Mu glanced at Feng Yue.
"Although Young Master Xu will help me deal with the Feng family, now, I'm also working for Young Master Xu, right?"
Feng Yue looked at Xu Mu with a somewhat aggrieved expression. "You always just take me back and have never given me any rewards."
"Reward? I'm driving. Do you want to fight again?"
Xu Mu immediately moved to the slow lane and slowed down the car.

【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.)

+【Epic Battles!】 "Your Highness, they say Linxi Temple is miraculous. Won’t you make a wish?" "A wish? It should be making wishes to me." "That may be so, but since you’re already here..." "..." "Fine. Then grant this princess a consort to play with." "He must be obedient, devoted, and utterly infatuated with my body—so much so that he’d kneel and kiss my feet." "Your Highness, that’s not a consort. That’s a dog." "Then add clever, witty, heroic, ambitious yet pragmatic..." "Hmm, that’s enough for now. I’ll add more later." After tossing out these words half in jest, Princess Anle departed the temple—only to catch a fleeting glimpse of the Bodhisattva statue smiling at her. Meanwhile, Yang An, fresh out of university, was having a very bad day. Good news: He’d transmigrated into another world with a cheat granting tenfold combat power. Bad news: He’d immediately fallen into the clutches of a certain villainess. Good news: Said villainess possessed peerless beauty and royal status. Bad news: She was absolutely monstrous!!! In the frozen wilderness, Yang An knelt beneath Qin Guo’er’s feet, drenched in sweat despite the cold. Desperately clutching her porcelain-perfect foot—the very one poised to crush his throat—he could only think: How do I survive this?! Need answers NOW!

d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!

villain is the number one simp for the book's leading female protagonist, Shen Wan'er. As expected, he later becomes a tool for the main character to show off and slap faces, ultimately meeting a tragic end with his family ruined and his life in shambles. Fortunately, he awakens the [Universal Pure Love System], which allows him to earn points by performing acts of pure love. To change his fate, Gu Yan makes a decisive choice to seek warmth and companionship with the book's biggest villain—Cold Qingqiu. ........... My name is Leng Qingqiu. To find the murderer who killed my parents years ago, I deliberately blinded myself so that everyone would lower their guard around me. Just as I was secretly accumulating power and capital according to my initial plan, a man walked into my world. "Lengleng, Qingqing, Qiuqiu, which nickname do you prefer?" I don't like any of them. You'd better leave quickly! "Why aren't you saying anything? How about I call you my baby wife?" Leng Qingqiu thinks to herself, this man is truly annoying! (Stubborn pure love warrior + single female lead + true pure love + 1v1)