"No."
Feng Yue walked out from behind the bar, looking distracted as she sat on the sofa. "He said the finest liquor doesn’t need any extra ingredients because they’re unworthy of it."
"What happened between you two?"
Lin Yang frowned, noticing the odd expression on Feng Yue’s face.
"Nothing. I was just thinking about something else."
Feng Yue shook her head lightly.
"Good. But since you managed to invite him here, it means he still cares about you. We’ll plan better next time."
Lin Yang smiled as he sat across from Feng Yue.
"There won’t be a next time."
"What do you mean?"
Lin Yang’s smile froze.
Feng Yue didn’t answer. Instead, she took out her phone and made a call.
"Yue-jie," a deep voice answered on the other end.
"Has Xu Mu left?" Feng Yue asked.
"Yes, he just walked out the door."
"Did he pay?"
"No," the voice replied.
"Have all the security guards block the entrance. No one leaves without paying today. We’re running a small business here."
After hanging up, Feng Yue turned to Lin Yang with a smile. "Mr. Lin, your total bill today comes to over 1.6 million. I’ll give you a discount—just 1.6 million will do."
Lin Yang’s brows furrowed. "Didn’t you say that as long as Xu Mu came, he’d cover the entire bill?"
"That’s how it usually is, but not today. Besides, you’re the one who wanted to trick him into ordering expensive drinks, not me."
Feng Yue stared at Lin Yang.
"I don’t have that much on me right now. Let me owe you for now."
Lin Yang waved his hand dismissively.
"We don’t do credit here," Feng Yue said coldly.
"Boss Feng, have you forgotten? I still have leverage over you. Isn’t that worth more than 1.6 million?" Lin Yang smirked.
Feng Yue’s expression darkened further.
She felt like a fool.
She might dislike Xu Mu, but he had never threatened her.
Yet this man in front of her had been blackmailing her from the moment they met.
And she had actually helped Lin Yang scheme against Xu Mu. How despicable.
[Affection Points +20]
For some reason, Feng Yue suddenly felt that Xu Mu wasn’t so bad after all.
"Then go ahead and tell Xu Shou your little secret. But before you do, you’ll pay up—or I’ll call the police."
Feng Yue held up her phone.
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Meanwhile, downstairs in the bar.
The crowd, still drinking, was stunned when they realized Xu Mu had left.
Everyone turned to the DJ on stage, wondering if he’d forgotten to announce something.
Wasn’t he supposed to say, "Tonight’s bill is on Young Master Xu"?
Liu Tu and his table, including the girl with heavy eyeliner, were completely baffled.
"Brother Tu… he didn’t pay," the girl whispered.
"No shit!" Liu Tu clenched his fists, seething.
He had only planned to spend a little over a hundred to impress the girl, then take her to a cheap motel afterward.
He knew she was still in high school—fresh and untouched.
But when he saw Xu Mu, he got carried away and ordered the most expensive drinks to show off.
Now Xu Mu hadn’t paid, and Liu Tu wasn’t sure he could even leave. He only had about 300 yuan on him.
"Wait here. I’m going out to make a call."
Liu Tu grabbed his phone and headed for the exit.
"Brother Tu, I’ll come with you."
Another guy with dyed hair stood up. He might not have gone to school, but he wasn’t stupid.
Liu Tu was clearly trying to bail and leave them behind.
The two girls at the table also stood up—they weren’t fools either.
A waiter approached them with a polite smile.
"Sir, you can pay at your table using the QR code. Your total is 18,800."
Liu Tu’s face paled. Where the hell was he supposed to get that kind of money?
"Ahem… I didn’t bring that much with me today."
Liu Tu forced an awkward laugh.
"It’s easy to borrow money or ask your parents for help through your phone."
The waiter’s smile remained professional. "Since you’re part of the scene, you should know the consequences of skipping out on Yue-jie’s tab."
Liu Tu glanced at his companions, then fixed his gaze on the girl with smudged makeup.
"Lu Xueyao, give me your phone."
"Brother Tu, what are you doing?"
Lu Xueyao tensed up, stepping back. "I don’t have any money!"
"I know. But you can take out a loan."
Liu Tu grinned. "Don’t worry, we’ll pay you back in a few days."
"Brother Tu… why don’t you take one out instead?"
Lu Xueyao spoke cautiously.
"Shut the hell up! I’m blacklisted—I can’t get a loan! Hand it over!"
Liu Tu’s voice turned sharp.
The waiter stood by silently, making no move to intervene.
Tears streamed down Lu Xueyao’s face, smearing her makeup as she reluctantly pulled out her phone.
She regretted everything. She thought following Liu Tu would mean no one could bully her anymore.
Instead, she was the first one he betrayed.
Liu Tu swiftly navigated to a loan app, taking out 20,000 yuan in Lu Xueyao’s name. He scanned the payment code, then handed the phone back to her.
Her tears had ruined her makeup, but she bit her lip and entered the password without sobbing.
"Thank you. We hope to see you again."
The waiter checked the payment confirmation on his tablet and nodded politely.
As they left the bar, Liu Tu slung an arm around Lu Xueyao’s shoulders.
"You helped me out today, so I’ll make it up to you. Come with me."
Lu Xueyao clenched her jaw, trembling. Then, through gritted teeth, she said, "No!"
"You think you have a choice? Don’t you want me to teach those bullies a lesson for you?"
Liu Tu smirked. "I can call a hundred guys to back me up in a fight."
"No! I said no!"
Lu Xueyao shoved Liu Tu away and ran, only to collide with someone’s chest.
She looked up—and froze.
It was Xu Mu, the very man Liu Tu had been talking about earlier.
Xu Mu was holding a bag of takeout skewers. He had been about to drive off when he spotted a street vendor and decided to bring some food home for Ye Tong and Ye Yu to boost their affection.
"Young Master Xu… I’m sorry."
Lu Xueyao was already crying uncontrollably.
Xu Mu studied the girl in front of him, her makeup ruined.
Normally, he wouldn’t have given a second glance to a punk like her—too young, too reckless, probably already tainted.
But out of habit, he activated his Divine Eye—and his eyes widened in shock.
Another female lead?
Name: Lu Xueyao
Role: Student, Female Lead of The Strongest Son-in-Law
Affection Points: 1
Fate Level: 8 (Max: 10)
He remembered running into another female lead from The Strongest Son-in-Law at the mall.
Seemed like the protagonist of that story started with humble beginnings, meeting girls from modest backgrounds first.
But with her affection points positive and a Fate Level of 8, Xu Mu wasn’t about to let this opportunity slip away.
Cheng's father told him he was getting remarried—to a wealthy woman. Cao Cheng realized his time had finally come: he was about to become a second-generation rich kid. Sure, it might be a watered-down version, but hey, at least he'd have status now, right? The wealthy woman also had four daughters!! Which meant, starting today, Cao Cheng gained four stunning older sisters?? But that wasn't even the whole story... "My name is Cao Cheng—'Cheng' as in 'honest, smooth-talking gentleman'!"
reezy rom-com) Good news: Jiang Liu is quite the ladies' man. Bad news: He’s lost his memory. Lying in a hospital bed, Jiang Liu listens to a parade of goddesses spouting "absurd claims," feeling like the world is one giant game of Werewolf. "Jiang Liu, I’m your first love." "Jiang Liu, you’re my boyfriend—she’s your ex." "Jiang Liu, we’re close friends who’ve shared a bed, remember?" "Jiang Liu, I want to have your baby." The now-lucid Jiang Liu is convinced this must be some elaborate scam... until someone drops the bombshell: "The day before you lost your memory, you confessed your feelings—and got into a relationship." Jiang Liu is utterly baffled. So... who the hell is his actual girlfriend?! ... Before recovering his memories, Jiang Liu must navigate this minefield of lies and sincerity, fighting to protect himself from these women’s schemes. But things spiral even further out of control as more people show up at his doorstep—each with increasingly unhinged antics. On the bright side, the memories he lost due to overwhelming trauma seem to be resurfacing. Great news, right? So why are they all panicking now?
. 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!"
Heart] Chen Yi traversed the cultivation world for eight hundred years, charging his way to the Tribulation Transcendence stage. Just as he was outwitting his 81st Heavenly Tribulation to ascend to immortality, he was suddenly pulled into a chat group called the "Multiverse Transmigrators Support Group." To his surprise, the group was filled with nothing but fresh-faced newbies who had just transmigrated. [Help! I transmigrated into a disgraced concubine in the cold palace, and the tyrant emperor is about to execute me!] [I ended up as a cannon-fodder villain, and the protagonist is still chasing me—WTF!] [I woke up as the protagonist’s father, but I’m about to be sacrificed in a ritual! What do I do? Urgent!!!] Chen Yi stared at the chaotic flood of desperate pleas in the group and fell into deep thought. "Seriously? You drag me into a newbie transmigrator chat group… only after I’m one step away from becoming an immortal?"
