"What's wrong with you?"
Xu Mu asked with concern in his tone.
"I... I'm fine."
Lu Xueyao didn't know what to say. She was self - aware enough.
How could such a big shot in front of her care about her petty affairs?
"If you're fine, why are you crying? I'm in a good mood today. I'll give you a chance. If you don't need my help, then I'll leave."
Xu Mu took out his keys and pressed a button. The Porsche 911 over there lit up.
Lu Xueyao took a deep breath. This might be her only chance.
Otherwise, as a student, how could she pay back twenty thousand yuan?
So, she briefly told him what had just happened.
"Got it."
Xu Mu nodded and pointed at Liu Tu over there. "For the sake of this girl, I'll cover your bar bill. You don't have to pay her back."
He knew that those yellow - haired guys over there probably didn't even have five hundred yuan in their pockets.
They never intended to pay the money back.
"Thank you, Young Master Xu." Liu Tu showed a smile.
"If you ever dare to pester her again, I won't be nice to you."
Xu Mu walked up to Liu Tu and put his hand on his shoulder. "I think you understand that with just one day's worth of my spending, I can make you disappear."
Hearing this, Liu Tu's face turned pale. His legs went weak and he almost sat on the ground.
Of course, he knew that Xu Mu had the ability.
Especially since he had just called Xu Mu a fool in front of Lu Xueyao.
If Lu Xueyao told Xu Mu, he would be finished.
"Young Master Xu, I was wrong. I'll definitely stay far away from her from now on." Liu Tu said in a trembling voice.
"Let's go."
Xu Mu let go of his shoulder and walked towards his sports car.
Liu Tu and his gang scurried away in a hurry.
Lu Xueyao then walked up to Xu Mu, lowered her head and said, "Thank you, Young Master Xu."
"Get in the car."
Xu Mu opened the car door.
Lu Xueyao was a bit flattered. She recognized the car logo. "Young Master Xu, I..."
"Can't you understand?"
"Okay."
Lu Xueyao nodded and got into the car.
After Xu Mu got in, he took out wet wipes and tissues from the side. "Wipe your face. You look awful now."
Hearing this, Lu Xueyao's tears started to fall again.
But she still took the tissues and wiped off her smeared makeup.
Xu Mu drove away from there. Along the way, he glanced at Lu Xueyao beside him. Her smoky makeup had all come off.
At this moment, she was young and beautiful. She looked about the same age as Ye Yu, probably just an adult at most.
However, she was different from Ye Yu. Ye Yu had a slightly chubby face with dimples, belonging to the cute type.
This woman's face was thinner and more sophisticated. Although she was young, she gave people a cold and aloof feeling.
"You look so much better now than with that smoky makeup just now."
Xu Mu glanced at Lu Xueyao and asked, "Why did you dress like that?"
Hearing this, Lu Xueyao's tears fell again. "I... I don't want to be bullied anymore."
"Bullied? What's going on?"
Xu Mu frowned and asked.
Lu Xueyao told Xu Mu all about her experiences. By the time she was halfway through, she was already sobbing uncontrollably.
Xu Mu didn't expect her background to be so tragic.
When she was a child, her father went out to work and lost contact. No one knew whether he was alive or dead.
A few years later, her mother remarried with her. Then her mother gave birth to a son for her step - father.
She seemed to be an extra person in the family. Even her mother treated her badly.
Later, her mother sent her to live with her grandmother. Since then, she had been living with her grandmother until now.
Her grandmother was old and supported her schooling by picking up trash.
In junior high school, several classmates always insulted her with her grandmother.
She thought it would be okay in high school, but unexpectedly, those junior - high female classmates who had dropped out of school early relied on the support of hooligans.
They blocked her at the school gate every day and asked her to pay protection fees.
It wasn't a big deal when she was a child.
But now that she was an adult, she also had dignity.
She struggled for a long time and decided to make a change. She dyed her hair yellow and planned to make friends with hooligans outside the school on her own initiative.
Liu Tu today was the one she had just met.
In fact, she also knew that following such hooligans, her chastity might be at risk.
But she really couldn't stand it anymore. She didn't want to live like this anymore.
Lu Xueyao wiped her tears with a tissue and sobbed, "I don't want to be like this either, but what can I do? I only have a grandmother who picks up trash. I'd rather not have her! I'd rather she was dead! Then others wouldn't insult me!"
Hearing this, Xu Mu immediately stepped on the brake.
Due to inertia, Lu Xueyao's body lurched forward. Fortunately, the seat - belt held her back.
Xu Mu parked the car by the roadside and said to Lu Xueyao, "Lean your face over."
Lu Xueyao didn't quite understand, but she still leaned her face closer.
Slap!
Xu Mu slapped Lu Xueyao across the face.
Lu Xueyao's face stung. She covered her face and looked at Xu Mu in disbelief.
"Who does your grandmother pick up trash for? For her own meals?" Xu Mu questioned.
"I..."
"Get the hell out of my car! You're no different from those scumbags who bullied you!"
Xu Mu pointed at Lu Xueyao and shouted angrily, "Do you think the money for your schooling and meals just falls from the sky?"
Even if she was the female lead, Xu Mu didn't want to associate with someone like her.
A person who didn't know how to be grateful might very well bite the hand that fed them in the future.
"I'm sorry. I just spoke without thinking. I did have such a thought once, but it was just a passing thought. I have a good relationship with my grandma," Lu Xueyao covered her face and sobbed.
"Where do you go to school?" Xu Mu asked.
"Jiang City No.1 High School. I'm in my senior year this year," Lu Xueyao wiped her tears and replied.
"Hmm? Do you know Ye Yu?"
Xu Mu suddenly asked.
"Yes, she's in Class 1, and I'm in Class 2," Lu Xueyao's eyes showed a hint of envy. "She's the class beauty of Class 1. I heard she lives in a villa area, and many people are after her."
Xu Mu shook his head. Maybe no one knew that Ye Yu used to live in a doghouse.
However, Ye Yu could act as if nothing had happened at school.
In terms of scheming and state of mind, Ye Yu was much stronger than Lu Xueyao.
"Relying on others is not as good as relying on yourself. In many cases, bullying starts with someone stepping on your shoes. Do you understand?"
Xu Mu leaned back on the seat. "You have to know how to fight back. Don't just keep giving in. Even if you get beaten up, you have to make the other person feel the pain."
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Lu Xueyao nodded gently, with a fierce look in her eyes. "Young Master Xu, I understand."
"What do you understand?" Xu Mu asked rhetorically.
"I was really too cowardly before. Tomorrow when I go to school, I'll put a kitchen knife in my schoolbag," Lu Xueyao clenched her fists.
"You don't understand a thing!"
Xu Mu rolled his eyes. "I'll be outside the school watching you tomorrow. You can fight, but don't break the law. I'll help you when it's critical."
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"Young Master Xu..."
Lu Xueyao wiped her tears with her hand, timidly reached out her hand, and then firmly grabbed Xu Mu's arm. "Let's go to a hotel."
"Ah?"
Xu Mu was a bit stunned.
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
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.
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
