"Hurry up, get up, get up!"
Ye Tong didn't know what was going on. Flustered, she grabbed Jiang Huihui's arm and pulled her up from the floor.
Xu Mu couldn't help but laugh. So this was the secret weapon Jiang Huihui had mentioned.
If it were a normal matter, someone with Ye Tong's personality might have actually agreed.
But this situation was unusual, and Xu Mu didn't know what Ye Tong was thinking.
"What exactly happened?"
Ye Tong held Jiang Huihui's hand, and they both sat down on the sofa.
"Sis, I need Xu Mu's help. This matter concerns my lifelong happiness."
Jiang Huihui linked her arm with Ye Tong's.
"Just say what it is. If I can help, I definitely will."
Ye Tong smiled as she looked at Jiang Huihui.
"My grandfather is holding a martial arts competition to choose a husband for me. I don't want to get married, so I want Xu Mu to participate in the competition."
Jiang Huihui looked at Ye Tong, putting on a pitiful expression.
"What? A martial arts matchmaking? What era is this? Couldn't you find a more believable excuse?"
Hearing this, Ye Yu couldn't help but pout and speak up.
"It's true. Jiang Huihui comes from... a reclusive clan. Many traditions among ancient martial arts practitioners are quite similar to ancient times."
Xu Mu had been thinking about how to describe the Jiang family and finally settled on 'reclusive clan' as a substitute.
That way, everyone could understand.
"A reclusive clan?"
Ye Tong asked in surprise.
"That's right. Xu Mu and I are good friends, so I wanted him to help me participate..."
"Great! I agree! Since you're from a reclusive clan, you probably don't mind the existence of a wife like me, right?"
Ye Tong tightly grasped Jiang Huihui's hand.
She suddenly realized she had been on the wrong path from the start.
Why bother trying to make Feng Yue and Meng Wanyue accept the customs of reclusive clans?
Wouldn't it be simpler to just find women from reclusive clans directly?
"Huh?"
Jiang Huihui was a bit dumbfounded. What was going on?
She hadn't even mentioned the part about a fake marriage yet.
"So, you mind?"
The excitement on Ye Tong's face gradually faded, returning to calm.
"I don't mind! Of course I don't mind!"
Jiang Huihui immediately said.
How could she possibly mind?
She was counting on Xu Mu to save her. If she minded, how could Xu Mu possibly help her?
"That's good, little sister. Of course I agree to let my husband participate!"
Ye Tong smiled again. She hadn't expected it to be this easy. It seemed she should interact more with women from reclusive clans in the future.
"Sis! What nonsense are you talking about?"
Upon hearing this, Ye Yu jumped off the sofa, came up to Ye Tong, and questioned her.
"Adult matters. Don't interfere, child."
Ye Tong glanced faintly at Ye Yu.
"I'm not a child! I've already graduated high school, I'm an adult. Go back twenty years, plenty of people my age were already having children and being mothers."
Ye Yu puffed out her cheeks, full of displeasure.
"Don't worry!"
Jiang Huihui said to Ye Yu, "Xu Mu and I would have a fake marriage."
"What?"
Ye Tong and Ye Yu were both stunned at the same time, their expressions then swapping.
The previously excited Ye Tong became calm again, while the dissatisfied Ye Yu looked somewhat pleasantly surprised.
"What do you mean?"
Ye Tong asked, puzzled.
"My goal is to avoid marrying someone else. If Xu Mu wins the competition, then I'll be considered spoken for, and others will give up their ideas."
Jiang Huihui said with a smile, "Don't worry, I absolutely won't lay a finger on Xu Mu. When the time is right, I'll call off the engagement."
"Great, great."
Ye Yu nodded repeatedly. "That works. After all, you're friends. Brother-in-law, I approve."
"What good does your approval do?"
Xu Mu, who had been sitting on the sofa, spoke up, "It's your sister's approval that matters."
"Didn't my sister already agree just now?"
Ye Yu jumped over to Xu Mu's side again, playfully hitting his arm with her small fist.
"I did not agree!"
Ye Tong crossed her arms, her expression calm as she spoke.
Hearing this, Jiang Huihui's face was full of confusion. She had clearly agreed just a moment ago, why was she going back on it now?
Xu Mu, meanwhile, observed Ye Tong. Why did this woman suddenly have the aura of the principal wife?
"Sister, why is that? Didn't you just agree?"
Jiang Huihui hugged Ye Tong's arm again.
"Little sister, the Xu family also has its dignity to consider. Let me ask you, my husband works hard to participate in the competition, perhaps even faces danger, finally succeeds, and then in the end you run off. What will people think of my husband?"
Ye Tong glanced at Jiang Huihui. "Who knows, some might even say my husband isn't up to the task."
Hearing this, Xu Mu's expression turned serious. What Ye Tong said made so much sense he was left speechless.
Jiang Huihui was also a bit stunned. She asked somewhat awkwardly, "Then what does sister mean?"
"A real marriage!"
Ye Tong said. "Since you're asking for help, then help all the way. If you don't want to marry my husband, then don't ask him for help."
As soon as her words fell, three faces in the room were dumbfounded.
Ye Yu didn't even know what to say. Was her own sister really this generous?
Then why not take a look at your own dear sister? Your sister is very willing!
Xu Mu also found it hard to believe. He wasn't sure if Ye Tong was being sarcastic.
If it wasn't sarcasm, then this was a truly selfless wife.
Jiang Huihui thought she had misheard.
Marry my husband?
Such an uncommon phrase. It took her a long moment to process it.
"No, sister, you..."
Jiang Huihui was at a loss. She secretly glanced at Xu Mu, a look of pleading in her eyes.
"Ahem! Honey, stop joking."
Xu Mu said to Ye Tong. "Look, you've scared her."
"I'm not joking!" Ye Tong looked at Xu Mu with a serious expression.
"Honey, you've scared me too. What you said... it's not really true, is it?"
Xu Mu asked uncertainly.
"You asked for my opinion, and this is what I mean. Of course, husband, you don't have to listen to me."
Ye Tong truly couldn't hold back any longer.
Xu Mu seemed to be getting more and more vigorous lately. She really did need someone to share the... attention.
"Alright, I'll consider this matter."
Jiang Huihui nodded emphatically. Matters for the future could be dealt with later.
The primary goal now was the martial arts matchmaking. She really didn't want to marry anyone else.
Ye Tong gave a slight nod.
...
Xu Mu and Jiang Huihui left the villa together. He drove the car, heading back to Yang City.
Along the way, Jiang Huihui was utterly perplexed. Why would Ye Tong think that way?
Were there really women willing to actively share their man?
"I don't get it! I just don't get it!"
Jiang Huihui shook her head, took a piece of gum from her pocket, and popped it into her mouth.
"Don't worry, I'll ask her about it again when I get home."
Xu Mu said with a smile, looking at Jiang Huihui.
"Okay."
Jiang Huihui nodded. That seemed to be the only option for now.
Arriving in Yang City, Xu Mu dropped Jiang Huihui off at his branch company.
Jiang Huihui then rode off on her electric scooter.
Xu Mu had his own matters to attend to as well, like the cultivation technique in his mind. He needed to settle down and study it.
Returning home to Jiang City.
Xu Mu was preparing to head home but spotted a familiar person on the way.
Xiao Ran.
The Dragon King's right-hand woman.
She was wearing a trench coat, with short hair that covered one eye.
This short-haired beauty look placed high demands on one's features.
Xiao Ran also noticed Xu Mu's car and waved with a smile.
Xu Mu hesitated for a moment, then pulled the car over to the side of the road. This was a good opportunity to sound out the Dragon King's thoughts.
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
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!
ng to die together with you." Lin Xuan is dead, his body thrown into the river by his scumbag lover and her accomplice. She, the president of the Su Group, is decisive, ruthless, and ice-cold. For three days and three nights, she had his body fished out of the river, and without hesitation, she kissed the bloated corpse of Lin Xuan. She laid down beside him in a cold coffin, their fingers intertwined, a smile lingering on her lips as she closed her eyes. The noble and cold-hearted woman, only bending for one man—Lin Xuan. Lin Xuan, with his golden finger, is reborn and returns to the day of his wedding to the treacherous woman. Su Qiang comes to steal the bride. Lin Xuan's eyes light up, eager to pledge his loyalty on the spot, but instead, her kiss transfers a glass of drugged wine into his mouth, causing him to pass out... 【Male Protagonist with Single Female Lead】【Yandere Tycoon】【Action-Packed】【True vs. Fake Heir】
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.
