Ye Tong came to the room and, after a simple wash-up, lay down beside Xu Mu.
"Husband, did something happen between you and Feng Yue?"
Ye Tong looked at Xu Mu and asked.
"No? Why do you ask?"
Hearing this, Xu Mu opened his perception to take a look and found that Feng Yue was not next door.
Meanwhile, Zhong Qianqian was curled up in her blankets again, watching anime.
"Feng Yue is a good person. She hasn't come back for three days, so I thought something might have happened between you."
Ye Tong buried her head in Xu Mu's chest.
"No, she's probably just busy with work."
Xu Mu had been dealing with too many things lately and really hadn't paid much attention.
He planned to call and ask tomorrow morning.
"Okay, that puts my mind at ease."
A smile appeared on Ye Tong's face.
Xu Mu stroked Ye Tong's hair at this moment and asked softly, "Has it been ready to happen for a while now?"
Ye Tong's face instantly flushed bright red.
"In life, one should still be down-to-earth and work hard with their head down."
Xu Mu chuckled.
...
Early the next morning.
Xu Mu woke up early; it was still most comfortable to rest at home.
Mainly because he had a wife who knew how to take care of people.
He got up as usual, and after washing up, found that Ye Tong was already dressed.
As he usually did, Xu Mu gave Ye Tong's peach a pat.
But speaking of peaches, he thought of Feng Yue, so he took his phone and went downstairs, planning to give her a call.
Sitting on the sofa, Xu Mu dialed the number, only to find it went unanswered.
Xu Mu immediately frowned. Logically, someone like Feng Yue should answer his call no matter how busy she was.
He promptly called the property management, asking them to send all the surveillance footage from the last three or four days to his phone.
In no time, the property management sent the videos over.
On the night four days ago, Feng Yue had returned home.
Then, on the morning three days ago, Feng Yue drove away and never came back.
Seeing Ye Tong come downstairs, Xu Mu asked nonchalantly, "Since Feng Yue hasn't been back these past few days, did you ask Little Yu?"
"I did. Little Yu said she doesn't know."
Ye Tong said as she walked down.
Xu Mu nodded. He felt he needed to make a trip to Yang City.
After breakfast, Xu Mu didn't go to find Xu Ningbing. Instead, he first drove to Yang City.
He went straight to Feng Yue's company.
Xu Mu tried calling Feng Yue's phone again, but it still didn't connect.
He entered the factory and used his perception to check; Feng Yue wasn't there either.
"Could she be in danger?"
Worry began to grow in Xu Mu's heart.
He approached the security guard at the company gate and asked with a smile, "Has your boss, Feng, been to the company these past few days?"
As he spoke, Xu Mu took two hundred-yuan bills from his storage space and slipped them into the guard's pocket.
The guard immediately grinned, "I don't know either."
"Then what are you grinning about..."
Before Xu Mu could finish, the guard added, "But I can take you to see the surveillance footage."
"Okay, thanks."
Feeling a bit awkward, Xu Mu then smiled and nodded.
Led by the guard, Xu Mu arrived at the surveillance room to review the footage from the company entrance over the past few days.
He discovered that Feng Yue's car had come to the company on the morning three days ago.
She stayed until noon, then drove away and never returned.
Since she hadn't gone home either, it was highly likely she had encountered danger.
Xu Mu's mind raced, considering who it could be and for what reason.
The first thing that came to his mind was the Beauty Elixir. After all, in today's society, the probability of a kidnapping purely for beauty was still too low.
Moreover, Feng Yue had taken his pill and was now considered a martial artist; ordinary people couldn't possibly abduct her.
Two figures immediately surfaced in his mind: the live-in son-in-law Fang Chu and the Dragon King Ye Chen.
Both of them were currently eyeing his family's weight-loss pills and Yang Energy Pills.
Perhaps they also wanted to get their hands on Feng Yue's Beauty Elixir.
Xu Mu immediately called Jiang Huihui. For finding people, he still needed the Cleaners.
However, Jiang Huihui's phone didn't connect either.
Xu Mu thought for a moment; perhaps she was still on a mission dealing with the Otherworldly Tribe.
Having no other option, he drove to find Dai Xingluo.
It seemed now that being a Cleaner did have some advantages; at least in the future, he could freely access surveillance cameras everywhere.
Antique City.
Xu Mu arrived at the antique shop and found Bai Yi wearing a Lolita dress and black stockings, with her hair in twin tails, holding a feather duster as she cleaned.
When she saw Xu Mu, her eyes were full of delight, "Master."
[Favorability +20]
Xu Mu looked at Bai Yi's face at this moment. The scars on her youthful little face had completely disappeared.
She was countless times more beautiful than before.
"Yiyi, my medicine worked well, right?"
Xu Mu walked up to Bai Yi.
"Thank you, Master."
Bai Yi's face was filled with gratitude. It was precisely the scars on her face that had made her deeply insecure.
Now, Xu Mu had completely removed them for her.
"Oh! Big Brother is back. Only after getting tired of playing with your sisters do you remember to come see your little sister."
Dai Xingluo walked down the wooden staircase at this moment, her eyes full of resentment.
However, a favorability prompt still appeared above her head.
[Favorability +7]
"Don't talk nonsense. Do you have the ability to access Yang City's surveillance footage?"
Xu Mu walked towards Dai Xingluo and asked urgently.
"Yes, what do you want to see?"
Dai Xingluo gently lifted the hem of her Hanfu skirt and sat on a nearby recliner.
"Feng Yue is missing. I want to know who took her."
Xu Mu said immediately.
"Feng Yue?"
Dai Xingluo slightly frowned, then said, "Since she can be considered my little sister, I'll definitely help."
"Start the investigation from noon three days ago, when she left the company."
Xu Mu reminded her.
Dai Xingluo nodded and sent out these instructions.
Xu Mu sat on a nearby chair at this moment, waiting quietly.
"What has Big Brother been up to lately?"
Dai Xingluo asked with a smile.
"To be honest with you, I went to fight the Otherworldly Tribe."
Xu Mu explained with a smile.
"What? The Otherworldly Tribe?"
Dai Xingluo immediately got up from the recliner, came over to Xu Mu, and hugged his arm, "Big Brother, take your little sister with you next time."
"What would you go for? It's so dangerous."
"I want to fight the enemy, I want to improve."
Dai Xingluo explained, "Killing our own kind can't achieve that kind of exhilarating thrill, but killing the Otherworldly Tribe, I can let go of all rationality."
Xu Mu glanced at Dai Xingluo, "You're so fierce."
"Want a taste?"
Dai Xingluo whispered in Xu Mu's ear.
"Whoa!"
Xu Mu immediately pulled his arm out, "I'm afraid you might poison it."
After waiting there for nearly half an hour, a message came through on Dai Xingluo's phone.
She took it out and looked; it was a twenty-minute video.
Xu Mu and Dai Xingluo immediately started watching it.
After Feng Yue's car left the company, it headed towards the highway.
Xu Mu recognized this route; it was the highway to Jiang City.
But before entering the highway, a long-haired woman wearing a mask appeared in front of Feng Yue's car.
The woman waved at Feng Yue's car, and Feng Yue stopped to let her in.
After that, Feng Yue didn't take the highway but instead turned onto a side road, leaving the camera's range.
"This isn't clear at all."
Xu Mu grew increasingly anxious, thinking that the job of a janitor might actually be worth a try.
Just then, his phone rang, and he saw that it was a call from Jiang Huihui.
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.”
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.
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…
lanned to earn money steadily and take life at a slower pace. But he never expected... his father's remarriage, and the stepmother bringing along a dependent, would completely disrupt his life's plans...
