"A file clerk dares to monitor when I look at the assassination list? This is utterly lawless!"
Cao Mang rolled his eyes at the file clerk's back before turning to Lin Yu.
"We'll give Gu Chenan one more day. Tomorrow, I'll spread this news!"
"Once this spreads, even if Gu Chenan flees the organization, it's good for us!"
"Brother Cao is so wise!" Lin Yu praised.
"Alright, you can go now. Tomorrow we'll see Gu Chenan's choice."
"Understood, Brother Cao. I won't disturb you further." Lin Yu nodded.
At this moment, Cao Mang casually picked up the assassination list and opened it.
Bang!
The next second, he stumbled, his heel kicking the chair with a loud noise.
Lin Yu stopped in his tracks.
"What's wrong, Brother Cao?"
Cao Mang stared at the assassination list, his eyes wide, muttering in disbelief: "This... this..."
On the assassination list, there was an identical name.
— Cao Mang!
And after both names was a string of numbers, representing the client's offer.
Five million!
In other words, two clients had each offered five million to kill him!
Lin Yu came to Cao Mang's side, his gaze also drawn to the assassination list. With just one glance, his eyes widened.
"Brother Cao, this!"
Cao Mang, after all, was one of The Twelve Owls. He quickly recovered from his panic and angrily crumpled the assassination list into a ball, forcefully throwing it into the trash can.
"It's that bastard Gu Chenan!"
"Brother Cao, how did Gu Chenan get the organization to accept this contract? Even if he arranged for his own squad leader to take the contract, it would be rejected internally by the organization!" Lin Yu asked, puzzled.
Cao Mang pondered for a moment, then his eyes widened.
"The Chief, it must be the Chief!"
"Gu Chenan alone couldn't possibly make the organization accept the contract!"
"The... The Chief?" Lin Yu was stunned.
His heart immediately ached.
Why would the Chief, that soft twin-tailed loli, help Gu Chenan so much?
What's so good about Gu Chenan?
Why does everyone help him?
First Hoshino Kannon, then Fang Yuanyuan, why do they all help Gu Chenan?
Now Gu Chenan is clearly trying to force Cao Mang to reconcile with him using the same method. If Cao Mang really does this, who will deal with Gu Chenan?
Can he do it himself?
To be honest, after fighting with Gu Chenan for so long, Lin Yu knew his own capabilities. He was no match for Gu Chenan.
Unlike Lin Yu's worries, Cao Mang was now in shock.
All along, Fang Yuanyuan had been in Cao Mang's mind as a gaming-addicted girl who liked to slack off and play games every day, but would never do something to break the rules.
But this incident made Cao Mang realize that his perception was wrong, terribly wrong!
Now, the two assassination contracts targeting him were evidence!
Without Fang Yuanyuan's help, the organization would never have accepted the contract!
Thinking of this, Cao Mang immediately felt a headache coming on.
"Brother Cao, what do we do now?" Lin Yu probed from the side.
"What to do..."
Cao Mang sat in the chair and thought for a moment.
"Now, apart from reconciling with Gu Chenan, the only option left is a one-for-one exchange!"
"Brother Cao, you mean..."
Lin Yu was startled, inwardly thinking this wasn't good.
Cao Mang gritted his teeth and nodded: "That's right, Gu Chenan's move is to force me to reconcile with him, and then we both withdraw our assassination contracts."
At this point, Cao Mang's face was filled with anger as he slammed his fist on the table: "But I must avenge Gong Fei, I will never reconcile with him!"
Hearing this, Lin Yu's heart leaped with joy.
He had been worried earlier, but seeing Cao Mang so determined completely put him at ease.
Good!
As long as you, Cao Mang, still oppose Gu Chenan, you're still my brother!
"But Brother Cao, you're now in a dilemma. If you don't reconcile with Gu Chenan, the only option left is..." Lin Yu said, feigning sorrow.
"The only option left is to defect from the organization." Cao Mang sighed.
"Is it worth it, Brother Cao?" Lin Yu advised thus, but inwardly thought: "Go on, fight with Gu Chenan, fight until you're both bloody and bruised!"
"As long as you can kill Gu Chenan, you'll be my brother for life!"
"Not worth it?" Cao Mang glanced sideways at Lin Yu and snorted: "Using my position to avenge an old friend, how could that not be worth it!"
Saying this, Cao Mang suddenly stood up: "Gu Chenan just wants me to reconcile with him, right? Well, I won't!"
"If I can't stay in the organization because of this, then Gu Chenan definitely can't stay either!"
"If we both leave the organization, I can still seek revenge on him. Even if he flees to the ends of the earth, I will definitely kill him!"
"Clap, clap, clap." Lin Yu applauded and gave a thumbs up: "Brother Cao is so righteous!"
Lin Yu's mood now was even happier than when he picked up a girl at a nightclub.
Cao Mang saying this meant that he and Gu Chenan were now in a fight to the death!
This way, both Cao Mang and Gu Chenan would leave the organization, which would directly result in two vacancies among The Twelve Owls.
Lin Yu believed that he would naturally become one of the Owls, and the other position would be chosen from among the others below the Owls.
The strongest below the Owls were Old Dao and Fang Jie. Whichever of them became the other Owl would be a huge benefit for him!
He now wished Cao Mang and Gu Chenan would leave Black Owl tonight, taking the highway all the way, with him covering the toll fees.
...
On the computer screen, as the crystal exploded, blue "Victory" text popped up.
Gu Chenan looked down at Fang Yuanyuan, who was crouching next to the gaming chair with her face on the armrest, and nodded: "How impressive was that?"
Fang Yuanyuan stared at Gu Chenan's brilliant battle record, exclaiming in disbelief: "You're a pro!"
"Ah, it's nothing special." Gu Chenan smiled.
"Hey, hey, hey." Fang Yuanyuan suddenly thought of something and stood up, patting Gu Chenan's shoulder: "I'll buy you a computer to put in my room, and we can duo queue passionately every night, okay?"
Huh?
Gu Chenan was stunned.
[Is this... is this heading towards playing duo queue games during the day, and her wearing cosplay outfits for me to pound at night?]
[Hiss~ Although it's tempting, it's not okay.]
[There's still Kannon and the other female leads waiting for me, I can't let Fang Yuanyuan monopolize me!]
[I, Gu Chenan, am neither a scumbag nor a playboy, I just want to give all the female leads a home. Sigh, responsible men like me are rare~]
"Never mind, I don't play often." Gu Chenan shrugged.
"Tch." Fang Yuanyuan gave Gu Chenan a side-eye: "I was just kidding, look at how serious you are, it's hilarious."
Gu Chenan smiled and shook his head, making room for Fang Yuanyuan.
Sitting on the sofa, Gu Chenan looked at his watch.
He frowned slightly.
[What's going on? The assassination list should have been delivered to Cao Mang's desk by now, why hasn't there been any reaction?]
[Could it be...]
Gu Chenan's eyes widened.
[Could it be that he wants to fight to the death with me?]
...
Yesterday, the plot about returning to reality has been modified. In case some reader bosses didn't see it, I'll say it again.
After discussing (being threatened with bad reviews) with reader bosses, I have deeply realized my problem.
I was wrong, I went too far, I actually didn't want to bring Fang Yuanyuan and the others back to the real world.
Now I have deeply recognized my mistake and decided to let Gu Chenan bring back all the female characters, including those who are not main characters.
I ask all the bosses to give some small gifts, thank you.
igrating to the cultivation world for two hundred years, I've managed to lie low and reach the Nascent Soul stage. Only now does my golden finger arrive? ...
saw a female celebrity tied up and stuffed in the trunk! Little did he know, countless cameras were aimed at him at this moment - this was a new type of reality show. The first randomly selected passerby was caught in less than an hour. But when Xu Moru was selected, things started to take an unexpected turn. "Damn, this isn't how the script goes. This Xu Moru is too bold, he's not following the rules at all." "Crap, is this guy taking it seriously?" "The female celebrity has been scared to tears!"
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
