The arrival of Gu Chenan made the two men rush towards him as if they'd seen their savior.
In their minds, Gu Chenan was not only someone who avoided trouble but also someone who could keep that lunatic Hoshino Kannon under control, so his appearance meant they were safe.
"Brother, what's going on here?" the Yellow-Haired Man asked Gu Chenan fearfully, glancing at Hoshino Kannon's ghostly expression.
Gu Chenan grinned and shrugged: "Isn't it obvious?"
"Huh?"
The two men froze before quickly speaking up: "Brother, we've already forgiven you guys. What are you trying to do? And let me tell you, if your girlfriend dares to lay hands on us again, we'll demand more than 100,000 this time!"
"That's right, if your girlfriend dares to hit us again, we'll definitely make sure she goes to prison!"
"Heh heh"
Looking at their terrified expressions, Gu Chenan sneered: "Do you think my girlfriend only wants to hit you this time?"
As he spoke, Gu Chenan placed his hand on the Yellow-Haired Man's shoulder: "Besides, I hate being threatened more than anything."
Instantly, Gu Chenan's fingers on the Yellow-Haired Man's shoulder tightened, viciously gripping his collarbone.
"You- AHHHHH!"
The Yellow-Haired Man was startled and tried to say something, but the intense pain from his collarbone made him cry out in agony.
"Shut up."
The next second, Gu Chenan's palm swung up and struck him, sending him crashing to the ground.
The Yellow-Haired Man clutched his face, struggling on the ground, and pointed at Gu Chenan: "Fine then, you dare hit me? This time there will be no reconciliation, just you wait!"
"Didn't I say..." Gu Chenan took a couple steps to stand in front of the Yellow-Haired Man, suddenly grabbing his finger and forcefully pushing it down: "I hate being threatened!"
"Crack!"
A crisp sound came from the Yellow-Haired Man's finger, making his hair stand on end as he howled in pain again.
The Long Hair Man watching from the side was horrified beyond recognition, his whole body trembling.
After howling in pain for a few moments while clutching his broken finger, the Yellow-Haired Man gritted his teeth through cold sweat: "This finger is worth one million!"
"Heh."
Gu Chenan shook his head and sneered: "Still thinking about how much money you can get? How naive."
Without warning, Hoshino Kannon suddenly flashed forward, grabbing the Long Hair Man by his hair and dragging him in front of Gu Chenan.
"Brother, you-!" The Long Hair Man was startled and tried to speak.
"Cuckold? Rich family's fool?"
Gu Chenan looked at the Long Hair Man and Yellow-Haired Man with a smile: "You two were having quite the discussion, weren't you?"
"I gave you chances, I didn't even plan to do this when I gave you 200,000, but you kept pushing. Now I have no choice but to be discourteous."
The two men froze, realizing Gu Chenan's intentions.
At the same time, they understood that Gu Chenan was not a weak person at all.
It turned out his previous tolerance was just giving them chances, not because he was weak!
"No, no, we were just joking," the Long Hair Man quickly explained.
The Yellow-Haired Man sat up from the ground holding his finger, swallowing hard: "Brother, no, Big Brother, please pretend you didn't hear anything. We'll pretend tonight never happened."
"We really didn't know... Big Brother, please don't do this, can't we talk this through?"
"Big Brother, this was all our fault. I'll transfer the 100,000 back to you right now, please let us go."
As he spoke, the Yellow-Haired Man took out his phone from his pocket, making a show of wanting to transfer the money back to Gu Chenan.
But how could Gu Chenan accept?
If the two men just disappeared without explanation, he might be able to avoid connection to it, but if they transferred back the compensation money before disappearing, he wouldn't be able to explain anything.
"That 100,000..." Gu Chenan's smile suddenly turned into a kick aimed at the Yellow-Haired Man's face: "Keep it for your journey to the afterlife!"
The Yellow-Haired Man had no time to react as his face took the full force of the kick, his head hitting the ground and going still.
At the same time, the cold gleaming awl in Hoshino Kannon's hand twisted, instantly piercing through the Long Hair Man's neck and coming out through his mouth.
Blood gushed forth, and though the Long Hair Man's eyes were still full of shock, his body collapsed to the ground first.
Gu Chenan beckoned to Ma Bing: "Have someone clean this up, make it thorough."
"Yes."
Ma Bing nodded and waved towards the dark alley, and several black-suited bodyguards quickly walked in.
Gu Chenan went over to hold Hoshino Kannon's hand, and they walked out of the dark alley to get in the car.
Gu Chenan took out a tissue to wipe the blood from Hoshino Kannon's hands: "Please don't go to places like that anymore, okay?"
Feeling Gu Chenan's gentle movements, Hoshino Kannon obediently nodded, then mumbled: "I just wanted to make you angry."
Just as Gu Chenan had guessed, Hoshino Kannon went to such a place because she was upset with him.
"Next time if I make you angry, just tell me directly, don't keep it bottled up," Gu Chenan said.
"I- I'll try to do that," Hoshino Kannon nodded.
...
It was already 1 AM when they returned to the manor.
When Gu Chenan led Hoshino Kannon by the hand into the manor's main hall, they found it brightly lit.
On the sofa, Su Qianmo and Liu Mingrui sat with their legs crossed and arms folded.
"Not asleep yet?"
Gu Chenan took off his coat and sat down on the sofa with Hoshino Kannon.
Liu Mingrui pouted and looked at Hoshino Kannon with resignation.
Su Qianmo awkwardly shrugged: "Mingrui read Peerless Dragon King today..."
"Huh?" Gu Chenan was startled: "You've been influenced by Qianmo to read that too?"
Liu Mingrui ignored Gu Chenan's question, her gaze still fixed on Hoshino Kannon as she said dissatisfied: "All this time I never knew who kidnapped me when I first returned to Donghai."
She held up her phone screen in front of her face and pointed: "It turns out it was you, Ho! shi! no! Kan! non!"
"Uh..."
Hoshino Kannon awkwardly touched her cheek, putting on an innocent and cute smile as she looked at Liu Mingrui: "Sister Mingrui, let's just let bygones be bygones..."
"Damn it!"
Liu Mingrui immediately stood up from the sofa: "Easy for you to say! I thought your voice sounded familiar. You think saying 'let bygones be bygones' can resolve all those disgusting things you said when you kidnapped me?"
"Disgusting things..."
Hoshino Kannon's cheeks immediately turned red. She had indeed threatened Liu Mingrui during the kidnapping, saying she would have her men force themselves on Liu Mingrui.
But the thing is...
"I didn't actually do it, did I?" Hoshino Kannon said awkwardly.
"Apologize, apologize right now!" Liu Mingrui put her hands on her hips: "If I hadn't read this novel, I would never have known. This is too much!"
Hoshino Kannon pursed her lips, stood up and bowed 90 degrees to Liu Mingrui: "I'm sorry, Sister Mingrui, I was wrong!"
Gu Chenan looked at Liu Mingrui and Hoshino Kannon in front of him, then at Su Qianmo across from them, and burst out laughing.
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
pression Bureau] Transported to a fantasy world overrun by demons and monsters, Gu Qingfeng becomes a jailer in the Demon Suppression Prison of the Great Yan Dynasty's Demon Suppression Bureau. From this point on, bizarre cases frequently occur in the Demon Suppression Prison, once known as hell on earth and infamous for its gloomy, terrifying atmosphere! Why do the demons and monsters in the prison wail miserably every night? Why has the corpse demon, capable of transforming into various beauties, donned black stockings and switched careers to become a foot massage therapist? Why has the eye demon, expert in soul-snatching and illusions, turned into a VR headset? Why is the fox spirit performing otaku dances? Are all these occurrences a twisted expression of demonic nature, or a descent into moral depravity? After peeling away layer upon layer of mystery, all clues ultimately point to a jailer named Gu Qingfeng. Gu Qingfeng: "Hehehe... My dear demons and monsters, whose card shall we flip today?"
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
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."
