Shen Family Villa, Study Room.
Shen Fei sat in the executive chair, the translucent system panel still hovering in his field of vision.
He wasn't in a hurry to study the system.
Instead, he poured himself a cup of tea and slowly finished it.
Transmigration, top-tier wealthy family background, and system assistance.
With these three trump cards in hand simultaneously, it would be hard to lose this game.
Shen Fei put down his teacup, his gaze falling back onto the panel.
"System, expand all functions."
[Ding! Overview of the Mandate Villain System functions:]
[Function 1: Eye of Fortune]
[Description: Can observe any target's fortune value, identity tags, and recent opportunity trends. A golden pillar of light will appear above the head of a Child of Destiny, while a red pillar of light will appear above the original plot's heroine. A Child of Destiny whose fortune value drops to zero can be directly killed.]
[Function 2: Fortune Plunder]
[Description: By suppressing the Child of Destiny, intercepting their opportunities, and subjugating the original plot heroines around them, you can plunder their fortune value and convert it for your own use.]
[Function 3: Villain Mall]
[Description: Consume fortune value to redeem any item in the mall, including but not limited to: cultivation methods, pills, skill inheritances, fiercely loyal subordinates, commercial black tech, etc.]
Shen Fei's eyes lit up slightly.
"Open the mall."
The next second, a magnificent virtual shelf appeared before him.
The goods on it were a feast for the eyes, each one enough to shock one's mind.
[Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Art (SSS-grade cultivation method): Can absorb the inner force of others for one's own use. Price: 50,000 fortune value]
[Millennium Cultivation Pill: Directly gain a thousand years of inner force upon consumption. Price: 30,000 fortune value]
[God-level Hacker Technology Inheritance: Master top-tier global network offense and defense capabilities. Price: 8,000 fortune value]
[Shadow Guard Summoning Card (Ten People): Summon ten absolutely loyal grandmaster-level Shadow Guards. Price: 15,000 fortune value]
[Basic Antidote Pill: Can cure a hundred poisons. Price: 100 fortune value]
[Meridian Sealing Needle (One-time use): One needle seals all the meridians in the target's body for the duration of an incense stick. Price: 500 fortune value]
They were all good things.
But the prices were equally outrageous.
Shen Fei glanced at his current fortune value.
[Host's Fortune Value: 500]
A mere 500 points.
Not even enough for a fraction of the cheapest Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Art.
Meanwhile, Ye Chen's fortune value was as high as 8888.
The gap was crushing.
But Shen Fei did not panic at all.
A big gap was a good thing.
The higher the prey's fortune value, the richer the reward after killing them.
"System, use the Eye of Fortune to scan Ye Chen's current status."
[Scanning...]
[Target: Ye Chen]
[Identity Tag: Child of Destiny (SSS-grade)]
[Current Fortune Value: 8888]
[Strength: Early stage of the Martial Dao Grandmaster Realm]
[Background: Closed-door disciple of the Elder of the Profound Heaven Sect in the Kunlun Mountains, dual cultivator of medicine and martial arts]
[Personality Analysis: Extremely arrogant, cares deeply about saving face, values relationships, easily provoked]
[Weakness: Has a strong desire to possess and protect Su Qingxue]
The corners of Shen Fei's mouth curled up slightly.
Cares about face, values relationships, easily provoked.
This kind of person was the easiest to deal with.
He continued reading, his gaze falling on a line of small golden text at the very bottom, and his pupils shrank instantly.
[Recent Opportunity Warning!]
[In three days, in the abandoned factory district in the south of Jinling City, a pair of stunningly beautiful twin assassins (Ling Shuang, Ling Xue) will be poisoned and injured while executing a mission, hovering on the brink of death. In the original plot, Ye Chen happens to pass by and saves them. The twins, deeply grateful, pledge their undying loyalty and become Ye Chen's strongest combat force.]
[Opportunity Rating: S-grade]
[Suggestion: Intercept in advance!]
Shen Fei narrowed his eyes.
Stunning twin assassins?
The strongest combat force pledging undying loyalty?
Why should such good things be given to Ye Chen?
Shen Fei immediately bought a Basic Antidote Pill from the mall, spending 100 fortune value, bringing his balance down to 400.
This pill was enough to save the poisoned twins.
Spend a little money to accomplish great things.
With the matters for three days later settled, Shen Fei leaned back in his chair and began to ponder his overall layout going forward.
Ye Chen's fortune value was 8888. To clear it to zero within thirty days, relying on just one or two interceptions was far from enough.
He had to take a multi-pronged approach.
Cut off his source of wealth.
Ruin his reputation.
Take his women.
Steal his opportunities.
Make his friends and family turn against him, make him lose everything, and make him fall from the clouds into the mud.
Finally, send him on his way with his own hands.
Shen Fei picked up his phone and called his butler.
"Help me look into someone named Ye Chen. He recently came down from the Kunlun Mountains and should be living with Su Qingxue right now. I want all his background details before tonight."
"Yes, Young Master."
Hanging up the phone, Shen Fei thought of something else.
He reopened the system panel, his eyes landing on the rule description for Fortune Plunder.
[Subjugating the original plot heroines around the Child of Destiny can plunder a massive amount of their fortune value. The deeper the heroine's feelings for the Child of Destiny, the greater the amount plundered.]
Shen Fei smiled.
Su Qingxue.
This iceberg female CEO was Ye Chen's core heroine in the original plot.
Although she currently had a favorable impression of Ye Chen, it wasn't to the point of being unforgettable.
This was a good thing.
While the feelings were still shallow, uprooting them would be the easiest.
However, Shen Fei wasn't in a hurry.
He didn't need to take the initiative on Su Qingxue's side.
After the Shen family withdrew their investment, the Su Group's capital chain had already begun to collapse.
It wouldn't be long before Su Qingxue came back to beg him herself.
When that time came, the initiative would be entirely in his hands.
"I'll get my hands on the twin assassins first."
Shen Fei stood up and walked to the window.
Jinling in the night was illuminated by the lights of thousands of homes, prosperous and beautiful.
In this city, a Child of Destiny who thought he was favored by heaven was dreaming of dominating the world.
And he, Shen Fei, had already sharpened his knife.
Meanwhile.
East of Jinling City, the Su Family Villa.
After Su Qingxue and Ye Chen returned from the Shen family, the entire Su family was in an uproar.
In the living room, Father Su, Su Zhenbang, paced back and forth, sweating profusely, his phone never stopping.
"What? The project stopped?"
"Liquidated damages? Tell them to wait, I'll figure something out!"
"Borrow money? Lao Zhang, please help me out, I just need a turnover for three days... What? You can't either?"
Su Zhenbang made one phone call after another, and his face grew paler with each one.
The Su Group, which had been perfectly fine half an hour ago, now felt as if someone was strangling its throat.
The Shen family's reach was much greater than he had imagined.
It wasn't just as simple as withdrawing investment.
The Shen family had been operating in Jinling for three generations, with deep-rooted connections. As soon as the news of their withdrawal spread, all the companies that had cooperative relations with the Su family smelled the signal of danger.
No one dared to help the Su family at this critical juncture.
Because helping the Su family was equivalent to standing on the opposite side of the Shen family.
No one was stupid.
Su Zhenbang hung up the last phone call and slumped onto the sofa, looking as if he had instantly aged ten years.
He looked up at Su Qingxue, who was standing to the side.
"Qingxue... what exactly did you do?"
Su Qingxue bit her lip, not saying a word.
She hadn't expected things to develop to this point.
She had thought that breaking off the engagement was just a matter between two young people, at most causing some unpleasantness.
But Shen Fei's reaction completely exceeded her expectations.
It wasn't furious rage, nor was it endless pestering.
Instead, it was a cold blade thrust directly into the Su family's vital spot. Accurate, ruthless, and without a shred of mercy.
"Uncle Su, leave this matter to me."
Ye Chen stepped forward, his tone steady.
"Doesn't Shen Fei just have a bit of filthy money? Even though I, Ye Chen, am not some scion of a wealthy family, my master has connections in the capital. As long as I send up a single letter, all of the Shen family's gray industries will tremble in fear."
"Moreover, my medical skills are absolutely unmatched in Jinling. As long as I step in to cure the illnesses of a few big shots, the Su family will have all the money and connections they could ever need. What does a mere Shen Fei amount to?"
As Ye Chen said this, his eyes shone with absolute confidence.
He had cultivated on a mountain since childhood, pampered by his master and raised as a peerless genius. He genuinely believed that he was the chosen one, capable of turning the world upside down wherever he went.
After hearing Ye Chen's words, a complex look flashed across Su Qingxue's eyes.
She wanted to say something, but ultimately kept her mouth shut.
Su Zhenbang glanced at Ye Chen and opened his mouth, just about to say, "What can a wet-behind-the-ears brat like you do?" But seeing his daughter's expression, he swallowed his words.
Ye Chen turned and walked toward the door. Standing with his hands clasped behind his back, he gazed up at the night sky.
"Within three days, I will let the Shen family know the consequences of offending me, Ye Chen!"
His voice was resolute, his aura surging and majestic.
In Ye Chen's mind, he was a peerless genius descended from the heavens.
No matter how rich Shen Fei was, he was just a mortal.
How could a mortal fight against a genius?
But what he didn't know was that far away in the Shen family villa in the west of the city, a line of small text was currently flashing in real-time on Shen Fei's system panel.
[Son of Fortune Ye Chen has completed a self-motivation. Fortune Value slightly recovered: +200]
[Current Ye Chen Fortune Value: 9088]
Shen Fei glanced at the number.
It went up?
Interesting.
The more he struggles, the better. A prey that is too docile is simply no fun.
Shen Fei closed the panel and walked toward the bedroom.
"I'll rest and build up my strength first."
"In a few days, I'll snatch your twins first."
He casually turned off the lights.
In the darkness, the system panel faintly flickered with a faint blue light.
The countdown on it was quietly ticking away.
[Time remaining for First Blood Mission: 29 days, 23 hours, 47 minutes]
[Time until S-Rank Opportunity "Peerless Twin Beauties" appears: 2 days, 16 hours]
The timing was just right.
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.”
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
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shall grant"] ["Inscribing the glory of our race upon tombstones"] ["All that is threatened, I shall protect"] How his younger sister sees her brother: A brother who only makes eye contact once a day, mostly fading into the background as he tinkers with who-knows-what in his room all day. Their life paths should have remained largely separate. Until one day. Su Qi created an equipment card for his never-met "online girlfriend." His sister fell into silent contemplation upon receiving the "white stockings." [Card can be upgraded] [Upgrade by fulfilling any of the following conditions] [Condition ①: Consume one hundred higher-tier cards] [Condition ②: Complete one 'Heart-Pounding Adventure'] What constitutes a Heart-Pounding Adventure? [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Beginner Level): Equip the card and invite 'Su Qi' to admire it.] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Easy Level): Equip the card, invite 'Su Qi' to touch it, and analyze the equipment's texture.] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Entry Level): Equip the card and invite 'Su Qi' to...] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Challenge Level): Freely combine the words 'Brother' 'Out' 'Brother' 'Me' 'Please' into a complete sentence...] "Please help me analyze both teams' mistakes in this match, brother..." His sister exhaled in relief—surely... surely there couldn't be anything more difficult? [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Suicide Mission Level): Sneak a peek at the names of the galgames in 'Su Qi's' hidden E-drive folder]
