Chu Yang sneaked up behind Shen Yuan, nudged his waist with an elbow, and winked. Quite a lot of people showed up today!
Shen Yuan nodded. It is really lively. It is a pity our sister didn't come back; we are missing a foodie buddy.
Chu Yang was taken aback. Our sister?
Shen Yuan slapped his forehead and laughed. Oh, your sister!
Chu Yang replied, Your sister!
The next moment, he reacted. Oh, our sister!
Chu Yang smiled. There is a time difference over there after all, don't be so petty. She should have sent you a message by now, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Shen Yuan waved his hand dismissively. Changing the subject, he lowered his voice with a cheeky grin, But your boy now has forty-five thousand villain points, get it?
Chu Yang's eyes widened like saucers. What the hell?!
Guess I forgot to tell you.
Shen Yuan said with a playful smile, Farmed them off Liu Ruyan last night. A whole forty-five thousand, a massive profit!
Chu Yang's face instantly fell, looking aggrieved. You have so many villain points, and you still beat me up this morning?
Yangzi, that is not going to work!
You farmed forty-five thousand off Liu Ruyan, but how much did you farm off me?
You need to beat me up a few more times to make up for it!
Chu Yang said solemnly.
Shen Yuan was amused by his outrageous request.
You don't know jack!
Ten villain points can be exchanged for a bottle of basic healing pills. Splitting one into four pieces lets me farm four times; five pills mean twenty times.
If you get hurt, recovering is too much of a hassle. It is a huge loss and not cost-effective, understand?
Shen Yuan smiled faintly.
Chu Yang was speechless.
You really forget the old as soon as you get someone new.
I was your first time!
Have I turned from your pristine white moonlight into a smeared mosquito bloodstain?
I can suppress my cultivation! Chu Yang wasn't ready to give up, patting his chest in assurance. Just treat me like an ordinary person...
Bullshit!
Shen Yuan raised his middle finger. You are already in the Qi Condensation stage. Even if you don't use spiritual energy, is your body the same as an ordinary person's?
Liu Ruyan can yield a ten to three thousand ratio; you are at best ten to seven hundred and fifty!
The cost-performance ratio just isn't worth it!
Shen Yuan laughed out loud.
Chu Yang clutched his chest, looking sorrowful. But I was your first time...
Shen Yuan raised an eyebrow and slowly retorted, You said it yourself, a person shouldn't be too petty.
Chu Yang thought: Damn it! This boomerang hit back harder than a rocket!
Brother, what are you guys talking about? What first time?
Led by Uncle Gou, Chu Yiyi walked over. Her big eyes were full of curiosity, like a gossipy little squirrel.
Nothing!
The two shook their heads simultaneously and said in unison, Kids shouldn't ask so many questions!
Young Master, when the banquet is announced to begin in a moment, it will be your turn to go on stage!
Uncle Gou, holding Shi Yuanyuan, reminded him earnestly.
Miss Yiyi, stop asking!
If you must know...
Between your two brothers... in the future, you might have to call one of them sister-in-law!
Uncle Gou, I understand. Shen Yuan nodded and looked ahead. Take Yiyi over there first!
Alright!
Uncle Gou led Chu Yiyi inside.
By the way...
Chu Yang nudged Shen Yuan again. So many people came today, did our fiancees show up?
Nope!
Shen Yuan yawned casually. They went abroad for business! Haven't come back yet!
When she gets back, I am going to break off the engagement!
You can take over the rest of the job.
Shen Yuan smiled faintly.
Chu Yang quickly waved his hands. No thanks!
I don't want her dropping a line like, I only have one fiance!
My one true love is Brother Shen Yuan!
You will never have my heart!
Chu Yang licked his lips. I have been watching short dramas these past few days, I know all the tropes!
Shen Yuan gave him the middle finger. It is just a commercial marriage, there are no real feelings involved.
Shen Yuan!
Suddenly, a loud shout rang out.
A rather gentle and elegant-looking man walked over, his face carrying a trace of suppressed anger.
Shen Yuan recognized him.
This was the young master of the Song Group, Song Mian.
What is it?
Shen Yuan glanced at him sideways. Looking for trouble?
Did you do that to Ruyan?
Song Mian pointed at Shen Yuan's nose and started scolding. How could you treat her like that?
She is just a pure, kind, and lovely girl...
Didn't she just break one of your porcelain vases?
Huh!?
How could you be so heartless as to fire her directly...
Do you know how heartbroken Ruyan cried today?
Song Mian yelled.
Shen Yuan stroked his chin and fell into deep thought.
He came here for Liu Ruyan?
A moment later, Shen Yuan suddenly realized.
After a little thought, it dawned on him.
Understood, understood!
Beside the female lead of a female-oriented novel, there is always a gentle second male lead!
Who knows when Liu Ruyan hooked up with him.
As expected of Great Emperor Ruyan, her speed at picking up guys is ridiculously fast!
Young Master Song!
Shen Yuan's tone instantly turned cold, his eyes carrying a sense of oppression. First of all, this is my birthday banquet. Since you were invited, you need to understand basic etiquette!
At my birthday banquet, I can throw a fit, but you cannot!
By making a fool of yourself here, you have pressed your Song family's face into the dirt and smashed it into eight pieces!
Or is it... you brought yourself here, but left your class on the ground?
Secondly, Liu Ruyan is an employee of my company. Does how I choose to deal with her have a single dime to do with your Song Group?
Shen Yuan's voice carried a trace of iciness. Does your father know you came over to confront me like this?
A mere three-hundred-billion-dollar group dares to jump around blindly in front of me?
Have I been too kind?
No, you know that is not what I mean!
Song Mian's face looked a bit ugly. I am just standing up for Ruyan! Why are you so cold-blooded?
I am cold, I am ruthless, I am unreasonable!
Shen Yuan sneered. Is that what you mean?
Chu Yang, bring him and follow me!
Shen Yuan turned around.
You got it!
Chu Yang rubbed his hands together. Without waiting for Song Mian to react, he punched him right in the temple.
Song Mian's eyes rolled back, and he passed out immediately.
Chu Yang propped the man up and followed Shen Yuan, smiling happily. How is that? High enough efficiency, right?
Shen Yuan's mouth twitched: I told you to bring him...
Aren't I bringing him? Chu Yang smiled faintly.
Shen Yuan's mouth twitched twice.
That wasn't what I meant!
Did you really have to knock him out?
The two arrived in front of a middle-aged man.
Chu Yang casually tossed Song Mian over.
The middle-aged man was startled.
Mr. Song, it seems your son's brain isn't working too well.
Shen Yuan's tone was flat. Yangzi, wake him up.
Oh!
Chu Yang kicked Song Mian right in the nether regions.
Arooo!
Song Mian let out a miserable shriek and leaped up.
Father Song's face looked rather ugly. Young Master Shen, aren't you going a bit too...
Make him shut up!
Shen Yuan said. Don't knock him out!
Chu Yang poked a finger into Song Mian's throat.
Song Mian: Aba aba aba...
Father Song's face turned ashen. Young Master Shen, don't think that just because of your Shen family...
So on and so forth, yada yada yada! Shen Yuan interrupted his words.
Father Song: ...
"I'd really like to know... my intern breaks my porcelain vase, and Song Mian comes running over to demand an explanation from me?"
"Mr. Song, if an intern at your company was just as careless and cost you over ten million in losses..."
"Would you go up and give her a hug, just like your son did?"
"And tell her that it's alright?"
"Are you brain-dead?"
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
world slacker. But a genius female disciple just had to get clingy, insisting that he take her as a disciple. Not only that, she was always making advances on him, thoroughly disrupting his peaceful slacker life...
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."
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!
