"Why do you get a sixty-forty split?"
Xiao Ce looked aggrieved. "I take a beating, and you take a beating... Why do I only get a fifty-fifty split?"
Chu Yang was all smiles, looking a bit cheeky. "Ask Old Shen!"
Shen Yuan turned his head and gave a sidelong glance.
"Can you compare with Yangzi?"
Shen Yuan chuckled.
Xiao Ce pouted. "My daughter is your goddaughter, after all..."
"Yangzi is my biological brother from a different father and a different mother!"
Shen Yuan pointed at Chu Yang. "I owe him!"
"Ah!?"
Xiao Ce didn't quite understand.
"This and that, so on and so forth!" Shen Yuan waved his hand coolly.
Xiao Ce was utterly speechless.
A real and fake young master situation!?
After all this time, you, Young Master Shen, aren't even the true young master of the Shen family!
Putting it that way, you really do owe him.
But...
Xiao Ce looked at Chu Yang. "You don't hate him at all?"
"It's not his fault, nor is it our parents' fault, so why should I hate him?"
Chu Yang said with a chuckle. "What's more... right after he found out, he came looking for me immediately, wanting to give me the family fortune, and didn't even hide the existence of his system!"
The most important thing is...
He saved Yiyi!
Although by blood, Yiyi is his biological sister.
But Yiyi is also my obsession!
I am grateful to him!
Xiao Ce: "..."
That makes a lot of sense!
But...
I can't help but feel that this guy Shen Yuan is deliberately courting death.
After all... who the hell would tell others if they had a system?
Since Chu Yang is the Child of Destiny, with his wealth, he just needs to hire two assassins from the dark web...
And shoot him dead.
However, Children of Destiny seem pretty hard to kill!
"I owe Chu Yang!"
Shen Yuan said breezily. "So, a sixty-forty split, he gets sixty and I get forty!"
"As for you, Old Xiao..."
"I saved your daughter, so I did you a favor, right?"
"I'm demanding a return for my favor, so what?"
"Is a fifty-fifty split not okay?"
Shen Yuan looked cheerful.
Xiao Ce laughed and shook his head. "Alright, alright, you're the boss!"
"Even if you didn't tell me, with the condition you proposed of beating me up every day..."
"I'd still have to take it!"
"I am a man of my word, a promise is worth its weight in gold!"
"If you don't give it to me, I wouldn't even get a single hair!"
Xiao Ce raised an eyebrow.
"Do you have any hair?"
Shen Yuan gave a sidelong glance, stroking his own hairline. "Do you have a single hair on your body?"
"Everyone has hair on their body!"
Xiao Ce shouted.
"Tch!"
Chu Yang and Shen Yuan raised their middle fingers at the same time.
Xiao Ce's mouth twitched.
You two really are brothers!
Your reactions are exactly the same.
"Actually, I have another idea."
Licking his lips, Shen Yuan smiled wickedly. "Jiejiejie~~"
Chu Yang and Xiao Ce shivered.
When you know a certain system owner is smiling wickedly at you...
You'd shiver too.
"I'm a villain, so bullying the Child of Destiny is perfectly reasonable."
"Furthermore, villains all have underlings!"
"Logically speaking, I should have my underlings go feed kills one by one first."
"So I thought, if I have you guys bully yourselves..."
"Would I get villain points?"
Shen Yuan pinched his chin and sneered.
Xiao Ce gulped. "I don't know either!"
Chu Yang snorted coldly. "Old Shen, are you brain-dead? Ask your system!"
Shen Yuan: (^_−)
That makes a hell of a lot of sense!
When in doubt, quantum mechanics.
If quantum mechanics fails, ask the system!
"Ding, yes!"
The system said calmly. "Isn't this a matter of course? Do you even need to ask?"
Shen Yuan's eyes lit up, and he said smilingly to the system, "Of course I have to ask!"
"After all..."
"What I mean is not my underlings, but if I get someone else to pin down the Child of Destiny and beat him, I can get villain points, right?"
"Anyone will do?"
Shen Yuan raised an eyebrow.
The system was very straightforward. "Yes! Even if you have a three-year-old kid stab the Child of Destiny with a knife, you will still get villain points!"
"As long as they listen to you, you get them!"
The system stated very clearly.
Shen Yuan clapped his hands. "Great, I was just waiting for you to say that, system!"
System: "????"
"I'll have Chu Yang hit Xiao Ce, and Xiao Ce hit Chu Yang, and make them fight every day..."
"System... what do you think of that~~"
Shen Yuan smiled cheekily, deliberately dragging out his last syllable.
His head was slightly tilted, the corners of his eyes raised, and his mouth curved into an incredibly punchable arc.
System: "Holy crap!?"
Damn, there's actually a thought process like this?
Anyone arranged by the villain can earn villain points...
Is Chu Yang arranged by Shen Yuan?
Yes!
Is Xiao Ce arranged by Shen Yuan?
Yes!
So if the two of them fight...
The system felt like its CPU was going to fry.
This... it felt like there was a bug somewhere.
But... the logic somehow flowed perfectly.
"Ding, there's a bug!"
The system said. "Now self-inspecting to fix the bug!"
"Damn, are you a sore loser?" Shen Yuan grew anxious. "Where is the trust between people?"
"System, when an operating system has a bug, don't fix it!"
"Once you fix the bug, the system might not be able to run anymore!"
Shen Yuan shouted hurriedly.
"Ding..."
"After inspection... there are no bugs in the system's operation!"
The system seemed a bit crestfallen. "Host, you freaking win!"
The system was completely speechless!
What kind of proper system host messes around like this!?
What kind of villain makes a protagonist deal with another protagonist?
Shen Yuan snapped back to reality and looked at Chu Yang and Xiao Ce, smiling very happily.
The two of them were hugging each other, shivering.
"Old Shen, stop laughing!"
Chu Yang shouted. "Your voice... it's so sleazy and punchable, like a mouse that just stole some sugar!"
Xiao Ce also yelled, "You're smiling too cheekily, so cheeky it's scummy, just like you stole Granny Wang's chicken from next door and grabbed a handful of her vegetables on the way out."
Shen Yuan's smile vanished instantly.
Am I smiling that cheekily?
But then again, I guess I've always been this kind of cheeky bastard, right?
"Hehehe!"
"Jiejiejie~~"
His smile grew even more intense.
Chu Yang and Xiao Ce: "..."
"In a word!"
Licking his lips, Shen Yuan said with a smile, "I've finished communicating with the system..."
"If you two fight each other, I can get villain points too!"
"Anyone who listens to my orders to deal with the protagonist will earn me villain points from now on!"
Shen Yuan made an inviting gesture. "Come on, brothers! Let's hurt each other!"
Chu Yang's eyes lit up, he instantly let go of Xiao Ce, and a flash of fire crossed his eyes.
Xiao Ce: (－ｏ⌒)??
Chu Yang, didn't you change your tune a bit too fast?
"Come on, let's hurt each other!"
Chu Yang's eyes were extremely fanatical.
"No thanks!"
"Some other day!"
Xiao Ce hurriedly waved his hands. "My wife and child are still here, it's not a good time to fight!"
"Give me two days to settle my wife and child..."
"And I have to bring my transfer orders over!"
"These tasks need to be finished!"
"When the time comes..."
Xiao Ce took a deep breath, looking righteous, iron-blooded, and domineering. "I'll fight you as hard as I can!"
"Alright!"
Chu Yang nodded heavily.
Shen Yuan snapped his fingers.
This is excellent!
With the Chosen Ones busy tearing each other apart...
I will have all the time in the world to go out and show off.
Sigh!
At the end of the day, it is I, the capitalist, who emerges victorious once again!
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]
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
ts me of treason?" "Correct. The host must return to the capital and gradually build up influence." "Wait—I have half a million soldiers, and you want me to go back to the capital to 'build influence'?" "Host, you are currently the Northern Garrison General, loyal to the Great Xia Dynasty." "Of course I am loyal to Great Xia! Absolutely loyal!" "But you keep referring to yourself as 'We'..." "Never mind the details! Summon all the regional commanders and military officers! We suspect treacherous officials are manipulating the court! They shall march with Us to the capital and purge the corrupt!" "......"
