Five years ago, I was arrested and put in prison. I lost my mother, my loved ones, my family, and everything that was originally mine. And now, it's you who has given me a home again, so of course I have to thank you." Xiao Zhan said solemnly.
Although he said this with his mouth, what he was thinking in his heart was: "I also have to thank you for giving birth to such an obedient and lovely daughter, and for raising her with painstaking effort."
"At the same time, I want to say sorry to you!"
"Sorry for getting you involved!"
Su Muqiu's pretty face flushed slightly.
An orphan?
In Su Wencheng's previous investigation report, it only mentioned that Xiao Zhan was jailed five years ago for rape, and focused on emphasizing Xiao Zhan's criminal record and psychological perversion, as well as his severe tendency towards violence.
But it didn't mention anything about Xiao Zhan's family background five years ago.
At this moment, hearing it directly from Xiao Zhan's mouth, and under such circumstances, Su Muqiu was extremely surprised and her heart trembled. She couldn't help being somewhat moved and losing her composure.
So he was also a pitiful person.
Five years ago!
Su Muqiu was extremely sensitive to this point in time. She immediately thought of herself. It was also on a certain day five years ago that she inexplicably became pregnant. Over the past five years she had been subjected to ridicule and scorn, and her situation had gone from bad to worse.
What a coincidence.
Was this the legendary sympathy between fellow sufferers?
After a moment of stunned silence, Su Muqiu asked in a low voice, "What happened five years ago?"
She didn't know why, but she had a vague feeling that Xiao Zhan's so-called rape charge was very likely false, that he had been framed.
There was no reason for it, just a subtle feeling.
Perhaps it was a woman's sixth sense.
"You want to know?"
Xiao Zhan looked up and met Su Muqiu's eyes directly.
"It's up to you whether to say it or not!"
Su Muqiu's face turned even redder. She snorted lightly with a coy expression that wanted to know but was too shy to admit it. Under the lamplight her expression looked playful and charming, making people unable to hold back a smile.
"I'll tell you."
Xiao Zhan nodded with a smile, then shook his head. "But not now."
"Then when?"
The words slipped out of Su Muqiu's mouth.
Xiao Zhan thought for a moment and said, "My secret is hugely important. I can only tell my closest person. Although we are engaged now, we are not yet truly husband and wife."
"When you really fall in love with me wholeheartedly and willing marry me, on the day we go to the civil affairs bureau to get our marriage certificate, I will bare my heart to you and tell you all my secrets."
Get a marriage certificate???
Bare my heart???
True husband and wife...
Su Muqiu's heart shuddered violently. When she noticed Xiao Zhan's gaze falling on her chest, wandering back and forth intentionally or unintentionally, her face instantly flushed red, both shy and angry.
"Humph! You wish!"
She glared angrily at Xiao Zhan, pulled up the quilt and got into bed, then turned her face away from him and lay with her back to him. She gritted her teeth and grunted, "Who wants to know your secret? I warn you, don't get any ideas about me!"
The room instantly sank into darkness.
Xiao Zhan rolled his eyes. What was going on? Was she flipping her attitude all of a sudden?
Seemingly realizing something, Xiao Zhan awkwardly explained, "Muqiu, you didn't get the wrong idea and misunderstand, did you? What I meant by baring my heart is being candid with each other, trusting each other. It doesn't mean taking all our clothes off and being stark naked."
"Your thoughts don't seem very pure."
Xiao Zhan felt very wronged!
"Get lost!"
In the darkness came Su Muqiu's suppressed cold shout. She wanted to curse but didn't dare be too loud, afraid of waking up Su Xiaomeng.
Xiao Zhan's face was as dark as the night.
He was a bona fide Northern Wolf King, a commanding general, and could take on a hundred enemies alone on the battlefield. But when it came to coaxing women, he really wasn't good at it.
Left with no other option, he could only shrug his shoulders and fumble back to the bedding he had laid out, then lay down.
It was a very long night.
In all his years, this was the first time there had been a man sleeping in her room. Su Muqiu tossed and turned in bed, unable to fall asleep for a long time, with all kinds of messy thoughts swirling through her mind that she couldn't shake off.
At the same time, she was worried that after getting her personal belongings from Su's Group tomorrow, it would mean a complete break with the Su family. Years of effort would go up in smoke and she'd have to start all over again.
How should she walk the road ahead???
What she didn't know was that without telling her, Xiao Zhan had already paved the way for her. Starting tomorrow, she would still be part of Su's Group. What's more, Su's Group would be her kingdom!
Xiao Zhan received a text message from Duan Yihong saying, "Report to the Wolf King, everything is in place. Su's Group now belongs to the Xiao family!"
Xiao Zhan smiled smugly. Borrowing the faint moonlight, he glanced at Su Muqiu and Su Xiaomeng on the bed, thinking to himself that after letting her suffer these past few years, Su's Group would be a little surprise from him.
I hope you're not too shocked tomorrow morning.
While Xiao Zhan was scheming behind the scenes, before officially revealing everything to Su Muqiu, he was trying to give her and her daughter some compensation as much as possible. What Xiao Zhan didn't expect was that his identity had already been exposed. His inadvertent action at Ruiding Shopping Mall allowed Qian Yiming and Chen Zhonghe to find out about his background. They immediately notified the Xiao family in the capital city.
At this moment, the Black Hawk was flying overnight from the capital to Quancheng, still holding the Liuli Holy Water specially targeting Su Xiaomeng!
Unknowingly, danger was slowly descending...
...
Early next morning.
When Xiao Zhan woke up, Liu Hongxiu had already prepared breakfast. As soon as he walked out of the room, Liu Hongxiu immediately rushed in and eagerly asked Su Muqiu, "Muqiu, he didn't do anything to you last night, did he?"
"No."
Su Muqiu pointed to the bedding on the floor and shook her head. "After he finished telling Xiaomeng a story, he went to sleep. Very well-behaved."
"That's good, that's good..."
Only then did Liu Hongxiu secretly breathe a sigh of relief.
After breakfast, Xiao Zhan changed into the new clothes Su Muqiu had picked out for him yesterday. He drove Su Muqiu to go to Su's Group, and took Su Xiaomeng along to drop her off at school himself.
As soon as they left, Liu Hongxiu immediately rushed back into Su Muqiu's room and started rummaging around in disorder.
"What are you looking for?"
Sitting in a wheelchair, Su Jiancheng was full of confusion.
Liu Hongxiu ignored him. After a moment, she suddenly ran out of the room holding the old clothes Xiao Zhan had taken off. Excitedly she said, "Look at this, what is it?"
As she spoke, she took out a black card from Xiao Zhan's old clothes.
It was that Platinum Black Card from Global Bank!
"This is..."
Su Jiancheng took the Platinum Black Card and looked it over several times but couldn't make anything of it.
Liu Hongxiu guessed, "Xiao Zhan bought so many new clothes for Muqiu yesterday, and a new car, adding up to over 7 million. Don't you think this is his bank card?"
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
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!
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
