Xiao Ruohan seemed to have descended into madness.
She stomped, again and again, fiercely onto Duan Changtian's intestines, cursing:
"You useless waste, just die!"
Even Jin Youxi and Liu Weiwei, standing nearby, could barely stand to watch.
Zhao Bing frowned and drew his sword once more.
"To think someone like you was once our master's disciple."
"This is nothing short of blasphemy against him!"
"Today, I shall cleanse our sect on his behalf!"
The sword hummed faintly.
The crisis of imminent death brought a temporary clarity back to Xiao Ruohan's mind.
She hastily grabbed Duan Changtian from the ground, using him as a shield.
By now, Duan Changtian was already coughing up mouthfuls of blood.
His face was as pale as paper.
Yet, what was truly unbearable for him in his final moments was the realization:
The first woman he had ever truly loved in his life,
the woman he was even willing to die for,
did not love him back at all.
This feeling was strangely familiar, reminiscent of how he had toyed with his ex-girlfriends in the past.
This time, he was the one who had been played.
"How laughable I am!"
Duan Changtian coughed up another mouthful of blood, a self-mocking smile appearing on his face.
Just as Zhao Bing prepared to finish off both of them with his sword,
two streaks of sword energy shot from the distance.
Six Meridian Divine Sword!
A voice thundered simultaneously!
"How dare you!"
Two elderly men came charging towards them.
Zhao Bing first dodged one streak of sword energy.
Then, he unleashed several slashes of his own sword energy to block the other Six Meridian Divine Sword.
He instantly gauged their strength.
"Martial Masters!"
"Senior sisters, we must leave, now!"
The appearance of two Martial Masters at once posed a serious threat to them.
The three immediately fled westward.
Seeing that the Duan family had sent people, Xiao Ruohan was momentarily stunned.
She glanced at Duan Changtian before her, her gaze turning utterly sinister.
The two old men quickly reached Duan Changtian's side.
They cried out in unison:
"Chagtian! The Duan family is finished!"
"The remaining members of the conglomerate have all been slaughtered by the Devouring Heaven Club."
"Those we managed to relocate earlier are also being hunted down by them."
"You are the most outstanding of the Duan family's younger generation, you must hold on!"
"This Vermilion Fruit was entrusted to me by the Patriarch. He told me to find you and go into hiding."
One of the old men immediately pulled a Vermilion Fruit from his robe
and shoved it into Duan Changtian's mouth.
Seeing the Vermilion Fruit, Xiao Ruohan's heart began to pound wildly.
She urgently pointed at the fleeing figures of Jin Youxi and the other two:
"Kill them! Quickly!"
"They are also members of the Devouring Heaven Club!"
"If they escape and expose our whereabouts, we're all dead!"
The two old men looked at the fleeing trio and were instantly alarmed.
They said to Xiao Ruohan:
"You are Xiao Ruohan, correct?"
"I remember you. You are Changtian's girlfriend."
"To think you would stand by Changtian at such a critical juncture."
"You stay here and watch over Changtian. We will go eliminate those three to prevent our location from being exposed."
Just as the old men were about to leave, one felt his trouser leg being grabbed.
Looking down, he saw it was Duan Changtian holding on.
Xiao Ruohan hurriedly pried Duan Changtian's hand away.
"Chagtian, don't move. I'm right here with you."
"With the Vermilion Fruit, your injuries will heal soon!"
The two old men gave Xiao Ruohan a satisfied nod, then immediately gave chase to Jin Youxi and the others.
Although the Vermilion Fruit could heal injuries, it required time to take effect.
Duan Changtian could clearly feel a warm current continuously repairing his wounds.
However, watching Xiao Ruohan putting on an act in front of his elders,
a terrible premonition arose in his heart.
The next moment, that premonition came true.
He saw Xiao Ruohan glaring at him with a ferocious expression, her eyes gleaming with excitement.
She used both hands, trying with all her might to pry his jaws apart.
Duan Changtian summoned every ounce of his strength, clenching his teeth shut.
He prayed incessantly in his heart, hoping his injuries would heal faster.
Seeing she couldn't force his mouth open, Xiao Ruohan grew frantic with anxiety.
Her eyes suddenly fell upon a rock nearby.
A vicious smile instantly spread across her face.
Following her gaze, Duan Changtian also saw the football-sized granite rock on the ground.
Terror gripped him, and his body began to tremble.
Xiao Ruohan picked up the rock and, without a moment's hesitation, smashed it against Duan Changtian's jaw.
Crack!
His mandible shattered.
Not daring to waste a single second, Xiao Ruohan forced her hand down Duan Changtian's throat.
Duan Changtian could no longer care about his other wounds.
His eyes rolled back, his body convulsing and thrashing in a desperate struggle.
But having lost too much vitality, his resistance was pitifully weak.
Xiao Ruohan shoved her arm in up to the forearm.
Finally, she felt what she was searching for.
Clutching the remaining, mostly intact Vermilion Fruit, she pulled her arm out.
Disregarding the blood and filth, she shoved the fruit into her own mouth.
A wave of heat surged through her entire body.
She could distinctly feel the injury in her lower dantian rapidly improving under this warm current.
"Hahaha..."
"My cultivation is about to be restored!"
"Chen Feng, you just wait!"
"I, Xiao Ruohan, will not fall so easily!"
Xiao Ruohan looked down at Duan Changtian on the ground again, a sinister smile curling her lips.
"Didn't you love me?"
"Didn't you used to say you'd do anything for me?"
"Well, now I need you to die for me!"
Duan Changtian stared wide-eyed.
In the final moments of his life, he saw Xiao Ruohan pick up that granite rock once more.
Then the rock rapidly enlarged in his vision.
It was fast.
Yet to him, it also felt agonizingly slow.
So slow that in this instant, he recalled his brief life.
The prodigy of the Duan family.
Inheritor of the Duan family's Six Meridian Divine Sword and the Li family's (his mother's clan) Nine Yang Divine Power.
He had been the champion of every martial arts tournament.
Hailed as the number one among the Duan family's younger generation.
He had countless female admirers.
He had lost count of how many girlfriends he'd had.
Until he met that girl with waist-length silver hair, cold as ice.
This girl was different.
Unlike other women who were obedient and submissive to him,
she remained an unscaleable iceberg.
He became utterly infatuated, unable to extricate himself.
Even now, at the end, this ice-cold girl remained uniquely different.
Her coldness chilled him to the very soul.
Once, twice, three times...
Empowered by the effects of the Vermilion Fruit,
Xiao Ruohan struck with increasing force.
Her expression grew more and more exhilarated.
Not far away, Duan Yanran, who was nearly drained of her vital energy, watched this scene in disbelief.
She could never have imagined her cousin would meet his end at the hands of Xiao Ruohan.
The very person her cousin had fawned over for so long.
Suddenly!
Duan Yanran shuddered.
Because Xiao Ruohan's face, smeared with plasma and what looked like brain matter, suddenly turned towards her.
"Hehehe..."
"It seems you've seen something you shouldn't have."
Terrified, Duan Yanran turned and began crawling forward, desperate to escape.
"No!"
"Don't kill me!"
"I didn't see anything!"
But her weakened body made her crawl as slow as a turtle.
Watching Duan Yanran's feeble attempt to crawl away, Xiao Ruohan, for some reason, began to superimpose the crawling figure with that of Chen Feng in her mind.
"Hmph... my dear master!"
"So you've come to this as well!"
"Let me properly repay you for your nurturing kindness!"
"Hahaha..."
Soon, Duan Yanran's screams pierced the air.
"Ahhh...!"
"What are you doing!"
"You maniac, you pervert!"
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
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.
