Tick, tock—
The bedroom was in complete silence.
The married woman felt her heart had stopped beating.
She didn't know if the sound she just heard was real or just an auditory hallucination caused by her nervousness.
She also didn't know when the bedroom light had been turned off.
She tugged the blanket slightly harder, and this time the blanket moved.
The woman exhaled in relief.
She told herself over and over again that it was just an illusion, an illusion, but...
It felt like a mysterious force was compelling her to look under the bed to see what was there.
The woman's mind was torn between conflicting desires.
In the end, the mysterious force won.
She inched towards the edge of the bed, slowly lowering her upper body, and then slowly lifted the bedsheet...
She saw the leather bed base of her bed, with only a three-centimeter distance from the floor.
At that moment, the woman nearly fainted!
She just remembered that her bed was only three centimeters from the ground! There was no way anything could be under there!
Immediately, the woman felt her body relax.
Her hands dangled weakly to the floor, as if the cool sensation could give her more peace of mind.
After a while, the woman crawled back under the covers.
Time slipped away quietly, and she felt like she was drifting off to sleep.
And she did fall asleep.
In her sleep, the woman rolled over, dreaming that her good-for-nothing husband had returned.
He might have returned, but he was still as useless as ever.
No matter what she tried, he was like a dead man, not moving an inch.
And cold and clammy.
Leaving her and the bedsheets all sticky and clammy...
The next morning.
"Ahh!!!"
A piercing scream came from the woman who had just woken up.
As she woke up, the woman found that she had been cuddling a dead body all night!
The dead man had a short, sharp dagger stuck in his throat!
It was one of the two Level 4 Abilities in her villa!
...
That afternoon, a luxurious armored SUV left Su Jing through the No.2 Checkpoint.
The driver looked unwell and pale.
But since he held an internal ID from Starlight Group, the vehicle was exempted from inspection when leaving the city.
In the rear trunk, The Clown and the Starlight Group chairman who had been scared half to death were in close proximity.
There was no way around it this time, they couldn't cause too much of a stir when leaving the city.
Otherwise, combined with the commotion inside the city, people would easily discover that the Starlight Group chairman was likely in this vehicle.
Not long after the SUV left the city, the Starlight Group chairman's office received a call from their boss.
He instructed them to transport a set of bioengineering research equipment using the company's heavy trucks to the intersection of S Region and X Region.
...
Yun City, Lu Yuan Clinic.
Early in the morning, Lu Yuan looked at Little Grass tied to the flagpole and felt irritated.
He even thought about taking back the golden biubiu he had gifted this creature.
There was nothing wrong with having the desire to escape, Lu Yuan could absolutely understand that.
Even if someone tried to escape but failed and was caught, they usually wouldn't face severe punishment, after all, Lu Yuan considered himself a doctor first and foremost.
You can't treat patients too harshly.
But...
If you want to run away, but end up getting lost and running in the wrong direction, only to run back here, that...
Standing under the flagpole, Lu Yuan waved his hand, and the ox Benbai leisurely brought Little Grass down.
Lu Yuan stepped forward and asked, "Do you know east, south, west, and north?"
The two red dots in Little Grass's eye sockets flickered a few times.
"You know east, south, west, and north? Then why did you, the one who tried to escape, come back before Liu Yuan, the one who didn't try to escape?"
"My car hadn't even left the Yun City limits when I saw you frolicking in the wilderness. Man, do you have any brains at all?"
This time, the red dots in Little Grass's eyes flickered rapidly.
Lu Yuan said, "Are you really acting like you have no brains just because I said you don't?"
The red dots in Little Grass's eyes flickered twice.
Lu Yuan blinked twice as well. "From today onwards, you'll be in charge of cleaning the medical school. This will continue until I find the next clueless person."
The red dots in Little Grass's eyes started flickering rapidly again.
Lu Yuan glanced at it and said, "If you're unwilling, you can choose to keep trying to escape."
Little Grass looked up at the flagpole where it had been tied before, turned around, and took the broom Benbai handed over.
From then on, the medical school had an industrious scarecrow janitor.
That afternoon, Liu Yuan returned from Xifu City.
She brought a rented small truck carrying a freezer containing three corpses of Abilities.
Seeing Little Grass sweeping the plaza, Liu Yuan was stunned for a moment, then signaled for the two workmen on the truck to unload the cargo.
The two workmen, who looked somewhat simple and honest, saw the self-sweeping scarecrow, then glanced at the freezer they were carrying which contained dead bodies, and their movements became much more nimble.
Liu Yuan went to Lu Yuan's office to report on the work situation this time.
"That family of three went to Tianyu Hospital in Xifu City after leaving us."
"The woman was pregnant and needed a prenatal checkup."
"The man took the opportunity to have his pneumothorax condition checked that we had treated in the morning."
"The doctor examining the man said he had a heart problem and needed a mechanical heart transplant. Tianyu Hospital was offering free mechanical heart transplants at the time, but with a slight risk."
"The man agreed and even accepted the hospital's free priority service, undergoing the surgery the same day."
"The 'slight risk' occurred and the surgery failed, resulting in the man's death."
"The specific reason was that Tianyu Hospital happened to have an Ability in need of a heart transplant at the time, so they set their sights on that man."
"As for the failed surgery, it was indeed an accident. Tianyu Hospital didn't intend for the man to die, but since no one paid for the surgery, only the small allowance provided by the hospital, any doctor with decent skills was unwilling to take the job. In the end, an incompetent doctor performed it."
"The violent mutilation of the man's corpse was to destroy evidence of the medical malpractice."
"The old man, grieving the loss of his son, naturally became disgruntled with the hospital. As a result, he was beaten to death by the hospital's hired mercenaries, and any usable organs were not wasted."
"The woman first signed an organ donation agreement with the Inspection Bureau, then went to Tianyu Hospital to seek justice for her husband, not intending to leave alive."
"And that's indeed what happened, she committed suicide in front of the Tianyu Hospital entrance."
"Since the entire family was gone with no one to stand up for them, the woman's corpse was shamelessly harvested of all organs by Tianyu's doctors in the end."
"Including..."
Liu Yuan didn't continue, but Lu Yuan understood.
Including the unborn child the woman had been carrying.
Then, Liu Yuan added, "And that organ which had nurtured life has already been sold."
"The buyer is in Yun City, in the eastern suburbs."
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
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.
pression Bureau] Transported to a fantasy world overrun by demons and monsters, Gu Qingfeng becomes a jailer in the Demon Suppression Prison of the Great Yan Dynasty's Demon Suppression Bureau. From this point on, bizarre cases frequently occur in the Demon Suppression Prison, once known as hell on earth and infamous for its gloomy, terrifying atmosphere! Why do the demons and monsters in the prison wail miserably every night? Why has the corpse demon, capable of transforming into various beauties, donned black stockings and switched careers to become a foot massage therapist? Why has the eye demon, expert in soul-snatching and illusions, turned into a VR headset? Why is the fox spirit performing otaku dances? Are all these occurrences a twisted expression of demonic nature, or a descent into moral depravity? After peeling away layer upon layer of mystery, all clues ultimately point to a jailer named Gu Qingfeng. Gu Qingfeng: "Hehehe... My dear demons and monsters, whose card shall we flip today?"
