Looking at the four women doing yoga in front of him, Xu Mo suddenly felt that this kind of life... was quite nice.
Coming home and not having to lift a finger, with someone preparing meals, was one thing. The key was that after dinner, there was a free show to watch...
And the four of them were completely uninhibited!
They chose to do yoga right in front of Xu Mo, making it impossible not to look!
"Hey, do you know about Liu Genhong who's been really popular lately? I heard his Compendium of Materia Medica workout is quite effective!" Zhou Qiaoqiao suddenly said after finishing a pose.
"Yes, yes, I've seen it too. They say it works really well!" Yang Jingxuan nodded. "Why don't we give it a try?"
An Youyi chimed in agreement. "Have you all come across his videos too? It seems that Compendium of Materia Medica is really trending lately. Many of my girlfriends on social media say it's very effective. I think we should try it!"
"I'll look for that video. I remember saving it. Let's follow the video for a while and see how it goes," Li Jiaxin said, getting up and reaching for her phone on the coffee table, ready to find the video she had saved earlier.
Oh no, whether the Compendium of Materia Medica workout is effective or not is unclear, but compared to yoga, it's obviously much less visually appealing... Xu Mo quickly spoke up: "You should stick to yoga. The Compendium of Materia Medica isn't really suitable for you."
"Why isn't it suitable for us?"
Of course, it's because it's not as visually pleasing as yoga, what else could it be! Xu Mo thought to himself, but outwardly gave a different explanation.
"All that jumping around is too vigorous. It's not advisable to exercise intensely right after eating. Yoga is just fine."
Hearing Xu Mo's words, Zhou Qiaoqiao showed a thoughtful expression. "That's true. It's not good to exercise vigorously right after a meal."
Xu Mo pressed on, continuing to persuade them.
"Besides, aerobic exercises are mainly for fat loss and body shaping, which you don't need. Yoga is better for you."
Is Xu Mo complimenting our figures? Realizing this, the four women's moods instantly improved.
Of course, although they were inwardly pleased and happy with Xu Mo's compliment, they didn't show it on their faces.
Instead, they modestly said, "How can we not need to lose fat and shape up? I feel like I'm a bit chubby."
"You're only chubby in the right places... Isn't that a good thing?" Xu Mo teased.
Hearing this, the four women couldn't hold back anymore, their joy evident on their faces.
Xu Mo's silver tongue must be coated with honey, his words were so sweet!
...
The next day.
Xu Mo arrived at work as usual.
Throughout the entire day, Xu Mo was waiting for a call to action.
However, the reality was that there wasn't a single case today, no need to go out at all.
In fact, there was no work even until it was time to clock out.
Strange, has my Conan physique stopped working? Why are there no cases today? Xu Mo looked down, examining himself.
Theoretically, with his Conan physique, shouldn't he be encountering cases one after another, solving one and immediately moving on to the next?
Xu Mo had experienced this before, with one or two cases a day, non-stop. What was going on today? Not a single case until closing time. It was too strange!
Could it be... that this current calm is just temporary, and there's actually a big case waiting for me later? Xu Mo wondered.
...
Returning home, Xu Mo saw the four women sitting side by side on the sofa.
They were all holding their phones, with looks of astonishment on their faces.
It's worth noting that the green light emanating from their four phones cast a greenish glow on their faces... making them look like four vigorously growing leeks!
There aren't many things that green... Xu Mo immediately thought of the stock market.
Others might not know, but he did.
In the coming month, most stock prices would continue to fall, with many stocks hitting their lower limits or breaking below their issue prices.
Entering the market at this time would make one a pure leek, wouldn't it?
Trying to buy the dip... you want to buy their dip, they want to dip into your savings!
When Xu Mo entered, the four didn't even hear him.
It wasn't until Xu Mo walked right in front of them that they looked up at him.
Without even glancing at the stock trends on their phones, Xu Mo asked directly: "How much did you lose today?"
"How did you know we lost money?" Zhou Qiaoqiao asked, puzzled.
Xu Mo: "..."
The green light from your phones is reflecting off your faces, making them glow green. I'm not blind!
The next second, An Youyi wearily answered Xu Mo's earlier question.
"Several stocks I was most optimistic about hit their lower limits today. All together, I lost 300,000 yuan. That's a whole handbag gone."
At this moment, she was extremely dejected.
Of course, what made her dejected wasn't losing 300,000 yuan. In fact, 300,000 yuan was nothing in her eyes.
What really upset her was that just last night, she had confidently claimed that she had paid her dues in the stock market, lost quite a bit of money, and had even boasted that she had figured out the stock market and would definitely not lose anymore.
According to An Youyi's analysis, these stocks had been falling for so long that it was time for them to bottom out and rebound. She thought it was a good opportunity to go all in and buy the dip.
Who would have thought that these words, spoken just last night, would come back to bite her today!
She had bought a total of five stocks, all of which she was very optimistic about. As a result, none of these five stocks rose today.
Not only did they not rise, they all fell, hitting their daily lower limits!
Of course, she wasn't the only one who lost money this time.
Zhou Qiaoqiao, Yang Jingxuan, and Li Jiaxin had all lost money too, and were now looking equally dejected.
However, they hadn't invested as much money as An Youyi, so their losses were relatively smaller. The losses of the three of them combined didn't even come close to 300,000 yuan.
Zhou Qiaoqiao looked at her phone, then at Xu Mo, and said pitifully: "I lost over 40,000 yuan too. I even added to my position, thinking I was buying the dip, but who knew those stocks hadn't bottomed out yet. I wanted to buy their dip, but they ended up dipping into my savings..."
Hit bottom? It's still early, it will keep falling for at least another month! Xu Mo consoled the four: "It's okay to lose. It's not necessarily a bad thing. Just consider it tuition paid. You should sell now, it's not too late."
Hearing Xu Mo's words, An Youyi felt even more depressed. As for tuition, she had paid plenty already. She had just made some money in the stock market recently, and before the money could even get warm in her hands, it was used to pay tuition again...
After thinking for a moment, An Youyi spoke up: "But we've already lost so much. If we sell everything now, wouldn't we lose even more? What if I invest more? The prices have to go up eventually, right? Maybe we could even make a small profit then."
Still buying? You really are a textbook leek... Xu Mo's mouth twitched involuntarily: "Please don't buy anymore. Sell quickly, or you'll lose even more. You're only thinking about it going up, haven't you considered that it might keep falling?"
Seeing Xu Mo speak so confidently, Zhou Qiaoqiao, who was beside him, looked him up and down curiously.
"Xu Mo... do you know some inside information? You seem very confident in your predictions."
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.
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!
uld barely embark on the path to immortality. Just as he was on the verge of death, his golden finger awakened. No matter whether it was poison, drained blood and vital energy, diminished lifespan, or any other physical debuff caused by paying a price—once midnight passed, everything would be refreshed. From then on, whenever someone asked what kind of person Chu Ran was, the answer was simple: Forbidden arts that other cultivators dared not learn? Chu Ran would learn them. Prices that even demonic cultivators dared not pay? Chu Ran would pay them. Lifespan that even righteous cultivators dared not burn? Chu Ran would burn it. All the blood essence in his body? Take it. Want both his hands and feet? He would cut them off and send them to you. You say he’s finished? He wasn’t built to sit idle. You think he’s gone mad? No—he was simply waiting for midnight. From that day onward, Chu Ran would respect neither Heaven nor Earth, bow to neither gods nor ghosts. He had only one wish: For midnight to arrive a little sooner.
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."
