Upon hearing Gu Chenan's words, a flash of anger crossed Liu Wan's face. Including the time during their blind date, this was the second time Gu Chenan had called her a "narcissistic woman."
However, given the current situation, Liu Wan didn't lash out. She merely snorted dismissively and said, "It seems latching onto Miss Su has given you a lot of confidence, huh?"
"Latching onto?" Gu Chenan raised an eyebrow, immediately understanding Liu Wan's implication.
To be fair, Gu Chenan hadn't actively tried to hide his identity. When people asked him earlier what he did for a living, he had simply told the truth.
However, judging by Liu Wan's tone, she seemed to genuinely believe that he was a boy toy who had latched onto Su Qianmo, a rich woman.
Damn it, do you think I'm Hello Kitty just because I'm not showing my claws?
Gu Chenan let out a cold laugh and said, "You really amuse me."
Liu Wan not only failed to realize where Gu Chenan's confidence came from but became even more convinced that he was so smug because of Su Qianmo.
She snorted and said, "Isn't that the case? I bet the clothes you're wearing today were bought by Miss Su, right?"
Then, feigning shock, she added, "Or perhaps everything you're wearing, inside and out, was bought by Miss Su?!"
Bang!
Gu Chenan slammed his glass down on the table and narrowed his eyes. "Well, that's going to disappoint you. Let me tell you, while Su Qianmo is the CEO of Caiying, I am the owner."
"Is there a problem with me buying Caiying and letting my fiancée be the CEO?" Gu Chenan raised an eyebrow.
Upon hearing this, Liu Wan's eyebrows shot up, her eyes widened, and her expression froze for a few seconds.
Then...
"Hahaha, are you kidding me, Gu Chenan? How can you say such nonsense without blushing?"
Liu Wan burst into laughter, holding her stomach. "Others might not know about your family background, but I do. Your parents have been running a small shop all their lives. How could you possibly afford to buy Caiying?"
Gu Chenan had thought revealing his identity would shut Liu Wan up, but he hadn't expected her to completely disbelieve him.
This wasn't Liu Wan pretending not to believe; she genuinely didn't.
Liu Wan knew about Gu Chenan's family background. Plus, Gu Chenan had spent two years playing video games after graduation. Now he was claiming to have bought Caiying. Unless Liu Wan was brain-dead, there was no way she could believe it.
Gu Chenan was at a loss for words. For a moment, he didn't know how to prove it.
However, seeing Gu Chenan struggling to speak, Liu Wan thought she had rendered him speechless. Emboldened by the alcohol, she became even more unrestrained.
She swirled the wine glass in her hand and said with a smirk, "Who would have thought, Gu Chenan? You're more capable than your parents. They just stuck to that little shop, but you, a college graduate, actually managed to climb the social ladder by latching onto a rich woman."
With that, Liu Wan gave Gu Chenan a disdainful look and turned to leave.
But this time, Gu Chenan had finally had enough.
No matter how much Liu Wan had despised him during their blind date or how much she looked down on him now, Gu Chenan could have dismissed her as an idiot and not bothered to argue.
But there was one thing she absolutely couldn't say – anything about his parents. That was the bottom line.
"Stop right there!" Gu Chenan stood up, fuming with anger.
"Something else?" Liu Wan turned back, looking indifferent.
Gu Chenan didn't waste words. He swung his arm and slapped her hard across the face.
"Slap!"
The crisp sound of the slap instantly echoed throughout the banquet hall, drawing everyone's attention.
The group of people who were chatting with Su Qianmo immediately turned their heads.
Under everyone's gaze, Gu Chenan swung his arm again. "Slap!"
"Didn't your parents teach you to respect your elders? Huh?!"
After delivering two slaps, Gu Chenan grabbed his half-finished cocktail from the table and threw it in Liu Wan's face.
Liu Wan was completely stunned by Gu Chenan's two slaps. It wasn't until the cold liquid dripped onto her evening gown that she felt the burning pain on both her cheeks.
"You... you dare to hit me!"
Liu Wan covered her cheeks and let out a piercing scream.
"Go on, keep talking. I'll slap you for every word you say." Gu Chenan, completely disregarding the onlookers, pointed a finger at Liu Wan, as if ready to give her another slap the moment she opened her mouth.
"Mr. Gu, if there's an issue, we can talk it out."
"Calm down, both of you, please calm down."
At this point, the banquet hall's security and several people who had been chatting with Su Qianmo earlier rushed forward to separate the two.
"Let go of me! Gu Chenan, you dare to hit me! You actually dare to hit me! I'll have my father deal with you!" Liu Wan struggled in the arms of several security guards like a crazed cat.
Gu Chenan remained very calm, showing no extreme reaction. He just coldly and disdainfully said, "Those two slaps are a warning. If you insult me again, I'll make sure you pay the price."
"Make me pay the price? A loser who holed up in a rented apartment playing video games for two years and then latched onto a rich woman is pretending to have a powerful background?!"
Gu Chenan's two slaps had completely unhinged Liu Wan, this "little princess" who had never been hit before. She kept lashing out, and it took three security guards using all their strength to keep her firmly in place.
Though her body was restrained, her mouth kept hurling insults.
Words like "loser," "boy toy," "gold digger," "broke," "crappy little shop," and so on kept pouring out of her mouth, leaving everyone in the banquet hall dumbfounded.
Earlier, people had suspected that Gu Chenan might be Su Qianmo's boyfriend, but that was just speculation at most. Now, Liu Wan's words had exposed every aspect of Gu Chenan's background.
Not only did people now know that Gu Chenan was indeed Su Qianmo's boyfriend, but they also learned that his family only owned a small shop.
Inevitably, everyone felt awkward, not for Gu Chenan, but for Su Qianmo.
The mighty CEO of Caiying, in her first public appearance, had her fiancé's background exposed like this. How could Su Qianmo ever show her face in public again?
Listening to the stream of profanities from Liu Wan's mouth, Gu Chenan felt his blood rush to his head.
For a moment, he even thought about unleashing his Primordial One Qi Exercise, breaking free from the security guards, and ending Liu Wan's life right there.
"Slap!"
Just as Gu Chenan was entertaining this thought, another crisp slap echoed through the banquet hall.
Everyone turned to look and saw a shocking scene.
Su Qianmo was standing in front of Liu Wan, her expression icy cold. She stared at Liu Wan with indifferent eyes and said coldly, "Say one more word, and I'll make sure you can never speak again tomorrow!"
Clearly, that slap had come from Su Qianmo herself!
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
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.
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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."
