Liu Dong supported Liu Wan, who was nearly unconscious from being slapped, while Wang Hu and a group of bruised men followed behind as they walked out of Caiying's entrance.
As he crossed the threshold, Liu Dong turned back to glare at the office, his eyes filled with rage and hatred.
Before this, everything Liu Dong had done was to save face - he hadn't truly intended to eliminate Gu Chenan. But after witnessing Liu Wan being repeatedly slapped, Liu Dong had only one thought in mind.
—Kill Gu Chenan!
Only by making Gu Chenan completely disappear from this world could Liu Dong vent his anger.
Just as Liu Dong was thinking this, many people downstairs at Caiying noticed the group of injured men.
Initially, people were puzzled about why such a bruised group was emerging from Caiying, but when they looked closer, everyone was shocked.
"Damn, isn't that Liu Dong?"
"It is Liu Dong, and those behind him are Wang Hu and his followers - why are they all injured?"
"But who's that woman Liu Dong is supporting? Her face is so swollen!"
"Are you stupid? She's obviously been beaten!"
"So who exactly is this woman?"
Liu Dong's appearance drew quite a crowd, though people kept their distance while observing.
Although they looked disheveled, the group of tattooed men still maintained an intimidating presence when standing together.
People continued to observe and discuss Liu Dong's group, but they hadn't yet realized Liu Wan's identity.
Liu Wan's face was so dramatically swollen that only those who knew her well could recognize her.
However, some people had seen the video of Ma Bing taking away the unconscious Liu Dong and Liu Wan. To be certain, someone quickly compared with their phone and exclaimed in shock.
"Holy shit, that woman is Liu Wan, Liu Dong's daughter!"
Everyone was stunned upon hearing this.
......
Nighttime.
Gu Chenan, led by Ma Bing, arrived at a large manor on the outskirts of the magical city.
Standing outside the manor, Gu Chenan suddenly experienced a strange sense of déjà vu.
The manor before him was identical to the Gu Family Manor from the novel world - not just in appearance and scale, but even down to the ivy growing on the black iron gates.
For a moment, Gu Chenan thought he had returned to the novel world.
But he knew this manor was a product of the system completing his background loading.
Since he was the young master of the city's hidden Gu family, naturally he would have such a manor.
It sounds complicated, but all one needs to know is that the moment his background finished loading, the current Gu Chenan became essentially identical to the young master from the novel.
If there was one difference, it would be that in the novel, Gu Chenan's parents were the head of the Gu family and his wife, while the current Gu Chenan, though not yet officially the young master, had parents unrelated to this Gu family.
In effect, the current Gu Chenan was actually the one in control of the Gu family.
Gu Chenan paused outside the manor before stepping into the main hall.
"Young Master Gu!"
Familiar scents wafted over as servants' greetings reached his ears.
Gu Chenan took a deep breath and nodded slowly to everyone.
While Gu Chenan was experiencing memories of the novel world in the manor, the entire city was in an uproar over today's events.
Many people had heard about the previous grudges between Gu Chenan and the Liu father and daughter, so they had been anticipating Liu Dong's counterattack.
Today, everyone saw Liu Dong's retaliatory move - sending Wang Hu and his men to Caiying.
However, what people hadn't expected was that after Wang Hu and his men went to Caiying, there was no further news.
Then Ma Bing took people to Golden Luxury, brought the unconscious Liu Dong and Liu Wan to Caiying, and Golden Luxury announced it would close for three days!
According to rumors, this was because the men who took Liu Dong and Liu Wan not only knocked out all of Golden Luxury's security but also damaged the establishment in the process - the three-day closure was for renovations.
Combined with people witnessing the terrible state of Wang Hu's group and Liu Wan outside Caiying, these events led to a logical conclusion.
That is, Liu Dong's attempt to show off had backfired spectacularly!
He had planned to have Wang Hu kidnap Gu Chenan and take him to Golden Luxury, but instead, Wang Hu's group got beaten up, and then Gu Chenan had Liu Dong and Liu Wan brought to Caiying.
While what happened inside Caiying remained unknown, Liu Wan's swollen face told most of the story!
Clearly, Liu Dong had suffered a major setback!
Gu Chenan had even beaten Liu Wan to such a state right in front of Liu Dong!
The entire city was shocked.
Originally, they thought Gu Chenan would suffer for offending Liu Dong, but now faced with reality, everyone had to admit that in this conflict between Gu Chenan and Liu Dong, Gu Chenan had gained the upper hand.
But this raised several questions.
How had Gu Chenan managed all this?
Who were those black-clad bodyguards working for him?
And how could Liu Dong, known for his influence in the city's underworld, possibly let this go after his daughter was beaten like that in front of him?
After all, Liu Dong not only had underground connections, but over the years, he had also cultivated relationships with many powerful figures in the city. After this incident, Liu Dong would surely leverage his connections to wage a fight to the death with Gu Chenan.
When that time came, how would Gu Chenan respond?
......
In a villa in the wealthy district.
Liu Dong sat on the sofa smoking a cigar, his already dark expression now filled with viciousness.
Nearby, Wang Hu, Li Lin, and their followers stood quietly beside Liu Dong.
The atmosphere was extremely tense.
After a moment, unable to bear the atmosphere, Wang Hu spoke: "Boss Liu, Gu Chenan dared to lay hands on your daughter right in front of you. We can't let him get away with this."
"I say Li Lin and I should take all our brothers to Caiying and beat Gu Chenan to death right there!"
"Sigh."
Liu Dong sighed and glanced at Wang Hu.
"It's not that simple."
"Those black-clad bodyguards under Gu Chenan are all extremely skilled fighters. Even if I sent all of you, you wouldn't be a match for Gu Chenan's forces!"
"Boss Liu, everyone in the city knows about what happened today. If we don't do something, we won't be able to show our faces in this city anymore," Li Lin chimed in.
"You think I don't know that?"
Liu Dong shouted angrily: "Gu Chenan dared to beat Wan like that in front of me. If I don't do something, people will think I've backed down."
Then, changing his tone, he continued: "But Gu Chenan isn't as simple as we thought. We can't handle him with just our power."
"Then what should we do?" Wang Hu asked.
Liu Dong thought for a moment and looked at the phone on the table.
He smiled coldly and said: "Heh, the underworld isn't about brute force, it's about connections and relationships. Gu Chenan's men might be powerful, and my forces alone might not be enough to deal with him, but with my friends involved, that's a different story."
Speaking, Liu Dong picked up his phone and said: "Or perhaps I can skip straight to contacting those in high places."
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)
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
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!
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
