Yellow-Haired Man and Long Hair Man wore smug and mocking expressions, completely disregarding the dark look on Gu Chenan's face behind them.
Since Gu Chenan agreed to their exorbitant compensation, it indicated that he was the type to avoid conflicts and seek peace. If that was the case, wouldn't it be a good opportunity to humiliate them both thoroughly?
But they were wrong. Gu Chenan was never one to avoid conflicts. His previous actions were merely to quickly take Hoshino Kannon out of the police station, and twenty thousand yuan was nothing more than pocket change for him now.
However, this did not mean he was afraid of trouble.
In the midst of Yellow-Haired Man and Long Hair Man's mockery, Gu Chenan silently led Hoshino Kannon's hand all the way to the roadside.
Meanwhile, the two men were whispering something, and although Gu Chenan couldn't hear them, he could tell from their occasional bursts of strange laughter that they were definitely not saying anything nice.
Suddenly, Hoshino Kannon tightened her grip, preparing to take action.
She could endure being humiliated herself, but she couldn't stand seeing Gu Chenan being humiliated along with her. Even though their words were aimed at her, involving Gu Chenan was unacceptable!
At that moment, Gu Chenan pulled her hand back: "Leave this to me. I can't let you take the risk."
By "risk," Gu Chenan meant being arrested again. Hoshino Kannon was stunned, then blinked and said, "Okay."
"Let's get in the car."
Gu Chenan ignored the provocations from Yellow-Haired Man and Long Hair Man, leading Hoshino Kannon's hand to the car.
"Wow, he even has a driver?"
"I should have asked for more if I knew the girlfriend's boyfriend was rich."
"Yeah, we definitely asked for too little."
"Tsk tsk, with a girlfriend like that and still willing to be a sucker and pay twenty thousand, where did this rich idiot come from?"
"Who knows? Anyway, we got our twenty thousand, let's go eat something good tonight?"
"Sounds good!"
At this moment, Yellow-Haired Man and Long Hair Man were still pointing and talking about Gu Chenan on the sidewalk.
"Gu Shao, are you okay?"
Seeing something was off, Ma Bing turned and asked.
Gu Chenan, with a grim expression, pointed at the two men outside the car: "Have someone follow them."
"Understood."
Ma Bing nodded and picked up his phone to give instructions.
......
At eleven o'clock at night.
In a large food stall, Yellow-Haired Man and Long Hair Man, with bandages on their heads, sat at a table eating skewers and drinking alcohol, looking both relaxed and smug.
"I never thought that guy would agree to give us ten thousand each. This is really a windfall!" Long Hair Man said while munching on a skewer.
"I thought provoking him with words would make him lose his temper and attack, but he turned out to be a coward, not daring to say a word," Yellow-Haired Man said proudly while smoking a pack of expensive cigarettes.
"Hey, if his boyfriend had any backbone, he wouldn't have agreed to our demands."
"Let's not talk about that. If his boyfriend had any sense, why would he let his girlfriend go to such places?"
The two men chatted and naturally steered the conversation back to Gu Chenan, mocking him again.
The gist of their words was that Hoshino Kannon had long been unfaithful to Gu Chenan, and the rich but foolish Gu Chenan not only didn't care but was even willing to pay twenty thousand for her.
But the two men didn't know that in a black SUV parked on the roadside, Gu Chenan and Hoshino Kannon were monitoring their every move.
Ma Bing in the driver's seat glanced at the situation outside and then turned to say, "Gu Shao, you could have left this to me. You didn't have to come in person."
Gu Chenan chuckled lightly: "Only by doing it myself can I feel satisfied."
"Exactly," Hoshino Kannon agreed, clenching her teeth.
Soon, Yellow-Haired Man and Long Hair Man finished their meal, paid the bill, and walked into a dark alley.
"Let's go, get out of the car," Gu Chenan waved his hand, and the three of them all got out of the car, following Yellow-Haired Man and Long Hair Man into the alley.
"Why don't we have more of these good things? If we encountered one every month, why would we need to work?"
"You think there are rich idiots like today's guy everywhere? For others, we'd only get a few thousand at most."
"True." As he spoke, Yellow-Haired Man's mind flashed with the image of Hoshino Kannon's beautiful face and couldn't help but exclaim, "To be honest, that woman, though crazy, is undeniably gorgeous."
"Indeed, she looks like she stepped out of a manga."
The two men walked and chatted along the dark alley, completely unaware of Gu Chenan and the others behind them.
But just as they finished praising Hoshino Kannon's appearance, they heard a spine-chilling female voice beside them.
"Thank you for the compliment."
The two men were startled and instinctively turned to look, but before they could, Hoshino Kannon in a leather skirt and combat gear appeared in front of them.
Seeing Hoshino Kannon dressed like this, the two men couldn't fathom what she was up to, only thinking they had coincidentally run into her again.
"Oh, beauty, what a coincidence!"
"Miss, where are you going dressed in that little leather skirt? Does your boyfriend know?" they mocked.
"What do you think?"
Hoshino Kannon said as she took out two sharp cones from her leg holster. Under the moonlight, the cold glint of the cones reflected deadly light.
In the moonlight, in the dark alley, Hoshino Kannon's eyes turned a blood-red color again, and the sharp cones in her hands reflected a chilling light that made Yellow-Haired Man and Long Hair Man tremble with fear.
They had witnessed Hoshino Kannon's combat prowess; she could knock them both unconscious in seconds. Therefore, they knew they stood no chance against the Hoshino Kannon in front of them.
"Be-beauty, what do you want to do?"
"Be-beauty, we've already made peace, don't do anything rash, or this time we definitely won't forgive you."
Yellow-Haired Man and Long Hair Man's eyes widened in fear, and they backed away while speaking.
"Forgive?"
Hoshino Kannon smiled, her red tongue licking the cone, presenting an alluring yet terrifying expression: "This time, you don't need to forgive, and you won't have the chance to."
"Crazy, crazy!"
Yellow-Haired Man and Long Hair Man exclaimed in panic, quickly turning to run, but they collided head-on with the tall and sturdy Ma Bing.
The two men were shocked, their faces contorted in fear.
Seeing that both the front and back paths were blocked, their minds raced, and they immediately turned to plead:
"Be-beauty, think about what your boyfriend said today, don't be impulsive!"
"Yes, beauty, don't let your boyfriend down!"
"Oh, are you talking about me?"
But at that moment, a voice they were all too familiar with appeared. The two men were startled and quickly turned around to see Gu Chenan walking out from behind Ma Bing.
Gu Chenan smiled and waved at them: "Hello again, nice to see you."
ts me of treason?" "Correct. The host must return to the capital and gradually build up influence." "Wait—I have half a million soldiers, and you want me to go back to the capital to 'build influence'?" "Host, you are currently the Northern Garrison General, loyal to the Great Xia Dynasty." "Of course I am loyal to Great Xia! Absolutely loyal!" "But you keep referring to yourself as 'We'..." "Never mind the details! Summon all the regional commanders and military officers! We suspect treacherous officials are manipulating the court! They shall march with Us to the capital and purge the corrupt!" "......"
for mindless slaughter, this isn't for you.] My name is Ye Shu, and I'm a transmigrator. It seems I'm supposed to be the protagonist, but that feels pretty unlikely. This world has been invaded by a system. The antagonists on the other side have suddenly become pure, flawless saints. The female leads have been force-fed the so-called "original plot," making them think they've been reborn. Now, everyone thinks I'm scum. Including the old lady in my ring. And here I am, in the Monster Beast Mountain Range, braising pork. To put my situation in perspective— It's as if, the moment Xiao Yan stepped into the Monster Beast Mountain Range, the Soul Emperor already knew he would become the Flame Emperor, and Yao Lao had been turned to the enemy's side. I have nothing right now. Oh wait, that's not true. I do have a white-haired loli child-bride who's the Heavenly Dao, and her only skill is acting cute. So, tell me guys... what are my chances of making it to the end?
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.
