After leaving the apartment, Tang Yu returned to his car, lit a cigarette, and took a deep drag.
He wasn’t worried about Chi Yin telling Ye Chen about what happened at the music store today.
Even if she did, so what? It’s not like he could keep pretending anymore.
His plan was to gather all the information about Chi Yin’s parents as soon as possible and get her out of this mess.
As for Ling Han, Tang Yu hadn’t quite figured out how to handle her yet.
He had some memories of the mess her family was in, but finding concrete evidence after all these years would be a hassle.
“I’ll take it slow, one step at a time,” Tang Yu muttered to himself, exhaling a smoke ring.
“Hey, system, where’s my reward for the music store scene?”
*Ding. Reward: Soul-Snatching Eyes has been issued. Please check, dear host.*
The system’s voice chimed in lazily.
“Oh?”
Tang Yu had expected some useless reward, but this got him excited.
He quickly asked the system about its function.
“Can be activated when the target is mentally unstable, allowing for brainwashing and control…”
After reading the description, Tang Yu couldn’t help but gasp.
This damn system, sometimes it’s shady, sometimes it’s generous—it’s like it’s playing with him.
For now, though, the tense father-son relationship between him and the system seemed to have eased a bit.
Brainwashing?
Hehehe!
This was basically a traitor-making machine! Finally, he could plant some moles in the enemy’s camp.
Such a good thing had to be shared!
So he pulled out his phone and called Bai Wanyi.
When she picked up, her voice came through.
“What’s up?”
“Remember those four guys I sent over last time? How are they doing?”
“Still in detention. You said they had criminal records, but I couldn’t find anything.”
Bai Wanyi sounded a bit frustrated.
A few days ago, Tang Yu had suddenly sent four men over. She had looked into them thoroughly but found nothing.
Still, her gut told her these guys were probably from Dragon Fang.
What annoyed her was how well they had hidden their identities, leaving her with no leads.
“Just a hunch. Can I go see them?”
Tang Yu chuckled.
“Sure, I’ll treat you to late-night snacks while you’re at it.”
Bai Wanyi agreed readily. She still owed him a favor.
After setting things up, Tang Yu drove toward the detention center.
When he arrived, Bai Wanyi was already waiting at the entrance.
She had changed into a black, form-fitting riding suit that accentuated her figure perfectly, giving off a vibe like some kind of inspector.
A bold Harley-Davidson motorcycle stood beside her, her trusty steed.
Bai Wanyi’s life was different from other girls.
While some dreamed of being princesses,
and others ended up as “princesses” in KTVs,
she aspired to be a fearless knight, fighting evil and charging forward without hesitation!
“Hey, gorgeous.”
Tang Yu whistled and greeted her with a grin.
“Want me to detain you?”
Bai Wanyi shot him a glare, clearly annoyed.
“What? Complimenting you is a crime now? Is there no justice left?”
Tang Yu laughed and followed her into the detention center.
All the paperwork had already been taken care of, and Bai Wanyi trailed behind Tang Yu, hoping to eavesdrop.
Ever since she had accidentally overheard his thoughts last time, she had been curious.
Just how many secrets did this guy know?
“Why are you following me?”
Tang Yu turned around and asked when he noticed her trailing behind.
*Go away, don’t follow me. I need to brainwash those four guys.*
*If I don’t set them up, how am I supposed to screw Ye Chen over later?*
“Alright.”
Bai Wanyi nodded with a strange expression.
Fine, she wouldn’t follow. She’d just watch from the surveillance room!
She hurried off to the monitoring room, eager to see how Tang Yu planned to brainwash them.
When Tang Yu entered the visitation room alone, the four members of the Death Squad were already waiting.
Since being detained, they hadn’t been too upset. In fact, they felt lucky.
Offending such a powerful figure and still being alive? That was a win in their books.
But when they saw Tang Yu walk in, their expressions turned grave, and fear flickered in their eyes.
This big shot had already let them go once. Why was he back?
They swallowed hard, their instincts screaming at them to run.
This was a master at the Earth Realm level—even the Dragon King and Young Master Lu were no match for him!
Tang Yu didn’t say a word, just stared at them coldly.
Under his gaze, the four felt an overwhelming pressure, as if they were facing a ravenous beast instead of a man.
What did this boss want with them?
The tension in the room was palpable, and their fear grew with every passing second.
They could feel the killing intent!
It was so thick they could barely breathe.
Just as they were on the verge of breaking, a flash of purple light appeared in Tang Yu’s eyes.
When the four saw the light, they suddenly felt dizzy, their consciousness beginning to blur.
“Are you satisfied with your jobs?”
Tang Yu’s low voice broke the silence.
The four shook their heads, their expressions blank.
“Are you satisfied with your income?”
They shook their heads again.
“Do you want a stable and prosperous life?”
They began to nod.
“Do you want to slack off during the day, hit up clubs at night, and earn a million a month with four dishes and a soup?”
They nodded vigorously.
“Then what are you waiting for? Join Tang Corporation, liberate all the oppressed villains in the world, eliminate inequality, and from today onward, we are comrades!”
With Tang Yu’s final declaration, the four’s eyes gradually cleared.
The old society… the Dragon Soul Organization turned people into monsters.
Tang Corporation turns monsters into traitors!
“Do you know what you need to do now?”
Seeing the change in the four, Tang Yu knew the Soul-Snatching Eyes had worked.
“Slack off.”
“Hit the clubs.”
“Hit the clubs.”
“Hit the clubs and then have four dishes and a soup.”
“…”
Tang Yu wondered if his brainwashing had been a bit too successful.
“Wrong! You need to reform yourselves, become good people first, and then hit the clubs, got it?”
He glared at them and scolded.
Damn it, why were these guys called the Death Squad?
They should just be called the Club Squad!
“Got it! We’ll listen to Young Master Tang!”
The four shouted in unison.
“Good, you’re teachable.” Tang Yu was satisfied with their attitude.
He pulled up a chair and sat down. “Now, tell me everything you know.”
The four immediately began spilling all the information they had.
Meanwhile, in the surveillance room, Bai Wanyi was facepalming.
What the hell was this?
After listening for a while, all she heard was a bunch of guys yelling about hitting clubs.
She rolled her eyes and left the monitoring room, too bored to keep listening.
After about five minutes, Tang Yu had a rough idea of their plans.
He was surprised to learn that Ye Chen was heading to Yanjing soon.
And the one taking over Su Hang was none other than Lu Junzhuo.
According to the original plot, this guy was supposed to appear in the middle of the story.
He was Ye Chen’s junior brother, with terrifying talent and strength, and he had always coveted Ye Chen’s position as the Dragon King.
Later, he schemed against Ye Chen multiple times, causing him significant setbacks, but in the end, Ye Chen outsmarted him and killed him.
But because the plot had gone off the rails, this guy was showing up now?
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.
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
