Lin Xue was no match for Ye Tiancheng. He did not kill her but let her go. This left Lin Xue very confused. She couldn't understand why this was the case.
This was because Ye Tiancheng had a bad habit of letting women go and killing men.
A major reason for this was that there were simply too few men in this world.
"Can't kill women. One less woman means one less resource." Ye Tiancheng muttered to himself. His words made her feel speechless. She wondered what Ye Tiancheng meant. Couldn't he just say it clearly?
Of course not. Ye Tiancheng couldn't explain it too clearly, as it would lead to troublesome consequences, and Ye Tiancheng hated it when things became troublesome. In his opinion, things should not become complicated or beyond his control.
Everything would be perfect if it continued this way.
Unfortunately, Lin Xue hated Ye Tiancheng and was furious whenever she saw him. Why did this situation arise? Ye Tiancheng had no idea where he had offended this celestial being. However, it was understandable that he didn't understand. If he understood too clearly, it would indeed be very troublesome.
Lin Xue found it extremely strange that Ye Tiancheng wasn't arguing with her. Why did this guy seem to have a problem with her?
"I'm leaving, kid... I'll come back to get revenge on you later!" Lin Xue said and then vanished before Ye Tiancheng. Seeing her disappear, the divine stone in Ye Tiancheng's body spoke.
"This is really troublesome." Ye Tiancheng felt a surge of resentment seeing her go. Right now, nothing could affect his resolve and thoughts, because what he wanted to do was to deal with potential future changes.
These changes were more unpredictable than anything else for Ye Tiancheng.
This was because the future was inherently unpredictable and capricious. The world was impermanent, and many things would form immense pressure in his eyes.
Because Ye Tiancheng had strong opinions about these things, he had an indecisive attitude towards the future.
This attitude was more terrifying than anything else for Ye Tiancheng.
Roughly speaking, this was why he thought he had to persevere in the future.
"Shut up, you rotten stone!" Ye Tiancheng became annoyed with her for being so noisy, as many things in the future were beyond his prediction.
"You cannot be taught!" Nuwa Stone became very angry seeing Ye Tiancheng not listening to its advice. Ye Tiancheng didn't listen to the divine stone, and it couldn't do anything about it.
After all, Ye Tiancheng did whatever he wanted. What he could grasp was a strong essence for the future.
By the time Ye Tiancheng returned to the village, it was already morning.
He lazily watched the people busy working, and for a moment, he felt like a rich landlord.
"Yo! You're back?" At this moment, a clear shout reached Ye Tiancheng's ears.
Ye Tiancheng looked closely and realized it was Wang Xiaomiao.
"Little beauty, did you miss me?" Ye Tiancheng retorted, holding a grudge. He remembered how this girl looked down on him when they were buying phones.
"Miss you my foot!" Wang Xiaomiao, seeing Ye Tiancheng interested in certain parts of her, said she was annoyed but was actually very happy and sweet.
The reason for this was – which girl wouldn't be happy if a man showed interest in her?
Therefore, Wang Xiaomiao had to maintain a certain air of displeasure towards him.
"Xiaomiao... you didn't come to me because you saw I was successful and developed an opinion of me, did you?" Ye Tiancheng said bluntly.
"Yes and no. I'm here to learn." Wang Xiaomiao brushed aside Ye Tiancheng's nonsense and got straight to the point. She had come to Xiaohe Village this time to learn from Ye Tiancheng how to become a rich person.
"It's simple to learn: just follow me, and you'll get to eat meat," Ye Tiancheng said with ill intent.
"Stay here?" Wang Xiaomiao's heart pounded, her deer-like heart racing.
Indeed, a rich man held great attraction for a poor woman, and she had no resistance to it.
Given this, her expression changed immediately.
She had nothing else to say about this. The reason was simple – she wanted to stay, but she was overthinking it; Ye Tiancheng didn't mean that.
"I don't mean for you to stay. I mean that you have to pay a price to learn, and since you don't have anything to trade, how about giving yourself to me?"
"I'm afraid you can't handle it. I'm very powerful..." Wang Xiaomiao meant that there were more than enough cows to plow, but no fields to plow.
"Never mind, I'm not chatting with you anymore." Ye Tiancheng knew that chatting with this woman was a waste of his time, so he decided not to continue chatting with her.
Ye Tiancheng began to get busy. He had to achieve his ultimate goal before undertaking such a dangerous task. What was his ultimate goal?
It was actually very simple and didn't require much explanation to achieve.
"Now it's entering a critical certification phase. I don't know what impact this phase will have on me, but it definitely won't make me understand why I'm having these thoughts right now.
Because he's starting to act now, and to become a powerful person, a series of changes are necessary.
"Why did you plant oil-tung trees here?" Wang Xiaomiao asked strangely, seeing the oil-tung trees that were over a meter tall.
"To expel phlegm and toxins, disinfect, and aid urination and defecation. It mainly treats sore throat due to wind-phlegm, scrofula caused by phlegm-fire, indigestion and abdominal distension, constipation, erysipelas, scabies, burns, acute soft tissue inflammation, and common warts." Ye Tiancheng, with the divine stone in his body, stored an unknown amount of past knowledge.
"Wow, I didn't expect you to know herbal medicine," Wang Xiaomiao said, surprised, widening her eyes as she looked at Ye Tiancheng.
Ye Tiancheng said proudly, "Of course. Are you having irregular periods and vaginal discharge recently?"
"Ah..." Wang Xiaomiao's face turned as red as a carrot. After all, she had never appeared so unappealing in front of any other man.
Because of this process, Wang Xiaomiao felt that Ye Tiancheng was like an idiot, and she was very annoyed. How could this man do this? This was clearly an insult to her, so she was very angry. If Ye Tiancheng hadn't been showing off his knowledge, this woman might have had a good impression of him. But now, all her good feelings were gone, replaced by a sense of disregard and contempt.
"Perhaps you think I'm unappealing, but I regret to tell you that I am very powerful, completely beyond your imagination." Ye Tiancheng said this because he felt he deserved respect. After all, he was a very capable man, and in front of Wang Xiaomiao, he should appear very capable and be admired by her. She couldn't help but admire him.
When a man's self-confidence is at its peak, everything he displays will naturally exceed everyone's perception and even subvert it.
"I really don't know why this guy is so confident." Wang Xiaomiao felt completely unwell seeing Ye Tiancheng's expression.
"Then let's not talk about it. I'll do whatever I want, and no one can stop my thoughts." The reason for having such thoughts and decisions was entirely because what originally belonged to him had begun to change. Hearing that the plants could cure diseases, Wang Xiaomiao became very interested in him.
If Ye Tiancheng had acted like an idiot, he would surely have gained her favor.
However, there was no way around it. Ye Tiancheng always liked to play little games, and these games often led to many misunderstandings. It was these misunderstandings that caused her strange thoughts.
Zhao Jun, from Wang Xiaomiao's village, arrived. He saw Wang Xiaomiao being looked down upon by Ye Tiancheng, who was leering at her lewdly. This made him furious. As someone who liked her very much, he couldn't tolerate Ye Tiancheng's lewdness.
But Ye Tiancheng's face immediately turned fierce with killing intent.
Seeing the killing intent on Ye Tiancheng's face, Zhao Jun's legs trembled with fear.
A true strong person, just by their aura, could instill fear in others. Zhao Jun lost all desire to call for backup. From the previous signs, even more people from his family would be no match for Ye Tiancheng.
Because of the fear that arose in his heart, he dared not have any further improper thoughts.
"What's wrong? Weren't you very arrogant just now? Why are you so cowardly now?" Ye Tiancheng looked at Zhao Jun with a dismissive smile. Zhao Jun was so ashamed that he wanted to disappear. Although he was unconvinced in his heart, he had to pretend to be submissive.
"I was wrong, I won't call anyone." Zhao Jun knelt on the ground, his head nodding like a pecking chicken. At this moment, he understood that only this way could he beg for Ye Tiancheng's forgiveness. If he resisted directly, he wouldn't have enough heads.
"I am now solemnly telling you, the Zhao family is not the law! Nor can you cover the sky with one hand... No matter how powerful someone is, in my eyes, they are just a joke." Ye Tiancheng's words cut into Zhao Jun's heart like a knife. He had to endure it no matter what today.
As the saying goes, the character for "endure" has a knife above it. To forcefully endure this pain, enduring is more difficult than death. After all, living and enduring pain is much more painful than dying instantly.
Others' pain is one's own happiness. Seeing Zhao Jun's pathetic state, Ye Tiancheng's lips curled, and then he turned and left.
Sun Dasheng, a down-and-out man from Wang Xiaomiao's village, saw the most powerful man in his life, who was none other than Ye Tiancheng.
He immediately wanted to become his subordinate.
Sun Dasheng followed closely behind Ye Tiancheng. As he walked out of the gate, he didn't forget to make a face at Zhao Jun, which almost made Zhao Jun spit blood. It was one thing for Ye Tiancheng, but for someone like Sun Dasheng to ride on him like this, he couldn't stand it.
He wanted to get angry... but Ye Tiancheng was in front of him, and Sun Dasheng was borrowing his prestige. He could do nothing.
He could only swallow his anger bitterly.
When the two of them left, he finally vented his anger.
He smashed all the tables and chairs around him into pieces and vowed revenge, vowing to make Ye Tiancheng suffer ten times more humiliation than he had just endured.
"Are you not afraid that guy will settle the score with you after letting him go like this?" Sun Dasheng asked weakly, following behind Ye Tiancheng.
"Let him. I like challenges. If he wants to find someone, he should find someone who matches me. Otherwise, it's no fun fighting." Ye Tiancheng didn't care at all about Zhao Jun seeking revenge.
Sun Dasheng smacked his lips and rolled his eyes. He felt he had asked a redundant question. A person like him didn't care about anything and had a demeanor that looked down on everyone. In ancient times, he would have been a hero, living a bloody and legendary life.
Ye Tiancheng, disliking Zhao Jun, found a place for a one-on-one fight.
Zhao Jun was defeated by Ye Tiancheng in less than one round.
Seeing Ye Tiancheng's decisive and ruthless actions, the man was so scared that he almost wet himself. He deeply regretted his rudeness towards Ye Tiancheng earlier. But Ye Tiancheng didn't care about so many things and treated Sun Dasheng with indifference, as if nothing had happened.
Ye Tiancheng found the best cemetery in the area and buried Zhao Jun there.
The tombstone was carved by his own hands, with strong characters that looked like sword marks – sharp and imposing. Although not beautiful and lacking any calligraphic quality, it was full of ruggedness and dominance.
Ye Tiancheng saluted next to the tombstone and lingered for a long time.
Recalling the happy moments of his recent fight with Zhao Jun, he felt an immense sense of accomplishment, which was beyond words...
The night wind rustled, blowing up the corners of his clothes and making a rustling sound.
After about half an hour, he slowly lowered his arm and said to Zhao Jun in the tomb, "Fierce Zhao Jun, you were nothing but trash in front of me. You couldn't defeat me, so you became my fallen soul. You should understand in the afterlife who I, Ye Tiancheng, am. I never show mercy to my enemies."
"Why aren't you worried about being found out by the Embroidered Uniform Guard?"
"Only I know how to get in here. Others can't. The fact that you can get in is because I covered for you," Ye Tiancheng said, rolling his eyes at Sun Dasheng.
"Tch!" Although Sun Dasheng said nothing, he didn't believe Yan Zhi at all in his heart. In his opinion, Yan Zhi was just showing off and playing cool. There was no place in this world that the Embroidered Uniform Guard didn't know about, nor any place they couldn't detect... So Yan Zhi was joking.
Seeing all this, Sun Dasheng felt that Ye Tiancheng was truly decisive and never showed mercy to those who provoked him.
He deeply admired him from the bottom of his heart. There were very few people like him in today's sophisticated world.
Just then, Ye Tiancheng's phone suddenly rang. It was a message from Little Fatty:
The Hou family has started to act again. They have colluded with the terrorist organization "Mountain Snake" and are preparing to carry out another act of sabotage. Please take action immediately.
Little Fatty only suspected it; there was no concrete evidence. He asked them to investigate.
Sun Dasheng saw the message on Ye Tiancheng's phone and knew it was bad news.
This was because his phone was encrypted and could only receive messages from headquarters; it could not receive external messages.
So, at this point, Yan Zhi could do whatever he wanted, and no one could do anything to him.
Sun Dasheng walked over and said to Sun Dasheng, "Let's go. We have more work to do."
"Just leave like this? Are there no specific arrangements?" Sun Dasheng immediately asked.
Because he felt it was too vague and he was in a fog, not knowing exactly what to do, he was afraid of accidentally violating discipline.
"Specifically, we need to have a good chat with Little Fatty. He has good food there!" Ye Tiancheng said concisely.
"Understood." With just a short sentence, Sun Dasheng knew what to do. He had done many such missions with Ye Tiancheng and was very familiar with them. There was no need for detailed explanations.
They were no longer acting as businessmen but were going to investigate the organization called "Mountain Snake."
This was to force Ye Tiancheng to confront the Hou family. Then, it would force the Hou family to use the terrorist group "Mountain Snake" to suppress the situation, thus catching the Hou family's handle. All of this was arranged by Little Fatty. They just had to follow the steps to complete the mission. Sun Dasheng could guess the steps without Ye Tiancheng telling him.
That evening, after buying their work clothes, they changed out of their military uniforms and went to rest. The next day, they headed directly into the Hou family's company.
When they reached the company entrance, they were stopped.
They were stopped by the HR manager of Hengyuan Group – Hou Huaiyuan.
"You two look unfamiliar. I've never seen you before. Are you troublemakers trying to cause damage?" Zhang Huaiyuan asked them coldly.
"This is our employment verification. We are newcomers who just arrived today." Sun Dasheng handed over his resume.
Hou Huaiyuan took the resume and glanced at it, then chuckled, "There's a problem with this resume. This is not our company's employee application form."
In fact, this was their company's official application form. How could they make such a low-level mistake as to fill out a resume with a form from another company? This was because Zhang Huaiyuan found them suspicious and was deliberately trying to trick them.
"You must be blind. This is an authentic Hengyuan Group employment resume." Ye Tiancheng certainly wouldn't be fooled by such a low-level scam.
"Oh? Is that so? The position you're applying for doesn't match your aura at all. I suspect your real identities are not what's on your resume." Hou Huaiyuan's shifty eyes scanned them, trying to find a flaw. He quickly found a flaw because the two of them had such tough auras, like soldiers, and didn't look like they were applying for the position of general manager's assistant.