Chapter: brother stone"What — is Ethan frightened by Brother Stone's standing?" Ryan said with a proud expression. "Don't think too highly of yourself. Brother Stone is Grace's cousin too! With your insignificant standing, you actually expect Grace to come help you?""How dare you use my cousin against Ryan? Do you think the Gongsun family's standing is yours to use? Trying to be clever — do you want to die? Come on, get on your knees and apologise! Kowtow to my friend Ryan again," Gongsun Shi said, his expression wild with invincible confidence."If you don't do as I say, I promise you won't be leaving the Gongsun villa today, and you certainly won't be living in this city after that!" Gongsun Shi sneered, looking at Ethan.So this so-called celebrity son-in-law from Clearwater City thought he was clever, using his cousin's name to embarrass Ryan? What exactly did he think this was?This was Gongsun family territory in Imperial City's network. Some foolish, cheap country bumpkin wanted to play games here?
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Chapter: Siding an outsider"What — not convinced?" Grace asked coldly."No, Miss Gongsun — it's just, this is rather difficult," Zheng Tong said, his expression sour."Yes, Miss Gongsun, how can you defend a fraud like this? This is entirely unreasonable," one of the Zheng family's middle-aged members said carefully."I'll say this one final time. Apologise to Ethan, or face the consequences," Grace said with mounting anger.This group genuinely had no idea what was good for them. Being asked to apologise was an opportunity to survive this.If they truly angered her cousin, a simple apology wouldn't be enough to resolve anything."This—"Every Zheng family member present flushed red, completely humiliated.What disgrace, having to apologise to a country bumpkin from the East Sea Province!Especially since it was this bumpkin who had publicly injured Ryan and struck the family patriarch Zheng Tong across the face — trampling on their dignity entirely.But seeing Grace's rare display of anger, her expression dead
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Chapter: recklessly"You! Where do you come from, talking this recklessly? I beat Ryan, my own son, and you dare to act arrogant in front of me?" Zheng Tong said furiously, hoping to swallow Ethan whole.Looking at Ryan's wretched state, he was enraged, but his fear of Ethan kept him from attacking directly."People who don't offend me, I don't offend," Ethan said calmly, sitting down to drink his tea.Watching Ethan's composure only infuriated Zheng Tong further. Who did this country bumpkin think he was? How could some doctor, having practiced a bit of martial arts, be this arrogant?Why shouldn't he be allowed to offend Ethan? The Zheng family had wealth and power. What of it if they wanted to offend someone? Wasn't that the entire point of accumulating wealth in the first place?"I'm making no mistake today. What business is it of yours?" Zheng Tong said coldly, waving his hand. "Go to the garage and bring the equipment!"More than a dozen bodyguards immediately followed the order, rushing out of the
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Chapter: crushing Ryan"Oh."Ethan sneered, looking at Ryan with genuine interest."And who exactly are you?""If you don't already understand the situation, let me explain."Ryan straightened proudly."In this city, aside from the family elders, who has ever met me without showing respect? Ryan Zheng? How dare a nobody from the East Sea Province act arrogant in front of me?""Bodyguards—here!"With a sweeping gesture, Ryan summoned two tall foreign bodyguards in sunglasses. Their dark skin and powerful builds made them look especially intimidating."You were arrogant at the airport today, weren't you?"Ryan looked at Ethan coldly."Let me teach you something—in Gaoyang Province, you need to understand how things work here. I don't care how convincingly you've fooled Grace back in the East Sea Province.""Now get on your knees and kowtow in apology, then admit you're a fraud."Ryan pulled out a camera, intending to record Ethan kneeling and confessing to being a con artist. He planned to show the footage to
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Chapter: Ryan's threatEthan looked at the young man in the suit with a blank expression.The man's appearance was unremarkable except for his eyes, which gleamed with calculation. His manner was generally unpleasant, and his gaze was full of hostility toward Ethan."What are you looking at? Not convinced? I'll hit you again," the young man said with an air of complete invincibility.In his mind, how could someone this insignificant be qualified to stand beside Grace? How dare he look at him with that kind of expression?Grace was the goddess in his heart. No outsider of this caliber should be allowed anywhere near her."Ryan Zheng—watch what you say!" Grace said, clearly displeased."I've already told you, Ethan is a doctor I invited from the East Sea Province. He's my distinguished guest. Show some courtesy. Are you disrespecting me?"This was Ryan Zheng.Grace had never had a particularly favorable opinion of him. This time was even worse—he had come up immediately questioning her cousin Ethan. Who did h
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Chapter: a new battlefield"Who are you? What are you doing breaking into Harrison's Jewelry Group with all these strangers?" James demanded, his expression stern, completely unaware that Sterling had already wet himself in fear."He—he's..." Sterling stammered, his face pale with panic.James's expression changed instantly. He stared at Jake in disbelief."Y-you're Jake?" he asked in astonishment."Oh?"Jake sneered and ignored James completely. Instead, he fixed Sterling with a cold stare."Sterling, have you forgotten what I told you? How dare you show your face in front of me?""I-I'm sorry, Mr. Jake! I was wrong! I'm leaving right now!"Sterling slapped himself twice before dropping to the floor and desperately crawling toward the exit.The scene made perfect sense.Ever since his humiliation at the Crown Club, Sterling feared Jake as though he were facing a strict parent. He no longer dared to act arrogantly in front of him.Jake was no longer the insignificant manager Sterling had once trampled without c
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The billionaire heir's secret system
Kelvin Carter was an ordinary orphan surviving on library duties and cheap meals, ridiculed at Stonebridge University. Life takes a wild turn when he receives a mysterious gold coin, activating the Gold Devouring System, and discovers he is the grandson of billionaire Victor Carter.
Armed with wealth, secret protection, and a powerful system, Kelvin must navigate high-stakes business, ruthless rivals, and cunning classmates. As he rises from nothing to a billionaire heir, Kelvin seeks revenge, justice, and love, proving that intelligence, determination, and a little luck can change destiny.
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Chapter: The Commission and The ManagerThe Commission and The ManagerThe fat manager had been standing to one side of the sales office for the last twenty minutes with the specific posture of a man who has identified that something significant is happening and is calculating how to position himself advantageously within it.He had apparently been the one to whisper Emma's commission rate to her — three percent — in the specific way of someone performing helpfulness in order to be seen performing it.Emma had calculated the commission on the villa purchase and arrived at a number."One hundred and thirty thousand dollars," she said. She said it carefully, as if she was not entirely certain the number was real.Anna looked at Kelvin."Transfer it to her now," Anna said. She said it the way she said most things — directly, without the elaborate construction of a request.Kelvin took out his phone.Emma looked at him."You do not have to—" she started."You sold the villa," Kelvin said. "This is your commission. You earned it
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Chapter: The transfer and outcomeThe transfer coordination took the rest of the morning. Frank’s team was thorough, which was consistent with everything Frank’s team did. The paperwork moved efficiently. The transport arrangements were made. The Crestview Medical admissions team had been briefed and was ready. Seven patients from the orthopedic ward accepted the transfer offer. Kelvin was at the hospital entrance helping coordinate when the last transport left. Sarah Whitfield was still there — she had been working all morning, interviewing patients, reviewing documents, doing what journalists who were good at their work did when they were in the middle of a significant story. She came to stand beside Kelvin. “Seven patients transferred,” she said. “That is who was in the ward,” he said. “The charitable care program will handle ongoing referrals.” She looked at her notebook. “The RuiserChi Holdings statement,” she said. “Anna issued it while you were in the security room.” “Yes,” he said. “It wa
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Chapter: Press conferenceThe regulatory inspector and Sarah Whitfield were still inside the hospital when Kelvin came out through the main entrance.The hospital's front steps had acquired the specific quality of a space where something significant was developing—several reporters with cameras, a small cluster of patients and family members who had followed from the payment office, and the hospital's vice president, a man named Gerald Park, standing with the posture of someone who has arrived to manage a situation and is discovering the situation is larger than briefed.Anna had arranged the press contact. She had done it efficiently, which was consistent with how she did most things.Gerald Park was trying to answer questions with the specific desperate composure of a man who does not know which answer is going to make things worse."Is it true that patients were billed for medications they did not receive?""Has the Security Department detained a visitor without legal authority?""What is the status of the
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Chapter: a regulatory conversationThe inspector arrived in twenty-two minutes. Her name was Dr. Linda Walsh — different Walsh from Catherine Walsh, Stonebridge apparently producing this name with regularity — and she had the specific composed bearing of someone whose professional life had been spent in facilities that did not want her to be there, which had produced an immunity to that particular form of resistance. She looked at Kelvin. "You called this in," she said. "Yes," he said. "You are also the person who called in the Crestview Medical situation," she said. "Yes," he said. She held his gaze. "The Crestview restructuring is ongoing," she said. "Your documentation in that case was thorough." "Frank's team prepared it," he said. "I provided the context." She looked at the payment office, at the patients who were still waiting, at the administrator who was standing with the posture of someone whose morning has taken a direction he would prefer it had not. "Walk me through what you observed," she said.
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Chapter: The billing departmentThe payment office of the Municipal Hospital was on the ground floor, accessed through a corridor that had the specific quality of spaces that processed difficult transactions — fluorescent lighting, a long counter, the ambient noise of people navigating paperwork they had not expected to be navigating.Kelvin stood at the counter with Grace and her mother and the doctor who had been managing this situation in the specific way of a man who had decided that a person dressed in worn clothes and faded jeans was not going to complicate his morning.The doctor read out the arrears."One hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars," he said. He said it with the specific confidence of someone who expects the number to end the conversation.Kelvin looked at him briefly.Then he produced the black card and placed it on the counter.The cashier looked at the card.The doctor looked at the card.The specific quality of the silence that followed was the silence of a recalibration happening in real
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Chapter: the hospital visitKelvin changed into the worn jacket and faded jeans before leaving the office.Grace had noticed, and had not said anything, which was the correct response. The clothes communicated something specific for this specific context — not poverty, but approachability, the particular register of someone who did not want the first thing Grace's family saw to be the surface of what his circumstances had become.Some contexts required the charcoal suit.This one required the worn jacket.They took a taxi to the Municipal Hospital on the west side of Stonebridge — a public facility, underfunded in the ways that public facilities were underfunded, with the specific texture of a place where the gap between what was needed and what was available showed clearly in the paint and the equipment and the particular quality of exhaustion that the staff carried.Grace moved faster than Kelvin through the lobby. He understood this and kept pace without mentioning it.In the elevator to the third floor ortho
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The Weakest Hunter Ascends
In a world where Hunters risk their lives clearing dimensional Rifts for profit and survival, Arthur Pendelton is universally mocked as the bottom of the barrel—the "Weakest Hunter." When a routine D-Rank exploration goes horribly wrong, Arthur and a small vanguard find themselves trapped within the Cartenon Temple, a hidden Double Dungeon overseen by a colossal, murderous stone titan. Bound by ancient, unyielding rules inscribed on a runic tablet, the party is systematically torn to pieces as traditional combat proves utterly useless.
With elite combatants losing their limbs and their minds to the horrific trials, salvation falls on the unlikely shoulders of Arthur. Armed with nothing but a brilliant analytical mind and a hyper-alert survival instinct, he must decode the dungeon's mathematical traps before the remaining survivors are wiped out. But as the trials demand bloodier sacrifices, Arthur realizes that surviving the temple is only the first step in a system designed to completely rebuild him from the ground up.
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Chapter: Reward system.It happened without warning.Shururururu…The sandy ground right beside Arthur suddenly caved inward, forming a rapidly expanding, funnel-shaped sinkhole."Whoa—hey!"Arthur scrambled back on all fours, clawing wildly at the loose grains to keep from getting dragged down into the abyss. The pit widened at a terrifying speed, forcing him to throw his entire body forward into a desperate crawl until his knees hit firm ground."Haaah... haaah... haaah..."Collapsing onto his rear, Arthur dragged ragged breaths into his lungs and stared down into the center of the crater.To his sheer horror, the sand at the bottom was violently bubbling, like a cauldron of boiling liquid.A cold shiver raced down his spine as he realized he had been an inch away from tumbling into that meat grinder."Wait a second..."Arthur narrowed his eyes, leaning in slightly to inspect the motion."That's not boiling..."Peering through the haze of golden dust, he spotted something massive and segmented writhing ben
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Chapter: Daily quest"Did you hit your head or something?"Chloe stood a few paces back near the doorway, eyeing her older brother with deep suspicion. Arthur shook his head vigorously."No, that’s not it. I'm fine."Despite his denial, Chloe’s sharp eyes remained narrowed."Are you really okay, Arthur? Be honest.""Yes, I'm telling you, I'm completely fine."Chloe stared blankly at him for a beat, sweeping her gaze over his pristine, unblemished limbs.Then her chest heaved, her breathing growing fast and furious. The moment Arthur instinctively raised his arms into a defensive guard, she stepped in, driving her fists into every unguarded spot on his torso."I told you to stop getting yourself hurt!!" she yelled, her voice cracking. "Do you have any idea how terrified I was?!""……I'm sorry, Chloe.""Other Hunters walk out of those portals without a scratch, so why is it always you who ends up in an ICU?!""……I'm sorry."The force behind Chloe’s punches gradually ebbed away. She stopped, her shoulders tre
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Chapter: the investigationArthur was startled by the deep, resonant voice coming from the shadowed corner of the hospital room and quickly turned his head."My apologies if we startled you.""Unfortunately, time is a luxury we don't have right now."Two men impeccably dressed in dark, tailored suits approached Arthur’s bedside. Arthur tilted his head, eyeing them with quiet suspicion."Who… are you?"He had never seen either of their faces before.One of the men, sporting a close-cropped military buzzcut behind a pair of dark aviators, stepped forward and handed Arthur a sleek business card."This will explain who we represent."Arthur took the card, reading the embossed silver lettering.'Ethan Vance, Section Chief, Monitoring Division — Hunter Association.'The Monitoring Division was the heavy-artillery arm of the Hunter Association, boasting some of the most dangerous combatants on the municipal payroll. Since their job was to police registered Hunters and keep rogue Awakened in line, they naturally employ
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Chapter: The final choiceCreeaakkk…Creeeeeeaaaaakkkk…While the three of them had been talking, the closing circle of guardian statues had narrowed the gap to a mere dozen feet.Left entirely alone on the platform, Arthur dragged himself onto his stomach, taking several deep, ragged breaths to steady his racing heart."Haaah... haaah..."His hand brushed against a cold piece of metal on the stone floor—the shortsword Kim had abandoned when he fled. Arthur reached out, his fingers wrapping firmly around the leather hilt.If I'm going out, I'm taking at least one of these stone bastards with me.He managed to tilt his head back, watching through the blood in his eyes as Sterling cleared the threshold with Julie safely perched on his shoulder.A quiet sense of relief washed over Arthur’s chest.At least they made it...There was no grand, noble martyrdom in his mind. In truth, Arthur had run the cold, pragmatic numbers in his head before making his decision.Even if he somehow survived and dragged his broken bo
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Chapter: the last deserterFront, back, left, and right.To maintain a complete perimeter, four individuals was the absolute mathematical minimum required.Arthur himself, Julie, Mr. Sterling, and Kim. A single person abandoning their post now would create an unmonitorable blind spot in their collective field of view.Kim wiped a thick sheen of cold sweat from his forehead, his shortsword trembling in his hand as he demanded, "Arthur, what the hell is happening?! Explain it to me properly!""As long as we hold our ground on this platform, we survive!" Arthur shouted back, his voice hoarse. "We just have to wait until every single blue flame goes out!"Arthur rapidly laid out every variable he had deduced regarding the Third Commandment. Kim’s ears perked up, his head nodding in frantic, erratic bursts as he absorbed the information.Arthur quickly wrapped up his explanation, adding one final, firm plea:"Listen to me! Every single person remaining on this platform can walk out of here alive!"The internal mecha
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Chapter: Circle of Flames 2Creak...Creeeak...The remaining six survivors spun around, their tactical weapons raised."What was that noise?!""Look at the perimeter!""They're advancing!!"The air left their lungs in a sudden rush of terror.The smaller guardian statues—the ones that had previously remained perfectly motionless unless a human breached their specific proximity circles—had physically shifted several yards closer to the altar.Arthur's gaze dropped, tracking the movement of the dust on the floor.No... the stone limbs didn't move. The stone pedestals themselves are sliding.The bone-rattling screeches were coming from the ancient tracks beneath the monuments, grinding slowly against the flagstones like a closing vice."Wait... they stopped?" Kim panted, wiping a thick layer of cold sweat from his brow.While the rest of the group kept their weapons trained on the closing circle, Arthur's focus snapped back to the spectral blue embers floating in the air.One of the flames sputtered, dissolving in
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