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CHAPTER 163: What Standing Do You Have?
"You"Marcus's face flushed with anger. Ethan patted his shoulder."Marcus, we don't need to lose our tempers over someone else's kid."Kevin's expression shifted, offended. "Ethan, what's that supposed to mean? Are you trying to take a shot at me?"Just then the door opened, and the Tianhao's security chief appeared in the doorway.He scanned the room, spotted Ethan, and immediately hurried over with an obsequious smile."Mr. Vale, so sorry, I forgot to ask which room you were in earlier. Your key's a bit late getting to you."He set the car key down in front of Ethan with real deference.Marcus lit up instantly, grabbing it and holding it up."Kevin, see this? Ethan's got a car! You've been looking down on people with your judgmental eyes all night, and now maybe you should be calling him Dad!""This"Kevin was thoroughly caught off guard. He hadn't expected Ethan had actually driven here himself, he'd assumed the security chief was just being helpful to someone who walked in.But h
CHAPTER 162: A Competition of Wealth?
The phone's expensive presentation and elegant design caught the attention of the room instantly.Bianca was initially surprised, she hadn't expected Ethan to be carrying anything decent at all. But then she looked closer and realized it wasn't the popular flagship, wasn't a Huawei, wasn't any brand she could actually place. She didn't even recognize the logo.She laughed. "Ha... ha... ha... no wonder you didn't want to show it off. Turns out it's just some knockoff brand.""Looks decent, I'll give it that," Kevin said, picking it up and turning it over. "Fake goods have gotten a lot better lately. Shame it's worthless underneath."He passed it around the table, showing it off with a smirk."Any of you recognize this brand?"Most people in the room were ordinary working people, few of them had ever encountered a luxury phone in this tier, let alone recognized the brand name. Heads shook around the table.Kevin, growing more pleased with himself by the second, finally handed it to Ashl
CHAPTER 161: Playing Games
Kevin chimed in immediately. "Exactly right. How would small-time people like us ever get a table with Miss Gu? Out of everyone here, Derek's the only one who'd have that kind of access."Derek smiled with satisfaction and said nothing, letting the flattery sit.The truth was somewhat less flattering. He'd heard through the grapevine that Gu Qingcheng was in the county, and both he and his father had tried more than once to arrange a visit, turned away every time, let alone offered a shared meal.Ethan found the whole exchange quietly amusing but didn't correct anyone. If people wanted to perform for each other, that was their business."Let's set Miss Gu aside for now, focus on the reunion," Derek said to Kevin. "How many people have shown up?""Everyone except Zhang Linlin.""I talked to her before I got here," Derek said. "She's got a full house of guests today and needs to keep working, but she'll swing by when she can.""Makes sense," Kevin said. "She's a real manager now, dealin
CHAPTER 160: Who's Actually the Big Shot Here?
"Believe it or not, that's up to you. As an old classmate, I'm just giving you fair warning.If you donate everything you have right now to charity, you might still escape what's coming. If you stay stubborn about it, your house burns first, then prison follows. You won't just lose the money, you'll never recover from any of it."Ethan had extended the offer purely out of what remained of old classmate loyalty. Beyond that, whether Kevin believed him or not was no longer his concern."You son of a" Kevin lunged forward.Marcus stepped between them and shoved him back."Ethan's my brother. Nobody touches him while I'm standing here."Kevin took one look at Marcus, built like a tower and immediately backed down. A pampered rich kid who spent his life eating, drinking, gambling, and chasing women wasn't going to survive one round with him, let alone ten.Tyler Wu pulled Kevin back by the arm."Kevin, don't waste your breath on him. He's just jealous you've got money."He turned to Ethan.
CHAPTER 159: Black Fog Over the Head
He turned his Divine Sense fully onto Marcus's body and found the problem immediately. Someone had tampered with him. Several meridian points in his lower abdomen had been deliberately sealed. The blockage wouldn't manifest as any visible physical damage, but it sealed off something fundamental. Medically speaking, he was effectively rendered impotent, with no physiological response possible whatsoever. From a cultivation perspective, this sealing method served a very specific purpose, preventing any leakage of Yuan Yang, his foundational essence. Combined with the artificial acceleration of his Yang Qi from an outside source, the two effects worked together like a pressure vessel. Build it up, and never let any of it escape. This was a textbook cultivation technique for what practitioners called "raising the sacrifice" the goal wasn't gradual harvesting over time. It was pushing a subject's Yang Qi to its absolute maximum, then consuming it all at once in a single act. Compared
CHAPTER 158: Practitioner of a Charm Technique
"This"Ethan hesitated, weighing whether to go.It had been years since middle school. Outside of his closest friend, Marcus Reid, he'd basically lost touch with the rest of his class. Zhang Linlin herself was someone he'd only reconnected with by chance the day before."Ethan, what's there to think about?" Zhang Linlin's outgoing personality came through the phone. "You're not too important for your old classmates now, are you?"She said it as a joke, but there was real curiosity behind it. In her mind, anyone who could get an entire restaurant reserved by Gu Qingcheng for a private dinner had clearly made it. Across the state, maintaining a good relationship with the Gu family was practically a guaranteed path to wealth and advancement."Actually, this reunion was supposed to happen last night," she continued, "but the venue got booked out by Miss Gu, so we pushed it to tonight.""Which technically makes it your fault we had to reschedule, so you owe us the appearance tonight. Also,
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