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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,
CHAPTER 157: Who Actually Came Out Ahead?
Ethan smiled."All right then. Don't disappoint me this time."Chen Haizhu had hung up the phone, and Kyle Chen was already asking."Dad, what happened?""Your sister's Porsche is destroyed," Chen Haizhu said, clearly irritated."Dad, that's actually good news!" Kyle Chen said, brightening with sudden enthusiasm."Have you lost your mind? If her car is destroyed, how are we supposed to find six million dollars?""Dad, think it through," Kyle Chen said. "We've only been out of the Gu family's good graces for a few hours. Nobody knows yet. If someone smashed Diane's car, we can leverage the family name one more time before word spreads, extort a substantial settlement and that solves our problem."Chen Haizhu's eyes lit up.It wasn't a bad idea. For years the Gu family connection had made him untouchable across Wufeng County."You're right. Call everyone. We go right now."Chen Haizhu, his son, and their people converged on the scene of Diane's accident with real intent to intimidate. T
CHAPTER 156: The Brainless Chen Girl
After the woman went flying, Ethan turned to Clara."Mom, are you all right?""I'm fine, but you, don't hurt her!"Clara looked toward where the woman had landed. Her son's strike had carried more force than she was comfortable with, and she worried about what came next.The woman got up from the pavement, disoriented, spinning in place twice before locating Ethan again. She raised her hand and pointed at him."You bastard, how dare you hit me? Do you have any idea who I am?"Ethan crossed the distance, took her by the hair, and hit her again."I don't care who you are. You hit my mother. There's a price for that."Another strike."Illegal U-turn and still acting like royalty?"A third."Do you understand traffic violations kill people?"He didn't typically raise a hand to women. But this particular woman, convinced of her own sovereignty over public roads and willing to strike an older stranger without hesitation, had earned an exception.Clara stepped forward and grabbed his arm."T
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