Bai Zhi was completely stunned.
She looked at the man sitting casually on a greasy little stool, elegantly eating skewers... This... Was this still that aloof, high-and-mighty, destiny-defying Great Villain who regarded human lives as grass and stirred up trouble at every turn?
How could he so naturally blend into an environment filled with such human warmth?
"What are you staring for?"
Lu Cheng took another bite of a lamb skewer, then pushed a plate of peeled crayfish in front of Bai Zhi.
"Didn't you say you weren't full?"
"Eat. I'm not making you pay."
Bai Zhi's stomach let out an untimely rumble.
At the Jiang Family's banquet, she hadn't eaten much, too busy battling wits with Lu Cheng.
She plopped down, grabbed a crayfish, and shoved it fiercely into her mouth, as if she wasn't chewing shrimp meat, but Lu Cheng's bones.
"Hmph! Putting on an act, deliberately pretending to be like ordinary people eating at a roadside stall!"
[Ding! Villain Emotion Value +50!]
The system prompt in her mind made her feel like she had won a small victory.
However, Lu Cheng just smiled and handed her a bottle of cola.
"Swearing also takes energy. Moisten your throat and swear slowly."
...
Bai Zhi felt like she was punching cotton; all her anger and criticism seemed so pale and powerless in front of this man.
In the end, she transformed her grief and indignation into appetite, single-handedly sweeping through most of the food on the table... Meanwhile, at a certain hospital in Modu.
The pungent smell of disinfectant slowly brought Xiao Fan back from his coma.
He stared blankly at the pale ceiling, his mind a blank.
Then, the intense pain of being kicked flying by Lu Cheng... All the memories surged in like a tide.
And at this moment, the cold system prompts in his mind began to furiously scroll!
[Ding! Received a physical blow from the destiny-defying Great Villain!]
[Pain +100! Mental Resilience +50!]
[Ding! Received a mental critical hit from the destiny-defying Great Villain!]
[Humiliation +1000! Mental Resilience +100!]
[Ding! Your actions at the Jiang Family banquet have been deemed "Public Execution"!]
[M-Attribute Awakening +30%! Pleasure +50!]
After an intense pain, a strange, twisted pleasure once again surged from the depths of his soul.
This feeling instantly made his pale face look grotesque and satisfied.
"Lu Cheng!"
He roared in a low voice, his eyes swirling with monstrous hatred and pathological excitement.
He suddenly opened his eyes, with only one thought left in his mind.
Revenge!
He wanted revenge!
He wanted Lu Cheng, he wanted Jiang Lian, he wanted everyone who looked down on him, to pay the most agonizing price!
He opened his system panel, his gaze fixed on the title "rewarded" by the system.
[Walking Biological Weapon]!
A crazy flash of inspiration, like lightning, cut through his chaotic mind!
"Weapon... Yes! Weapon!"
"The system gave me a revelation long ago! I am a weapon!"
He regarded this ironic title as heaven's ultimate guidance for his path to revenge!
Since conventional methods couldn't defeat Lu Cheng, he would use the most primitive, most direct way!
He would use himself to personally create a... biological bomb!
Once this thought appeared, it could no longer be suppressed!
Xiao Fan quietly snuck out of the hospital and ordered a pile of pungent chemicals from a nearby chemical store.
He would use these to concoct a "fragrance" that would make even gods vomit!
...On the other side, at Lu Family Manor.
Lu Cheng was closing his eyes, enjoying Mu Wanrou's gentle massage.
On the virtual screen in front of him, the entire process of Xiao Fan's transformation from grotesque to ecstatic on the hospital bed, and then his order for chemicals, was being "broadcast" in the highest definition.
"What a young man with ideas."
Lu Cheng looked at the determined Xiao Fan on the screen, the smile on his lips growing more pleased.
Meanwhile, Bai Zhi was hiding in her room, her small face smudged black and white.
She was trying to activate the legendary exotic flame rewarded by the system—the Danxin Glazed Fire.
However, this flame was far more violent than she had imagined!
It was like an untamed beast, completely beyond her control, nearly setting the room on fire several times.
"Damn it! How do I use it?!"
Bai Zhi was sweating profusely with anxiety, yet she dared not make too much noise.
"Knock knock knock."
The door was knocked, not too lightly, not too heavily.
Lu Cheng's smiling voice came from outside the door.
"Playing with fire in your room is not what good children do."
"Be careful not to burn down my house, you can't afford to compensate for that."
Bai Zhi jumped in fright, clumsily hiding things behind her back.
The door was pushed open, and Lu Cheng walked in.
He looked at Bai Zhi's disheveled, dusty appearance, and then smelled the burnt medicinal scent in the air, chuckling softly.
"It seems you're quite diligent."
Bai Zhi quickly played along with his words, pretending she was just performing ordinary alchemy.
Although the Danxin Glazed Fire was miraculous, when it burned, the color of the flame was only slightly different from ordinary flames. She didn't believe this villain could tell!
"None of your business! I like it!"
She stuck out her neck, stubbornly retorting.
Lu Cheng didn't expose her, merely glancing casually at her medicine king cauldron, then seemingly inadvertently gave a few pointers.
"Your technique is wrong. Burning too roughly makes the flame unstable."
"One flame stabilizes the furnace temperature, another catalyzes the medicinal properties, and the last one is used to encase the elixir embryo."
"Although it's troublesome, for you, it shouldn't be a problem."
Bai Zhi was skeptical.
But she tried to control the Danxin Glazed Fire according to Lu Cheng's method.
A miracle happened!
That originally violent flame, under her divided control, actually became much more docile, burning steadily at the bottom!
This... How was this possible?!
"You... Why do you know this?!"
Bai Zhi pointed at Lu Cheng, questioning him with a hint of fear.
"Did you install a monitor on me! You pervert! Peeping Tom!"
[Ding! Villain Emotion Value +200!]
This time, the emotion value was unusually generous, but Bai Zhi felt no joy, only an endless chill.
Lu Cheng looked at her flustered appearance, the smile on his face growing wider.
He turned and left, leaving only a sentence that made Bai Zhi almost explode with anger on the spot.
"Because I am your boss."
"Caring for employees is my basic duty."
Watching Lu Cheng's retreating figure, Bai Zhi clenched her fists.
She felt like a puppet, completely seen through, in front of this devil.
No!
She had to find his weakness!
At the same time.
Xiao Fan had already put on a black trench coat and sunglasses, tightly clutching his "biological weapon" that he had just mixed in a plastic bucket.
He hailed a taxi and set off towards Lu Family Manor.
His face held a tragic solemnity, like someone going to an execution ground, mixed with the frenzy of impending revenge.
"Lu Cheng, I'm coming."