In the indisinct future, 2089, the life-long dream of complextic, flawless, and living Androids have been accomplished very long eons ago. With them now being sold in crappy convenience stores, the Greysons, a low-middle class, hardworking family, purchases a homicidal yet friendly and cheap Android. However, there's been a catastrophic error. The world is suddenly crippling and dying, pulling along anything with it to die. Can the Greysons survive the very corpse of the world? Or will they let it bring them down into complete madness?

In a busy road filled with cars, crowds of people can be seen walking at the side of the streets. 

Students, parents, workers, and other people minded their selves; each seemingly has their own plans for the rest of the day.

All kinds of stores were open, some full of people, and some were void of people. Different workers were standing outside, trying their best to attract customers to their stores.

Max was one of those customers. As students were the primary sources of income for the stores at this time of the day, Max had to deal with different people trying hard to attract his attention.

Max, being used to these things happening every day, expertly ignored and evaded them.

As the school was over, Max, like usual, walk straight home. Having to once again experience sitting in class for hours with nothing to do, he looked mentally exhausted, complaining about why he had to deal with this every single day. 

The only thing that kept him to go to school was because he had nothing better to do, and there were some excellent opportunities there.

If there weren't, Max wouldn't even think of going back. He would only enjoy himself everywhere but would mostly stay in his house as it was the place he feels the most comfortable at.

In recent times, Max always goes home with his sister together. Today was different, as his sister mentioned earlier the day that she will have things to do, and he should go back first.

'Any good ideas to do?'

[Find some women and have sex with them!]

Little Dou always answers the same thing whenever Max asked that question. As she was the System Fairy, she never stopped asking Max to use the System to its full potential every time she had the chance.

This was a regular occurrence when Max walks home. He would ask Little Dou all kinds of questions he was curious about, and Little Dou would answer them if she can.

It was Max's way to keep his mind occupied than just thinking about nothing and wasting time.

'Find women and have sex with them, huh.'

Max was helpless against Little Dou's answer. It wasn't that he hadn't thought of doing it; it's only that he didn't have any time to do so.

The past few days, he had been occupied, going from places to places everywhere. He does have time right now, but he can only restrain himself as he would need it for later.

...

"Hah hah, hah."

Max and Yu'er were lying side by side on their bed. There was a thick scent of sex all over the room. It was apparent what had occurred there.

There were also their sweaty bodies and fluids flowing out between Yu'er's thighs, further confirming what both of them just did.

While Max was talking with Little Dou when he was walking home, he thought if there's something he can to for later.

From the colorful designs of the stores that Max and Little Dou wasn't able to look away from, he had an idea to buy their dinner so that they won't waste time making them if they even decided to do it.

However, if they didn't, they would have to eat leftover food from the fridge, and Max didn't want that if possible.

Thinking about that, Max changed his direction to buy themselves their dinner and a few candies for Little Dou as he thought, why not.

When Yu'er finished showering after she got home, they quickly finished their meal. Max even got a compliment from his sister for thinking about buying their dinner, getting himself a good prize.

What happened next was plain to see. Coming back to the present, Yu'er went back to the bathroom to clean herself while Max changed the stained sheets into a clean one.

They've bought a lot of new sheets expecting that they would have to replace their sheets quite often from now on.

Once he was done, Max went back to the bed, feeling extremely satisfied.


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[Max]
[Level: 20][31550/20000 Lifetime Points]!
[Points: 11950]
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[Women Conquered]
Yu'er (Sister) Level 9 [8600/9000 Lifetime Points]!
-- Loyalty Meter: 100
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Looking at his status, Max thought about their decision about the System. From all his experiences so far, he has been relying heavily on the System for strength.

If other people were to look at it, it would look terrible that he doesn't buy skills for himself. But Max, on the other hand, doesn't think so, and Yu'er also agreed with him on this.

He was only an ordinary person before he got the System. He didn't know anything, never had any training, and never had any abilities. He was a useless person.

That was why it was normal for him to rely heavily on it to get stronger. And for them, if they were to prioritize getting skills for Max just because they had concerns over a few things like the System disappearing, then Max's future would be severely limited.

The reason for that was that the System had a lot of use for them at the moment. Women Conquered section that can make Max stronger tremendously fast by having strong women around him at the same time, making himself and his women stronger from sex.

Store items that were currently more useful for him compared to buying a weak skill as it is a lot more inexpensive and has stronger effects than cheap skills could give.

Lastly, using the System to measure his overall strength by looking at his status, he could see everything from a numerical perspective, making it easier for him to understand his needs.

That was the reason he wasn't buying a lot of cheap weak skills. They've thought of the possibility of the System disappearing numerous times despite Little Dou repeatedly assuring them that it will never happen.

At this point, it wouldn't be wrong to say that they were already overthinking about this as it shouldn't even be considered as Little Dou already told them many times, and there was never a sign of it to disappearing in the first place.

While they were thinking about the subject of the System disappearing, they were still able to think of a contingency plan.

In the first place, Max would still be left with his Sex Steal skill regardless if the System disappears or not as it was the skill he got for getting Rank 1, his own original ability.

That was enough for him to be the strongest if used in the right way, so they didn't bother buying cheap weak skills from the Store.

They also made plans for some excellent skills to buy from the Store. But Little Dou said the skills that they wanted were expensive as all of them were Upgradable Skills. 

Those cheap and inferior skills can't be upgraded and would only be effective against weak people. 

One day, when they became stronger and stronger, it would start to turn useless until it becomes trash, wasting their points.

They were aware that both of them were taking significant risks right now about not buying any weak skill, even just one, but it's more like a calculated risk, they decided to take.

On the other hand, if they were successful at pulling it off, then they would bring in a vast amount of benefits compared to not risking anything. 

Those benefits would make them much stronger than if they prioritized short term cheap skills that they may or may not need. Making it worse, those skills are guaranteed to be useless in the future.

...

The door of the bathroom opened, and a sweet scent blew out, spreading to the entire room.

An ordinary high school boy named Max is in his basement watching porn and masturbating. When suddenly, a pop-up ad covered the whole screen!


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WTF is this? Ads? What’s this thing saying?! So annoying! Sign up? This is just a scam! 
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We headed towards the inn as we walked down the main street.
The street was very busy, probably because of the fair, many carriages with products were on the streets, some vendors were setting up their stalls for sales, and others stalls were already set up.
Along the way, I noticed some interesting things, but I didn't have enough money to spend right now, so I decided to ignore everything and that and move on.
After walking for a few minutes on the long street, we turned right on a street that was a little less crowded, but there were still a lot of people around here. The stores that existed here were different.
Simpler-looking stores, some people were also coming out of them, they were normal people, not nobles who wore expensive suits like those in the stores on the capital's main street.
The more I walked, the more paths appeared, when I realized, everything had already turned into a maze of streets and buildings, but as I had the map and the instructions, I managed to locate myself in some way.
After some more time walking through the streets of the capital, between large buildings, we arrived at a slightly more beautiful building. Unlike the other buildings that already had a little worn that didn't look clean, this place was different.
It was a building that seemed to have been built now, some decorations were put on the place, especially the beautiful flowers that were being displayed on the balconies of the rooms.
"Wait a minute, isn't this place a little too luxurious?" Lisandra, who was silent all the way frightened by the dirty-looking men passing by, decided to say something.
'Thinking about it, there are a lot of beggars in this place, aren't there?' All the way, I found many men carrying bottles of alcohol and wearing worn-out clothes.
But I don't think I should care about something as trivial as that. Finding beggars is common in a big city, especially in the capital.
"Ro ... I mean, Rose told me that this place is not expensive and that I could get a discount if I talked about her, I think it's okay to go in, isn't it?" Lisandra still looked a little worried about it, but she nodded to me.
And after a little hesitation, I opened the big door made of varnished wood. I know I don't have to keep repeating it, but this building was incredibly beautiful.
Oohh ~~
When I entered the building, I opened my mouth and made a sound while admiring the construction. Lisandra also acted the same way, making me smile.
But I couldn't fault her, it was a beautiful building.
A large lounge with tables came into view, tables neat and clean. Some of the tables were being used possibly by guests of the inn.
The floor was so clean that I could see the gleam of the wooden floor. Various decorations such as flowers and paintings were scattered around the room, giving the place a sophisticated look.
In front of us was a large counter, with a woman who was watching us with a smile on her face, she already looked like an older lady. Behind the woman also had some pictures in addition to a big paper written some things, it seemed to be the menu of the day.
There was also a door on its right side and a small window on its left side, I could smell a wonderful smell going out that window, probably the kitchen at the inn was there.
There were two stairs in the building, one on each side of the counter, right after the door there was one, and on the other side there was also one, they were double stairs, being sincere made the place even more beautiful.
But tired of admiring the place, I decided to approach the high counter to be attended by the woman who continued to look at us.
"Hello, how can I help you?" The woman had short yellow hair and her eyes were partially closed, but I could see their color a little, they were brown, it was a dark brown, almost black.
She had a kind voice, so I answered her with a smile: "Okay, we're here to host us."
"Okay, that's 30 copper coins a night, 50 if you want breakfast, lunch, and dinner prepared here." Wait, isn't that too cheap?
If you're wondering if this is expensive or cheap, this is cheap. 100 copper coins are enough to get a silver coin, and so on, the highest value is the platinum coin, neither my mom and dad seem to have seen one of these in their lives.
Well, it's a really big value.
But even though it is not very expensive, I decided to talk about Rose: "So, Rose told me that I would get a discount if I talked about her, is it true? Hahaha." I was ashamed, I could die so ashamed I was feeling.
The woman noticed this, then gave a gentle smile.
"So the mile daughter who sent you? This is surprising, it is very rare for her to do something like this, even if the inn is from her family ..."
"Wait, you're Rose's mother, are you serious?" Unable to hold back her surprise, Lisandra approaches up onto the counter and looked deeply into the woman's eyes.
"Yes, I don't look like her at all, do I? I think she pulled her father more ... Well, it doesn't matter now. My name is Sara, it's a pleasure to meet you."
"Ah, I haven't introduced myself yet, my name is Noah, this is my older sister, Lisandra."
"I understand, but now that we have introduced ourselves, how about we talk about business? My daughter would be angry if I didn't give you the discount. So how about 40 copper coins with the meal included? If you don't want the meal, it is only 20 coins a night. "
My god, this is very cheap, I even feel bad about accepting it, but there's nothing to do, it's good to save.
"Okay, here it is." I handed her three silver coins. It was enough for 7 days, in fact, it didn't exactly give the exact amount, but everything was fine.
"It's paid, if you want to extend the period after the 7 days have passed, you can come and talk to me, okay? I'll take you to your respective rooms." Soon after, she came out from behind the counter and signaled for us to follow her, then we went upstairs.
Of course, I was having a little trouble carrying my bags as I went up the stairs. Even though it is not heavy, it made my moves very difficult.
"Come here, I will help you." Seeing that I had a little difficulty, Sara took one of the bags to help me, Lisandra then did the same, so I managed to go up the stairs without problems.

Lucio, a powerful adventurer. At 36 years old, he was already an S-RANK adventurer.
There were some friends too, but unfortunately, his friends were the ones who brought his death.

A goddess who was watching her death thought this.

'I think I should give him another chance. ' Or something like that. 

Lucio, who found himself in a blank space, looking at a beautiful woman, received the news that he had died.

Furthermore, he also discovered his own Status because the goddess showed it to him. Are the numbers not too high?

"You were an S-RANK adventurer... Of course, the numbers would be high."

"Oh, it's true," Lucian said.

"And now that you know of the existence of this Status, I'm going to send you to another world, okay?"

"Eh?"

"Don't worry, I'll explain it better in the future."

"Hey, wait a minute."

And so he was reincarnated as Noah.

A boy with a loving family and an overprotective mother.

Also, he had a maid who seems to be in love with him.

His life started well until the new information turned his life into hell.

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Gu Ruoyun said nothing else. She gently stroked her chin and fell silent.
It seems that I will need to speed up on improving my powers.
My powers on the West Spirit Mainland could be considered extremely formidable but this is the East Peak Mainland. Not only am I being watched by that man who calls himself 'this Holy One', I'll have to factor in Godfather's powerful enemy as well...
So, my powers are still not strong enough.
...
It was nightfall and the moonlit sky was silent.
As the spiritual beast egg has been taken away by someone else, the other organizations began to make their way out. Soon, only the Red Lotus Territory members still remained in the snowy forest.
Inside her tent, Gu Ruoyun was staring at Zixie who was standing in front of her. She then asked him a question with a smile that did not reach her eyes, "How is it that I'm unaware that you've become such a glutton?"
Xiao Zixie rolled his eyes and replied, "This spiritual beast egg had originally belonged to me."
"Belonged to you?" Gu Ruoyun felt suspicious, "Could it be that you've had a little phoenix with another female phoenix? Why would you then eat your own child?"
Hearing this, Xiao Zixie's little face flushed red with anger and he pouted with rage, "I had placed the egg there before I had met you. That thing stores my power and it's not just an ordinary spiritual beast egg. I'm only taking back my power. I certainly never had any babies with a female phoenix. However, if you're willing, we can make a baby."
Gu Ruoyun's face was instantly covered with black lines, "I'm not interested in spiritual beasts. However, you said that that spiritual beast egg stores you power. Why had you done so?"
"This..." Xiao Zixie's eyes darted back and forth before he smiled impishly, "There's no need for you to bother about that. Besides, I've retrieved the power which rightly belongs to me but I'll need some time to fully digest it. Before the time comes, I'll need you to help me."
"What?"
"I need the feather of the Vermillion Bird! Find the Vermillion Bird and get one feather for me. That feather can help me fuse with my power and my power level will then increase! At least, it wouldn't be any worse than your cheap Father."
Gu Ruoyun fell silent before speaking again, "Since that's the case, let's be on our way now."
"You're not going to stay with that cheap Father of yours?"
"There's no need. I'll leave him a letter and we can set off to find the Vermillion Bird. It's also about time for me to exact my revenge on the Xia family! Once this has been done, I'll go to Red Lotus Territory to see my godfather again."
Gu Ruoyun raised her head towards Xiao Zixie as she spoke.
Xiao Zixie nodded, "Alright, let's go right now. Once I've fused with this power, I'll be able to help your cheap Father in his revenge at the very least! Even though I won't be able to reach adulthood just yet."
After the two had finished their discussion, Gu Ruoyun immediate found a brush and paper. She wrote her letter and used the cover of night to her advantage, slipping away in the dark.
When the next day arrived and the members of the Red Lotus went to summon Gu Ruoyun, all they found was an empty tent and a piece of paper sitting quietly on the floor under a rock. The members of the Red Lotus wasted no time and handed the paper to the man in red.
The man in red took a deep breath and sighed, "Since she has other matters to attend to, leave her be. We'll look for the Mysterious Cloud Fruit first then send someone to find her whereabouts."
As he spoke, the space between his brows showed signs of anxiety. However, when he remembered Gu Ruoyun's display of power, his heart relaxed.
This little girl's powers are formidable and she has many trump cards. I'm certain that she'll blend right into this mainland like a fish in the sea. Perhaps in the not too distant future, I'll be able to hear news of her even if I'm in the Red Lotus Territory... 
Perhaps the man in red himself did not know that he had predicted the future in that sense and that day would come so quickly...


She has come a long way.

Orphaned, born a weakling, and being the infamous good-for-nothing of Azure Dragon Country. Gu Ruoyun was the shame of the proud Gu household. Falsely accused of a crime she did not commit, she was betrayed by her family and beaten to death by her own grandfather. But life took a fateful twist on that very day — she was revived. 

Newly awakened, she is now the Master of an ancient treasure that resides within her body. Precious cultivation pills, treasures beyond her wildest imagination and spiritual beasts, all within her grasp... She is the apple of the eye of all under the heavens, including that of a mysterious, handsome man. 

Now she only has one goal — to conquer the world. 


As the two debate on the best way to build their future car, Alex shrunk and stored the large vehicle in his space and enter the house. Using his memories, he enters Rika room and stores the locker altogether. Remembering a car dealer of a luxury mark and another sports car, Alex popped to those stores and swept the places clean, pocketing a dozen different vehicles in both.
Shizuka didn't even realise he was momently gone, and both rapidly packed all her clothes before returning to the compound.
While Shizuka happily put her clothes away in their shared walk-in closet, Alex looked around for the girls. Seeing Rei and Saya in the fitness room, Alex left them alone for now; after briefly warning them, he would pass the following hours in his workshop and work on their car.
~~~
Entering his workshop, Alex took out all the cars, returning them to their original size in the 1,000 square expanded room.
"Ok, let's see what we have here." Alex returned to his bench and its shelves. Opening a small box and overturns it, a mountain of mithril nuggets rained on a charmed opening on the bench. Without his intervention, 2kg ingots started to exit another slot at the front, transfigurate by the enchantments.
In the past days, Alex collected thousands of those nuggets from the high way gate'.
'A shame I wasn't aware that the amount of mithril they give would raise with their rank." Alex sighed at the loss of potential metal.
-Your greedy cat! I rank undead already give 100g nuggets, 110g for the H rank one. With just the first batch of those at the school, that was already 55.9kg of mithril! That without speaking about the thousands of undeads constantly attracted to the gate, giving you a constant amount!- Shouted CS back at Alex shameless claim.
As CS said, the enchantments on the bench were rapidly producing ingots per dozen.
"I know, but still, building this car won't be cheap. Not only I will need a lot of mithril, but gold too. Remember that I need ten kilos of gold for every kilo of true gold. Even if it's diluted in the alloy, the main part of the car won't be cheap."
Hearing Alex words mollified CS as he thought of them.- Fair enough, but you shouldn't need most of it. The only point I see you need it would be for the motor. As it would need the best magical propriety, a foregone conclusion; for the rest, I think raw mithril and magic steel should be enough.-
"Yes, that should be for the best; other than the motor, magical circuits would need to be made of the alloy, but that should be all. Alright, let get started!"
~~~
Rather than immediatly launch himself in the production straight away, both passed some hours to craft a particular drone. Contrary to the previous one, the drone was much more complex but should answer their immediate need. This specific drone had the form of the SHEILD helicarrier, if only on a smaller scale.
Crafting another automaton and its control room on the spot, Alex sends the next drone to its task, securing a large amount of gold present in the Australian surface ground. Thanks to the drone's previous task, Alex didn't even need to lost time, sending it there through a timed Portkey, recalling it every night to process the harvested gold.
His problem took care of; Alex turned to the dozens of cars he accumulates today and slowly started to deconstruct them, rapidly gathering their complete data.

A Lost soul left for aeons alone until it fates was alternate. Send through worlds once stories, he would carve his own path, and live his life without concern of his arrival.

After one night's consideration Gu Chaoyan found that selling the stores was indeed a wonderful method. And Gu Chaoyan already got the candidate of the buyer.
Zhou Huaijin!
It was not very easy to survive in the capital.
Look at Mrs. Gu who was running a useless business. She had a garment store at such a wonderful place, but she was still selling the cheap garments.
So she had thought that it was because Mrs. Gu was not good at doing business, but after a thorough consideration, she realized that Mrs. Gu was not a stupid woman. She should have some knowledge as a lady born in an official family.
If she was not stupid, why was she using the best store to run the most ordinary business?
The only explanation was that that was the only business she was able to run.
Why?
The stores on Chang'an Street were all managed by the wives of those highly-ranked officers, and it was already a fixed thing which person ran what business. Mrs. Gu did not dare to run a luxurious business to steal their business, if she wanted to keep the stores.
Therefore, even if she took them over it was still a hot issue to deal with.
She wanted to make full use of the stores and earn a great deal of money from it. So she had to devote herself to do the work.
However, with her social status and abilities, she was not able to make a big fuss without causing much trouble.
So she needed to get Zhou Huaijin involved.
She was going to sell half of her stores to Zhou Huaijin. In this way, she was going to get the money and a supporter behind her back at the same time. What a wonderful deal.
As she was thinking about these, Chaoyan kept planning.
"Miss…" Sword One called with a small voice. When she saw how Miss behaved, she understood that something weird was going on.
"Sword One, we need to get out of the mansion today." Because Gu Chaoyan was cheered up as she thought about the plan, she said it with a bright smile on the face.
Sword One felt that those managers were going to suffer a lot today.
"Which store are we going to visit today?" Sword One asked. Sword Four was going to do some work too, if she was going to visit the stores.
"None." Gu Chaoyan smiled and said, "We are going to Lord Huai's Mansion!"
What?
Sword One looked confused.
What were they heading to the Lord Huai's Mansion for? Could it be because she missed Lord Huai? That would make the Lord so happy.
"I will make preparations now." Sword One said.
Gu Chaoyan nodded.
When no one was around Gu Chaoyan sneaked into the space with her consciousness again to check up on the fruit trees. She was startled.
The small saplings were now growing so rapidly with small fruits dangling back and forth. The fruits were not ripe, but Gu Chaoyan felt that the fruits would become completely ripe by night.
What was more, Gu Chaoyan found that the space had been expanded.
If the situation went on like this, she was going to start her plan of getting the herbs in the mountains as soon as possible. Otherwise the space would be wasted!
She was thinking about getting ordinary ginseng planted here so that they could become the valuable kind.
Gu Chaoyan was in the middle of her beautiful imagination when Qing's voice arose from outside the space. "Miss, someone from the Lin Family is here to see you!"


Gu Chaoyan is the eldest daughter of the Gu Family, yet the least favorite one. She is mostly despised and belittled by everyone around, only because she isn't pretty. 
Left alone in her shabby Qiong Pavilion, she survives hard with her only friend, the maid, Qing, and expects to marry Prince Lu Jiming whom she adores deeply. However, the Prince betrays her and even drives her into jumping into a lake to kill her. 
Fortunately, Gu Chaoyan survives and gets reborn, with the soul of an agent from the 21st century. From that moment on, Gu Chaoyan becomes someone totally different. She is no longer weak, clinging or naïve. She uses her knowledge through medicine and makes herself pretty and slender. She also strikes back at those who bullied and looked down on her. Moreorover, she successfully attracts Lord Huai, the beloved child of the King and Queen. 
They develop a relationship with each other and help each other throughout their lives. In this way, she not only manages to take revenge but also gains a high-level social status of herself as well as a dear love for her life a second time.

That breakthrough was the biggest gain he had in his cultivation so far. Jan Long was cultivating a transformation path for now. He was training in bear transformation. He was just rank two Gu master, thus he picked one of the easiest mainstream transformations. Gu worms necessary for this transformation were easy to find in stores. Besides, the bears had good offense and defense. His transformation was acceptable at best. It took too much of his focus to stay transformed and transforming into bear and back to human took even more focus, time, and primeval essence.
When Jan Long was planning for the future development of his training he suddenly had a breakthrough.
Jan Long was resting on his bed in a tiny apartment at Sheng clan city. He was thinking about cultivation paths he would like to try out, while he played with a primeval essence stone in his hand.
I almost experienced all cultivation paths I could find with my resources. I don't think I am able to find any interesting ones like time, wisdom, human, heaven, or luck paths. My resources are limited and even if I had more primeval stones I don't think I can find a rare path cultivator willing to teach in this place. Anyway, my understanding of paths is much clearer now. It's probably time to pick one of the paths I experienced as my secondary path. Sigh, if I had a chance to learn more paths I would make a better decision. I am not as lucky as Fang Yuan after all..
Wait for a second.
How come I did not think about this before?
Jan Long jumped from the bed and reached for the book he wrote years ago. It was the memories about the original novel he wrote when he was living in Jan clan village. Book was written in his native language from earth. He was sure that even if someone found the book no one would be able to read it.
Here it is, a rank 8 Fortune Rivalling Heaven Gu. In the RI novel, Fang Yuan came across the person who had this Gu's effects on him. When Fang Yuan tried to kill that person, his luck dropped to the bottom. However, when he tried to think of a way to help Ma Hong Yun, Fang Yuan's luck rose. I am just speculating here, but, if I remember correctly, Fang Yuan really got his luck increased just because he had good intentions towards Ma Hong Yun. Why can't I replicate his success?
Jan Long gasped and became nervous just by thinking about his future benefits if his theory was correct.
Ok, I need to calm down and think about this.
First, I don't know if Ma Hong Yun already has this Gu. I don't remember every detail of the original novel. Next, I am not near to that person, I am not even in the northern plains, so it might not work. And finally, I need to measure somehow if it works or not.
Thinking about this, Jan Long rushed to the nearest rock gambling store. He never paid much attention to those stores. He knew from his previous life that gambling facilities were there to earn money and not to give away money to its customers. However, it was the best place to test his luck theory.
Jan Long stood in front of the store entrance.
Good, I need to calm down. I need to use a scientific method and experiment with my luck. Jan Long rented a secluded room in the store and started his plan.
I will start wishing good luck and all the good things I can think of to Ma Hong Yun and see what will happen.
Jan Long brought 5 cheapest rocks and opened them, - nothing happened.
Hmm, maybe I have to direct my thoughts towards the rank 8 Gu itself.
Jan Long started almost praying to rank 8 fortune rivalling heaven Gu and brought another 5 cheapest rocks.
He opened them and still there was nothing.
Ok, it's not a time to give up just yet.
I don't even know who Ma Hong Yun is, it's not even his real name. His appearance and looks might also play a role in this. I need to focus on details.
Thus, Jan Long started praying towards Ma Hong Yun who was just a kid in the northern plains. He imagined his life full of hardships and wished to him everything positive man can experience in his life.
Jan Long had a dazed look while he was focused on Ma Hong Yun and rank 8 fortune rivalling heaven Gu.
After about five minutes he picked another five cheap rocks. Cracks appeared on the rocks one after another, Jan Long was flabbergasted.
Four out of five rocks actually had a Gu in it. They were just rank one Gus and one of them was almost dead. For a common person this would be a good harvest. Gu prices still were high for a normal person. Initial investment in five rocks were recovered in an instant and even brought some income.
However Jan Long knew what this outcome meant. It wasn't just a matter of a few primeval stones.
He struck gold this time.
O my god, I did it, I fucking did it, with this, everything will change. Jan Long's heart was about to jump out of his chest. He almost fainted from the happiness. His hands were shaking. He wanted to scream from happiness, rush to the nearest person and share the surprising results of his experiment.
"Calm down, Jan Long calm down. Breath in breath out, breath in breath out." - Said Jan Long to himself to calm down a bit. After he clamed down, he left rock gambling store.
Just to make sure Jan Long repeated this experiment several times. He would just pick random rocks at different rock gambling stores and bring it home. Dissecting rocks himself took time and primeval essence. But most importantly, he didn't want to attract attention. Renting a room at a rock gambling store was expensive and would attract too much attention if he often rented rooms.
Every time he used his method, he would be lucky and find several Gus in rocks. Once he even found rank two Gu in the cheapest rock he picked. Usually cheap rocks only had a chance to have a rank 1 Gu inside of it.
Although rock gambling seemed profitable, Jan Long calculated that it would take years before he became filthy rich. Even if he gained a huge fortune, he had no strength to defend his wealth. Using rank 8 fortune rivalling heaven Gu's power on cheap rocks would be a waste. He wanted to try some of the expensive rocks. That way, he might even find a good Gu that he can use. Gus that he found before were sold for a small price. For him, it was just an extra income, nothing more.
I have to take my time. There is no rush needed. Fang Yuan kills Ma Hong Yun after many years, so I have more than enough time to abuse this glitch in the RI novel system. Jan Long decided to buy two high middle grade rocks a month. The cheapest rocks were scrap grade. Middle grade ones weren't the most expensive but they had a chance having Gus rank two and higher. Those were the Gu he needed now. He knew that Shang clan had spies everywhere, if rank two refinement Gu master started wasting huge money on gambling, some of the spies might take interest in him. He had to be careful.

This is a fanfiction of “Reverend Insanity” novel. Main character is a RI novel fan and he gets reincarnated in to Gu cultivation world without cheats. He uses his knowledge to overcome obstacles and starting from the bottom, he walks on his own path.

I would like to say that Mother's birthday went without a hitch, but the truth is that because of the visual impact of the dress I was chased relentlessly for the whole night.

The next day I receive many letters with either requests for my help in organization of parties or dates. Ignoring the date letters I started to wonder if I should open an store that focus or oganizing parties, I could be in charge of the store and leave Leo like the active CEO of IP.

This way I could have fun, get the money and don't have the headaches of having to manage my beautiful empire.

Alas, is too early to think about this right now. We barely started and everyone is still unused to the stores operations. Furthermore IP didn't pass through any big storms, if I'm not inside the boat with everyone else, won't I be an incompetent captain?

Since I don't have too much time to spare, I decided to organize the parties of those who were very close to our family, whereas the ones that I was not familiar with I declined to organize, but said I could give them suggestions if they wrote to me their ideas/wishes.

'This way I won't offend nobody and I won't close the doors to event organization business'

-

Do you know when I said that IP didn't passed through any storms?

Welcome sailor! We are now on board of the ship Imperium Pacem. We suggest that you grab tightly the rails since we are about to enter a furious storm! 

I really do have a crow's mouth *sigh*

What storm can possibly shake me this much, you ask?

Let me give a run down of the situation. 

A week ago stores similar to Temone, Fame and Pontus started to open. It's normal that popular things to be reproduce by other sources besides its original one, and we always knew that if the stores succeeded we would probably have similar types opening after. The stores offered the same concept with a cheaper price. The 'imitation' stores made our clientele drop significantly, leaving only our regulars as a stable client. However I was not to worried about. The price we charge is based on the food and service offered, if they could reproduce the same standards in a cheaper price and still get profit, I will certainly bow down to the evil forces. As such, I reassure my employees to not worry and offer the same type of service they always have.

'We shall see who is the best'

Said and done. After 2 weeks of the new stores boom, their heat died down and some clients that went to the new stores came back complaining how inferior they were. Cheap food and horrible service. The thing about copycats is that they will never be as good as the original. It's a fact. 

Our food was developed with so much care for so long and most of our staff was trained personally by me, when I needed partners to suffer the hell training together with me, so having them serving is like having trained nobles serving you. It's impossible that stores that barely opened could offer the same quality. Maybe one or two can come close but again, originals are always better.

When we thought that the storm went down, another huge wave hit the our ship. 15 of our 20 partners on Asters asked to be release for contract. 

This time I panicked a little. I couldn't understand why partners that only gain with our deal would suddenly withdraw. But because it was always a possibility to, there was a term on the contract stating that the side that wanted to break the contract to need to pay for the other side the whole value of loss that would cause based on the sales made and the time left on the contract. 

Although I lost money on a long term, I was not to bother by it, we should just recontact the other stores and re-offered the deal. Since Asters has grew in popularity, I was sure it would be an easy task. However, to my surprise most of the stores denied to sell their goods on our store. At the end of a tiring week only 5 brands accepted to work with us. From 20 brands, now we only have 10.

"To many things are happening at almost the same time"

"You are right, I barely had any sleep yesterday"

"Don't you think is weird? The stores were expected to open only a month or so for now. Besides, the sales from our partners were good, but not good enough for them to go solo again"

"Hmm... now that you said makes sense. Leo, ask someone to investigate if there is someone moving strings from behind. The faster the better, I think that the mastermind will still attempt something"

Thinking about it, I wonder what was the next step of our opponent.

If I wanted to destroy a company what would I do?

Hmm...

I would discredit their products and do a equal or better version of their products after the fall in the company's reputation.

Think so I quickly went to the Royal Palace.

'It's time to use my connections'

After being reincarnated into a world of otome game as a villainess character, I fell in the routine situation of death flags+broke engagement.

The prince doesn’t want me? Please, who will want a Scum Prince as a husband? I don’t. Let’s break this engagement and with my knowledge from the previous life, I will aim for a peaceful life!

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Cover art is not mine!

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• This book is inspired on webnovels that I read, so he will probably similar in some points to some readings that you guys had!

• English is not my native language, so without a doubt that will be some errors. If you guys spot one and be kind enough to put in the comments, I appreciate.

• This is a book written by a reader that got upset with some of her readings 

~ thank you for reading my book ~

Zhang Zian looked at the Persian cat that Boss Afei was pointing at and said, "10,000 yuan."

"What?" Boss Afei stood up. "Are you trying to rob money from the customers? That price is absolutely outrageous!"

Zhang Zian was not bothered by his words and suggested, "Then you can buy it from someone else."

Boss Afei was surprised for a moment, and then he laughed. "Brother, please don’t trick smart people here. Why is your store’s cats more expensive than a CFA-certified shop’s? Who do you think you are?"

Zhang Zian knew right away that this person just wanted to bargain the price down, so he decided not to argue with him. But after seeing the rest of the people all waiting for his answer, he started explaining, "CFA-certified stores are not necessary selling CFA-certified cats. But if any CFA certification is needed, it could be easily done by applying for it online and just paying the fee. By the way, a CFA-certified Persian cat is not cheap…"

Boss Afei seemed to totally disagree. "Anyway, other stores’ cats are better than yours."

Zhang Zian did not want to argue with him and calmly answered, "The word 'good' has a wide range of meanings. If you think 'good' refers to pedigree and appearance, then I have nothing to say. You can buy the cat from other stores, and I will have no opinion on it."

"May I ask, Mr. Manager, what is CFA certification?" Jiang Qianxue raised her hand and asked Zhang Zian curiously, like a little girl. 

Wang Qian and Li Kun said aloud in unison, "Do not call him ‘Mister.’ Call him ‘Master’!"

"Shut up, you two!" Zhang Zian said angrily.

"CFA is an abbreviation for Cat Fanciers’ Association, which is headquartered in the United States and organizes cat shows around the world every year," explained Zhang Zian seriously. "It is a community organization, but it sounds better as it is from the USA." 

"Bullsh*t!" Boss Afei sneered. "The person who was not able eat the grapes thought they were sour."

Zhang Zian said, "You can continue to say so."

An audience named "Future Online Games" sent a "crab" sign and messaged, "My family has a CFA-certified cat. Miss Jiang, can you help me ask the manager whether anything is wrong with CFA-certified cats?

Jiang Qianxue asked Zhang Zian, "Mr. Manager, my audience would like to know whether anything is wrong with CFA-certified cats?"

Zhang Zian put down the book. "Nothing is wrong. If you pay special attention to pedigree and appearance, then there is no problem buying a CFA-certified cat, but CFA-certified cats can be good and bad, so please be careful when you identify them... Anyway, it was my personal opinion of only buying the cats categorized as pets instead of showcase ones."

"What is that?" Jiang Qianxue didn’t not understand the difference between regular pets and showcase ones, nor did her audience, so she tried to ask Zhang Zian further questions to find out. 

Zhang Zian continued, "CFA sets the standard, so we all desperately meet that standard. The so-called standard is the cat’s appearance. In order to maintain and repeatedly strengthen the appearance, inbreeding is inevitable. As for the side effects of inbreeding, if you do not know, please go back to your middle-school biology books..."

"Mr. Manager, among all your pets, are there any similar problems?" asked Jiang Qianxue.

"I only sell those pets which were selected by me personally from the breeding base. The breeding base has a large number of pets, unlike smaller pets’ houses which focuses on a few. Although the breeding base does not have the best quality pets, which I admit, one thing I can guarantee is that the pets there are healthy."

While he was speaking, Fina's ears pricked up, listening very seriously, and its tail, with its dark-gold ring patterns, shook slightly.

Jiang Qianxue patted her head. "Thank you, Mr. Manager, for teaching me some new knowledge!"

"Learning knowledge with Miss Jiang!" some of the audience posted online.

Zhang Zian nodded modestly. "It was just my personal opinion. Please don’t be angry with me if your audience has pets’ houses."

After he finished talking, he looked at the two British Shorthairs playing with each other. Their eyes were quite different, not as round as the one’s sold to Zhao Qi. According to the CFA standards, they were not considered as good as Zhao Qi’s cat.

"I only sell purebred cats and purebred dogs, but I do not think the mixed strings are very poor quality, although I will not survive if I decide to do so. No one wanted to come to a pet shop to buy non-purebred pets? If anyone wants to get one, they can easily pick one up on the street." He laughed.

Zhang Zian concluded his explanation, "The CFA standard is mainly to judge the appearance of a cat, suitable for those who focus more on a cat’s look, but whether the cat is smart, healthy, loving, or obedient, it will be difficult to tell from the CFA’s shows. Usually there are so many people at the shows that most cats are scared to move. If you mistakenly believe that to be 'obedience,' you are absolutely wrong."

"Nonsense! CFA at least has its specific standard. How about you? Smart, healthy, loving, and obedient, these are all hard-to-judge characteristics. Who knows if it is true! But anyway, there is no reason at all to sell at such a high price!" Boss Afei said angrily, and he put his hands into his pocket.

At this time, the audiences online who were quietly listening could not hold back anymore...

"Is it any of your business how much the owner wants to sell his pets?"

"You are so greedy and cheap. You are worse than my mom. If you don’t like the price, go somewhere else. No one is forcing you to buy anything!"

Zhang Zian responded to Boss Afei, "Who says I don’t have standards here?"

Boss Afei laughed hard. "Would you like to give these cats IQ tests?"

"I don’t need those tests." Zhang Zian sat up, putting down his book and clapping his hands three times. 

After hearing Zhang Zian’s claps, the cats stopped playing, and even the British Shorthair that was so enjoying the guest girl’s rubbing got away from her hands right away. They all stared straight up at Zhang Zian.

Even people who knew nothing about cats could tell some strange things were happening. It seemed like someone issued a "get to work" command and the kittens changed from play mode to work mode in an instant.

Zhang Zian snapped his fingers, and the kittens immediately ran around in a figure eight.

After they finishing running, the kittens went back to their original positions. Zhang Zian snapped his fingers again, and the kittens immediately did the run one more time and then uniformly went back to their starting points.

"What do you think of my cats? They can understand and follow my orders, which at least proves them to be smart and obedient, right? If they have problems in their physical coordination and strength, they will not run as stably or accurately as this, so we could say that they are absolutely healthy. But whether they are close to humans or not, you have to see with your own eyes."

He then clapped his hands twice. The kittens got his signals and went from work mode back to play mode, chasing each other around the feet of several guests.

Thanks to Fina, Zhang Zian had successfully used the signals and commands to control the kittens. It seemed that Fina had some kind of mysterious and powerful energies, such that no cats dared to disobey it.

Zhang Zian went back to his couch and continued reading.

"Wow, that was amazing! "

"Were those some kind of movie special effects?"

"I am going to cover my face. Compared with those cats, mine seems too stupid..."

"10,000 yuan for a cat who knows how to do stunts is really reasonable!"

"That is insanely cheap!"

"I am on my way to the store. Miss Jiang, Can you ask the manager to save an American Shorthair cat for me!"


1. Download a suspicious game
2. Catch a few magical pets as partners
3. Go through interesting daily routines and lead the pet shop to a whole new level

There was cheap grain available, but with the bullsh*t of a limited purchase, most people loathed it and felt repelled by it. Hejiang County was not a big area, but it wasn't small, either. It was truly troublesome to come to the store just for one or two days worth of grain.
"You guys are almost out of the storage, right? Otherwise why would you prompt some limited purchase if you can make money?" There was a male voice from inside the mass of people. He wore coarse clothes and his hair was tied up with a grass rope. There was nothing special about him.
In the meantime, the citizens around the stores seemed to grasp his point and they were abuzz with speculation. "Just admit that you don't have any more. What's the point of this limited purchase? There are other stores in Hejiang besides you guys. It's no longer safe in the current situation. We come all the way here just for some grain… What happens if we will encounter some bad guys and get ourselves in trouble?"
That resonated with what many people were considering. They became even more concerned about the limited purchase amount.
Just for that penny's worth amount of grain, they would have to take the risk of their own safety to be at the store. Wasn't it harmful to the people?
"Exactly! Give us a definite word about if you actually have some stored or not. If you do, just make it quick. If you don't, we are not wasting our time on you. We'd rather go to the other stores just in case the price goes up again. Will you take the responsibility for our loss?"
"These unscrupulous profiteers. You are not much cheaper than the others and you came up with some bullshit like this… Is your grain still for sale or not? If not, we are leaving!" There were some unfriendly, acrimonious voices coming out of the mass. Every single word was targeting the store and making the citizens uncertain.
Qiguan Rang stood aside calmly. He had a sharper pair of ears than the rest of the people and he could tell that some of them were trying to make the citizens angry with the store, even if they didn't make it sound that way. The way they described it was more intense, but not malevolent. Instead of alienating, it was more like misleading the citizens and heating up the atmosphere.
However, he didn't stand up to clarify the advantage of the limited purchase amount. He simply concentrated on the store with relish.
He wanted to know what back up plans Liu Langjun had.
The scene was turning ugly and most of the citizens were instigated to fury and became more tense. The manager pulled up his long outfit, stepped over the threshold, and bowed at the mass. His face was full of trepidation. The noise slowly cut off.
"Everybody, thanks to all of you looking after us on a daily basis, we can gain a foothold as a small business in Hejian County." The manager was obviously lying through his teeth, but he spoke words that the citizens bought. Their heated emotions eased a bit.
"Who doesn't know how to talk sweet? We would rather hear something more realistic. Do you have grain or not? I collected enough money for doing a large purchase, but now I'm being told some bull about a limited purchase amount. You meant to cause us trouble, right?" A voice came out of nowhere. It didn't sound like a nice voice.
The manager still had the sweat on his forehead from his busy work earlier. He had a bitter smile when he said, "What you just said was definitely immoral, my friends. This limited purchase is for the sake of everyone here. How could it be causing trouble? Of course we have grain––a lot of it…"
"Then what's the point of this limited purchase amount? Are you still doing business or not?"
The manager didn't even finish his sentence when the same voice interrupted him again. Some people in the crowd started to sympathize for him.
His attitude was rather modest and he kept a low profile, but he was cornered by some aggressive people.
"Of course we are still doing the business, but we are also implementing this limited purchase amount." He gave another bow with his both hands folded in front. He said in a serious tone, "In this insecure world, who doesn't want their grain containers full? But we all saw the recent grain price change…"
"You know you are selling overpriced grain but you won't just lower it. Are you kidding?"
Qiguan Rang almost burst out in laughter when he heard the conversation back and forth between the manager and the "aggressive client" that Jiang Pengji had paid for the show.
Liu Langjun was really an extraordinary person to come up with such a sneaky plan.
The manager thumped his chest and shouted at the crowd, "It's not like that. Who doesn't want to make money for business?"
The crowd was quiet. The manager was confident with his speech because he had rehearsed it multiples times earlier that day.
"It's just that we have our own morality. We despise the behavior, which is the same as looting a burning house. Why we are doing it anyway? It is truly because we have no other choice. Just think about it. If I keep the price low as usual, who would benefit the most? Would it be you citizens, or those who have the wicked intention of making your wealth by restocking more grain for later? Our store, including the other two stores that belong to the Liu's, sold two thousand dans in one day."
Two thousand dans? That was not bad transaction at all. Why would they still stick to the limited purchase amount even though they had quite a bit of storage?
Some of the crowd was still in the haze, but some had already realized the reason.
It was very likely that the major portion of the two thousand dans were bought off by people who intended to restock for themselves instead of the citizens in need.
"At this speed, in not more than a week, our storage will be empty…" The manager didn't sound confident about the time frame. It might not be a week––it would actually be incredible if it lasted more than three days. "Our master wandered back and forth and he finally came up with an idea in order to ensure the real people got what they needed. And the price during the period of the limited purchase amount will be lower than the current price…"
All the previous angry words were outweighed by, "The price during the period of the limited purchase amount will be lower than the current price."
The price in their store was indeed much pricier than the usual price, but it was still much lower than the stores that had increased their prices by about ten times more than usual.
Most people wouldn't be able to afford it if they had to.
Many people in the crowd were convinced by the theory. They were in favor with the store.
The manager pushed a bit hard and made a loud statement, "My friends, it is not an easy time for anyone at the moment, but God bless us that we are going to have a tiny harvest season this year. I'm sure you guys will get your hands on harvesting in two to three months. This critical shortage of grain will be eased by that time and no one will be suffering from starvation any more. To be honest, we don't make as much as a small business, but it's okay as long as it helps my friends make it through this rough time until the harvest season. It won't matter much to me if we are making the expected money or not, but at least I won't be beaten by my conscious. What do you guys say? Business is business. But I have my principles when I do business."
Qiguan Rang raised his fan up to cover the smile on his lips. It was a gorgeous play by Liu Langjun.
Using the limited purchase amount to suppress the grain price would normally get whoever used the trick killed. It did touch some certain people's interests in a bad way.
It was shame that Liu Langjun wouldn't end up like that because of his identity and his nobility. He was the first son of the second branch of the Liu's.
As long as Liu She was still alive, the gentry clans would always fear him.
The limited purchase amount would make a big loss for the black-hearted profiteers who were determined to make a great profit. But so what?
Anyone who wanted to harm Liu Xi had to go through Liu She.
The business was flourishing still and the citizens came for the grain in droves.
For them, even though they had to take an extra two or four hour trips to the store, everything would be worth it as long as they could get the cheap grain.
"This is real business."
A large number of citizens could not help but be impressed and adme the Lius' store, especially when they found out that the other stores increased their grain prices again.
"Langting gained both fame and wealth this time." Qiguan Rang enjoyed the show and got on the road to visit Jiang Pengji immediately after it was over.


Jiang Pengji got something called the Court Intrigue Stream System.
System: "Your goal is to become the most prestigious woman in the kingdom (the Queen)!" 
Jiang Pengji: "Okay, System. No problem!"
Years later, she met the target by becoming the most prestigious woman (the Empress).
Jiang Pengji: "Well done, no?"
System: "Why the hack did you fight on horseback? I want court intrigue among the King's women!"

#how a future general wins the ancient throne
#Her man watches in silence, the System watches with tears

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