this a story about what could have happened if natzu was not born in the fairy tail 

I do not own the right to fairy tail

A few months into the next lap of the race I've been made to set course on since life went south for me; I take a detour into uncertainty but potential freedom. I used to be the product of a great love story. Now I'm just a reminder of all that is left of the ashes of its decay.

Nature, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water these 5 elements have been the base for all cultivation techniques for centuries. Starting at age 6 you get three chances to find a cultivation technique that resonates with your soul. If you can't find the perfect technique by the third time your future potential will crumble to dust.

Sects only select cultivators that have a technique that resonates with them and the heirs to major family clans follow the same rules and have, for centuries protected the status quo of how the world is run. Until one day a new entity came to be from the frustration of two people burned by the way of the world.

The power of the electric hotpot was turned up, and soon the bone broth bubbled again. The beef and mutton slices rolled about in the soup—it was steaming.
Li Du waved his hand. "Let's eat."
Without any hesitation, Godzilla took the ladle and scooped the meat into his big bowl. He had eaten hotpot with Li Du to a few times back in Flagstaff, and was familiar with the seasonings and how to go about it.
Big Quinn was more polite, nodding at Mrs. Li respectfully. "Madam, you first please."
Li Du translated, and Mrs. Li waved her hand. "You guys eat first, you guys eat first. So sorry to have caused all of you to be so tired today—"
Godzilla gulped loudly as he polished off the whole bowl of meat. His long arms stretched out to reach for the ladle as he added more scoops of meat into his bowl.
Mrs. Li had only been halfway through her sentence. "The first bowl—finished already?"
Godzilla answered her with his actions. He poured some sesame peanut sauce into his bowl, and after stirring it up, poured the meat directly into his open mouth.
He gulped. In a few seconds, another bowl of meat was devoured . . .
After chowing down three bowls of meat, there was only half the portion of simmered meat left in the huge hotpot. Only at this juncture did Godzilla pause and asked in puzzlement, "Why isn't everybody eating?"
Li Du laughed and said, "Eat all you want. There's definitely enough meat to go around!"
Godzilla stopped speaking after that. Since he'd started working for Li Du, he'd never been short of food and drink. Therefore, he had been very open in this regard. With no need for words, yet another bowl of meat was wolfed down.
At this time, the people sitting at the next table had noticed the speed at which he was eating. The people who were about to raise their cups to drink from were stunned and all turned their heads to look Godzilla as though they were watching a performance.
Mr. Li was mentally prepared; he had already witnessed Godzilla's prowess at the table the day before.
Big Quinn also had a large appetite, but he ate in a more refined manner. Godzilla usually chowed food down regardless of whether there was a storm brewing, as though he were a starving tiger.
Mrs. Li went to get another portion of sliced beef and mutton. By this time, all the meat in the hotpot had already been eaten up.
With no more meat to eat, Godzilla took a drink instead. He raised the bottle of beer and finished it in one gulp!
Many people on Mr. Li's table had begun to covet him. Someone said, "Old Sun, what did you say in the morning? That someone like him would be able to do many chores, right?"
"F*ck, who can afford to feed such a man? He could probably eat a whole tiger!"
"Able to eat and able to work is the same as able to work and able to eat."
That said, Godzilla's ability to eat was rather extraordinary. There were no chores to be done in Li Du's house for the next few days, and so he would go with Li Du to walk around. And of course, he did eat a lot.
Normally, when Mr.and Mrs. Li were home alone, they could barely finish ten kilograms of meat in a month.
Now that Li Du had come back with three other people, they would eat more than ten kilograms of meat a day. In order to cater to their taste buds, Mrs. Li usually bought beef and mutton.
The huge eaters were Godzilla and Big Quinn, especially Godzilla. He had a one-track mind and favored beef. Each meal would have him eating up to four kilograms worth of beef.
After a few days later, Mrs. Li got well-acquainted with the owner of the butchery. Later on, when she went to buy meat, the owner asked whether she was planning to start a spiced beef business . . .
The reason for Li Du's return was to spend the Spring Festival with his parents. To pass the time, he would bring Hans and the rest to the country and the market to walk around.
Other than walking around, there was really nothing else for him to do.
Those classmates and friends he was close to were all working in the city and not on break yet. There were several classmates and friends in the county but he was not as familiar with them and so they could not hang out together.
Hence, for the next few days, he rented a car and took Hans and the others around.
Li Du was worried about Hans being bored. He kept asking Hans where he wanted to go and where he wanted to explore. They had all the time and money to go wherever they wanted.
It was a new environment to Hans and so he had interest in everything and didn't find it boring. So when Li Du asked where he wanted to go, he told Li Du that he would leave it to him to arrange.
It was mid-January. Li Du had asked him where he wanted to go again, and contrary to past practice, Hans said, "Wo yao qu jin jing shi, qu jin jing shi fan da xue!"
Hans had said this sentence in Mandarin, catching Li Du by surprise. "When did you learn Mandarin? It's not bad, but I don't understand. Where did you say you want to go?"
"Jin jing shi fan da xue," Hans repeated.
Li Du finally understood. "Jin Jing Normal University, right? Why there? There aren't any scenic spots near the school."
Hans laughed but didn't explain, only urging him to go there.
Seeing Hans's coy expression, Li Du immediately guessed what was going on. "Have you been hooking up with some girl?"
Hans was furious. "What do you mean by hooking up? I got to know a Chinese teacher. I asked her to be my teacher, so I'm just going to meet her."
"How did you get to know her?"
Hans hemmed and hawed. "This is personal, I'm not telling you."
"This is my territory. You must listen to me. Otherwise, I will not take you."
After hearing this, Hans had no choice and so he muttered, "We met on that Wechat app you downloaded for me. She's a university student majoring in English, and I'm learning Mandarin from her."
Li Du stroked his chin and asked suspiciously, "Are you thinking of dating her? I told you not to mess around. This is China, the girls in my country are different from those in the US."
Hans rolled his eyes. "I never mess around, don't talk nonsense. I'm just learning Mandarin from her."
"Learning Mandarin—so is there a need for you two to meet?"
"Better to get to know each other, right? Are you taking me there or not? I tell ya, my Mandarin is now very good and I'm capable of grabbing a ride there myself!" Hans threatened.
Li Du reluctantly said, "Yes, yes, yes. You are. I can take you there, but you have to tell me the details."
Without holding anything back, Hans told Li Du all about how he'd ended up getting himself a Chinese teacher.
Almost a week ago, he'd gotten to know a pretty university student on the Internet. She was a top student majoring in English, and so had no difficulty in teaching him.
After chatting with her for two days, Hans thought she was very interesting and said he would like to learn Mandarin from her. The girl then joked that he would need to pay tuition fees.
Hans had asked her how much money she was charging, and her response was that given her high teaching standard, it would cost him 10,000 RMB. Without hesitation, Hans immediately transferred the 10,000 dollars via the chatting app . . . Ten thousand RMB was less than 2,000 US dollars. To a spendthrift like Hans, was this even money? 
Hans, who had been blessed with dashing good looks, had always maintained his good physique. Being humorous and chatty, and now that he'd demonstrated his extraordinary financial prowess, the girl was naturally very friendly to him.
The two grew in familiarity and agreed to meet up. The girl was more careful and had asked him to meet near the university. Hans didn't mind, and so he'd asked Li Du to take him there.
Li Du thought about it. "I see what's going on here. Are you sure you are only trying to make a friend and learn Mandarin at the same time?"
Hans snickered. "Well, if something romantic were to happen—"
"Then you better be prepared to marry her," Li Du interrupted.


They love gold, and they love silver. Even more so, they love gems that dazzle, like stars across the skies. 
Firearms, jewelleries, and precious metals; A collector’s world will not be complete without antiques.  
Storage auctions, old goods trade, re-estate sales and gold-digging. But the truth is, if one wants to make money, then the supreme way is through searching for the legendary treasures. 
Holding the fort, there’s an ocelot, a wolf, and an Andes condor. At the side, there’s a loyal hound, an irascible ape, and an African honey badger. Who said that you can only rely on humans when treasure hunting?! 

Ace picked up the phone, it was his grandmother calling, surprising, not because it was on a Sunday morning, but because it was her calling him, not the other way around.
"Hello Samantha, good morning"
"Good morning to you too, how are things going around there?",  'Ah, she wants to know how the meetings went', Ace thought, thinking of the best way to respond
"Well, for the most part, I made a deal with Lucrum, and as you know, they asked for a meeting. However, as you are probably aware, things with Epsilon did not go as well, she thought I was just a vulnerable kid and tried to blackmail me."
"How did it go?", there was myrrh in her voice, she obviously knew how it went, but she wanted him to tell her, to judge him on what emotions he would display during his response.
"Well, I destroyed her life, and Epsilon knows it, they will now have to try harder, and of course, I will drive an even harder bargain, they will not be happy."
"Good. I am proud of you.", and she hung up
Ace let out a sigh of relief, he knew he had passed her test, he would not even be surprised if she was the one that leaked the info, just as a way to see whether he would comply to her demands, and buckle under pressure.
What Ace did not know, however, was that on the other side of the line, Samantha and Veronica were smiling, happy with how fast and well he had grown.
Ace had a pretty busy day ahead of him, he would have to sort through all his notifications, but luckily, he had a plan to deal with it. There was a reason other than hacking as to why he had wanted to learn how to write programs and code in general. He had another project, this one of great importance, that he had wanted to begin working on since forever. He was going to build his own A.I.
He did not want a stupid one, though, he was going to build a self-learning A.I. A monster that only he would be able to control. He would feed it all the information he could find, on anything, and then have it create a schedule for his life, one that would help him optimise his time to the maximum, without becoming boring or repetitive.
He had built it himself, truthfully, the premise of it was simple, the problem was that it required expensive technology for it to truly shine, it would have to be hooked to a high-speed connection that would allow it to download vast quantities of data in a short time. He had, of course, asked for help from a few of his grandmother's employees. He had promised them that he would share the source code with them. Of course, only before asking his grandmother. 
She was fine with it, they would remain loyal to her no matter what, and having one for the whole group would increase their capabilities by a large margin. Of course, she also knew they would not share the source code themselves since it would create security threats if they did so.
And it was in this way that Ace built Alfred. Ace had not actually chosen the name, the A.I. had, it had for some reason developed an admiration for the resourceful butler, and it seemed that it inspired to be the same. He had fed it all types of information, he had begun with defence protocols it could put in place to protect itself, Ace had put some of his own, but the A.I. would be able to build its own, and update them as it was needed. He had then made it learn all about video games, streaming and social media. It had, for some reason, also learnt about pop-culture, and in one night, had learnt all the internet culture had to offer.
The A.I. that was now hooked all over the house, connected by speakers that lined all over the room to the supercomputer Ace had built in a room adjacent to his. He asked it to sort through all messages on his accounts, and once it had done so, give the correct and appropriate responses. It knew that if anything interesting came up, it - well he, would have to inform Ace.
In this way, his work for the day was sorted, and he could go relax and do his own thing. He caught up on a few novels, his enhanced brain could now read at extreme speeds, and looked through some advanced etiquette guides Samantha had sent him. He memorised all the information, as he always did, and sent a message to his grandmother that he had finished. She seemed to find it important that he learnt all about various topics, so she sent him guides, books and videos on all sorts of things. Ace, wanting to oblige, ensured he committed them to memory. 
It was in this way that he had learnt all sorts of interesting things, he had no idea whether they would ever be of any use to his grandmother, they probably would. To his surprise, his grandmother answered fast, however, it was only a one-word reply: [Languages]. Ace laughed, his grandmother had realised that his brain seemed to have no limit, so she decided to challenge Ace as much as she could. There was a link to a file in another message. As Ace clicked on it, he groaned, his free time would be cut in half. His grandmother wanted him to dominate all the languages she considered 'important', meaning, the ones that would open the most doors for him. This included German, Spanish, French, Arabic, Mandarin, Korean and Japanese. She told him that if needed, she would send a tutor to teach him, to which he replied: [No.]. If anyone else found out about his learning speed, there would be a problem.
In true Goldsign fashion, she wanted him to learn them all. Ace was of course already on it, he had always thought it would be wonderful to travel to various places and enjoy them to their fullest, so in his downtime (downtime = lesson time), he had begun learning various languages. He could speak, French, Italian and Spanish, and was finishing up with German. Finishing up meant that he now had the level of a Native, and all he had to do was learn the slang that was more commonly used. However, he would have no problem conducting a deal. 
As with all languages, he had minimized the accent by listening to genuine natives speak the language and simply working to learn how to mimic their accent. This allowed him to have a seamless accent, which would not separate him from any native. After he finished up with German, he would move on to Mandarin, then to Japanese and Korean. He would finish with Arabic. Once he did that, he wanted to keep learning languages, but whatever else caught his fancy would take precedence.
This way, he could maximise his ability to learn, while also motivating himself with something that would be truly fun. Especially considering his trip to Vienna, his German would be useful there, and meeting people from around the world would mean he could 'practise' speaking the languages he had learnt.


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After getting dressed, Ace got in the car that took him to Sophie's house, she had said to meet him at 10, which had left him a lot of time to do his own thing, considering he had woken up at 5 in the morning, and she lived only 10 minutes away. When he got there, it was 9:55, and he was led through the main house to a 'small' one in the garden, it was an expanse where it seemed that the family met their guests, it was a massive open space, with decor tastefully placed around the room. It did not give out a sense of opulence, but you knew the people that owned it were rich nevertheless. How rich, depended on how much you looked, one could spot the luxurious billiards table or the massive 8k televisions displayed around the room. Ace, however, noticed the book stand, It was not as big or noticeable as the other pieces, but was sure as hell worth a lot more. Every book there, seemed to be expensive, Ace assumed that none of them had actually been read, but the rare collection caught his eye nevertheless.
"Like them?", Sophie came up from behind him, giving him a hug which he turned around and reciprocated. She was dressed in a yellow flowery dress that suited her quite well.
"Yeah. These are amazing, some of these are worth more than what people make in a lifetime.", Ace heard the tinge of admiration in his own voice, but did not mind it. If anything, it would only give Sophie the false impression that she could use these books as a bargaining chip. She could of course, but if Ace wanted, he could get his Grandmother to gift him an even greater collection than this. Money was not a problem, and as of right now, connections were not either.
"Hmmm, well, the others are not here yet, but I can give you a tour if you want", 'fashionably' late, of course, Ace detested such a construct, but he understood that it was merely a way for someone to feel wanted.
"Sure let's go."

The story of a boy overcome with pain, that suddenly isn't.

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The story is about a boy, Ace, who is suddenly healed from his pain. He decides to make the best out of his god (?) given gift.

You can expect politics, show business, videogames, sports, and much more.

I hope you enjoy the novel, Happy Reading!




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The Chinese government had been recognized by the international community for 60 years, but when the Republic was first established, it was isolated by the Western society for a long time because of sensitive issues like ideology.
Adding to the fact that China had a weak national strength at that time, the keynote of their diplomacy was mostly based on forbearance and magnanimity. When there was a visit from the so-called 'international friends,' whether it was official or with a separate connection, the Chinese government would welcome and entertain them enthusiastically, with all expenses paid.
Later on, as the country's strength gradually restored, and as China regained its dominant position in Asia, China slowly began to take stringent measures and uncompromising stand in diplomacy. When foreign guests visited, they started to entertain per international practice, an 'economic inspection team' where Zhang Lisheng had mingled should have long paid for their own expenses. 
However, it was different this time.
After the 'winter riots,' under the pressure of 'Atlantis,' both countries with the strongest and only harmless foreign worlds, the United States of America and the Republic of China, quickly entered a 'honeymoon period.' As a result, when the Chinese economic and trade inspection team visited the US, the White House had unexpectedly and strangely paid all their necessities and food in the name of 'national security spending.'
In this way, according to the Chinese habit of giving as good as the one obtained, the return visit expenses of the US entrepreneurs were naturally born by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This was only a trivial matter, but if one looked closely at the delicate position of the exchanges between these two major powers, along with the impact of the relationship between nations on Earth brought by the aliens, this gave much food for thought.
Of course, it was nice to have somebody pay for their own expenses. Still, in this way, it was impossible for Zhang Lisheng—who joined the delegation at the last moment, and had LS company under his name which was an unremarkable company among other well-known multinational companies such as Mobil Energy, Microsoft, and Google Network—to stay in the best presidential suite in the Beijing Hotel according to his usual habit. Not to mention, he came here all alone. Being able to stay in a 70-square-meter superior suite in Block A was already a deliberate consideration arranged by the personnel Ministry of Foreign Affairs for showing respect to Guo Caiying's accompaniment. 
It was already 2 in the morning when they received the room card for their accommodation. Now that they were back in China, of course it was impossible for Guo Caiying, who naturally feel restraint as a central ministry cadre in front of her colleagues, to accompany Zhang Lisheng back to the room at this time. She could only bid goodbye reluctantly with him in the hotel lobby and exhorted the young man, both deliberately and unintentionally, to learn Mandarin as soon as possible before she left.
Zhang Lisheng shrugged and agreed to it, before bringing his few items of luggage to his own room, under the enthusiastic guidance of the server. After having a hot bath, he sat cross-legged on the big bed, turned on the television, and switched the channel to CCTV news that was broadcasting the midnight news, before imitating the news anchor's accent.
This was a straightforward trick. Seven to eight years ago, when the young man was still studying in middle school in Qu County Western Sichuan province, one of his female schoolmates, whose family had made a fortune by selling mountain goods, had entered a high school in the city by pulling some strings and had studied arts ever since had managed to turn her local dialect into a strange but fluent Sichuan Mandarin within a short period.
Compared to a mountain village girl, Zhang Lisheng, who was already talented in linguistic and was now only a half step away from becoming a true god, of course, had an ability and wisdom that were ten thousand times stronger, but even so, it was hard to alter his local dialect. After a whole night of hard work and switching different channels continuously, he stared at the news and parroted them for six to seven hours. Although he was starting to be fluent now, his accent was still very localized.
At this time, the weakness of the magical Eternal Comprehension Spell that could not alter a language or text that had already been mastered was fully exposed to him. However, as the saying would go, 'beggars can't be choosers.' Such an accent was already enough for this conceited and confident young man.
"I actually managed to learn Mandarin in one night! Senior Sister will definitely be shocked when she sees me next time," Zhang Lisheng turned off the television at dawn and opened the curtains to look at the misty city as he muttered to himself.
Unfortunately, in the next two days, he did not get a chance to show off at all. As Guo Caiying had already said, she did not have time to meet the young man at all. Instead, many senior Chinese officials came to see him, and of course, it was all together with all the returning entrepreneurs.
Although the highest-ranking officials he met had already reached the stage of Vice Premier State Council, who was even a member of the standing committee in the political bureau that had the highest power combination in China, Zhang Lisheng did not show any particular kind of goodwill in public.
On the contrary, this Vice Premier in charge of the economy was very interested in this young man who spoke in awkward Mandarin and who appeared to be extremely young in the delegation. He took the initiative to ask questions and talked with Zhang Lisheng many times instead.
Two days passed in a blink of an eye. After all welcome meetings had ended, Guo Caiying called Zhang Lisheng and told him that it would take another two days for her to meet him since she had too many unfinished works that piled up because of her business trip in New York. "I've been working overtime in the past two days until ten o'clock in the evening. My colleagues in the office have already complained because of this. I'm sure they're gonna rebel now if I don't get off work on time today. I really didn't expect to have so many documents piling up, waiting for me to process in this less than two weeks trip. I usually find written reports and organizing tasks as very relaxing, but everything is in such havoc now that there are so many things to do. I'm sorry, Junior Brother, you need to go roam around in Beijing yourself for the next two days again."
"It's alright, Senior Sister. I just didn't think that you'd be so serious in work, to the point where other people would actually oppose to you working overtime," It was noontime. Zhang Lisheng, who was strolling around in the streets of Beijing, while spotting a rare blue sky and white clouds, said jokingly.
"Do you think that it's still the 'Red Revolution' era in the 1960s and 1970s where one could randomly go pin labels on others based on their working attitude? Who doesn't pay attention to individual right now, I ask you? Even old qualified investigators would not back down on this."
Zhang Lisheng did not understand that the so-called 'old qualified investigators' actually referred to government officials who were close to retiring in the Chinese government and did not have any executive positions at the administrative level. Most of these people were in the central ministries, but they only had empty ranks despite working hard for their entire lifetime. In actual fact, they were still at the bottom of the organization with no future but was smooth and slick when it came to experience. Naturally, they gave no heed to other people's authority over themselves.
However, the young man did not ask and merely said with a smile, "In that case, your work seems to be much harder than I imagined. I won't bother you then, see you!"
"See you, Junior Brother. Oh yeah, you can go to Gui Street to have a look if you're bored at night. It's not far from the Beijing Hotel and is just in front of Dongzhimen. If you take a taxi, it'll only take you… Ah, forget it, you don't care about money anyway. Yeah, it's impressive there, but remember the same old reminder: don't get into a conflict with other people."
"Senior Sister, am I a barbarian who has feathers on my head with my bottom half of body wrapped in leaves in your eyes?"
"Of course not. You're much more sly, cruel, and aggressive than those people you speak of. See you on the day after tomorrow, Junior Brother," The girl hung up after saying so.
"Sly, cruel, and aggressive… Well, I would have long become ashes if I weren't so," The young man was stunned before muttering and putting his phone away. At once, he fell into a daze and looked around him.
In front of him was both old and young city filled with blue brick buildings and skyscrapers, spacious roads, and narrow alleys.
The population of this cosmopolitan city like that of New York and was similarly open too. However, maybe because it was the fact that the redheaded white-skinned Atlanteans could still be seen everywhere on the streets; and that Zhang Lisheng had not encountered any single demonstrators despite strolling an entire afternoon yesterday, this city gave Zhang Lisheng a more orderly feeling. Such feeling inexplicably affected his mood to become slightly depressed.
"Young man, you're looking for Tiananmen, right? You only have to turn left and walk till you reach a junction, then go to the bus stop to take a bus numbered 67. After three stops, get down from that bus and walk for several hundred meters straight, and you'll arrive there," An old man who was wearing a tender, green sportswear while carrying a sword on his back walked past the young man and stopped to say kindly when he saw the young man looking around.
"Sir, I'm not going to Tiananmen, but thank you," Zhang Lisheng snapped back to reality and burst out into a chuckle before replying with gratitude.
Actually, he had nothing to do at this time, so his brain somehow wandered on the incident of how the Gate of Dao's disciples wanting to acquire the Yingzhou paradise when they were on the way to Beijing. After pondering a while, he asked, "Do you know any well-known temple or Taoist abbey around here?"
"Well, the biggest and most famous temple in the entire Beijing City would be none other than the White Cloud Temple Gompa in the suburbs. The other small Four Olds has been changed into private houses already," Something seemed to have reminded the old man, causing him to muse with slight emotions.
"Thank you," After thanking him again, the young man strolled forward and came to the bus station. He waved to stop a taxi to aid him from going to the suburbs, so he could visit the temple for a stroll. He thought that he would just view it as a mere visit if he could not come across any Gate of Dao's disciples.
However, it was lunchtime now, so no vehicle stopped for him despite waiting for over ten minutes.
"What the hell? I can't even stop a taxi? Is this even an international metropolis…" Frustrated, Zhang Lisheng secretly groaned, but at this moment, a taxi suddenly flashed its signal and stopped beside him.
The young man breathed a relief happily. When he was about to walk into the back of the car by walking past the front door, a sturdy young man behind him rushed forward to open the door and jump in before stretching a neck out and said, "Hurry up! Hurry up! Follow that car! Xu Liang they all must have reached the hotel already! I'm starving, hurry up…"
"Sir, this is the taxi I stopped." The young man was stunned. Patting the young man's extended shoulder, he said.
"Watch where you're touching! Why the hell are you touching me?" When the young man heard Zhang Lisheng's characteristic Sichuan Mandarin, he glanced up at him and said with a curled lips, "You wanna say that it's your taxi? Well, in that case, call it and see if it will answer you or not?!"
When Zhang Lisheng saw how unreasonable this young man was, he recalled the colored people in New York's ghetto and just spoke with a smile, "Idiots are really everywhere…"
Without warning, he reached out a hand to grab the young man's nape.
When his spine clenched, the young man immediately felt weak as he slumped down like all of his bones had melted. At the same time, he was in so much pain that he felt like he was going to die.
The next instant, he felt a considerable force pulling his neck out. Sensing that he would be thrown out of the window before being thrown on the ground till his head cracked open bloodily, fear, terror, and anger rose in his heart, but he could not even struggle.


A young man from the Miaowei Tribe brought up by his strict father, suddenly turned into Rank 1 Wizard on the day he was orphaned. He then obtained the ability to control giant worms. 
Soon after, he found his mother who was in a faraway foreign land by accident. From a small mountain village, he managed to jump into the amazing arena that was a global metropolis.
Thus far, we have a young man who inherited the legacy of mastering ancient demons from an ancient country. 
From Western civilization to other worlds, a fascinating saga is born.

At the backstreet, surrounding the campus area where new students registered, it was once again ushered with the scene of people coming and exiting.

Shi Lei walked in front to lead the way. Pointing at a place not far away, a red colored signboard: "Tuhuo Hotpot!"

"The most authentic hotpot in the backstreet."

Ling Yumo giggled, "Tuhuo?"

Mu Shuang is from Shenjing. Naturally, she won't know the dialect of Shuangqing City.

"Sister Yumo, what about Tuhuo?"

Li Cai also had a puzzled look on his face.

Ling Yumo glanced for a second at Shi Lei before explained: "Tuhuo is another term of Tubie, which means country bumpkin!"

"Shitou Guai, the name of this hotpot, why is it so strange?"

Shi Lei shrugged, "I also don't know!"

The line of four walked into Tuhuo Hotpot and noticed that inside, there were quite a number of customers.

Tuhuo Hotpot didn't have any private rooms, only one big dining hall.

In the hall, there were only two empty tables left.

The waiter came forward, his face was brimming with a warm smile, "Hello, is it these four people?"

Shi Lei nodded, "En, four people!"

The waiter led Shi Lei and the co to the front of a square table and then voiced out: "You all want red soup pot or Mandarin duck pot?"

The so-called red soup pot is actually the spicy hot soup till the very bottom of the pot. As for Mandarin duck pot, it is divided into spicy and normal soup.

In order to take care of Mu Shuang and Li Cai, these two non-locals, Shi Lei with courtesy ordered one Mandarin duck pot.

After these four people ordered a number of side dishes, the Mandarin duck pot was finally ready to be served.

Although there were a lot of customers in Tuhuo Hotpot, their quality of service didn't get affected that much. The dishes which Shi Lei and co ordered were very quickly served to the table.

Shi Lei didn't care about his image at all. In front of these two gorgeous women, he ate and drank gluttonously.

Affected by his action, the other three no longer concerned about it and began their feast.

The taste of Tuhuo Hotpot was really not bad!

Whether it was the spicy red soup or the normal broth, their taste really made one have a huge appetite.

When they were about to finish everything, four youngsters with dyed hair sat on the next table.

One of them  who was wearing an earring on his left ear with yellow dyed hair  noticed Mu Shuang and Ling Yumo. He then began to whistle.

"Yo, such attractive two chicks!"

Mu Shuang's brow wrinkled. With a cold stare, she looked at the youngster who opened his mouth just now.

The youngster with the left earring didn't retreat. Instead, he continued: "Chick, what are you looking at this daddy for?"

"Don't tell me that you think that this daddy is so handsome that you want to be my girlfriend?"

Shi Lei put down his chopsticks and stared at these group of youngsters.

If in the past, Shi Lei might have just forgiven them but before being reborn, Shi Lei had received training from that mysterious organization. How could he be afraid of these four mere bullies?

"Hey you four little slags, didn't you notice Brother Shitou here?"

"In front of Brother Shitou, you dare to mess with my girlfriends. You guys don't want to live anymore?"

The youngster with the left earring looked at Shi Lei with despise.

"Brother Shitou?"

"Qie!"

"Who do you think you are?"

Shi Lei stood up, walking towards the youngster with left earring, he pushed his spectacles with his finger to the bridge of his nose.

Stopping at a distance about one meter away from the youngster with left earring, Shi Lei half-squinted his eyes, "Small slag, quickly apologize to Brother Shitou's girlfriends or else….."

The youngster with left earring gave a loud laughing cry.

"Glasses, daddy wouldn't even apologize but also want your girlfriends to accompany this daddy to eat!"

Shi Lei smiled, "Then after dinner, they would accompany you to play too?"

"Do you want to sing at Donghai Entertainment?"

The youngster with the left earring's eyes shined brightly.

"This suggestion…."

"Pa~!"

Shi Lei's right hand landed a slap on his face which then caused the youngster with the left earring to fly to the ground.

"You!"

"You dare to fight against me?"

"Do you know who I am?"

Shi Lei then kicked the belly of the youngster with left earring, "You know who Brother Shitou is?"

The other three youngsters had not even managed to react yet; Shi Lei's figure began to move. With his clenched right fist, he directed his punch at the nose of another youngster.

That youngster immediately fainted!

The youngster with left earring who was lying on the floor loudly shouted: "Damao, Ermao, what are you still waiting for? Fight him to death!"

"All consequences, I will bear!"

Damao and Ermao looked at each other for a moment and then dashed forward towards Shi Lei.

Ling Yumo with both hands covered her little mouth, her eyes were showing an expression of fear.

"Shitou Guai, be careful!"

Shi Lei had an easy going expression, he could even spare some time to reply to Ling Yumo.

"Xiao Mo, don't worry!"

"These two little slags, dealing with them is effortless!"

As he said that, Damao and Ermao were charging at him.

With his leg raised, Damao directed a kick at Shi Lei's thigh.

Shi Lei's figure moved to the side and evaded Damao's kick. Stepping forward, his elbow hit hard on Damao's chest.

Damao's eyes turned dark as he almost fainted right away!

Ermao took the empty beer bottle on the table and smashed it over Shi Lei.

Shi Lei was not even showing any hint of panic. Using his left hand to grab Ermao's arm, Shi Lei formed a chop with his right hand and chopped at the biceps of Ermao.

"A~~"

Ermao screamed loudly and squatted down on the ground.

Shi Lei was overwhelming. The second when Ermao was squatting down, Shi Lei raised his right leg and directed his kick at the stomach of Ermao.

Ermao suddenly felt a burst of pain in his stomach. Even the beer which he just drank was vomited out!

In just about thirty seconds, these four youngsters were destroyed by Shi Lei.

Ling Yumo looked at Shi Lei in surprise, even Mu Shuang was having some thoughts.

Li Cai trembled in excitement. Never did he expect that this Shi Lei who doesn't look strong or burly was actually this powerful!

Shi Lei went towards the youngster with left earring. With his right foot stepping on his hand, Shi Lei squatted down and smiled, "Little slag, now you know how formidable Brother Shitou is?"

The youngster with left earring looked at Shi Lei in fear.

He was indeed a small fry in Shuanghu District University!

With their nature of bullying the weak, meeting someone like Shi Lei who is stronger than themselves, how could there be any principle of not being afraid?

"Shi….Brother Shitou….I'm sorry…..You…..Let us go!"

Shi Lei laughed out loud, "Don't ask me!"

"Whom did you guys offended, find that person for mercy!"

The youngster with left earring looked at Mu Shuang and showed a pleading look.

"Sister-in-law…."

Mu Shuang's face color instantly changed and stared at Shi Lei.

"Shi Lei, since you have thought them a lesson, then just let them off this time!"

Shi Lei nodded and patted at the face of the youngster with left earring with his hand, "Little slag, remember from now on, when you meet this Brother Shitou, you got to respect me!"

"Yes, yes, yes!"

"Thank you, Brother Shitou for your generosity!"

The youngster with left earring quickly nodded.

Shi Lei stood up, "Get lose!"

These poor four youngsters, with their arms supporting each other left Tuhuo Hotpot.

Sitting back at his seat, Ling Yumo's both eyes were twinkling like small stars.

"Shitou Guai, you…you are so strong!"

Shi Lei raised his head and made a pose with that cocky face.

"Of course!"

"How could Brother Shitou not be strong!"

With that cocky expression of Shi Lei, even Mu Shuang exposed her sweet smile.

"Shi Lei, stop being a shameless show-off!"

Li Cai wanted to say something in hesitation till he got choked.

In contrast, Shi Lei was very clear of Li Cai's character.

The heart of Li Cai which was like an older uncle, since childhood he had been exposed to various mechanical materials, labeling him as technology otaku was not an exaggeration.

In every otaku's heart, they would have one big dream!

Li Cai was very envious especially of men with strong ability. He dreamed to become such man too.

"Li Cai, you wanna Brother Shitou to teach you a few moves?"

Li Cai nodded.

"Brother Shitou, almighty Brother Shitou, teach this little brother!"

Ling Yumo giggled, "Li Cai, you are so stupid. I'm afraid you won't be able to learn it."

Li Cai's face turned dark.

"I'm sorry!" Ling Yumo quickly apologized and explained, "Li Cai, don't think that Shitou Guai was just sending a few punches and elbow strikes."

"However, every attack of Brother Shitou were directed at the weak spots of the human body!"

Saying this, Ling Yumo curiously looked at Shi Lei and asked, "Shitou Guai, don't tell me you know medicine?"

"How could you be so familiar with a human body's weakness?"

Shi Lei laughed it off. He couldn't say that he had received rigorous training that he was very familiar with body's weak spot right?

"Xiao Mo, how do you know about it?"

Ling Yumo's face now in a prideful look, "Of course I have learned it before!"

"My mother is a doctor. Since young, I have been forced to learn a lot of medical knowledge!"

Shi Lei was even more curious now, "Since you know a lot of medical knowledge, why don't you apply for medical profession but choosing computer profession instead?"

Ling Yumo dropped her head, "I….I myself like the computer!"

Shi Lei naturally could sense that there must be some other reasons but his current relationship with Ling Yumo was still not that close.

If you were to ask now, their relationship was something more than a stranger but still not a friend.

Therefore, Shi Lei took a decisive choice to change this topic and changed the attention back to Li Cai.

"Xiao Cai, if you really want to learn, it is not that I can't teach you!"

An excited expression appeared on Li Cai's face.

"Brother Shitou, really?"

Shi Lei smiled, "Xiao Cai, teaching you is not a problem but…."

Li Cai still didn't realize Shi Lei's evil plan. Instead, he walked into the trap set by Shi Lei and asked, "But what?"

"From now on, our house cleaning, laundry, watching socks etc, you will be the one in charge of all these!"

Without any moral principle, Shi Lei said his request.

Li Cai bit his teeth. In order to achieve his heroic dream and also able to step forward to protect his girlfriend in future, he could only be patient!

"Brother Shitou, you are so cunning!"

Shi Lei patted Li Cai's shoulder.

"Rest assured, Xiao Cai. I will train you into the hero of our generation!"

Looking at the way Shi Lei and Li Cai were mixing with each other, Mu Shuang's eyes were leaking a hint of envy.

After eating, Shi Lei took the initiative to pay the bill. In other words, this meal was on his tab.

However, when Shi Lei asked for the bill, looking at his wallet, there was only three hundred plus left. He began to feel pain in his heart.

Money, this son of b*tch, really made one hate.

The world’s top-level hacker, Shi Lei; due to him hacking the world’s top military powers during a joint exercise and attempting to steal information from them, ultimately leads him to get sold out by his own organization. This act eventually caused his own death by a missile bombardment.

God was playing a joke on him and allowed him to return back to six years ago, the autumn season of when he was still at his university. Being given another chance, plus the fact that he retained his ability as one of the best in hacking technology, Shi Lei decided to change his life! During his previous life, he was only an assassin in the dark. Although such an existence made people afraid of him, he would have to always hide within the shadows. In his new life, not only does he want to be an assassin in the dark, but he also wants to stand openly in the middle of the world stage. Creating a world-class super enterprise, he will single handy change the whole world!

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Chapter 1095 – Mandarin House

One month came and went quickly.

Using the overpowered effect of the recruitment board, Ouyang Shuo was filled with happiness and worry during this month.

He was happy because the effects were exceptional. In just a month, Great Xia had attracted 40 different ranked historical talents. Amongst which, there was a god level steal like Zeng Guofan.

The moment Zeng Guofan arrived, Ouyang Shuo invited him into the Cabinet.

Name: Zeng Guofan (God Rank)
Title: Top 10 ministers in history
Dynasty: Qing Dynasty
Identity: Great Xia Cabinet elder
Occupation: Civil Servant 
Loyalty: 75
Command: 80
Force: 40
Intelligence: 80
Politics: 98
Specialty: Famous Minister (raises territory honesty by 40%, raises territory efficiency by 25%, raises literary standards 15%, raises territory ruling standards by 30%)
Book: Nine Chapter Law
Evaluation: Zeng Guofan had the ability to read people, using his knowledge to promote talented people. He had great knowledge and foresight, working for the greater good of the public instead of himself, a rare skilled person in history. Although he was not good at fighting, he was able to promote many generals. His plans were really exquisite, which was how he was able to get a group of capable men to sweep the rogues and become the top minister of Zhongxing.

Zeng Guofan was born in a landowner family. Since a young age, he loved to learn. At eight, he could read the four classics and recite the five scriptures. At 14, he could read literary choices like The Rites of Zhou and Records of the Grand Historian.

In the 18th year of Daoguang, he became a Jingshi, becoming the disciple of Grand Council minister Mujangga. Then he became a Cabinet advisor, department of rites assistant minister, the minister of various departments, Provincial Governor, Zhili Province Viceroy, Wuying Hall Grand Secretary, and more roles.

When the Taiping Country started running, he established the Xiang army to wipe them out after many years of battles.

Zeng Guofan spent his whole life in politics, and his main belief was that one had to be diligent, honest, and humble and could not be arrogant because one was an official. He was a really disciplined person who focus on rites and politeness, using loyalty to do politics.

Under the suggestion of Zeng Guofan, the Qing Dynasty built China's first steamship, their first ordnance school, printed the first batch of western books, and arranged for the first batch of students to study in America.

As such, one could say that Zeng Guofan was the pioneer for the modern constructions in China.

With such a person who was familiar with ocean work as well as having a deep influence in Qing, the benefits toward Great Xia were evident.

Zeng Guofan had many reasons for choosing Great Xia. Apart from the influence of the recruitment board, he was invited by his disciple, Li Hongzhang. Furthermore, his ancestor Zeng Zi was also in Great Xia, which was why he came.

Coming along with Zeng Guofan were Zeng Guoquan and Zuo Zongtang, who both came from the Xiang army.

Ouyang Shuo was planning to expand the Household Legion Corps, and both of them were the top choices for Legion General.

Currently, Ouyang Shuo just arranged for them to enter the Household Legion Corps 1st legion. Along with Legion General Oda Nobunaga, they would build and train the 1st full firearm legion in Great Xia.

Apart from Zeng Guofan and his group, Cao Xueqin also arrived in Great Xia.

Cao Xueqin's great grandmother was once Emperor Kangxi's nanny, and his great grandfather was once the tutor and guard to Kangxi.

During the Kangxi and Yongzheng rules, the Cao family three generations helped to run China for 58 years. Their family was really huge, having power and strength, really rich and becoming the top family in Nanjing.

Kangxi went down Jiangnan six times and Cao Yin led it four of those times.

In the 5th year of Yongzheng's rule, Cao Xueqin was 13. In December, his hncle who was the Jiangning weaving department minister was jailed for disturbing the relay and polluting the air, shifting funds, and the like. In the Lantern Festival of the next year, his family was raided.

Cao Xueqin moved to Beijing along with his family, and since then, they were not as glorious as before, depreciating by the day.

Under such circumstances, Cao Xueqin obviously was not willing to return to Jingdu and live under the Qing Dynasty. On the contrary, Shanhai City had a great literary environment and did not restrict literary talents, and it was also a really open place that was suitable for him to stay in.

Along with Cao Xueqin moving into Xinan University, a System Notification spread across China.

"System Notification: Representative figure of the school of literary works - Cao Xueqin - has moved into Great Xia, fulfilling the three requirements for the school of thought to move in."
 ...
"System Notification: School of literary works move into Great Xia. Awarding Shanhai City the title of home of literary works, congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi!"
 ...
"System Notification: School of literary works move into Great Xia. The current Shanhai City title Land of Philosophers covers the new title given, awarding Shanhai City hidden building - Mandarin House, congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi!"
 ...
Name: Mandarin House
Type: Hidden Building
Function: After hanging a portrait of a civil servant within, can revive them.
Specialty: increases attraction toward civil servants by 20%, increases territory reputation by 5%
Note: a building built specifically for civil servants. Lord can pay a certain amount of gold to hang a limited amount of civil servant portraits within to revive them once without any added cost.

The Mandarin House had a total of four floors, the lowest one had a limit of Gold Rank and 50 people, each 10 thousand gold. Second was King Rank and 20 people, each spending 50 thousand.

The third was for Emperor Rank, 10 people, each 200 thousand. The top was for God Rank civil servants, limit of three with each costing a million gold.

With the Mandarin House, the civil servants of Great Xia would have an added layer of insurance.

As there was a limited number, the main reason for getting into the Mandarin House would be the best person in the yearly evaluation.

At the same time, Ouyang Shuo specially left 10 spots for old civil servants like Gu Xiuwen and Zhao Dexian.

Zeng Guofan, Cao Xueqin, and the like were only a small portion. Out of the 40 historical talents, half of them came from Qing Dynasty.

This was understandable.

If it were not for them not having a choice, there were few Han officials, especially those with ambitions, who were willing to work under Qing Dynasty. After appearing in the wilderness and after Great Xia obtained the orthodoxy, he naturally became their top choice.

Needless to say, Li Hongzhang, Zhang Tingyu, Tian Wenjing, and the like also played a role.

As for the ones from the Ming Dynasty, they were mostly chancellors and great ministers like Shang Lu. Although they came from the Ming Dynasty, the Great Ming in the wilderness only took up one prefecture. Without a space for them to perform, they would naturally go elsewhere.

The arrival of this batch of civil servants greatly increased the foundations of Great Xia, pretty much levelling the power difference with the generals. Of course, there were other problems that came from it.

Apart from that, during this month, Great Xia also had an unexpected surprise.
 


Earth Online – a virtual MMORPG that takes place in the future year of 2190 – a game that everyone will bet their futures on. Set in a map that is ten times the size of real-world Earth, players battle for supremacy in the first game to feature personal adventure, territory construction, and grand warfare. For every death you experience in the game, your level would drop back to zero. Ouyang Shuo, an above average player, suffered the ultimate betrayal. For merely a piece of equipment, his sworn brother betrayed and backstabbed him. This time, after he reincarnated in the game, Ouyang Shuo swore to exact vengeance.

However, in an unexpected turn of events, Ouyang Shuo found himself back five years before the betrayal – right before the launch of Earth Online. This time, armed with the knowledge from his past life, Ouyang Shuo would venture upon a new path.

How to perfectly complete quests? What historical battle maps would appear? How should one build up their territory? Utilizing the experience from the predecessors of his last life, Ouyang Shuo makes his bid for the top against all odds. Follow his journey as he seeks to lord over the world!

A different kind of tale that blends historical characters and virtual reality gaming, with heavy emphasis on kingdom building and warfare.

Henry Abbe had a fashionable Chinese name - Henry Wang.
It was a meaningful name to him. When he had just arrived in China, he didn't know what kind of name he wanted to have. At the same time, he wanted a powerful surname. He had been seeing the surname 'Wang' on the news frequently and he felt that this surname was definitely something special. Hence, he gave himself a 'Wang' in his name.
Those that knew him well addressed him as Elder Wang.
Each time a Chinese addressed him, they would smile at him. He felt that the Chinese were friendly like the people mentioned in the ancient stories.
However, what he didn't understand was that whenever he wanted to stay with a friend, the males would always reject him as if he was a ghost. That left him confused.
In the end, he found out the reason from his friend. People were afraid of staying with those that had the surname 'Wang'. That was because the surname was too powerful and people felt pressured.
Henry Wang stood before a stall and looked at it. The shop owner had great skills and a lot of tricks. Then, he shook his head because the aroma and looks of the food were too unbearable.
Perhaps the taste would be amazing as well, however, it was still not as good as what he had dreamed about.
Was he really not going to find amazing food?
Those that were awarded the Michelin Star were food from exquisite stalls. However, this situation was pretty scary to those rating the stalls. They had been trying to develop a new scoring matrix to stop awarding Michelin stars to exquisitely designed stalls. What they really wanted to find was something that had an unforgettable taste.
When he was prepared to leave, a conversation between two Chinese youngsters attracted his attention.
"Sigh, I really want to eat Master Lin's scallion pancakes but it's a pity that they're so difficult to buy."
"Me too. They only sell ten scallion pancakes every day and the queue is so long. If only he increased the daily limit."
"Dream on. The taste of Master Lin's scallion pancakes is really the most unforgettable delicacy in my whole life. As long as I can eat it once, I would be satisfied for the rest of my life."
…
Henry's Mandarin was perfect and he could understand what the two Chinese men were talking about. He was stunned.
Scallion pancake?
He knew about this delicacy. It was simple and cheap. It was also a filling dish. Of course, it was a snack mainly just used to fill one's stomach. He felt that it wasn't worthy of being a well-known delicacy.
However, he decided to find out about it after seeing the expressions of the two Chinese men. He wanted to find out how delicious it was. How could they crave for it so much?
"Hi, I am Henry. May I know what scallion pancake you guys were talking about earlier?" Although Henry's Mandarin was good, he had a weird accent and people were bound to laugh when they heard it.
However, since a Caucasian had asked about it, they had to answer him. "You don't know about Master Lin's scallion pancakes?"
"I don't know. That's why I asked," Henry replied.
The two of them couldn't take it anymore. Which Chinese class did he go to? Why was his accent so hilarious?
"Master Lin's scallion pancakes of Cloud Street are really famous in Shanghai. As long as you've been here for some time, you would know his shop," a man said.
Henry was still curious, "It's really famous? Is it really delicious?"
"Yes. It is really delicious. You haven't eaten it before, right?"
"Nope."
"Then, you should go and try it. As long as you try it once, it'll let you have an indescribable feeling. The scallion pancake might even be glowing."
Henry was stunned.
Glowing
"Glowing food? Isn't that from Chuka Ichiban?" [A Japanese manga] Henry always felt that Chinese people were able to exaggerate their descriptions of a lot of things. He had never seen any food that would glow.
After discussing further.
Of course, Henry had been convinced by them. He really wanted to see the glowing scallion pancake for himself. Furthermore, it would even cause him to have an indescribable feeling after eating it.
Any magical food would make Henry curious about it.
Of course, he had been cheated a lot of times.
Previously, a Chinese man introduced him to a delicacy known as the 'smelly beancurd'. The one and only time he tried it was a traumatizing experience.
"Thank you. I will look for it," Henry thanked them.
The two of them laughed after Henry left. Then, they started talking again.
"How long do you think he needs to queue for?"
"I don't know. If he's unlucky, perhaps a month."
"Hey, I hope he won't get chosen so soon. If not, it would be even more difficult for us to get it next time."
"That's true."
To some of the people in Shanghai, Master Lin's scallion pancakes at Cloud Street were insanely scary. Those that managed to buy it on their first try would always think hard about it before deciding if it was worthy of eating it.
Because once they tried it, they wouldn't know how long they would have to queue for to try it again.
At Cloud Street.
Lin Fan laid there leisurely. This time, he felt great after being crowned the hero of the migrant workers.
Even those praises online made him feel a little embarrassed.
However, he was spending the Encyclopedic Points a little too quickly. Even though he felt a little wasteful, everything was worth it.
He had to do it to suppress their cockiness.
He called Zhao Ming Qing.
"Teacher, what is it?"
Lin Fan said, "Ming Qing, I have to tell you something."
"Teacher, go ahead."
"I think the foundation materials that I prepared based on Chinese Medicine should receive more attention. It can let every student learn it seriously. What do you think?"
Zhao Ming Qing replied, "Yes, yes. Teacher, you're right. Don't worry. I will test some of the concepts of the foundation materials."
Lin Fan smiled, "Alright, that's good. I'll hang up now."
Recently, the increase of his Encyclopedic Points was a little slow. It looked like the Chinese Medicine materials that he had prepared weren't really well-liked by the students.
He felt that he had to do something about it. He wanted Zhao Ming Qing to push the students further so that they would work harder. After all, this would help to increase his Encyclopedic Points.
The Children's Welfare Institute was also pretty decent. All 365 of the children were really hard working. They had helped Lin Fan to earn quite a number of Encyclopedic Points.
Of course, the Encyclopedic Points from Chinese Arts and planting were slowly increasing.
He felt that table tennis seemed like a good game. It could train a person physically and the parents would just have to let the children come out to play so that they would be active. It looked like he had to teach the kids something new so that they could have more fun.
With their brilliant minds, they would definitely be able to become incredible table tennis players.
However, the education level of the Children's Welfare Institute wasn't built yet. He had to wait for some time before its completion.
The standards of some of the children's Chinese Arts had been increasing. The consumption of the Little Intelligence Pill was simply not a joke.


I am Lin Fan and I've become a jack of all trades just because of a powerful Encyclopedia. 
In the first ever competition organised for trolls, all the other contestants lost. The crowd exclaimed, "Brother, you're so good at trolling." 
Lin Fan replied, "But I've never been trolling..."

The story-teller was 10 years old. My grandmother went to school every day and had a happy life under the serving of the Lin family. For she was considered a young lady of one of the five family clan who had power over Taiwan back before the emperor was executed.
The kids in the clan were going off to school, and as they pass my grandmother they would all stare at her not because she was ugly. The kids stare at her because she was different. For she was require to take etiquette training instead of normal classes. The story-teller learned many type of servitude as a lady of the family, such as the art of serving tea, painting, writing and reading in both Japanese and Mandarin. At ten years old, she felt the pressure of all the things a lady was supposed to learn.
        There was no holiday for the kids back then. There was no Christmas, since it was a western religion, and there was no Thanksgiving because there was nothing to be grateful for. Everything you have is because you earned it yourself. Of course there were parts where my grandmother was treated with extra care and food simply because of her heritage. Still, despite her circumstances, my grandmother was taught to love and to care.
        At the age of 22 my grandmother met my grandfather on a bus. He had just entered the bus when he saw her, the bus was bright and kind of stuffy, and the people were packed tightly together. When my grandmother first saw the young man she saw him muttering to himself, then suddenly he puffed up his chest and went up to her and spoke in Japanese. Now this was during the time period where Taiwan had just gained its independence and was slowly recovering but yet this young man dare to speak in the Japanese language really surprised my grandmother. They then begun talking slowly getting to know each other, finally my grandmother found out that this young man had spent the years of the revolution in china where he had stayed before escaping to Taiwan before the communist could take over.

This is the story of a boy and his grandmother. They talk about life, death, and anything in between.

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