The New Otani Hotel in Akasaka, Tokyo was famous for its 400-year-old garden. Gun-Ho and Seol-Bing were looking down at the koi pond from a bridge in the garden. It was night but because of the street light, they could easily see koi fish swimming there.
"This is indeed a beautiful garden."
"Let's go over there."
Gun-Ho held Seol-Bing's hand. He was not sure if it was an actress thing but her hand was small considering her height. Seol-Bing didn't pull out her hand this time.
Seol-Bing seemed to be more open to Gun-Ho, maybe because he was the one who Ms. Mi-Lyeong Lee wanted to introduce to her for a marriage proposal. She still remembered every word that Ms. Mi-Lyeong Lee used in describing Gun-Ho.
 
'You'd better find a decent man and marry him while you are still popular. You can't maintain the top star position forever. It won't last long. What? Marry a guy who has a wealthy family? You won't even able to breathe there. I have no doubt that you will get suffocated. Money? We have it too. But that Gun-Ho Goo person is different. He is amazing actually. He is a self-made successful man. He has a good temper and manners. He is at a good age to marry as well. He will let you keep your career. That's a big plus.'
 
When Seol-Bing first met Gun-Ho, she didn't really believe everything he said, especially about his wealth. However, since another actress who had been in the entertainment field for a long time—Ms. Mi-Lyeong Lee—spoke highly of Gun-Ho, Seol-Bing started feeling interested in him. Moreover, Gun-Ho was somewhat a good-looking man. He looked much better than the E Group's president's son.
 
Seol-Bing took out her dark sunglasses from her purse.
"No one would recognize you in this dark…"
"I'd better take every precaution I could. Once words get out, the damage would be really painful."
Gun-Ho and Seol-Bing went to Satsuki passing by Sekishin-Tei while holding each other's hand.
"Sekishin-Tei is probably a restaurant, and Satsuki looks like a coffee shop."
"I think so. I smelled food when I passed Sekishin-Tei. I don't smell it here."
Gun-Ho and Seol-Bing took a seat at a vacant table at Satsuki. It was late at night and the lighting at the café was off. Seol-Bing took off her dark sunglasses.
"It's a shame that you have to cover your beautiful face with those dark sunglasses."
Seol-Bing laughed.
 
Gun-Ho and Seol-Bing were sitting at a table in the garden area of the café. The table was decorated with a flower vase. The vase was long and narrow and there was one chrysanthemum in it. Gun-Ho took the flower out.
"I love you now and I will love you forever."
Gun-Ho handed the flower to Seol-Bing while making the statement.
Seol-Bing laughed loudly and accepted the flower that Gun-Ho gave to her.
"You are such a funny man, which cannot usually be seen in a typical businessman."
"You accepted the flower. That means you accepted my heart toward you."
Gun-Ho then hugged Seol-Bing and kissed her on her cheek.
"Oh!"
Seol-Bing didn't expect it and she looked at him with widened eyes in surprise.
Seol-Bing placed the flower back into the vase quietly and she stood up from her seat.
"It's getting late. I'd better take off now."
"The night in Tokyo seemed to just start."
"I have a morning schedule with my staff tomorrow."
"Stay a bit longer with me. Let's have a seat on the bench over there. I will get you a taxi to the Shinjuku Prince Hotel."
Gun-Ho and Seol-Bing sat on a bench looking over a koi pond.
 
Gun-Ho slowly hugged Seol-Bing again. Seol-Bing leaned against Gun-Ho. She looked tired.
"Ms. Seol-Bing, do you live with your parents?"
"My parents live in Bangbae Town and I live in Cheongdam Town."
"Bangbae Town? Is that where you grew up?"
"Yes. I went to Suhmoon Girls' High School in Bangbae Town."
"Hmm. That's right. I read your profile on the Internet. According to your profile, after graduating from Suhmoom Girls' High School, you went to Chungang University majoring in drama and cinema."
"I did very well in high school and I applied for Seoul National University with a political science major but I was denied admission to it. I was going to spend another year preparing for SAT once again, so I started studying in Daechi Town, but the study was hard and people around me kept telling me that I'd better get into another university with the drama and cinema major. That's how I ended up at Chungang University."
"You gave it up so easily."
"Some of my friends told me that even though I successfully became a diplomat after studying political science, I might be sent to one of the third world countries, and my life wouldn't be that beautiful. My parents were actually happy when I told them that I decided to apply for a university with the drama and cinema major. My uncle actually convinced me to do so as well."
"What did your parents do for a living at that time?"
"My father was a TV station PD. Enough about me. Why don't you talk about you, President Goo?"
 
"My hometown is Incheon City, and I went to school in Bucheon City. I graduated from Zhejiang University; I think I told you that before."
"So you went to China to study right after you graduated high school?"
"Umm, yes…"
Gun-Ho didn't tell her that he actually went to a low-ranked college in a provincial city because his high school grade was not high enough to get him admitted to a college within Seoul City and that he then graduated from a cyber college."
"So, your parents are in Incheon City right now."
"Right. My parents retired and they continue to live in the same city. They are living in a condo in Guwol Town, Incheon City. I live in TowerPalace in Dogok Town."
"Did you say TowerPalace? A friend of mine is living there too."
Once Seol-Bing started opening her mind and talking, she didn't stop talking. She looked somewhat arrogant at first, but once she became close to Gun-Ho, she acted just like any other girl at her age. At that moment, an old couple walked passing by the bench that Gun-Ho and Seol-Bing were sitting on. Seol-Bing quickly put her dark sunglasses back on.
The old couple looked like Korean tourists. The wife glanced at Seol-Bing and said to her husband,
"Japanese women wear sunglasses even at night, huh?"
Seol-Bing covered her mouth and started laughing, and Gun-Ho laughed along with her.
 
Gun-Ho hugged Seol-Bing tight. He could smell her perfume.
"Let's meet in Korea more often rather than in Japan from now on."
Seol-Bing smiled without giving any response.
"I will send you a text. We can meet at a book café on the rooftop of my building. It's a really nice place. Or, we can meet at my office in Sinsa Town. Or, I can come to Cheongdam Town where you live if you like."
Seol-Bing looked at her watch.
"Oh, it's after midnight. I gotta go."
Gun-Ho talked to the hotel's front desk to get a taxi for Seol-Bing.
As Seol-Bing got in the taxi and she was about to leave, Gun-Ho waved his hand. Seol-Bing opened the window half down and waved her hand too.
Gun-Ho thought that he could have done better that night.
"I should have bought something for her, something that she will remember the moment with me with.

This is the story of a poor young man whose poverty even shreds apart their family willing to climb his way through society and into the top. A very realistic novel that moves away from fantasy and sci-fi and focuses solely on the issues of society and life.

The bombshell Jin Liwei dropped on the red carpet instantly became the topic of conversations by the viewers watching the event's live telecast. They were all very shocked. 

Although Jin Liwei wasn't a showbiz figure like his younger brother, he was still quite famous. And it wasn't just because he was the President-CEO of the number one company in the country. If people had to choose who was more handsome between the Jin brothers, an overwhelming majority of them would say that Jin Liwei was more physically attractive than Jin Chonglin.

Even more than Jin Chonglin who was a big celebrity idolized by many, Jin Liwei was actually the one considered to be the most eligible bachelor in the entire country. He was tall, rich, handsome and powerful.

Although many were afraid of him, it didn't stop many women from vying for the position of Madam Jin. By marrying him, they would be set for the rest of their lives. A lavish life of wealth and power, not to mention a gorgeous man to sleep with—who could resist such a "perfect" life?

As a result, countless women (and some men) tried seducing him in the past but no one succeeded. This led people to believe that he was incapable of being in a sexual relationship, much less a romantic one. That was why many people couldn't believe that the cold and indifferent Jin Liwei was now engaged to someone.

"Isn't he gay? He can't marry a man in this country, so he can only be engaged to a woman. Is he entering a sham marriage just to cover up his sexuality and fulfill his duty as the head of the Jin family?"

"That's possible. Or maybe it's an arranged marriage. It's pretty common for men with his status to marry young ladies from other powerful families."

"There has never been any concrete evidence that CEO Jin is gay. I think he just found his true love. He keeps on rejecting all those thirsty people throwing themselves at him because they're not his fated one. But he must've found the one for him so he immediately popped the question. Isn't it romantic? Oh, be still my heart!"

Conversations like these could be heard all over the country. The awards ceremony hadn't started yet, but the most talked-about figure at the moment was not even one of the nominees.

"Quick! Look around! He said that his fiancée is here tonight!"

The audience members at the arena and the viewers watching at home all made wild guesses as to the identity of Jin Liwei's mysterious fiancée. What kind of woman could make such a man like Jin Liwei, who many believed to be unattainable, to settle down? She must be super amazing.

They suspected many of the single celebrity ladies who attended the music awards as Jin Liwei's possible fiancée.

That singer or that actress. Maybe that model or that socialite. Was she the one? Or maybe her?

As for the women, they played coy when asked whether they were Jin Liwei's fiancée. Sensing an opportunity to create drama, most of them gave vague answers. They neither confirmed nor denied anything.

However, it was interesting that people only suspected women who were in their mid-twenties and above. They didn't bother suspecting the younger ones.

"I'll never believe that CEO Jin will have a relationship with a teenager. So we can remove those kids from our list of suspects. I also think that even the ones who are in their early twenties are still too young for him. I mean, that's about a decade of age difference between them! CEO Jin is the head of the number one company in the country, so he must be super smart. I bet that those young women aren't mature enough to keep up with a worldly man like him."

"I agree with you. Ah, I can't wait to know the identity of his fiancée! When will he introduce her to the public? He did mention during his interview earlier in the red carpet that we'll eventually know who she is when it's the right time. The suspense is killing me!"

The music awards would be starting soon. Instead of talking about who would win the awards, the people were hunting for Jin Liwei's soon-to-be wife instead.

Then a Black Star posted her guess in an online forum.

"Wait. Is it just me or others are also thinking that CEO Jin's fiancée might just be our Boss Iris? Didn't she say before that her fiancé is a businessman? Plus she also got engaged a few months ago, just like CEO Jin. If it's true, OMG! I'm gonna hyperventilate! Wouldn't this mean that our Boss Iris will become the next Madam Jin? Our Boss Iris will then become the ultimate boss!"

"Ahahaha! You have such a wild imagination. I'm laughing so hard. CEO Jin Liwei is engaged to Iris Long? Funniest thing I heard today. Ahahaha!"

"Girl, your guess is way off the mark. I can still believe it if you say that Iris Long is engaged to Jin Chonglin. But to CEO Jin Liwei? There is absolutely no way that's true. This is CEO Jin we're talking about."

Another Black Star took offense at the words of these people. "What do you mean by that? What's wrong with our Boss Iris? Why can't she be CEO Jin's fiancée?"

"The answer is simple. They're not on the same level. CEO Jin is way up there. You think that a man with wealth and status like him will marry a young pop star with a troubled past? Not to mention that she's constantly linked to his own brother. Sure, Iris Long is also from a rich family but we all know that she's not really on good terms with them despite her older brother saying that they're okay now. And even though she has matured a lot and moved past from her teenage trouble-making days, she hasn't ascended to such a level yet as to be worthy for us to even consider her as the future Madam Jin. It's just too far-fetched and unbelievable." 

Of course the Black Stars staunchly defended their Boss Iris. Yet the majority of them also didn't dare believe that their boss might really be Jin Liwei's fiancée. Besides, they didn't want her to be with someone like Jin Liwei either. He was too scary and too cold. Their boss deserved someone who would love her and pamper her for the rest of her life. They just couldn't imagine the cold, indifferent and reportedly ruthless President-CEO of Jin Corporation as a loving and doting husband.

Similarly, the LinRis shippers immediately rejected this notion. Yes, they wanted to pair up Iris with a Jin but not to the wrong brother. For them, the only Jin man who was perfectly suitable for her was Jin Chonglin.

"LinRis forever! There will be no other pairings that we'll accept except for LinRis! Prince Lin Lin and Boss Iris all the way! They're the most perfect couple ever!"

And with that, Iris Long's name was kicked out of the list of women who could possibly be Jin Liwei's fiancée. 

Despite this, there remained a handful of people who couldn't quite remove the niggling feeling within their hearts that Iris Long and Jin Liwei might really be engaged. 

Was it just a coincidence that both Iris Long and Jin Liwei were engaged to mysterious partners a few months ago? Although the clues matched, their opinions were unpopular and ignored by the masses, so they only kept their speculations among themselves.

A world-famous hacker and daughter of the most powerful criminal family who ruled the international Underworld for many generations is killed when their organization is annihilated in a single night.

She is reborn into the body of Iris Long, a teenage pop singer, wild party girl, and spoiled brat. For the former princess of the Underworld who lived an overprotected and shackled life, this new life is a chance to finally live the life of freedom and independence that she always wanted.

Jin Liwei is the most powerful man in the country's business world. Cold and ruthless, he is someone only a few dare offend. When the infamous Iris Long, who used to chase his younger brother, wakes up from a year-long coma, his unfeeling heart moves for the first time and he falls hard for this unexpected genius girl.

She wants to fly freely and soar high beyond the sky. He wants her everything, to tie her to himself and to never let her go.

This is her journey to super stardom. This is his journey in accompanying her. Together, they will rock the world while facing many challenges.

But what will happen when she discovers that she can never escape from the shadows of her previous life? Will she still be able to live her dream life of freedom and independence? Will he be able to protect her from the dangers?

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As the pillar of Huayi, Director Feng had never had to worry about finding capital.
"We should rethink the leftover scripts. Indie films are not profitable. Most people won't pay to watch them, but they are necessary for the Chinese market. Director Chen Kaige is sincere."
Why do all of you keep glancing at me? Am I such a narrow-minded man?
Qin Guan was speechless. He had filed that lawsuit because the director had done something wrong. This hadn't been personal. He considered the matter resolved. Qin Guan thought of himself as a reasonable man that never passed on his anger to others.
However, everyone was looking at him now, so he had to take a stand.
"In my opinion, Chinese films should develop all around. The box office is only one factor. The operator of the company could just carry out the original plan. I have no objections to that."
The person in charge of public relations let out a long sigh of relief. She was glad to see the shareholders and directors talk harmoniously. When they didn't, things were tougher for her.
"Okay. Then we can get back to Director Chen about his proposal for 'Mei Lanfang'."
"Chen has gone through lots of difficulties during the past few years. After that Waterloo, it took more than one year for him to prepare for his next film, yet he has finally returned to his field of expertise. That's great. It's much harder for directors to transform than it is for actors."
"Yes. Not everyone is good at shooting commercial films. Chinese directors should stick to their own style and principles."
This was just polite conversation. In fact, if they were given enough money and good actors, every director would transform, regardless of their style. Nobody would pass on such a chance.
"The final project is a franchise collaboration with Tiancheng. It's a big production, so a single company wouldn't qualify. If necessary, we'll unite agencies from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. The franchise includes two films, each one for every year. John Woo will direct. The actors are still being cast."
"All the departments can come up with suggestions for the casting. We'll leave Qin Guan's issue for later."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
"Now, let's talk about TV series. Nowadays, the market is filled with martial art and historical shows. The Ministry of Culture has specifically pointed out that film and TV production companies should be more creative and shoot shows about ordinary people or army life."
"I have two good scripts in my hands. One of them I got thanks to Qin Guan. The other one came from Director Zhao Baogang. Everyone must be familiar with him."
Thanks to me?
Although Qin Guan was confused, he didn't break in. He just listened to the speaker.
"'Struggle' is a city drama about young people's lives. It stands out among the scripts, as it has nothing to do with family or neighborhood relations. Plus, we do not have to invest much in it."
"Yes, that's pretty good."
After a short discussion, the show was approved.
"The other show is more controversial. Are you familiar with former General Tan from the Beijing Military Region?"
Who?
"I heard that he was your neighbor in Yantai..."
Grandpa Tan? Where was Grandpa Sun then?
"In 2002, the Beijing Modern Drama Troupe made a theater play out of it. Its original name was 'Erna Raid'. It was awarded at the Chinese Theater Festival. I wonder why the old general sent it to you. The scriptwriter also agreed to the proposal."
"The investment will be left up to you."
A good neighbor was better than a brother in another town. Qin Guan nodded repeatedly in excitement. He decided that he would both invest and star in the project.
Actually, this was treasure. If it was made into a TV series, it would win even more awards. Its literature and cultural awards already indicated its distinction.
This was Qin Guan's opportunity to star in another classic and make profit from it.
Qin Guan tried his best to calm down.
"I remember him. He is my neighbor. I value his trust, so I won't disappoint him. The budget is not much. I can cover it independently. Are there any regulations or sharing arrangements?"
"Yes," an assistant replied.
"Okay." Qin Guan nodded. "We will follow the company's rules and procedures."
What a considerate shareholder! He was even willing to take a risk for his company.
The big drama was yet to come.


Qin Guan was reborn and sent back to his final semester in High School 18 years ago. Getting a second chance at life, he works hard to turn things around and eventually become a Prince Charming. What will his life be like the second time around? What will he have to go through? How will he succeed in turning from a loser into a Prince Charming? Read this story carefully and find out!

Chapter 178. Concert starts (2)
"Ah, this looks good."
Ren said as he looked at the mirror in front of him. He was currently on the backstage in Tianjing stadium, getting ready.
Today, he was wearing a black jacket with blue jeans and he also have a chain around his neck.
Most of the people who have seen «A born star» would be able to immediately recognize his look. It was the same look of Leo in the first scene of the movie.
As today's concert was of the album of «A born star», Ren decided to try out this scene for the opening of the concert.
It will create a good impact on the audience as «A born star» is still vivid in their minds.
"Are you ready?"
White bear asked as he entered the green room.
"Yes, I think I will do fine."
"I wish for that too. I have already checked the lightnings, the speakers and the sound engineers are also on standby. We would be starting soon."
"What about Lin Ru, Xiao Rin and Lumous?"
Ren asked as he raised his eyebrow.
"Lin Ru is still getting ready, while Xiao Rin and Lumous are currently doing their makeups."
"It's time to start the concert then."
Ren said as he took a deep breath. The opening act in the concert would be his.
He has to give a impactful performance to gain momentum for the other singers.
"Are you nervous?"
"Slightly, but I will do fine."
"I know you will do fine. You can't mess up."
Ren laughed when he heard that and asked.
"You believe that rumour too?"
White bear shook his head as he replied.
"It's not because of that rumour. I know you better than anyone else, you don't like to lose when the stakes are high."
"Yes, you are right."
Ren said as he again laughed brightly.
* * *
Inside Tianjing stadium
Thousands of people were waiting for the concert to start. All the 20,000 seats were full and people were talking in hushed voices.
Several people were excitedly swinging their light sticks even before the concert has started.
In one of the corners in the stands, a group was excitedly talking among themselves.
"We have to cheer the loudest whenever Xin Ren comes on the stage."
The fan holding light sticks in both of his hands said. He was giving commands to the other people.
The fan was Mapple, Ren's self proclaimed number one fan.
"Leader, don't worry. We will not disappoint you."
"Yes, we will cheer the loudest and saw all the people the power of Xin Ren's official fan club."
"Yes, let's support him with all our might!!"
The group of people were from the official fan club of Ren and Mapple has now been elected as the head fan by the other members.
The head fan position means that he is the leader of the fan club and he will be responsible in collecting donations from other fans and holding fan events.
"I wish for the concert to start soon."
"Yes, I wonder how will it feel to listen to the songs live. I have already listened to them several times, but it would definitely be a different feeling listening to them live."
"Yes, it's obvious that it would be a magical feeling."
"I wish there would be an announcement about his second album after the concert."
Suddeny, one of the fans wearing a hoodie said.
"A single would also be nice."
"Yes, maybe he can collaborate with Xiao Rin or Lin Ru."
"They can just form a duo."
The other fans also agreed with him.
Seeing that, the older fans who have been in the fan club for a long time retorted.
"Hey, Xin Ren will obviously do a movie or a drama next."
"Yes, he's an actor before he's a singer."
"He only did singing because it was an requirement for the movie."
After «A born star», Ren's fan popularity has grown exponentially. His fan club has also received many members.
Some of these members have come after listening to the album of «A born star», they bend more towards singing rather than acting and want Ren to grow as a singer.
This has created conflicts with the original fans who have joined the fan club after seeing Ren's acting.
It has a created two groups in the fan club and fans would often fight with each other.
"Ah, they started again."
Mapple muttered as he sighed. He was already troubled by the problem as the head fan.
He has tried to make sure that no conflicts arise, but conflicts are still arising at regular intervals.
He has to find an answer soon or the fandom can separate. That would be a disastrous thing to do.
"Leader, what should we do?"
Another fan asked him.
"I don't know. For now, we have to make sure that the fight don't grow much or the security personnel will know about it and our reputation will go down the drain."
"Yes, we have to avoid it for now."
The other fan said as he sighed.
As they were thinking about how to solve the problem, the lights in the stadium suddenly dimmed and all the people suddenly went silent.
They all know that this was the start of the concert.
Ren's fans also stopped making a commotion as they looked at the stage waiting for the performance to start.
"The moment you have all been waiting for is here, the concert of the blockbuster musical drama, «A born star», will start now."
A voice resounded from the center of the stage. No one was able to know the owner of the voice as the stage was completely devoid of any light.
"Now, let's start the concert!!"
With that voice, soft music started to play out from the speakers and it resounded within the Tianjing stadium.
The people started to wave their light sticks as all of them recognised the music of the song flowing out.
It was the song 'Are you listening?'. The concert was finally starting!!


Ren, he was someone with great talent in acting and singing but due to bad luck and some wrong choices, he was only able to become a third rate actor.

After dying in an accident, he noticed that he had returned to the past.

With the help of his talents and the knowledge of future, he started his journey to become the trendiest star of the century.

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20/12/13

Jaemin drank his last shot of whiskey in his dimly litted apartment and grinned emotionally, "I really did all this... I still, still can't believe this....."

He had finished filming The Heirs, The Thieves, My Love From The Star, Moon Embracing The Sun, Dream High and even Secretly, Greatly. He had won awards, girls's hearts and maybe even boys' hearts....

His popularity, after The Heirs finished filming, literally skyrocketed.

It became an even bigger hit than it was in the past, solely because of his performance and influence on the rest of the cast. The other celebrities in the drama like Krystal from F(x) and Park Shin-hye also noticed a dramatic increase in both their income and popularity.

He truly became a star part of the Hallyu wave after that, which was something to be very, very proud of. The biggest reason why he was recognized as a Hallyu star was mostly due to his increasing fame in the U.S and Europe. 

The Heirs was naturally the main reason for this.

My Love From The Star, the one drama that was literally the most popular overseas in the past, was already on it's way. The first episode had already been broadcasted two days ago.

It was a well-known drama already, due to the fact that both he and Jun Ji-hyun starred in it. Not only that. but also because of the plot that basically deviates from the current norm. It fit more with the standards Westerners had.

He felt incredibly satisfied knowing that he had done everything he had planned to do. There was no greater joy for him than accomplishing a goal, that in the past, seemed impossible.

All of his friends and family were also super proud of him, cause they were all constantly congratulating him on his large period of success.

His life was literally what he had wished it to be...

Almost.

It hadn't all been good, there was something that bothered him greatly.

He became emotionally unstable after that weird side-effect of the system. He was even a bit affected before all of that happened when he thought about it.

He became easily angered, easily excited, easily depressed, easily tired, all of it. And it didn't even have to activate for that to happen.

Man, he even fell in love easier.

He couldn't really specify that habit of his as 'love' but he also didn't know how to desribe it elsehow.

Pretty girls, of course they caught your attention, his as well.

But he wasn't that kind off person before, someone who was already swayed by looks alone. And because that had changed, he didn't really like to interact with girls anymore.

Everytime he was invited for a dinner or something like that, he always refused, saying that he was either busy or sick. He began to shut himself off, to prevent him from doing stupid things. 

It was the same situation now, he was sitting alone in his apartment.

Every girl that he had to act with....

He definitely felt some strange things while shooting. He always kept staring like his eyes were literally glued on them.

For example, if he had to shoot a kissing scene or an intimate scene, he did it for real.

Not professionally, but for real.

That didn't mean he caught massive feelings for them, but more like that he really kissed and hugged them intimately.

It could be viewed as a sort of; 'Taking advantage' of them.

And when he began to notice that, he got legitimately scared of himself for a while.

If this continued on, wouldn't he become an emotional wreck?

He coudn't live like this forever, shutting himself off from the rest when his work was over. 

In the near future, this was even more so.

Today was already the 20th of December.

GOT7's debut was soon, and JYP had notified him of that.

The group was already formed.

He, BamBam, Jackson, Mark, Yugyeom, ** and Jinyoung

It was a legendary line-up, but it carried along one big, one very big troublesome matter with it.

His high popularity compared to the others.

It was a problem that JYP had racked his brain over for a while. He was a part of this process as well. He would outshine the others if he joined just like that, eventually preventing them from becoming as good as they were in the past.

And after a shitty long time of thinking, they came up with a solution. It wasn't necessarily a perfect one, but it would function well enough for it to have some effect.

JYP had created various promotional activities for those individuals.

It was his biggest project yet.

He was going to make the other members famous by letting them appear on not only Tv frequently, but also on radio, variety and other shows. So that GOT7 would become a group solely consisted of famous and talented people.

This idea was almost impossible to pull-off correctly, but JYP decided he'd still go all out for this.

And his effort was already showing results.

BamBam, Jackson, ** and Mark became popular by appearing on a completely new drama that was created by the company itself. It was called: For Us: It's You

Four guys fell in love with the same girl, the girl however, fell in love with none of them.

It was a drama about finding love, coming to know what it was, and how to handle it.

It had finished airing a few months ago and it was quite a hit. It's popularity was a little bit higher than Dream High's, because it was the absolute first time for an entertainment company to do something like this.

The cast was also young and good looking. They had even invited, guess who, Park Min-young as the female lead!

The ratings however, were a tad lower.

They were still good, very good for a drama even.

But they were all new to acting after all, they couldn't win any awards except the Netizen's choice award.

All in all, it was like a better version of Dream Knight, without him and Jinyoung.

Yugyeom became quite well-known as a dancer as well, due to him participating in Dancing With The Stars in Korea.

He didn't win, but he became third place.

Yugyeom even started making youtube videos of his dance covers, that received quite a bit of attention as well.

Jinyoung however, was shining the brightest out of them all, he became an actor as well.

And his debut was even crazier than Jaemin's, he started acting a lead role right of the bat in I Hear Your Voice.

How? 

It was all because of Jaemin.

It was very unrealistic that Jinyoung could replace Lee Jong-suk in a drama.

It was due to the fact that Jaemin was offered the lead role, but requested it to be passed on to someone else.

That someone was Jinyoung.

Of course, he had to audition and he had to do all the other necessary things. He also got offered a lot less than Lee Jong-suk, but he eventually got the role.

Jinyoung even won the Best New Actor award on his first time, just like him.

The drama wasn't as popular as it used to be, but it was still better than almost all of the drama's that starred idol celebrities in them.

And now that JYP was soon going to be announcing the fact that he was going to create an idol group solely consisted of actors, and a dancer, the Korean population would probably go mental.

Jaemin felt quite bad for Youngjae, but he would probably join Day6 in the future. He was a very talented singer.

Maybe it would become Day7 in the end?

Jaemin laughed and said, "Who knows...."

Kim Min-jae always dreamed of becoming a K-pop idol. He tried everything: taking acting and dance classes, becoming better at singing and rapping etc.

He had been a trainee, but got eliminated in one of the yearly evalutions.

Why?

He wasn't good at anything a k-pop idol should be good at. The only reason why he became a trainee is because he never gave up on his training.

One night, he looked up to the stars.

"Give me a chance to fulfill all my dreams"

Normally, Jiang Hengchuan looked like a young farmer with dark skin, thick eyebrows and wide eyes, and with mediocre senses. Even if he stayed in the state of Oneness of Heaven and Men, free and happy, he still seemed to be a hermit farmer, who was living leisurely and was self-sufficient, and appreciated beautiful sceneries.
But now, he was talking with a smile on his lips, sending forth unstoppable confidence and calm. He was so spirited that he looked a completely different person. Confident and intelligent, he did not look like a peasant anymore.
It was the temperament instead of the look that reflected a person's career, and Jiang Hengchuan was a living example.
"Good point," Meng Qi suddenly said with his left hand tapping the back of his right hand while holding a knife, like he was clapping, but no smile emerged on his face.
Jiang Hengchuan thanked him with a smile, and then turned to Qiu Fei. "Brother Qiu, please don't be scared 'cause we still need to collaborate with you to kill the Devil. Even if the Devil gives up on killing people and chooses to cooperate with us to open the Inner House, we won't let him hurt you and leave all the victorious fruits to himself."
"If we're lucky enough to kill him, you'll still remain safe because Brother Su will protect you. Three people watching each other's back is the best for us. If you die, he must become discrete. Powerful as the Soul-pledging Oath is, it is not perfect, and its flaws will be exposed sooner or later. Now, we honor our promise, solely because we have the same objective."
He spoke his mind about his temporary cooperation with Meng Qi as a way of talking Qiu Fei into working with them together.
Qiu Fei felt a little moved by his words, and then his eyes landed on Meng Qi.
"I was just exaggerating in an attempt to persuade him to work with us." Jiang Hengchuan said to Meng Qi through the Secret Voice-sending.
At this moment, Meng Qi straightforwardly said with a big smile on his face,
"I can't agree more with you, Civil Star."
"Civil Star?" Qiu Fei inhaled a mouthful of cold air. In his eyes, Jiang Hengchuan was quite skeptical, but it never occurred to him that he was Civil Star, who had caused a stir in the entire Maoling.
Jiang Hengchuan's smile remained unchanged, making him still look composed and confident.
"When did you find out I'm Civil Star, besides knowing I'm suspicious?"
Instead of denying, he admitted it frankly. With his hands naturally dropping and the momentum pulling back, he was seemingly just chitchatting with them. However, both Qiu Fei and Meng Qi knew that he would attack at any time.
"To be honest, this idea never crossed my mind before. You invited the 'Chess Master' Wang to have a competition about the Setups, but as a result, you turned yourself into an invisible chess piece and plunged into the chessboard. It surprised me very much that you were the one behind this." Meng Qi replied with a smile while holding the heavy Heaven Inflicted Pain, and with his black clothes wetted by the fine rain. Neither anxious nor startled, he acted like he was talking to a friend.
"Besides, Master Wang told me that whatever I responded to him, I'd always end up falling into traps. It troubled me very much. And then I came to realize why the top 10 talent was so compulsive and reckless, even leaving me no opportunity to say something."
Jiang Hengchuan nodded with a smile. "A victim and framer stand as the most important two items in a trap. If the framer sets up a trap with some modifications, whatever the victim does, he'll end up in the trap. And then, the framer can avail himself of this chance to kill the victim. By then, the victim can blame himself for being too impetuous."
"If I had not gone to the Wind-listening Villa and returned to my yard, I would've likely found one more body in the coffin. And then, I would've been confronted with the victim." Meng Qi sighed. "If you couldn't kill me immediately, you'd utilize your identity of a victim to persuade me into collaborating with you, involving me in your delicate setups. "
Qiu Fei focused on listening to their conversation with a purpose of studying the setups and conspiracies in case that he would treat a rival as a friend.
Jiang Hengchuan nodded with a smile on his face again. "Yes."
Insanely candid and confident, he did not feel stressed out in front of them.
"I was 100% sure that you were behind this when Xiang host of Dajiang Gang Chu Guan killed himself. But I've never regarded you as Civil Star." Meng Qi slowly uttered the changes in his idea. "Haven't you thought that I could really dig out something and find Chu Guan?"
Jiang Hengchuan controlled his smile a little bit. "Yes. I've never thought you could make the artisan recall Chuan Guan, otherwise, I'd have killed him earlier. But I've also drawn a lesson from it that only the dead can keep a secret. But by that time, I had to kill Chuan Guan to misguide you guys."
"So when we looked for Green-ribbon Dai, you used the Secret Voice-sending to order your subordinates?"
"You're right again." Jiang Hengchuan still said relaxedly, "I had planned to inform Chuan Guan to run away, but as soon as I walked out the door, I changed my plans to misguide you and spur Master Wang."
"When you recovered from the shock, you'll instantly realize that the hearsay of 'Civil Star helps to avenge' is false. You wouldn't pay more attention to Civil Star anymore. But as far as Master Wang was concerned, he would see through my trick right away, and know it was a challenge given by me. Thus, he would become more interested in competing with me and neglect other things."
Meng Qi sighed. "Luckily, I suddenly became composed and sober-minded, figuring out it was a trap. The next day when you warned me, I was positive that you were suspicious. In a bid to find out your purpose, I played the game with you, because I didn't believe your competition with Master Wang was your real objective."
"You found me suspicious as early as then. In my belief, we better be friends with more tacit after experiencing so many things. You almost got me, you sophisticated buddy." Jiang Hengchuan seemed to praise him.
"Of course, life's a drama where we all live by acting skills ..." Meng Qi complained in his heart. "I discovered that you targeted the Dongyang Villa after the incidents of Brother Qiu and Eight-armed Flying Dragon. But what could you depend on to achieve your goal? You brought this simple matter into a complex one, even involving Master Wang Qing Yu and the others. What for? "
"Yeah, What for?" Jiang Hengchuan jokingly asked back, showing his good mood.
Meng Qi pursed his lips, and said slowly, "I haven't understood that until Tower Lord Ren sighed before me. He blamed himself for doing nothing to prevent his friends from dying. And I then looked at the big picture, and found out Eight-armed Flying Dragon and Three Eagles of Cloud Ridge might be his friends. In this aspect, if you killed them in broad daylight, you would be hunted down by the mysterious Tower Lord Ren. Therefore, in order to hold him back, you spent some time inviting the nearby listed masters, especially Master Wang."
"You guys took this time to do other meaningless things. Take the example of Master Wang. You claimed to compete with him about Setups, but you actually distracted him to conceal your real purpose of killing Brother Qiu and Eight-armed Flying Dragon to steal the two debris of Dongyang Seal, and finally snatching the treasures in the Inner House."
Jiang Hengchuan gradually stopped smiling.
"Pitifully, your realization comes too late."
"A successful conspiracy lies in its well-hidden real target, letting the rest of setups be."
This was Civil Star's understanding of setups and conspiracies.
Meng Qi attached little importance to his pity. "Plus, you wanted to kill or use me. At the beginning of your plan, you also wanted to disclose yourself to Master Wang for winning his attention. And then you misguided him that Tower Lord Ren was the real Civil Star and your boss as well."
"'Aurora Electric Sword' Xiao Zhenhai was of great help for me to understand the whole plan. Since you could easily send your men to kill three common people, why did you lure him, one undercover spy, into your trap?"
"You indeed deserve to be called Civil Star. You set up a trap with its several objectives covering each other."
"You led me to suspect Tower Lord Ren, because you wanted to distract me and put Master Wang into a thinking trap. Since you were certainly a suspect, leading us to, at the first sight, consider him innocent. But deep down, it's also a method of using a subordinate to clear his name, which instead made him more suspicious, isn't it?"
It's quite fortunate that "Bizzare Man" Ren Pingsheng knew that Meng Qi was once drawn in, and deliberately exposed that he knew Qu Jiuniang. Otherwise, Meng Qi would regard him an accomplice with Xiao Zhenhai and Jiang Hengchuan. If the above incident had happened, Meng Qi would not have affirmed their real target and would keep an eye on Xiao Zhenhai.
On one hand, Qiu Fei felt formidable at those analyses. On the other hand, he also felt lucky that he had not met Ledgerkeeper of Lives and Civil Star on his journey in Jianghu. Otherwise, he would up dead without knowing who the foe was.
Jiang Hengchuan exhaled. "You're much smarter than I think."
"Now, only one mystery remains to be resolved. After so many days, I believe you're not relentless, but why did you kill Jiang Tabo?" Meng Qi sighed.
When Jiang Tabo was dying, he looked more abominable than scary. In Meng Qi's eyes, he did not get it why his cousin killed him.
Jiang Hengchuan finally changed his expression, and wore a mixed look of pity, resentment, and sadness. "Because of a big loss in gambling, he betrayed me by selling what he knew to Ren Pingsheng. In the original plan, I should stay tight in my tranquil cottage in Daxing and appreciate Master Wang contending with the air. Besides, I'd meditate on the situation of Maoling every day so as to put Maoling into the biggest chaos. Therefore, we could shelter the truth that we killed Eight-armed Flying Dragon and Brother Qiu.
"Since I, who possessed another Chance, was in Daxing, no one would know Dongyang Villa was the real target."
"But Fire Lord found out his betrayal, and wrote me to ask me to rush back to Maoling. Since I was exposed, I had to join in the chaos personally. I used myself to attract the others' attention, and relied on you to nose for Brother Qiu's allies to locate Eight-armed Flying Dragon."
Meng Qi sighed and said, "This is it."
His face became grim. "A suddenly emerging idea led me to extrapolate that you're Civil Star. And then I got inspired by thinking of using yourself to distract people. This is your epitome, isn't it?" "However, your plan wasn't perfect enough to only put one on the surface. You had to have an accomplice beyond each one's imagination. If not, how could you possibly protect your purpose?"
"As long as you got one more Chance, Master Wang would definitely raise doubts about you. Nevertheless, when the three Chances were stored in different places, you could silently open the Inner House, and take the treasure away."
Meng Qi gave him a smile. "Furthermore, now the calm, confident and patient you verified my guess."
Qiu Fei abruptly came to an enlightenment, and looked at Meng Qi in shock. "You're saying ..."
"Right. The evil Old Zhong is his ally." Meng Qi looked into Jiang Hengchuan's eyes.
Jiang Hengchuan clapped, and said with a smile, "You're good, really good, yet just wrong about our relationship. We're partners, not allies."


I care not of my past and neither of my future.
Conquering all heroes and foes while looking with disdain at the horrors of the Samsara, I yearn only for a life of thrilling wonders!
History will repeat itself after many ages as the menace of the Great Calamity rises once more.
Which will rise with triumph in the face of adversity; the Golden Form of the Great Buddha or the invincible Heavenly Taoist Form?
Which will seize all glory amidst all struggles; The Buddha's Palms or the  Seven Strokes of Heaven's Interception?
From the sanctum of the Shaolin Temple, Meng Qi's adventures and struggles through the Samsara begin as we follow his climb to claim the title of "the Unrivaled and the Invincible One"!


Actually, Yun Shishi had only acted in one movie, appeared in a few print ads, and one idol drama music MV. Otherwise, she had little exposure and, at best, would be deemed as a budding starlet. However, her high exposure had made her a household name quickly.
She was still not in league with other veteran actresses like Han Yuyan and Yang Mi, though, but thanks to Lin Fengtian and Gu Xingze's appeal, plus the rumors surrounding her and the superstar, she was acknowledged by many as a major star as well.
In the public's eyes, the actor was a supreme idol insulated from all sorts of gossip. Other than some occasional speculations from the media or his female co-leads trying to ramp up their popularity by associating him to them, there was hardly any rumor about him and other actresses. He was considered devoid of any entertainment scandals!
Hence, even though the superstar's PR team did not deliberately cook up a storm about him and Yun Shishi, the public had earnestly taken her as the next in line for 'Mrs. Superstar'!
Yo, she's the actress recently working with Gu Xingze!

She's been very popular recently.
Humans were vain, after all.
If I can post a picture of me with a movie star to our group chat, surely, I'll steal all the limelight, won't I?
"Yun Shishi, can you take a picture with me?"
"Yun Shishi, are you really in a relationship with Gu Xingze?"
"It's not true, right? It's impossible for them!"
"I watched the trailer of 'The Green Apple'. Both look compatible actually! If she's really with the superstar, I'll support them!"
"Yun Shishi, can you take a group photo with us?"
…
The voices behind her continued to call out relentlessly.
She peeked over her shoulder and saw that the crowd had increased from the initial three to a sizable group.
Most were shopping inside the mall when they heard a loud voice saying, "A superstar is here!"
Upon knowing that it was this co-star, who was recently rumored to be involved with the superstar, they rushed up to have a closer look as well.
It was a rare opportunity to be up close and personal with an idol or a star.
Besides, many of them were nosy about her relationship with Gu Xingze and wanted to probe further. Before long, more and more fans started to gather around.
She was lost and desperate like a hapless fly inside the spacious mall.
She rarely visited the shopping malls in the first place. After becoming a public figure, the chances of window shopping were further reduced and she had to resort to online shopping most of the time.
However, many of the items she got online were not to her satisfaction; hence, the idea of visiting the mall emerged today!
She wandered around the mall and took many detours along the way, only to lead herself accidentally into a dead end. Breathing in deeply, she turned around but realized, to her dismay, that the crowd had totally blocked her way out.
What is this…

What am I gonna do?
She stood rooted to the spot helplessly, breaking out in a nervous, cold sweat. Her mind went blank all of a sudden!
She called Mu Xi and whispered her location into the phone, asking for help out of this dire predicament.
Her assistant told her that she would arrive in ten minutes; this would mean that she had to defend herself in the meantime, unfortunately.
What could she do now?
She could not think of any instant solution!
"Yun Shishi, I'm your fan. Can I take a picture with you?" asked a passerby excitedly.
She sipped her dry lips and wondered inwardly, Fans? Where do these fans come from?
Other than the movie 'The Green Apple', she had not filmed any production. Where in the world did the groupies come from?


She became a surrogate mother in exchange for over a million yuan.

As the esteemed CEO of the most powerful Empire in the capital, he holds absolute power, while she is just an adopted daughter to a family of lowly status. She agreed to bear him his offspring, simply because her adoptive father's business was failing.
 
On the day of her delivery, the elder brother was born healthy, but the younger one was stillborn. Having fulfilled the contract, she disappeared from his sight along with the astronomical sum of money. 


Six years later, he is still that arrogant and high-profile CEO. When she accidentally gets embroiled with him again – like a canary trapped in his cage, he closes in on her. “Woman, do you think you can escape from my clutches?!" 

However, he does not expect a little kid to interfere; the boy pompously points his little finger at him and warns, “Mu Yazhe, you’d better leave her alone! She's mine – this baby's woman!” 

The man is alarmed, simply because the little kid's facial features are identical to his...

Tags: Adorable Child, CEO, Sweet Romance, Scheming, Wealthy Aristocrats, Fluff, Two-faced, Child, Rich and Powerful, Treachery

"Um, okay. I'm in the hospital cafeteria. Have you had lunch? Do you wanna come up and grab a bite?"
"Okay. I'll be there in a minute."
Soon after this message, Su Yu parked the car and went upstairs.
His black Lamborghini was very eye-catching, and many young nurses knew it was Young Master Su's car by looking at its plate.
Ever since Su Yu fell in love with Huo Mian, he had been a frequent visitor to South Side.
"Whoa! Young Master Su is here!"
"He's so handsome. The actresses at Imperial Star are so lucky that they can see such a handsome boss every day."
"Without a doubt, Young Master Su is here to see our deputy director."
"Yeah. I'm envious of the deputy director for having Young Master Su as her good friend."
On the first floor, the young nurses talked about him with stars in their eyes.
Some bold ones even walked over and informed him, "Young Master Su, our deputy director is in the hospital cafeteria."
"I know." Su Yu nodded with a smile and continued walking.
The hospital cafeteria was open from 11 AM to 1 PM, a full two hours.
Many hospital staff had lunch here; sometimes, the patients would buy pre-paid cards to have meals here as well.
Huo Mian always came in the last wave because the cafeteria was less crowded at this hour and she could find a seat.
Although there weren't many people in the cafeteria, Su Yu still caused a stir when he walked in.
Su Yu liked to wear casual Versace in plain and clean colors, such as white.
Dressed in a white short-sleeved shirt and beige slacks, he had his Lamborghini key and black iPhone 7 plus in his hands, a standard image of a tall and handsome rich guy.
"Here…" Huo Mian raised her hand and called out to Su Yu.
Su Yu walked directly to her. "What's on today's menu?"
"There are more than a dozen dishes. What would you like to eat?" Huo Mian asked with a smile.
Su Yu glanced at Huo Mian's platter.
"Stir-fried pork with black fungus, yellow croaker stewed with fermented soybean, stir-fried broccoli, and braised spare ribs in brown sauce. Nice. I'll take yours."
Su Yu slid Huo Mian's platter to himself.
"Hey! I've begun eating…" Huo Mian meant "aren't you bothered that it's my leftovers?"
"What? You didn't catch chicken flu, right?" Su Yu glanced at her and retorted.
"Fine… Well, you're a scoundrel and can make a retort sound so dignified."
Resigned, Huo Mian smiled and got up to buy another platter of food with her pre-paid card.
She brought lots of rice back, knowing Su Yu had a big appetite.
"What do you think? Is the food better?" Huo Mian asked.
"Erm. Delicious… Very good." Su Yu was full of praises.
"Oh, by the way, um… are you busy with your work lately?"
"I am. Didn't Little Bean and Pudding tell you that our company signed a big Qing Dynasty palace drama? Other than our own actors, we invited some A-list idols and celebrities to join the drama. This is a big production and I've been busy running this thing. By the way, I invited Pudding and Little Beam to be our guest actresses."
"Huh? What roles can they play?" Huo Mian was dumbstruck.
"They can play the little princesses of a royal prince."
"I never heard of a Qing Dynasty royal prince who had twins…" Huo Mian had read lots of books, including Shiji (Records of the Great Historian), and didn't remember any records about twins.
"It doesn't matter. No one cares if it's true or not so long as the plot and performance are good."
"But you would change the records of history!" Huo Mian retorted.


Original Synopsis: 
Seven years ago, after their breakup, he disappeared without a trace.
Now, he reappeared on the eve of her wedding, sparing no means in forcing her to marry him… 
With a certificate of marriage, he bound her mercilessly to his side. 
From there, this “Cinderella” began her journey as a wife of the business empire’s heir...
Mrs Huo - composed, sharp-tongued, and freakishly smart.
Mr Qin - wife-spoiler to no end and a complete “slave” to their daughter.
Quality love story, one on one. You are welcome to get hooked on this story with us. 
Stats on QQ Reader: 102 million favorites, and was voted 8.4/10 by 41 thousand readers. 
TL's Note: Probably one of the best stories I've read, and I was very tempted to translate the title to Big D Brings Spring. Girls, I hope you enjoyed it as much as my girlfriend and my female translators who binge read 4000 chapters in about a month. 
For all the guys hesitating to give it a try, you won't regret it. It's a manly book, I swear.

Phusro’s voice still echoed in their ears, but he himself was gone.

“This Phusro…really is weird.” Bebe blinked his eyes twice, still feeling rather dazed.

Linley lowered his head to look at the hundred-plus interspatial rings hovering in his palm. Amongst them were mostly the interspatial rings of Gods, but also many of Highgods. “So many interspatial rings, with even Highgod interspatial rings amongst them. This is really a treasure that just fell down out of nowhere.”

Linley felt joyful.

“That Phusro actually gave us so many interspatial rings.” Delia sighed in amazement as well.

“So like I said, that guy’s head isn’t working. However, it’s broken in a good way.” Bebe chortled.

Linley shook his head. “Bebe, you can’t say that. Phusro’s experiences and ours are different. A trillion years of depression, of silent endurance. Only an extraordinary person would be able to endure so much. After finally being released one day, he was just venting.”

Delia nodded slightly as well.

Whether it was his attack on Learmonth or his chat with Linley’s group, it was all a form of venting.

“Oh.” Bebe nodded in understanding, his eyes shining. “After venting, he casually tossed these little baubles to us. Phusro really is stingy though. Why didn’t he give us Elquin’s interspatial ring? That old fellow’s wealth is definitely astonishing.”

Linley and Delia were momentarily speechless.

“Just kidding.” Bebe chortled, and then looked at the hundred-plus interspatial rings in Linley’s hand. “Boss, so many interspatial rings. How many treasures do you think are you inside? I’ll take a look first.” Bebe clearedly seemed quite eager. “I love investigating the treasures within interspatial rings.”

“Why the rush?” Flipping his hand, Linley stored away all of the interspatial rings.

“Right now, we need to first decide what we are going to do next. We can look at interspatial rings later.” Linley glanced at his surroundings. The volcano range had disappeared, causing this area to once more return to its flat surface. The hazy, dim light of the Violet Moon shone down from the night sky.

The gauze-like violet moonlight shone down, filling the world with an ancient, vast aura.

Delia frowned slightly. “Linley, the Infernal Realm is filled with countless dangers. It will be very hard for the three of us to rely on our own ability to reach the Rainbow Prefecture’s Bluemaple City.”

Linley agreed as well. The three of them were all Gods. Although a Fiend’s star rank could not be distinguished, others would still be able to distinguish someone’s general level of strength. They would know Linley’s group was at the God level and not the Highgod level! Highgod Fiends, bandits wouldn’t dare to irritate.

But God-level Fiends, bandits wouldn’t fear either.

“To take on a mission, we would have to go to a city. The distance between each city in the Infernal Realm is vast! There’s no way for us to take on a mission right now.” Bebe said resignedly as well.

Linley glanced at his surroundings, thinking back to some of the geographical information he had read before regarding the Infernal Realm. Moments later, he decided, “We are indeed in a bit of trouble. The closest city to us is at least eighty million kilometers away. Eighty million kilometers…who knows how many dangers we would encounter on the way over?”

“Eighty million kilometers?” Bebe and Delia both felt their heads ache as well.

Linley looked towards Delia. His mind couldn’t help but be filled with the scene of himself and Delia falling into the golden magma pool. In that moment, he had truly believed he was going to die.

“For the sake of Delia, we can’t keep on taking risks like this.” Linley said to himself.

Delia and Bebe looked towards Linley. At times like this, they left the decision to Linley. Linley stared into the distance, then spoke. “How about this. Up ahead there seems to be a large mountain range. Let’s go there and temporarily live there for a while and train quietly. When Delia completely fuses her Highgod spark, we will head out!”

“Live there?” Bebe was rather surprised.

“What is it?” Linley looked towards Bebe.

Bebe immediately shook his head. “Nothing. Boss, your words have merit. Let’s wait until Delia is a Highgod. At least on the surface, others will see that she is a Highgod Fiend, which should be frightening enough. When we head out, it will be much safer.”

This was indeed Linley’s plan. Although Delia was only a One Star Fiend, who would be able to tell from the surface?

Others could only be certain that she was a Highgod Fiend!

Bandit groups didn’t want to deal with Highgod Fiends. Who knew how many stars the Fiend might have? It might be a Seven Star Fiend!

“Huh?” Linley suddenly noticed that Delia had taken his hand. He couldn’t help but to turn and look at her, and she gestured towards him with her eyes. Only now did Linley notice that Bebe was acting strangely. Instantly, Linley understood. “Bebe is most likely thinking of Nisse.”

“Bebe.” Linley said.

“Huh?” Bebe raised his head, looking towards Linley.

Linley immediately said, “Bebe, how about, let’s travel as fast as possible. Perhaps we can first go to a city to take on a mission, or buy a metallic lifeform of our own. Either way, we can hurry to Bluemaple City of the Rainbow Prefecture as soon as possible.”

Bebe understood.

Salomon and Nisse, if they wanted to return to the Jadefloat Continent ,would first have to go to Bluemaple City of the Rainbow Prefecture. Linley’s suggestion…was to give Bebe a chance to catch up to Nisse.

However, this sort of hasty trip would definitely result in them meeting with many bandits on the way over. Who knew how many dangers they would face? Although Linley and Bebe were both strong, and would be able to deal with any ordinary bandit squads, if they were to encounter a bandit squad of thousands of Gods, what would they do?

It was too dangerous!

“Boss, thanks.” Bebe said gratefully, but then shook his head and sighed. “However, there’s no need.”

Linley and Delia exchanged a glance.

Bebe continued, “This sort of hasty travel is very dangerous to begin with. It’s best to do as Boss said at first, to first take up residence for a time…as for Nisse, to be honest, right now, I really hate that Salomon! Although I hate him, I believe that with Nisse by his side, at least her safety won’t be a problem. As for myself and whether or not I’ll be able to meet her again…I’ll leave that up to fate!”

Although Bebe wanted to be together with Nisse, this sort of hasty trip would result in danger to both Linley and Delia. Bebe naturally wouldn’t do that.

Linley’s group headed towards the northeast, advancing roughly a hundred kilometers, at which point they discovered a very wide mountain range. In the ancient mountain range, enormous trees that were a thousand meters high and needed dozens of men to encircle could be seen everywhere. Wild grass grew everywhere, and all sorts of strange creatures could be seen.

Every part of this place revealed its ancient heritage.

Although Linley’s group had discovered several small tribes while travelling those hundreds of kilometers of flat land, these small tribes were formed by the puny Saints of the Infernal Realm. Generally speaking, tribes formed by Deities were able to control an area of land spanning thousands of kilometers.

Linley, Delia, and Bebe casually chose an unremarkable mountain, and midway up the mountain, Linley utilized Bloodviolet to carve out a large hole, creating a deep cavern residence for them to temporarily live in.

This cavern residence was newly made. Linley, Delia, and Bebe sat down and began to inspect those interspatial rings.

“So little. This one only has a few hundred thousand inkstones. It definitely belongs to a God-level Fiend.” Bebe seemed to have tossed Nisse to the back of his mind, and was excitedly investigating the rings. “Whoah-oh! This one is badass. It actually has several hundred million inkstones. It definitely belongs to a Highgod Fiend!”

“I’ve searched seven interspatial rings but none of them exceeded ten million.” Delia spoke out as well.

“No rush. I expect that you have only been searching God-level Fiend rings. Whoah. This one is impressive. It actually has….twenty billion inkstones!” Seeing the contents of this interspatial ring, Linley was shocked. This was the largest sum he had ever encountered.

“Twenty billion inkstones?” Bebe and Delia looked over as well.

Their prior total assets were only worth a hundred million inkstones. Twenty billion was definitely a shocking figure to them.

Actually, as Phusro had only taken away Inigo and Elquin’s rings, the remaining rings included the white-horned elder’s. Since the black-horned elder’s had contained over thirty billion, the white-horned elder’s ring naturally wouldn’t be much inferior either. As for the Edward brothers, they were all Five Star Fiends. All of them possessed astonishing wealth! Actually, tens of billions of inkstones to Five Star Fiends was a normal sum.

After all, ordinary Highgods would have more than a hundred million.

As for some Seven Star Fiends, their assets were most likely in excess of a trillion inkstones. Inigo, as the second young master of his clan, also had a terrifying amount of wealth. Thus, the two most valuable interspatial rings had been taken away by Phusro.

“No rush. Let’s keep investigating. We haven’t even searched thirty. There are many left. Let’s keep going slowly.”

He had to admit that this sort of searching through the interspatial rings for wealth was indeed something that filled a man with excitement and hope. It wasn’t tiresome at all.

“Whoah, my heavens. This one has thirty billion inkstones.” Bebe cried out in shock.

“What’s going on with me? Up until now, the most I’ve found was around seven billion inkstones.” Delia laughed.

“I found another one that has nearly thirty billion inkstones.” Linley laughed as he put another interspatial ring to one side.

A few moments later, they completed their review of these hundred-plus interspatial rings. The fortune within the most valuable one was actually sixty billion inkstones, while the least valuable one contained a pitiful hundred thousand! The difference was truly astonishing.

“All together…let’s calculate…” Bebe’s eyes were shining. “Wow, all together, we have two hundred billion!”

A truly astonishing figure!

“There were actually six rings which contained more than ten billion inkstones! I imagine that these six belonged to the three Edward brothers, the white-horned elder, Sperry, and those other two Highgod Fiends.” Linley said. Actually, although they had more than a hundred interspatial rings, the most valuable ones were actually these six, which all contained over ten billion. These six combined alone neared two hundred billion.

The other hundred-plus interspatial rings, all combined, had a value of just barely ten billion, not even twenty billion.

“Quality, not quantity!” Bebe sighed. “These are all just Five Star Fiends and Four Star Fiends, but they already have such astonishing wealth. What about Six Star Fiends? Or especially the likes of Elquin, a Seven Star Fiend? Who knows how much wealth he has.”

Wealth was something which accumulated like a pyramid.

The more powerful a person was, the more extravagant the amount of wealth they had.

“I expect that even all our wealth combined is still nothing more than a rounding error in Elquin’s wealth.” Linley said.

One could imagine it just by thinking about it. Who knew how many experts Elquin had killed, and how vast a fortune he had built up?

Still, although a fortune of over two hundred billion inkstones was nothing to the likes of these ultimate experts or those major clans, it was still a massive amount of money to ordinary Highgods. Linley’s group of three began to quietly train within this cavern estate.

Delia focused on fusing with her divine spark.

The cavern in which Linley’s group was living in was very large. In the Infernal Realm, generally speaking, every few thousand kilometers, there would be a tribe or a bandit group which would hold domain over that area. This mountain range where Linley lived in was no exception. It had bandit groups as well.

“Motherf*cker, it’s been a year since we’ve made money.” A long green haired man was flying in mid-air, staring into the distance while cursing in a low voice, “There’s too damn many bandit squads in the Infernal Realm. Those who dare to travel by themselves are increasingly rare. Even those who do come out, travel alongside a Highgod. It seems I wasted my time today again. Forget it. Time to go back.

The green haired man flew in the air, heading back towards his lair.

“Huh? Someone’s here?”

The green haired man suddenly disappeared like a gust of wind, then re-solidified atop a tree below as he stealthily stared towards a location midway up a mountain. “Just now, I saw someone fly in there. Can it be that this cave has someone in it?”

“Since when did someone move into this mountain range?”

The green haired man revealed a smile on his face. “Who cares who it is. I’ll go inform the leader first. I hope it is someone with money!” The green-haired man didn’t investigate clearly, immediately flying back to his lair.


Empires rise and fall on the Yulan Continent. Saints, immortal beings of unimaginable power, battle using spells and swords, leaving swathes of destruction in their wake. Magical beasts rule the mountains, where the brave – or the foolish – go to test their strength. Even the mighty can fall, feasted on by those stronger. The strong live like royalty; the weak strive to survive another day.

This is the world which Linley is born into. Raised in the small town of Wushan, Linley is a scion of the Baruch clan, the clan of the once-legendary Dragonblood Warriors. Their fame once shook the world, but the clan is now so decrepit that even the heirlooms of the clan have been sold off. Tasked with reclaiming the lost glory of his clan, Linley will go through countless trials and tribulations, making powerful friends but also deadly enemies.

Come witness a new legend in the making. The legend of Linley Baruch. 

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