Chapter 355: Mr. Lu's Law of Survival
Jiang Xiaohou had just taken her seat when a woman patted her on the shoulder.
Jiang Xiaohou was startled. She turned her head and immediately showed a frustrated expression.
Xia Ying smiled slightly, looking at Lu Chengwen, who was entangled with two girls over there.
"You're interested in him too?"
"Just for fun."
"Oh?" Xia Ying smiled and said, "Watching his spring scenes over and over again is even more fun, isn't it?"
Jiang Xiaohou blushed, feeling both embarrassed and shocked, but then quickly put on an indifferent expression:
"Lu Chengwen has the size and skills, watching for fun, that's all. Sister Xia Ying is watching too. Looks like Lu Chengwen's internal security system isn't very reliable."
"No, it's quite reliable. Hacking into it even once is a lot of effort. Yu Shasha was exhausted. But, well, the rewards were generous. That battle was thrilling for all of us to watch."
Jiang Xiaohou kept a straight face. "I'm not like you guys. I have no interest in these things."
"Oh? No interest? But we saw you on camera…"
"Shut up!"
Jiang Xiaohou's face turned red. "Are you trying to kill him or capture him?"
"We're just observing."
"Then stay quiet and watch. Don't interfere!"
Xia Ying laughed, adjusted her glasses, and looked at Lu Chengwen in the distance. "His whole body is full of mysteries. He really is an interesting person."
…
As soon as Lu Chengwen saw Qi Meishao trying to kill herself, he immediately raised the sword in his hand and grabbed the collar of her clothes with his other hand:
"What are you doing!? What are you doing!? Is it really that serious? Is this worth dying for?!"
Qi Meishao gritted her teeth, her teary eyes glaring at Lu Chengwen. "Rather than being humiliated by you over and over again, I might as well just die!"
Lu Chengwen said, "Let me tell you something—dying is not easy! Do you even know where you'll go after you die? Do you know what will happen after you die?"
"No matter what happens, I'm not afraid! Anything is better than being humiliated by you!"
"That's because you've never actually died before!" Lu Chengwen roared.
"You've died before?!" Qi Meishao asked angrily.
That question hit Lu Chengwen's sore spot. "I don't even know how to explain this to you!"
"I'm telling you, Qi Meishao! Stop acting like you're ready to die all the time! If you really wanted to die, there are plenty of ways to do it. You don't need to put on this whole chaste martyr act in front of me!"
"Put your sword away, pull up your underwear, and go home! Whether you want to hang yourself or jump into the river, nobody's stopping you!"
"But if you're gonna die, then die somewhere far away! If you're not gonna die, then live properly!"
"I hate people like you the most! Treating life like a game! Look at me—look at the state I'm in! Even like this, I still want to live! I'm trying everything, every possible way, to survive! Meanwhile, you're here with all your limbs intact, talking about dying every other second…"
"You think I was born a coward?! You think I don't want to fight Dragon Ao Tian head-on?! I have! I've fought! I've stood my ground! I've been reckless! I've been brave! It didn't matter!"
"No matter how brave I was, I still got slapped to death! And then everything restarted!"
"All the suffering I've been through, all the pain I've endured, made me who I am today! If I hadn't faced death and rebirth over and over again, I wouldn't be the person standing here now!"
"I finally found a way to survive! And I'm carrying burdens that you people can't even begin to understand! Death?! If you want to die, then go ahead! But I'm not dying!"
"If you want to live with dignity, then you have to endure the worst suffering, swallow the most disgusting humiliation, withstand the most brutal beatings!"
"No one gets to live a smooth, easy life! Walking around in divine armor with ten billion celestial soldiers at your command, crushing whoever you want—there's only one person in the world who gets to do that, and that's Dragon Ao Tian!"
Lu Chengwen grabbed the dumbfounded Qi Meishao and forced her to look:
"Look! Just look for yourself!"
Lu Chengwen pointed into the distance, though in reality, Dragon Ao Tian and the others weren't even visible.
"Everything's collapsing! It's all breaking down! Even Dragon Ao Tian's pants are red! Do you know what that means?!"
"What are you talking about?"
Qi Meishao was completely confused.
Clearly, you were the one who bullied me! Clearly, you… humiliated me, and multiple times!
And now you're acting like you're the one who's more furious than me?!
Lu Chengwen roared, "It means all the rules have been broken! This world is already falling into chaos!"
In the distance, Jiang Xiaohou laughed, but Xia Ying became even more serious.
Lu Chengwen's words made them realize something was wrong.
He clearly knew something. But… Xia Ying had interrogated him before. He couldn't possibly lie under subconscious interrogation.
The results of the interrogation were almost nothing.
So why could Lu Chengwen sense the world's collapse and chaos?
Could it be… that he truly could predict the Heavenly Tribulation?
Or… was he the one who caused the Heavenly Tribulation?
Or perhaps… was he the one who could resist the heavenly Tribulation?
Qi Meishao's mind was in chaos. She looked at Lu Chengwen's wound, feeling a mix of guilt, sadness, and… a faintly accelerating heartbeat.
"Why are you yelling at me?! This is all your fault! It's all because of you! Because of you!"
Lu Chengwen said, "Come on, sis. What era do you think we're in? Besides, didn't I already explain everything to you? It was a misunderstanding! A misunderstanding! How was I supposed to know you'd suddenly appear in my bed?! And… in that state?"
Hua Xuening asked, "What state?"
"The same as your sister Shiyin before."
"Oh."
Lu Chengwen said, "Clearly, someone is manipulating things behind the scenes…"
Lu Chengwen gritted his teeth and looked around.
Jiang Xiaohou stood in the shadows, smiling. Xia Ying glanced at Jiang Xiaohou and rolled her eyes gloomily.
Qi Meishao was furious: "It must be you playing tricks! Someone like you… You… You—"
"I I I I!" Lu Chengwen said, "If you really hate me that much, just stay away from me in the future! I honestly don't want to get tangled up with you people at all."
"Right now, just staying alive is already hard enough for me! If I have to burn money, I'll burn it—hundreds of billions, even trillions! Go ask around all of Beiguo—how many rich people are as crazy as I am? And I'm even dragging along a few of my girlfriends to go crazy with me!"
"If it's about picking up girls—fine, I'll do it! I'll flirt with every girl I see, one after another, satisfied? Every style, every type—I'll collect the full set! Happy now!?"
"If it's about fighting—have I ever backed down!? Go ask Hua Xuening, in critical moments, have I ever faltered? Have I ever been afraid? I've already died once! I'm not afraid of death! I'm not even afraid of Long Aotian! You think I'd be afraid of you!?"
"In short! I will stay alive! I will live with dignity! Make money! Pick up girls! Fight… Whatever I need to do, I will do it!"
"I've survived like this, in this humiliating way, just to wait for an opportunity! Not to prove that I, Lu Chengwen, am great, but to prove to the world that what I've lost—I can take back!"
Qi Meishao was completely stunned.
Watching Lu Chengwen standing there, panting, with tears in his eyes from sheer anger, she was utterly confused.
Why is he more agitated than I am?
Qi Meishao glanced at Hua Xuening. "Did you… understand any of that?"
Hua Xuening wiped her tears. "No, but Master is so pitiful."
Xia Ying stood at a distance, listening to Lu Chengwen's rant.
Almost none of it contained useful information.
Most of what he said was about his business and personal life, but…
The emotions and feelings conveyed were incredibly complex.
Xia Ying reaffirmed her judgment once more.
Lu Chengwen was not just a simple rich second-generation heir, nor just an ordinary ancient martial artist, and certainly not just a common playboy scumbag.
This man was extremely complex, with countless secrets.
His current life was completely at odds with his true aspirations.
His soul was struggling intensely, as if he desperately wanted to escape this world, like someone eager to wake up from a nightmare.
His sense of crisis was deeply ingrained in his bones—he never felt secure. Even with a net worth in the hundreds of billions, he still felt weak and helpless.
Jiang Xiaohou's expression froze. She didn't even know what kind of expression she should have at this moment.
She turned her head with a puzzled look. "Can you make sense of this guy?"
Xia Ying looked at Jiang Xiaohou and shook her head.
"Aren't you supposed to be an expert at this?"
Xia Ying smiled bitterly. "Experts aren't omnipotent. Lu Chengwen… has too many mysteries surrounding him."
Xia Ying thought for a moment. "Does your father allow you to fool around here?"
For the first time, Jiang Xiaohou proudly said, "I've already gotten my father's permission—I can play here as much as I want."
Xia Ying felt an even greater weight in her heart.
The mess between Lu Chengwen and Long Aotian was getting bigger and bigger.
But those in power didn't seem to want to restrain them at all.
That was very unusual.
If it were anyone else, causing trouble like this, they would have been thrown into prison ages ago.
But these two seemed to have some kind of immunity.
Jiang Xiaohou grinned. "You're not going to arrest them?"
Xia Ying looked at her. "We only have the authority to observe."
Jiang Xiaohou was secretly overjoyed and nodded: This is going to be fun!
Xia Ying said seriously, "Lu Chengwen and Long Aotian—these two are extremely complicated, and they might be involved in something much bigger. Xiaohou, stop messing with them and go back. If anything happens in the future, it could implicate the Jiang family."
"My dad doesn't care about me, so why should you?"
Xia Ying felt even more burdened.
Lu Chengwen, Long Aotian, and now Jiang Xiaohou.
Just in Xuecheng alone, there were already three people she couldn't control.
Especially Lu Chengwen—this man… shouldn't even exist!
…
Qi Meishao finally squatted down, crying pitifully.
Lu Chengwen, now calm, squatted down beside her. "Still want to die?"
Qi Meishao glared at him.
Lu Chengwen laughed. "That's more like it! Live well. The little grudge between us—it's nothing. It's a new era! Besides, I only used my hand—"
"You still dare to talk about it!?"
"Alright, alright, I won't say it, I won't say it anymore!"
Lu Chengwen said, "How about this—you go back and switch places with Shiyin. You stay with Long Aotian, and let Shiyin come over and work with—"
Lu Chengwen suddenly remembered something. "Shit! I forgot! Shiyin—!"
Lu Chengwen stood up and dashed toward the villa, shouting, "Xuening! Quick, go find Shiyin!"
Hua Xuening was still confused. "What happened to her?"
"She disappeared!"
"Was it you!?"
"How could it be!? Hurry!"
Qi Meishao also got nervous. "Wait, my—"
She looked down at herself. "I'm wearing Sister Shiyin's clothes! If the Young Master sees this, it's over! Lu Chengwen, give me back my clothes!"
With that, she hurriedly chased after him.
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