He wants to adopt a younger sister, but his aloof wife disagrees.

The storms of Southeast Asia come and go quickly.

The Song family, a towering tree that had been entrenched in the Straits of Malacca for a century, was uprooted in just three days by the devastating financial hurricane of "Sky Capital" and Jiang Che's thunderous methods.

The streets and alleys of Singapore are still buzzing with the bizarre story of this wealthy family's collapse: Song Tianyang died in the hospital with resentment, Song Wanyi fled to Europe overnight with his mentally unstable father's ashes and disappeared without a trace, and the once invincible "Black Shark" pirate crew was wiped out overnight by a joint effort of Interpol and mysterious mercenaries, leaving corpses strewn across the battlefield.

But for Jiang Che, all of that is now in the past.

While major financial media outlets were still frantically digging into the mysterious Chinese president behind "Sky Capital," a Gulfstream G650ER had quietly left Singapore's airspace, flew north across the Malay Peninsula, and finally landed at Chiang Mai International Airport in northern Thailand.

Chiang Mai, the ancient city known as the "Rose of the North," is quite different from the bustling and modern Singapore. There are no towering skyscrapers here, only rolling green hills, magnificent pagodas, and a unique aroma of lemongrass, curry, and incense that permeates the humid air.

However, beneath this peaceful facade of Buddha's light often lies the deepest evil and darkness.

……

4 PM, Four Seasons Hotel Chiang Mai.

Nestled among the rice paddies of the Mae Rim Valley, surrounded by lush tropical rainforest, this hotel offers an exceptionally tranquil environment.

Inside the most private pool villa, Jiang Che was organizing his equipment.

He changed out of his powerful suit and into a black tactical jacket, high-top military boots, and a specially made Nepalese kukri at his waist. Although he wasn't carrying a gun, the aura he exuded was more dangerous than any firearm.

"Are you really not letting me go?"

Shen Qingge, dressed in a simple long dress, stood in front of the French windows, watching the man packing several bottles of antidote serum into his backpack, her eyes filled with worry.

Although she had witnessed Jiang Che's skills and knew he possessed extraordinary abilities, this time was different.

They were not facing seasoned business shrewds, nor pirates with guns, but a legendary "poison doctor" who killed without a trace. That unknown, eerie fear was something that no amount of business rationality could dispel.

"obedient."

Jiang Che walked over, gently hugged her, and planted a kiss on her smooth forehead:

"That kind of place is too yin and dirty. It's not suitable for you."

"Moreover, this time I'm going to see blood." Jiang Che's voice was gentle, yet it carried an undeniable firmness. "I don't want you to see that kind of scene."

"Then promise me." Shen Qingge gripped his sleeve tightly, her knuckles turning white, "You must come back unharmed. If you dare to lose even a single hair..."

"Should I buy the whole of Chiang Mai to make amends to you?" Jiang Che interrupted her with a smile.

"No." Shen Qingge said through gritted teeth, her eyes red-rimmed, "Then I'll never eat your cooking again."

"This punishment is too harsh." Jiang Che sighed helplessly. "In order to keep my position as head chef, I have to come back safely."

After settling Shen Qingge in and leaving the most elite members of the "Shadow" team to protect her, Jiang Che walked out of the hotel alone.

A dilapidated SUV was already parked on the side of the road.

Han Xiao was driving. He was also dressed in outdoor attire, holding a tablet computer in his hand, and looked serious.

"Boss, the location has been locked."

Han Xiao pointed to the deep mountain area marked in red on the map:

"It's located 50 kilometers from the city center, on the shady side of Doi Suthep, which locals call 'Ghost Valley'."

"It is said that the area is shrouded in miasma and has a chaotic magnetic field all year round, so much so that even local hunters and herb gatherers dare not approach it. Naichai's lair is in a village at the bottom of that valley."

"And..." Han Xiao hesitated for a moment, "Intelligence indicates that the area around that village is teeming with poisonous insects and traps, and even 'suicide squads' kept by Naichai. Boss, are we really not bringing heavy weapons?"

Jiang Che opened the car door, sat in the passenger seat, and looked coldly at the mountains shrouded in dark clouds in the distance.

"Heavy weapons are useless against people who play with insects."

"drive."

"Some scores can only be settled personally to vent one's anger."

……

The off-road vehicle bumped along the winding and rugged mountain road for more than an hour before finally stopping at the end of a dirt road overgrown with weeds.

The road ahead is impassable for vehicles.

As dusk fell, a suffocating sense of oppression permeated the primeval forest. Huge canopies blocked out the sun, vines coiled like snakes all around, and the air was thick with the smell of decaying leaves and a strange, indescribable, sweet-smelling odor.

"Boss, the miasma zone is just ahead."

Han Xiao put on a gas mask and handed one to Jiang Che: "This miasma is poisonous. Inhaling too much can cause hallucinations or even nerve paralysis."

Jiang Che took the mask but didn't put it on; he simply hung it casually on his waist.

"system."

Jiang Che silently recited in his heart.

[Host, I am here. 】

"Rewards for unlocking the new map"

[Ding! Host detected entering a special area: Gu Doctor's Poison Nest.]

Loading environment data...

[Rewards have been issued:]

1. [Constitution: Impervious to all poisons (Permanent)]

Note: The host's blood will contain special antibodies that can protect against all biological toxins, chemical toxins, and poisons. Any creature that attempts to poison the host will suffer a backlash.

2. [Skill: Divine Eye of Insight (Night Version)]

Description: In darkness and fog, the host has daytime vision and can clearly see infrared heat sources and hidden traps.

As the system notification faded, Jiang Che felt a warm current instantly flow through his body. The uncomfortable damp and stuffy feeling disappeared, replaced by a cool and refreshing sensation.

His eyes narrowed slightly, and the once pitch-black jungle instantly became crystal clear in his eyes.

The venomous snakes hiding in the grass, the poisonous spiders hanging on the treetops, and even the animal traps buried under the decaying leaves, were all clearly visible to him.

"Let's go."

Jiang Che said calmly, stepping into the thick white fog.

"Boss? A mask?!" Han Xiao exclaimed in surprise.

"I don't need it."

Jiang Che's voice came from the mist, as calm as ever.

Although Han Xiao was shocked, out of absolute trust in his boss, he quickly put on his mask and followed.

……

Deep in the Ghost Valley lies the village of Naichai.

This place is less like a village and more like a sinister fortress.

A dozen or so stilted houses are built against the mountain, surrounded by a tall wooden fence. Countless white animal bones hang on the fence, and you can even see a few human skulls.

In the center of the village, the largest bamboo house was brightly lit.

An old man dressed in a black robe, with skin as withered as tree bark, sat cross-legged in the middle of a jar teeming with poisonous insects. He held a bone flute in his hand and was playing an eerie melody.

He is Naichai.

The most notorious "drug kingpin" in Southeast Asia, he was also the culprit hired by the Song family at great expense to poison Jiang Che's mother.

"Um?"

The sound of the bone flute suddenly stopped.

Nai Cai's cloudy, yellowish eyes suddenly shifted, looking towards the entrance of the village.

"Someone's coming..."

Nai Cai's voice was hoarse and unpleasant, like two bones rubbing together: "And... it carried a strong murderous aura."

"Ah Da, Ah Er."

He called out.

Two tall men with vacant stares and unnaturally bluish-gray skin emerged from the shadows. They were "medicine men" created by Naichai using a secret elixir; they possessed immense strength, felt no pain, and were covered in poison.

"Go, bring the guest's head here."

My babies are hungry.

……

At the entrance of the village.

Jiang Che stopped in his tracks.

"Boss, there's a heat source ahead, it must be a guard," Han Xiao whispered, looking at the thermal imaging camera in his hand.

"No need to hide anymore."

Jiang Che looked at the door covered with skulls and sneered:

"Since we're here, let's go in with dignity."

"Knock on the door."

Han Xiao was taken aback for a moment, then realized what was going on. He immediately took out a flashbang grenade from his bag, pulled the pin, and threw it over.

"boom--!!!"

With a loud bang, a large gap was blasted open in the wooden fence, and a bright white light instantly illuminated the entire village.

"Who goes there?!"

A dozen guards armed with machetes and homemade guns rushed out from all corners, shouting unintelligible Thai profanities.

Jiang Che didn't waste any words.

He flashed into the crowd like a ghost.

The military knife in his hand drew cold arcs under the moonlight.

"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!"

There are no fancy moves, only the most direct and deadly killings.

Each slash precisely severed the enemy's tendons in the hands or feet. Jiang Che didn't kill directly, because he wanted the screams of agony to be a welcoming gift for Nai Chai.

In just one minute.

More than a dozen guards fell to the ground, writhing in pain, incapacitated.

Jiang Che flicked the blood off his knife, stepped over the mess on the ground, and walked step by step toward the largest bamboo house.

"roar--!!"

Just then, two dark figures rushed out of the bamboo house.

It was those two people who were drugged.

They roared and pounced on Jiang Che like two wild beasts. Their bluish-black fingernails were at least three inches long and gleamed with a poisonous blue light.

"Watch out! That's a drug person! He's covered in poison!" Han Xiao shouted from behind, raising his pistol to fire.

"Don't shoot."

Jiang Che reached out to stop Han Xiao.

He looked at the two charging monsters, a flicker of disgust in his eyes. To turn a living person into such a monster—this Naichai deserved to die.

The claws of the medicine man, Ah Da, were already close to Jiang Che's face.

Jiang Che advanced instead of retreating.

He took a deep breath, his body tensed instantly, and the [Ancient Muay Thai - Grandmaster] skill was activated.

"Bang!"

Jiang Che delivered a powerful front kick, slamming it into A-Da's chest.

What appears to be a simple kick contains the explosive power of thousands of pounds.

With a sickening cracking sound, the medicine man, weighing over 200 pounds, was sent flying backwards for more than ten meters like a kite with a broken string, crashing heavily through the wall of the bamboo house.

Immediately afterwards, another drug user, Ah Er, pounced from the side, opening his mouth to bite Jiang Che's neck.

Jiang Che didn't even look, and with a backhand elbow strike, he accurately hit Ah Er's head.

"Click."

Ah Er's head caved in, and his body went limp instantly, collapsing to the ground like a lump of mud.

Sold out instantly.

Two highly poisonous individuals, feared by countless mercenaries, couldn't even last a single round against Jiang Che.

"Is that all you've got?"

Jiang Che stepped over the corpse of the medicine man and entered the hall of the bamboo building.

The hall was dimly lit, and the walls were filled with jars of all sizes, from which rustling sounds could be heard.

Nai Chai remained seated cross-legged, holding the bone flute in his hand, showing no intention of fleeing.

He looked at Jiang Che as he walked in, and a hint of seriousness finally appeared in his cloudy eyes, but more than that, there was a kind of crazy excitement.

"Young man, you're quite skilled."

Nai Chai put down the bone flute and said in broken Chinese:

"It can break through my illusion and kill my medicine man."

"You're Jiang Che, the one who wiped out the Song family?"

"it's me."

Jiang Che stood before him, his cold gaze sweeping over their surroundings:

"Twenty years ago, Song Zhentian came to see you."

"You gave him a poison called 'Heart-Eating Gu'."

That's my mother.

Nai Cai paused for a moment, then suddenly realized what was happening and let out a strange, grating laugh:

"So he's the son of an old friend... No wonder, no wonder."

"That case from twenty years ago was my proudest achievement." Nai Cai licked his chapped lips. "That woman...tsk tsk, she was really beautiful. What a pity, she was poisoned by my Heart-Eating Gu. Her death must have been incredibly painful, right? Her blood slowly congealing, her heart feeling like it was being gnawed by a thousand ants..."

"Shut up."

Jiang Che interrupted him.

His voice was very soft, yet it instantly lowered the temperature of the entire bamboo house to freezing point.

"Are you feeling smug?"

Jiang Che slowly walked towards Nai Cai:

"Since you enjoy playing with poison so much, then today I'll let you experience what it truly means to be... truly overwhelmed by all poisons."

"Arrogant!"

Nai Cai's expression changed, and he suddenly grabbed two jars beside him and slammed them hard onto the ground.

"Bang! Bang!"

The jar shattered.

Countless colorful venomous snakes, centipedes, and scorpions surged out like a tide, crawling densely towards Jiang Che.

At the same time, Nai Chai sprinkled a handful of red powder from his sleeve.

That was the most potent poison powder; even a tiny bit of it would cause the skin to ulcerate immediately.

"Go to hell!!" Nai Chai roared menacingly.

however.

The next second, a scene he would never forget happened.

Jiang Che did not dodge.

He let the red powder fall on his body and let the poisonous snakes crawl to his feet.

but.

Those originally ferocious poisonous creatures stopped abruptly as if they had encountered a natural enemy when they came within a meter of Jiang Che.

They trembled in fear, not daring to attack, but instead turning around and fleeing frantically in all directions. Some of the venomous snakes even began to bite each other out of fear.

As for the poison powder, it didn't even leave a red mark on Jiang Che's skin; it was just like ordinary dust.

The oppressive aura of the "Immune Body" is like a divine decree to these low-level poisons.

"This...how is this possible?!"

Nai Cai's eyes widened, as if they were about to pop out.

"My Gu King... my poison... why...?"

He had practiced medicine and manufactured poisons his entire life, and had never seen anything like it! This person... could he be the reincarnation of the God of Poison?!

Jiang Che walked through the scattering poisonous insects and stepped up to Nai Cai.

He reached out and grabbed Nai Chai's withered neck, lifting him into the air like a chick.

"Your poison is useless against me."

Jiang Che looked at the old face, which had turned purplish-red from suffocation, and said indifferently:

"Now, it's my turn."

Jiang Che drew his military knife from his waist and randomly picked out the most brightly colored and seemingly most venomous scorpion from the pile of poisonous insects.

"Since you like them so much, then... eat them."

Jiang Che used his fingers to dislocate Naichai's jaw, then shoved the venomous scorpion directly into his mouth.

"Ugh—!!!!!"

Nai Cai struggled desperately, his eyes bulging out.

The poison entered the throat.

The pain he had inflicted on countless people had now returned to him.

Jiang Che threw him to the ground and watched him writhe in agony, convulsing and scratching his throat until his skin began to ulcerate and blood flowed from his seven orifices.

"The score from twenty years ago is now settled."

Jiang Che turned around and picked up a yellowed notebook from the shelf next to him.

That was Nai Chai's poison-making notes, which recorded the formulas and antidotes for all the poisons. Although his mother was no longer with him, he kept this; it might come in handy someday.

"Han Xiao".

"Yes, sir!" Han Xiao was now completely in awe of his boss.

"Burn it."

Jiang Che stepped out of the bamboo house and looked at this valley filled with sin:

"Burn it all up in one fire."

"Don't let any of these bugs escape and harm people."

"yes!"

A few minutes later.

A towering flame lit up the depths of Ghost Valley.

The raging fire illuminated the dark night sky and burned away the last trace of gloom in Jiang Che's heart.

He stood on the hillside, looking at the village engulfed in flames, and reached out to touch the longevity lock on his chest.

The longevity lock seemed to warm up in the firelight.

"mom."

"Revenge has been served."

"You can rest in peace now."

……

The next day, at the Four Seasons Hotel Chiang Mai.

The sun shines brightly, and birds sing sweetly amidst the fragrance of flowers.

Jiang Che washed away the gunpowder and blood stench from his body, changed into a clean white shirt, and carried breakfast into the bedroom.

Shen Qingge was still asleep, her long eyelashes trembling slightly.

Seemingly drawn by the aroma of food, she groggily opened her eyes and saw Jiang Che sitting by the bed. She was startled at first, then sat up abruptly and hugged him tightly.

"You're back!"

Shen Qingge felt around him, checking him over: "Are you injured? Is anything bothering you?"

"I'm fine."

Jiang Che let her examine him, smiling as he held her hand:

"I've said it before, I'm an all-around gigolo. This little thing is no problem for me."

"Is the matter settled?" Shen Qingge looked into his eyes.

"It's done."

Jiang Che nodded, his eyes clearer and more relaxed than ever before:

"From now on, there will be no more Ye family, no more Song family, and no more Nai Cai."

"Just us."

"Qingge".

Jiang Che pulled two plane tickets out of his pocket:

"Since we're in Thailand, how about we go to Phuket to see the sea?"

"I think...we should really take a vacation."

Shen Qingge looked at him, and tears suddenly fell down her cheeks.

Those were tears of relief.

She knew that Jiang Che, who was burdened with hatred and secrets, was finally free at this moment.

"it is good."

Shen Qingge smiled through her tears and nodded emphatically:

"Let's go to Phuket."

"Also... let's call Xiaoruan along. If that girl finds out we secretly went to the beach without her, she'll definitely cause a huge scene."

"Yes, the whole family, all together."