Arranged marriage, love blossoms; a fiercely devoted soldier dotes on her alone.

"Big brother, please don't scare me, okay?"

"Aren't you alright now?"

Deng Ying said, her eyes brimming with tears and her voice choked with sobs.

Deng Zhi smiled wryly and said, "Ying'er, what do you mean by 'I'm fine now'? I know my own body best."

Deng Ying's tears flowed down her cheeks...

Deng Zhi then said to Xiao Zhan, "Xiao Zhan, I had no choice but to do this. I hope you can understand my thoughts. To be honest, I have always trusted you, and I know that you must have your own reasons for doing this."

Xiao Zhan pushed the USB drive that Deng Ying handed him back and said, "Brother Zhi, I'll follow your arrangements, but the system can stay with Deng Ying for now. She can keep it safe. If you need me, I'll be there immediately."

Deng Zhi's expression froze for a moment, and he said, "Xiao Zhan, you're still emotional and dissatisfied with my arrangement. To be honest, I made this decision to ensure that the Deng family won't be suppressed after my death."

Xiao Zhan nodded and said, "Brother Zhi, I understand your intention, but the 'Sky Judge System' is no longer of much use to me. To be honest, I have already mastered most of the data, so whether I have this system or not is irrelevant to me. But don't worry, I will do my best to protect Deng Ying. As for the other members of the Deng family, if I may be frank, I cannot guarantee that everyone will be safe and sound."

Upon hearing this, Deng Zhi was immediately shocked, thinking to himself, "No wonder Xiao Zhan refused to take over the 'Sky Judge System' every time I asked him to do so, always using being busy as an excuse. It turns out he has already mastered the system."

Deng Ying asked in surprise, "How did you manage to master the system?"

Xiao Zhan smiled and said, "As long as I want to, I will find a way. There are always more solutions than problems."

Deng Zhi blinked and said, "You got the USDT system from Su Zixing, and then you used the data in the trading system to reverse-engineer and analyze it, and finally you found the answer you wanted. But the premise is that you need to have the original code of the USDT system. Also, you should have a replica of Su Zixing's USB drive, am I right?"

Xiao Zhan shrugged and said noncommittally, "Brother Zhi is indeed extremely intelligent. To be honest, Zhu Junjie is one of the prominent figures in the USDT series. He is now working for me. Also, Su Zixing's USB drive was not copied by me on my own. Someone gave me a backup."

"Brother Zhi, since we've come this far, let's be frank. There are instructions from above, so you can't just protect whoever you want."

"Cough cough."

Deng Zhi coughed twice and said, "I knew last night's events were related to you. I called you, but your phone was off. I guess you were deliberately ignoring everyone's calls."

Xiao Zhan nodded and said, "There's no other way. Some people have to pay the price. Who told them to embezzle and break the law, giving others leverage against them?"

"Why!"

Deng Zhi sighed and said, "Alright, since you've made up your mind, Ying'er, you can put the USB drive away."

Deng Ying: "Okay, big brother."

Deng Zhi continued, "Xiao Zhan, I heard you've taken over the entire Xiao Group? And transferred all of Old Master Xiao's shares to you and Qin Huanhuan?"

Xiao Zhan nodded.

If you don't want others to know, then don't do it. Besides, doing this is letting outsiders know that I have taken over the Xiao Group.

Deng Zhi's eyes lit up as he said, "Last night, Uncle Yu took the initiative to go to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to confess his problems and took all the responsibility upon himself. Xiao Zhan, you made a really brilliant move."

"To be honest, I really underestimated you before. I thought that as a former soldier, you were good at killing, but you wouldn't be able to pull off any tricks or underhanded schemes. I never expected you to have such profound scheming skills that you even tricked me. I have to admit that I misjudged you."

Xiao Zhan smiled and said, "Thank you for the compliment, Brother Zhi. Actually, you don't know that being a soldier requires not only killing skills but also tactical knowledge."

"What are tactics?"

"Tactics have three stages: defense, breakthrough, and separation."

"Defense must begin with memorization and simulation models; it is the foundational stage of tactics."

"Breaking through" means transforming knowledge into practice. Through continuous exploration and repeated verification in actual command, one can progress from so-called basic tactics to the stage of applied tactics.

"To be free and at will, to use tactics as easily as taking something from a bag, is extremely difficult to achieve in reality. Therefore, when commanding tactical operations, commanders must first define the objective, establish purpose and goals, and strive to pursue them. All military operations must not be vague; they must have clear, key, and achievable objectives."

"Then comes the offensive, the struggle for dominance, and the control of the enemy. It is about seizing, maintaining, and expanding the initiative."

"Then comes concentration; combat effectiveness is proportional to the square of troop strength. Combat effectiveness must be concentrated at key times and locations."

"Then we must conserve our forces. As the saying goes, he who tries to hold all will lose all. Therefore, we must also deploy the minimum necessary combat strength on secondary battlefields."

"Then we must be mobile, deploying all our combat forces to the decisive battlefield. We must use our combat forces flexibly to put the enemy at a disadvantage."

Finally, there is unified command. The military commander is like the conductor of an orchestra. The troops must work together towards all goals under the command of a responsible commander.

This can be further divided into three stages;

"First, maintain vigilance, prevent surprise attacks, and ensure our own freedom of movement. We must never give the enemy any unexpected opportunities."

"Second, surprise attack, taking the enemy by surprise, this is the essence of a surprise attack. To launch a surprise attack on the enemy is to attack them unexpectedly in time and space."

"Third, simplicity is best. Prepare clear and uncomplicated plans and clear and concise commands, which are easier for the recipient to understand and execute."

Xiao Zhan's eloquent speech completely stunned Deng Zhi and Deng Ying...

A line of words involuntarily appeared in the minds of both of them;

"Xiao Zhan is the real master of scheming and intrigue."

Xiao Zhan concluded, "Therefore, don't try to outsmart, scheme, or set traps with excellent soldiers. These are basic survival skills that soldiers use, and your chances of winning are extremely slim."

"Why!"

Deng Zhi sighed and said sincerely, "Xiao Zhan, I truly admit defeat to you."

"You truly deserve the title of Beijing's number one!"

Deng Ying's eyes were filled with deep love as she looked at Xiao Zhan; her Zhan-gege had defeated her older brother...

"Knock knock knock".

Suddenly, there were three knocks on the door.

Just then, Jia Fugui pushed open the door and said, "Mr. Deng, Young Master Xiao, I just called Master Jueyuan, the abbot of Tanzhe Temple. After listening to my description of Mr. Deng's situation, the abbot confirmed that Mr. Deng had been cursed. Since it is inconvenient for the abbot to come out, he asked Mr. Deng to go to Tanzhe Temple so that he could remove the curse for him."