From rejecting the beautiful female CEO to becoming extremely powerful

Lu Yunzhou's fingers froze, the two words on the screen making his head buzz.

He entered the password with trembling hands to unlock it.

Lin Yuxuan's birthday has never been changed.

The moment the chat interface popped up, a line of text rushed into my eyes, every word and sentence was unbearable to read.

Explicit voice messages, ambiguous animated emojis—one is a woman he would cherish with his life, the other a stranger whose contact is marked as "owner."

Lu Yunzhou was trembling all over as he scrolled up the chat history with his fingers, faster and faster, with more and more force.

One particular conversation made his scalp tingle.

"Increase the dosage a bit more. Anyway, no matter how you make it taste, that idiot will love it."

"Yes, Master. I studied pharmacology and I can get the dosage right. I guarantee he'll never be able to stand up again."

Three years.

The root of the hidden ailment that had tormented him for three years lay here.

Lin Yuxuan, a graduate student in medical school, was an expert in pharmacology. Day after day, she drugged his food, turning him into a useless person who couldn't even touch a woman.

He suddenly recovered tonight because she hadn't cooked for the past few days while she was doing her internship at the hospital, and he had been eating takeout for a week straight, which gradually helped the medication wear off.

Lu Yunzhou's hand gripping the phone bulged with veins, his nails digging into his palm, and all the blood in his body rushed to his head.

"Snapped!"

My phone was snatched away.

Lin Yuxuan stood two steps away, her fair figure wrapped in a lace camisole, her face darkening beneath her exquisite makeup.

She gripped her phone tightly, shoved Lu Yunzhou hard, and yelled, "Lu Yunzhou! Who gave you permission to go through my phone?"

"Lin Yuxuan, do you even know who you are?"

Lu Yunzhou's eyes were bloodshot, the veins on his neck were throbbing, and the voice he managed to squeeze out was hoarse and broken.

"I treated you like my lifeblood, scrimped and saved to give you money, and you fucking drugged me behind my back? Three years! You ruined my life for three whole years!"

Lin Yuxuan showed no remorse whatsoever.

She snorted coldly, curled her lip, and looked at him with disdain: "So what if you know? Even if I were someone else's dog, it wouldn't be your place to touch a penniless wretch like me. The fact that you agreed to be with me is already a blessing from heaven."

"You bitch!"

Lu Yunzhou raised his hand and slapped Lin Yuxuan across the face.

A crisp sound rang out in the living room.

She staggered and fell to the ground, covering her face and screaming, "Lu Yunzhou! You piece of trash, how dare you hit me?"

"I'm going to beat you up, you shameless slut!"

Lu Yunzhou took two steps forward, bent down, grabbed her hair, and pressed her onto the coffee table. The veins on the back of his hand bulged. "Tell me! Who exactly is that man?"

"Let me go! You're insane! Help me..."

Lin Yuxuan was in so much pain that tears streamed down her face, and she struggled desperately to break free.

Before he could finish speaking, the apartment door was kicked open from the outside.

Two people walked in.

The man in front was about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, wearing a well-tailored dark gray bespoke suit with gleaming white gold buttons on the cuffs. He had a handsome face and a composed gait.

Following behind was a gaunt old man with messy hair and wrinkled clothes, but his cloudy eyes carried a chilling aura when they swept over.

Lu Yunzhou recognized the face.

The sky over Chu is vast.

The only son of the Chu Group, and the heir to a family that ranks among the top three on the Sheng'an City Rich List.

He had seen it more than once in financial news.

"Tiankuo, save me! This madman is trying to kill me!"

Lin Yuxuan immediately stopped crying and turned to Chu Tiankuo, pleading for help in a soft and affectionate voice.

The person in front of me is the one whose contact name is "Owner" in my phone.

Lu Yunzhou loosened Lin Yuxuan's hair, his eyes bloodshot, roared and charged forward, his fist aimed straight at Chu Tiankuo's face.

Chu Tiankuo stood still, a smile even playing on his lips.

The gaunt old man suddenly stepped forward and slapped Lu Yunzhou's chest with his withered hand.

"Bang!"

Lu Yunzhou, who is 1.8 meters tall, was sent flying through the air and his back slammed hard against the wall, causing a piece of plasterboard to fall off.

A mouthful of blood welled up in his throat and sprayed all over the ground.

I felt excruciating pain, as if all my bones were dislocated. I couldn't muster any strength in my limbs, and I couldn't even lift a finger.

"Uncle Song, how is it?"

Chu Tiankuo asked casually.

"If all the meridians in his body are severed, he will be paralyzed from now on."

The old man answered in a deep voice.

Lin Yuxuan ran over and threw herself into Chu Tiankuo's arms, looking up with tears still in her eyes, but the corners of her mouth were already curving up: "Master, he hit me, look how swollen my face is, you have to help me get revenge."

"good."

Chu Tiankuo lowered his head and pinched her chin. "You are my most obedient little slave. Let's see who dares to touch you."

"My master is so kind."

Lin Yuxuan pressed herself against him, becoming incredibly docile.

Chu Tiankuo, with her in his arms, slowly walked to Lu Yunzhou, squatted down, and looked down at his disheveled appearance with blood all over his mouth. His tone was light: "Lu Yunzhou, right? Speaking of which, I have to thank you. You haven't touched her once in the past two years, which has given me all the pleasure, hahaha..."

"Cough...you...you'll all die a horrible death..."

Lu Yunzhou's mouth was full of the taste of blood, and his eyes were fixed on the couple in front of him.

Chu Tiankuo stood up and patted non-existent dust off his pants: "I was planning to play a little longer, but you flipped the table yourself, which was a bit of a downer. Don't worry, I'll take good care of my little slave from now on."

He glanced at Lin Yuxuan and asked, "Little slave, tell me, what's it like being with this penniless wretch?"

Lin Yuxuan leaned on his shoulder, her gaze sweeping over Lu Yunzhou on the ground, a look of undisguised disgust on her lips.

"What kind of feelings could he possibly have? He buys the cheapest lemonade for a milk tea, only buys a corner seat in the last row for a movie, and his birthday present is a cheap necklace from a street vendor. He even has the nerve to say he's saving money for his wedding. Compared to his owner, he's not even as good as a dog."

Every word pierced Lu Yunzhou's ears, and his chest hurt even more than when the old man had slapped him.

He lived frugally, keeping his monthly living expenses down to 800 yuan, all in order to save more money for the bride price.

Every time I buy her something, I pick the cheapest one. It's not that I don't want to give her the best, it's just that I really only have that much money in my pocket.

"Did you hear that?"

Chu Tiankuo looked down at him, his eyes full of disdain. "You're a joke, a penniless wretch."

He straightened up, put his arm around Lin Yuxuan, and walked towards the door.

As Lin Yuxuan passed by Lu Yunzhou, she stopped, bent down, and whispered in his ear, "Lu Yunzhou, in this day and age, you still believe in reciprocating sincerity? Aren't you an idiot?"

The high heels stepped over the bloodstains, and the two figures disappeared outside the door.

The apartment fell silent, leaving only Lu Yunzhou lying on the cold floor.

Blood kept seeping from the corner of his mouth, his vision became increasingly blurry, and waves of pain surged through his chest.

He knew he couldn't hold on much longer.

In the moment of his fading consciousness, the ancestral jade pendant that had been with him for over twenty years slipped out from his collar, touched the blood on the ground, and shattered instantly.

"Click."

The jade pendant cracked open, and a burst of golden light rushed into his crown chakra, flooding his mind with a torrent of unfamiliar information.

"Lu Yunzhou! What happened to you! Oh my god, there's blood everywhere..."

A woman's voice came from the doorway, tinged with sobs.

All that remained in my sight was a blurry outline: long hair, a white dress, and a face pale with anxiety.

Ye Churan, the Chinese language teacher at No. 24 Middle School, is my neighbor upstairs.

"Don't move, don't move, I'm calling 120..."

Her voice faded into the distance.

Lu Yunzhou's eyelids were so heavy he couldn't lift them. The golden light of information kept flooding into his mind, and his consciousness completely plunged into darkness.