Another six years passed. The year the relationship between Qi Yuyang and Xue Qing was established, a major event broke out in the entertainment industry.
The CEO of Jiayu Culture had taken out the evidence he had collected for many years and directly handed it over to the government and he also involved almost a hundred people along the way.
With this, the case that had been left to gather dust was once again revealed to the world after more than twenty years.
The ugly behemoth Xia Lan had been fighting against for so long was finally defeated by Qi Yuyang many years later.
Before all the verdicts could be passed, there were many people who wanted Qi Yuyang's life. Those people however were already old. Twenty years ago, they were grownups but now they were all aging old men. Even if they have their younger generations around, the power they had back in the days no longer existed.
Companies that had to be closed were closed and those that had to be jailed up were jailed up. When people followed the clues and found out that the female reporter who was unfortunately killed in her pursuit for justice was the mother of the current hot star, Xue Qing, the entire country was shocked.
Everyone knew that Xue Qing was an actor from Jiayu Culture and that he also has a very good relationship with the president Qi Yuyang but no one could have imagined that they had such a history between them.
Qi Yuyang's righteous act of extermination....Was it related to Xue Qing?
Heavens, what a beautiful show of friendship!
....
As for what the outside world thought, Qi Yuyang and Xue Qing didn't care. People only saw Qi Yuyang's righteous act of extermination helping bring justice to the wronged but they didn't see how much he had to go through in order to do this.
Even after many years of planning and even after doing everything to minimise the losses, Jiayu Culture was still considerably affected and its market value practically halved. Qi Yuyang was now on the verge of bankruptcy and, because he had offended too many people this time and he didn't have any good friends, there was no one around to help him out.
Fortunately, Chi Zhao was prepared for this.
The assets from that year had been kept by him and the value of it had increased over the years. If a first-rate celebrity worked hard to make money, they could still make a lot of money. When he gave all his assets to Qi Yuyang, the latter was temporarily rendered speechless.
Qi Yuyang returned the card, "No need. It's only going to be difficult for a while and after that it will be fine. Trust me."
Qi Yuyang said this very sincerely and there was a touched smile on his face. Chi Zhao's expression however was much simpler than his. There was only one emotion and that was, he didn't care.
"Just take it. It doesn't matter who uses whose money. Anyway, this is the funds for the wife."
Qi Yuyang: "...…"
In the end, President Qi could only accept his identity and silently accept the card.
Just as Qi Yuyang had said, it was only difficult for a while. After that period passed, those people were no longer able to act up and the situation slowly picked up. Furthermore, because of his act of extermination, everyone came to know Jiayu Culture as a particularly conscientious company. A good reputation was more important than how much a company was worth. This was something Qi Yuyang realised firsthand.
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Years passed and Jiayu Culture developed more and more but their president also got lazier and lazier. Ever since the nation's male god Xue Qing 'retired', their president would go out all the time, eventually no longer turning up at the company. If you are a high-level employee, you would see on his friend circle posts of the boss showing off his every day life enjoying good food, good scenery and good company,
Newly hired employees would still feel jealous and hateful, but the older employees had grown numb to it. Show it off. Rain will still fall from the sky; the boss would still show off. There are some things you have absolutely no control over.
...…
A fate that wasn't so great at the beginning, if one party desperately tries to fix and salvage it, no matter what the process was, the final outcome would probably be pretty good.
When he left this time, Chi Zhao didn't have any extreme emotions. Feeling sad was natural but compared to the previous two worlds, it wasn't that bad. When parting has become a habit, there was nothing else one wouldn't be able to adapt to.
The system checked Chi Zhao's emotions and determined that this was the case before returning the emotions filtered from the first two worlds back to him.
The process of extracting the emotions was turbulent and rapid but the process of returning it was slow and silent. Chi Zhao opened his eyes slightly. There was nothing around him. He was currently in the buffer zone as he waited for the world transfer. Everything was pitch black.
The feelings that had been returned resurfaced in his mind. Three different but also same feelings merged together and even Chi Zhao himself couldn't describe what he was feeling.
The system threw out a sentence and ran away.
[I'll discuss with the main system again. Wait for me!]
The time flow in this buffer zone was the same as the time outside. This time, Chi Zhao waited a little longer. After nearly a minute, the system rushed back huffing and puffing.
[Go, let's go! This time I promise...Forget it, I'm not going to promise. Whether it's a mule or a horse, let's go and take a look.]
Chi Zhao: "...…"
Transferred once again, Chi Zhao this time no longer felt uncomfortable, but he also couldn't say that he didn't feel anything. It was just very slight, like the moment the plane takes off. Although it wasn't very uncomfortable, his body did have a slight reaction.
[The information has been sent to you. Don't open your eyes yet, look through the information first.]
Hearing this, Chi Zhao gave up the idea of opening his eyes to look around at his surroundings and used his mind to open the file.
This time, it wasn't a modern world or a futuristic world but an ancient world.
Moreover, the role he will be playing was the Emperor.
Chi Zhao was shocked, "I'm the Emperor!"
[Yeah.]
"How can the Emperor be a shou?!"
[Why can't the Emperor be a shou? Emperors are also humans; they also have chrysanthemums.]
Chi Zhao: "...."
The system's answer was too reasonable. Chi Zhao thought for a long time but he couldn't think of a rebuttal, so he could only return to reading about the world.
The country he is currently in is called the Chen Empire. The country is neither big nor small and, with its beautiful landscape and fertile land, neighbouring countries have always had their eyes on it. The original owner's name is Chen Yi and is only fourteen years old this year. He is the son of the former Emperor and his Empress. The former Emperor had very few heirs with only himself as the son and two daughters who had already been married off.
Before he was born, the country state has been turbulent. Although the former Emperor was a good Emperor, he had unfortunately died early. There were too many internal and external troubles, and anyone could tell that Chen Empire was on its last legs. When the little prince was born, Chen Empire had just received another big defeat. The former Emperor sat in the study and thought for a whole night before finally coming out and naming his son, "Yi". The meaning of it was 'the reclusive man'.
It could be seen from this that the former Emperor held no expectations for Chen Yi and had hoped that he could live his life comfortably and low-key.
When he was ten years old, the former Emperor passed away. Once the Emperor passed, the Empress also didn't hold out for long and soon went with him. As for how they died, it was hard to say. After all, this was the palace and there were too many people trying to kill them. Chen Yi who was only ten years old at the time knew nothing. He couldn't be the Emperor the way he was. Everyone wanted to be the one supporting the prince, but no one could convince the crowd. After two months of turmoil, the officials finally decided to jointly elect a prince regent to help guide the young Emperor.
The royal family was declining and there were very few future generations. This eventually resulted in them finding a prince regent with a foreign surname. That prince regent was only twenty years old, not that much older than the young Emperor.
But this prince regent was very skilled. In just two years, he was able to help the country thrive and even led two successful and victorious wins against the neighbouring countries, making them no longer dare to act rashly.
While assisting the young Emperor, in addition to the prince regent's cronies, even the court officials started to have some other thoughts. They started to hope that the prince regent could replace the young Emperor. But no matter what they said, the prince regent remained unmoved and continued to only be their prince regent.
As for why he did this, firstly, it was because he wasn't that ambitious and he wasn't interested in the throne and secondly, he had personally taken care of the young Emperor for several years, treating him as a younger brother and apprentice. As a result, the young Emperor relied on him a lot. As long as the young Emperor could always maintain his current innocence and purity, he was willing to remain by his side, assisting him.
But…..how could that be possible?
As an Emperor, Chen Yi's character could develop in any direction, but it would be impossible to associate him with the word innocence.
Just like what the prince regent saw, Chen Yi was very dependent on him and would obey him. No matter what he said, Chen Yi would immediately do it. The most surprising thing was that, as the Emperor, Chen Yi actually confided to the prince regent, saying that he was enamoured by him. The prince regent naturally couldn't respond to this. After all, the other party was the Emperor. But after pushing and pulling and interacting every day, it wasn't a surprise that he began to waver.
To the prince regent, he absolutely didn't want to do anything that would desecrate the Emperor, so he could only continue to show loyalty to the Emperor and remain by his side as his official. If one day the Emperor changes his mind and becomes willing to marry and have children, he could take it as if all of this had never happened. But if the Emperor continued to remain insistent, he would help him prevent the other officials from forcing him to marry a person he didn't like against his will.
That was the greatest concession and consideration he could make.
It may seem very subtle but for the prince regent, this was his way of showing that he too liked the Emperor. Though compared to the Emperor, it wasn't expressed as passionately.
It would've been great if everything went as planned by the prince regent.
After assisting the Emperor for ten years, just as the young Emperor was about to become an adult, the prince regent was suddenly called into the palace. Since then, he never came out again.
As it turned out, for six of the ten years, Chen Yi had been poisoning the prince regent. He knew that the prince regent was powerful in martial arts and could detect even the smallest of toxins, so he used the most slow-acting poison he could find. Little by little, it eroded the prince regent's body and, by the time he realised, it was already too late.
Although the prince regent was shocked, he wasn't very sad. It was because he had more or less expected something like this. Not all children would be grateful to those who helped them, and this child also possessed the world's most selfish identity.
But what made the prince regent unable to accept this truth was because Chen Yi had poisoned him with the intention to take his life, not so that he could regain his power but because it was for another person.
His shadow guard, his body double and substitute, Shen Sixteen.
Shen Sixteen was a shadow guard trained in the palace since a young age. Because he resembled the prince regent very much, he was trained to be his body double. The prince regent didn't know how the two met. When Chen Yi saw that he succeeded, just like all villains, he moved a chair over, sat in front of the weakened prince regent and explained everything he had done.
From the very beginning, the person Chen Yu liked was the body double. When he went to the palace to play as a child, he accidentally fell into the pond. At that time, because of his mischievousness, he had escaped from his servants and ran off to a very remote place with no one around. Just as he thought he was going to die, he found himself held up by a pair of hands. In a daze, Chen Yi took in the other party's appearance. The other party only glanced at him and placed him on the grass before quickly turning and leaving.
Chen Yi didn't know who that person was or why that person didn't say a single word. Later, when he saw the prince regent, he guessed that it was probably because he didn't want to reveal his identity.
After becoming the Emperor, Chen Yi did everything the prince regent asked him to and was completely reliant on him because he thought that the prince regent was the one who had saved him that day. For the first four years, he did everything he could to repay him. In a conversation one day, Chen Yi inadvertently mentioned that year. The prince regent's reaction made him suspicious.
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After some more investigation, Chen Yi learned that the person who saved him was the body double and that the person standing in front of him every day was not the one he truly liked.
Chen Yi was shocked, but he didn't show it. Later, he tried to look for the body double in secret. His efforts paid off and he finally found him, only to discover that the body double and the prince regent lived in two completely different worlds.
Chen Yi was very angry, but he couldn't do anything. Shen Sixteen was completely bound to the palace and couldn't leave this place unless the palace disappeared.
For Shen Sixteen's safety, Chen Yi didn't dare act rashly. He continued with his act around the prince regent and finally came up with a solution after several months of thinking.
It had to be said, Chen Yi really wasn't just lacking in virtue. He felt that since he had treated the prince regent well for so many years, he should be satisfied enough with his life and obediently hand over his identity. Chen Yi spent six years planning all this and he even somehow managed to get the Shen Sixteen who was extremely loyal to the prince regent to fall in love with him. With Shen Sixteen's help, the plan proceeded even more smoothly.
The real prince regent was imprisoned in the Emperor's palace while the fake prince regent went out and about. From the beginning to the end, no one noticed that he was a fake.
Chen Yi only intended to let the prince regent live for seven days. After seven days, as long as no one could tell that Shen Sixteen was fake, he would give the prince regent a bowl of poison and make him disappear completely from this world.
In the evening, the prince regent would be imprisoned in a secret cell, listening to Chen Yi and Shen Sixteen's nightly activities and during the day, he had to listen to the other palace officials bowing down to the fake.
Chen Yi even planned to make that fake his male Empress by using the prince regents name, Shen Wumian.
The prince regent who had made great achievements throughout his life had thought that he was worthy of the heavens but in the end he ended up in such a state. Even during the last few days before his death, he had to endure great humiliation and shame. One could imagine how much hatred he had for Chen Yi.
On the sixth day, a shadow guard finally sensed that something was wrong. He risked his life and managed to find the imprisoned prince regent. When the latter finally saw the sun again, he forced his heavily ailed body out of the palace and the first thing he did after that was to take drugs that could temporarily suppress the toxins and restore his strength to 70% of its original condition. After that, he led his soldiers and horses into the palace, captured Chen Yi and Shen Sixteen alive and forced Chen Yi to watch Shen Sixteen die in front of him.
Following that, he tortured Chen Yi for seven days and nights. The prince regent wanted to continue torturing him, but he could no longer do it.
After the temporary suppression, the toxins started to act again, and it was more severe than before. Even after searching for the best doctors in the world, the prince regent still died six months later.
Seeing this, Chi Zhao was stunned, "It's quite miserable. But...what does this have anything to do with succeeding while lying down?"
From the looks of it, it still seemed to be a hell of a difficult world!
Moreover, something didn't seem quite right. In the previous worlds, it always talked about when the original owner died and that was it but this time it didn't mention the original owner's death and instead talked about the protagonist's death. Besides, wasn't the protagonist supposed to be reborn in Nirvana? With him dying so soon, it didn't seem like he would be able to reach Nirvana?
The system let out a mysterious laugh.
[Little brat.]
Chi Zhao: "...….."
[We have worked together for so many years yet why can't you trust me? If you continue reading, you will understand why you can succeed even while lying down.]
Continue reading??
Chi Zhao blinked a few times and looked back at the document. He had thought that it was finished the moment he read about the protagonist's death but when he looked at it again, he realised that he could turn the page.
The first line on the next page read, "Shen Wumian closed his eyes as he took along with him anger and hatred that couldn't be quelled even if thousands of years passed. When he opened his eyes again, he was surprised to find that he was actually reborn and he was reborn back to six years ago, before Chen Yi started poisoning him!"
Chi Zhao: "...….."
Fuck.
The system laughed arrogantly. It then spoke profoundly.
[You can now open your eyes.]
Chi Zhao was already dumbfounded. He opened his eyes in daze. The servant standing next to him saw that he was awake and immediately came over with a bowl of medicine, "Your Majesty, you are finally awake. This is the tonic the prince regent asked the doctor to prepare for you. Please take it."
Chi Zhao: "....."
This must be fucking poison!!!