Dongshui City, Xu Family villa. In the living room, glasses clinked amid laughter and cheerful chatter.
Beautiful women gathered in abundance, while attendants moved back and forth among them.
A group of young men and women surrounded Xu Yuchen, the villa's owner, showering him with endless flattery.
Others stood in the corners of the living room, watching coldly.
The purpose of the banquet was simple. Xu Yuchen, Xu Yunshuang's cousin, had fortuitously obtained a mutant some time ago and had now become a lofty Otherworldly User.
This banquet was to celebrate his becoming an Otherworldly User.
No one knew how he had obtained the mutant. That was precisely why so many people had come after hearing about the celebration.
Business partners, peers he got along well with, company subordinates, even rivals in the marketplace...
Xu Yuchen moved skillfully among the guests, doing his best not to make anyone feel neglected.
"Congratulations, President Xu. From now on, you'll be different from us poor nobodies," someone said, raising a glass in congratulations.
Yet his words carried a barely concealed bitterness.
They had clearly belonged to the same social class, yet the other man had leapt beyond it.
But while envying Xu Yuchen, he never considered this: if they were poor nobodies, then what were those outsiders still renting homes and desperately searching for work? Yet people's eyes were often fixed only on the asses of those above them. How many ever saw the suffering of those below? "Hmph, is becoming an Otherworldly User really that great?" someone suddenly said in a mocking tone. "Who doesn't know that Otherworldly Users face dangers a hundred times greater than before? The Otherworldly Users my family employs have been replaced twice in the past three years."
"That's true. Although Otherworldly Users have much longer lifespans, it's