Roommate Torture

"Heh heh, boss, are you going to confess or not! Is that beauty Zhao Liya? How did you pick her up? What did you do last night?" Hu Zhiming asked fiercely, firing off a barrage of questions.

As a master of the cultivation world, how could he be intimidated by such a display of menace? Zhang Hupan's expression remained unchanged, and he shook his head with a look of facing death as his due. "No comment! I'll still be a good man after thirty!"

"Heh heh, looks like the boss won't cry until he sees the coffin!" Hu Zhiming said, his face grim. He turned to Chen Youmi, who was standing beside him, eager to try, and said cruelly, "Get the Tiger Bench!"

"Yes!" Chen Youmi responded with a resounding affirmation.

The "Tiger Bench" was the ace interrogation method of Dorm 203. It involved making someone sit on the edge of the bed with their legs straight, then placing books under their thighs, adding more books until the person confessed.

"Can't you guys come up with something new? This trick won't work on me!" Zhang Hupan said with disdain.

Everyone exchanged glances. While this method worked on everyone else in the dorm, it was useless against Zhang Hupan. No one knew what kind of bones the kid had; even when the books piled up to his head, he wouldn't budge an inch. It was truly infuriating.

Hu Zhiming seemed to be getting angry out of embarrassment. He glared fiercely at Zhang Hupan and chuckled, "Then you can't blame us for being ruthless!" After looking around at everyone, he cupped his fists and said, "Brothers, since the boss is being so uncooperative, it seems we'll have to unveil our latest research and development!"

For some reason, Zhang Hupan, a master of the cultivation world, felt a deep sense of unease. As expected, Li Yong and Ma Guojie firmly held Zhang Hupan's arms. Although their strength was like that of ants to Zhang Hupan, as his dorm mates, he didn't dare to defy their "malice." He only struggled symbolically. However, when Hu Zhiming menacingly held scissors and made a "snip snip" sound, Zhang Hupan's face instantly turned pale. He trembled and said, "You're not planning to cut off my beautiful hair, are you!"

"What do you think!" Hu Zhiming laughed lewdly, like a rapist.

Although Zhang Hupan was a master of the cultivation world, once his hair was cut, it wouldn't grow back immediately. Moreover, he was supposed to accompany Zhao Liya to a banquet tomorrow. He couldn't possibly attend with a shaved head!

Just as Zhang Hupan was about to confess, he suddenly heard a earth-shattering shout: "Ah!" Then, Zhang Zhipeng rushed over as if his parents had died, forcefully pushing away Li Yong and Ma Guojie's hands. With a fawning and respectful expression, he said, "My goodness, boss, you actually managed to pick up Miss Zhao! My admiration for you is like the endless flow of the Yangtze River!" As he spoke, Zhang Zhipeng didn't forget to turn back and point at everyone with a fierce expression, saying, "Is this how you treat the boss? You, second brother, put down your scissors! Are you trying to rebel?"

Everyone, including Zhang Hupan, was utterly bewildered by Zhang Zhipeng's 180-degree change in attitude.

"You, how can this person be like this?" Hu Zhiming was just about to question him when he suddenly saw the bag Zhang Zhipeng handed him. My God! A top-tier designer suit, a diamond-encrusted phone, a diamond Omega watch.

Anyone who could attend university was an elite among Chinese youth. If they couldn't understand what was happening after seeing this, they might as well go home and farm. My God, the boss had really hooked up with the rich daughter of the Zhao Group, otherwise, how could a young man from the countryside afford these things. My God, does this mean we can rely on the boss to live a life of luxury from now on! My God, what did we just do to the boss! Everyone felt a mix of joy and sorrow, leaving Zhang Hupan completely clueless!

In the eyes of his dorm mates, Zhang Hupan once again shone with the divine aura of a ladies' man. All they could see in their gaze was reverence. Suddenly, everyone wailed and cried, beating their chests and lamenting tearfully, "Boss, we were wrong! We are not human!..."

Their performance, filled with emotion and sincere repentance, was enough to make the heartbroken weep and the listeners shed tears!

At that moment, Zhang Hupan realized that the most inhumane torture in the world was to be surrounded by his five lustful roommates, who were wiping their snot and tears all over him!

Zhang Hupan could no longer bear their mournful howling and quickly shouted for them to stop. "I'll talk, okay?" Only then did the five grown men stop crying and break into smiles. Seeing their shameless behavior, Zhang Hupan secretly lamented his misfortune in choosing his roommates.

So, Zhang Hupan honestly recounted his story with Zhao Liya. Of course, he absolutely omitted the part about his appearance fee, which damaged his image. As for the heroic rescue, Zhang Hupan also didn't mention it because he didn't want to reveal his secret of knowing martial arts and attract more trouble!

"My God! To think of me, Chen Youmi, with my handsome appearance and talent, why doesn't something like this happen to me!" Chen Youmi sighed to the heavens, earning him disdainful glances from the others.

Although it was now the era of firearms, and even world-destroying atomic bombs had been invented, the age of cold weapons was long past. However, the martial arts world had not disappeared; it had merely reappeared before the world in a different guise. The thousands of years of inheritance of martial arts sects and martial arts families could not easily exit the historical stage. On the contrary, the wealth accumulated over millennia allowed them to navigate the broader social stage with ease and skill. Their power told the world that if they were elites in the cold weapon era, they were still elites now!

The Zhao, Lin, Wang, and Shi families had been the most renowned martial arts families in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces since the Ming Dynasty. Even now, they were still the most powerful martial arts families in those provinces in secret. Of course, on the surface, they had long since become key private enterprises in both provinces, well-known groups whose actions could shake the commercial world. For a long time, these four families acted in unison, sharing honor and disgrace, and historical intermarriages were not uncommon.

Zhao Group and Longteng Group were the corporate groups under the Zhao and Lin families, respectively, with their headquarters both located in Hangzhou. Fenjin Group and Huxiao Group belonged to the Wang and Shi families, respectively, with their headquarters in Suzhou, Jiangsu. The industries they were involved in were vast, their financial resources were substantial, and they often collaborated, making them virtually invincible in the commercial world. However, in recent years, a slight conflict had arisen among the families. The Shi family seemed to be breaking the balance of the four families and showing signs of wanting to dominate, and the Wang family now seemed to be following the lead of the Shi family. This had greatly displeased the Zhao and Lin families.

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