Maybe I Can Show You Tonight

On the western outskirts of Jinhai City.

At the brightly lit Jinxian Bay docks.

In front of the shipping containers, workers quickly unloaded boxes of goods onto pallets nearby.

Once the pallets were full, forklifts carried the goods over to the large trucks waiting beside them.

Inside a three-story office building not far away.

A tall young man with a sharply chiseled face and a black suit gazed out through the window at the Jinxian Bay docks.

A middle-aged man stood behind him.

The middle-aged man was the young man's butler. Bowing slightly, he reported:

"Young Master Ye, I've made the arrangements you requested. Several of Liu Miao's major long-term clients will visit our Jinxian Bay docks tomorrow. As long as we lower our prices a little, we can win over all of Jinhai Docks' major clients."

"Good. We have to secure those clients tomorrow, no matter what. With only orders from those small clients, Jinhai Docks won't be able to cover the expenses of such a large operation."

The young man turned around, a lecherous smile on his face.

"Within six months, that bitch Liu Miao will come crawling to me. Then I'll use a few special methods, and I'll get to finish what my younger brother never managed to do before he died. Hahaha."

Bang!

Suddenly, someone kicked the office door open with tremendous force.

A gang of thugs carrying clubs swarmed inside.

The thug leading them had a knife scar on his face. He glanced at the middle-aged man, then at the young man by the window, before pointing his club at the latter.

"You're Ye Li?"

"No, I just work here." The young man hastily shook his head and pointed at the butler in front of him. "That's him."

The butler let out a startled "Huh?"

The scar-faced man's eyes narrowed at the middle-aged man's expression, a cold glint flashing in them. He addressed the thugs behind him:

"Don't hit that middle-aged guy, Ye Li. I'll have a few words with him and leave. Beat that young guy by the window until he's crippled. I don't like people getting in my way."

"Yes!"

The thugs rushed toward the young man by the window.

His eyes went wide when he heard that, and he cried out, "I'm Ye Li! I'm Ye Li! Whatever you want, talk to me! That middle-aged man is my butler!"

The thugs stopped and looked at the scar-faced man.

The scar-faced man spat out a mouthful of phlegm. "I fucking hate being lied to. A few of you, slap his face until he looks like a pig. Leave the middle-aged servant alone. The rest of you, go smash up the goods at his docks."

"Ah!" Ye Li cried out in shock again and tried to run.

Several thugs pinned him to the floor and slapped him viciously, again and again.

Smack, smack, smack...

Aah...

Good Fortune Apartments.

Zeng Shen had no idea that his offhand mention of "Ye Li from the Ye family of Yinhai" had gotten Ye Li beaten until his face looked like a pig, and the goods at Jinxian Bay smashed to pieces.

At that moment.

It was half past nine. After finishing the delicious meal Xiao Ai had specially prepared for him, he took Xiao Di and Xiao Ai into the Lingnan Industrial Zone in his divine realm for a walk to work off his full stomach.

"The Lingnan Industrial Zone will be centered on this No. 1 Spatial Warehouse. We'll clear away all the surrounding trees later. Over on the left, near the mountain, we'll mark out a large area and build housing there. As for the right side, in the future, I want to..."

Standing in front of the building he had named the No. 1 Spatial Warehouse, Zeng Shen explained his plans for the area to Xiao Ai and Xiao Di in detail as he walked toward the two small open-pit iron mines.

The two small open-pit iron mines were over a thousand meters from the No. 1 Spatial Warehouse, with three divine-energy copper smelting furnaces beside them.

However, they had no fuel containing trace amounts of divine energy.

So the furnaces still could not be put into operation.

As a result, all the iron ore gathered by the five intelligent mining vehicles was being stored temporarily in the No. 1 Spatial Warehouse.

Listening to Zeng Shen's plans for the Lingnan area, Xiao Di nodded slightly. "Master, that's what I had in mind too."

"Looks like we're on the same page," Zeng Shen said with a smile, rubbing his stomach. "I'm not so stuffed anymore. Let's go back, take a bath, and get some sleep."

"Yes, Master." Xiao Ai and Xiao Di nodded.

Zeng Shen was about to open the divine realm gate when he suddenly remembered that he had yet to formally fight Xiao Di to earn divine rank experience.

He turned to Xiao Di. "You're a combat maid, Xiao Di. I'd like to spar with you."

"All right," Xiao Di said.

Soon, the two stood facing each other.

"Xiao Di, here I come," Zeng Shen said. Spending 20 faith points, he used Fivefold Agility Enhancement and rushed toward her. In the blink of an eye, he sent her to the ground with a shoulder throw.

[The host displayed unparalleled valor, effortlessly overpowering believer Xiao Di. Divine rank experience +1.]

"What? Only one point of divine rank experience?"

Zeng Shen was stunned by the system notification, but confusion soon followed. Why had winning given him more divine rank experience than losing?

Was I going about this the wrong way?

No, Xiao Di was a mechanical-type combat maid.

How had I taken her down so easily?

Had she held back and let me win, so I'd only received one point of divine rank experience?

As that question occurred to Zeng Shen, he looked at Xiao Di, who had gotten to her feet.

Seeing his confusion, Xiao Di explained slowly, "Master, before the cataclysm arrives, both Xiao Ai's abilities and mine remain unawakened. You used a divine skill to increase your speed fivefold. Although I could track your movements, my body couldn't react quickly enough. I'm no match for you."

Understanding dawned on Zeng Shen, and he felt a pang of regret at having wasted his once-a-day chance to gain divine rank experience.

"In that case, let's spar again tomorrow morning..."

"Yes, Master."

Xiao Ai stepped forward and linked her arm through Zeng Shen's. "Master, you seem a little unhappy. How about tonight, Xiao Di and I..."

The moment Zeng Shen heard that, he knew what she was about to say. He quickly shook his head and cut her off. "No, no, no. I just want a good night's rest tonight."

Xiao Ai covered her mouth and giggled. Behind her, the corners of Xiao Di's lips curled into a faint smile on her delicate, impassive face.

The next day, the sky had only just begun to brighten with a hazy gray light.

Zeng Shen slowly opened his eyes and sat up.

"It's been ages since I last woke up naturally."

Xiao Ai and Xiao Di were wearing loose, sexy spaghetti-strap nightgowns, one white and the other pink.

Seeing Zeng Shen get up, they stopped pretending to sleep, opened their eyes, and sat up as well.

"Master, lie down a little longer. Xiao Di and I will make breakfast for you," Xiao Ai said.

"Mm."

Zeng Shen nodded, picked up the new phone beside his bed, and checked it. It was only five in the morning.

Immediately afterward.

He lay back down, focused his mind, and opened his status panel to check his current divine rank experience.

[Divine rank: 0 (66/100)]

"Just 34 more points of divine rank experience until rank one. I wonder what changes reaching rank one will bring."

Zeng Shen muttered to himself, then looked at his survival points.

[Survival points: 8,800]