Tianhai Garden in the magic capital, Villa Number One.
"Beep, beep, beep..."
Suddenly, the alarm of a medical instrument resounded from within the villa.
At the entrance of the villa, many top bigwigs shuddered violently. Even warlords who had experienced a hail of bullets collapsed to the ground, soaked in sweat from excessive fright.
These top tycoons, Middle Eastern warlords, and underground bosses from all over the world stood in line before the villa.
Their gazes were low, their moods heavy.
There was a dead silence in the scene, where the drop of a pin could be heard.
They seemed to be waiting for something.
Inside the villa.
A patient, emaciated and tortured by illness, slowly closed his eyes, ending his magnificent life.
Yet even in death, the sense of majesty on his face remained terrifying.
After a long time, a nurse in white knelt and tremblingly stepped forward to test his breathing.
"The chairman is gone." A trembling voice came from within the villa.
At the entrance of the villa, the many top bigwigs did not hesitate, immediately bowing ninety degrees.
Some top tycoons even dropped directly to their knees, wailing loudly and sobbing uncontrollably.
The chairman was gone!
He had left them a super Commercial Empire spanning the globe.
What should they do.
Ten minutes later.
The United Nations issued no statement, yet lowered its flags to half-mast to mourn this godfather.
The Eagle Nation announced a three-day nationwide internet blackout in mourning.
In the Mao Nation, a torrent of iron armies fired continuous gun salutes for three days. That well-known iron-fisted tough guy was said to have locked himself in a room that day, and someone heard weeping coming from within it.
In the Land of the Setting Sun, a royal princess voluntarily leaped into the sea to be buried with him.
On this day, the world shook.
After closing his eyes, Chu Tian only felt endless darkness engulfing him like a tide.
Chu Tian sighed inwardly.
Was this life just ending like this?
If he were given another twenty years, he would want to sit on a rocket and explore Saturn in person, wanting to see if there were really extraterrestrials in the outer universe.
After all, on this planet, apart from illness, there was nothing left that could trouble him.
Faintly.
A tender, crisp voice tinged with anger suddenly poured into his ears.
"Chu Tian, I order you, right now, immediately, at once, go back and pick the Sacred Vein Flower Fruit for me."
To think a woman dared to command him?
Hearing the voice, Chu Tian opened his eyes and looked. He was actually now on the peak of a mountain, with white clouds floating all around him, seeming within reach if he raised his hand.
And the one speaking before him was a little girl wearing a light white dress, with red lips and white teeth. She looked to be only eight or nine years old, her face tender, yet already revealing the foundation of a peerless beauty.
The little girl's porcelain-doll-like face was full of anger. Seeing that Chu Tian seemed dazed, she burned with even greater rage and said:
"You idiot Chu Tian, I told you long ago that Ye Fan saved my life, and I want to repay him with everything I have."
"Since you are my fiancé, you should wholeheartedly help me repay this kindness."
"Besides, Ye Fan's background is so pitiful; he was harmed at birth and his meridians shattered. Only the Sacred Vein Flower has hope of repairing them. Do you not have a shred of empathy?"
"Go back immediately. I don't care what method you use, you must pick the Sacred Vein Flower Fruit, or I won't talk to you anymore."
Empathy?
Chu Tian frowned. That really was a rare thing. It had been a long time since anyone had said those three words to him. After all, once you reached his level, everything was just an exchange of interests.
Mentioning empathy was bound to draw ridicule; that was something only children talked about.
Adults only talked about interests.
Still, who on earth was this little girl?
Fiancée?
Chu Tian looked down, only to discover that his own body had actually turned into that of a child, wearing a black tight-fitting suit and about the same age as her, around eight or nine.
So he really was a child now.
It seemed he had transmigrated and been reborn.
Chu Tian suddenly felt a pain in his head as a massive wave of information surged directly into his mind.
"I actually time-traveled, and into the novel of that poorly-ending hack author?"
"Heavenly Profound Emperor?"
"Great Vengeance Demon Lord Chu Tian, Heavenly Profound Emperor Ye Fan, Sacred Heaven Goddess Liu Yun..."
Chu Tian muttered to himself in a low voice, the corners of his mouth suddenly curling up slightly.
Interesting.
Really interesting.
Even as a godfather who dominated both the underworld and the legitimate world and built a super commercial empire territory, he still had an age of being a delusional adolescent.
Back in high school, that clichéd novel named Heavenly Profound Emperor had kept him up for three consecutive nights, reading day and night.
Yet when he reached the final chapter, he suddenly discovered that this novel had not been updated for a full two years and had suffered a rushed, botched ending.
It made him swear publicly in class that if he ever struck it rich in the future, he would definitely throw this hack author into the ocean to feed the sharks.
Then, unsurprisingly, he was driven out of the classroom by that old witch of an English teacher.
It was a very distant memory.
However, Chu Tian remembered it very deeply. After all, having experienced much, he always liked to recall those passionate, youthful times in the dead of night, sighing that he too had once had a pure and sentimental phase.
The person he had now been reborn as was the teenage period of Great Vengeance Demon Lord Chu Tian, a major villain who ran through the entire text of the poorly-ended novel Heavenly Profound Emperor.
"I actually crossed over into this huge sucker? My whole family was harmed, my fiancée cheated, she hooked up with Son of Destiny Ye Fan, everything was plundered from me, and in the end, I was angered into falling into the demonic path, calling myself the Great Vengeance Demon Lord, only to be hunted down by sects across the entire Hengtian Continent?"
The corners of Chu Tian's mouth twitched slightly.
In the plot, this Great Vengeance Demon Lord Chu Tian could be called the most miserable character in the entire book.
Born with a golden spoon in his mouth, his father was an Emperor Venerable, one of the supreme powerhouses of the Hengtian Continent, and the Vice Sect Master of the Sacred Heaven Sect.
The Sacred Heaven Sect was one of the seven top sects of the Hengtian Continent.
The Chu Family was the founding family of the Sacred Heaven Sect, having founded the Sacred Heaven Sect together with the current sect master's lineage, and both sides took turns holding power, passing it down for a million years.
The current generation was precisely the most prosperous period for the Chu Family.
His father, Chu Tian, married a goddess from the extraterritorial Ancient Sword God Clan, breaking through to become an Emperor Venerable and reaching the peak of his life.
After giving birth to three girls in a row, he fathered Chu Tian, his only male heir.
Chu Tian also lived up to expectations. The moment he was born, he awakened the supreme physique, the Chaos Demon God Body, and his auspicious phenomena shocked the entire Hengtian Continent, being hailed as the number one prodigy of the Hengtian Continent from ancient times to the present.
Moreover, right at birth, he was betrothed to Liu Yun, the daughter of the direct lineage of the Sacred Heaven Sect's great Liu Family.
Liu Yun was also a goddess renowned throughout the Hengtian Continent. Possessing the Innate Dao Body, the moment she was born, the Dao of the Hengtian Continent roared and the entire world shook.
However, because the Liu Family was far inferior to the Chu Family and their household was in decline, they had actively sought a marriage alliance, arranging an engagement for the two infants whose talents shocked the world.
Superb talent, an illustrious family background, a flawless fiancée.
The newly born Chu Tian seemed to have already become a winner in life, and walking toward the peak was merely a matter of time.
Yet at the age of three, Liu Yun inexplicably fell into the water and was rescued by Ye Fan, a well-known good-for-nothing in the sect, leading her to decide to exhaust everything to repay the kindness.
It was also from this point that the 'green-hatted amidst sorrow' life of Great Vengeance Demon Lord Chu Tian began.
His fiancée hooked up with the Son of Destiny—which villain could ever have a good ending? Being targeted by everyone and falling into the demonic path was simply standard operation.
If not for Chu Tian's terrifying talent and the backing he had, he probably would have been killed off in the early stages.
Come to think of it, among all the villains in various novels, Chu Tian already seemed to be a very successful one. After all, the plot ran through almost the entire book, and because of the botched ending, he had not yet been killed off by the protagonist.
"God is really looking after me, I'm truly lucky."
The corners of Chu Tian's mouth twitched as a gentle, pleasant female voice suddenly sounded beside his ear:
*Ding! Congratulations, Host, for binding to the Super Villain Plundering System! Plundering everything belonging to the Son of Destiny will grant Heavenly Mandate value rewards.*
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