Chen Ding! Extortion?

"Something came up. I won't be going back for dinner tonight."

After casually leaving Alisa a message, Lu Li closed the Data Panel and looked at the young man's back.

The other man's tireless explanations filled his ears, gradually stirring memories of his past life.

Chen Ding, master of the Chen Family's Scripture Repository.

When they first met in his past life, it had already been two years since the apocalypse began.

At that time, Chen Ding was level 99, only one step away from max level!

After his rebirth, although he had met Chen Ding half a year earlier, the man's level had already reached 60.

However, it was not his combat strength that had left such a deep impression on Lu Li.

It was his way of doing things!

Chen Ding was very much like Zhao Mou—both were sly schemers who excelled at underhanded plots.

The difference was that

Zhao Mou was greedy for life and afraid of death, willing to sacrifice anything for himself.

Chen Ding, on the other hand, placed the family's interests above all else!

In his past life, Chen Ding had been responsible for more than half of the schemes behind the theft of Lu Li's incomplete Blade Manual design!

That alone made this man a thorn in Lu Li's side!

If not for the vast gap in strength between them, Lu Li truly wanted to pull out his great halberd and smash the man into pulp right away!

But a meal had to be eaten one bite at a time, and a road had to be walked one step at a time.

The price he had paid for his recklessness in his past life had long since taught Lu Li this lesson deeply.

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