It turned out that President Lu was only a pathetic pushover who let himself be hit and cursed when facing Shen Ranxin. At all other times, he did Alpha proud.
For example, right now. That man had taken only one punch from Lu Zhi, yet his entire face had swollen horribly. Thick blood trickled from the corner of his mouth, and besides a front tooth that had flown out, several molars slowly slid out with the bloody saliva.
The overwhelming pain left him unable to react for a moment. He only had time to suck in a sharp breath before Lu Zhi grabbed his collar and yanked him back up.
The tall Alpha was immensely intimidating. His surging aggressive pheromones nearly made the man forget his pain.
"Ah, sorry. I hit too hard. More than one tooth fell out." Lu Zhi spoke in a careless tone. "It's fine. Luckily, I'm rich. Three hundred thousand per tooth—I can afford it."
Shen Ranxin stared dumbfoundedly at Lu Zhi, who looked even more like a "murderer" than he did.
Ah... no... this guy didn't seem like he was acting. Had he really never killed anyone before?
"One tooth costs three hundred thousand. How much is your life worth?" Lu Zhi lowered his eyes, his gaze dark and vicious as he looked at the man. "I have plenty of money. What about you? How many lives do you have?"
The moment he finished speaking, the man was scared out of his wits. A thin stream of yellow liquid dripped from the legs of his blue-and-white striped pants.
Frowning, Lu Zhi released him, narrowly avoiding getting any disgusting filth on himself.
"Ah." Standing behind Shen Ranxin, Lu Zhi said quietly, "He peed without taking off his pants. How unhygienic. Forget it, even if this kind gets cured, he'll still drool. Ranran, let's go. It stinks here."
Shen Ranxin nodded with mixed feelings, then turned to the middle-aged man by the bed. "Um... Director Chen, we'll head back first. We can discuss compensation after he calms down."
Director Chen was clearly stunned as well. Thank goodness there were no cameras here. If this aired, Lu Zhi would probably face a lawsuit.
Though such a lawsuit might not amount to much for the Lu family heir.
After Lu Zhi and Shen Ranxin left, Director Chen remembered to comfort the staff member who had been frightened into wetting himself. "About this matter, we..."
Just as he was about to say they were willing to compensate him, the man frantically waved his hands. The split corners of his mouth dripped with shocking amounts of blood as he shouted through slurred speech, "No! No! I don't want it! I'm sorry! I'm sorry, I'm sorry... It was my fault. I don't want compensation anymore. I won't go around talking nonsense. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry... I-I'll return the six hundred thousand to you right now. I don't dare anymore! I'll never dare again! Please, please let me go!"
Director Chen: "..."
Really, of all people to provoke, why did he have to provoke Lu Zhi?
Who didn't know President Lu was crazy?
A crazy person wasn't scary.
What was scary was that this crazy person had money, power, and issues.
In the end, the production team used the six hundred thousand Lu Zhi had transferred to cover all his medical expenses, left him one hundred thousand as compensation for emotional distress, and returned the rest to Lu Zhi's account.
This was probably the first time he had extorted someone in his life—and likely the last.
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Shen Ranxin leaned against a pillar outside the hospital, lowering his head as he tapped on his phone. He had originally planned to transfer those six hundred thousand back to Lu Zhi.
Although he could not remember at all how he had frightened the man into losing a front tooth.
Ever since he had transmigrated, his memory had seemed comparable to that of someone with Alzheimer's. He forgot things every now and then, and no matter how hard he thought afterward, he could not remember them.
Could there be something wrong with this body?
It seemed he still needed to go to the hospital for a checkup in a few days.
That damned system had been like a broken machine ever since it signed a contract with him. If he had not seen the contract on the bedside table after waking up, he would have thought the system did not exist at all.
As he mulled it over, he opened his bank balance.
The balance showed that he had two hundred thousand left on the card.
"..."
Shen Ranxin closed his eyes, finding it a little hard to face this shitty life.
He shoved his phone back into his pocket and muttered, "I'll pay you back after the dating show ends."
Once the dating show ended, the plot would be complete. He would have a hundred-billion prize—would he still care about a mere six hundred thousand?
As for how to fake his death and disappear under Lu Zhi's nose with a hundred billion in prize money, he would figure that out later.
Unexpectedly, after he said that, Lu Zhi turned to look at him, a smile curling at his lips. "Baby, you're going to make me regret this."
Shen Ranxin raised a brow. "Regret what?"
"I should've transferred him six hundred million just now." Lu Zhi clicked his tongue. "But there seems to be a transfer limit for six hundred million. I'll go back and transfer him six million instead."
Shen Ranxin finally lost his patience. "Keep those six million and get your brain treated. If you have too much money and nowhere to spend it, you can give it to me."
Lu Zhi paused and asked, "You don't have money?"
Right. He was no longer the young master of the Shen family.
Over the past five years, who knew what Cheng Cheng had done to him? His memories seemed to have been completely altered. Perhaps he no longer remembered his identity at all.
Shen Ranxin irritably scratched at his brow. "Obviously. If I had money, would I come to this idiotic show just to be pissed off?"
Lu Zhi nodded, preparing to shower his beloved with money. "...I think I brought a black card in my suitcase. I'll look for it when we get back and give it to you."
Shen Ranxin snorted. "The kind of black card with tens of millions on it?"
"No." Lu Zhi tilted his head. "To be precise, I'm not sure exactly how much money is on it. That black card can be used at all companies and malls under the Lu Group. Given the Lu Group's current range of businesses, it should cover your food, clothing, housing, and transportation."
Shen Ranxin: "..."
Seriously, he was going to take on these damned rich second-generation heirs!
When Lu Zhi returned to the villa, he indeed turned his suitcase upside down before finally digging out a black card and casually handing it to Shen Ranxin. "Here."
Shen Ranxin used the greatest willpower of his life to refuse the black card held out to him. "I don't want it!"
Lu Zhi thought for a moment, then casually tossed the card back into his suitcase. "All right."
In any case, from the moment they reunited, he had already decided that he would never let Shen Ranxin disappear from his sight for even a second.
Whether Shen Ranxin wanted it or not did not really matter. Lu Zhi would always have his back.
Whatever Shen Ranxin wanted, Lu Zhi would buy it for him.
Anything in this world that could be solved with money was a trivial matter to Lu Zhi.
If worse came to worst, even if he had to package up and sell the Lu Group just to make Shen Ranxin happy, he would think it was worth it.
At that moment, in the Lu Group office building far away on Capital Star, Father Lu, who was sitting on a sofa overlooking the entire Capital Star, suddenly felt his nose itch and sneezed.
The assistant beside him picked up a blanket and gently draped it over him. "President Lu, Young President Lu has arranged everything at the company. There really is no need for you to come every day."
The man on the sofa gave a contented hum. "What do you know? I come every day to admire the empire my son built for me!"
The assistant hesitated before saying, "Young President Lu went on a dating show. He has already spent tens of millions investing in it just to pursue that young master. Are you really at ease handing the Lu Group over to him? He has indeed made the Lu Group flourish and rise to new heights over the years, but after all... he wasn't born with the surname Lu."
The white-haired old man snorted. "Back then, neither we nor Lu Zhi nor that young master of the Shen family did anything wrong. Shen Ziqing was the one who committed sins. Lu Zhi is actually a very good child. You all think he's calculating, but I think he's purer than anyone. He knows exactly what he wants."
The assistant stood behind the old man and said nothing more.
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