"Beep, beep, beep! Host, wake up! Something's happening!"
Hearing the system's beeping, Jiang Ze tried to spring out of bed, only for his aching lower back to fail him. He nearly collapsed onto the mattress.
"What's going on?"
He had no choice but to rub his back and slowly get out of bed.
He went to the bathroom to wash his face. Morning sunlight flooded the room, and the view beyond the enormous floor-to-ceiling windows was lovely, but Jiang Ze didn't dare linger over it.
He hastily smoothed down his hair and left the bedroom, questioning the system as he ate the breakfast Meng Zhiyuan had prepared for him before leaving.
"Shen Yun is up to something! The big boss has been cracking down way too hard on the protagonist lately!"
Jiang Ze frowned. He knew Meng Zhiyuan had been leaving early and returning late recently, looking exhausted, and that it might have something to do with Shen Yun and Meng Zimu.
But he hadn't expected the big boss to strike so ruthlessly all at once.
After all, Shen Yun was the protagonist, blessed with luck and reborn into the past. He couldn't possibly be that easy to deal with.
"I detected some serious deviations at the plot checkpoints. With help from a mysterious person, Shen Yun established another faction to stand against the Meng Group, but it couldn't measure up anytime soon. In the end, he still joined forces with Meng Zimu."
"Oh? So those two made up?"
"I don't know the details, but it's entirely possible they're only working together~"
"Even a cornered rabbit bites. Shen Yun..."
Jiang Ze's eyes flickered. He remembered that in the original plot, Shen Yun had somehow bribed someone at the Meng family's old residence to tamper with Meng Zhiyuan's car when he