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"Holy Son, will you still not confess?"
Inside the magnificent hall, the Law Enforcement Hall elder stared at a handsome young man standing in the center, his expression icy as he roared.
His domineering, imposing voice echoed in the ears of the hundred-odd people in the hall.
The handsome young man raised his head blankly. As he looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar scene before him, his expression showed pain and bewilderment.
What the fuck?
Had I transmigrated?
The young man was named Lin Fan. He had transmigrated at birth and had lived in this world for seventeen years.
While fleeing for his life that morning, he had accidentally knocked his head. When he saw a chicken squawking and hopping around, he kept feeling that it bore the manner of an old acquaintance. In his daze, his memories of his previous life had finally awakened.
After learning that he had transmigrated, Lin Fan first felt heartache, then delight.
The heartache was because, just before dying in his previous life, he had scratched off a hundred-million jackpot. He could have defied the heavens and changed his fate as a beast of burden.
But who could have known that he would get so excited that he dropped dead on the spot?
He just wondered which lucky soul would pass by and pick up his lottery ticket.
The delight was because, in this life, he was the son of the head of the Lin Clan, a supreme imperial clan in the Ancient World, and the Lin Clan's most doted-on Imperial Scion!
This world was called the Ancient Continent, where myriad races stood like trees in a forest.
His father was the youngest Great Emperor in history, his mother was the Ji Clan's Great Emperor and the foremost female Great Emperor of the Archaic World, and his grandfather was another Great Emperor who guarded an entire region.
His status and background were powerful enough to scare people to death. As he walked the Ancient Continent, even passing dogs would have to respectfully call out, "Greetings, Imperial Scion!"
"Lin Fan, you've disappointed me so much."
Just then, a voice sounded beside Lin Fan's ear, and he looked up.
It was a breathtakingly beautiful woman, her white dress fluttering and her eyes like brilliant stars. Yet at that moment, her eyes were filled with disgust as she looked at Lin Fan.
"Fuck, what bullshit Liu Yanran?"
A rush of memories flooded Lin Fan's mind. He froze, then could not help cursing under his breath.
He had held both jokers, an unbeatable hand, yet had played his cards into utter ruin. It took him quite a while to sort through his memories and understand his current situation.
I was actually a simp...
As the Imperial Scion of a supreme imperial clan, he had a happy, loving family.
Yet somehow, whether his brain had short-circuited, his eyes had gone blind, or he had swallowed some bewitching drug, he had fallen for Liu Yanran while traveling.
He had given up his identity as the Lin Clan's Imperial Scion and concealed his name and background to come to the Primordial Holy Land, using his status to become the supreme elder's disciple and the Holy Son.
All just to simp for Liu Yanran from closer by...
To please Liu Yanran, he had shared his cultivation resources with her for two years, leaving his cultivation far behind, since his aptitude had never been good to begin with.
Yet after giving so much for two and a half years, he had not even touched her hand.
She, however, had refused none of the resources he brought her, soaring all the way from an outer disciple to the Holy Maiden.
And what about Liu Yanran?
In name, she was his fiancée, betrothed to him by the supreme elder. Behind his back, however, she was fooling around with Luo Chen, putting a green hat on Lin Fan.
He really wanted to slap himself twice!
Fuck!
What the hell was this?
Even Fei Yangyang and Shuangmian Gui would probably have called him big brother if they saw this.
Most importantly, not only had Liu Yanran secretly been playing poker with Luo Chen behind his back!
She had even drugged him and joined forces with Luo Chen to frame him, falsely accusing him of defiling Junior Sister Mengdie, an outer disciple of the holy land, to put him to death.
Last night, Liu Yanran had, for the first time ever, invited him to her room to chat.
After drinking a cup of tea, he had happened upon Mengdie screaming on his way back. He had only wanted to see what was going on, but Luo Chen had burst out and accused him of defiling a fellow junior sister.
How could he fail to understand that this was Luo Chen and Liu Yanran's handiwork? Even jumping into the Yellow River would not wash him clean.
At that moment, he was undergoing judgment in the Primordial Holy Land.
With such a melodramatic plot happening to him, Lin Fan could not help cursing. "Bullshit! I, the Holy Son, was merely passing by and happened to catch Luo Chen committing his filthy act. Instead, the thief cried thief and turned the accusation on me!"
Liu Yanran folded her slender arms and raised her head haughtily, looking at Lin Fan like a white swan, her eyes full of disgust.
"Just because you couldn't have me last night?"
"You went and defiled Junior Sister Mengdie in a fit of anger? And now you're slandering Senior Brother Luo Chen? I really misjudged you!"
As soon as she finished, many disciples chimed in, like a pack of brain-dead fans who had swallowed Liu Yanran's bewitching drug.
"Lin Fan, what evidence do you have to slander, to slander Senior Brother Luo?"
"Exactly, Lin Fan! Who here doesn't know that Senior Brother Luo caught you hurting someone, stopped your brutal atrocities, and saved Junior Sister Mengdie from death? Just because of that, you bore a grudge and turned around to bite Senior Brother Luo Chen, slandering him?!"
"But you still miscalculated. Now Junior Sister Mengdie is testifying against you. With both witness testimony and material evidence present, you can't clear your name!"
Many disciples and elders stood along both sides of the hall. Their eyes were filled with disgust as they looked at Lin Fan, wishing they could drown him in their spit.
Ironically, not a single person believed his truthful words.
Lin Fan was truly being pointed at by a thousand accusing fingers, subjected to abuse from the entire holy land.
Everyone in the holy land believed that Lin Fan wanted to frame Liu Yanran and Luo Chen to save his own life.
Among the crowd stood a man with sword-like brows and starry eyes. As the instigator of everything, Luo Chen looked at Lin Fan with a flash of smugness in his eyes that only Lin Fan could see.
That was because, in the eyes of the people of the Primordial Holy Land, Luo Chen was the true Holy Son. He was helpful and brimming with righteousness, often leading them into secret realms and giving disciples cultivation resources.
How could someone like that possibly be the person who had defiled Junior Sister Mengdie?
Meanwhile, Lin Fan had no strength to speak of. If he had not relied on his status through the supreme elder to take the position of Holy Son, Luo Chen would have held it long ago. They had never accepted him to begin with.
"Luo Chen, you said you saw me, the Holy Son, defiling Junior Sister Mengdie. Where's the evidence?"
"Bring it out! Can you convict me, the Holy Son, on nothing but your side of the story? Or were you the one who did it, then framed me?"
"Do you really think you can manipulate me however you please just because the supreme elder is in seclusion?"
The sight chilled Lin Fan to the bone, but he found Luo Chen's smugness even more unbearable. As he spoke, Lin Fan's gaze settled on Luo Chen, his meaning self-evident.
"Lin Fan, enough!"
"Are you going to claim that Junior Sister Mengdie would stake her own chastity on slandering you for no reason?"
"Confess properly. I believe the sect will spare your life out of regard for your past ties. At most, they'll cripple your cultivation and expel you."
"But now, you're actually trying to slander Senior Brother Luo..."
Liu Yanran snorted coldly, her face frosty. There was not the slightest trace of feeling in her eyes as she looked at Lin Fan, as though looking at a stranger.
"A bitch paired with a dog-truly a match that lasts forever!"
"You're my fiancée, yet you've been carrying on with Luo Chen behind my back! Don't think I don't know."
"As for defiling Junior Sister Mengdie, you know the truth perfectly well. To think I treated you so well, only for you to scheme against me and frame me. Heh..."
Lin Fan was truly furious, and he unleashed a torrent of abuse at Liu Yanran.
Putting a green hat on him was one thing, but she had even set a trap to slander him and wanted him dead. He had finally seen Liu Yanran's true face.
"What do you mean, carrying on? I only slept in Luo Chen's arms for one night. Nothing happened. Don't get the wrong idea!"
Under Lin Fan's gaze, a flicker of panic appeared in Liu Yanran's eyes. She quickly suppressed it, but her words remained self-righteous.
After speaking, her heart involuntarily lurched, as though she had lost something important. She felt that she might very well regret this in the future...
Something important?
Regret? Ridiculous. Was Lin Fan worthy?
He had no strength, no talent, and no background whatsoever. He was just an orphan. Would she, a future female Great Emperor, regret anything over him?
Lin Fan, blame yourself for not being from an imperial clan.
Luo Chen's background was so powerful that you would struggle to believe it. You couldn't give me what he could.
In her eyes, there was only the Great Dao.
To become a peerless female Great Emperor, she felt that anything she did was worthwhile!
As for the resources Lin Fan had given her, she merely considered them her due. Since he liked her, being able to help her achieve greatness was Lin Fan's honor!
"You filthy bitch, you're still just as shameless! Even a roadside dog knows more about repaying kindness than you!" Lin Fan sneered, his heart cold to the extreme.
"Yanran, there's no need to waste words on someone like him."
"Holy Son, we aren't discussing your affairs with Yanran right now. We're discussing how you defiled our junior sister. Don't try to change the subject!"
"Whether you confess or not, as long as Junior Sister Mengdie testifies against you, you won't escape death!"
Luo Chen gently comforted the outer disciple Mengdie with his hand and glanced at Liu Yanran, his smile warm, yet utterly hypocritical in Lin Fan's eyes.
"Go ahead, Junior Sister!"
"Just tell the truth about who tried to defile you. Your family is under the sect's protection, so there's no need to worry or fear anything. The sect's elders will uphold justice for you!"
Beside Luo Chen stood a pretty young woman of eighteen or nineteen. Her face was still filled with terror, as though she had just suffered some inhuman torment. Seeing Luo Chen look at her, she nodded.
"It was him, Holy Son Lin Fan... he took me..."
"If Senior Brother Luo Chen hadn't stepped in to save me, I'm afraid I would have fallen victim to that demon's vicious hands..."
Mengdie came to stand not far from Lin Fan, her eyes brimming with tears. Her gaze turned utterly venomous when she looked at him. As she spoke, she began choking with sobs, wiping away her tears and inspiring pity.
"Just now, I thought he might have been wronged. I truly never imagined that the dignified Holy Son, so extraordinarily handsome, would secretly commit every evil imaginable and defile Junior Sister Mengdie."
"That bastard deserves a thousand cuts. I really want to kill him. Junior Sister Mengdie is so adorable. How could he bear to lay his hands on her?"
"You can't judge a person by their looks! I said before that the Holy Son was no good, but you all said I was jealous of his looks. Now you've seen his true face, haven't you?"
"This is too vile. If Eldest Senior Brother Luo Chen hadn't happened upon it and stepped in to save her, who knows what would have happened?"
As Mengdie finished speaking, an uproar erupted. The holy land's disciples clamored in discussion, like a crowd pushing over a wall once it began to fall, wishing they could tear Lin Fan apart with their bare hands.
Listening to their slander, Lin Fan's heart grew colder and colder. How could he not see that Mengdie and Luo Chen had made a deal?
Just then, a crisp, pleasant mechanical voice sounded beside his ear, and an illusory light appeared before him.
[Ding! Detected that the host has been slandered by the Son of Providence, Luo Chen. Invincible Villain System activated. Panel viewing, radar detection, viewing Sons of Providence's scripts, and other functions unlocked!]
P.S. Ancient World cultivation realms: Body Refining, Qi Refining, Core Formation, Spirit Sea, Heavenly Dipper, Purple Palace, Quasi-Saint, Sage, Great Saint, Sage King, Quasi-Emperor, Great Emperor! Before the Spirit Sea realm, each major realm's minor stages were divided into nine heavens. After Spirit Sea, they were divided into early, middle, late, and peak stages.