Ji Xinyu hadn't originally planned to deal with Ren Pingzheng this quickly, but his methods were truly too LOW. He looked down on women, yet simultaneously used them to achieve his goals.
Really, his tactics were utterly disgraceful. Ji Xinyu also couldn't understand why Ren Pingzheng had been so successful in her previous life.
Clearly, with such a person and such underhanded methods, in the world she lived in before transmigrating, someone like him would have been devoured long ago.
"Come with me upstairs." Ji Xinyu, carrying her shoes, led Ren Pingzheng to an unoccupied guest bedroom on the upper floor.
Ren Pingzheng was extremely compliant the entire way. Whatever Ji Xinyu told him to do, he did.
Ji Xinyu pointed a video camera at him: "Alright, now tell me, what illegal things have you done all these years?"
The effects of the "obedience potion" were remarkably potent. Ren Pingzheng couldn't think at all now; he only knew he couldn't refuse any command this person gave him.
"When I was fourteen, I dated a girl. I deceived her, body and heart. She wasn't even fourteen yet that year. We were together under the guise of dating. It lasted until we started high school. I waited for her to throw a tantrum and propose a breakup, then logically dumped her."
"After entering high school, I used the same method to get together with the top student in my class. High school girls were more troublesome than middle school ones. One time, I wasn't careful, and she actually got pregnant. I paid the money and coaxed her into getting an abortion. We dated for a year, then broke up. After the breakup, I found other girls."
"Before the college entrance exams, I dumped all the women I was involved with. They were burdens holding me back from reaching university. Only by discarding them could I 'start fresh' and run towards my new life."
"It's said several of the girls I had relationships with performed poorly on their college entrance exams." A hint of a smug yet cruel smile appeared on Ren Pingzheng's somewhat vacant face at this moment. "They were really too emotionally unstable."
"After starting university, I had my first publicly known 'first love'. She was the daughter of a high-ranking government official. During our relationship, I relied on her father's influence to start my own business."
"During university, she wanted to marry me. By then, her father was nearing retirement age and had no more use. How could I possibly stay with her? So, I set her up to be found in bed with another guy."
"In the end, I broke up with her, playing the victim. After graduation, I joined Kuangte. I entered the company directly as management. To learn the ropes faster, I got involved with my father's secretary. Of course, while she was with me, she was also with my father."
"With her help, I quickly gained a firm foothold in the company. When I was 24, I had already secured several major deals. My father was about to have more children, which really annoyed me. So, I got someone to obtain the obedience potion, made him drink it, then had him write a will. I had his secretary take it to the notary office for authentication."
"My mother kept crying to me about his affairs, which I found extremely irritating and bothersome. Coincidentally, they were planning to travel abroad under the guise of an affectionate couple to attend some hearing. I'd had enough of him being above me. So, I had someone tamper with the private jet they were scheduled to take. The plane crashed mid-flight, and both he and my mother perished in the accident."
"With that will in place, I became the CEO of Kuangte as I wished."
"After becoming CEO, I kept two minor celebrities. But they were too greedy. One got pregnant without my consent, the other cheated on me while we were together." An angry glint flashed in Ren Pingzheng's dull eyes.
"So, I made them simply disappear from this world. Especially the one who cheated on me. I handed her directly to a friend of mine who's in that specific line of work. I haven't heard any news about her for several years now. She's probably gone by now too." A contented smile spread across Ren Pingzheng's face.
At this moment, both Ji Xinyu who was filming and the friends in the group chat fell silent.
Ji Xinyu hadn't expected that a whim to mess with Ren Pingzheng would lead her to hear a chronicle of female suffering.
Ji Xinyu's hand didn't tremble at all. She continued recording: "Go on. Confess all your crimes."
Ren Pingzheng continued. In the following content, crimes like seducing female students were no longer mentioned.
But he, using his so-called friends, carried out several kidnappings. Their victims included the children of business rivals and the family members of researchers from competing companies.
By kidnapping these people and seizing the resources or technologies their families yielded, he advanced step by step, taking the Kuangte Group to new heights.
Beyond that, there was also bribery and blackmail of government officials. Relying on these bribes and threats, all of Kuangte Group's product launches and approvals proceeded with extreme speed.
Ren Pingzheng also owned a wholly personally-held gaming company. They started by plagiarizing popular games domestically and internationally, and had now leapt to become a well-known gaming enterprise in the country.
Their latest game, launched under the banner of originality, had directly stolen someone else's concept. Furthermore, they had pinned the label of plagiarism on the original creator of that game.
Ji Xinyu: ...
The friends in the group chat: ...
They all knew Ren Pingzheng's methods were disgraceful, but they hadn't expected them to be this disgraceful!
Ji Xinyu was furious. She had regarded this man Ren Pingzheng as a legitimate opponent. She had even drawn up several plans to take down this "rival" and was prepared for a protracted campaign to bring down the Kuangte Group.
After all, in the previous two worlds, Ren Pingzheng had schemed for a full twelve years before moving against the Ji family.
Such long-term scheming gave anyone the impression he was a man of profound cunning, didn't it?
And this is it? This is it?
Ji Xinyu searched through the memories of the original host and the eldest daughter-in-law of the Marquis's household, and discovered that in the year Ren Pingzheng made his move, a close friend of Ji Xinyu's grandfather had passed away.
He had been in politics, retired for many years, but his influence was immense. He had mentored and promoted countless people.
When Ji Changyuan came to Xia City to start his business back then, this friend had shown great concern and, within policy limits, provided the Ji family with much assistance.
Ji Xinyu: ...
Ji Xinyu was speechless. The last time she was this speechless was just a moment ago.
She was also furious. Having grown up amidst the power struggles of the privileged circle, she instinctively assumed the worst complexity in others.
She had thought of Ren Pingzheng, the man who had caused significant losses to the original host and the Marquis's eldest daughter-in-law, as even more intricate.
Now she was being told that Ren Pingzheng had spent all those years scheming for the Ji family's wealth, not because he was meticulously laying a complex web, but simply because the Ji family's powerful backer hadn't fallen yet?
Well, fuck me sideways. So his so-called "master plan" for the Ji family fortune was just to marry the original host, wait for the Ji family's protector to fall, then kill the original host, thereby gaining control of the Ji Group as the spouse?
That's just fucking simple and brutal!
His sheer simplicity and brutality made Ji Xinyu seem even more like a fool.
Blushing with shame and anger, Ji Xinyu grabbed the nearest object at hand and strode towards Ren Pingzheng: "You son of a bitch, I thought you were so clever and deep, but you're telling me you got this far just by being ruthless?"
"You plague-ridden bastard, you useless piece of shit! Meeting you is ten lifetimes of bad luck! Wasting my damn feelings! I've been reading newspapers and books, analyzing the situation to deal with you, and you didn't even need dealing with?"
Ren Pingzheng instinctively raised his hands to protect his head, showing no intention to resist at all.
This made Ji Xinyu even angrier. She kicked him to the floor, delivered a swift chop to his head with her hand, then pulled out her phone to call Ji Changyuan and his wife.
Hearing Ji Xinyu's summons, Ji Changyuan and his wife arrived very quickly and were startled to see Ren Pingzheng lying on the floor.
After learning the whole story, Ji Changyuan's first move was to tie Ren Pingzheng up.
"I need to go to Uncle Huang's place first. You keep an eye on him, don't get close." After giving these instructions, Ji Changyuan hurried off.
If what Ren Pingzheng said was true, it would absolutely cause upheaval in Xia Country.
As the actual controller of a Fortune 500 company, the person who could be his protector must hold an incredibly high position and wield immense power.
This was beyond the Ji family's ability to handle alone.
Xu Ruozhi kicked Ren Pingzheng. "Beast."
She turned to look at Ji Xinyu. "Xiaoyu, you wait here at home. I'm going to contact those girls he mentioned before. I must get evidence of his crimes. Going through political channels to convict him is too slow; let's nail him down with other charges first."
Having been with Ji Changyuan for so many years, Xu Ruozhi was not a clueless housewife. On the contrary, she was highly capable and had contributed many suggestions to Ji's Real Estate's success, though her personal passion lay in charity work.
Xu Ruozhi also left in a hurry.
The vast house was now left with only Ji Xinyu and the prone Ren Pingzheng. Ji Xinyu sat on the small sofa in the guest room, propping her head in her hand, deep in thought.
Ren Pingzheng's methods were so crude that she could see through them at a glance. She didn't believe the Marquis's eldest daughter-in-law, who had navigated ancient noble households, would have been completely unaware.
So the question arose again: after the Marquis's daughter-in-law learned these things, why did she do nothing? Was it because she couldn't, or because she didn't want to?
Ji Xinyu leaned towards the latter. Then another question followed: what was it that made her utterly unable to act?
The group chat happened to be discussing this very issue. The dimensional livestream had been turned off. She tapped the table beside her, her gaze lingering for a long time on Xu Huixin's chat messages.
"Could this be another book world? Is the Marquis's eldest daughter-in-law also a character in a book?"
This thought flashed into Ji Xinyu's mind. Instantly, the room around her began to grow illusory. Darkness poured in from the windows.
The whole world turned dark. Ji Xinyu opened her eyes. Not far away, a glowing object floated. She had an intense urge to grab that glowing thing, but her reason told her she must not go near it.
The glowing object suddenly rose into the air and then flew swiftly towards her.
Ji Xinyu's face changed drastically, and she tried to dodge to the side, but her evasion was utterly useless.
The moment the glowing fragment touched her, it vanished. Ji Xinyu clutched her head, feeling as if it were about to explode.
When she opened her eyes again, everything before her had returned to normal. Ren Pingzheng was still lying on the floor, and the room was as it had been.
But a new set of memories had appeared in her mind.
They were the memories of the Marquis's eldest daughter-in-law. She too had long discovered Ren Pingzheng's despicable nature. She too had wanted to break free from him, but she found that what she thought in her heart and what she did were completely different.
She wanted to divorce Ren Pingzheng, but the words would not leave her lips. This wasn't a psychological block, but a physical one.
She didn't want to deal with the messes caused by Ren Pingzheng's younger siblings, but her body uncontrollably cleaned up after them time and again.
She didn't want any physical contact with Ren Pingzheng, but when he wanted to sleep with her, her body offered no resistance at all.
Afterwards, when she regained control, she took contraceptive pills, but could not prevent a child from taking root in her womb.
Once pregnant, her body became even less under her control. She could only withdraw from Ji's and become a tool for bearing Ren Pingzheng's child.
Later, when she was violated by Ren Pingxuan, she couldn't resist that either. Even her death was not by her own will.
And the reason for controlling her was simply to make her give birth to this world's Child of Destiny—Ren Chen.
"So Ren Pingzheng could trample on the law and soar high because he's the father of the Child of Destiny? Because he's a tool left by the Heavenly Way for the Child of Destiny's growth?"
"So whether it's the original host or the Marquis's eldest daughter-in-law, they were both just tools for producing the Child of Destiny?"
"And the reason this world kept resetting was because the original host died without giving birth to the Child of Destiny, so even if she could be reborn, she wasn't allowed to, right?"
"To ensure the Child of Destiny was born, the Marquis's daughter-in-law was brought in. She was an outsider, so the Heavenly Way could freely control her, making her give birth to the so-called Child of Destiny, right?"
"Then Ren Pingxuan's violation of her was also part of this scheme, one of the people the Child of Destiny would later take revenge on and humiliate?"
The more Ji Xinyu spoke, the paler her face became. Her stomach churned, and a burning sensation spread throughout her body.
Ji Xinyu touched herself; she was burning up all over, and the temperature was rising higher and higher. Ji Xinyu felt she was about to explode.
At that moment, a wave of coolness rose from the depths of her heart and quickly spread throughout her entire body.
The phone vibrated in her hand, and Ji Xinyu instinctively looked down at it.
[System Message: The group chat system protects your safety. Congratulations. You have discovered the origin of this world. Do you wish to live in this world?]
"What if I'm willing? What if I'm not?"
[System Message: If you are willing, you will become the new, favored daughter of this world's Heavenly Dao. You must follow the will of this world and use the enterprise in your hands to reach the entire globe.]
[If you are unwilling, you may choose any world you wish to go to. This group chat system will transport you according to your choice.]
"Why can't I return to my original world? Wouldn't it be better to send me back?"
[System Message: We apologize. You no longer meet the conditions for return. Please choose: Stay / Leave.]
