My brow furrowed involuntarily upon hearing this.
"One must be ruthless to stand out"? What familiar words!
Didn't Uncle Tuo always say that to get by in society, you shouldn't talk about righteousness or anything like that? It's all nonsense!
In this materialistic era, there are countless people who smile to your face and stab you in the back!
So, forget about righteousness and reputation. Just remember one word.
Ruthless! Ruthless to stand out!
How ruthless is enough?
"If others don't offend me, I won't offend them. If they offend me, I'll cut the grass and remove the roots!"
Of course, "removing the roots" here isn't meant literally.
After all, in a harmonious society, we don't need to be so violent.
All you need to do is... cut off their financial path.
In this society where even a pack of off-brand tissues costs a dollar, you can't move an inch without money.
If you cut off your opponent's financial path, how will they retaliate against you? With their lives?
Don't be ridiculous! Who can't spout threats?
Believe it or not, a truly ruthless person who is willing to risk their life will not say a word when you cut off their financial path. They will retaliate on the spot.
...
After recalling Uncle Tuo's earnest teachings, I looked up at Yu Shuang, who was still calm, and suddenly felt that the two of them were very similar!
I don't mean similar in appearance, but rather in their approach to things.
No wonder they were both successful and brilliant in their respective fields. It turns out that people who do great things and make a fortune are... never kind-hearted!
Whether it's an enemy, an adversary, or an unknown obstacle, anyone who hinders your progress must be rooted out and their financial path severed!
As I was lost in thought, Yu Shuang suddenly said, "Thanks for what happened tonight!"
"When we get back, tell Xiao Shi to give you twenty thousand yuan."
To be honest, after seeing Yu Shuang's efficiency, I didn't feel like I had helped at all.
So, I politely declined.
Seeing this, Yu Shuang just smiled slightly and didn't press the issue. Instead, she said teasingly, "You've improved, Chen Xiang!"
"This time, you didn't get angry at me for hiding my background from you."
Hearing this, I awkwardly scratched my head. "Before... I was too impulsive! I'm sorry."
Although I was just a novice in the blue-collar world, I had some exposure to these江湖 (jianghu - martial world) rumors.
As the second daughter of the Yu family in Fengbei, Yu Shuang was forced by me to strip naked... no, to take off her outer clothes. Thinking back now, it really fits the old saying.
Impulse is the devil!
It was fortunate that Yu Shuang didn't use her power to suppress me, otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
Hearing me say this, Yu Shuang was slightly stunned at first, then pursed her lips and smiled, "It seems you're very afraid I'll retaliate against you."
I nodded silently.
Just then, Yu Shuang suddenly sighed and turned her gaze to the window. After a while, she said, "If that's the case, then I can responsibly tell you... don't worry at all!"
"Because I'm no longer the second daughter of the Yu family in Fengbei that I used to be."
As soon as she spoke, I was secretly startled.
What did that mean? Was she using someone else's influence?
After gazing out the window with a hint of melancholy, Yu Shuang turned back and saw my bewildered expression. She seemed to have sensed my unspoken question and began to recount her situation...
It turned out that Yu Shuang's parents were both renowned masters in the martial world in their early years. After getting married, their first decision was to "wash their hands in the golden basin" and retire from the jianghu.
The purpose of doing so was naturally to protect their family and descendants.
Therefore, as the second daughter of the Yu family, Yu Shuang was strictly forbidden from learning the art of gambling and deception from a young age.
But as the saying goes, "dragons beget dragons, phoenixes beget phoenixes, and a rat's son... can only dig holes!"
As an excellent product of the union of strong genes, some things in Yu Shuang's body were innate and deeply imprinted on her soul.
So, from a very young age, Yu Shuang showed extraordinary talent in the art of gambling and deception.
As an old-fashioned and traditional jianghu master, Yu Shuang's father, Yu Tianyuan, was extremely rigid at heart.
And the way the older generation educated their children had always been singular, those who understand will understand.
Therefore, before she came of age, Yu Shuang spent most of her time defying her parents, either through wits or through confrontation.
During this period, something else happened.
It was this incident that led Yu Shuang to more thoroughly commit to the path she wanted to take, and thus exacerbated the relationship with her parents.
Just like in cliché movies and TV dramas, Yu Shuang, who had just reached adulthood and was naive, fell in love with someone from the Fengmen (Bee Gate) sect who roamed the jianghu!
They say a man's mouth is a deceiving ghost.
What's more, he was someone who specialized in deceiving people for food, drink, and money in the jianghu?
This kind of love, which wasn't even a mutual effort and was not favored or understood by her family, had no chance of a good outcome.
But Yu Shuang didn't care. She firmly believed that the man was her destined one.
I won't go into detail about Yu Shuang's journey to pursue her love.
In the end, Yu Shuang paid the price of leaving the Yu family and, like a moth to a flame, threw herself into the arms of that Fengmen lover.
Unfortunately, the fiery passion she saw in her lover's eyes was not the fire of love, but the consuming fire that almost took her life!
Yu Shuang said that the little life in her womb... died for her.
Therefore, she would never fall for any man again in this life, nor would she ever believe any sweet talk from a man again.
"You want to enter my body? Fine!"
"You want to enter my heart? No way!"
"Sweet talk? It's just a string of nonsense that men spout when they're lusting after a woman before they take off her clothes!"
From the tone of Yu Shuang's words, I knew she must have hated that man immensely.
But none of this had anything to do with me.
Although I had also lusted after her, it was merely a man's instinctive reaction upon seeing a perfect beauty.
Moreover, I myself have always adhered to the principle of only entering the body, not the life.
As it is now, I don't care about feelings at all. What I'm more concerned about... is what Yu Shuang mentioned at the end about the father and son Wang Yu and Wang Yangming.
According to Yu Shuang, the bodyguards who accompanied her earlier were all from the Huadu Casino.
For some reason, Wang Yangming brought Wang Yu to Huadu today, and unusually, he had the casino shut down.