Stuck in a Chinese novel

I made a mistake and published the chapter twice. I will fix it in tomorrow's update.

And now I have fixed it. the bonus chapters thanks to the golden tickets would be coming soon.

Also, many might think that I am giving the MC the golden fingers but don't worry. It won't make things any easier for him. You will see.

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"Sir, you have a meeting in an hour with Houston Productions." A woman in a standard office suit informed the man who had his head buried in a file.

"Ahan," The man replied but said nothing more.

The woman waited for another reply. She had dressed up that day, specifically, for the man who had his head down. She had done her hair and eyelashes and tried a new deodorant and different shades of makeup than before.

She looked different than her usual self and everyone at the office, whoever knew her, had informed her of that fact.

However, the one man she wanted to notice her, didn't. "Is there anything else?" The man asked as he raised his head from the files, and looked at her with his piercing dark eyes. Eyes that hypnotized her.

She really was hypnotized by that gaze as she failed to reply. "Is there anything else?" The man hated repeating himself and when he did, there was no benevolence the woman expected in his voice.

"N…No," She quickly replied and lowered her head. She clutched her skirt with her hands but remained in her place.

"Then you can leave," The man replied, lowering his head back into the file.

The woman nodded and left, a tear at the corner of her eye. When she was leaving, she almost bumped into another man, who was as handsome as the man at the table.

However, the second man had a smile on his face as she said, "Be careful Deborah, I have a wife."

"Oh! I'm sorry, sir. I didn't see you there," The woman named Deborah hurriedly apologized.

"It's fine. But why are you crying? Your eyelashes are getting messed up because of that." The man said before he turned to look at the man at the table.

"It was just…" Deborah began to reply but the man waved his hand and said, "Why don't you take the day off? It's not nice to work in a stressful environment for too long."

"But, sir…" Deborah tried to argue but she was once again interrupted, "Deborah, I insist."

Deborah went silent and after a while replied, "Yes, sir."

"Good," The man said as Deborah left. He turned to the man at the desk and made his way to the desk, taking the seat on the other side of the desk from the man at the desk.

"You have to stop doing that," The man busy with the file said.

"And you need to start treating your employees better," The second man replied.

"That wasn't what she wanted," The first man said.

"You would know what she wanted, wouldn't you?" The man asked rhetorically before he said, "She dolled up for you. Did her hair, makeup, eyes, suit, the whole shebang. The least you could have done was give her a compliment."

"And how do I know what's really in her mind? How do I know she isn't Maxine all over again?" The first man asked raising his head.

"Hey, come on. Just because one girl was after your status, doesn't mean all of them." The second man said.

"Right. So wasn't Julia, Alisha, Monica, Rebecca, Laurel." The first man counted a few names, associated with the one he took earlier.

"Wow. For a twenty four year old, you have fallen in love an awful lot of times." The second man said with a smirk.

"That's all you have to say," The first man said and dug his face back in.

"Just because you had a few bad experiences doesn't mean no girl out there loves you," The second man argued.

"All of them! All of them were after the name Smith. Mine didn't matter to them." The first man said out loud, putting down the file.

"You can't expect them not to. I mean look at you, you can shower in money, bathe in money, and swim in money every day with a new set of bills for the next, what, hundred years and wouldn't run out of it. Not to mention the girls in our circles aren't raised for love, they're raised for their own family's benefit." The second man said.

"Either way. I'm not having this conversation." The first man said, ending the discussion but the man had other plans as he said, "But this is the conversation I want to have."

The first man didn't say anything. That was a sign he wouldn't stop the other one from saying whatever he wanted.

"What if you were to lose all of this?" The second man asked.

"What?" The first man stopped, raised his head, and asked with an incredulous face.

"What if you were to lose the Smith name? Look at things from a different perspective." The second man said.

"And what would that do?" the first man asked.

"You've fallen in love easily before. Just do the same. See how easy it is. Falling in love. For a man, that's something very easy. You will see." The second man said.

"What do you mean? What will I see?" The first man asked.

"Oh, wait. Not will, you already have." The second man replied while slightly hitting his head as if he just remembered something.

"What?" The first man couldn't make heads and tails of the conversation.

"What I am trying to say, brother, is that you cannot lose the name Smith. It will always remain with you. It is you, who has to look at yourself from a different perspective." The second man said.

"What? I don't get what you're saying--" the first man said but was interrupted by the second one who said, "Oh, and before you go. The power of death is strong but it comes with a price. The price of your emotions. Try not to lose them."

Just as the second man finished speaking, the first man began to lose consciousness and before he could even mutter a single word, darkness covered his eyes and he lost his consciousness.

He fell asleep in the world of darkness.

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[Death Qi has been assimilated]

[Death Qi has been incorporated]

[Death Qi has been infused in the core]

[error]

[The core has rejected the power of death]

[Cause of rejection detected]

[Two different power natures detected]

[Creating a secondary storage source for the death Qi]

[A second source has been successfully created]

[The second source has been fully incorporated]

Wei Jun looked at the changes within his body. There were none. However, in his system panel, there was one thing that was different.

[Status]

[Wei Jun Ruan

Level: 34

HP: 43\\43

QP: 0\\300

Death Qi: 100\\100

Cultivation realm: Qi gathering realm]

His health was fully restored but that wasn't what his focus was on. He focused on the term that wasn't there before.

[Death Qi: An innate Qi only unique to the user. Skills activated by Death Qi are two times stronger than normal Qi]

Wei Jun only got that as information but nothing more. He turned his attention to Run Long who was looking at Wei Jun in horror, however, Wei Jun picked up something else deep inside. Hate. Unbridled hate that flooded the gates Run Long had erected to keep it locked so it wouldn't affect his rationality.

Wei Jun saw the Qi around Wei Jun trembling, increasingly getting dense with each passing second.

[Warning]

[Warning]

[The weakened fate between Run Long and the world has been strengthened]

[A chain reaction has occurred]

[The fate of the world has changed]

[Run Long has surpassed his limits]

'What the hell does that mean?' Wei Jun didn't understand one thing about what was written in the new messages.

[He is breaking through to the next stage]

[the impossible stage because Run Long's destiny ended at the Qi gathering realm]

[But now he's advancing to the Qi empowerment realm]

Wei Jun didn't need to hear anymore and lunged at Run Long who was getting scarier by the minute.

However, before he could get close to Run Long, Wei Jun was pushed back by an enormous wave of Qi.

It wasn't just that; a crater was formed around Run Long as his massive Qi began to destroy everything in its way. The villa had been fully evacuated so there was no problem other than one, Xia Lu was still in there.

So Wei Jun ignored Run Long even though there was a good chance to thwart his breakthrough and made his way inside the villa. The villa was collapsing and Wei Jun straight away made a beeline to his room.

He opened the door and saw cracks in the ceiling. It was coming down. Wei Jun hurriedly jumped at Xia Lu and got on top of her body just before everything came crashing down on them.

On the outside, the breakthrough of Run Long was finished but before he could move inside, the villa began to collapse. He still didn't want to leave but he could hear sirens in the distance and not only that, he could also feel the enormous presence of a Qi master, someone he was sure he wouldn't be able to face so he did what was the next best option. He ran away.