Dead Man Walking: Living By Day, Dead By Night - Chapter 245: A Worrisome Invitation

Anton is a great-grandfather. He is living quite a happy life, despite his advanced age and declining health… until a group of cultivator bandits moves into the area. The nearby guardians of the area, the Order of Ninety-Nine Stars, are unable to track them down as they continue to ravage nearby towns. During one desperate winter Anton is out on a hunt when his family- his entire village- is killed or taken as slaves by the bandits. He lacks the strength to fight them, and he wasn’t even present for their arrival to die with his loved ones. At the pit of his despair, he wonders if he ever had any chance to change things. What could he even do? He cannot even pull his best bow, and his eyesight is failing. If he had been a cultivator… perhaps there might have been a chance, but he was decades- perhaps even most of his life- too late.Participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge (2022)Notes on cultivation levels:There are five general stages of cultivation, though the fifth is extremely rare. Each cultivation style might have their own name for the stages.1. Body Tempering2. Spirit Building/ occasionally System Creation (Ninety-Nine Stars)3. Constellation Formation (Ninety-Nine Stars)4. Life Transformation/Galaxy Construction (Ninety-Nine Stars)5. Ascension

How does it feel to lose your parents at the tender age of four?Imagine the trauma, the psychological scars. Now, take it a step further—what if they died right in front of you?That was Kael’s reality. As a young boy, he watched his parents perish while desperately protecting a golden coin.At the time, Kael had no idea of its significance. He only knew that their deaths were tied to it.Fleeing from his father’s murderers, he was forced to survive on the unforgiving streets, learning to fight, steal, and endure.Twelve years later, he had transformed into one of the deadliest assassins the world had ever known.He had no official title. No known employer. No traceable identity. Just a calling card.They called him The Coin Flipper.Not because he left his mark, but because after every kill—just as the body hit the ground, as the last breath escaped—he would flip a coin.No one knew why. Some believed it was mockery, a cruel reminder that fate had turned against them. Others thought it was ritual.But what they didn’t know was that each coin held power—literal currency of the Core System embedded in Kael’s soul.Every kill earned him millions. Digital fortunes funneled into off-grid accounts with each confirmed target. Blood turned into bounty, pain into profit.And one thing was certain: if you saw the glint of a coin spinning through the air, death had already found you.

Qin Xiaoyao transmigrated one day, becoming the recently married wife of the Song Family, whom everyone in the village scorned for being poor and desperate.

Her mother-in-law was sick, while her uncle and aunt were very young.

Her husband was gorgeous but was bed-ridden with illness.

They all lived in a small straw hut and would survive daily on what rice and soup they could scrape together.

However, she was the very cause of their desperation.

As the youngest daughter of a butcher, her father forced this marriage on her because of her husband’s good looks and scholarly title.

She married Song Que precisely like she wished but could not bear the life of poverty and had very much dug herself a hole.

Glancing at her own round figure, she sighed.

It turns out that she was the one who was tricked instead! Female lead: A woman from the future.

Strong physically but also possess superpowers.

A sucker for good-looking men. Smart.Male lead: Reincarnated. An evil-looking man who was ruthless.

A comedy with strong lead characters.

Welcome to your new pit, dearies.

Q: How to prevent the blackening of female supporting roles?
Passerby: Crush her in terms of IQ, humiliate her in terms of force, and then correct her three views!
Chen Rong: The first choice is to get rid of the female supporting role
The second option is to kill the male protagonist
The third option… Crush the male protagonist, and then Jinwu Zangjiao!
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Chen Rong woke up drunk, the silky feeling on her hands made her stunned for a moment, and in a split second, a pair of soft and boneless hands wrapped around her waist.
“A Rong, you are not allowed to look at others in the future, otherwise, I will be angry.”
The system is roaring: “I told you to stop her from blackening! I didn’t let you sleep with her!!!”
Chen Rong: “???”
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1. The rich and the enemy of the country’s little rich woman × pure and moving Bai Yueguang [Completed]
2. Sword fairy with explosive combat power × contrasting cute high-cold goddess doctor [completed]
3. The traitorous minister who seeks to usurp the throne × the petite little princess [completed]
4. Slaughter the Great Demon King of the Quartet × Invincible Fighting Female Hero [Completed]
5. The cannon fodder who the way of heaven made me die and the cannon fodder that I don’t want to die x The temple wizard who is a veteran of Lolita

No matter who you become, I will protect you wherever you are closest.
●1v1 main attack mutual favor
●The author’s writing is slag
●The first time to write fast wear and lily
●I want to improve my writing!

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