Overnight Hit: Vicious Stepmother and Genius Son - Chapter 5: Do You Want This Month’s Salaries?

“Missus, time to fulfil your duties!” Mu Yuchen demanded as he pulled Xi Xiaye closer with his arms intimately wrapped around her waist.

It was a meticulously planned feast for the powerful. Her fiancé had knelt down on one knee and proposed to her sister instead. Robbed of her right to her inheritance, she was prepared for the Xi family to throw her to the wolves.
As she slipped away from her family that had turned their backs on her, she found him — Mu Yuchen, the low-profile and reserved noble that ruled City Z and led Glory World Corporation.

“Mu Yuchen, let’s get married!” He looked up at her, then suddenly stood up.

“Where are you going?”

“Let’s go. Any later and the civil affairs bureau will be closed.”

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This world is Heaven.

Because this world has everything you dream of, everything you wish for.

This world is Hell.

Because everyone in this world are parts of a never-ending massacre.

Are you fighting to survive, or fighting to come home?

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— Doing good deeds brings blessings.— If actions meet societal standards, user ‘Jeong Da-on’ will have their restrictions reduced.Blessings for doing good deeds? Even if I was the Demon Lord in my previous life?It’s been 19 years since I ended my tumultuous life as the Demon Lord and reincarnated on modern Earth.I was caught by the system and forcibly turned into a Hunter. And now I have to do good deeds to regain my original abilities?“Hmm… Beating bad guys to death counts as a good deed, right?”That doesn’t sound too bad.Modern society is the perfect place for a demon to thrive, after all.

“Mr. Xu, are you really a Heavenly Master?”

“As genuine as they come, more real than gold!”

“I’ve heard that your reputation in the supernatural circle is really bad, even to the point where a ghost once called the police saying you were threatening him?”

“Impossible!”

“It wasn’t me!”

“Don’t talk nonsense!”

Xu Yang clenched the Thousand-Year Peachwood Sword in his hand, and said, “What’s the name of that ghost? Would you dare to let him confront me face to face?”

(PS: This book is also known as ‘This Heavenly Master is too Vicious’, ‘Scaring Ghosts Makes You Stronger’.)