The Path of the Martial Arts BOSS - Chapter 1153 - 178: Defeat

After a 5-year relationship, Chen Zheng got dumped by his girlfriend within a year of starting work.Watching his girlfriend's proud demeanor, that haughty posture, his heart turned to ashes.The love he had once felt was apparently only equivalent to money.After the breakup, a beautiful woman chased after Chen Zheng.“Handsome, wait for me.”“What's up?”“I want to get a marriage certificate with you.”[Ding Dong! Super Choice System binding host... successful][Initiating choice reward][Choice 1: Take advantage of Wei Zixuan's kindness, live off a woman, reward—a pair of non-slip slippers][Choice 2: Refuse to marry Wei Zixuan, reward...][Choice 3: Agree to marry Wei Zixuan and refuse all of Zi Xuan's offers, reward—20 billion in stock market funds]...

One moment I was a grown man—an engineer with a decent job and way too many spreadsheets. The next? I woke up in a kid’s bed, staring at glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling… in Malibu.Turns out, I’m Jake Harper now. Yeah, that Jake Harper.“Wait… I had a bitchy mom and a simp dad?”Yeah, the behaviors don’t make sense — just roll with itYeah, the years don’t match — just roll with itpatreon.com/MHJunior(I am not the owner of any show, credits to their respective creators)

Do people chase greatness, or does greatness chase us?

In a world where might was magic, it was a crime to be a noble and magicless. And for this crime, the punishment was death.I grew up frail, bullied by my older siblings, but I thought I could finally turn things around on my sixteenth birthday, when as a noble I was supposed to awaken my magical abilities. The awakening orb, however, turned grey—and condemned me a dud.My father, a duke, could not believe he had fathered such a pathetic specimen. Calling me cursed, he ordered my death and had me thrown into a raging river.I hit the water hard. For a moment I lost consciousness, certain I would never wake again.But some time later, I opened my eyes to the agony of drowning, my body battered by the current. In front of me floated a curious blue sheet of light.[Base Trait: Deathless Acquired][Condition met: You have experienced death.][You can sustain injury, drowning, burning, poisoning, and all forms of bodily destruction—but you will not die. Pain and damage will persist until fully healed.]Thus began my journey—gaining outrageous traits from the suffering that seemed determined to follow me wherever I went.