The Regressed Mercenary's Machinations - Chapter 26: Birds of a Feather (3)

“Block him.”“He's technically still my boss.”“Then block him with dignity.”The call ended again.And then started again.I let out a sound somewhere between a growl and a sob, then finally answered with the enthusiasm of a snail crawling through salt.“Yes, Mr. Walton?”“Have you changed your mind yet?”I collapsed onto the towel and gazed at the sky as though it might consume me entirely if I pleaded sweetly enough.“Do you ever take a break?” I asked, shielding my eyes with one hand.“You're avoiding the question.”“Because it's a dumb question.”He exhaled, the sound sharp and irritated even over phone. “It's not a dumb question. It's a business offer.”“It's a weird offer-one that I already said no to.”There was a brief pause, and I could practically hear him clenching his jaw through the speaker.“You are acting unreasonably.”“ Unreasonable?” I sat up. “I'm not the one drafting fake girlfriend contracts like it's a normal Tuesday.”“Isabella-”“Certainly not, Mr. Walton.” I mimicked his tone perfectly. “I told you I'm not doing it. You need to find someone else to play pretend with.”SYNOPSISIsabella Miller thought saying no to her boss’s fake dating offer was the end of the story.But Adrien Walton doesn’t take no—especially not when he’s convinced she’s a gold digger.Suddenly, her student loans are piling up, her father’s vet clinic is on the brink of eviction and her brother is about to be kicked out of college. Coincidence? She thinks not.Adrien Walton is calm, calculating—and he's just pulled every string to corner Isabella into the perfect position.Now she’s stuck choosing between pride and survival.So she agrees to his offer: be his fake girlfriend.No feelings attached. No drama. Just business.Or so she thought.“Conference Room B. Fifteen minutes,” he said, passing by without a glance.The folder he pushed across the table landed with a thud.I opened it. The contract. All of it.---Enemies to lovers? Check.Slow burn? Hmmnyea.Banter so sharp it might file your nails? Yes.Delicious workplace tension? Of course.Tension that could melt steel?Absolutely.Smut?? Wanna find out?Welcome to corporate romance warfare. There’s no escaping this contract.

Zhulan, in a transmigration novel about a supporting female's counterattack through farming, managed a triple leap: getting married, bearing children, and becoming a mother-in-law. The point to focus on: She became the wicked mother-in-law from the counterattack stories.From 26 to 36, not to mention, with six kids in tow, two daughters-in-law, a few grandkids, and a still-living husband—emphasis on the fact that he's not her original spouse, but the one who trapped her into transmigration.Only after becoming the original body did Zhulan realize she was miserably tricked by her two daughters-in-law. The elder daughter-in-law had a loud voice, complete with a 'brain-enhancing' feature—it turned every little issue into a big deal once it reached her mouth.The younger daughter-in-law was timid and weak, bursting into tears at the drop of a hat, perfectly crafting the image of Zhulan as a wicked mother-in-law.Zhulan, “.......This life is really unbearable.”Someone, “You still have me.”Zhulan, “Ha, you're the one who screwed me over the most!”Someone, “......”

What would you do if you were told you only had five years to live?Aster Mistral, suffering from an incurable congenital “disease” that saps life force out of his every breath, decided to fight with all his might. Waking up into the future, 2,500 years later, he embarks on a quest to find a cure for his ailment!“My target! To find the Panacea on the 1,000th floor of the dungeon!”Together with trustworthy allies, he forges a path of blood and corpses, building his foundation and increasing his level! However, he can’t stay in dungeons all the time, as he has a duty to fulfill.“To raise the human DNA average of the world, the government wants my seeds?!”Follow Aster on his laidback journey of fighting monsters, courting girls, escaping adversaries, and discovering secrets about himself!

The cultivation genius of the Lan family of the modern cultivation family, Lan Qiaoyue, the next successor of the Lan family appointed by the head of the family——Lan Qiaoyue, accidentally traveled to the South Prince’s Mansion in Zhennan, Chu State, and became Qin Luoyi, the legitimate daughter of the mansion who was assigned to be married to the third prince.

In her previous life, she was a genius in cultivation.

In this life, she is a waste material for cultivation, and there is a strange seal in her body.

The snake and scorpion sister spies on her fiancé, and uses the world’s obscenity to ruin her reputation.

She sneered with astonishment and talent, what a trick! You find a man, and I will find ten men to pay you back… Do you still want to marry Mr. Ruyi after harming someone? There are no doors!

What? Aphrodisiac will die if you don’t understand it for half an hour?

That’s simple, just find a man to solve it, but…why did the man she randomly found turn out to be the prince of Chu State who is under one person and above ten thousand people?

When her fiancé heard that she had lost her virginity, he stopped her with a dark face and asked, “Tell me who the adulterer is. In the prince’s residence, I will reward you with a concubine…” With a disdainful tone like charity.

She bit her lip with a face full of embarrassment, stretched out five slender fingers and pressed down one by one: “One, two, three… Which one do you want me to tell you?”

Poof, the fiancé twitched and vomited blood and fell to the ground!

There is a silent smile on the beautiful face… Whether she is a concubine or a regular one, she doesn’t care. She still wants to seek the supreme immortality, and she has to untie the strange seal in her body, so she has no time to marry!

It is said that there is Penglai Immortal Island in the sea of ​​Shenglong Continent, and there are immortals with powerful magic power on the island. Qin Luoyi was ecstatic, and with a lot of money, she embarked on her passionate road of cultivating immortals…

Does the Piaomiao Sect of the first immortal sect accept disciples whose meridians are blocked?

It doesn’t matter, she has countless high-level panacea, which can be eaten as jelly beans.

A certain woman with silver bills around her waist and a gold bar in her hand smiled and took out bottle after bottle of panacea and placed them in front of the master.

The head was dumbfounded: Cough, how many do you have?

A certain woman smiled like a flower and easily took out several bottles again.

After the head of the sect was stunned, he smiled happily: I have never accepted an apprentice for a hundred years, and today I fell in love with you and accepted you as a closed disciple!

There are outstanding people in Penglai Xiandao, and they only produce handsome men and beautiful women. What? The person who was stunned by her injection was her second senior brother?

It’s okay, we didn’t know each other back then, but now we are brothers and sisters, brothers and sisters should be friendly to each other, one needle can make the senior brother flourish again.

It is said that the eldest brother is facing the wind from the tree, elegant and unrestrained, and he is a match made in heaven with the fairy-like fifth senior sister, but why does he ignore the fifth senior sister and discuss the way of dual cultivation with her instead?

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This article is a strong article for women, a favorite article, which integrates cultivation, various supernatural powers, the temptation of beautiful men, the mystery of life experience, and the heroine dominates the world horizontally and horizontally. Haha, Jane is incompetent, the content is absolutely wonderful…

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