In a small alley opposite the First People's Hospital in Modu, Lin Hao watched a couple walk hand-in-hand out of the hospital's main entrance, his teeth gritted and his face ashen with rage.
The woman was Tang Xiaoli, his girlfriend of three years, who worked as a nurse at the hospital.
The man was Wang Sheng, the son of the hospital director.
It was Tang Xiaoli's birthday. Lin Hao had prepared a lavish meal in advance and came to pick her up, intending to surprise her.
Unexpectedly, Tang Xiaoli had given him a much bigger surprise the moment he arrived!
Lin Hao suppressed his anger and called Tang Xiaoli's phone, wanting to hear what she had to say.
The phone rang twice. Lin Hao saw Tang Xiaoli take out her phone from her bag and answer.
"Hello, I have to work overtime tonight, so I'll be back late."
"That's all, I'm hanging up now."
Before Lin Hao could speak, the call was disconnected.
If it were in the past, Lin Hao would have truly believed Tang Xiaoli was working overtime. After all, in his impression, nurses were very busy.
But now!
Lin Hao took a deep breath, suppressed his anger, and followed her.
He wanted to see exactly how Tang Xiaoli was working overtime today!
After crossing the road and following for a few minutes, Lin Hao saw Tang Xiaoli and Wang Sheng, that pair of scoundrels, walk directly into a hotel.
Lin Hao's blood pressure soared. He endured his rage and entered the hotel.
He walked to the front desk, gave the receptionist a hundred-yuan note, and inquired about the room number Tang Xiaoli and Wang Sheng had checked into.
It was 502 on the fifth floor.
To avoid running into Tang Xiaoli and Wang Sheng, Lin Hao chose to take the stairs.
He went all the way to the fifth floor. Lin Hao had expected himself to rush to the door of room 502 and kick it open.
But for some reason, he calmed down instead.
Arriving at the door of room 502, Lin Hao looked at the closed door, opened his phone's voice recorder, placed his phone against the door, and started recording.
He could already hear bursts of giggles from inside the room. These sounds were undoubtedly Tang Xiaoli's.
At the same time, Wang Sheng's voice was also present.
"It's been days since we were here, I've missed you so much."
"Do you miss me, or do you miss my body?" Tang Xiaoli said with a giggle.
"Both, hehe."
Wang Sheng chuckled and slapped Tang Xiaoli's backside.
"Come on, my little treasure."
Wang Sheng leered, hugged Tang Xiaoli, and rolled onto the bed, beginning to grope her.
"Stop it, let's shower first."
"No, my brother here is already impatient. Touch him if you don't believe me."
"No, shower first. It's my birthday today, you have to listen to me."
"You haven't forgotten my birthday, have you?"
"How could I? Didn't you say a couple of days ago that you liked a bag? We'll go buy it later," Wang Sheng said, fumbling with her.
"You're so good, unlike that poor loser Lin Hao. On my birthday, he only gave me a bouquet of flowers. At first, I thought he had hidden a ring or necklace in the flowers, but there was nothing inside. Just a bouquet of flowers!"
"He even said he would work hard and give me a good life in the future."
"I can't stop laughing. What's the use of him working hard, that delivery guy? Can he earn tens of thousands a month by working twenty-four hours a day? He still can't afford a bag for me."
"I must have been blind to have fallen for someone like him."
Tang Xiaoli said with utter disdain. Wang Sheng burst into laughter, then while caressing her, he leered, "If you serve me well tonight, let alone one bag, I'll buy you two or three."
"Oh, you. Do I not serve you if you don't buy me bags? I love you, and this," Tang Xiaoli said, naked and clinging to Wang Sheng like a monkey, "not your money. Hurry up and carry me to the shower."
"I know."
Wang Sheng chuckled, picked up Tang Xiaoli, and went into the bathroom.
A moment later, sounds of panting could be heard from the bathroom...
Lin Hao's veins bulged, his fists clenched. He never imagined Tang Xiaoli would do something like this for a bag.
Hearing the panting sounds from the room, Lin Hao's face was filled with rage. He kicked open the hotel room door!
"Bang!"
The door was suddenly kicked open, and chaos erupted in the bathroom.
"Ah..." Tang Xiaoli screamed and quickly grabbed a towel to wrap herself.
Wang Sheng was also startled and quickly wrapped himself in a towel. But when he saw that the person outside the bathroom was Lin Hao, his expression immediately relaxed.
"It's you." Wang Sheng shook his head and smiled. He didn't take this poor loser with no background or connections seriously.
Lin Hao ignored Wang Sheng and stared at Tang Xiaoli.
"You... why are you here?"
"I came to see how you were working overtime," Lin Hao said, suppressing his anger, his face ashen.
"You were following me!?" Tang Xiaoli's face changed, and she shrieked, "Lin Hao, have you no shame? You actually followed me secretly!?"
"Yes! I wasn't working overtime, but what's wrong with me going out with my bestie?"
"Do you know it's my birthday today? Can't I go out with my bestie on my birthday!?"
"Bestie? Him?"
Lin Hao looked at Tang Xiaoli and was instantly amused by her words.
"Yes, him. What about it?" Tang Xiaoli looked at Lin Hao righteously. "Who says a bestie has to be a girl!?"
"We just took a shower together, is that such a big deal?"
"Is it wrong for me to shower with my bestie?"
"Alright, get lost quickly, so I don't have to see you and get annoyed!"
"Did you hear that? Get lost. I'm going to continue showering with my bestie," Wang Sheng said, putting his arm around Tang Xiaoli's waist and speaking to Lin Hao with a smile.
"Screw you!" Lin Hao punched Wang Sheng in the face.
"Damn you, you dare hit me!"
Wang Sheng touched his nose, which was bleeding, and immediately swung his fist at Lin Hao.
Lin Hao, who had been delivering food for years, was strong and fit. Wang Sheng was no match for him.
Lin Hao took a step back, then slapped Wang Sheng's face with his backhand, knocking out two of his teeth. Wang Sheng crashed into the bathroom glass, and with a "crash," the glass shattered.
"Damn you, you're looking for death!"
Wang Sheng, with blood all over his mouth, grabbed a piece of broken glass and lunged at Lin Hao.
Lin Hao instinctively wanted to retreat, but upon retreating, he found himself against the wall. He quickly raised his hand to block the glass in Wang Sheng's hand.
The broken glass was extremely sharp. Almost instantly, his palm was cut.
Lin Hao frowned and kicked Wang Sheng's knee.
With a "crack," Wang Sheng's knee shattered, and he collapsed to the ground, screaming in pain.
"You... you!"
Tang Xiaoli looked at Lin Hao with terror, afraid he would lay hands on her.
"Come get your things tomorrow. From today onwards, you and I are strangers."
Lin Hao said coldly. Without waiting for Tang Xiaoli's reply, he left the hotel.
Returning home and lying on his bed, Lin Hao felt a sense of desolation.
He was originally a disciple of the Lin family, a renowned family in Chang'an known for their divination arts. Three years ago, he had violated family rules, his cultivation was sealed by the family, and he was then expelled from home by his grandfather.
When he was disheartened and dejected, he met Tang Xiaoli.
From then on, he stopped thinking about the Lin family's divination arts or his sealed cultivation.
He felt that living as an ordinary person, delivering food every day, and living with Tang Xiaoli was good enough. It was carefree, relaxed, and without worries.
But he never expected...
Lin Hao shook his head, took out the pendant around his neck. When he was troubled, he liked to look at the pendant, because the pendant seemed to possess a magical power that could quickly calm his mood.
This pendant was given to him by his grandfather when he left the family. It was a small, dark green turtle shell with intricate patterns. The calming magic seemed to emanate from these intricate patterns.
However, this time, the turtle shell pendant seemed to have lost its effect, and Lin Hao's mood did not calm down for a long time.
Finally, Lin Hao shook his head in frustration and was about to put the pendant back on.
But at that moment, a sharp pain shot through his head. Before he could react, he lost consciousness instantly.
Lin Hao fell into a coma, but the wound on the palm of his right hand, which was holding the turtle shell pendant, continuously oozed blood. The blood seeped out and then entered the turtle shell pendant in his hand.
Then, Lin Hao had a dream.
He dreamed that he had arrived in a vast, white space. His grandfather was in front of him, and his grandfather passed on all his lifelong learning to him, and asked him to be the nineteenth-generation successor of the divination arts.
He was startled. Only the family head could be the successor of the divination arts. How could he, an abandoned son expelled from the family, dare to be the nineteenth-generation successor?
But as he was wondering, his grandfather suddenly disappeared.
He anxiously shouted "Grandpa" and then suddenly woke up...
"So it was a dream."
Lin Hao looked at the sunlight shining in through the window and realized he had been dreaming.
But then, Lin Hao's eyes widened abruptly.
The seal within his body seemed to have been broken!
After a moment of daze, Lin Hao casually formed a hand seal and softly uttered, "Ignite," and then a small flame appeared at the tips of his index and middle fingers.
"It's really broken!"
Lin Hao was overjoyed. With the seal broken, didn't that mean Lin Tianwang was making a comeback?
After the excitement, Lin Hao thought of Tang Xiaoli.
Tang Xiaoli called him a poor loser and looked down on him for being poor, but she didn't know that in the eyes of the top wealthy individuals, his divinations were priceless...