He staggered back to his small rental apartment.
“Cough, cough!”
As soon as Li Zuhao arrived, he was barely able to hold on and suddenly coughed up blood.
He swayed over to the dining table, trying to find a chair to sit on, but his foot slipped and he collapsed to the ground, losing consciousness.
He had no idea how long he was out.
When Li Zuhao woke up, he found himself lying on his small bed.
The room was pitch dark, with no lights on, but Li Zuhao could sense someone’s presence beside him.
“Mommy, are you there?” he asked into the air.
A petite and delicate figure appeared by the bedside, but her face was shrouded in dark mist, giving off an eerie feeling.
Now Li Zuhao knew this was her special ability: Visual Obfuscation, which could confuse others’ eyes.
In theory, Hao Tianhui’s Aura Concealment was the same type of ability as Mommy’s Visual Obfuscation, but Hao Tianhui’s power was clearly much stronger.
When Hao Tianhui activated her ability, she could drastically lower her presence, and if fully unleashed, she could even become invisible.
The downside was the duration was relatively short.
Mommy’s Visual Obfuscation didn’t have such an overpowered invisibility effect.
She simply blurred her face, making it impossible for others to see clearly.
But Mommy possessed unmatched stealth abilities, which in the end were very similar to Hao Tianhui’s Aura Concealment.
However, in their previous special ability battle, the stronger Hao Tianhui was the one who was embarrassingly defeated, nearly getting stabbed through by Mommy’s Surgeon’s Scalpel.
“Clang!”
A flash of purple light.
The reason was simple: Mommy’s forehead opened up a third, sinister purple eye.
Last time, she relied on this eye to defeat Hao Tianhui.
The Tianyan Eye, an ability originally belonging to Li Zuhao himself.
Now the Tianyan Eye had merged with Mommy, and its power was inherited—although the position was a bit awkward.
But no one could just gouge out their own eye to replace it with a brand-new Tianyan Eye, that would be too extreme.
If it were Li Zuhao, he probably would’ve done exactly that—the more painful, the happier.
“Why did you get beaten up like a pig again?”
Mommy asked calmly.
“You finally decided to talk to me?”
Li Zuhao noticed he was stripped down to just boxers in bed, but the bruised areas on his body were covered with medicinal plasters.
He touched his face, which was also covered with numerous medical ice patches.
It felt like almost no skin was visible—only his left eye was free from bandages or plaster.
Even his left eyelid was slightly swollen and red.
His eye socket had taken a punch, now he could only squint it into a slit.
The main injuries from this fight were a split lip and a broken nose.
This time, he was truly disfigured.
“If you keep this up, you’ll get beaten to death. You still have to pay utilities and rent. You can’t die so soon,” Mommy answered mercilessly.
“So you care about my money? Now that you have the Tianyan Eye, making money should be a breeze, right? Then why are you still holed up in this small rental apartment? Is it because I’m occupying your former home?”
Li Zuhao probed.
He still hadn’t found any clues about Mommy.
The original owner’s memories had no trace of Mommy, and even clever Li Zuhao couldn’t find any loopholes.
He could only try to gain some confidence from her personally.
This Mommy had always been living in his home and refused to leave.
Maybe what she clung to wasn’t him, but this apartment.
“What are you talking about?”
Mommy seemed not to hear Li Zuhao clearly, showing no emotional fluctuations.
“…”
Li Zuhao fell silent.
It seemed his guess was wrong.
She had no attachment to this small rental apartment.
“Go get something to eat first,” Mommy instructed, then slipped into the darkness and disappeared without a trace.
“Wait, I’m not done talking yet,” Li Zuhao hurriedly said.
But no one answered.
Mommy didn’t reply.
Li Zuhao had no way to drag her out, and now wasn’t the time to bother with Mommy’s affairs.
Although Mommy had been living with him for several days, it was obvious she was the toughest long-term relationship challenge.
She was more troublesome than any reincarnated sickly ghost king girl, impossible to resolve quickly.
Li Zuhao got up, turned on the light in the small living room, sat down, and found his Mobile Phone to quickly check if the evidence he had recorded was still there.
The audio and video recordings were intact.
Li Zuhao watched them again, a smile creeping onto his lips.
He immediately took out his dusty Notebook Computer, connected his Mobile Phone, and transferred all the evidence onto the Notebook Computer, then used professional software to maliciously edit it.
He cut out all the footage that was even slightly unfavorable to him—though there wasn’t much—and mostly kept the original content.
After editing the video, he uploaded it directly onto Ji Huang Academy’s Friends Wall.
Mission accomplished.
“All right, let the storm rage even stronger.”
Li Zuhao closed the Notebook Computer, grinning despite being beaten to a pulp.
The next day, a terrifying and violent video spread endlessly throughout Ji Huang Academy like a virus, sweeping through the entire academy city.
“Li, can we have a word?”
“We have some new secrets to expose to you.”
“Hand over the Student Council President’s notebook and we might spare your life.”
“Record a clarification video immediately.”
“Apologize for spreading rumors about President Lei and say it was all fabricated.”
“Otherwise, we’ll beat you to death today.”
The video started with a black screen, followed by a few polite greetings, then ended with four cold threats.
When the footage appeared, it cut straight to the action.
Five boys immediately began fighting brutally, viciously beating each other, thrilling the audience.
The final result stunned everyone.
Because one guy managed to take down all four attackers, staggering away with his battle wounds.
Of course, if the outcome had been different, this video wouldn’t have been released.
If those four seniors had won, the video would have been buried in darkness forever.
But within hours of the video going live, it was forcibly removed from Ji Huang Academy’s Friends Wall for spreading violence.
However, the students had already downloaded the video!
At this moment, the angriest person watching was Student Council President Lei.
“Damn it! A bunch of trash! Four people gang up on one and all get defeated? Yet they always brag about how strong they are! Always enjoying my money and power benefits? Worthless!”
He raged inside the President’s Office, furiously cursing, smashing his computer with a fist, kneeing the tablet and phone to pieces—destroying all electronics.
Outside the President’s Office, a large group of Student Council members eavesdropped.
But not a single one intended to help, fearing getting dragged into trouble.
This was a classic move in the power game.
Capital Wall-Fall Effect.
No matter how powerful you are, scandal is terrifying.
Once tainted by scandal, even a president suffers greatly.
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