Stuck in a Chinese novel

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"Anything?" Wei Jun asked as Lin Ruan fiddled with the phone for a bit.

"Can\'t open it up. I can\'t believe I forgot something as simple as asking for a password." Lin Ruan said while handing the phone to Wei Jun. Wei Jun simply smiled because he was no better. He couldn\'t believe that he had forgotten something so simple as well.

He pocketed the phone and said, "I know someone who can open this up. I\'ll get back to you once I\'m done with that."

She nodded and started the car. On the way they talked about various things, again, Lin Ruan did and Wei Jun mostly listened. She apologized for how the lunch went and promised another one soon. Wei Jun simply assented and got out of the car once they arrived at the Ruan building where Wei Jun\'s car was parked.

He headed to his Sedan and drove off. He didn\'t go to his office but straight to the arcade downtown where Li Wei\'s current base was. Wei Jun thinking of relocating the intelligence team to a better place but for that, he needed a building and a separate wing for that as well that was hidden in plain sight.

That time wasn\'t far when he could have his own building but he preferred to build one instead of purchasing. A custom building to his liking where everything he needed was in one place. Of course, having all his secrets in one place was also risky but he had an idea for that as well. After all, B*tman literally had his everything under his house and no one knew about it.

Wei Jun soon arrived at the arcade and used the backdoor to enter. He was careful entering because his being at an arcade was a major clue, especially with a detective on his back so hard. It wouldn\'t take a genius to figure out there was something else in the arcade and the arcade was nothing but a front.

As Wei Jun entered the basement, this time, everyone noticed him because he wasn\'t silencing his steps.

"Evening, boss." Li Wei was the last one to greet him once he approached her. He handed her the phone without saying anything about it and said, "Be ready tomorrow. It is time we finish the business."

He was ambiguous in his words but Li Wei understood what he meant so she simply smiled and nodded. She then waved the phone and asked, "What about it?"

"This belongs to a mercenary that dared to attack my sister in broad daylight. We managed to obtain his phone but we couldn\'t manage to get the password due to some unforeseen circumstances. I\'m sure you can open this and give us all the clues we need." Wei Jun said. Wei Jun was ambiguous in his words to others and all the more obvious for Li Wei.

Li Wei smiled and said, "You forgot about it, didn\'t you?" Wei Jun kept his expression straight but Li Wei simply chuckled because that was all the answer she needed. She nodded and said, "I will get this done in a few minutes. Or I could bring it by tomorrow when I come."

"Tomorrow is fine." Wei Jun said before he nodded and turned around to leave. He left the building, once again careful, and made his way to his villa. It was almost seven in the evening and he needed to be home before then and train the slacking actor team.

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"I… I can\'t… do this anymore, bo …boss." Quan Li laboriously said. She was the last man standing, the last girl technically. Everyone else had already passed out. She only lasted this long because she was a cultivator and unlike Zhan Yi, she had a talent for cultivation so she was able to advance to the intermediate stage of Qi sense realm already.

Not to mention she reached that stage with an E rank cultivation method, the lowest cultivation method known to the general public.

But even she ended up almost fainting when faced with the monstrous training Wei Jun had for them. Of course, not all of them had the same regime.

Zhan Yi and Quan Li were cultivators, although very low-ranked, they could still go on longer than normal people so their training was more intense than others. And for the rest, well, their training wasn\'t easy in the least. For normal people, their workout was too much for them to handle.

Even Xia Lu, who tried to weasel her way out like last time by acting coy, adorable, affectionate, and even angry, wasn\'t spared today. She, just like everyone else, lay there on the floor passed out of fatigue.

Only Quan Li had managed to keep her consciousness but even she was on the verge of falling. Wei Jun was impressed she had endured this far, but that was all he was, impressed. Wei Jun wasn\'t going out of his way to offer her a high-ranking cultivation technique unless she proved herself to be useful.

So far, even in the matter of levels, Wei Jun hadn\'t been able to obtain more levels through her after the first four levels.

Although she and Zhan Yi\'s relationship had been steadily progressing, it wasn\'t to the point where they would be considered a couple so maybe there was still some hope for Run Long and her coming back together.

Wei Jun ended the session in the middle of this thought while he handed five stamina pills to Lao Chen to feed the actor team after two hours. He wanted them to feel some pain for slacking off after all.

He had dinner alone, a shower, then a bath and then he finally sat down on his bed and purchased an item from the shop.

[Bubble of love]

[Type: Consumable]

[Effect: Wraps the user in a protective bubble that cannot be easily destroyed]

[Uses: 3\\\\3]

[Cost: 10000 coins]

Although very expensive for a limited-use item, Wei Jun still chose to purchase it. He remembered his last cultivation session where his Qi rose by eight after an entire day of cultivation. However, he had to spare quite a bit of his concentration on his surroundings because he was quite vulnerable during cultivation.

But he wanted to use this item to see how the progress would be with all his mind focused on cultivation. Although one round of the item lasted only eight hours, he was sure he would be able to achieve good results if he expended all his concentration on cultivation.

He closed his eyes and tried to use the cultivation circulation the same way the system provided during skill activation. But unfortunately, he couldn\'t. According to the system, it wasn\'t an easy thing Wei Jun was trying to do. Such flawless circulation couldn\'t be done even by ridiculously high-ranked cultivators.

Wei Jun didn\'t care. He wasn\'t like others, he wanted to do this no matter what on his own. With such a flawless circulation technique under his belt, he knew he would be unstoppable. However, he wasn\'t delusional. He knew he had just stepped into the world of cultivation, achieving such a feat this soon was impossible.

Although he was confident in being able to do flawless circulation, he knew he was nowhere close to that point. But, Wei Jun had a simple motto, \'A person needs to have a goal in life.\'

For him, any reason was enough, no matter how small, no matter how big, all there had to be was a reason. A reason to keep going.

Ever since he came to this world, he was stuck. He didn\'t know what to do and how he should proceed. He knew what he had to do but he didn\'t know why. So he began to find a reason. At first, it was just money, then it became a little more than money in the presence of a girl. A feeling he still didn\'t quite fully understand.

And when it came to cultivation, it was that flawless circulation that he couldn\'t help but feel drawn to. That piece of perfection, he wanted it. Not just possess it and make its own, but even make it better, become better along with it.

For him, it was just a reason, a reason to keep going. And right now, feeling that hot strand of Qi revolving in his abdomen, slowly but steadily traveling with his blood, nourishing his entire being and filling him with power and a refreshing feeling.

He couldn\'t feel anything else. He was so absorbed that he couldn\'t even feel the tingling on his skin, he couldn\'t even tell where he was, he just was. And while his mind was focused on that little strand of Qi, a change began to happen to his outward appearance as well.

His skin began to turn red, and smoke began to emit from his being. Of course, he was oblivious to it. He was also oblivious to a small bead forming in his abdomen. All he knew, was that little strand of Qi that kept circulating, circulating, and circulating through his system following his will.