Stuck in a Chinese novel

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Shu Hui was an ordinary housewife. She was perfect in every sense. She was diligent, devoted, and hardworking for her family. Her husband cared for her and her children loved her.

However, if she had one burden to bear, that would be the burn mark on her hand that she had gotten in her childhood. Her husband didn\'t genuinely care for that and loved her still.

The same went for her children. However, that changed a few months back when her youngest daughter saw her burn mark, which she usually covered, and screamed.

It wasn\'t like that Shu Hui hadn\'t tried to get rid of it but no matter what she did, she couldn\'t get rid of it. she had to accept that it was with her for life until her youngest daughter saw it and cried.

She vowed to try and get rid of it but no matter what she did, no surgeon could get rid of it for her. But, a ray of hope emerged in the name of \'Miracle cream\' that was claimed to get rid of all abnormalities on a person\'s skin.

It was difficult, but Shu Hui managed to get it on the day of its release. She had to spend a fortune on it but her family didn\'t lack money so it wasn\'t much of a problem.

She had just arrived home. It was still around seven in the evening and she had decided to wait for her husband to come home. Her husband came, she informed him of the good news and he was happy for her.

They ate dinner, put the children to sleep, and finally, both husband and wife gathered in their room to apply the cream on Shu Hui\'s hand.

"Here we go," Shu Hui nervously said as she scooped some of the cream and gently applied it to her hand. As soon as she did, she felt a pleasant and cooling sensation on her hand and on the fingers she had used to apply the cream.

Soon, though, that cooling sensation was slowly replaced by the sensation of something familiar. Something she had felt in her childhood. Her hand and her fingers began to burn. It was bearable at first but then it got to the point that she couldn\'t bear it anymore and yelled for her husband to wipe it off.

Her husband hurriedly took a towel and wiped it off of her hand and her fingers only to be worried by what he saw. The skin on her wife had also come off with the cream.

"Aaahhhhhh!!!!!" A scream emitted from Shu Hui who felt tremendous pain while her husband hurriedly called for an ambulance.

That night, Shu Hui\'s home wasn\'t the only one awakened by screams of pain. Throughout the city, reports of acidic burns came to the hospitals and people flooded them, because their loved ones had been victims of the \'Miracle cream\'.

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Run Long was enjoying himself, watching the screen that showed the sale of just the first day. He had made close to seven hundred million as almost all of his products were purchased from various people.

It was a new record in the sales history and he couldn\'t be more proud of it. He wasn\'t alone, there were several more people with him, reveling in the success they helped to bring.

However, one person in the room still had a worried expression on his face. He felt as if he had missed something. Something of crucial detail but what it was, he couldn\'t quite put his finger on.

However, with each passing moment, the nagging feeling at the back of Ouyang Na\'s head got increasingly stronger.

Ouyang Na tried to ignore that feeling, multiple times, but it would return each time, stronger than before. It was as if some unknown entity was telling him that something was wrong but his feeble mind couldn\'t figure out what.

But he was soon helped with that as a secretary barged in the room, panic written all over her face. Before the men in the room could yell at her, she said, "Sir! It\'s an emergency!"

Seeing her like that, the people in the room became a little unsettled and Run Long hurriedly asked, "The cream. The cream is burning people."

"What?!" Run Lung exclaimed but before the secretary could explain, the TV in the room ran an emergency broadcast.

{Citizens beware!}

{Do not buy and apply the \'Miracle cream\'.}

{People throughout the city are being burned by it and their skin is falling off along with the cream}

{I repeat!}

{This is an emergency}

{DO NOT purchase and apply the \'Miracle cream\'.}

The report continued and the room remained frozen. Out of everyone present, Run Long was the one who was shocked the most. He couldn\'t believe what he was hearing and that his dream had ended before it even began. He couldn\'t even make any sense of it let alone accept it.

It was then that his mind involuntarily brought up a face in his mind. A face he had faced off a few days ago and that same face was somehow the reason this was happening to him.

"Wei Jun Ruan!" Run Long said while girting his teeth hard as a powerful wave of Qi emitted from him. Even for a Qi empowerment realm cultivator like Ouyang Na, that wave felt very powerful.

Before Ouyang Na could do anything, Run Long had run out of the door, heading to the place where he could only guess.

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"It\'s been two days, why hasn\'t the boss come out of his room yet?" Zhan YI curiously asked.

All the actor\'s team along with Lin Ruan sat at the dining table, having dinner. Lin Ruan knew why Wei Jun hadn\'t come out so she was about to reply before Xia Lu replied, "He\'s busy cultivating. Who knows when he will be out."

Lin Ruan stared at Xia Lu for a while. The fact that Xia Lu knew that meant that she had been in his room. Not everyone was permitted in Wei Jun\'s room.

"I see you and my brother are very close. Seeing that you entered his room without much thought," Lin Ruan commented.

Xia Lu smiled and replied, "We are. Very."

Xia Lu didn\'t back down and made sure to rub it in. Xia Lu wanted everyone to know that she was after Wei Jun even though he was committed to someone else. She wasn\'t prepared to share him, but she wasn\'t going to lose him as well.

"It is not correct decorum to enter a committed man\'s room. Strange rumors might circulate," Lin Ruan still pointed out that fact.

"It\'s all right. We\'re not committed or anything." Xia Lu replied with a smile before she added, "Yet."

Lin Ruan squinted her eyes at Xia Lu but had no reply to offer.

However, she didn\'t have to because, after just a few moments, their peaceful dinner was interrupted by a loud voice that reverberated in the surroundings, "Wei Jun Ruan! Come out, you bastard!!!"

Lin Ruan turned to look at the servant standing near the table and asked, "Where\'s Lao Chen?"

"He—uh—He went to the main house to report to the head," The servant nervously replied.

Lin Ruan nodded and stood from her. She made her way out of the villa where she saw many knocked-out guards and a man standing above them, emitting the Qi of a Qi gathering realm but it was much stronger than that.

"Who are you?" Lin Ruan asked. Many soon followed and by the time they did, Lin Ruan had also recognized the man. It was the same man who had made and sold the \'Miracle cream\'.

She knew of the update and mobilized her networks against the \'Miracle cream\'.

"Me?! ME?! I am the one who\'s going to kill that cowardly bastard! Bring him out!" Run Long yelled in anger.

"Brother Run, what are you doing?" Quan Li worriedly asked but Run Long wasn\'t in the right state of his mind.

"You shut up! You\'re on their side as well!" He yelled at her and jumped at her, his fist brandished in Qi.

Lin Ruan wasn\'t prepared for that attack and by the time she did, Run Long was already above Quan Li. However, one more person had acted at the correct time and managed to block that strike, however, at a great price.

Zhan Yi had managed to block Run Long\'s strike with all of his Qi but still ended up losing his left arm. However, that act of his gave Lin Ruan enough time to retaliate.

Lin Ruan struck Run Long on his side, throwing him away from everyone as she yelled, "Everyone inside!" As she said that, she also applied her Qi to Zhan Yi\'s severed arm to stop the blood flow.

"HOW DARE YOU!!!!!?" Run Long yelled and launched himself at Lin Ruan with his full power. They both collided and lightning fell from the sky, increasing the impact of their collision that pushed everyone away from them.