169: Chapter 169 Living off a woman leads to tears behind bars

The lights in the interrogation room were so bright that Hua Wuque couldn't open his eyes.

He slumped in the interrogation chair.

The exquisite features he once had on his face had completely vanished, replaced by puffy eye bags and a greasy, bulbous nose.

Without the System's bone-structure correction, he looked cowering and sleazy.

Zhao Yingnan stood behind the monitor, the veins on the back of her hand still bulging.

Recalling how she had almost been charmed by someone looking like this back at the shop, her stomach churned.

Gu Changan pushed the door open and walked in, holding a thick stack of victim lists.

Slap.

He tossed the list in front of Hua Wuque.

"Thirty-eight women, involving an amount of 170 million."

"Among them, three were driven to self-harm by you, and five are still in psychiatric hospitals."

Gu Changan pulled out a chair and sat down, his voice cold and devoid of any warmth.

Hua Wuque shuddered, his voice raspy like a saw.

"That was their own choice."

"I provided them with top-tier emotional value; they spent money to buy happiness, what's wrong with that?"

He was still trying to defend himself with that twisted logic.

Gu Changan sneered.

"Emotional value?"

"Do you mean how you forcibly interfered with their brain nerves using pheromones that exceeded the limit by three hundred times?"

"Or do you mean those three hard drives in your safe filled with intimate videos and recordings?"

Upon hearing the word 'hard drives,' Hua Wuque's face instantly shifted from pale to ashen.

His final trump card had been exposed.

"I was just keeping them as a memento."

He muttered, his voice trailing off.

"Does keeping a memento require loan agreements with red fingerprints on them?"

"Zhang Man even embezzled company funds to buy you a car."

"You aren't just scamming money; you are destroying a person's career and family."

Gu Changan's gaze was cold as he toyed with a black signature pen.

Hua Wuque broke down.

He grabbed his hair and started screaming.

"I didn't want to! It was the System that forced me!"

"The System said if I didn't gain points, it would deduct my attractiveness and make me even uglier than before!"

"I've gotten used to being chased after and admired; I can't go back!"

Gu Changan watched his hysterical behavior with nothing but disgust.

This tendency to attribute one's own greed to external pressure was a common flaw among all protagonists.

Chen Xiaobei pushed the door open, holding the technical verification report.

"Director Gu, the contents of the hard drives have been fully recovered."

"All evidence related to extortion and threats has been secured, sufficient to form a complete chain of evidence."

"Additionally, we have performed low-level encryption and physical destruction on those intimate files, ensuring not a single bit will leak."

Gu Changan nodded.

"Well done."

He stood up and looked down at Hua Wuque.

"Strip the System."

Hua Wuque's pupils constricted sharply.

"No! You can't do this! That's my life!"

Gu Changan ignored him.

He reached out and pressed his hand against Hua Wuque's forehead.

Law Enforcement Domain, activate.

A twisted, pink ball of light was forcibly extracted from between Hua Wuque's eyebrows.

That was the 'Divine-Grade Soft Rice System'.

The moment he lost the System, Hua Wuque let out a scream, and his entire body rapidly shriveled.

He didn't just look mediocre; he even displayed a sense of decadence, like someone suffering from a long-term illness.

This false charm, maintained by overdrawing the body's potential, completely backfired at this moment.

The pink ball of light struggled violently in Gu Changan's hand, emitting a sound similar to a baby crying.

Gu Changan threw it into an aluminum alloy box engraved with runes.

"Send it to the Abnormal Affairs Processing Center for formatting."

"Extract the data modules regarding human posture and charm enhancement, and wipe out all the charm and hypnosis functions."

"Then, hand the remaining parts to the National Etiquette Team to be used as software for next year's posture training."

Chen Xiaobei caught the box and sighed.

"This is truly making the best use of everything."

"Let those trashy Systems that want to take shortcuts end up as the country's positive educational materials."

Hua Wuque was dragged out by two Special Police.

Due to charges of massive contract fraud, extortion, and using prohibited chemical substances to control the minds of others, he was sentenced to twenty years in prison for multiple crimes.

Gu Changan specifically added a note to the escort documents: Send to the Northwest No. 3 Maximum Security Prison.

That was where the most vicious criminals were held.

Before leaving, Chen Xiaobei found out an interesting tidbit.

The prison boss, Zhang Laohu, had a younger sister who was one of the victims scammed out of everything by Hua Wuque.

On the first day Hua Wuque was locked in his cell, what awaited him wasn't a soft sofa, but the 'caring' gazes of thirty-some burly men.

He curled up in a ball in the cell, crying and shouting that he wanted a lawyer.

But here, there were only iron bars and sewing machines.

The face he used to be so proud of had now become his greatest burden.

Because he looked fair and clean, he was assigned to scrub the toilets of the entire prison block every day.

If he didn't clean them well, Zhang Laohu's fist would land right on his kidneys.

The once 'perfect boyfriend' had now become the prison's 'little cleaning expert'.

Gu Changan sat in his office, looking at the case closure report in his hand.

Ding.

The System's reward notification sounded in his mind.

[Detected that the host has completed the 'Expose the Soft Rice Man' mission and successfully cleared the abnormal energy.]

[Obtained System reward: Divine-Grade Construction Engineering Mastery (Max Level).]

[Additional reward: Structural Perspective (100% insight into the internal structure of buildings).]

Gu Changan was speechless.

The span of the System's rewards was getting wider and wider.

He had just dealt with someone in the beauty industry, and now he was given a reward for construction.

Before he could even digest the reward, the red internal phone on his desk rang.

That was the dedicated line for connecting with key municipal engineering projects.

"Hello, this is Gu Changan."

A noisy roar came from the other end of the line, along with the desperate shouting of the project commander.

"Director Gu! You have to come and see! Something has happened to the East Sea Ring Expressway project!"

"We encountered a holdout in Wang Family Village, and it's truly too bizarre!"

"Three excavators inexplicably stalled the moment they approached that dilapidated house, and their parts automatically broke down."

"Just now, we tried using low-yield explosives for precision demolition, but after the smoke cleared, the house didn't even lose a layer of paint, while several members of our construction team were injured by the shockwave!"

Gu Changan stood up and grabbed the coat hanging on the rack.

"Seal off the site, everyone retreat five hundred meters."

"I'll be there immediately."

Ten minutes later, Gu Changan and Chen Xiaobei landed at the construction site by helicopter.

It was a massive construction zone.

The neat asphalt road came to an abrupt halt ahead.

In the very center of the major artery expected to run through the entire city lay a dilapidated two-story building.

That was the only holdout in Wang Family Village.

Around the small building, a faint golden light shield was faintly circulating.

This light shield looked like a huge bowl, covering the entire house inside.

On the roof sat an old man wearing a white tank top.

He was leisurely waving a banana leaf fan, with a small square table set in front of him.

On the table sat a purple clay teapot, and a radio was playing Peking Opera.

Gu Changan activated the newly obtained [Structural Perspective] and [Eye of Data Insight].

Above the old man's head, a string of flashing golden text popped up:

[Host: Zhao Tiezhu.]

[System: Homebody Sign-in System (Binding).]

[Mission Progress: Persisting in not leaving the house for 99 days and 23 hours.]

[System Buff: Absolute Defense Domain (As long as the host does not leave the house, any physical or chemical attack cannot penetrate).]

[Remaining Reward: One-hour countdown; complete the sign-in to obtain the 'Earth Immortal Godhead'.]

Gu Changan looked at his watch and curled his lip.

These days, even a holdout can sign in to become a god.

If he were allowed to sit through this last hour, the ring expressway would have to be completely rerouted.

It involved hundreds of billions in investment and the traffic layout of the entire city.

His godhead was essentially trying to step on the heads of all the city's citizens.

Zhao Tiezhu seemed to notice the commotion of the helicopter.

He lazily looked up and waved his fan at the air.

"Don't waste your effort! Whether it's an excavator or a nuclear bomb, don't even think about moving a single brick of my house!"

"I'm going to sit through these hundred days!"

"Even if the King of Heaven comes, this road has to be rerouted around me!"

Project manager Wang Aiguo was sweating profusely and rushed to Gu Changan.

"Director Gu, this old man is too stubborn. We've offered five times the compensation, but he just won't leave."

"He says he wants to ascend to heaven in broad daylight and told us not to disturb his cultivation."

Gu Changan looked at the faint golden light shield, then looked at the foundation beneath the old man's feet.

He suddenly smiled.

"The System says he's invincible as long as he doesn't leave the house?"

"Chen Xiaobei, pull up the geological survey report for this plot of land."

"Since he likes staying in the house so much, let's let him stay in there forever."