Stuck in a Chinese novel

"Hahaha. Anything for my Xiao Chen." The old man laughed boisterously before he added, "Be happy my granddaughter. There are only two of these dresses and you have one of them." The old man bragged but he wasn't really bragging. He was appealing to his granddaughter about the suitable match he had chosen for her.

"I see." Chen Na was definitely happy to know that. she was beautiful and by no means just beautiful, she was an absolute beauty but even she paled in comparison when it came to women like Xia Lu, Liu Yu, and Lin Ruan. So having something unique and beautiful was amazing for her.

"Who has the other one, Grandpa?" Chen Na questioned her grandfather, Ouyang Na. Ouyang Na chuckled and replied, "That boy didn't want my favor when I told him I would support him with money. He decided to sell the other one to make a fortune. He has a pride to keep after all.

That's how a man should be." Not only did he make sure to tell her about the marriage prospect for her, but he excessively praised him as well. Well, not that he lied or anything. All that he said was true.

"Well, I'm thankful for the dress, Grandpa, but I don't think I'm ready to feel anything for him yet. You will have to give me some time." Chen Na made sure to get her meaning across so as to not leave her grandfather with any sort of hope that she was happy with that decision of his.

"You can take all the time you need but be quick, such great men are taken very fast." Ouyang Na replied with a smile.

"Thank you, Grandpa." Chen Na replied for Ouyang Na's understanding.

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[You bought the dress]

'Putting the fact aside that I have to kill its maker, I couldn't help but buy it because it seemed amazing. Also, it would be amazing for the scene I have planned for Xia Lu's date in the movie.' Wei Jun replied as he headed back home. His mood had improved by a lot now and his worries about the one billion had diminished quite a bit. He knew where to get that money. All he had to do was wait a bit.

And it wasn't like he couldn't raise his stats naturally anyway.

'So Run Long has started to work. If I remember correctly, his first goal would be to earn money and search for Quan Li. He will find her sooner or later so let's work on her first and then disrupt his attempts at becoming famous.' Wei Jun planned in his head.

[His first project would be the beauty cream]

[You should beat him to it]

'Not possible. I'm not well versed in medicine and I doubt the cosmetics I can procure would work given that his one enhances beauty.' Wei Jun replied.

[Why not use the shop?]

'You have such an item in the shop?'

[I wouldn't know]

[Maybe if you search]

[Or you could always get the recipe from him]

'Getting the recipe is a good idea but that's for later. By the time I became capable of doing so, he would have already launched his product.' Wei Jun argued his point.

[Then what will you do?]

'Simple. Sabotaging.'

[Ahh… I get it]

Wei Jun arrived at his villa and headed straight to the gym. It was still five and there were two hours before the training time with the group. Wei Jun wanted to get the most out of it before that.

He began with strength training since he was still one stat point short of his strength limit in the mortal realm. He was frantically lifting weight and the amount of weight he was lifting would leave bodybuilders in shame.

Finally, after two hours of hard work and three stamina pills later, his strength stat finally reached twenty but Wei Jun wasn't happy with that progress. Increasing the weight didn't seem efficient if he had to increase the weight every time to train.

'How do cultivators solve that problem?' Wei Jun asked the system.

[To be accurate, cultivators don't train their outer body much but their inner body]

[To increase their strength, they simply use the Qi armament]

'So they cover themselves in Qi to temporarily raise their stats?'

[Yes]

[However, the host is different from them]

[Host has the option of stat points that you can obtain from quests]

'And how do I obtain them?'

'So far, I have only obtained one and even that is the main quest. There is nothing from the side quest section.'

[As you involve yourself in the life of protagonists, you will receive side quests]

[Something that they were supposed to do, you would be the one to do them]

'So if Run Long was to save a life, I could also save them before him?'

[Precisely]

'Isn't that just opportunity grabbing?'

[Negative]

[Not everything Run Long does is an opportunity]

[Only the things that raise his power are opportunities]

[Something that raises his influence isn't an opportunity]

'Wait a minute, so you're telling me that if I were to weaken the connection between him and Liu Yu, I would get nothing?'

[Exactly]

[Only the heroines that increase his power are an opportunity]

[And there are only two such heroines]

'Quan Li and Lin Ruan.'

[Yes]

[The rest just increase his influential status]

[You gain nothing from ruining his influential status]

'That makes sense.' Wei Jun replied and analyzed this whole situation. Now the targets he had to keep an eye on were clear and the people that weren't necessary were useless to him.

'So I won't get anything from the other heroines?'

[Not nothing]

[A side quest might initiate bearing some gifts that could sometimes be in the form of stat points]

[After all, you are changing the world's destiny]

[Your enemy, in the end, is the world not the protagonists]

[They are just stepping stones you have to squash to get to the final boss just like you are a stepping stone to the protagonists]

'I see.' Now that he had a clear target, many of Wei Jun's plans began to change in his mind regarding the heroines. There were four secondary and three main heroines. Wei Jun knew of two secondary so far and all three main ones. Out of the main ones, he needed only one. The other one was his money-making ticket so he couldn't do anything against her either.

That only left him with the last main heroine, Liu Yu. However, Wei Jun had nothing against them. He wasn't a monster who killed for no reason otherwise he wouldn't have let those security guards live even though letting them live erased the accident scenario from the factory incident.

If he wanted to make it look like an accident, he would have let the security guards burn in the fire but he didn't which clearly signified someone's involvement.

The same was the case here. He wouldn't kill the heroines for no reason at all. of course, unless they brought him some sort of trouble or danger, then it would be an entirely different story.

'So tell me, what makes these two heroines so important in raising his strength?' Wei Jun asked so he would know what he needed to do. He had a hint from Quan Li's connection weakening with Run Long but he wasn't sure about Xia Lu. What was her involvement with Run Long? He didn't know since he hadn't read the second volume yet and she was a heroine who appeared in the second volume.

[I cannot divulge that information, host]

[You will have to unlock the next volume for that]

Wei Jun couldn't pursue the issue because his level wasn't twelve yet. He was still one level short. Just as he was pondering over it, he decided to think of ways to further weaken Quan Li's connection with Run Long and so far, only one came to mind.

And just as he had thought about that, both of the parties involved in his plan, his level-increasing pigeon and the parrot that would help make that pigeon his, entered the gym together.

Wei Jun smiled for the first time that day when he saw Quan Li and Zhan Yi together. When both of them saw Wei Jun smiling, they halted in their steps as an ominous feeling took them. However, they were immensely surprised by the next words that left Wei Jun's mouth, "You two look good together." He spoke that, instead of making them bashful, only worried them even more.

Soon, the rest of the team joined him in the gym. Wei Jun decided to change the plan for today a bit.

"Today, we will be doing yoga along with our exercise because some stunts in the movie require you to be flexible." Wei Jun calmly said with a smile that would charm the devil but the five individuals in front of him felt nothing but dread.

"Of course, it's a two-man yoga so split into teams of two. One man and a woman preferably." Wei Jun emphasized the team composition.