The CEO Who Hates Me - Chapter 158: Not To Hide Anything **

My reunion with her took place in the worst possible way.

Jiang Chen had unexpectedly found himself thrust into a world of cultivation, stepping into the role of a core disciple within a famed sect. Fated to be the villain, his future loomed with calamity. He had plotted against the protagonist, crippling his dantian and leaving him a disgraced outcast teetering on the edge of expulsion. Were it not for an unexpected twist, Jiang Chen’s part might have ended as a mere footnote in the protagonist’s glorious tale. Fully aware of his precarious position, Jiang Chen’s lips curled into a sly grin. Alone, he mused: ’Is the protagonist powerful? Without a doubt.’ ’But will I tremble in fear? Absolutely not.’ ’Why? Because I have the Immortal Great Villain System!’ ’Wait... there’s more than one protagonist?’ ’Well, isn’t that just perfect?’ With a determined glint in his eyes, Jiang Chen declared to himself, ’As the ultimate Great Villain, I will defy the will of Heaven and seize my place at the summit!’

One elite school. One dead student. Two boys who can’t stand each other… and can’t stay away.Welcome to Blackwell Academy.The most prestigious high school in the country, where the rich are powerful, the powerful are dangerous.And everyone is playing a role in the chain.At the top of the chain?The Glass Circle……six untouchable students born into legacy, wealth, and manipulation.They are feared, worshipped and corrupt to the core.One night, one of them, ends up dead.What happens when Ash Rivera….a quiet, artistic scholarship student from the slums of the city…witnesses the one thing he was never meant to see?He wasn’t supposed to be at that party.He wasn’t meant to see the body fall from the rooftop.He wasn’t meant to survive it.He definitely wasn’t supposed to catch Dominic Vale’s attention.But one wrong night changes everything.Now Ash is the only witness to a murder, and someone knows he saw too much.They want him silent.“Keep your mouth shut, Rivera. Or you’ll be next. You don’t belong here…and you’ll die trying to.”But the real danger isn’t the killer.It’s Dominic Vale…..Blackwell’s golden boy and Ash’s sworn enemy.Because Dominic has his own secrets. His own obsessions. And one terrifying promise.“Ash Rivera is mine. No one touches him… no one… except me.”As Ash digs deeper into the truth behind the Glass Circle, one thing becomes clear:Love is dangerous.And the truth? Might get you killed.

Cultivating his power by slaying demons and taming countless beasts, the emperor solidified his throne as the world's ruler. But not once in his life had he expected that his disciples would use research on demonology to sap the world tree's power and push the world to destruction.Trying to fix his mistake, he opted to use all of his cultivated power to cure the world tree and block anyone from sapping its power ever again. But in exchange, he was to lose all of his power.But...the worst had happened, his wife... had betrayed him.