Chapter Read:
Liu Yang is a middle-aged man with an awful taste in music. His playlist is a disaster. It's like he has no idea what he's doing. One minute, it's ear-splitting heavy metal, the next, it's bubblegum pop, then some random folk song no one's ever heard of.
He skips tracks like he's searching for treasure in a junkyard—only finding noise. His music is chaotic, an assault on the ears.
Whenever he's driving, the cars around him suffer. Drivers behind him honk like they're begging for mercy, and anyone ahead speeds up, desperate to escape the madness. His music doesn't just play—it invades. It feels like it rattles the entire road.
But Liu Yang doesn't care. Does he hate the constant curses raining down on him? Probably. But he doesn't have time for that.
Aside from his terrible taste in music, Liu Yang is actually a brilliant accountant. His skill with money is so sharp that if the entire fortune of the world were handed to him, he could handle it with ease.
He works for The Golden Lock National Bank in Kenshin City, located in the Northern Region of the Northern Union.
As one of their top assistants, Liu Yang earns enough to afford luxurious cars, mansions, and even plenty to spend on beautiful, hot women.
But does he really make that much from working at a bank? Probably not. And it's true—he isn't just an accountant for an ordinary bank. Liu Yang also launders money for a notorious mafia group called One Eye Blade Mark.
They are infamous for many things: extortion, drug trafficking, illegal weapons deals, and underground gambling rings. They control the black market with an iron grip, and their assassins are feared across the region.
They specialize in making people disappear without a trace. Rumor has it they even have connections to corrupt families and law enforcement.
Anything bad happening in the Eastern Region has the One Eye Blade Mark's name all over it. They're a menace in that part of the world.
However, Liu Yang doesn't care. As an accountant for such a notorious mafia group, he earns more than enough to keep his mouth shut and do his job. He's been working for them for the past 14 years.
But every bad thing eventually comes to an end. A rival group, long suppressed by the One Eye Blade Mark, discovered Liu Yang's connection to them.
However, just as she was about to deliver the fatal blow, three figures emerged from the bathroom. They moved with an eerie silence, their presence only becoming apparent as they stepped into the room—as if they had been lifeless bodies just moments before.
"You really thought we wouldn't know you'd come for our accountant?" one of the three newcomers said, his aura flaring, sealing off the room.
"Those Green Silk Daemons are finished," another one added. Somehow, they had discovered that their rival mafia gang, the Green Silk Daemons, had hired the Dark Order to assassinate the One Eye Blade Mark's accountant, Liu Yang.
Of course, it was just speculation at first, so the three who managed to find out this news wanted to find out first before going to their leader to report.
They wanted to earn the credit of killing a Dark Order Assassin and protecting their asset. And So, they have been following Liu Yang always ready to act.
The assassin, a masked woman, stared at them, momentarily unsure of how to proceed. She is a Great Sage, but so are the two of the three people standing before her. Two were Great Sages, and one was a Sage.
As for Liu Yang, he had passed out from the overwhelming energy filling the room.
With no way out, the assassin realized she was trapped. She couldn't escape the way she came, but the window was on the opposite side of the room. Her only option now was to abandon the hit and face these new opponents.
But just as she made up her mind to attack, she suddenly froze. Before she could move, a dagger emerged from the shadow of one of the Great Sages and slit his throat. At the same time, the Sage was pulled into his own shadow and disappeared without a trace.
The last remaining Great Sage reacted swiftly, lunging at the assassin with his sword drawn. She responded by raising her dagger. But before their weapons could clash, shadowy strings shot from the darkness, binding him instantly.
The strings dragged him back, and as he was struggling to understand what was happening, a masked figure stepped out of the shadows and drove a dagger straight into his heart.
But it didn't end there. The strings snaked across the room and stabbed into Liu Yang's head, killing him instantly in his sleep.
Everything happened so fast that no one could make sense of who this new intruder was. As the last Great Sage's body hit the floor with a heavy thud, a calm yet mocking voice came from the mysterious figure.
"You've gotten sloppy, sister."