Trillionaire's Slice of Life

After leaving the park, adhering to gentlemen's etiquette, Chu Mo naturally wanted to escort the lady home. This time, he didn't drive a supercar but rather took the Mercedes-Maybach with Yu Junjun. When they arrived at the base of the apartment complex, Chu Mo hadn't expected that the other party would invite him upstairs. In the upscale Huafu Spring Community, this was an elegant and serene neighborhood. The greenery within the community was beautifully landscaped, with even a huge artificial lake at its center. The water was likewise clear and transparent. Those who entered and exited here were mostly elegantly dressed upper-class people. Chu Mo could sense the other's sincerity; it wasn't just polite invitation, so he didn't refuse. After instructing his group of bodyguards to wait where they were, he followed the other person upstairs. Yu Junjun lived on the sixteenth floor. As he followed her into the apartment, Chu Mo took a serious look around the entire place. The small abode was decorated exquisitely, exuding a warm feeling. Although the modest-sized room couldn't compare to those sprawling luxury apartments that measured hundreds of square meters, it revealed a cozy warmth of home. It was similar to the compact but absolutely cozy apartment Chu Mo had once shared with Yang Xuan. However, just sitting in the living room for a while and sipping on a cup of tea, Chu Mo's stomach began to protest. He usually had dinner punctually at six, but due to today's delay, it was already eight in the evening, and he had not yet eaten, naturally he was hungry. "May I use your kitchen?" Leaving that sentence behind without any pretense of politeness, Chu Mo made a beeline for the kitchen. He was a good cook and was keen to show off his skills, so he got busy at once. With Chu Mo away in the kitchen, Yu Junjun in the living room had nothing to do, so she picked up her phone and scrolled through it aimlessly. After a moment, a video captured her attention. "Help...!" On the short video platform, a clip was going viral and began to be promoted across the whole platform. At this time slot, anyone opening the short video app would receive the platform recommendation for this clip. Inside the kitchen, a tall figure was busily at work, but at this moment, Yu Junjun's gaze was fixed on the mobile phone and the short video that already garnered tens of thousands of comments. On the phone screen, a group of brash young hoodlums was laughing wildly, firing sparklers continuously, with a curled-up, elderly beggar as their target. Yu Junjun suddenly remembered what the young man had said earlier in the park, He had once promised to make those little hoodlums pay a terrible price, and now, his words seemed to be coming true. "Haha... You filthy cockroach, see where you can run, keep running, and we'll shatter your kneecaps... Hahaha!" The evil-seeming young hoodlums laughed maniacally as they surrounded their target. The face of the beggar, filled with despair, showed his old cotton clothes catching fire, and the elderly man on the ground desperately rolled, pleading for mercy. The response he received was more frenzied laughter from the young group. Despite having witnessed the scene in the park before, seeing the footage again still gave Yu Junjun a teeth-gritting feeling. Even though she was a girl with a pure and kind heart, in this moment, she felt the urge to eradicate those societal scum. The video continued! "Haha... Dumbass, aim better, how can you get rid of cockroaches with that kind of aim!" In the mobile screen, a good-looking teenager about sixteen or seventeen years old was laughing heartily while holding sparklers, continually firing at the begging old man. After a moment, the footage suddenly froze and a clear display of the handsome teenager's entire information appeared on the phone screen! "Sun Shaolong: Male, seventeen years old, student of Grade 11, Class 2 at Magi Experimental High School, one hundred seventy-seven centimeters tall, weighs seventy-four kilograms, home address, Hui Shui Road, Magi..." The handsome young man paused in his introduction, and the scene shifted once again. The elderly man who had been kneeling and begging for mercy was trying to get up and flee when a few thugs armed with baseball bats immediately blocked his way with cruel smiles on their faces. "Smash this disgusting cockroach's kneecaps, that way he won't be able to run away. Cockroaches should just crawl on the ground, right?" In the video, a youth whose face was covered with acne was continually slapping a baseball bat in his hand, and then, with a wild laugh on his face, the scene shifted again, and information about the acne-faced youth appeared on the phone screen. "Name: Zhao Zexue, male, eighteen years old, a senior student at Experimental High School with excellent grades, now admitted to Zhongzhou University through a priority admission, resides at Magicharbor Road…"! Although she had just experienced all this, Yu Junjun still looked extremely solemn as she watched the entire video. After verifying that every single one of the dozen or so thugs had been publicly exposed without omission, she actually felt a long sigh of relief at the bottom of her heart. Afterwards, when she redirected her gaze back to the comment page, she discovered that in the few minutes it took her to watch the video, the number of comments had increased by thousands. Taking a deep breath, Yu Junjun clicked on the comment section, and the next moment, the variety of comments was utterly dazzling. "Scum, truly a disgrace to humanity, worse than animals!" "I've had a reality check, there really are demons in this world." "Calling someone a cockroach, I think this group are the real cockroaches through and through, you are the ones who should be exterminated." "If I were there, I'd make sure to thrash these bastards so bad their moms wouldn't recognize them. A bunch of happy-colored."* "I'm so angry, I'm already on my way to Magic city, grandpa is going to teach these happy-colored how to behave, no one stop me!" "Hold up for me upstairs, let's form a group..."! ... The countless comments were unanimously condemning the gang of thugs, and as Yu Junjun scrolled through the comments, one in particular caught her attention. "Tonight is destined to be an extraordinary night, and it's not just this short video that's stirring things up. At the same time, major online video portals across the entire network are all pushing this video. Conservatively estimated, tonight there will be over a hundred million people watching this video, and the whole of Hua Country will know about it. Its atrocious nature and its wide influence are unprecedented. In summary, the person behind this event must have unimaginable power. Also, for those dozen or so thugs, their lives are over. From now on, they'll have to live in obscurity." After reading the entire post, Yu Junjun finally understood that it wasn't just the short-video platform she saw— the video was being broadcast across the entire internet. At this moment, a sense of nostalgia unexpectedly welled up in Yu Junjun's heart. Those dozen bastards were indeed finished. From now on, they would be ostracized by society, their lives had barely begun and were already declared over. A faint regret suddenly arose in her heart, but it was only momentary. As soon as the images of the dozen young thugs' arrogant laughter and the beggar old man's desperate pleas came back to her mind, that tinge of regret instantly vanished. These human scum had brought their fate upon themselves. Yu Junjun put away her phone and redirected her gaze back to the tall figure in the kitchen. A faint delicious scent had already reached her nose, and her eyes instantly brightened up. --- *Translator's Note: The original text "一群乐色" may be a derogatory expression akin to "a bunch of happy bastards" or "a bunch of perverse jerks," which is not standard or common. There is no direct translation, so I've used "happy-colored" as an approximate substitution for the derogatory term.