Chapter 8 - Chapter 8: 008 Life is so difficult (1/2)

Chapter 8: 008 Life is so difficult

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Before long, Old Gao and the rest walked away with the mules, leaving only Zhang Xiao Hai alone, following behind Gu Yang.

Gu Yang paid him no heed, finding a clean rock to sit cross-legged on and added money to the system.

In an instant, the balance of the system goes up to 105.

[Would you like to use the Life Simulator? One use costs 50 money.]

“Yes.”

[At the age of twenty-two, you became an Eighth Grade martial artist and left Liu Village with a trade caravan. Along the way, you encountered some mountain bandits, but you eliminated them with ease. After learning that the bandit hideout was in Wang Jia Gully, you decided to avoid going there.]

[Two months later, you went to Tianshui City in Xiang County, presenting the heads of the mountain bandits to the local government office to collect the reward. After refusing to accept the county official’s invitation to serve him, you used the eight hundred taels you got to open a fur shop and started doing business.]

[At the age of twenty-eight, your business expanded tremendously, and you became the richest man in Tianshui City. Your wealth ignited the jealousy of some people, and you faced various suppressions. To protect yourself, you married the daughter of Dong Xuan, a famous Sixth Grade expert in Tianshui City.]

[You didn’t dare to continue expanding your business. You maintained your status quo and focused on martial arts instead.]

[At the age of twenty-nine, you accepted Zhang Xiao Hai as your disciple, as he was always loyal and dedicated in his work.]

[At thirty, you learned about the massacre of Liu Village, but you had your own wife and children by then and dared not think of revenge against the powerful enemy.]

[At thirty five, you had mastered the three stances of the Nameless Blade Technique from a book you got from the bandits, which greatly increased your strength.]

[At thirty-six, your business encountered a crisis, forcing you to intervene and exposing your Saber Technique.]

[At thirty-seven, just as you felt the opportunity to break through, you discovered that you were poisoned. The poison was given by your father-in-law, who wanted to force you to reveal the origin of the three stances of the Saber Technique.]

[Even after you gave him the half-book containing the Saber Technique, he crippled your meridians, leaving you handicapped and your firm was taken over by his disciples.]

[The purge of your legitimate successors in the business followed, and a month later, Zhang Xiao Hai disappeared.]

[Eight years later, you died in extreme depression from severe illness. At your dying moments, Zhang Xiao Hai appeared before you with the head of Dong Xuan, declared, “Master, I have avenged you,” before he spat out blood and died.]

[You died at the age of forty-five.]

“…”

After reading the outcome of this simulation, Gu Yang didn’t know what to say.

It was more pitiful than the one before.

Being backstabbed by his father-in-law, losing his martial arts, and dying so miserably.

And his father-in-law did all these just for the three stances of the Saber Technique.

In the previous Simulated Life, he was also betrayed by a county official who had previously admired him.

Living peacefully in this world is really difficult.

To learn advanced martial skills, one has to sell oneself to others, and even then, you might be discarded at any moment.

Despite the danger of attracting the envy of others whenever one obtains success in commerce, he managed to form an alliance with a suitable candidate. However, because of a few saber techniques, even one’s father-in-law could plot against you and swallow your entire business.

The road is full of thorns, and a small mistake could lead to a fall into a deep abyss.

However, this Simulated Life was not entirely without benefits.

Gu Yang looked at Zhang Xiao Hai, who was standing not far away, seemingly scared and felt a warmth in his heart. Who would have thought that this kid was so loyal?

Moreover, his talent was very good, far superior to Gu Yang himself.

Gu Yang’s father-in-law, Dong Xuan was a sixth-grade master, and twenty-three years later, Zhang Xiao Hai could kill Dong Xuan. This meant that Zhang Xiao Hai must be at least at the sixth-grade realm.

After many simulations, passing over a hundred years, Gu Yang still hasn’t managed to touch the boundary of the seventh grade.

It really… depressed him.