Chapter 106
The black clouds looked as if they were going to crush the sky.
Crack!
Finally, as a bolt of lightning flashed across the horizon, a torrential downpour began.
The fierce wind and heavy rain battered the windows, rattling them loudly.
"Gu 'Dog' Ran, it's raining, go close the windows!"
After a long time with no one coming to close them, the young girl, who was currently wrestling with a wok in the kitchen, shouted loudly.
"Oh, got it."
A voice answered from the room. Gu Ran lazily dragged his body up and unhurriedly went to each room to shut the windows.
This sluggish appearance made Ye Zhenzhen's teeth itch with irritation.
Seeing him turn around to go back into his room to play on the computer, she couldn't hold back anymore and said, "Come here."
"What?"
He turned back to the kitchen door, hands in his pockets, leaning lazily against the doorframe.
His boneless posture made the girl's eyelids twitch.
This guy... is hopeless.
"Help me hold the pot lid to block the splattering oil."
The well-intentioned older sister wanted to find something for her idle younger brother to do, not wanting him to continue being so decadent.
The college entrance exam only ended a few hours ago!
And he was already this lazy. If he had a two or three-month vacation, wouldn't he be completely useless?
No way. As his sister, she would never let that happen.
He looked at the girl in front of him, holding a spatula in one hand and a pot lid like a shield in the other.
She was standing a good two meters away from the stove, looking so cautious that it seemed like she was fighting a war.
"What are you..."
Stepping forward gently, he poked his head over to peek into the wok, where an indescribable black lump was being tossed around.
"Uh, are you... seasoning the wok?"
With a face full of invisible black lines, he twitched the corner of his mouth and asked tentatively.
"Seasoning the wok? What's that? I'm cooking, can't you tell?"
Ye Zhenzhen had a look of pride and confidence, and her eyes were full of disdain as she looked at her silly brother.
This pampered young master who never did any chores hadn't even seen someone cook before.
A true gentleman stays away from the kitchen, huh?
Heh...
Seeing the girl's matter-of-fact expression, his face couldn't help but twitch a few more times.
She...
How on earth did she manage to say such things without blushing or skipping a beat?
Cooking?
She wasn't cooking a damn thing!
"What are you cooking in the pan?"
"Eggs!"
As Ye Zhenzhen answered, her eyes were filled with confusion, making him feel a deep sense of exhaustion.
The world had finally gone mad...
Sighing, in order not to be poisoned to death, Gu Ran raised his hand, gesturing for the battling girl to step aside, and reached out to take over the wok.
"Can you do it?"
Gu Ran: "..."
She actually had the nerve to question him?
"At the very least, I'm better than you."
In his past life, he had lived like a dog. If he didn't know a thing or two about cooking, he would have starved to death long ago.
Eat out every day?
He wouldn't have even lived past twenty-five!
His meager salary meant he could only buy discounted vegetables from the supermarket and cook them in his small rented room.
...
Outside the window, the fierce wind howled, and the pitter-patter of the rain drowned out the noise of the entire city.
Inside the kitchen, warm lights shone as the pretty girl watched the person beside her.
They say a serious man is the most handsome.
Ye Zhenzhen seemed to understand the meaning of that saying at this moment.
Her beautiful eyes flickered but kept returning to the person in front of her.
Gu Ran held the pan handle with one hand and the spatula with the other, continuously stir-frying.
It was such a simple and ordinary scene, yet it somehow made it hard for her to look away.
Why did it feel like this guy was a bit handsome?
It seemed like he had grown up...
Suddenly realizing this, Ye Zhenzhen quickly reached up and patted her cheeks.
What on earth was she thinking? How could she find her rebellious younger brother handsome?
He was absolutely annoying!
Although she thought this in her heart, her eyes staring at a certain someone never moved away.
And the smile on her lips was never retracted...
...
"Ye Zhenzhen!"
Lost in her thoughts, by the time she snapped back to reality, Gu Ran had already turned off the stove.
He was holding a plate of food, staring at her with a strange expression.
"Ah, wha... what is it?"
Hearing this, Gu Ran looked a bit weird, paused, and said, "The food is ready. Let's eat first, we can do it after..."
Ye Zhenzhen: "???"
Was he saying weird things again?
But Gu Ran didn't give her a chance to ask further.
After speaking, he carried the dish past her toward the dining room, not forgetting to add one more sentence.
"Go get the bowls."
This guy...
Doing a little work and acting like a lord, bossing people around!
The aloof girl gritted her teeth, trying hard to suppress the urge to bite him, and turned to get the bowls and chopsticks.
She had to admit, he really did have the capital to mock her.
Sitting at the dining table, staring at the brightly colored stir-fried vegetables, Ye Zhenzhen nodded to herself.
Although it couldn't compare to her mom's cooking, for an eighteen-year-old student, it was already quite good.
At least... it left her in the dust by a country mile...
Oh, wait, he was nineteen this year.
Just as she was sighing a bit, Gu Ran pulled out the chair next to her and sat down right beside her.
"What?"
"I told you not to rush. I know you're eager, but hold your horses. Wait until after we eat... Ouch!"
Before he could finish his sentence, Gu Ran's face twisted into a mask of pain, and he immediately started hugging and rubbing his foot.
The girl beside him proudly raised her chin and said, "Stop saying weird things. One more time, and I'll slap your head sideways!"
After speaking, she noticed Gu Ran was still rubbing the toes she had just stomped on.
She couldn't help but purse her lips, her tone softening considerably.
Looking down at her stinky brother's foot, she asked, "Does it hurt that much?"
"It hurts so much. I need a kiss to make it better." Gu Ran grimaced in pain, yet still didn't forget to be cheeky.
But hearing his words, Ye Zhenzhen's eyes instantly widened.
What did this guy just say?
He wanted a kiss?!
His true colors were revealed so quickly?
The dagger is revealed! This is absolute treason!!!
She abruptly raised her head, just about to say something.
When she saw Gu Ran lift his foot, placing it right in front of her face, and saying self-righteously:
"Here, kiss it."
Ye Zhenzhen: "..."
Sometimes in life, there are truly many speechless moments.
Like this very moment, where she had already thought of seventy-eight ways for the guy in front of her to die.
As well as eighteen ways to forge an alibi for herself.
"Gu 'Dog' Ran!!!"
Her watery eyes widened instantly, staring at the foot in front of her. For a moment, she wished she could bite it off!
Smack!
She stood up abruptly, slamming her chopsticks onto the table.
This jerk... went too far!
He dared to tease his older sister?!
If she didn't teach him a lesson on how to behave today, he would turn the world upside down in the future!
"Wh... what are you doing?"
Seeing her furious appearance, Gu Ran awkwardly withdrew his foot and asked tentatively.
"I'll show you what!"
Ye Zhenzhen rolled up her sleeves, stuck out her lower lip, and blew away a few strands of loose hair that had fallen over her face.
"Didn't you tell me not to rush? Well, I insist on rushing!"
As soon as she finished speaking, she tackled Gu Ran to the ground.
Raising her fair and tender arms, she aimed a punch right at Gu Ran's handsome dog face.
Gu Ran: "!!!"
Reflected in his pupils was that small fist.
Followed by a gust of wind from the punch, heading straight for his handsome face.
In that instant, only a single thought remained in his mind.
I am a dead man!
...
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] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
lan, the Luo family, tracked him down - along with the babies in their arms. Mo Xuan stared pensively at the paternity test results from over a dozen top institutions, both domestic and international, showing a 99.99% match between himself and the two baby girls. At 23, Mo Xuan, a doctoral student, had become the father of two three-year-old children. The kicker? The mothers weren't even the same person! He gradually realized he was being lured step by step into an elaborate trap designed by these two yandere sisters. "Be good, little Xuan. Sister's life belongs to you entirely." "Brother, if you try to run away, I'll have no choice but to tie you up." Mo Xuan: "Do whatever you want, ladies. I give up."
