Chapter 108
A flash of lightning streaked across the sky, illuminating the entire room.
On a stormy night like this, the heavy thudding of a knock at the door sounded particularly terrifying.
Was Chu Renmei coming for her?!
Ye Zhenzhen instantly shrank beneath her blankets. Gripping the edges tightly, her voice trembled slightly.
"Gu... Gu Ran?"
"Your grandpa is right here!"
Ye Zhenzhen: "..."
Hearing the familiar voice outside the door, tinged with a hint of amusement, the young woman was left completely speechless. The terrifying atmosphere from a moment ago vanished in an instant.
This guy...
Huffing with annoyance, she climbed out of bed, threw off the blankets draped over her, and ran to open the door while grinding her teeth.
"What are you doing here?"
Pouting slightly as she looked at the dog of a man in front of her, she remembered how he had just abandoned her to run back to his own room. Anger immediately flared up inside her.
She lightly kicked him, only to have her foot caught in his grasp.
"Let... let go!"
A rosy flush slowly spread across her delicate, pretty face.
Unable to break free no matter how hard she tried, she bit her lip and shot him a fierce glare.
Seeing this, Gu Ran blinked. For a moment, he felt a strange urge to be stepped on by Her Majesty the Queen.
Swallowing hard, he hesitated for a second before letting go, only to be immediately met with the girl's revenge.
The small foot clad in a cotton sock kicked him, making him raise an eyebrow.
What exactly had he done to deserve such a reward?!
Unaware of her perverted younger brother's filthy thoughts, Ye Zhenzhen kicked him several more times. Taking a few deep breaths, she finally raised her chin.
Looking incredibly smug, she seemed to be showing off her authority as the older sister.
Gu Ran saw right through it but didn't say a word. He just shrugged, treating it as if he were teasing a child.
He raised a hand, pushed against her forehead, and shoved her back into the room.
"Shoo, shoo, out of the way."
Like a bully tossing the owner aside, he took over the nest and laid down on the large bed.
Ye Zhenzhen: "???"
This guy was being so rebellious in so many ways at once that she couldn't quite process it.
Blinking her watery eyes, she looked at the boy lying on her bed without a care in the world, and couldn't help but grit her teeth.
"Gu 'Dog' Ran!"
Did he just... push her in by her forehead?!
The authority of the older sister was being seriously challenged!!!
At this thought, she launched herself into a flying tackle, pinning her disrespectful, unruly younger brother beneath her.
She grabbed both of his ears and shook his head back and forth, looking as if she wanted to scramble his brains.
"Speak, what are you doing here? Did you come just to make me mad?"
"Nonsense!"
Feeling his head undergoing a blizzard-like assault, he hurriedly struggled to resist.
However, worried about hurting her, he didn't dare make any big movements, resulting in him being completely suppressed and beaten up by Ye Zhenzhen the entire time.
By the time the girl got tired and stopped, Gu Ran looked like he had been brutally ravaged, lying on the bed with an expression that said he had nothing left to live for.
After resting for a moment, she turned her head and saw that her foolish brother was still lying motionless. She reached out her foot and poked his thigh.
"Hey, stop playing dead."
The latter said nothing; the only sound was the pitter-patter of the rain outside the window.
Dog!
She interpreted this behavior as her slacker brother's silent protest.
Faced with a brother in his rebellious phase, a responsible sister naturally had to set him straight.
She reached out a delicate arm, which seemed to glow white even in the darkness of the night.
Her slender, pale fingers pinched his straight nose, feeling a patch of warmth.
The greasiness she had expected wasn't there, making her pout slightly.
What the heck?
Not even a bit of oil on his nose. What kind of godly skin was this? This was practically a lethal weapon against young girls!
Let alone young girls, even older women wouldn't be able to resist...
Leaning in to stare at Gu Ran's clean, handsome face, she couldn't resist raising her other hand to touch it.
Tsk.
He really was a pretty boy!
The thought that once he went to college, this guy would be like a fresh flower.
Attracting swarm after swarm of crazy bees and butterflies, she couldn't help but feel a wave of sour jealousy.
If his sister wasn't there to keep an eye on her playboy brother, what if he turned into a scumbag?
No, as his sister, she had to have a certain sense of responsibility.
To prevent her brother from going astray in the future, she would just have to sacrifice herself for the greater good...
Gaslighting herself once again, she successfully found an excuse to go to the same university as him.
But before she could even feel happy about it, she started to worry again.
With his grades being so poor, would he even be able to get into the same school as her?
As her inner drama went through its ups and downs, the pressure of her fingers fluctuated as well.
She completely ignored the fact that the boy's face was turning the color of pig liver.
Perhaps... it also had something to do with it being too dark.
Finally, the brother who was playing dead couldn't hold his breath any longer and suddenly sat up.
He slapped away the hand pinching his nose and gasped heavily for air.
"Ye Zhenzhen, are you trying to murder your own husb..."
"Murder what?"
Before he could finish, the aloof girl timidly interrupted his next words.
Terrified of hearing something rebellious that would make the situation impossible to salvage.
Right now, although she had vague suspicions and hopes.
She didn't dare face them, nor did she dare look directly into her own heart.
Hearing the underlying threat in her words, Gu Ran opened his mouth.
He turned to meet her deep, bright eyes and hesitated for a long time.
In the end, he chose to give up, waving his hand as he rolled out of bed, flustered and exasperated.
"I can't be bothered to argue with you. There's no reasoning with you!"
Seeing this, Ye Zhenzhen couldn't help but roll her eyes.
Still trying to hide it?
It wasn't like she was an idiot...
Every single one of this guy's moves was crystal clear to her.
That deliberate attempt to hide, acting as if he could fool the entire world.
Whenever she saw it, she couldn't help but smile like a fond auntie.
This silly brother...
How much would he be deceived without his sister around...
"Ye Zhenzhen," the person standing on the floor suddenly spoke up.
"Hmm?"
The sister, kneeling on the bed, curiously raised her head.
"How about... we play a game?"
Gu Ran was still worried that she was scared, so he was trying to find different ways to keep her company.
As if seeing through his intentions, the aloof girl stayed silent for a moment before her eyes sparkled and she smiled brightly.
"Alright!"
...
...
"Gu 'Dog' Ran, you're cheating again!"
"How am I cheating? The bottle clearly hasn't pointed at me yet. It's off by just a little bit."
Gu Ran argued stubbornly, gesturing with his hand. The mouth of the bottle was only a few degrees away from pointing at him.
But at this moment, he channeled the spirit of a master craftsman, refusing to let even the slightest deviation slide.
The aloof girl was so exasperated by his childish behavior that she actually laughed. She reached out to take the bottle and kicked him with her foot.
"We're setting a new rule now. If it crosses this line in the middle, you lose. Otherwise, I lose."
As Ye Zhenzhen spoke, she pointed to a gap in the floorboards between them.
Gu Ran pursed his lips and asked seriously, "Then does the last round still count?"
Ye Zhenzhen: "..."
"It doesn't count!"
"Okay, okay, okay, I agree."
Hearing this, Gu Ran immediately chimed in, nodding quickly in agreement.
"Typical."
Rolling her pretty eyes at him helplessly, the magnanimous sister continued.
"You agreed to it this time, so no cheating if you lose again!"
"Don't worry, I am not the type to cheat!"
Gu Ran was full of confidence and patted his chest as a guarantee.
As her words fell, Ye Zhenzhen reached out, gripped the glass bottle, and gave it a forceful spin. The bottle twirled rapidly across the surface.
Watching it, Gu Ran stared intently at the mouth of the bottle. After a brief moment, it began to slow down.
Then, it came to a steady halt, pointing directly at him. Instantly, his expression became absolutely priceless.
"Ye Zhenzhen, did you cheat? Why do I lose every single time!"
"Nonsense! When did I ever cheat? Are you just a sore loser?"
Seeing the familiar signs that he was about to back out of his penalty, Ye Zhenzhen immediately shot him a glare with her beautiful eyes and rolled up her sleeves.
If her dishonest younger brother dared to renege on their bet again, then as his older sister, she was more than ready to remind him that she knew a thing or two about throwing punches...
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
uld barely embark on the path to immortality. Just as he was on the verge of death, his golden finger awakened. No matter whether it was poison, drained blood and vital energy, diminished lifespan, or any other physical debuff caused by paying a price—once midnight passed, everything would be refreshed. From then on, whenever someone asked what kind of person Chu Ran was, the answer was simple: Forbidden arts that other cultivators dared not learn? Chu Ran would learn them. Prices that even demonic cultivators dared not pay? Chu Ran would pay them. Lifespan that even righteous cultivators dared not burn? Chu Ran would burn it. All the blood essence in his body? Take it. Want both his hands and feet? He would cut them off and send them to you. You say he’s finished? He wasn’t built to sit idle. You think he’s gone mad? No—he was simply waiting for midnight. From that day onward, Chu Ran would respect neither Heaven nor Earth, bow to neither gods nor ghosts. He had only one wish: For midnight to arrive a little sooner.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
end. Thus one must continue to cultivate, and become a saint or great emperor, in order to prolong one's life. Chen Xia, however, completely reversed this. Since his transmigration, he has gained immortality, and also a system that awards him with attribute points for every year he lives. Thus between the myriad worlds, the legend of an unparalleled senior appeared. "A gentleman takes revenge; it is never too late even after ten thousand years." "When you were at your peak I yielded, now in your old age I shall trample on you." - Chen Xia
